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.
1026
Deep Throat Was An Operative
30 min
1027
Are We Crazy To Think Putin Is Crazy?
29 min
1028
BEST OF THE GIST: The Age Of Charlatans
27 min
1029
Glib Punditry Helped Putin
30 min
1030
A Big, Long War
28 min
1031
Police and Prostitutes in South Africa
26 min
1032
The Clever Thugs
30 min
1033
BEST OF THE GIST: Protestors And Laundromats
22 min
1034
The Peach State Voting Slate
33 min
1035
Crouching Mogul, Roaring Dragon
33 min
1036
BoE Booted By The Bay
29 min
1037
Off-Label Abuse
33 min
1038
The Cost Of Paying Attention To Trump
34 min
1039
BEST OF THE GIST: Xiao Mina On Memes In Protest...
25 min
1040
Rooney Rule Ridicule
32 min
1041
Canucks Horror-Struck At Stuck Trucks
28 min
1042
The Time Hackers Took Down Two-Dozen Texas Towns
30 min
1043
Al Franken Gets Specific About Senators
32 min
1044
Former Senator, Touring Comic, and De-Humor-ize...
26 min
1045
BEST OF THE WEEK: Joe Rogan Goes Rogue
15 min
1046
A Retelling Of Dog Day Afternoon Blows Up
31 min
1047
The Well-Crafted, Certainly Amusing Sameness Of...
28 min
1048
The Techno-Utopian Internet Game That's Immiser...
23 min
1049
Vaccine Doubters Aren't Sayin'....They're Just ...
Inside the techniques; rhetorical, factual, and suggestive, of a covid misinformer
36 min
1050
Stories Are A Tool, And Tools Can Be Deadly
Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down
32 min