The Gist
Peach Fish Productions
EN5884 episodes
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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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Episodes (5884)
David Epstein: Thinking Inside the Box
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May 12, 202644:55pending
Kevin Williamson: The Psychotic State of Texas Politics
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May 11, 202645:55pending
Finding Political Kryptonite with Paula Poundstone
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May 9, 202634:35pending
Benjamin Saltzman: The Art of Turning Away
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May 8, 202641:04pending
Not Even Mad: Russ Muirhead & Ben Dreyfuss
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May 7, 202657:17pending
Jonathan Vigliotti: The Olympic Rush to Rebuild LA
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May 6, 202643:26pending
Joseph Moore: Negotiating With Drug Dealers for Real Estate Success
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May 5, 202629:48pending
Joseph Moore: The Despair Industrial Complex
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May 4, 202637:42pending
Ethan Strauss: Great Writers, Bad Thinkers, and the Death of the Sports Gamer
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May 2, 202654:34pending
Liz Hoffman: Why We Are So Pessimistic About a Resilient Economy
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May 1, 202637:32pending
Liz Hoffman: Will AI Trigger a Jobless Food Fight?
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Apr 30, 202636:27pending
Suzy Hansen: How The Syrian War Radicalized Erdoğan
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Apr 29, 202641:11pending
Ted Dintersmith: The Life-Changing Math Schools Ignore
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Apr 28, 202643:43pending
Richard Lapper: Why Lula Didn't Become a Chavista
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Apr 27, 202638:39pending
Mike Pesca Might Be Wrong & The Art of Korean Rock Throwing
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Apr 25, 202634:00pending
Maya Kornberg on How Congress Got Stuck
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Apr 24, 202633:32pending
Not Even Mad: Sarada Peri & Sarah Isgur
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Apr 23, 20261:01:33pending
Jennifer Shahade on the Grandmaster of Intermezzos: Donald Trump
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Apr 22, 202641:54pending
Jonathan Cheng on the Realities of Uncovering North Korea
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Apr 21, 202633:36pending
Jonathan Cheng on When Pyongyang Was the Jerusalem of the East
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Apr 20, 202630:20pending
The Middle - Making the case for Voting by Phone
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Apr 18, 202628:56pending
Chuck Todd: Why Politicians Are "The Weirdos"
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Apr 17, 202646:09pending
Sarah Isgur: Why Forum Shopping is a Bigger Threat Than the Ethics Crisis
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Apr 16, 202631:17pending
Sarah Isgur: "Stop Blaming the Court and Start Blaming Congress"
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Apr 15, 202630:04pending
Jacob Mchangama On The "Four Hateful Men" Who Saved Free Speech
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Apr 14, 202626:12pending
Jacob Mchangama On "Elite Panic"
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Apr 13, 202634:21pending
Across The Movie Aisle: Mike Pesca's "***hole Tracker" Enters The Pitt
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Apr 11, 202620:44pending
Matt Yglesias & Richard Kreitner: A Billion Americans vs. Breaking It Up
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Apr 10, 202625:39pending
Not Even Mad: John Ganz & Nick Gillespie
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Apr 9, 20261:17:42pending
Freddie DeBoer and Devon Price on the "Identity Trap" of Neurodiversity
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Apr 8, 202635:26pending
Noam Scheiber and the "Vinyl Record" Phase of American Unions
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Apr 7, 202632:48pending
Noam Scheiber on the "Class Confidence" of the Overqualified
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Apr 6, 202631:25pending
Uncertain Things: "Joy as an Act of Resistance is the Dumbest Slogan of the Woke...
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Apr 4, 202641:08pending
Funny You Should Mention: Raanan Hershberg
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Apr 3, 20261:09:27failed
Are You There God? It’s Me, Mark Oppenheimer
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Apr 2, 202646:34failed
Tyler Goodspeed: Why "Pattern-Seeking Mammals" Blame Bankers Instead of Locusts
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Apr 1, 202643:06failed
Why Brazil Stopped Its Bolsonaro and We Didn't Stop Ours
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Mar 31, 202633:14failed
Zack Beauchamp: "You Kind of Have to Pick a Lane to Be an Effective Autocrat"
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Mar 30, 202629:07failed
Magic Shops, $200 Million Horse Ads, and the Ghost of Nibbles the Goat
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Mar 28, 202613:18failed
Julia Minson: You're Probably 50% Wrong
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Mar 27, 202642:50failed
Not Even Mad: Yascha Mounk & Colin Cole
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Mar 26, 20261:07:42failed
Ben Ritz on Slopulism and the Democrats' 2024 Lesson
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Mar 25, 202632:18failed
Larry Charles: "I Am Willing To Die To Get This Scene"
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Mar 24, 202629:17failed
Larry Charles: "I Finally Had to Fire the Kid"
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Mar 23, 202629:50failed
The Myth of the Iranian Moderate & The "Undecided" War
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Mar 21, 202617:48failed
Derrick Stroup: "I Sound Like a Bowl of Gravy and You Sound Like a Traffic Cone"
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Mar 20, 202659:24failed
Is That Bulls*it: Does The Body Keep the Score - in Your Hips
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Mar 19, 202631:47failed
Molly Worthen: "Charisma Is a Tool of the Weak"
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Mar 18, 202641:42failed
Mickey Bergman: "Even Maduro Has a Soft Spot"
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Mar 17, 202631:30failed
Mickey Bergman: The Psychology of the Hostage Deal
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Mar 16, 202642:53failed
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