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The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

For thirty minutes each day, Pesca challenges himself and his audience, in a responsibly provocative style, and gets beyond the rigidity and dogma. The Gist is surprising, reasonable, and willing to critique the left, the right, either party, or any idea.

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23:33

Cutting Class

The Gist ·

2016/07/20

On The Gist, crackers, rednecks, hillbillies—Nancy Isenberg explains the persistence of these terms and why they can’t be called ethnic identities. Her book is called White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America.Where’s the Spiel? Check back Thursday morning for another a.m. Spiel on the Republican National Convention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:46

AM Spiel: RNC Rapid Response

The Gist ·

2016/07/20

A special morning Spiel on Day 2 of the Republican National Convention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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27:41

To Catch a Cartel

The Gist ·

2016/07/20

On The Gist, how not to blow your cover while laundering money for drug cartels. Robert Mazur was an undercover government agent who got an inside look at the Medellín Cartel. Bryan Cranston plays him in the film The Infiltrator, based on Mazur’s book. For the Spiel, the disaster otherwise known as Day 1 of the Republican National Convention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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31:35

O Captain Fantastic!

The Gist ·

2016/07/19

On The Gist, actor and director Matt Ross (who plays Gavin in HBO’s Silicon Valley) talks about parenting and a man’s place in the world. Ross directed the film Captain Fantastic, a story about an extreme father who is compelled to bring his kids out of their cocoon-like home in the woods and into mainstream society. For the Spiel, what Ghostbusters can tell us about Hillary Clinton’s electoral chances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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24:20

And We Never Looked at Music the Same Way Again

The Gist ·

2016/07/15

On The Gist, disco is out, MTV is in, and we’re getting buns of steel with Olivia Newton-John. We harken back to the Billboard hits of 1981 with our regular guest Chris Molanphy. He writes Slate’s “Why Is This Song No. 1?” column. For the Spiel, how does a Sharia test work? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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26:44

The Ungeheuerlich Mr. Johnson

The Gist ·

2016/07/14

On The Gist, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Deborah Birx describes the challenges in fighting the AIDS/HIV epidemic. She oversees the nation’s plan for AIDS relief. For the Spiel, a brief meditation on renowned charmer Boris Johnson, now the United Kingdom’s top diplomat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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26:44

Type A Anonymous

The Gist ·

2016/07/13

On The Gist, we take a closer look at Type A. Is it real? How is it measured? Can it get you out of a ticket for aggressive driving? We get answers from Maria Konnikova, writer for the New Yorker and author of The Confidence Game. For the Spiel, Rudy Giuliani’s lies matter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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26:33

Art That Makes You Angry

The Gist ·

2016/07/12

On The Gist, what political ad men might have picked up from Caravaggio. Adam Levine, associate director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, explains the thinking behind the upcoming exhibition, “I Approve This Message: Decoding Political Ads.” For the Spiel, screwing around with Zika funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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29:58

A Kamikaze Mission to Jupiter

The Gist ·

2016/07/11

On The Gist, why it’s better to crash our spacecrafts than to litter the solar system with our earthly microbes. Summer Ash explains everything you didn’t know you wanted to know about the Juno space probe orbiting Jupiter. Ash is the Director of Outreach for Columbia University’s Department of Astronomy. For the Spiel, discord will always be with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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30:08

The Life and Death of Aaron Swartz

The Gist ·

2016/07/08

On The Gist, Slate correspondentJustin Peters on the life and death of free-culture crusader Aaron Swartz and the history of copyright in the United States. Peters wrote The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet. In the Spiel, reflecting on recent shootings of black men by police and of police by a black man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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29:44

It Was the Best of Timesheets, It Was the Worst of...

The Gist ·

2016/07/07

On The Gist, a case for the modern office as a subject of high literature. J. Bradford Hipps discusses finding more than mockery in the anonymous office park where he set his novel, The Adventurist. For the Spiel, an economical five minutes on the five hours the FBI director spent testifying at a congressional hearing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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29:12

Mister Postman, Lower Your Price Points for Me

The Gist ·

2016/07/06

On The Gist, Devin Leonard returns with the last installment of our postcard series to discuss the evolving economics of the U.S. Postal Service. Leonard’s book is Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service. Plus, Bruce Shapiro ponders the best way to cover mass shootings if the goal is to limit future massacres. Shapiro is executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia Journalism School. For the first-ever, midshow Spiel: Twinkies. For the

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26:52

Reduce, Reuse, and Re-Evaluate

The Gist ·

2016/07/06

On The Gist, are you really saving the planet with your recycling? New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova, takes on what may be our most controversial round of “Is That Bulls--t?” Konnikova is the author of The Confidence Game. On the Spiel, porn on the Juno spacecraft’s hard drive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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31:21

Fantastic Negrito Returns

The Gist ·

2016/07/01

On The Gist, Xavier Dphrepaulezz, aka the Fantastic Negrito, returns to reflect on his second career in music, Prince’s influence, and the gentrification of America’s greatest cities. His new album is The Last Days of Oakland. For the Spiel, it’s time for another Lobstar of the Antentwig. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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25:09

Wyatt Cenac Wants Kermit the Frog’s Job

The Gist ·

2016/07/01

On The Gist, Wyatt Cenac explains the thinking behind his comedy showcase series Night Train With Wyatt Cenac, premiering on NBC’s comedy streaming service Seeso on Thursday. For the Spiel, Borisexit: the fanfare and drama of Boris Johnson’s thanks-but-no-thanks speech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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26:58

Poll Analysis From a Spiritual 60-Year-Old

The Gist ·

2016/06/29

On The Gist, senior political writer and analyst Harry Enten explains FiveThirtyEight’s 2016 Election Forecast. For the Spiel, a forewarning about forearms: Are we ready for our Army men and women to roll up their sleeves? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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28:15

Do the Dead-Cat Bounce

The Gist ·

2016/06/28

On The Gist, author Sloane Crosley on writing characters who are smarter than you, literary witch hunts, and borrowing Spider-Man’s ethos when writing. Her novel, The Clasp, is now out in paperback. For the Spiel, will we remember the Brexit as an argument against direct democracy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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27:29

Brittle England

The Gist ·

2016/06/27

On The Gist, Financial Times journalist Edward Luce returns to discuss the Brexit vote and its imminent consequences. Luce’s latest book is Time to Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline (though the American title is the more pointed Time to Start Thinking:America in the Age of Descent). For the Spiel, what’s the value of a cri de coeur? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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30:32

Billboard Hits From 1964

The Gist ·

2016/06/24

Seems as good a day as any to talk about the British Invasion. On The Gist, we listen back to the Billboard hits of 1964, the beginning of Beatlemania in the states. Regular guest Chris Molanphy explains how other groups rode the Beatles’ coattails to the top of the pop charts. Molanphy writes Slate’s “Why Is This Song No. 1?” column. Plus, Chad Millman’s big lesson after the betting markets got the Brexit vote wrong. Millman is the host of ESPN’s Behind the Bets podcast. For the Spiel, we have

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32:45

The Character Actor’s Studio

The Gist ·

2016/06/23

On The Gist, René Auberjonois shares his tips for defying typecasters and enjoying a varied acting career. He plays a minister in Blood Stripe, the psychological thriller about a female Marine adjusting to life after the military. In the Spiel, one unifying theory for all the day’s news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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