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The Gist

Heal Thyself, Dana Loesch

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Quick, who's the Federal Reserve chairman? If you can't remember, take heart: Our minds are filled to capacity with the flotsam and jetsam of the Trump White House. On The Gist, are you as virtuous as you think? Likely not. Christian Miller delved into social science research to find out if we tend to misjudge the strength of our own moral fiber. Miller's book is The Character Gap: How Good Are We? In the Spiel, NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch has a hard time living up to her own media criticism. One more thing: Please fill out the Slate podcast survey at slate.com/podcastsurvey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains a bit of explicit material,

0:04.8

but much, much more that is not explicit, just as a percentage.

0:09.3

["Bell Ringing"]

0:13.6

It's Wednesday, February 28, 2018 from Slate.

0:16.6

It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.

0:19.0

Yesterday, my thoughts turned to the chair of the Federal Reserve.

0:22.6

I don't know, maybe it's the temperate weather

0:25.2

we've been experiencing the east and a young man's fancies

0:28.7

turned to Fed chairs.

0:30.3

Probably not.

0:31.3

I'm not that young a man, and my fancies aren't that desecrated just yet.

0:35.3

Anyway, Fed Chairman named, and that's where I was stuck.

0:38.6

Wait, who's the Fed Chairman?

0:40.6

I couldn't remember the Fed Chairman's name.

0:43.0

I remembered key biographical details,

0:45.8

like he wasn't one of the crazy candidates

0:47.5

who were supposedly up for bid,

0:49.2

centrist Republican, he served one of the bushes.

0:52.1

I think the earlier one, this is just my recollection.

0:54.5

I also recalled that he worked at some bipartisan policy center.

0:58.1

By the way, I've since looked it up in the bipartisan policy center

1:00.9

that I was thinking of is the bipartisan policy center.

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