180. Holliest and Jolliest (w/ John Hodgman, Selena Coppock, Benari Poulten, John F. O'Donnell)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This boxing day, Negin is joined by John Hodgman and Selena Coppock to discuss whether AI should be doing our menial tasks. Then she talks holiday traditions with Benari Poulten and John F. O'Donnell. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Fake the Nation, Episode 180.
0:02.0	Hello, hello, this is Fake the Nation where we talk about news, we talk about politics, and where we watch
0:08.4	episodes of the crown with my mother, because we're sitting around and it's the holidays. I'm your host
0:15.3	Nagein-Farside and first off happy boxing day from everyone here at Earwolf Studios.
0:23.6	The presents are open and the eggnog is no longer seasonally appropriate, but we can gather
0:30.1	around the roasting fire that is the hot tanks of some of
0:33.8	fake the nation's holliest and jolliest panelists. I'm gonna stick with holliest
0:40.9	and jolliest even though I recognize that those are dorky things to say in this moment.
0:44.4	Okay, let's get started with topic number one.
0:48.4	You guys, I'm so excited by the panel joining me on this discussion we have comedian
0:53.8	John Hodgman an author of the new book medallion status.
0:58.0	Bit.
0:59.2	lead slash medallion status for pre-orders and I'm here with comedian Selina Koppec. Hello.
1:05.4	Hey Selina and you should also definitely follow her NYU vows on
1:10.6	Instagram and Twitter. It's so funny.
1:14.0	Okay, you guys, we read a piece in the Atlantic called AI is coming for your favorite
1:19.0	menial tasks by Fred Benenson.
1:21.0	Meenial jobs are being replaced by robots and digital tasks are being replaced by algorithms.
1:26.3	If you need your butt scratched or whatever, there's going to be a robot for that.
1:31.3	If you need to do...
1:32.3	Let me order that right away. If you need to dig a... for that
1:35.0	for some reason there's a machine that will burrow a nice hold.
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