A Triumph of Small Talk

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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On The Gist, Slate's Ruth Graham demonstrates her total mastery of small talk from her piece, "In Defense of Small Talk." For the Spiel, are GMO labels informative or misleading? Today's sponsors: Monster. Find employees who work as hard as you at Monster.com/hiring. Monster. Find Better. Harry's, the shaving company that offers German-engineered blades, well-designed handles, and shipping right to your door. Visit Harrys.com for $5 off your first purchase with the promo code GIST. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:16.6	Home base, homes and gardens made easy.
0:20.4	The district is brought to you by Monster.
0:22.6	Find employees who work as hard as you at monster.com slash hiring.
0:26.5	Monster.
0:27.5	Find better.
0:28.7	And by Harry's, the shaving company that offers German engineered blades, well designed
0:33.3	handles and shipping right to your door.
0:36.1	Visit harry's.com for five dollars off your first purchase with the promo code, GIST.
0:41.7	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:45.3	It's Thursday, March 17th, 2016 from Slate.
0:51.5	It's the GIST I'm Mike Pesca.
0:53.2	To Poetlay, we made you puke, but now we want you back.
0:56.6	Actually, they made what?
0:58.0	Maybe a couple hundred people puke, but they are mailing out millions of coupons.
1:02.3	It's a good deal for us, the non-puking public.
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1:14.7	They sent out 21 million direct mail vouchers.
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