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The Gist

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The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

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 an extended cut of a fantastic interview. This was our June 21, 2023 show, in which Mike interviews comic genius Steven Wright about his first novel Harold. We discuss Wright's thought process, how his rate of speech works for him, and how, after all these years, he still doesn't know if a joke is funny. Plus, we're living in a golden age of nuggets. And how the 6-3 Court isn't behaving at all 6-3. When you subscribe to Pesca Plus, you don't just get extended interviews with incredible guests, but you also help sustain The Gist, which, despite having been around for nearly a decade, is susceptible to the whims of the advertising market and other tomfoolery. At $8.99 per month, it's a bit cheaper than two venti Starbucks lattes, and it helps keep independent journalism alive and well. Thanks for listening. Happy Labor Day! Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara  Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com  To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/  Follow Mike's Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, just listeners, all my listeners, non-subscribers. I'm giving you a free Peska Plus.

0:06.8

The paid Peska Plus subscribers would have gotten this in their feed two months ago. When you

0:12.4

heard a version of it, a truncated lesser, okay, you can say time-conscious version of a very

0:20.8

interesting, funny interview with Stephen Wright. But I just wanted to put down an example of what

0:27.4

one might be privy to should one subscribe to Peska Plus. If you said I heard this, okay,

0:36.0

compare, contrast, say, oh, it's a little bit longer, perhaps a little bit better. Perhaps

0:40.0

it fits into my lifestyle, perhaps it doesn't. Perhaps the lack of advertisements is really what's

0:46.2

working for me. Go to subscribe.micpeska.com. Do check it out.

0:54.9

It's Wednesday, June 21st, 2023 from Peach Fish Productions. It's the gist I, Mike Peska,

1:00.5

the Philly Collapse. That phrase usually refers to Super Bowl or among pulmonologists,

1:06.6

massive internal organ failure resulting from reliance on a mostly

1:10.7

great cakes and cheese steaks diet. But as of a week ago, the Philly Collapse became an

1:15.9

acknowledgement that a portion of Interstate I-95, which I realized is redundant Interstate I-95.

1:22.0

But that piece of road went down like a rowhouse during the Frank Rizzo administration. And now,

1:27.2

now a scant 10 days later, the announcement was made. I-95 will reopen. So who's the hero?

1:36.4

Don't say the governor don't say the workers, though they did their role. Say,

1:40.8

recycled glass aggregate. Or say it in a much punchier way as WCBS channel 2 does.

1:47.6

Pennsylvania's governor says crews will work around the clock to rebuild a temporary roadway

1:52.6

made in part with 2,000 tons of recycled glass nuggets. Glass nuggets, not all heroes wear capes

1:59.3

because they don't cut capes in nugget form. But you know what else is relying on nuggets for

2:04.6

innovation, advancement, and efficiency. Only the world's most beliked coffee chain, as ABC

2:10.8

7 reports. The coffee shop chain is changing its ice cubes, replacing the current cubes with

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