518. Devoted to Both Valley Girl Accents and Bret Michaels (w/Jamie Alyson Feldman and Rachel Webster)
Fake the Nation
Headgum & Negin Farsad
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week on Fake the Nation comedian and host Negin Farsad is joined by the co-hosts of the podcast Debt Heads, Jamie Alyson Feldman & Rachel Webster! Together, they look at how the system gets us into debt and why that, frankly, sucks. They also look at the decline of the regional accent - more R's in Bostonian English, less twang in Texas - and the TikTok stars who are using regional accents to attract a following. Plus, CBS's lauded 60 Minutes is gutted, Trump's Freedom 250 concert is getting cancelled and there's pushback to... everything he does. Finally, does Graham Platner's sexting scandal matter? Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:01.0 | This is Vague the Nation, a podcast about news and culture and regional accents. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm your host, Nican Farsat. |
| 0:05.8 | And I remember as a kid watching 80 movies and thinking that everybody had, like, all the |
| 0:11.9 | movies were filmed in New York. |
| 0:13.3 | And then everyone sounded like, hey, what you doing with my car? |
| 0:17.1 | You know, they talked like this. |
| 0:19.2 | And, um, but it turns out they don't do that much anymore. We'll |
| 0:22.0 | discuss the phenomenon about diminishing regional accents and then the one social media platform |
| 0:29.7 | that, you know, dared to step in its way. To save us all. To save us all. But we'll also talk about sentient bag of nails, Donald J. Trump, his canceled Freedom |
| 0:41.5 | 250 concert, his canceled slush fund. |
| 0:45.1 | And I don't know. |
| 0:46.4 | It's just other garbage about him. |
| 0:47.7 | There's just garbage. |
| 0:49.3 | We'll brush the grand platinum saga and then we'll land on the question of debt and how it's murdering your bank account. |
| 0:57.3 | So excited for these topics, but even more excited for the panel that we have assembled for you today. |
| 1:04.2 | What? |
| 1:05.5 | Oh my God, you guys. |
| 1:07.5 | We don't really do this often. |
| 1:09.6 | We're frequently told about co-hosts of shows, |
| 1:14.7 | and we usually separate them, sort of, you know, sort of like America does with families of |
| 1:21.1 | immigrants. And we put them on separate shows, thinking that's how they'll flourish. |
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