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The Gist

A Budding Storyteller Turns In His "Homework for Life"

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Storyteller Matthew Dicks has one rule for getting better at telling stories: At the end of every day, scribble down the moment that makes the most promising tale. Today on The Gist, we hear from a listener who followed that advice.  For the Spiel, a bungled marriage proposal at the New York Yankees game.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.4

It's Wednesday, September 28, 2016, from Slated to the Just I'm Mike Pasca.

0:13.4

One poll out since the debates concluded Hillary Clinton improved and netted five points.

0:18.5

I asked this question on Twitter, Pasca me, that's PSAMI.

0:22.8

He said, what is name this period?

0:25.4

Where in, where you're not quite sure if what you saw and what you sensed and what you felt was actually real,

0:32.4

but then it will be confirmed or denied by a poll.

0:36.0

We need a poll to see if the event actually happened.

0:39.6

We wait and then it's confirmed.

0:42.2

That is same thing happened with the conventions.

0:44.2

Do you have a word for this? Interregnum?

0:46.2

You let me know on Facebook.com slash slate just the weird liminal period.

0:51.6

But I am not worried. I haven't been worried for a while.

0:54.4

Say she'll be up 47 to 43.

0:56.7

Let's say I'll throw that out there. I'm just being abundant.

0:59.2

It's not hard for me to make such a statement.

1:01.2

What I do, what I am finding is hard, is for people I'm talking to, for friends of mine,

1:05.7

just to say how this debate will land to people that they don't understand.

1:10.7

So my friends say, well, I thought Trump did abysmally, but who knows what people will think.

1:17.2

They are distrusting their own sense of what the public will say,

1:22.4

because maybe they saw this crazy election season and they say, I don't know.

1:25.8

Nothing makes sense. Everything is upside down.

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