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Back to SearchJoseph Moore: Negotiating With Drug Dealers for Real Estate Success
Episode 3007
Today on the Gist, Robert F. Kennedy's initiative to get Americans off psychiatric medications and the political consequences of elevating fringe hea…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Joseph Moore: The Despair Industrial Complex
Episode 3006
Today on the Gist, parsing terrible geology analogies about gas prices dropping "like a rock" when they are actually shooting up like a rocket. Then,…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Ethan Strauss: Great Writers, Bad Thinkers, and the Death of the Sports Gamer
Episode 3005
Mike and Ethan Strauss joined to talk on Substack and they talked about Ethan's 4:00 a.m. "rise and grind" writing routine, the frustrating trend of …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Liz Hoffman: Why We Are So Pessimistic About a Resilient Economy
Episode 3004
Today on the Gist, digging into the rhetoric around California's Proposition 36 and examining how advocacy groups frame low-level arrest statistics t…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Liz Hoffman: Will AI Trigger a Jobless Food Fight?
Episode 3003
Today on the Gist, assessing the political fallout from the Supreme Court's Callais decision striking down majority minority congressional districts.…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Suzy Hansen: How The Syrian War Radicalized Erdoğan
Episode 3002
Today on the Gist, a look at the recent security incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and why Donald Trump's demand for a new White Hou…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Ted Dintersmith: The Life-Changing Math Schools Ignore
Episode 3001
Today on the Gist, examining the confusing details and conspiracy theories surrounding the recent Washington press corps assailant. Then, Ted Dinters…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Richard Lapper: Why Lula Didn't Become a Chavista
Episode 3000
Today on the Gist, reflecting on the president's black tie press conference remarks about accepting political violence, and why our media ecosystem c…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Mike Pesca Might Be Wrong & The Art of Korean Rock Throwing
Episode 2999
It's the Saturday show! First, we pull a recent appearance: Mike joins Jeff Maurer on the I Might Be Wrong podcast. They debate Mike's recent Free Pr…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Maya Kornberg on How Congress Got Stuck
Episode 2998
Today on the Gist, the US and Iran are supposedly in peace talks, but the real terror might just be the Iranian Navy's choice of "loose ski masks." T…
5 months, 4 weeks ago