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The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

On The Gist, Mike explains why a Reduced-Fat Turkey Bacon Breakfast Sandwich won’t be bringing him back to Starbucks for a while. Then Alex Marshall responds to The Gist calling him “Sir Twiddle Twaddle” in a previous episode and explains why he thinks Americans dislike our national anthem. He’s the author of Republic or Death!: Travels in Search of National Anthems. For The Spiel, how to make the case for stricter gun laws. Today’s sponsors: Stamps.com, where you can buy and print official U.S. postage right from your desk using your own computer and printer. Use the promo code THEGIST to get a no-risk trial and a $110 bonus offer. And by The Message, a new podcast series from GE Podcast Theater. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Just Is Sponsored by Stamps.com.
0:02.5	Buy and print official US Postage right from your desk
0:05.3	using your own computer and printer.
0:07.5	Right now, get a no-risk trial and a $110 bonus offer
0:11.7	by going to Stamps.com and using the promo code, the Just.
0:15.9	And buy the message, a new podcast from GE Podcast Theater.
0:21.3	Hi, Nikki Tomlin here, and I'm the host of The Message.
0:24.9	I'll be following a team of elite cryptographers
0:27.5	as they decode a highly classified radio transmission.
0:30.5	To sum it up, extra terrestrials.
0:33.5	The message on iTunes.
0:36.1	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:39.3	It's Monday, October 5, 2015.
0:45.0	From Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Peska.
0:47.3	Did you hear the governor of South Carolina
0:49.7	declared a state of emergency there, all the flooding?
0:53.0	Thereby politicizing the hurricane.
0:56.5	I can't believe he politicized it like that.
0:59.4	Also, a cop stopped me from driving 65 and a 50,
1:02.4	politicizing things again.
1:03.9	But I don't want to talk about that.
1:05.5	I want to talk about this.
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