Podcast Episodes

Macedo and Frances Lee In Covid's Wake

The authors of In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us, political scientists Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee, join for a full-show interview to discuss our failures during the pandemic. The eviden…

Published on 8 months ago

Kilmar, Detained and Unnamed

Senator Chris Van Hollen made the rounds on all five Sunday shows to discuss the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—but curiously avoided using Kilmar’s first name. A dissects of rhetorical and how ev…

Published on 8 months ago

Great Britain Chicken Friction

Today on The Gist. ITs a day dedicated to Chickens. Mikes 2017 opening about UK's Chicken places named after US States, and the British are squawking about a different kind of chicken — the chlorinat…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Funny You Should Mention - T.J. Miller

Comedian T.J. Miller joins this episode of Funny You Should Mention. You might know him from Silicon Valley, Deadpool, or that time he had a choice between brain surgery with a 10% fatality rate vs. …

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Not Even Mad: The Commercial Break’s Bryan Green and Carine Hajjar

Boston Globe columnist Carine Hajjar and The Commercial Break’s Bryan Green debate whether Joe Rogan’s platforming of antisemitic conspiracies signals a deeper rot—or just the cost of open conversati…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

The Fight for the White House in 2024

In their new book chronicling the 2024 election, Fight, Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes document the disarray inside the Democratic camp during Biden’s final months and Kamala Harris’s precarious rise…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Four More Years?

Can Trump run for a third term? Someone who has contemplated that is Bruce Peabody author of the law review titled The Twice and Future President Revisited: Of Three-Term Presidents and Constitutiona…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Trump’s Trade Tactics: Betwixt Chaos and Coherence

Donald Trump just walked back key tariffs on Chinese electronics — but his Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, is still out on a full-throated pro-tariff tour, as if nothing happened. To make sense o…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Today’s Show is About a Different Show That is Not About Tapirs

Today on The Gist. We go back to the The Colin McEnroe Show where Mike was on as a guest not talking about Tapirs. Then We end with Wednesdays Spiel on Trumps press conference about tariffs.

Produc…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

The Ongoing Black Mark of the Red Scare

Clay Risen, author of Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, joins to discuss the era when suspicion was a political tool and civil liberties were sidelined. Today we h…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago