The 12 Days of Trumpmas

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

On The Gist, the big news from Zimbabwe. Then, Mike asks Maria Konnikova of the New Yorker what can be done to fight off a common cold. Maria’s new book The Confidence Game is now available for preorder. For the Spiel, we welcome friendly carolers into the studio to perform a new holiday classic. Today’s sponsor: Make holiday shopping easier with the Slate Gift Guide, a curated collection of products selected by Slate editors and writers. These are the things that most improved our lives this year, wrapped up in one guide for you. Find something for everyone on your list at picks.slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The big sale is now on at home base with up to 50% of selected home and garden products,
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0:16.5	Home base, homes and gardens made easy.
0:20.1	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:30.4	Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015 from Slate, it's the Gisdai Mike Pesca.
0:34.8	I bring you the big news from Zimbabwe.
0:37.6	You're welcome.
0:38.6	And that country, marred by horrible leadership, a declining economy, figured out a way to get
0:44.4	out from under their really, really bad currency or deal.
0:48.3	So Zimbabwe six years ago abandoned its own dollar.
0:52.3	The writing was on the wall when they started printing $100,000 Zimbabwe dollar notes that
0:59.0	as soon as they were printed lost all their value.
1:01.2	So this is what Zimbabwe decided to do.
1:03.3	They're just going to use a different country's currency.
1:05.6	A country that's 6,000 miles away.
1:08.7	Zimbabwe now accepting the Chinese won as legal tender.
1:13.5	Why not just sell the country to the Chinese outright?
1:16.0	It would be a great province of China.
1:18.6	The Chinese would love it.
1:20.0	There are no weagers there.
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