The Babies Are Not All Right

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, why do daily news podcasts think they can take off for the holidays? In the interview, journalist Priska Neely has been writing about the rates of black infant mortality and why they’re so much higher than American infant mortality rates overall. She joins us today to discuss the possible reasons, including community support systems, health care–related problems, and how racism factors into it all. In the Spiel, Donald Trump visits Iraq and says a lot. This episode is brought to you by the following advertisers: SimpliSafe, protect your home today with twenty-four seven monitoring for just fifteen dollars a month, visit simplisafe.com/gist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following recording may contain explicit language.
0:02.8	I can't get more explicit than May.
0:05.7	Let's just say it may.
0:11.0	It's Thursday, December 27, 2018, from Slate.
0:14.3	It's the gist.
0:15.5	I'm Mike Pesca, and we are back and thank God we're back.
0:18.8	You know, I do so love podcasts, but man, as a medium,
0:22.4	we do take a lot of breaks.
0:24.0	Way more breaks than the old uncool,
0:26.5	your dad's legacy media.
0:28.7	I mean, if a podcast isn't casting, then it's easy to be.
0:32.8	Or maybe it is only a pod.
0:35.1	And we know what happened to the pods.
0:37.2	After 12 years, the iPod Nano and iPod Shovel
0:40.0	have been discontinued.
0:41.5	When I worked at NPR, they always
0:43.3	staffed up for Thanksgiving, and they
0:45.4	staffed for Christmas and New Year's Day.
0:47.7	And they staffed every day between Christmas and New Year's
0:50.2	Day.
0:50.9	Might have been a pain to the workers,
0:52.5	unless you hated your family or were a Jew or were a Jew who
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