Ralph Nader's Animal Instincts

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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🗓️ 3 January 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Ralph Nader's second work of fiction, Animal Envy, imagines a world where animals can talk to people and start demanding rights. Nader says the fable is meant to prompt deeper thinking about our relationship with nature. "We need to talk about what-if, because if we don't, we can't kick in our idealism and imagine real possibilities," says the 82-year-old author and advocate. Nader also weighs in with his thoughts on the Trump presidency, and how to win a political argument. In the Spiel, Donald Trump's rockin' New Year's Eve. Sponsors: Stamps.com. Buy and print official U.S. postage right from your desk. Go to Stamps.com and use promo code gist for a 4-week trial plus a $110 bonus offer – including postage and a digital scale. And Blue Apron. Blue Apron's meal kits are delivered right to your door, and make cooking at home easy. Get your first THREE meals FREE by going to BlueApron.com/gist. 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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0:19.7	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:24.1	It's Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017.
0:32.3	From slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pasca.
0:35.1	Now the problem with gutting, an ethics committee lies in two words.
0:39.3	One is gut.
0:40.3	Guts a pretty total type verb.
0:43.0	No one goes in for a like gutting, just a sprinkling of gutting.
0:46.9	The other word is ethics.
0:48.8	The word after gut should not be ethics.
0:51.0	It should be something like the opposition or an old rule book or a wild boar.
0:56.0	When the word after gut is ethics, it's not great for the gutter.
1:00.4	And even the president-elect, a man who is familiar with the gutter, objected to this
1:05.1	plan to make America gut again.
1:08.1	Trump said other things should be higher on the agenda and so the gutting was gutted.
1:13.5	Now Trump's tweet was reported as a slam or a rubewuk to house Republicans.
1:18.2	It was nothing of the sort.
1:20.2	Coming, though, not very outgoing White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that a change
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