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The Gist

BEST OF THE GIST: Barn Fire Edition

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we rewind to January 2017 to revisit Mike's interview with Ralph Nader, who had just published his second work of fiction, Animal Envy, which imagines a world where animals can talk to people and start demanding rights. Nader says the fable is meant to prompt deeper thinking about our relationship with nature. "We need to talk about what-if, because if we don't, we can't kick in our idealism and imagine real possibilities," says the 82-year-old author and advocate. And we follow that up with a recent Spiel about a colossal barn fired that got Mike thinking about animals.  Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara  Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com  To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/  Follow Mike's Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

In early 2020 best friends Brian and HOTELY set out on a mission.

0:05.0

With whole podcasting means easy, easy, inexpensive, easy, you make a ton of money.

0:11.0

The result, a mediocre comedy podcast.

0:14.0

You're telling me there's a chance.

0:16.0

I'm telling you there's a chance. Why wouldn't you do it?

0:18.0

A for effort you to A for effort.

0:22.0

It's a double rainbow!

0:25.0

The commercial work on Spotify.

0:27.0

Do it in and write it out.

0:57.0

Humans can demonstrate their humanity than our treatment of our animal friends.

1:02.0

Or as is often the case, our dinner plate occupants.

1:07.0

Because two weeks ago there was a horrible fire in Texas in which 18,000 or so cows, bovines, lost their lives.

1:17.0

In the wake of that there were many reports citing statistics about how frequent barn fires are in America.

1:24.0

And that was the focus of a spiel earlier this week.

1:28.0

So many, many animal deaths.

1:30.0

Oh wait, it's almost all chickens.

1:32.0

But don't say that. Put up a graph.

1:34.0

Talk about millions of animals dead.

1:37.0

We evoke the four-legged kind.

1:38.0

But in fact it is the two-legged, beaked kind.

1:41.0

We don't speak of chickens as beaked enough.

1:43.0

And not that there's nothing sad about a dead chicken.

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