Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Maritime, Marital Novel
How do you co-write a novel with your spouse? Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel did it sentence by sentence in Dayswork. It's a new novel about one…
3 years, 1 month ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Vegemite Sandwich Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen to Mike’s 2020 conversation with Hit Parade podcast host and music writer Chris Molanphy about 198…
3 years, 1 month ago
A Marathon Of Charitable Frivolity
We're joined by the writer and director of the new film Office Race—starring Beck Bennett and Joel McHale—Jared Lapidus and James Kilmoon. We talk ni…
3 years, 1 month ago
How The Privileged Roll The Proles
Freddie DeBoer drops by to discuss his new book, How Elites Ate The Social Justice Movement. In Texas, a judge spikes buoys. And, in Alabama, someho…
3 years, 1 month ago
Korean Teachers Abused By Parents
Massive demonstrations in Seoul mark the anguish of Korean teachers pushed to the brink by pushy parents. Plus, the miracle of air safety is presente…
3 years, 1 month ago
Joe Biden's Superpower
Franklin Foer, author of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House, argues that being a politician is not an insult. In the Joe Biden view…
3 years, 1 month ago
A Pesca Plus For The Rest Of Us!
Today on The Gist, a gift. We are giving all of our listeners a taste of what Pesca Plus subscribers get each week, namely a regular episode but with…
3 years, 1 month ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Labor Day Weekend Edition
The globe may be warming, but that doesn’t stop summer from coming to an end. So, in honor of the long weekend which symbolizes the transition from s…
3 years, 1 month ago
I WAS WRONG: The Nunes Memo
Yesterday, Mike unpacked how and why he was wrong about the Central Park Karen story, and today he has a couple more points to make about his wrongne…
3 years, 1 month ago
I WAS WRONG: The Central Park Karen
In May 2020, Amy Cooper had her dog off leash in New York City's Central Park, when a black bird watcher name Christian Cooper asked her to leash her…
3 years, 1 month ago