Democracy Dies in Dark Money

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On The Gist, about those outlandish celebrity baby names. When the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision made unlimited campaign contributions legal, one state put up a fight. In Dark Money, documentary filmmaker Kim Reed and journalist John Adams exposed the influence of anonymous campaign contributions on Montana's state government even before the Supreme Court rubber-stamped the problem. In the Spiel, would the high road be so easy to take if Papa John's pizza were delicious? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following show has a lot of explicit content.
0:03.2	I'm sure you'll like it because of that.
0:05.2	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:08.7	It's Thursday, July 19th, 2018 from slate. It's the gist I might pass.
0:13.5	So I don't know if you're like me,
0:15.2	but I like to listen to my local public radio station
0:18.5	to stay connected to trends in hip hop.
0:21.5	It is my source for hip hop news,
0:24.4	whereas the source is my gateway into municipal infrastructure initiatives.
0:28.9	So in WNYC and I used to work there,
0:31.2	still close to my heart,
0:32.7	though a lot of people that I worked with and for were let go,
0:35.8	definitely not for harassment,
0:37.5	an internal investigation conducted by a law firm
0:40.4	with the station as a client has found.
0:43.1	But anyway, on WNYC, there was this report today.
0:46.1	Rapper Cardi B recently welcomed her new baby to the world.
0:49.6	And her name is Culture with a K,
0:51.9	and it's just the latest in a trend of unisex names in the United States
0:55.2	in the last few years.
0:56.2	No, no, it's not.
0:58.1	It is not part of that trend.
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