Dissing Dianne Feinstein

The Gist

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On The Gist, President Trump's latest poetry reading. Last week on the show, we talked about the manifold reasons for optimism in the world. This week, Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker builds on that argument, adding that we've had a roughly 300-year run of steady improvements in technology, health, and civility. It just so happens that the only thing as constant as human progress is our tendency to focus on human shortcomings. Pinker's latest book is Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. In the Spiel, why it should be worrying that the California Democratic Party snubbed Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let me be explicit right now in this podcast, there's some explicit language.
0:09.0	It's Monday February 26th, 2018, from slated to the gist I might pass.
0:14.8	Cause if you saw Rickles, Don Rickles, before he died, which is a the best time to catch him.
0:19.4	He was at his prime then before he was dead.
0:21.7	But, B, you're gonna wanna see him call someone a hockey puck.
0:26.2	I saw him live at the sand.
0:28.1	I was waiting from the call, someone a hockey puck.
0:29.9	Call someone a hockey puck.
0:30.8	I'm like, I got the Rickles effect.
0:32.5	If you go to see sticks, they can rock the paradise on their own time.
0:37.0	You wanna see Come Sail Away.
0:39.9	Even on the Mr. Roboto tour, they gotta play some Come Sail Away.
0:44.4	And that's like the attendees of the CPAC conference, gathered to watch Donald Trump.
0:50.8	They were frothing at the mouth for his greatest hits.
0:54.0	Well, they were frothing at the mouth for the hide of the apostates and a return to 19th century demographics.
1:00.2	And suffrage laws, sure, sure, all true.
1:03.0	But they really wanted was the stuff that he did on the campaign trail that enthralled them in the first place.
1:10.2	They wanted to snake.
1:11.7	It's snake, cause snake, right?
1:14.7	That was actually Trump a few months ago.
1:16.7	That was part of his Donald Trump tells audiences what to think of animals.
1:20.5	Snake, eww, lemur, nobody talks about lemur.
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