It's Monday, September 22nd, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the Gist. I'm Mike Peska.

Now for the gist, etymology of the day.

Today's investigation and exploration is of the word jawboning.

Jawboning.

This is called jawboning. That's the technical term for it.

It certainly crossed the line in terms of what they call jaw-boning.

And the term is jaw-boning.

If they continue to jaw-boning, the local stations...

Jaw-boning is the practice by which a government official

pressures private industry into or out of something

through verbal persuasion laced with a plausible threat. The Supreme Court has ruled this

impermissible very recently. A recent case, National Rifle Association v. Volo makes it clear

Volo then head of New York's Department of Financial Services,

told banks and insurers, eh, you might not want to do business with the NRA,

because the NRA is a bad actor, potentially, and they later found literally violating laws,

and at risk of losing its non-profit status, the court looked at this jawboning and ruled unanimously for the NRA,

the state cannot coerce regulated entities into terminating business relationships.

Jawboning, of course, cropped up recently in the controversy,

the coverage of Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, which I think has just

recently been announced to have not been indefinite, but we'll be ending tomorrow. But he was

suspended by the FCC commissioner, Brendan Carr, and Carr was accused of jawboning. Carr said

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