500. Are the Stay-at-home Sons Okay? (w/Justin Krebs and Jordan Carlos)
Fake the Nation
Headgum & Negin Farsad
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week on Fake the Nation, comedian and host Negin Farsad celebrates her 500th episode of the show! She is joined by comedian/author Jordan Carlos and political strategist/author Justin Krebs. They discuss the continued reign of terror in Minneapolis as well as Republican defections that might signal a turning point for the administration. But don’t worry, they venture into the lightness with the new fad of “stay at home sons” and how foreign films are finding more and more ways to earn Oscar nominations! Negin also shares some observations about these last several hundred episodes. She is so very grateful that you have tuned in over these many years.
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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 500 episodes of Fake the Nation. Poo, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, pfip, pfip, pio. I'm your host, Nogine Farsad, and the main difference between today, Nogine, and 500 episodes ago, Nagin, is that I now fight against early onset jowls. |
| 0:22.7 | Always on the lookout for them jowls. |
| 0:26.1 | I also, I think I cry more of that might be parenthood and not like episodes of fake the nation related. |
| 0:35.3 | Also, I, but I do blame onset jowls to podcasting. Can I ask you what? You did your punchline and just looked straight through my soul about jowls. And then I, then I grabbed this. Do you share jowl fear? No, it's just, you don't hear it every day. You don't hear jowls every day. And so I'm eating this bar because I'm in a calorie deficit, and I almost spit out what I... |
| 0:57.0 | Just make me laugh stuff. |
| 0:59.6 | Yeah, you need to eat more stuff to, like, start having jowl concerns. |
| 1:05.8 | I'm sure I will have jowls into... |
| 1:08.0 | What does this become? |
| 1:09.6 | I'm sure I'll have my adipose moment in my jowls. |
| 1:13.1 | Now today, we'll talk about what I was hoping to never talk about again, which is another murder in |
| 1:21.1 | Minneapolis at the hands of ice and border patrol. We'll also talk about Trump's incredible health |
| 1:25.5 | and the members of the GOP who don't love being Republicans anymore. We'll also talk about Trump's incredible health and the members of the GOP who don't love being Republicans anymore. |
| 1:28.5 | We'll also talk about the rise of foreign language films at the Oscars. |
| 1:32.9 | And finally, what is a stay-at-home son? |
| 1:36.3 | And why is a stay-at-home son? |
| 1:39.9 | Today, folks, this is, okay, so for the 500th episode, what I wanted was like the kind of panel that I could just sit down and relax because they're both my buddies and they're both fucking excellent chatters. |
| 1:55.6 | Oh, thank you. |
| 1:56.5 | They're also both authors randomly. |
| 1:58.0 | I don't know if that's something. |
| 2:00.0 | But you've heard them both on this show before. |
| 2:03.1 | We have joining us. He is an author. He is once the national political director at moveon.org and now is moving on to other and more and not more interesting, but other and in parallelly. |
| 2:16.2 | Diversely Interesting projects. |
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