Iowa Was Lost in Translation

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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On the Gist, we went through hell. In the interview, Mike talks with linguist Dennis Baron about his new What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She. The two analyze the history of English language pronouns and debate whether or not language is meant for communicating "correctly" or simply for communicating. In the spiel, translating the Iowa results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following recording may contain explicit language.
0:02.8	I can't get more explicit than May.
0:05.6	Let's just say it may.
0:07.0	["Minecraft Theme Song"]
0:10.9	It's Thursday, February 6, 2020 from Slate.
0:14.0	It's the gist I'm Mike Pasca.
0:16.4	Donald Trump, acquitted in the eyes of the law,
0:19.2	totally exonerated in his own eyes,
0:21.8	strode up to a microphone at the east room of the White House,
0:25.4	and said these words for history.
0:28.9	And you have to understand, we first went through Russia,
0:33.6	Russia, Russia.
0:36.3	It was all bullshit.
0:39.8	Ah, thank you for that, Mr. President.
0:42.6	He asserted that had he not been elected, bad things
0:45.9	would have happened.
0:47.0	Let me tell you, if we didn't win, the stock market
0:49.7	would have crashed.
0:51.4	And he described his main antagonist this way.
0:56.6	A corrupt politician named Adam Schiff
0:58.9	made up my statement to the Ukrainian president.
1:02.0	He engaged in political analysis and prediction.
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