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The Gist

Don't Call It a White House Shake-Up

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On today's Gist, we get metaphysical. The White House is always in chaos. But can chaos be a permanent condition? Maria Konnikova returns to play our favorite game and answer the question: Does an athletic uniform's color affect the athlete's performance? Konnikova writes for the New Yorker is the author of The Confidence Game.   In the Spiel, why Norway is a Winter Olympics marvel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.3

what I am saying this show is explicit content.

0:36.5

It's Monday, February 12, 2018 from Slate. It's the gist I'm Mike Pescaso. As you heard

0:45.5

there, it is Monday, which means yesterday was Sunday. And if it was Sunday, it was

0:50.8

meet the press. Here's how Chuck Todd started the show. This Sunday, the White House in

0:55.9

chaos, two White House staffers resigned over allegations. They physically abused their

1:01.7

wives. White House in chaos, hard to get your mind around except we've been given so

1:06.5

many previous chances to get our minds around it. Like here's how Chuck Todd started the

1:12.8

July 30th show noting this Sunday, the chaos presidency and going on to say,

1:19.8

but it's unclear whether Kelly will be given the authority to reign in chaos, which emanates

1:24.7

from the president himself. The chaos presidency. So that's when we figured out it was the

1:29.6

chaos presidency except for the fact that two weeks into the presidency, Chuck Todd started

1:34.9

meet the press. This was February 5, 2017, this Sunday, confrontation in chaos. So this

1:42.4

brings up the question about the fundamental nature of chaos. Can chaos be a permanent

1:48.1

condition? I think of chaos as whirling and whirling apart, casting off components until

1:54.5

it burns up in the atmosphere or breaks apart. But maybe it's like a centrifuge. The spinning

2:00.3

contains all the chaos and every other loose strand of incompetence and dysfunction. Can

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