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BEST OF THE GIST: Ash Carter (RIP) and Kanye West (WTF)

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Mike's October 17, 2019 interview with former Secretary of Defense in the Obama White House, Ashton Carter. He died this week at 68 years old. Then we replay Mike's Tuesday Spiel about Kanye West's most recent public disaster and its root causes. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Mike. It's Saturday. I know you turned to me and this your podcast playing app

0:09.1

to find out the day of the week. I might suggest not the most efficient way, but I'll be

0:12.8

honest with you. It is Saturday or I'll honestly divulge them. I don't know what to do.

0:18.2

You're listening to this. Anyway, on Saturday and the Saturday show, we pull one from the

0:22.0

vaults and one from the past week and just offer them these interviews or segments up

0:26.8

to you for your delictation. The one from the week was the sad tragic spectacle of Kanye

0:33.6

West and in my opinion, and as I express in a spiel from Tuesday, mental illness really

0:41.7

explains, not excuses, but explains almost all of the recent rants that he's been engaged

0:48.7

in. And then we talk to Ash Carter. This was an interview from 2019 when the former secretary

0:56.5

of defense came out with a memoir. Ash Carter is a very important man. He held more positions

1:01.8

than just that as you will hear. He died this week, a bit unexpectedly. I really enjoyed

1:09.0

my conversation. And think at the end, I ask him a question out of the blue, which you

1:13.8

might not understand, but he was a scholar of St. Dennis. He's an interesting guy with an

1:19.7

eclectic life. And I introduced to him and I hope to you a word that will almost never

1:26.8

come in handy, but that was, you know, he'll hear. He was kind of delighted to learn.

1:31.5

Okay, Kanye West and Ash Carter up next.

1:43.0

The Commercial Break comedy podcast is a wonderful show, wonderful for what it puts forward

1:49.0

in the world and also for the fact that they're paying me to say that it's a wonderful

1:52.0

show. But it really answers all of life's tough questions like what's it like to be

1:56.9

married to a cat? And when a two year old uses permanent markers on marble, how much

2:03.0

should you worry? And lastly, all these naked or near naked women on Instagram, you know,

2:08.0

they're always covering the nipple, but why the inspirational quote? What's the necessity

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