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Fake the Nation

490. A Thanksgiving Episode (w/Meghna Chakrabarti, Benari Lee Poulton, Mark Oppenheimer and D.D. Guttenplan)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week comedian and host Negin Farsad has saved up some great conversations for your Thanksgiving earballs. She is joined by DD Guttenplan of The Nation & writer Mark Oppenheimer to ask why Gen Z is resurrecting the 90's. Also! Meghna Chakrabarti of NPR’s On Point and comedian Benari Lee Poulton talk about the fissures of the right wing, with characters like Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson making a, let’s say, “bold” appearance in the discourse. Hopefully, this episode will give you enough to drop in some sweet chatter over pumpkin pie. Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving from everyone at Fake the Nation!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hello. This is fake the nation where we talk about news. We talk about culture and where we celebrate Thanksgiving. I hope you guys are having an incredible holiday full of too much food and lots of lounging and leisure. I have put together a couple of really great conversations for your listening pleasure this week.

0:23.0

So get ready for those.

0:25.8

And in the meantime, I just hope that you're having a wonderful time.

0:30.8

Let's take a quick break.

0:31.8

And then we'll get into it with the first topic.

0:38.8

We're going to talk about how right-wing unity is fraying, and to do that, we are joined

0:43.9

by comedian and writer Benari Lee Pulton. Hey, Benari.

0:47.1

Hey, Nagin.

0:48.4

We're also joined by the incredible radio host of the show On Point. It's Megna Chakrabardi.

0:53.8

Hey, Megna. Hello nighine um so we've

0:57.7

seen a lot of hitler from the right wing in the last few months uh there was that texture thread

1:03.7

from gop operatives who talked about hitler the latest is that tucker carlson had nick fuentes on

1:10.2

he's a known anti-Semite.

1:12.7

He had him on his podcast.

1:14.5

For the right wing, Hitler really is their Roman Empire.

1:18.6

What's the interesting thing about the Tucker Carlson story is that this is kind of one of the big points in which Tucker Carlson has gotten pushback for having Nick Fuentes on.

1:33.3

And, you know, for those of you who don't know, Fuentes isn't just like a regular conservative who does like a tablespoon of cutting taxes with just a pinch of Hitler.

1:42.4

He's more like three tablespoons of Hitler and a pinch of rollback regulations.

1:47.3

You know what I mean?

1:47.7

Like that's his stew.

1:48.5

So we can talk more about Hitler.

1:51.6

Yes.

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