501. AI & The Right to be Awkward (w/JR Havlan and Chandler Dean)
Fake the Nation
Headgum & Negin Farsad
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Fake the Nation, comedian and host Negin Farsad is joined by Emmy Award-winning comedy writer, JR Havlan and writer/host of the show Abolish Everything on Nebula.tv, Chandler Dean. They gab about the first lady’s contribution to cinema and the shuttering of the Kennedy Center for “construction” reasons. They dive into the ugliest of cabals in the Epstein Files and ask how worried we should all be about the possibility of nationalizing elections. Finally, is AI robbing students of an essential rite of passage: the right to be awkward. PLUS! Negin offers up some good news because that still exists!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, this is Vick the Nation, a podcast that is hell-bent on maintaining your Zen, even though the news is hell-bent on the exact opposite. |
| 0:09.0 | I am your host, Nagin Farsat. I'm also the chief optimist, and today we'll talk about the First Lady's contribution to cinema. |
| 0:16.2 | We'll discuss the closure of the Kennedy Center, the latest and most upsettingest Epstein File D dump, and other political chicanery, and finally is AI robbing young people as some of their most |
| 0:26.3 | awkward rites of passage. Today I have assembled. Oh my God, what an incredible panel |
| 0:34.5 | I have assembled. Not to pat myself on the back or the back of our |
| 0:39.0 | wonderful producer, Rob, but we have for you, returning for the severallist time, |
| 0:45.8 | he is a TV writer of great repute. He is a producer. |
| 1:00.8 | He is, I'll just go ahead and say it, a friend, not just of the show, but of me. |
| 1:05.8 | And he's, and he is the one and only J.R. Havlin, hi, J.R. |
| 1:07.5 | Hey, cue applause. |
| 1:15.7 | And now we're joined also for the first time, and I hope not the last, because he's so obviously delightful. |
| 1:16.4 | He doesn't know it yet, but he has earned a place in my friendship ranks already. |
| 1:21.9 | He's host of Abolish Everything, a show on the Nebulous Streaming Network, where comedians make the case for a thing they want. Abolished, it just sounds so fun and so incredible. He is the wonderful Chandler Dean. Hey, Chandler. Hey, Chandler. Hey, thank you so much for having me. And now that I'm your friend, I've done what I came here to do. I feel very accomplished now. Thank you. It's not to make you feel worse, |
| 1:46.5 | but I let so many people in. Like the bar is low. The bar is low. But I also want to mention to |
| 1:52.3 | listeners, if you hear a difference in the audio, which I'm sure you do, it's because we're having |
| 1:58.2 | the mother of all technical issues. |
| 2:05.7 | And we're so sorry. And hopefully we'll be able to fix it even before the show is over. |
| 2:08.9 | But if we don't, this is just what it sounds like, folks. |
| 2:12.3 | We're taping in 1995. |
| 2:15.2 | That's right. We're taping in 1995. |
| 2:26.8 | And if there was ever a reason to support this show, this is a struggling show working off of faulty mics, it's now go to patreon.com slash Nagin Farsad. |
| 2:31.7 | Also, guys, I looked at the Epstein files for this show. |
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