Character Under Fire: Gen. Stanley McChrystal on the Costs of Conviction

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Retired General Gen. Stanley McChrystal joins to discuss his book On Character: Choices that Define a Life, and how real character transcends grit or discipline to include values that hold under fire. Plus, Trump touches the economic stove, recoils, and suddenly recession odds drop along with tariffs rates. And from The Hague, Rodrigo Duterte wins re-election as mayor of Davao in a landslide. Produced by Corey WaraEmail us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠ or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist Instagram Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠GIST INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow The Gist List at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pesca⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, listeners, both Peska Plus and everyone else. Every month, we do what amounts to a book club.
0:06.3	And this month is no exception. Although, you might think of it as an exception, since it's going to be exceptionally good as John McWater is my guest. He was on the show.
0:15.9	But only I got to talk to him. He was on the Colbert Show. You can't ask questions to the television set.
0:21.9	I mean, you can.
0:22.4	You're not going to get answers.
0:23.8	But at a Peska Plus book club, we have on the authors, and we have on all the members of Pesca
0:30.1	Plus who care to join to ask someone like, or in this case, specifically John McWhorter
0:35.1	questions.
0:36.1	His new book is called Pronown Trouble The Story of Us, in Seven Little Words.
0:39.5	How do you support the gist and get in on exciting monthly book clubs like this and so many other offerings?
0:45.5	You go to Mike Pesca.com.
0:47.6	It's all there, all the information.
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0:50.7	Get the show with John McWhorter, right there, May 15th, right there on your
0:55.6	Zoom network. Mike Pasca.com, May 15th. John McWater, pronoun trouble, the story of us in seven
1:03.0	little words.
1:07.4	It's Tuesday, May 13th, 2025 from Peach Fish Productions.
1:11.2	It's The Gist.
1:12.1	I'm Mike Pascoe.
1:13.4	Today I want to talk about the recent electoral fortunes of former Philippines president
1:18.5	Rodrigo Duterte.
1:20.3	For a couple of reasons.
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