Podcast Episodes

Flooding the Dumb Zone

Dallas sports talk hosts Dan McDowell and Jake Kemp left their station and started a podcast, The Dumb Zone, and, in doing so, they became something…

2 years, 4 months ago

Mrs. Alito's Secret Vergogna

A political operative secretly recorded conversations with Justice Samuel Alito, wherein he said nothing much different than he's said before ... or …

2 years, 4 months ago

We Just Haven't Been Flapping Them Hard Enough

We looked at the title of Lawrence Wood's new book, Your Caption Has Been Selected: More Than Anyone Could Possibly Want to Know About The New Yorker…

2 years, 4 months ago

BEST OF THE GIST: D-Day Anniversary Edition

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, in honor of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion this past week, we rewind nearly10 years back to Augu…

2 years, 4 months ago

Why We Can't Have Nice Vexillogical Things

Ted Kaye, Secretary of the North American Vexillogical Association is back to talk flags, sedition, Sam Alito, and reclamation. Plus, the war in Suda…

2 years, 4 months ago

October 7 Rape Denialism

We discuss with Michael A Cohen his story in The Atlantic "The Rape Denialists: Why has it proved so hard for so many on the left to acknowledge what…

2 years, 4 months ago

Intifada Revolution? Or is that a linguistic delusion?

NPR issues a balanced, even-handed yet wholly misleading report on what chants of "intifada" really mean. Plus, Bree Davies and Paul Karoli are the c…

2 years, 4 months ago

The Gov Who Cried Wolf, Then Shot It

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte shot a trapped wolf, then he pressured state workers to blame his wolf-loathing pal. But that's not even the weird pa…

2 years, 5 months ago

The Selective Invocation Of Safety

Tyler Austin Harper is a Bard professor and Atlantic feature writer, and he drops by to discuss the themes and implications of his recent story, "Ame…

2 years, 5 months ago

BEST OF THE GIST: Quail And Panda Edition

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, Mike’s June 2016 Spiel about … yes … quail. We also listen back to Wednesday’s panda spiel. 

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2 years, 5 months ago