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The Gist

Being Barney Frank

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2015

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Gist, former Rep. Barney Frank explains how he was able to be so frank and still survive in Congress. His new autobiography is Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage. For the Spiel, Mike points out the only time we ever note raids taking place. Today's sponsor: Shari's Berries. Treat your mom to something sweet this Mother's Day with a gift from Shari's Berries. Fresh berries dipped in chocolate start at $19.99. Visit berries.com, click on the microphone, and use the code GIST. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at http://www.slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0

The gist is sponsored by Sherries Berries. Treat your mom to something sweet this Mother's

0:34.3

Day with a gift from Sherries Berries. Fresh Berries dipped in chocolate start at

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1999. Visit berries.com, click on the microphone and use the code gist. That's B-E-R-R-I-E-S dot

0:45.8

com and the promo code gist.

0:48.2

It's Thursday, April 30th, 2015 from Slate. It's the gist. I'm Mike Pasca.

0:56.7

Hi, it's Mike. Still Mike. But there's Mike in the bag of a car heading to MSNBC. I had

1:04.5

to leave a little early to go do a TV show. But I just saw something that needed to go

1:09.6

into the gist. So I'm interrupting my normal intro to tell you this news. So the Mercury

1:15.3

Messenger is set to crash into the surface of Mercury and I found this out. You know

1:19.4

that probe, that space probe tapes takes a lot of pictures. The Mercury Messenger. Messenger

1:24.9

is actually an acronym. Are you ready? Here's what it stands for. Mercury, the ME, the

1:31.1

first two letters of Mercury, surface, space, environment, the first two letters of environment

1:38.0

EN, Geochemistry, GE, and that's Messenger. All right. That is not an acronym. That is

1:45.4

the worst acronym ever. Did you know that gist is an acronym? It says go, Mike, and it

1:52.2

takes the I and Mike state things ST or it could be the S and the T from state and the T

2:00.2

from things either way. Even America is an acronym. It stands for a majestic A environment

2:07.6

that you take the E from environment and the R from environment. If taking the I, you

2:12.6

can. Don't take either of those letters. Afford A and it. America stands for a majestic

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