One Quiet Leap for Mankind

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, Jeff Bezos is one rich man. That doesn’t make him (and Amazon) bad for New York City. In the interview, First Man is as much about Neil Armstrong the man as it is about Neil Armstrong the astronaut. Instead of depicting him planting a U.S. flag on the moon, screenwriter Josh Singer had him pay tribute to his deceased daughter. That ruffled some feathers, and Singer tells us why he stands by it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This program may contain explicit language.
0:03.0	Also, we have a newsletter coming out.
0:05.6	It's at slate.com slash just news now on with the possibly filthy show.
0:15.2	It's Thursday, December 13th, 2018 from slate.
0:18.0	It's the just-time Mike Pesca, executives of Amazon,
0:22.3	fairly large company, normally located in the northwest,
0:26.0	officials of New York City, fairly large city,
0:29.1	located east, got together,
0:31.9	and an angry city council meeting in the hashtag.
0:35.1	Speaker of the New York City Council, Cory Johnson,
0:37.9	was primed for a next day delivery of a can of whoop ass
0:41.3	on America's wealthiest company.
0:43.1	How will this affect our overburdened transportation system
0:46.2	in an area where infrastructure is already limited?
0:49.4	The only transportation piece of this project I've seen involves a helipad.
0:54.3	I'm serious.
0:56.7	This is like something out of the onion.
0:59.6	It is unclear if the council actually has any authority to do anything
1:04.0	to stop the online retailer from becoming the kings or the emperors of queens.
1:09.9	But it was an opportunity for backers of the deal,
1:12.3	like the mayor himself, to try to get some version of a counter narrative going out there.
1:18.1	Let's recap what the narrative is.
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