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The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist,Slate'sFred Kaplan shares the history and stories behind our ongoing cyberwar. He's the author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War. For the Spiel, a collection of news from the states. Today's sponsor:  Harry's, the shaving company that offers German-engineered blades, well-designed handles, and shipping right to your door. Visit Harrys.com for $5 off your first purchase with the promo code GIST.  Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The big sale is now on at home base with up to 50% of selected home and garden products,

0:07.6

including garden furniture, barbecues, storage and lots more.

0:12.0

Don't miss out!

0:13.3

Head in store or online at homebase.co.uk.

0:16.5

Home base, homes and gardens made easy.

0:20.0

The DIST is brought to you by Harry's, the shaving company that offers German-engineered

0:24.3

blades, well-designed handles and shipping right to your door.

0:28.2

Visit Harry's.com for $5 off your first purchase with the promo code GIST.

0:34.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:37.6

It's Thursday, March 10, 2016 from Slate, it's the GIST on myPesca and PR is David Green.

0:47.2

Interviewed Ben and Jerry of Ben and Jerry's, the ice cream guys, Ben Cohen, described his

0:52.9

Bernie Sanders inspired flavor, Bernie's yearning, has mostly mint chocolate chip but

0:59.1

with a twist.

1:00.1

The huge chocolate disc at the top represents all the wealth that's gone to the top 100%

1:06.6

and the way you eat it is you take your soups bowl and you whack it into a bunch of little

1:10.9

pieces and then you mix it around and have a more equitable distribution of wealth.

1:18.8

And if you can't finish, you're not allowed to pass the ice cream onto your kids because

1:23.0

of the dangers of inherited wealth.

1:25.4

It's all explained in our other flavor.

1:27.7

Thomas Piketty's, Lickety Banana, even Lee Split.

1:31.1

There's a lot more detail in that one.

1:33.2

And our genie co-efficient crunch is a flat, claseless ice cream popular in Scandinavia,

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