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Fake the Nation

506. Wishing For More STDs In Silicon Valley (w/Milly Tamarez and Traci Thomas)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

News, Comedy, Current Events, Panel, Politics

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Today, comedian and host Negin Farsad is joined by comedian and host of the podcast Go Touch Grass, Milly Tamarez. She is also joined by your book-lover BFF and host of The Stacks Podcast, Traci Thomas. Together, they talk about Oscar campaign kerfuffles - some of them involve opera and yet others involve cats! They also talk about the ongoing war with Iran - or as some call it, the "excursion" with Iran. And finally, there’s a term for every time you fix something on your parents phone and it's called, "technology caregiving" - the panel gets into it!


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Host - Negin Farsad

Producer - Rob Heath

Theme Music - Gaby Alter

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hello. This is Fake the Nation, a podcast about everything from the politics of war to the technology that runs our lives to whether or not we should be yelling at Timothy Shalameh. Guiding us in this roller coaster of low to high brown material is me, Nagin Farsad, your host and parisocial friend, who would also probably be your real

0:23.0

friend if we lived in the same neighborhood.

0:26.0

Today, we'll talk about Chalameh and his recent Oscar campaign kerfuffles.

0:31.4

We'll talk about that war that's still happening that really sucks.

0:35.6

And finally, there's a term for that thing I've been doing for my parents for years.

0:40.4

It's called technology caregiving.

0:43.2

And we're going to get into it.

0:44.9

And it's like all I've been thinking about since I discovered this article.

0:48.4

You may have just heard my dog bark.

0:50.8

Okay.

0:51.6

Let us introduce today's panel.

0:54.4

What a panel.

0:55.2

I described this panel to Rob as we got on the show as just one of those delightful

1:01.2

panels that I could just like sit back and relax because they're both so smart and so

1:05.6

funny and and and very well regarded and loved veterans of this show.

1:14.9

Up first we have the wonderful Millie Tamerez,

1:18.7

who is also co-host of the podcast, Touching Grass.

1:22.7

Go Touching Grass.

1:23.7

Go touch grass.

1:24.4

Go touch grass.

1:25.1

Go touch grass.

1:26.1

I feel like I get it wrong every time. I mean, you're so touched grass. Go touch grass. Go touch grass. God damn it. I feel like I get it wrong every time.

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