It's Thursday, January 29th, 2026 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the gist.

I'm Mike Peska.

And today is a not even mad day.

We have Rui Tashara, who have been trying to get on for a while.

I really like his liberal patriot, maybe even the liberal patriot substack.

You know, you don't want to

smashing pumpkins, the smashing pumpkins definite article when it doesn't belong, but

leaving it out when it does. And we also have Ivy Exile, or maybe the Ivy Exile, the Jesse

Adams. At the end of the show, and how do I know this if I'm talking to you now and the show

comes later? Well, it's because we pre-taped

the show, in my case, from a closet in Florida, but I'm back now. And at the end of the show,

we do our goat grinders. And I talked about football. And I'm sometimes reticent, often reticent on

the gist to talk about sports, even though it's one of my top three interest, passion. I don't know if you just had an accurate monitor of what I spend my non-news consumption family time doing. It's something to do with the world of sports. Can we include me working out in the gym? Sure, why not, just to help my thesis. But I'm always reticent to talk about it in case,

you know, I lose people in the audience who aren't here for the sports. But that's kind of crazy.

I am talking about the specifically some details of the AFC championship game. I don't know. Maybe

you heard those words and said, what? Don't care. Maybe I'm being too reactive and thinking about my

NPR days when that was a concern.

But as we spoke to Chuck Closterman about, there is no monoculture. The thing that comes

closest is sports. And that AFC championship game is going to be the second most watch thing

on television this year. In fact, the second most experienced thing

by Americans. There were almost 50 million people watching it and there were 57 million people

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