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The Gist

Obama’s Elon

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Aneesh Chopra, America’s first-ever Chief Technology Officer under Obama, joins The Gist to assess Elon Musk’s rebranded takeover of government tech via “Doge.” He outlines how the US Digital Service began under Obama, evolved during Trump’s first term, and now—chainsaw and hat aside—retains surprising policy continuity across administrations. Plus, even as a Colorado hate crime occurs under the banner of "Free Palestine", it's important to remember that violent people perpetuate violent acts, not impassioned, or even wrong sentiments. And in the spiel - can we please put an end to the term "Stochastic Terrorism"? Produced by Corey WaraProduction Coordinator Ashley KhanEmail us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠ or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist Instagram Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠GIST INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow The Gist List at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pesca⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Ava from Vanta.

0:02.0

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0:07.0

and earning customer trust has never mattered more.

0:10.0

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0:13.0

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0:17.0

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0:22.1

enterprise managing vendor risk, Banta makes it quick, easy, and scalable, and I'm not to say

0:27.2

that because I work here. Get started today at banta.com. Hi, it's Mike. You hear me on the gist.

0:32.6

This here gist, but now I'm inviting you on Wednesday to join me somewhere else. Substack. We do a thing called

0:39.0

Substack Live. And what I do is I invite a smart, hilarious person, not always both, but this time

0:45.0

it's Ben Dreyfus and he's both. And I invite him on and we talk. We talk about stuff in the news,

0:50.5

stuff that comes to mind. It's a little different from a gist episode, which I don't want to be too highfalut,

0:55.7

but they are crafted and thought over,

0:57.8

and oftentimes someone will have written something,

1:00.1

written a book, written an article.

1:02.1

With Ben, he writes articles on his substack all the time.

1:05.2

He's just excellent.

1:06.0

You can't not have a good conversation with Ben.

1:08.9

Don't believe me, join 6pm, Mike Peska.com.

1:18.6

It's Monday, June 2nd, 2025.

1:21.0

From Peachfish Productions, it's the gist.

1:23.2

I'm Mike Peska.

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