516. Guilt Reservoir Maintenance (w/Dan Pashman)
Fake the Nation
Headgum & Negin Farsad
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Fake the Nation, comedian and host Negin Farsad is joined by host of the Sporkful podcast, Dan Pashman! They talk about what Stephen Colbert's departure means for late night and what it has meant for the world of political humor and *the* *discourse.* They also look at Trump's breathtaking volume of stock trades and even more breath-taking-her settlement with the IRS. Finally, new data shows that men are spending more time with their kids. Really though!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, this is Make the Nation where we talk about news, we talk about culture, and where we never know if we're in a war or not. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm your host, Nguyen Farsad, your favorite podcast pacifist. |
| 0:11.1 | Today, we'll dip our toes into the Colbert Late Show farewell. |
| 0:14.7 | Trump's hungry trade appetite in the stock market, plus other shenanigans coming out of the White House, and finally, |
| 0:21.9 | new data shows that men are spending more time with their children. What? I don't believe |
| 0:27.2 | it. You guys, I'm so excited for the panel today. It is a weird panel because we had a cancellation |
| 0:36.2 | this morning. So sometimes the show of three, and I got to be |
| 0:39.7 | honest, in the 10-year history of fake, the nation, this happens very infrequently. I'm surprised |
| 0:43.8 | it doesn't happen more often, but the show of three is a show of two because of this cancellation. |
| 0:51.9 | May this person have a terrible lunch today. |
| 0:55.0 | I won't like curse their family or their children, but I will curse one meal. |
| 1:01.0 | So instead we have with us like one man, but he's enough for two in the social, emotional, and intellectual sense. |
| 1:12.7 | Wow, that's a lot. |
| 1:15.7 | You hear his voice. |
| 1:17.5 | He is the inventor of the cascatelli pasta shape. |
| 1:23.1 | Okay, you've heard him on the show before. |
| 1:25.1 | You know this pasta. |
| 1:26.5 | You've purchased this pasta. You know see this pasta at various stores. He is the host of the podcast, The Sportful. He has a cookbook out called Anything Is Pastaable. It is the one and only. A fake the nation alum. And a dear friend, it's Dan Pashin. Hey, Nenekeen. Thanks so much for having |
| 1:45.8 | me. Oh my God. Thanks for not canceling. I always. The Long Island Railroad strike really threw me. |
| 1:52.0 | Right. We almost had a cancellation because of like a rail, a very crazy railroad strike that |
| 1:57.7 | affected the entire tri-state area. Yeah. But here we go. |
| 2:01.5 | They figured it, I think, like, they knew that too many podcasts would suffer. |
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