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Donald Trump clashes with Kamala Harris in their only scheduled presidential debate. Among the important issues debated: abortion, inflation, and immigrants eating pets. Reasonable people can differ …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
How Is This Election Close?
A close read of media choices and voter preferences explains the refrain we've been hearing—shock that the race is so close. Plus, San Fransisco has come up a lot in the presidential race, because Ka…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Barack Talk
Former Barack Obama speechwriter, Terry Szuplat discusses Kamala Harris' challenges, Barak Obama's techniques, and he is forced to pay a compliment to the rhetorical style of Donald Trump. Szuplat is…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Paper Straw Rant Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, with Presidential candidate Kamala Harris officially reversing her support of a plastic straw ban, a topic stuck in Mike’s craw for years, we replay his 2019 …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Endemic Is Less Polemic Than An Epidemic
Covid-19 is still around, but it's far less deadly. And, yet ... still deadly. Katelyn Jetelina, author of the Your Local Epidemiologist Substack, is here to talk about lessons learned, how vigilant …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Colony Calumny
Israel's critics describe it as a colonizer, settler colonizers, in fact. We examine the rational and irrational reasoning behind this as we talk with Adam Kirsch author of On Settler Colonialism: Id…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Kamala Nails The Soundbite
Unlike anogenital distance researchers on NPR, at the DNC, Kamala Harris accepted her party's nomination with polished, practiced style. Also on the show, author Adam Kirsch joins us to discuss his n…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Heavy Metal Thunder
The greening of energy is fueled not just by air and wind but many minerals that need extraction. Standing in the way: regulations, a flower, and the Apache. Reuters energy reporter, Ernest Scheyder …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Well, like, dude...its Labor Day
We are out of the office for the holiday, but we wanted to give you the chance to listen to an interview that Pesca Plus members got to hear. Back on 4/20/23 Mike talked to Valerie Fridland about her…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Jonah Goldberg Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, while at the DNC a couple weeks back, Mike got to sit down with Friend Of The Gist Jonah Goldberg for a wide-ranging political conversation that became an epi…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago