A Song You Can Graduate To

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On The Gist, those beacons of honesty—retiring Republican members of the Congress. Cremation has the carbon footprint of a 1,000-mile road trip, your average bee has nearly 1 million brain cells, and only 3 to 4 percent of gossip is actually "malicious." Those are all statistics relayed in Walt Hickey's Numlock News, the daily newsletter he started after four years at FiveThirtyEight. In the Spiel, graduation songs over the years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following content is explicit.
0:02.4	["The Star's Day June 21st 2018"]
0:06.6	It's Thursday June 21st, 2018.
0:09.5	From slated to the gist I, Mike Pesca,
0:11.5	I've discovered the most illuminating category
0:15.5	of human being going.
0:17.4	The type of person who contains the most truthfulness,
0:21.5	the Greeks, had the oracle at Delphi.
0:24.1	They also had diogenes,
0:26.2	trudging through town with a lantern.
0:28.2	He was trying to find an honest man,
0:30.0	but now we have found the honest man.
0:32.3	The character in American life,
0:34.0	more upstanding than Atticus Finch,
0:36.7	more forthcoming than a witness
0:38.6	who Perry Mason broke on the stand.
0:41.1	Yeah, I got a lot of 50s references.
0:43.0	This exemplar of honesty,
0:45.7	he is known as the retiring Republican Senator Congressman.
0:51.1	First, yeah, Jeff Flake.
0:52.6	Then, yeah, Bob Corker.
0:54.0	Then maybe not Bob Corker,
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