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The Gist

Medicare for All, Dissent From None

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, this one is brought to you by the letter T. In the interview, does using a stool really help your stool? Can the Squatty Potty offer any actual health benefits or is that smooth dookie all in your mind? Maybe the contraption's popular just because it rhymes… Anyway, Maria Konnikova is here to judge, appropriately, whether that is bullshit. In the Spiel, Medicare is only a minefield if Democrats make it one. This episode is brought to you by Capterra. Try it today, for free, at Capterra.com/GIST. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Did you know choosing the train over your car can cut your carbon footprint by up to two thirds?

0:06.0

So, one family outing at a time, one little adventurer at a time, one trip to the museum, one dinner in the city, one nap on the way home at a time.

0:18.0

One train journey at a time can help create a greener future.

0:23.0

So when will you take your next trip? Find out more at nationalrail.co.uk slash greener.

0:30.0

What you're about to listen to may include some potty talk. Then again it may not. I hope it does though.

0:38.0

So Wednesday, January 30th, 2019 from Slate, it's the Gistai Micapesca. Apple has stepped in and kicked out an app from their store. This happens.

0:51.0

What hasn't happened before is who was behind the app in question? Facebook. The Facebook Research app does not adhere to Apple standards of privacy.

1:03.0

Even though it adheres to Facebook standards of privacy, which are looking it up now, none, none. But a do-eyed Mark Zuckerberg will promise to do better next time.

1:16.0

Just as perhaps Mike Bloomberg can be a check on Tom Steyer, whom I can't sell out Howard Schultz, who in turn can limit the appeal of Mike Bloomberg.

1:24.0

Perhaps now as a country we've outsourced the control and corralling of a runaway tech company Facebook to another runaway tech company. Apple. And this has been Tech Talk.

1:36.0

Next in Tech Talk, the Fattish, but highly successful mini video app, TikTok, which has been experimenting with ads.

1:44.0

Ads on TikTok could transform the app with half a billion global users. And that was TikTok, TikTok.

1:52.0

Available in this format and as a TED Talk. And we'll use that TED Talk to walk you through things in a moment by moment as they happened account.

2:02.0

Yes, it'll be a TikTok, TED Talk, Tech Talk, TikTok. And listen, you think it's easy that I could just come up with a TikTok like that? No, you got to work your sources.

2:11.0

How do you get them to trust you? Well, I'll tell you. It takes tech to talk tech on the TED Talk, Tech Talk, TikTok, TikTok, TikTok.

2:20.0

And that's for a basic tech talk, TED Talk, TikTok. You want to go to the next level? That would be a tricked out tech talk, TED Talk, TikTok.

2:30.0

Some of no truck with a tricked out tech talk, TED Talk, TikTok. Others say it leaves them feeling dirty like they have to pop in a breath mint.

2:37.0

I say try a tic-tac for the tricked out tech talk, TED Talk, TikTok, or not. You might find it. I don't know. A tic-tac, Tic-tac, Tic-tac for the tricked out tech talk, TED Talk, TikTok, TikTok.

2:48.0

But what I am saying is Apple, please Apple, save us from Facebook and while you're at a Twitter, can you buy them and turn them nice? This is Mike Pasca with Tech Talk.

2:58.0

On the show today, we'll spiel about some of the richer men running for president, but first, something that even the poorest man might share with the richest man.

3:08.0

But not now, because a billionaire can afford to treat his colon right. It is the device known as the squatty potty and perhaps appropriately in a cross species sort of way.

3:23.0

We are going to apply the Is That Bullshit metric and question to this device. Squatty potty is Are They Bullshit?

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