Podcast Episodes

Introducing Story of the Week with Joel Stein: Billionaires Prepping for the Apocalypse

Here’s a preview of a new podcast, Story of the Week.

Each week, journalist Joel Stein chooses an article that fascinates him, convinces the writer to tell him about it, and then interrupts a good c…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

BEST OF THE GIST: Argumentative Edition

To celebrate the announcement of the upcoming launch of Peach Fish's newest podcast, Not Even Mad, in this installment of Best Of The Gist, we are replaying Mike’s January 18, 2017 interview with Hea…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Deciphering The Mystery Of Xi Jinping

The Economist’s Sue-Lin Wong, host of the new podcast The Prince, discusses the most powerful person in the world, Xi Jinping. As China’s 20th Communist Party Congress convenes, Xi has positioned him…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Liz Truss, A Bit Of A Dog’s Dinner

Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister of the UK, and all of England breathes a collective “How did that just bloody happen?” Plus, we’ll check in with David Priess, former CIA intelligence briefer and …

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Sparring In Georgia’s Races For Senate And Governor

We’re joined by Bill Nigut the host of Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Political Rewind to analyze the state’s pivotal and contentious Governor and Senate Races. Plus, the Durham investigation strikes …

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Outside-The-Box-Kind-Of-Guy Alex Jones

Last night’s Ohio Senate debate featured JD Vance denying his assessment of Alex Jones as credible and an interesting thinker. Vance is still up big, and he’ll probably win. Also, a Floridan voter is…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Downfall Of The Dudes

Boys and men are failing by so many measures says Richard Reeves in his new book Of Boys And Men: Why The Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, And What To Do About It. Plus, Liz Truss is the le…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

BEST OF THE GIST: CA Politics Edition

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we are listening back to two Spiels about politics in the Golden State. First, we go all the way back to 2017, when Senator Diane Feinstein was in a sticky si…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Teasing Trump

Along with the entirety of the Democratic party, part of the resistance to the re-election of Donald Trump in 2020 were a gaggle of storied Republican message creators who joined forces to defeat the…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Kid, Out Of The Hall

Though a self described prickly punk rocker, Bruce McCullouch always came across as the most adorable of the kids in the hall. McCulloch stops by to talk Kids, comedy, and his one man show playing of…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago