Courting Politics

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, let's face it: A.I. and robots are going to take jobs from us humans. Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination has restarted the debate on how we vet candidates and whether the Supreme Court is too easy to game. Lori Ringhand, a professor of law at the University of Georgia and an expert on the Supreme Court, explains how much the court has actually changed, or not, in our lifetime. In the Spiel, three theories on how this whole Mueller investigation thing is going to end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by National Rail.
0:03.2	Picture it.
0:04.2	The view of the British countryside from your window seat.
0:07.4	The excitement of knowing your on-root to see someone you love.
0:10.6	The smug sense of satisfaction you get knowing that you're not stuck in traffic.
0:15.1	It's a great feeling.
0:16.4	Whether it's inspiring them, surprising them, or catching up.
0:20.1	Rail connects us with the people, places and things we love.
0:23.8	Big your next journey now at nationalrails.co.uk.
0:27.7	Nothing beats being there.
0:30.1	I don't know if you've listened to my podcast before,
0:32.8	but sometimes there's a bit of explicit language,
0:35.9	and this is one of those times.
0:38.2	It's Tuesday, July 31, 2018.
0:44.9	From Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:48.0	If you were to ask me, what makes you human?
0:51.5	I would say, I don't know, compassion, artistry.
0:55.3	But now, it turns out that I can grasp things without crushing them.
1:00.6	Because robots, apparently, find this hard to do,
1:03.7	and that's one of the few things we, as humans, got left.
1:06.5	Do you take a weird pride like I do in the stuff that robots can't do
1:11.7	just because they can't do it?
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