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The Gist

The 12-Step Program of Highly Effective People

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Nick Thune took the long way to stand-up comedy, performing Enrique Iglesias cover songs and making a stop in rehab before graduating from high school. On The Gist, he explains why he's not scared of silence on stage and what made him ditch his guitar. His new special, Nick Thune: Good Guy, is streaming now on Seeso.  In the Spiel, asking much of Steven Mnuchin and parrying with Rick Perry.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.0

It's Thursday, January 19th, 2017 from Slate, it's the GIST I AM, Mike Pesca, a couple more

0:14.0

hearings today on The Hill, The Hill.

0:17.0

Yes, I summer on the Cape, I Groundhog Day on the knob.

0:21.0

And we will get to America's new favorite comedy team, Frank and in Perry.

0:26.0

Did you enjoy meeting me?

0:28.0

I hope you are as much fun on that dius as you were on your couch.

0:33.0

Well,

0:35.0

mate, may I rephrase that, sir?

0:40.0

Please, please, please.

0:44.0

Oh, my lord.

0:47.0

Perry went on to say they just had their Saturday Night Live moment, but if that were true,

0:53.0

his future boss would have tweeted about how unfunny it was.

0:57.0

I don't want to talk about the picks who are being vetted right now, right now, meaning I will talk about them in this

1:04.0

field. Now I want to talk about people who may be picks.

1:07.0

Let's take the FDA.

1:09.0

Two names floated include Belagie Sweeney Vossin, who runs a Bitcoin company.

1:15.0

Now mind you, the FDA is usually run by doctors, medical doctors.

1:19.0

So we have this smart guy, Bitcoin guy, not a doctor.

1:22.0

And the other guy is Jim O'Neill, another Silicon Valley guy.

1:25.0

He is on the board of the Sea Stepping Institute, Peter Tealbacked Venture, to create new societies at sea,

1:32.0

where governments can't touch them.

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