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The Gist

The End Of The World As Fred Knows It

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Fred Kaplan has won a Pulitzer, been nominated for another, and he's covered the national security community for years. So he finally decided to just throw out the rules of non-fiction and write a novel ... about the end of the World, or almost the end of the world. A Capital Calamity is a tale of impending armageddon not with a bang nor a whimper, but because of a consultant. Plus, airlines have finally addressed the on-again-off-again no-smoking sign in a rather stupid way. Also on the show, Trump is close to winning because incumbents the world over are getting "schlonged." Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

It's Thursday, October 24th, 2024.

0:37.0

From Peach Fish Productions, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.

0:40.0

The United States is finally getting with the realities of air travel in 2024, the aforementioned year.

0:46.8

Smoking on flights was banned in the 1980s, this was thanks to congressional legislation,

0:52.1

and stewardesses coming home smelling like a pack of

0:54.9

luckies. Back then we could say stewardesses. We could all say, ah, you smell terrible.

1:00.4

By the 1990s, almost all of Europe followed suit banning smoking cigarette happy China even banned smoking in the 1990s but with one exception

1:08.8

Pilots could still smoke

1:10.8

Smoking in the cockpits was allowed. I mean they're not maniacs over there in China.

1:14.4

How do you expect a person to operate a 787 dreamliner if he's not able to take a drag on a Marlboro

1:20.0

while working the controls? But in 2019 an Air China pilot was vaping, thus

1:26.2

triggering an alarm, thus causing a loss of cabin pressure, and even China got

1:31.3

on board after that. But there there is one relic one relic of this time

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