489. Bubba, Billionaires and Bodega Coffee (w/Meghna Chakrabarti and Benari Lee Poulton)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week on Fake the Nation, comedian and host Negin Farsad is joined by comedian/writer Benari Lee Poulton and host of NPR's On Point, Meghna Chakrabarti. Together, they wonder why billionaires love owning sports teams and a psychology professor who can tell you which are the best years of your life. They look at the very ongoing Epstein Files and the strange bedfellows it has wrought. And finally, they pour one out for the recently deceased penny.

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0:42.0	Hello, hello, this is Vague the Nation where we talk about news.
0:47.8	We talk about politics and where we embrace Lauren Bobert, Marjorie Taylor Green, and Nancy Mace.
0:52.1	I am your host, Nagine Farsad, and oh, you guys, these are strange times.
0:58.2	And even stranger bedfellows, I didn't realize I was going to be like, oh my God, like Lauren, Marjorie, Nancy, let's brunch.
1:02.4	What is happening?
1:03.6	We're going to talk about the conservative ladies who stood up to Trump on the ever-evolving
1:07.3	Epstein files.
1:08.0	We'll also talk about how billionaires love to own sports teams
1:12.0	will pour one out for the penny because it is dead. And finally, a professor tells us,
1:17.2	which are specifically the best years of your life according to science. Today on the show,
1:23.8	what an excellent panel we have assembled for you today my gad um you've heard her voice
1:30.2	many a gazillion times because she is the host of public radio's very own on point and i i love hearing
1:39.0	her voice i love hearing what she has to say and you will hear more of that today on this very
1:43.9	show it's the wonderful magna chakra bordey hi megna hello nagin i'm so happy to be hearing what she has to say, and you will hear more of that today on this very show. It's
1:44.4	the wonderful Megna Chakra Bordi. Hi, Megina. Hello, Nagin. I'm so happy to be here.
1:51.0	And you are also joined by a veteran of the show. He's a comedian. He's a producer. He does so many
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