A Chokehold On Reason

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

With criminal charges against the former Marine who choked a homeless man to death on the NYC subway, we're being forced to choose between narratives of heroism or evil. Neither applies, as real people who've really ridden the subway know. Plus, what makes a master a master? And can mastery be gained even when brains become less pliant? It's all answered in Adam Gopnik's new book The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery. Also, Tropical Cyclone Mocha makes landfall ... and a few interesting points. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Streaming exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:03.0	I wish I could tell you this is going to be a serene season.
0:07.0	It's not.
0:08.0	The Kardashians are back.
0:10.0	There's no sense of loyalty.
0:12.0	And this time, it's personal.
0:14.0	Everyone has their own truth of how they think something happened.
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0:20.0	So, let's talk about it.
0:22.0	The Kardashians streaming May 25th exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:26.0	18 Plus subscription required to tease and seize a plight.
0:30.0	It's Monday May 15th, 2023 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:37.0	It's the Gist I'm Mike Pasca, a powerful cyclone.
0:40.0	It's at the coasts of Myanmar and Bangladesh.
0:43.0	The name of that cyclone.
0:45.0	Now, cyclone, Mocha, is also impacting the world's largest refugee camp.
0:49.0	We're around one million vulnerable people live in makeshift homes.
0:53.0	I disagree.
0:55.0	It affected, not impacted the refugee camp.
0:58.0	But also, more to the point, it mostly missed the refugee camp.
1:01.0	Yes, thousands of refugees were relocated and shanties were destroyed.
1:05.0	But not the direct hit as feared.
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