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Back to SearchMatt Gaetz Temps Fate
Matt Gaetz is both a force of nature and a force for chaos. Dexter FIlkins of The New Yorker profiled his upbringing and ongoing potency in national politics. Plus, Nancy Mace will not be shamed by G…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Unusual Protest Methods Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, a podcast extra from our Thursday conversation with Sir David King, formerly the UK's Government Chief Scientific Adviser, who is now the Founder and Chair at…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Anatomy Of A Barbenmaestro Of The Flower Moon
Its Oscar talk with Decoding Everything and Filmcast's David Chen. Why Mike thought Maestro hit sour notes ... and why David thought the structure of Oppenheimer was more stamped from a hard plastic …
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Carbon Capture: Boon, Bane, or Balderdash?
Sir David King, formerly the UK's Government Chief Scientific Adviser, is now the Founder and Chair at Cambridge's Center for Climate Repair. He advocates carbon capture technology as part of the mix…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Luxuriating In Luxury Beliefs
Rob Henderson, author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, grew up in foster care among the people that the elites of Yale University say they care about. But when Henders…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
A Dearth Of Sinemaphiles
Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema announces her intention to become Former Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Also on the show, The New York Times' union says the paper is racially profiling its own MENA s…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Border Porous? Blame Mayorkas
Jonathan Blitzer author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, profiled DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for The New Yorker. Plus, The Inte…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Fast-Food Innovation Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we tackle the important topic of poor-quality, quick-heating food innovations. From the archive, we listen back to Mike’s 2022 interview with Nathan Allebach,…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Get Used To It
Cass Sunstein joins us to talk about how, without knowing it, we habituate to our circumstances ... regardless of the circumstances. This is both a good thing and bad thing, and it's the subject of …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Bloody American History, Long Before the Founders
We're joined by James Swanson author of The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America. Plus, a little squiggle of Europe called Transnistria.…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago