A Show for Mere Mortals

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Kathleen Horan writes obituaries for the living. Her Audible original series, Mortal City, is an anthology of lesser-known New York characters: Douglas the sanitation worker, Serge the barman, Rocky the ambulance commandant. "I just kept feeling like there were people that I was missing," says Horan. She prefers to talk to people who live and work on the city's margins: "They just can't help but show you higher up on the thigh of their story." In the Spiel, the latest page in the very long scrapbook on President Trump's communication catastrophes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.9	It's Monday, October 23rd, 2017 from Slate.
0:10.8	It's the Gist I'm Mike Pasca.
0:12.8	I watch the Sunday shows.
0:14.2	That's what I do for you, my Gist friends.
0:17.8	Actually, it's a little untrue.
0:19.3	I don't watch them and I don't always consume them on Sundays.
0:21.7	I listen at double speed.
0:23.8	Got all the networks, got the Tapper, got Fox News Sunday,
0:27.4	which is on Fox News on Sundays.
0:29.7	I take the hit, but I also take the notes.
0:32.4	I get overjoyed when I hear the same talking point repeated on two or three shows here on face the nation.
0:38.8	Office of management and budget director Mick Mulvaney made an argument for not allowing federal tax players
0:45.3	to deduct state and local taxes.
0:47.5	If you live in New York and live in South Carolina, I actually pay more in federal tax than you do and that's not fair.
0:53.1	Same talking point shows up on Fox News Sunday, but with a different state.
0:57.3	In this case, he doesn't refer to South Carolina, which actually does have state taxes.
1:01.3	He chooses a state without state taxes.
1:03.1	One of the things we're driving at is fairness.
1:05.6	And if you live in Wyoming and I live in New York and we make the same amount of money, our house is worth the same amount of money,
1:11.1	our cars are worth the same amount of money, all other things being equal,
1:13.9	shouldn't we pay the same amount of federal tax?
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