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The Gist

A Founding Fathers Bromance

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were very different guys representing opposing political parties. Jefferson was a wildly popular aristocrat from Virginia; Adams was a middling, dyspeptic lawyer from Massachusetts. But they were fast friends, and their relationship ultimately survived a presidential election in which they faced off as candidates. Historian Gordon S. Wood explains why their friendship should give us hope. Wood's book is Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In lieu of a Spiel today, we're sharing a piece of The Gist's Washington live show. Mike talked to FiveThirtyEight senior writer Perry Bacon Jr. about the Alabama Senate race and the growing momentum behind the Republican tax bill.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let me be perfectly explicit in this podcast.

0:03.6

Okay, here it goes.

0:05.0

🎵

0:09.0

It's Wednesday, November 29th, 2017, from Slated to the GIST I'm Mike Pascha,

0:14.0

and I am an impaired Mike Pascha, you could hear this.

0:16.8

This is my instrument, my voice. It's also something of my temple.

0:19.9

And I desecrated the temple last night, I did a live show in Washington, D.C.

0:23.9

I gotta say, next time we should use microphones,

0:26.7

rather than those giant cones they used in Vaudeville.

0:29.7

As I sang, the red, red rob and keeps bop, bop, bop, and a long.

0:34.6

And there I was at the Hamilton Theater, just a few blocks from the White House,

0:38.6

where we had a guy who was a tweeting.

0:42.1

Now there is a through line between Trump's tweets and his off-handed slur

0:47.2

in front of the Navajo code talkers.

0:49.4

And well, the through line is, of course, that we have a tangerine madman in the Oval Office.

0:54.4

But where this through line ends is a lie that he's been perpetuating.

0:59.6

So let's remember and let's recall what has happened.

1:01.9

In front of the Navajo's, because he has no filter and really knows only six things about the world,

1:07.2

he says, oh, these guys are Native Americans, internal monologue,

1:10.7

not using the phrase Native Americans.

1:12.4

These guys are Native Americans.

1:14.1

What's like a thing I know about Native Americans?

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