BEST OF THE GIST: Very Serious Edition

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 86 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 throwing that formula out the proverbial window and playing an episode of Very Serious with Josh Barro, on which Mike was a guest. He joined Josh, Ben Dreyfuss, and Megan McArdle to talk about Trump’s first week in office. GIST Coupon Codes ... Truewerk: truewerk.com/thegist for 15% off your first order Marley Spoon: marleyspoon.com/offer/thegist for 27 free meals Quince: quince.com/thegist for free shipping and free returns SUBSCRIBE We offer premium subscriptions, including an AD-FREE version of the show and options for bonus content. The Gist is produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] Subscribe to The Gist’s YouTube Page Follow Mike’s Substack > Pesca Profundities To advertise on the show, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.4	Now, here is the aforementioned show.
0:54.0	Hi, it's Mike. It's Saturday. It's the Saturday show. But is the show the gist? I mean a little bit. It says the gist right there on your feed. But I'm going to play another show, a show that I was on as a panelist. What happened is Josh Bauer, a very smart guy who wrote for New York Magazine and knows so much about economics and used to host left, right and center.
1:13.6	And I've known and enjoyed his work for a long time.
1:15.8	He called me up and said, I know you're doing not even mad.
1:18.7	The idea being it gets someone a little from the left or a lot from the left, a little from the right, maybe a lot from the right.
1:23.5	And you, how about this as a different alternative to the three or four people in rampant,
1:31.1	violent agreement with each other type podcast that seems to be the norm? That annoys him as much as
1:36.2	it annoyed me. So I created Not Even Mad and he said, I'm going to do something slightly different.
1:42.0	I want you to be part of it. The idea is to have four people who are smart and are great and don't always agree, but
1:49.6	actually don't come from so far flung a place in the political spectrum or maybe what some
1:55.9	would consider moderate or centrist, but they could be center left or center right or I think
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