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The Gist

The FBI Lost Their Son

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Brett Forrest is a national security correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and the author of a new book about how ... and who ... the FBI recruits to do its dirty work abroad. His book is Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars, a story of how a young man named Billy Reilly disappeared into Russia. Plus, SCOTUS scrap Affirmative Action in colleges, and Fall Out Boy fails to start the fire ... so Mike tries. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I raise for life for my best friend who we lost to soon.

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I raise for life for my mom who was diagnosed with bowel cancer.

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I raise for life from a dad who's living with prostate cancer.

0:12.0

I raise for life for everyone who's in cancer.

0:17.0

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And together we will be cancer.

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0:50.0

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0:56.0

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0:59.0

Strings and things.

1:01.0

It's Thursday June 29th, 2023 from Peach Fish Productions.

1:07.0

It's the Gestai Mike Pesca.

1:09.0

The US Supreme Court ruled that colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, thus ending affirmative action.

1:16.0

There were two decisions, one was six three in the usual way, or actually not usual as I have chronicled, but in the classic conservative versus liberal way.

1:25.0

And then in another decision, this one involving Harvard, it was actually six two since Judge Katanji Brown, Jackson recused herself because she was affiliated with Harvard at that time.

1:35.0

Anyway, there is a silver lining to all of this.

1:38.0

I think if what you want is something like equity and I use the traditional, not new fangled definition of the word flourishing, fairness for most people.

1:48.0

UCLA offers some insights.

1:50.0

The state of California offers some insights.

1:53.0

They went through this, Texas went through this too.

1:55.0

The two biggest states went through this and they had somewhat different results, but we can expect to see certain developments based on this very, very good sample size we have of what happens when you end affirmative action.

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