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The Gist

Is Infidelity Still a Third Rail for TV?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2014

⏱️ 24 minutes

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We bet you an Andrew Jackson that you'll like our show on fractions and Faxon. First up, Nat Faxon, star of the FX show Married, explains why being leading man doesn't have to mean being boring-man. Then, Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to Be Wrong, explains why the true common core for mathematics instruction is pizza. And in the Spiel, Mike defends the selfie from the scorn of a Christian minister. Get The Gist by email as soon as it's available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:36.3

It's Thursday, August 21st, 2014. From slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pasca. We go now

0:42.3

to South Africa, a rockest scene in the parliament. There are members of the EFF party, easy to

0:48.5

tell who is EFF, the economic freedom fighters, because they all wear red jump suits.

0:54.6

Why are we getting thrown out? That money and that money must be paid. We will

0:59.4

can't hide behind the principles. Actually, I think the color might be closer to

1:04.8

Ameranth. That's what I found when I looked it up. But here's what's going on in the scene.

1:08.4

The president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, he is no stranger to the charge and I'll say it's

1:13.2

the documentation of corruption. He used some public funds to upgrade his home and the EFF

1:18.8

is led by a guy named Julius Malima, who's once a protégé of Zuma. He's now a radical defector

1:23.7

from Zuma's party and he was asking the president, it was question time. He was asking the president

1:28.8

about the funds. So the question we're asking today and we're not going to live here before we

1:34.9

get an answer. When are you paying the money? And from there it was all sit down and be quiet.

1:43.2

No, we will not sit down and then red jump suit clad members. And let me also say one was

1:48.2

wearing what looked like a red varsity letterman's jacket and a lot of them had berets. But they

1:52.3

start banging their red hard hats. Oh yeah, did I mention they wear hard hats to Congress with

2:04.0

their overalls. EFF has about 6% of the seats in the assembly. They shut the whole thing down

2:09.0

in the feed that I was watching. There's this sign language interpreter in the bottom of the

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