Call of Rudy 2

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On today's Gist, what's this about a Tony Award–winning dry cleaner? Presidential inexperience does not always lead to failed presidencies. Some traits can temper inexperience—like the depressive realism of Abraham Lincoln or Lyndon B. Johnson. Other traits magnify inexperience—like narcissism. Gautam Mukunda takes a close look at presidential inexperience in his 2012 book, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter. In the Spiel, Rudy Giuliani had a strategy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language by which we mean potty talk.
0:11.5	It's Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 from Slate. It's the Gestime Mike Pesca.
0:15.7	There's interesting news all around us stemming from the pronouncements of Rudy Giuliani
0:20.0	wherein in his role as legal advisor he admitted that the president committed a campaign violation.
0:26.7	Odd an odd choice. We will get to that. Luckily I have a mechanism known as the spiel.
0:32.2	It's also interesting. It's all a little crazy, somewhat negative. So I wanted a flag
0:37.2	to pretty positive developments that really aren't getting enough attention. One is the Tony Awards.
0:42.3	So the development isn't the Tony Awards. It's not really development. It is getting a lot of attention.
0:46.7	That's nothing special. They are giving out as they do every year, honorary Tonys. One goes to Bruce
0:52.0	Springsteen. Why is he getting an honorary one? Springsteen on Broadway should be eligible.
0:56.7	He didn't give free tickets to Tony voters, so he couldn't be nominated. And I guess it worked out
1:02.9	because he still got the Tony. So I'd give that one to Springsteen. But the real award I wanted
1:08.8	to highlight is an honorary award given to Ernest Windsor Cleaner. I don't know who Ernest Windsor
1:16.2	Cleaner is. And I looked it up. It's an actual dry cleaner. The Tonys are giving an award to their
1:24.4	dry cleaner. I want to watch an entire dry cleaning awards show. And in the category of shirt,
1:32.8	on a hanger, no starch, on a hanger, starch. And the winner is boxed no starch. This is in a box,
1:42.3	no starch is 48th nomination and first win. Of course, there are only four ways to have a shirt.
1:48.0	Of course, he's nominated every time in the category of bullshit upcharge. Swade,
1:53.7	Quatery, silk, and rayon. But the other positive story I wanted to highlight, the ETA is
2:01.5	disbanded. The BASC separatist movement, the ETA are no more. They are no longer BASC separatists.
2:09.1	Now they are, if not BASC, inclusionists, at least BASC, what you're going to do ists. The ETA,
2:16.7	they have been responsible for a lot of horrible terrorist acts. And their influence was waning.
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