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Sadie Dingfelder on "Hair, Feathers, and the Theater of Disgust."

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We test whether a hair in your hummus is truly hazardous, compare bacterial counts on hair shafts vs. feathers, and trace America's hairnet obsession back to Edward Bernays' spin. We play: Is That BS? Hair/Feather Edition. Also: Seattle mayoral race updates, and in the Spiel: the Philadelphia Art Museum's chunky griffin rebrand, the PHAM backlash, and why the director got bounced.

Produced by Corey Wara


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0:00.0

It's Thursday, November 6, 2025 from Peachfish Productions. It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska.

0:09.6

There's still one big election result out there. You might not care unless you're in the Pacific Northwest.

0:14.8

We're just a caring person. But you know, the city of Seattle's the 18th biggest city in America.

0:19.9

It is almost 800,000 people.

0:21.4

New York has 8 million.

0:23.4

But does Seattle even get a tenth of the coverage?

0:26.7

So right now, Katie Wilson is trailing Bruce Harrell.

0:30.1

Oh, I'm going to drag you to the Seattle mayoral race.

0:33.1

And I will quote Ron Davis, who does the blog, Rendezvous Washington, could be rendezvous.

0:39.1

I don't know.

0:40.8

Not into pronouncing anything, but he is into pronouncing this.

0:44.1

Well, there are some reasons to be concerned.

0:45.9

I still think the evidence clearly suggests the odds favor Katie Wilson.

0:51.0

And then the next sentence is very, very clarifying. I don't believe this is

0:56.0

cope. I have heard first and second hand from half a dozen leading sophisticated data analysts

1:00.5

and consultant folks. So anytime someone tells you that he doesn't believe this is cope,

1:06.8

it's of course cope, or at least it's cope motivated.

1:17.4

Doesn't mean that there's no analysis or there's no fact factoring into the analysis.

1:21.9

But, you know, here's a guy rendezvouszwa who wants Katie Wilson to win.

1:26.4

And she very well might win, even though she trailed by 7 on Election Day.

1:29.4

And then after a tranche of ballots dropped yesterday, trailed by 8.

1:32.4

The thing is, in the past, the leftward swing of the late returning ballots have amounted

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