Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMust Joe Go?
Jospeh Robinette Biden did not cover himself in glory in last night's debate. As Democrats discuss changing horses midstream, The Gist analyses what …
1 year, 10 months ago
The Bear, The Draft, The Debate
With big sporting, cultural, and political events occurring all at once, Mike offers a contemplation of the nature and purpose of speculation about t…
1 year, 10 months ago
All The Editor's Mess
Ben Smith and Nayeema Raza, co-hosts of the Semaphor podcast Mixed Signals, discuss the turmoil at the Washington Post. Plus Jamal Bowman's Israel p…
1 year, 10 months ago
Southlake
Mike Hixenbaugh is a Senior Investigative Reporter for NBC News and the co-creator of Southlake, a podcast that won a Peabody for spotlighting the te…
1 year, 10 months ago
Joe, Abe Dissimilar
Investor and climate activist Tom Steyer discusses his new book Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We’ll Win the Climate War and why running for president …
1 year, 10 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Father And Son Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, Mike and his first-born son Milo appeared on the Smoke Em If You Got Em podcast this past week. The two Pesc…
1 year, 10 months ago
Warning: This Discussion Of Warnings Might Cause Googly Eye At Night
The Surgeon General proposes warning labels for social media; we ask, "Do warning labels even do anything?" Plus, Dispatch Editor-in-Chief Jonah Gold…
1 year, 10 months ago
Tricking Spotify Into Getting Weird
Glenn McDonald is a streaming music pioneer who worked for years for Spotify. He's out with a new book, You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favorite Song: H…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Politics Of Holidays
On the show today, with Juneteenth coming up tomorrow, we take a look at some dubious holidays in a couple southern states. And in our full show inte…
1 year, 10 months ago
Birds Aren't Real (SHHH ... Don't tell the Crested Warbler)
Peter McIndoe is the founder of the Birds Aren't Real movement-slash-conspiracy theory. He is also the author of the book, Birds Aren't Real: The Tr…
1 year, 10 months ago