The Case for Good Anger
The Gist
Mike Pesca
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Samuel Parker, author of Good Anger: How Rethinking Rage Can Change Our Lives, argues that suppressing anger fuels anxiety and that society’s overcorrection toward placidity has blunted a vital emotion. He traces its demotion from the Stoics to corporate HR, separates it from violence, and shows how to channel it into productive action. Plus, Donald Trump tries to deal with peace, and in the Spiel, the CDC shooting in Atlanta prompts a pushback against claims that misinformation draws a straight line to murder—and a reminder that individual responsibility can’t be outsourced to bad facts.
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| 0:00.0 | I have a substack. |
| 0:01.4 | Don't know if you know that. |
| 0:02.9 | Sometimes on my substack, I'll write an essay that I call the Peska Profundities portion |
| 0:08.1 | of the substack. |
| 0:09.0 | But really, every day I'll have five to seven items that if you fail to acknowledge them, |
| 0:16.3 | you're going to be a worse person, not just worse off, but not as interesting, behind the times, |
| 0:23.3 | and a little slow on the uptake. This is called The Gist List. It is shot through with my |
| 0:29.0 | aphorisms and observations. For instance, did you know that Texas was making daylight |
| 0:34.8 | savings time permanent? You would, if you read the gist list. |
| 0:38.8 | Do you know that penguin poop cools the planet? |
| 0:42.7 | You would if you read the gist list. |
| 0:46.0 | Did you know that if Trump's threats to Harvard go through, |
| 0:50.1 | their crew team, or I guess you could say their crew, |
| 0:53.1 | is going to be hit hard? A lot of Englishmen and women on the crew team, or I guess you could say their crew, is going to be hit hard. |
| 0:54.5 | A lot of Englishmen and women on the crew team. |
| 0:58.2 | These are just some of the exciting items on the gist list. |
| 1:02.6 | Again, I would just hate for you to be an unoptimized, less than extremely interesting person. |
| 1:10.6 | Go to Mike pesca.com to get the written word and now enjoy the spoken. |
| 1:21.1 | It's Tuesday, August 12th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions. |
| 1:25.6 | It's the gist. |
| 1:26.5 | I'm Mike Peska. |
| 1:29.8 | Vladimir Putin will be coming to the U.S. to Alaska, part of the U.S. Not a lot of people know that. President Trump will be meeting him, |
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