I have a substack.

Don't know if you know that.

Sometimes on my substack, I'll write an essay that I call the Pesca Profundities portion

of the substack.

But really, every day I'll have five to seven items that if you fail to acknowledge

them, you're going to be a worse person, not just worse off, but not as interesting, behind the times,

and a little slow on the uptake.

This is called The Gist List.

It is shot through with my aphorisms and observations.

For instance, did you know that Texas was making daylight savings time permanent?

You would, if you read The gist list. Do you know that

penguin poop cools the planet? You would if you read the gist list. Did you know that if

Trump's threats to Harvard go through, their crew team, or I guess you could say their crew,

is going to be hit hard? A lot of Englishmen and women on the crew team, or I guess you could say their crew, is going to be hit hard.

A lot of Englishmen and women on the crew team.

These are just some of the exciting items on the gist list.

Again, I would just hate for you to be an unoptimized, less than extremely interesting person.

Go to Mikepeska. Substack.com to get the written word and now enjoy the spoken.

It's Thursday, August 20th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the gist.

I'm Mike Peska. Today, we have a not even mad, but I'm a little mad, I got to admit. Our not even mad is with guests. Isaac Saul, he runs Tangle, which I love and I get and I pay for. And Ricky Schlaught, she's a columnist for the New York Post, which I'm very aware of.

And I should say, if you're a New York, you get the New York Post, but do you get the New York Post?

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