Podcast Episodes

Revolutionary Fog and Folly

Pulitzer Prize–winner Rick Atkinson joins to discuss The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777 to 1780, the seco…

1 year, 5 months ago

Obama’s Elon

Aneesh Chopra, America’s first-ever Chief Technology Officer under Obama, joins The Gist to assess Elon Musk’s rebranded takeover of government tech …

1 year, 5 months ago

Mike Stops by The Reason Roundtable

Mike joins The Reason Roundtable Podcast to talk about Trump's War on Harvard.

Click here to listen to the rest of the podcast Produced by Corey War…

1 year, 5 months ago

Ben Ansell on FAFO, FADFO, and the Myth of Immediate Consequence

Oxford political scientist Ben Ansell discusses the meme-worthy but deeply explanatory concept of FAFO—f**k around and find out—and its subtler cousi…

1 year, 5 months ago

Bark Buttons: “Who Let the Dogs Talk?”

Today on The Gist: Sadie Dingfelder returns for an “Is That BS?” segment to investigate dog talking buttons—those viral gadgets that claim to give pe…

1 year, 5 months ago

Tusk Talk: Why Cuomo Leads and the Subways Smell Like Sh*t

Political strategist and author Bradley Tusk joins to diagnose the 2025 New York City mayor’s race—why voters seem fine with Andrew Cuomo’s refusal t…

1 year, 5 months ago

Pig Sacrifices and Talking Drums: Don't Squeeze the Shaman

Manvir Singh, author of Shamanism: The Timeless Religion, shares insights from a decade with Indonesia’s Mentawai people, where healing rituals doubl…

1 year, 5 months ago

The Gist List Live w Ethan Strauss

Today on The Gist. Ethan Strauss joined Mike Pesca for a Substack Live conversation. Today we air a portion of it focusing on Caitlin Clark and shoes…

1 year, 5 months ago

Funny You Should Mention: Robby Hoffman

Comedian, podcaster, and self-described cutie-in-her-own-way Robby Hoffman drops by to discuss her life, her comedy, and why she takes talking as ser…

1 year, 5 months ago

Realign for Palestine

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, founder of Realign for Palestine and a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council, joins to discuss his effort to reframe Pales…

1 year, 5 months ago