Charles Duhigg: "Looping for Understanding" and Other Supercommunicator Tricks
The Gist
Mike Pesca
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Charles Duhigg returns to explain why great talkers are usually great listeners, and how "looping for understanding" can lower the temperature in almost any disagreement. Plus, a Spiel about going on the record about going off-the-record and we play everybody's favorite Game "Who is Donald Trump Threatening Here"
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, January 15th, 2026 from Peachfish Productions. |
| 0:07.9 | It's the gist. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Mike Peska. |
| 0:09.9 | And let's play everybody's favorite game. |
| 0:12.0 | Who is Donald Trump threatening now? |
| 0:14.7 | All clips within the last 24 hours, the first one from last night's news hour on PBS. |
| 0:20.4 | President Trump said today that he hoped for a resolution on his threat to... |
| 0:24.6 | To what? What was that threat? He wants a resolution. That's a hint. Some of the threats are brand new, |
| 0:31.6 | so he really just wants attention with those. Let's check in. |
| 0:34.6 | President Trump said today that he hoped for a resolution on his threat to annex Greenland. |
| 0:40.3 | Ah, the annexation of Greenland, a threat from the manifest destiny era. |
| 0:45.3 | Not the promise to nuke Greenland, the capital is already nuke, |
| 0:49.3 | but to act boldly and take what should be ours as defined by what Donald Trump woke up |
| 0:55.2 | angriest about. Here's threat number two issued soon thereafter, at least reported soon |
| 1:00.5 | thereafter, this morning on NPR. President Trump has issued another threat. To what, to keep on |
| 1:06.5 | keeping on? To continue pronouncing acetaminophen in his own quirky, fun-filled way? What was this threat? |
| 1:14.3 | Different from the Greenland threat, I'll tell you a new threat. Have a guess. Let's find out. |
| 1:19.3 | President Trump has issued another threat to Minnesota. Writing online, he says, if attacks continue on |
| 1:25.3 | ICE agents, he will invoke the Insurrection Act. |
| 1:28.2 | Ah, okay, not to nuke, nuke, but this time to possibly attack Mancato. All of Minnesota. It's |
| 1:35.2 | Minnesota in the crosshair. Seems a little excessive, as does just about every policy |
| 1:40.3 | has in Minnesota. But that's the thing about threats. They never come off as excessive |
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