BEST OF THE GIST - Presidents Day

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Peach Fish Productions

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🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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We are off on this Holiday, but we wanted to share two interviews from the archive. One is from 2019 with founding CEO of C-SPAN Brian Lamb and Co-CEO Susan Swain are here to discuss their new book The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America's Best—and Worst—Chief Executives. Also from 2018 is Kate and J.D. Dobson are out with a book that considers Ulysses S. Grant's quiet charisma, Franklin Pierce's youthful charm, and the distinguished eyebrows of a certain Warren G. Harding. The Dobsons are the authors of Hottest Heads of State, Volume 1: The American Presidents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Monday, February 19th, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:07.0	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca, and it's President's Day.
0:10.0	Man, do I love the President's? I the presidents. I love Stephen Bandrowsack.
0:16.0	The president of Xerox. Bandrowsack, B-A-N-D-R-O-W-C-A-K.
0:23.8	I love David McLean.
0:25.5	He was the president of the gorgeous ladies of wrestling,
0:28.8	the parent organization that put that together.
0:31.2	He started as president of the Dick the Bruiser fan club
0:35.0	the professional wrestler Dick the Bruiser
0:38.0	I don't think it had all of the suggestivity back then in the 50s that it might now.
0:43.0	Also I found out about David McClain.
0:45.3	He tried to launch the Triple Crown of Polo
0:48.6	when he was president of, I suppose, that organization.
0:50.8	Another president I love is of course Mary Papazian
0:53.8	president of San Jose University, but I think on this day we mostly celebrate
0:58.1	a different sort of president, the presidents of the United States. I know I have in the
1:02.4	past and so I shall bring you to great presidents of the United States. I know I have in the past,
1:02.9	and so I shall bring you two great interviews
1:06.4	that consider not just a president,
1:08.5	but all the presidents and rank them.
1:11.1	My guests back in 2019 were Brian Lamb and Susan Swain of each of C-SPAN, love
1:19.0	C-SPAN, love-LAM, and they were there talking about the President's noted historians rank America's best and worst chief
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