Bare Necessities? Not in Alaska.

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, unpacking CNN's list of top Democratic challengers ahead of 2020. Katmai National Park and Preserve's publicity stunt worked: For one week (that's Fat Bear Week), the internet delighted in the tournament bracket that would crown the plumpest predator of them all. Carnivore ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant tells us about the brown bear's diet, the unknown mechanics of hibernation, and why fattest really means fittest for the competition's chunky winner (Beadnose!). In the Spiel, what to make of Elizabeth Warren's DNA-testing gambit. This episode is brought to you by the following advertisers: SimpliSafe, protect your home today with twenty-four seven monitoring for just fifteen dollars a month, visit simplisafe.com/gist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast may have explicit content.
0:01.9	We've tried to bleep it out, but when the roadrunner gets naughty,
0:04.8	we can't bleep it out.
0:05.7	We can only meep meep it out.
0:10.9	Monday, October 15, 2018, from slated to the gist, I'm Mike Pesca.
0:15.4	Less than three weeks to choose some fairly big.
0:17.3	I'm going to say fairly big midterms.
0:19.4	And we're talking about all the important things.
0:21.6	Is Elizabeth Warren really Native American?
0:23.8	Does the president know more about the value of NATO than Jim Mattis?
0:27.0	And does the fact that Jim Mattis is quote, sort of a Democrat coming to play?
0:30.9	Also, CNN has a poll asking this question.
0:34.0	Who's the leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidate?
0:37.5	Joe Biden's on the top with 33.
0:39.0	The last two names on the list, Bollock and Delaney.
0:42.4	They were pulling it less than 1%.
0:44.6	I have to tell you I do this for a living and I did not know which Bollock or Delaney.
0:49.5	They meant Rob Delaney, funny guy on Twitter, Jim J. Bollock for the block of the
0:55.3	president's agenda.
0:56.8	I'd love to hear Jim J. Bollock's thoughts on the Monroe doctrine.
1:02.6	That's my too close for comfort imitation.
1:05.1	It's my best imitation.
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