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The Gist

Shots Fired, but Not Really

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, no matter how well the economy goes, pundits can always tell a scary story. What do we get wrong about Darwinism? Evolutionary ornithologist Richard O. Prum says the theory was distorted by Victorian prudes. He explains why a closer look at bird sex shows us what's really going on with adaptation and natural selection. Prum's book is The Evolution of Beauty. In the Spiel, yes, "unindictable" would mean the president could commit any crime he wants, even the colorful ones. But let's not get carried away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following show has a lot of explicit content.

0:03.2

I'm sure you'll like it because of that.

0:05.1

It's Monday, June 4, 2018, from Slate It's the GIST I might pesca.

0:13.2

You know what? The economy is doing well. We have 3.8% unemployment.

0:18.3

We also have to tell us the economy is doing well. New Gingrich. He's here or was there on ABCs this week.

0:25.1

You're normal American. You're looking at continued economic growth.

0:30.4

You're looking at a system that you think is working.

0:34.4

And you say, oh, but over here is something that's obscure and legal.

0:39.7

I think that what Trump, I think the Republicans of their clever, are going to campaign on

0:44.5

the economy working, which in fact is exactly what Bill Clinton did in 98.

0:48.8

And it worked. I mean, the fact was people said in 98.

0:51.1

But what newt and the Republican aligned media did tell us back in 2016 was that the economy

0:58.9

was in shambles. So here he was on Fox Business in the summer of 2016.

1:03.8

And at the end, you'll hear host Maria Bertoromo, yes, and him and his answer.

1:08.7

But that underlying weakness of the American economy is going to be an anchor.

1:12.6

The Hillary can't carry very far. If it continues to be as bad as this last month.

1:17.7

Yeah, especially since she's saying she wants to build on Obamacare,

1:20.5

she wants to build on Dodd Frank, all of the reasons that businesses are not hiring.

1:24.5

But businesses were hiring. They're hiring now a little bit more than they were then.

1:29.1

But at the time of that interview, we just heard with the dire, dire predictions of how Dodd Frank

1:35.3

and the Affordable Care Act was depressing hiring. Hiring was going pretty well.

1:39.3

Unemployment rate, the most recent unemployment rate that was announced was 4.7%.

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