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The Gist

Dalmatian Bumps, The Cuckoo's Nest Effect, and Heists Adjusted For Inflation

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Walt Hickey is a Pulitzer Prize-winning data journalist and also a real pop-culture-impersonated peruser. His new book is You Are What You Watch, How Movies and TV Affect Everything, and he makes a good case. Plus, when it comes to cease fires, casualties, and rules of engagement in Gaza, meanings are fluid.  Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara  Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com  To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/  Follow Mike's Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Friday, November 3rd, 2023 from Peachfish Productions.

0:07.0

It's the gist I Mike Peska.

0:09.0

When it comes to information coming out of and about Gaza,

0:12.0

I'm not always sure what it means.

0:15.0

There's a CNN story.

0:17.0

Video showed dozens of casualties after incident near Gaza Hospital as cause remains unclear.

0:22.0

There are dozens of casualties after an incident near Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital,

0:26.2

according to multiple videos, and the Hamas-run Palestinian Ministry of Health.

0:31.0

Dozens of casualties, I'm not sure what that means. Could mean 24 hurt people,

0:37.4

wounded people, how wounded, don't know. Could mean a hundred dead people. Those are very

0:41.6

different things. People say casualty and they mean

0:45.4

death. But people say casualty and they intentionally mean death and wounded. They don't want

0:51.0

you to just take it as only death. But people also say casualty

0:55.7

knowing that there's some wiggle room there and that it technically means death and wounded,

1:00.3

but they pretty much figure you'll take it and interpret it as deaths.

1:04.0

And CNN doesn't help clarify.

1:06.0

I'm pretty sure it means innocent people are hurt.

1:10.0

Well, of course it does.

1:12.0

And that's why, when we hear, also according to CNN, quote, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

1:17.3

Netanyahu said his government opposes any temporary ceasefire in Gaza unless Hamas

1:22.2

frees all the hostages it holds, that we are meant to come

1:27.0

to a conclusion, but I'm not sure what that means.

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