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BEST OF THE GIST: Founding Fathers Day Edition

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, a couple interviews from the vault in honor of Independence Day. First up, historian Gordon S. Wood explains why the friendship between founding fathers Thomas Jefferson and John Adams should give us hope. Then Mike talks about founding fathers’ thighs with Alexis Coe, author of You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington. 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

Hi it's Mike it's Saturday it's the Saturday show in the middle of a two day or possibly four day weekend the rare weekend that no one is taking is a three day weekend weekend. That doesn't make sense. It's either two or four.

0:14.6

And I was a bartender for a while and I know when garnishing a drink you never use an even number,

0:19.3

so I feel a little out of sorts. Three, three coffee beans in your sambucca Ramana, three olives in your martini, or one, or possibly five, if you want to overwhelm the martini and just make it a chewy olive-based drink that happens to have

0:35.3

some gin or vodka associated with it.

0:37.8

So speaking of why it might be a four-day weekend, you got July 4th.

0:42.4

Independence Day, thus prompting me. four day

0:43.4

thus prompting me to give you some interviews that I've conducted

0:47.4

not with we couldn't land any of them but about the founding fathers

0:51.4

so we have an interview from 2017, still timely in the news, the friendship rivalry between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

1:00.0

That was an interview I conducted with the historian Gordon S. Wood, and then the

1:06.0

cutting edge hip historian Alex Coe wrote a book about George Washington and The Thai

1:11.4

guys, those are the historians who love his monstrous thighs.

1:15.7

It was called You Never Forget Your First, a biography of George Washington in order

1:20.8

Gordon Wood and then Alex Coe to contemplate founding fathers and presidents

1:28.1

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