The Gist

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.

Daily News
Politics
Arts
701
Chi Town Show Down
32 min
702
Accurately Seeing The Victims Of Police Killings
38 min
703
Punishing The Punishment In The Stanford Rape Case
27 min
704
BEST OF THE GIST: Dial V for Vlad
15 min
705
Checking Into Sam Sanders Vibe
34 min
706
Using Bare-Knuckle Politics To Fund School Meals
35 min
707
Hush Little Stormy
35 min
708
Vaccines, Masks, And The Lessons Of Covid
35 min
709
The Harms We Cause While Doing Good
36 min
710
BEST OF THE GIST: Three Pointer Edition
16 min
711
What Makes A Flag Bad?
37 min
712
How Benghazi Continues To Warp America
35 min
713
Poverty And Progress Is Narrative
41 min
714
Marching Into The Madness Of State-Sanctioned G...
31 min
715
Donald The Mafia Don
30 min
716
BEST OF THE GIST: Whale Watch Edition
14 min
717
The High Priest Of The Church Of Audience Research
36 min
718
Walk This Way Into The History Of The World Pt. II
31 min
719
More Than 1% Chance Of Nukes
35 min
720
Taking Flack For All The Yakety Yak
34 min
721
The Unremarkable Antics Of Congressman DeSantis
34 min
722
BEST OF THE GIST: 7 Degrees Of Natasha Lyonne
22 min
723
A Taste Of Poker Face
29 min
724
Tuning into the Anti-Anti Obesity Frequency
34 min
725
The Effective Altruism Crash
36 min