Oh, that was a good one.

That was a solid self-slate.

Fake the nation episode 213!

Hello, hello, and welcome to Fake the nation where we talk about news, we talk about politics

and where we break the dead leaves off of democracy, throw them into a compost bin and make

beautiful fertilizer for our country to grow and flourish.

I am your host again, Farsad and folks, people have been trying to bring me down, the pessimism

out there is strong but I won't have it because it's 2020 and we've got an election to be excited

about and we've got democracy to uphold and I'm excited and I'm an optimist and I'm not going

to let people get me down. So today we're going to talk about that VP pick that we're also excited

about. We're going to do a pandy check in and we'll talk about the world's great cities and how

they're coping with the pandy times. Today's panel is in fact the best panel that could possibly

have been assembled for this week's news. Guys, this is so exciting today's panel and also because

they're my friends and that's really fun for me. We have with us host of the Employee of the Month

Podcast, you've heard her on this podcast before, oh by the way, when the world opens back up which is

you know really soon in the grand scheme of things, you can see Employee of the Month live at Joe's

pub at the public theater in New York City and you can read all of her brilliant works online,

she's written for like a hundred different places and you can listen to back episodes of Employee

of the Month and you can just regale in the wonderful Katie Lazarus. Hey Katie, hello and thank you

for you know making sure that I feel better about the fact that I still need to get my book proposal

finished. You can have something to promote. I mean, we're gonna be right here waiting for that book

and ready to promote. I have joined also on this panel by an old friend. We've done so much

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