Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBEST OF THE GIST: NATO Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we return to March 2017 to listen back to Mike’s interview with The Atlantic staff writer and U.S. Naval War…
2 years, 7 months ago
They Got A Monster
The notorious Baltimore Police unit dramatized in the HBO Series We Own This City, is examined in a new documentary I Got a Monster that veers away …
2 years, 7 months ago
Toxic Masculinity And The Autocado
Striking writers have deprived Americans of late-night weather-related jokes, evil characters, and pat narrative. Soon-to-strike UPS drivers will dep…
2 years, 7 months ago
Welcome Back To McWhorter's Quarters
John McWhorter is a professor of linguistics at Columbia University, a New York Times columnist, and host of the Lexicon Valley podcast. He's back f…
2 years, 7 months ago
Jake Tapper And Evel's Hog
CNN's Jake Tapper is out with his third thriller. This one is set when Evel Knievel jumped gorges, Elvis was being mourned, and the Son Of Sam stalke…
2 years, 7 months ago
Muster The Cluster
The U.S. is supplying cluster munitions to Ukraine, even though many countries (though not our own, and none currently being invaded) have signed a t…
2 years, 7 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Affirmative Phosphogypsum Quotas
Today on The Gist. We play the spiel from this week about phosphogypsum. Then we go into the vaults and listen to a spiel from 2020 about the Oscars …
2 years, 8 months ago
Prune Lola Prune
Film maker / musician / director / podcaster Lola Blanc is out with a new film “Pruning” about a blonde right wing pundit who inspires a shooting and…
2 years, 8 months ago
Technology Revolutionizes Life But Not Incomes
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson are the authors of the new book “Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity.” We …
2 years, 8 months ago
Cooling Down The Tik-Tok Experience
Evelyn Gosnell is a behavioral scientist who, as Managing Director of Irrational Labs, studies and advises the biggest apps and social media sites in…
2 years, 8 months ago