Do You, Uh Like, LIKE Like, Or Like, Just Like "Like"?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English is the new book from Valerie Fridland, professor of linguistics at the University of Nevada Reno. And Mike is all like, "No Way!" and Prof Fridland goes, "No, yeah!" Plus, a SpaceX rocket is destroyed ... sorry, it experienced "rapid unscheduled disassembly." And closing the barn door after the chicken's been singed. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, April 20th, 2023 from Peachfish Productions.
0:08.4	It's the Gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:10.7	Sky Rockets in flight.
0:14.0	Afternoon debacle.
0:15.4	An Elon Musk SpaceX rocket is now an X SpaceX.
0:19.6	Becaus it exploded a couple minutes after takeoff.
0:22.6	Six parts over Texas.
0:24.2	Well that's okay.
0:25.2	Two trias, two foul.
0:26.7	But if you are rich enough, influential enough, and control enough media, to fail is to succeed.
0:33.0	Apparently the New York Times covered this as SpaceX Starship rocket launched but
0:38.7	fell short of its most ambitious goals when it exploded minutes into its flight.
0:43.5	The ambitious goal of working.
0:46.4	Remember this rocket ship didn't explode in popularity.
0:50.7	It exploded in the stratosphere about 24 miles up specifically.
0:54.8	It didn't blow up on social media.
0:57.6	It blew up in the actual sky.
0:59.8	And yet, scientific American notes, Starship, a super powerful launch system that could revolutionize
1:05.3	access to space, soared for mere minutes, but its test flight is still being held as
1:10.3	a success.
1:11.3	Okay, let's check in on who is doing the hailing.
1:15.0	Here we have the play by play from the SpaceX broadcast team.
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