Slate's The Gist With Mike Pesca: Episode the First

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Mike talks with Slate's Dahlia Lithwick about today's Supreme Court decision allowing explicitly Christian prayers in public meetings. Radiolab's Jad Abumrad then turns the tables and interviews Mike about how he came to host his own show. And finally, we end with The Spiel, Mike's daily take on…something. Today's Spiel is about the promise of living forever, thanks to new insights from rat blood. Get notified as soon as The Gist posts each weekday: http://www.slate.com/gistemail. Music: "Eclosion" by Salmo "Enjoyable to Know" by C. Scott "The Great" by Broke For Free "Power Glove" by C. Scott "Against the Wall" by BoxCat Games Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Lionsgate Plus. The third season of the Lionsgate Plus
0:04.8	original series The Great is available to stream on Friday July 14 exclusively on Lionsgate
0:10.0	Plus. Follow Catherine the second play by L-Fanning and Peter The Great, played by Nicholas
0:14.4	Holt, as they hilariously attempt to make their marriage work after some seemingly insurmountable
0:18.7	problems, from attempt to murder and the imprisonment of close friends to their never-ending
0:22.6	legal responsibilities. The Great Season 3 is available to stream on Friday July 14 exclusively
0:28.2	on Lionsgate Plus.
0:58.2	The Great is available to stream on Friday July 14 exclusively on Lionsgate Plus.
1:28.2	The Great is available to stream on Friday July 14 exclusively on Lionsgate Plus.
1:58.2	The Great is available to stream on Friday July 14 exclusively on Lionsgate Plus.
2:28.2	The Great is available to stream on Friday July 14 exclusively on Lionsgate Plus.
2:59.2	Lord, we ask you to give us the insight into the recent Supreme Court decision that allowed
3:06.2	a public prayer to kick off meetings in the upstate New York town of Greece.
3:10.2	A la praise be to you is you guide us through this five to four decision that seems to change
3:15.0	established practice. Yahweh, Vishnu, Zeus, the goddess and random cosmic event that produced
3:20.4	B-Mode polarization effects. We ask if this changes school prayer and Abraham and Sarah,
3:26.4	we thank you for delivering to us, Dahlia Lithwick, who covers the courts for slate.
3:30.4	Hello, Dahlia. Hi there, Mike. How big a deal is this?
3:34.4	Oh, I think this is a pretty big deal. I think this is a quite a significant shift from the president,
3:39.5	the court looked at until today. And what was that? And what is it now?
3:42.4	Well, the case that they were all looking at was this 1983 legislative prayer case.
3:48.4	So this isn't about school prayer or, you know, can commandments on state grounds.
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