It's Much Bigger Than O.J.

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Ezra Edelman wasn't planning to make a documentary about O.J. Simpson. But then ESPN offered him five hours of airtime. Edelman's movie (which eventually grew to nearly eight hours) explores a variety of themes through the lens of Simpson's life and trial. O.J.: Made in America has just been named to the Oscar shortlist for Best Documentary. For the Spiel, Mike goes to school on the Electoral College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.0	It's Tuesday, December 5, 2016 from Slate.
0:11.0	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:13.0	The college rankings are out.
0:15.0	Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, Washington.
0:18.0	Oh yeah, that's the football rankings.
0:19.0	Here are the academic rankings.
0:21.0	US News says Princeton Harvard.
0:23.0	Yeah, you Chicago.
0:24.0	But also the worst.
0:26.0	We now know the worst college.
0:28.0	It's the Electoral College.
0:30.0	I'm just judging the Electoral College against what it's trying to do.
0:34.0	Like, let's take the Colorado College of Mines.
0:37.0	Good college, bad college?
0:38.0	I don't know.
0:39.0	But they're trying to teach kids about minds.
0:41.0	And by gum, they teach kids about minds.
0:44.0	Their motto, what's ours is mine, says it all.
0:48.0	A mine is a terrible thing to waste.
0:50.0	But I went on their website.
0:51.0	Lots of mine classes.
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