Softball Stupidity

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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On the Gist, Trump is full of beans. In the second half of a two-part interview, novelist Curtis Sittenfeld is continues talking her new novel Rodham. She and Mike discuss the critiques of Hillary within the book, the final choices in the book, and how it might relate to modern superhero stories. In the spiel, the need for tough follow-ups with Trump. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following program may contain language that is explicit, and by explicit, I mean implicitly, not too words.
0:12.0	It's Wednesday, July 15, 2020, from slated to the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:18.4	Hey news media, listen to me.
0:20.3	24-hour hold on all Ruth Bader Ginsburg's health updates.
0:24.3	Okay?
0:25.1	Cause last night around 6 p.m. Eastern, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was in the hospital.
0:29.8	Just in Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized her new health scare.
0:34.8	Lester holds NBC colleague Chuck Todd added some details.
0:39.1	We are following some breaking news that I told you about before the break.
0:42.1	We have just learned that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is recovering from a medical procedure
0:46.5	is expected to be in the hospital for the next few days.
0:48.7	She was taken to the hospital last night after experiencing fever and chills.
0:51.8	And 22 hours after that initial announcement, Ginsburg out.
0:56.2	Did we need 22 hours of her own fever and chills?
1:00.2	That less than a leap day of fretting.
1:02.8	Important to everyone was the public interest served by having the phrase
1:08.1	Ruth Bader Ginsburg and quote,
1:09.8	clean out a bile duct stent in close proximity within any of our brains.
1:15.4	The cleanliness or lack thereof of any of the ducts arteries,
1:19.9	sinews, tubes, or veins within an 87 year old jurist seems very,
1:25.1	very much to be between her and her doctor.
1:28.1	Perhaps her lord.
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