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.
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Abraham Grinchstein
Thanksgiving cocktails are about a nice drink wit…
23 min
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Are You Sure He Had a Red Nose?
How open are Cubans to the idea of democracy? Tod…
21 min
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Grin and Bear It
Are we experiencing a fundamental reshaping of th…
26 min
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Bad Movies, Good Podcast
All this week on The Gist, we’re down with O.P.P.…
21 min
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Too Beautiful to Stop
All this week on The Gist, we’re down with O.P.P.…
28 min
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For Dana Gould, Editing Is No Laughing Matter
All this week on The Gist, we’re down with O.P.P.…
28 min
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Ten Years To 'StartUp'
All this week on the The Gist, we’re down with O.…
22 min
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Marc Maron on the Best Podcast Episode Ever
All this week on the The Gist, we’re down with O.…
33 min
2409
Cut Off From a Sex Life Too Soon
When your husband dies, must your sex life die to…
32 min
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Shakesbeer
Should America be the world police? Today on The …
27 min
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Is “Mother’s Intuition” Real?
While campus sexual assault is a real and serious…
26 min
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Goodness Gracious: Great Bio of Fire
Today on The Gist, Mike comes out with his predic…
23 min
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The Uruguayan in Chief
Today on The Gist, Slate’s Jacob Weisberg offers …
26 min
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Tap the Holiday Spirit
Clarence Page is knowledgeable, reasonable, and n…
29 min
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Orchestral Snoring on the Trans-Siberian Railway
On The Gist, NPR’s David Greene joins us in studi…
22 min
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The Duck Face Facial Regime
Today on The Gist, a look at the issues surroundi…
31 min
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Learning Little From the Near-Death Experience
Pop-up ads keep telling Mike to test his food sen…
27 min
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The Mingus Method for Toilet Training Cats
Starting Wednesday, Billboard will change the way…
30 min
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The Thunder-Throat Hope Behind Macy’s Floats
Thanksgiving is for eaters, so we’ve called in an…
28 min
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Demons and Spirits
Today on The Gist, Mike begins the show with his …
33 min
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The Moist Birdie Debate
How come Scandinavians are always the internation…
27 min
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The Buck Starts Here
Today on The Gist, Chuck Todd from NBC’s Meet the…
22 min
2423
The Kitsch of Death
If it bleed, it leads, but today on The Gist we d…
31 min
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Afghanistan: 13 Years and Counting
When our feelings about Hamid Karzai cooled, did …
30 min
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Don’t Call It a Comeback
Today on The Gist, Chicago’s Joshua Sebastian tel…
22 min