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The Gist

E Pluribus Unum, Still?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, "the big game" is a dumb way to refer to the Super Bowl. If you were to pick a moment in U.S. history that put it on the path to polarization, you could do worse than Watergate. What followed were the blue and red bubbles staked out by CNN in the '80s, Fox News in the '90s, and social media in the 2000s. Princeton professors Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer lived through that history, created a course on it, and cover it in their new book,Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974. In the Spiel, Chris Christie's new book. This episode is brought to you by ZipRecruiter. Get started today at ziprecruiter.com/Gist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:27.6

The following recording may contain explicit language. I can't get more explicit than

0:32.6

May. Let's just say it may.

0:38.6

It's Tuesday, January 29th, 2019 from Slate. It's the just, I'm Mike Pasca.

0:43.2

I had this weekend, this Sunday. It's the Super Bowl. I do so love the Super Bowl. I

0:48.8

consider it to be almost, I don't know, the world series of football. You know what I mean?

0:52.7

The grand prix of the gridiron. No, we know what it is. It's the GD Super Bowl. I think that's

0:59.2

Roman numerals. Anyway, there's one place where it's not the Super Bowl or a lot of places.

1:05.7

Anywhere on TV that they advertise that's not an approved vendor for said Super Bowl.

1:12.5

So bit of a confession. I'm hosting a big game this year and I told everyone I have the world's

1:17.2

most amazing 4K TV. The big game. Might they mean by the big game tonight's contest between

1:23.2

Eastern Michigan and Central Michigan on the hardwood? I know the Eagles possess a 9-11 record,

1:28.8

whereas Central Michigan comes in at 14-6. But when the Eagles face the chip-a-wise,

1:33.3

you could throw the records out the window. Well, that's not the big game you had in mind.

1:38.1

Perhaps the big game to which you refer is Thursday's tilt between the Columbus Blue jackets and

1:43.2

the Winnipeg Jets. That's right. It is a big game to residents of Manitoba's dominant metropolis.

1:50.7

What's the second largest city in Manitoba you ask? Branden. Branden Manitoba, who is also I think

1:57.7

a backup defensive back for the LA Rams who are playing in the Super Bowl. It is the Super Bowl.

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