Benjamin Saltzman: The Art of Turning Away
The Gist
Peach Fish Productions
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, May 8th, 2026 from Peachfish Productions. |
| 0:07.0 | It's the gist. I'm Mike Pesca. |
| 0:08.8 | Hey, you know where no good news ever comes out of? |
| 0:12.8 | No, not Lebanon. |
| 0:13.8 | Used to be Paris in the Middle East, remember that one? |
| 0:16.2 | Not even Iran. |
| 0:17.2 | There are great directors out of Iran. |
| 0:19.7 | And I guess you can argue that the daring rescue of that U.S. pilot, that was good news, |
| 0:24.6 | kind of good news relatively, given the alternative. |
| 0:27.6 | Now, the location that if it's in the news, it means bad news always and without exception, |
| 0:34.6 | it's not actually a place. |
| 0:35.6 | It's many places. And those places are floating all over |
| 0:40.3 | the world. Cruise ships. The coronavirus outbreak, it is taking a serious turn in California, |
| 0:46.6 | where a cruise ship is being held off the coast right now. New this morning, a hidden risk on |
| 0:52.1 | cruise ships. And NBC News investigation found sexual assault is the number one crime on those ships. |
| 0:59.3 | And the murders. Don't forget the murders. |
| 1:01.9 | Always people getting pushed overboard. |
| 1:04.2 | But was she pushed? Yes, she was pushed. |
| 1:07.0 | And the ship that was stranded off the coast of Italy, remember that one? |
| 1:10.7 | Just thrusting out there, |
| 1:12.6 | leaking some oil. If a cruise ship is in the news, that news is always bad. And a cruise ship has |
| 1:19.2 | been in the news these last few days, so you know what that means. Hanta virus, not good. It's not like |
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