BEST OF THE GIST: Wildfire Edition

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

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🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Each weekend on Best of The Gist, we revisit an archival segment from the past and replay something from the past week. This weekend, two selections from the near vault, inspired by the devastating fires in and around Los Angeles over the last week or more. First, Mike’s June 12, 2023, Spiel about the Canadian wildfires that many thought would change minds on climate change—even if we’re not certain they were entirely the result of climate change. Then, we revisit the intro to our Aug. 18, 2023, episode, in which Mike discusses Herman Andaya, Maui’s emergency chief, who decided not to sound sirens before the fires scorched Lahaina. It seems like an obvious mistake, but all the officials agreed that doing so would have contradicted policy—and perhaps even posed a danger. GIST Coupon Codes ... Harry's: harrys.com/gist for a $13 trial set for just $3 Prolon Life: prolonlife.com/gist for 15% off 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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0:39.9	Join us. We will have a panel of free speech experts tackling the most pressing challenges
0:44.9	and emerging threats to open dialogue in the United States. The boundaries of speech and expression
0:50.7	are being tested like never before. We will discuss politics.
0:54.8	We will discuss Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to use fact checking.
0:58.1	We will discuss misinformation, disinformation, and disinformation over disinformation.
1:02.8	Tickets, $25 to the general public.
1:05.5	A representative from Penn America, Fire, and the ACLU will each be there.
1:10.0	I'll be moderating National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA, Thursday, the 23rd.
1:20.5	Hi, it's Saturday.
1:21.7	It's the Saturday show, and maybe you heard, oh, let me also tell you how it works on Saturday.
1:27.3	We relax, we recline, and we play one from the vault or one from the week or two from the
1:32.3	vault, which is what we're going to do this week.
1:34.3	I did a very good interview I thought with Claire Frank, who is an expert and a firefighter,
1:39.3	and we talked about the LA fires.
1:42.3	A couple years ago, I did a couple other spiels about fires. One was,
1:48.2	and this was from June, the Canadian wildfires. The point being that they could, in fact,
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