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The Gist

BEST OF THE GIST: The Power, Wealth And How We Use Them Edition

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Melissa DeRosa is out with a new book, What's Left Unsaid: My Life at the Center of Power, Politics & Crisis, and we had her on the show earlier this week to talk about her experiences in the Andrew Cuomo administration. On this episode of BEST OF THE GIST, a podcast extra with Melissa about power and her assessment of how it was used and wielded in the state house of New York. Naive people, be ready to be disabused of your notions of power. Then we listen back to Monday's Spiel about the latest reports on the wealth gap in America.  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

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1:02.4

Hi, happy Saturday. It's the Saturday show. So maybe you're only verging on happiness.

1:10.0

Maybe you were happy, but not go lucky. The Saturday show will let you go into that

1:15.1

space of luckiness. On the Saturday show, we bring you one from the vaults and one from

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the week. We're not going to do that. We're going to bring you two from the week and one

1:24.2

will be entirely new. So we had Melissa Derosa on the show. She was Andrew Cuomo's top

1:30.0

aid arguably. And I'm going to say as a really strong argument, the most powerful, non-elected

1:35.8

official in New York State during the tenure of Andrew Cuomo. And then perhaps you heard

1:41.9

things went south for Mr. Cuomo, but she's out with the book. And in our two part interview

1:46.9

this week, we talked about the pandemic. We talked about nursing home counts. We spent

1:51.4

pretty much a whole show on Tuesday talking about the sexual harassment allegations in

1:56.7

scandal. But what about power? I just wanted to talk to her about what she saw and her

2:04.0

assessment of how power is really used and wielded. So we have a whole new chunk from someone

2:11.5

who is right there as power was being wielded. And I think it's actually really insightful.

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