Island Of The Cancelled

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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A young physicist working on high-temperature superconductivity follows her mentor to an island established as a haven for the "cancelled and deplorables" shunned elsewhere. "How I won a Nobel Prize" is the name of this novel perfectly calibrated to our times, Mike interviews author Julius Taranto. Plus, Senator Menendez won't resign, but doesn't offer an explanation about the unusually large number of gold bars found at his residence. And with President Biden close to, or trailing, Donald Trump in polls, Mike asks "What's most likely to change about those numbers?" Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Monday, September 25th, 2023, from Peach Fish Productions.
0:07.4	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:09.6	Senator Bob Menendez has been indicted again.
0:12.2	He becharges that he accepted gifts from a Florida ophthalmologist, it's actually a
0:16.4	mistrial.
0:17.4	Now it's an Egyptian businessman, and it seems like the senator did a brisk businessman.
0:23.6	The favors, now the evidence, were described by federal prosecutor Damian Williams.
0:30.2	They discovered approximately $500,000 of cash stuffed into envelopes and closets.
0:37.2	Some of the cash was stuffed in the senator's jacket pockets.
0:41.0	Some of the cash, some of the envelopes of cash contained Davies fingerprints, Davies DNA.
0:47.2	That's not all.
0:48.8	Agents also discovered a lot of gold.
0:51.4	A lot of gold, or really, three gold bars.
0:55.2	It's hard to get around the detail of the gold bars.
0:58.6	The cash, the envelopes, that's one thing, but gold bars say so much.
1:03.2	Menendez in a press conference today announced that yes, he had envelopes full of cash.
1:08.1	It was personal savings.
1:09.1	He likes to have a lot of cash on hand, because in 1953 the Cuban government was overthrown
1:13.8	and he who was born in the US in 1954 never forgot.
1:16.7	For 30 years, I have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account,
1:24.3	which I have kept for emergencies and because of the history of my family facing confiscation
1:29.8	in Cuba.
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