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The Gist

Facing the News Like a Poker Champ

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

There's a term in poker called tilt—when players become overwhelmed by bad news and it starts clouding their decision-making. Poker star Annie Duke talks to guest host Maria Konnikova about the psychological tricks that pro card players use to get through rough patches and how it applies to our political climate today. Duke has written several books about poker and sits on the board of How I Decide, a nonprofit that helps disadvantaged young people make better decisions.     For the Spiel, Maria breaks down what Donald Trump is doing to our brains.    Today's sponsor: Indochino, the company that's reinventing men's fashion. Go to Indochino.com to get any premium Indochino suit for just $389, plus free shipping, when you use promo code gist at checkout. And Green Mountain Coffee. Green Mountain Coffee is passionate about making a smoother-tasting cup. Try it today with$4 off when you buy two boxes of most Green Mountain Coffee K-Cup pods atKeurig.comwith code TRYGMC. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:07.7

Today is Tuesday, February 21st, 2017.

0:12.4

And this is the just I'm Maria Conacova in from Mike Pesca.

0:17.0

And that's not bullshit, but it's kind of bullshit that he gets to go on vacation in Florida.

0:21.8

While I am stuck here in cold and snowy New York.

0:27.0

But that's not what we're going to be talking about today.

0:29.7

I was looking at my Twitter feed this morning because that's how I always get my news.

0:34.5

First thing when I wake up and for the last, I don't know how many months it's been full of Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.

0:41.9

But this morning was actually different.

0:43.5

It was full of my low, my low, my low, my low, my low.

0:46.7

That's my low, you know,

0:48.2

apolis, who you might remember for being banned from Twitter three times the last time,

0:54.4

permanently for his lovely remarks about Leslie Jones when Ghostbusters came out.

1:00.4

The time before that was for saying some lovely things about Islam in the wake of the Orlando shootings.

1:06.8

And the first time was for saying some lovely things about Buzzfeed and calling himself Buzzfeed's social justice editor.

1:16.9

You might also remember that he got a book deal for around a quarter of a million dollars from Simon and Schuster.

1:22.8

And once again, that played out on a Twitter controversy when Roxanne Gay announced that she herself was going to be pulling her book from Simon and Schuster if they were going to be publishing Milo.

1:34.0

This weekend, a video surfaced from January 2016, in which Milo seems to condone sex with 13 year old boys.

1:45.1

He says that the age of consent is not this black and white thing and that relationships between a younger boys and older men can be hugely positive experiences.

1:56.3

We're talking about 13, 25, 13, 28.

2:00.2

These things do happen perfectly, consensually.

2:03.0

This 13 year old boy sex thing seemed to have crossed one too many lines.

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