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The Gist

Odds, Ends, and Senators

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, Devin Nunes probably doesn't know squat.  In the interview, Democrats hold most of the Senate seats up for grabs in this year's midterms, which means they have a lot to lose. But importantly, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg says election predictions often fail to account for national mood. Ellenberg is the author of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking.  In the Spiel, Mike defends his bougie laundry routine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The following content contains some explicit language that might not be suitable for children or Mormons.

0:43.0

It's Wednesday, January 24, 2018, from slated to justime, Mike Pesca.

0:49.0

The ad hominem fallacy is just that, a logical fallacy that discounts an argument

0:54.0

because of the person who's doing the arguing.

0:57.0

Also, the future is unknowable, and the past is not necessarily prologue.

1:02.0

Stipulated. All of that is stipulated. You'll see where I'm going.

1:06.0

In fact, crazy people can sometimes be right.

1:09.0

Every hypokondriac in history has died of something, often a disease, sometimes being hit by a trolley.

1:15.0

The poet Ezra Pound was both paranoid and followed by government agents.

1:23.0

Both things were true. In fact, we have phrases for things that are almost always wrong, but occasionally correct.

1:28.0

Frazes that hearken broken clocks and blind squirrels.

1:31.0

All that said is so that I can put it out there, so that I can concede in advance the limits of the following observation.

1:40.0

The idea that representative, Devon Nunes, has information that blows up the Russia investigation.

1:50.0

That Devon Nunes has the secret memo that proves the FBI was in the bag the whole time.

1:55.0

The here-to-for suppressed piece of information that is quote troubling and quote would shock the American people,

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