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The Gist

Breaking Up Comedy's Boys Club

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, our attempt to track the new scoops that affected the Mueller investigation. We're not playing "Is That Bulls--t" on the show today, but if we were, comedy writer Nell Scovell would probably say, "Yes." Yes, the dearth of women in late-night writers' rooms is bulls--t. Yes, men's explanations are bulls--t. And, yes, sometimes women themselves willingly succumb to the bulls--t because, as Scovell says, "Look, this s--t is deep." Her new book is Just the Funny Parts.  In the Spiel, denigrating the top 80 books sold on Amazon.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You've already achieved so much during things your own way.

0:04.6

So why should your leadership development be any different?

0:07.4

At Warwick Business School, you can choose your preferred pathway

0:11.2

with subject-specific courses and study at your own pace

0:15.6

with world-leading experts.

0:17.6

This is stackable learning.

0:19.6

This is your career your way.

0:22.0

This is Warwick Business School in the Shard, London.

0:25.6

Visit wbs.ac.uk now.

0:30.0

The following content is explicit.

0:36.6

It's Friday, May 18th, 2018 from Slate.

0:39.4

It's the gist I'm Mike Pascha.

0:41.8

So today was one of those days of horrible news, school shooting,

0:45.8

plane crash and Cuba hundreds dead.

0:48.8

So what I want to do now is not to make you feel better,

0:52.4

but to give you something else tangible to possibly feel bad about.

0:56.4

And it is our president and what he may or may not be doing

1:00.0

and what his investigation may or may not entail.

1:02.8

So this week I just found I maybe didn't pay so much attention

1:06.4

to the news for about a 36-hour period.

1:09.6

And it was one of those days when so much was swirling

1:12.0

and it was hard to figure out what was the swirl,

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