NEM: Carine Hajjar and Jeffrey Maurer
The Gist
Mike Pesca
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Boston Globe columnist Carine Hajjar and five-time Emmy-winning comedy writer and proprietor of the I Might Be Wrong Substack, Jeff Maurer, join to discuss the flood of ICE agents and President Trump’s growing suspicion that Putin isn't on the up-and-up. Plus, in Goat Grinders: teeny-tiny air conditioning in New York, misinterpreting the cane toad, and (hardly ever) exploding sawdust.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, July 10th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions. |
| 0:07.4 | It's the GIST I'm Mike Peska. |
| 0:09.3 | And it's a not even mad Thursday. |
| 0:11.0 | Do we call it that? |
| 0:11.8 | I'm calling it that now. |
| 0:13.0 | It is Thursday. |
| 0:14.5 | And today on Not Even Mad, Jeff Maurer, who writes the I might be wrong substack. |
| 0:19.6 | I don't know if that's inducement enough. Let me sell you |
| 0:22.5 | on Jeff. He's been on the show once or twice before. I love his substack. He's a brilliant guy. |
| 0:29.8 | He wrote many, many interesting comedy pieces for last week tonight with John Oliver. And then he |
| 0:36.7 | broke bad with the O Man. No, not really, but he is |
| 0:40.9 | both a former speechwriter for the EPA and someone who knows a lot about policy and knows |
| 0:45.1 | about communication. And as a former stand-up comedian, and like I said, his substack, I might |
| 0:51.2 | be wrong, is largely right. Also in the right, and I'm not going to give her |
| 0:55.7 | as big a lead up because as a representative of legacy media, she stands by the brand. |
| 1:01.4 | It's Corrine Hajjar. She's been on the show before, on Not Even Mad. She was an excellent |
| 1:07.3 | sparring partner then and will be now. Not Even Mad has been tending more towards |
| 1:12.4 | comity, but that's good. Comity within disagreement. We have a clear conservative and a clear |
| 1:18.1 | liberal Democrat, and I think it works very well. And if you want even more of that over on the |
| 1:24.0 | not even mad feed, so this is the gist where every other Thursday or so we play an episode of Not Even Mad. |
| 1:30.6 | But there's a whole show called Not Even Mad. |
| 1:33.2 | It's this and more. |
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