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The Gist

The Farmers' Candidate

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, wait, what did I miss? In the interview, Democratic candidates for the presidency recently flew to Iowa for a forum on agriculture to answer some questions. And asking them was Storm Lake Times editor Art Cullen, who knows a thing or two about corporate agribusiness and its impact on Iowans, the food Americans everywhere eat, and Chinese pork companies. Cullen is the author of Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper, and was previously on The Gist to discuss that book as well.  In the Spiel, Rep. Ilan Omar and our selfish president. This episode is brought to you by Simplisafe. Start protecting your home today at SimpliSafe.com/gist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following content contains some explicit language that might not be suitable for children or Mormons.

0:09.6

It's Monday, April 15th, 2019, from slated to the gist I'm Mike Pesca.

0:18.6

Wait, what am I missing? This was a big weekend for. Wait, what am I missing? Like Tiger Woods.

0:24.8

If you're a big golf fan, you know the ups and downs the Travelles, but if you're not a big golf fan,

0:29.6

and I checked in with a number of people in my life who weren't big golf fans, and I said to them,

0:34.1

hey, name a golfer, they all would say Tiger Woods. And if I said name the best golfer, they'd also say,

0:40.0

I guess Tiger Woods. They didn't know the Tiger Woods for a while hadn't been the best golfer.

0:45.1

So when I told them, hey, Tiger won the Masters, they said, yes, isn't that what happens? I mean, sure,

0:50.7

they knew about the sex scandal, but every athlete has a sex scandal and when, when have we ever cared?

0:55.5

Kobe, Magic, Ben Rothless Burger, all these guys had a sex scandal or ongoing never ending sex scandals,

1:02.7

and they still get to play and win. But Tiger, what? He is the one guy who can't bounce back from his sex scandal. What I miss?

1:09.5

Oh yeah, people were saying that Tiger Woods would not be coming back. And why'd they say that? Well, he was getting old.

1:16.4

So ask a non golf fan. All right, how old is he? 43? Wait, he's a golfer. That's not old for a golfer.

1:21.8

It's one of those stories where the more you knew, like the more you knew about golf, the less perspective

1:27.8

you actually had. If you knew a lot about golf, they were trying to convince you that Tiger wasn't coming back,

1:33.6

but just the average person who said, oh, this guy was like the most dominant ever and the sport is golf.

1:38.4

Yeah, he'll come back to dominate and guess what he did. Same deal with Brexit, the less you follow,

1:43.6

the smarter you are. So wait, wait, you're telling me that Great Britain's gonna leave the EU,

1:48.4

and that's not gonna cause a huge amount of trouble. What am I missing? I mean, it seems like a really

1:53.2

bad idea. But you know, I guess maybe you're saying I'm paying that much attention. I guess the BBC

1:58.4

talks about it like 13 times a day and the economist, they seem to understand it more than I do. All I

2:04.5

understand is it seems to be a really, really dumb thing. What am I missing? Not much. I gotta say. Same

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