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The Gist

Are Attention Spans Shrinking?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, Biden's gaffes. In the interview, Maria Konnikova, author of The Confidence Game, is back for another round of Is That Bullshit? This time she and Mike talk all about attention spans. There always seem to be claims that attention spans are shrinking, but is that true? Should we be worried that we feel distracted more and more or just take a deep breath and embrace it?  In the Spiel, the Ebola cure. Want to see a special episode of The Gist live in New York? Get your tickets here! Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.0

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0:36.4

It helps other people find the show.

0:42.4

It's Tuesday, August 13th, 2019 from Slated the Gist on Mike Pasca.

0:46.8

Maybe you've seen one of these compilation tapes of Joe Biden's recent gaps going around.

0:52.8

If this were the 80s, they'd be sold on the late night TV.

0:55.6

But we can improve free on Twitter.

0:57.6

Here's a select few from, I don't know, just within the last couple weeks.

1:03.6

This is from about a three minute clip video I'll play about four of them.

1:08.0

Poor kids are just as bright and just as tall as white kids.

1:11.2

Right.

1:12.2

I found that, excuse me, the secretary, we sat together in many meetings.

1:17.2

My wife is a full-time teacher.

1:19.6

All during being when we were vice president.

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