496. A New Years Episode with No Consequences (w/Ophira Eisenberg, Mary Houlihan then Nayeema Raza and Pete Dominick)
Fake the Nation
Headgum & Negin Farsad
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year listeners! This week on Fake the Nation, comedian and host Negin Farsad is joined by Ophira Eisenberg and Mary Houlihan to talk about the trend of senior citizens who go back to college. She's also joined by Nayeema Raza and Pete Dominick to talk about how to elegantly get out of doing things. It's exactly what you need to start the new year right!
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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 a brand new year. As this episode drops, it is the first day of 2026 and oh my God, I hope you guys are celebrating it with fun and lightness and good spirit. And with forward future thinking, we heard Fake the Nation have set aside some mood boosting conversations. So let's take a quick break and then we'll get into it. |
| 0:26.8 | And next topic, we just wrote about a new trend. |
| 0:30.2 | And to talk about it, I am joined by The Wonderful Comedian, |
| 0:33.0 | whose new special you can see the live taping up on November 9th in New York City. |
| 0:37.9 | It's the wonderful Ophira Eisenberg. Hey, O'Fira. Hello. We are also joined by The Wonderful Comedian and host of the podcast, The Mary Hoolahan Show. It is the excellent Mary Hulahan. Hey, Mary. Hello, how are you? Oh, my gosh. I'm so excited that you're both here. |
| 0:53.7 | And I want to talk to you about this really interesting trend. |
| 0:56.4 | Apparently, retirees. Hello, how are you? Oh my gosh. I'm so excited that you're both here and I want to talk to you |
| 0:54.7 | about this really interesting trend. Apparently, retirees are going back to college. Now, |
| 1:00.8 | since the 90s, a bunch of these sort of retirement communities embedded in the university atmosphere |
| 1:06.5 | have opened and I don't know. What do you guys think of this? |
| 1:12.4 | Well, we don't have to worry about what kind of jobs they're going to get. |
| 1:18.2 | What are you doing with that anthropology degree? |
| 1:21.1 | I know they're not competing on the job market. |
| 1:26.9 | You know, it's nice, it's great for them. |
| 1:29.9 | I definitely will not be supporting financially my parents if they want to do this, |
| 1:37.5 | but I support any people who want to do this. |
| 1:41.2 | It is true. |
| 1:41.9 | That's like hilarious. |
| 1:42.7 | It would be amazing to get a student loan at 76 and just be |
| 1:47.6 | like, no, no, no, I'm totally pay this off. Don't you worry. Totally pay this off. Well, which brings up |
| 1:53.3 | an interesting. Okay, so you both bring up an interesting point, which, for example, there's one at |
| 1:57.3 | Arizona State University. Isn't there everything at Arizona State University? |
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