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Rainn Wilson is the host of Peacock's The Geography Of Bliss, based on the book of the same name written by Eric Weiner. Like Weiner before him, Wils…
2 years, 8 months ago
Damming Alabama's Crimson Tide
SCOTUS has ruled that Alabama's gerrymander limiting the sway of black voters is a violation of the Voting Rights Act, which, along with some smaller…
2 years, 8 months ago
Abortion, Guns, And Money
SCOTUS isn’t meeting us where we are says Michael Waldman, author of The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America. Waldman thinks the cur…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Geeks Shall Inherit The Turf
Bruce Schoenfeld, author of Game Of Edges: The Analytics Revolution And The Future Of Professional Sports joins us to discuss the costs of all the s…
2 years, 9 months ago
DereLICHTion Of Duty
Lisa Belkin, author of Genealogy Of A Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night, traces several generations of family to the muzzle…
2 years, 9 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Sacramento Nazi Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Mike’s 2022 interview with iconic actor Stephen Root, whose many (many) credits include HB…
2 years, 9 months ago
Snakes On The Vain
TC Boyle’s new novel, Blue Skies, is about a twenty-something social media influencer who brings Burmese pythons into the picture. What can go wrong?…
2 years, 9 months ago
Who Doesn't Loathe A Sacramento Nazi? (But Then What)
Michael Isikoff, author of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, returns to dig further int…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Steele Dossier Was A Straw Man
Michael Isikoff, author of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, is an extremely straight s…
2 years, 9 months ago
Comey On Crime, Real And Imagined
James Comey, was the 7th director of the FBI before being fired by President Donald Trump. He is now out with his first work of fiction, a crime-thri…
2 years, 9 months ago