BEST OF THE GIST: Endorsements Edition

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Each weekend on Best Of The Gist, we listen back to an archival Gist segment from the past, then we replay something from the past week. This weekend, though, we’re kicking it old school, with two segments from 2014. First up, Mike’s now-10-year-old interview with Casper Kelly creator of the epic and addictive Adult Swim video Too Many Cooks. Then, with endorsements in the air, we listen back to Mike’s conversation with Patrick LaForge from the New York Times, who tells us the origin story behind the expression “retweets don’t equal endorsements.” Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] 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

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0:00.0	It's Saturday, November 2nd, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:08.8	It's The Gist.
0:09.6	I'm Mike Peskett.
0:10.4	It's Saturday.
0:11.3	It's a Saturday show.
0:12.9	And we're going to bring you, we usually bring you one from the vault and one from the week.
0:16.5	But, you know, this week we did the GIST's first ever presidential endorsements. So we're going to riff on that idea just first ever presidential endorsements.
0:21.2	So we're going to riff on that idea, the idea of endorsements.
0:24.9	And 10 years ago, we did an interview with the very person who invented that fabulous phrase retweets,
0:34.1	don't equal endorsements.
0:35.3	Before he put that together, everyone was adrift, do they, don't they?
0:39.7	And then clarity was injected. So that's a 10-year-old interview. And another 10-year-old
0:44.5	interview is with Casper Kelly. He is celebrating. I think we should all celebrate the 10th anniversary
0:50.9	of adult swims, too many cooks. I don't know if you've never seen it,
0:56.8	avail yourself of it. It's a promo for a show set in the 90s that Adult Swim started playing
1:03.0	at like two or three in the morning. And most, I'm going to say a lot of Adult Swim viewers at
1:07.7	that time no longer were illegally high. Now they're illegally high. And they would say,
1:12.2	wait a minute, this show from the 90s, it seems like every show from the 90s I've ever seen,
1:17.3	your full houses, your TGIF block. But I don't think this show ever existed exactly.
1:24.5	Casper Kelly came by and we had a very fun conversation about that.
1:28.4	All right.
1:29.1	Here you go. There's this new TV show. Here's the theme.
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