The Fonz Talks About Fonts

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Henry Winkler is an icon of American comedy. Between roles in Happy Days, Arrested Development, and Parks and Recreation, Winkler has been writing children's books starring the character Hank Zipzer. Winkler says the stories have helped him come to terms with his own dyslexia, which he only discovered as an adult. His newest book is Always Watch Out for the Flying Potato Salad. For the Spiel, you might want to learn to spell "wiretap" because you accuse someone of ordering a wiretap. Today's sponsors: Stamps.com. Buy and print official U.S. postage using your own computer and printer. Sign up for Stamps.com and get a four-week trial, plus postage and a digital scale, when you use promo code THEGIST. And The Great Courses Plus, a video learning service that offers lectures on all kinds of topics. Get a free trial when you sign up by going toTheGreatCoursesPlus.com/gist. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I haven't seen you since Starbox after that festival. Oh, yeah, we need to hang out with the weather's good
0:06.2	This weekend shopping Saturday Sunday meals then lunch with Oscar next weekend
0:12.0	Thursday night with top cinema next Friday and a most about thing another one
0:17.4	How about right now perfect Starbucks the new chocolate waffle cone for Appetitino
0:24.1	You read my mind summer hits different with Starbucks subject to availability whilst stocks last
0:30.0	The following podcast contains explicit language
0:37.6	It's Monday March 6th 2017 from slate. It's the gist I'm Mike Pasca and I have a theory
0:43.6	Like the authors of a big New York Times piece who looked into the North Korean missile program
0:48.3	I've been crunching the numbers. I've been calculating telemetry trajectory
0:53.6	Faliere rate now let's review some of what we know is from last week South Korea says North Korea has fired three
1:01.9	ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast and this just a couple weeks before
1:08.0	North Korea firing off a ballistic missile to the sea of Japan and this goes back to 2015
1:14.2	North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea on Monday and possible protest at the annual South Korea U.S. military drill
1:21.6	Which it says is provocative and pushes the two Koreas toward war
1:25.9	Okay, add it all up. I think the conclusion is hard to avoid
1:30.8	North Korea is at war
1:34.1	with the sea
1:36.1	They want to attack King Neptune himself for years of
1:40.6	Insolence isolation wetness
1:43.4	They said a war against water could not be won
1:46.3	We would never know less it'd be waged and Kim Jong-un is the man to attack the sea
1:53.8	Now the Times correspondent they came up with a different theory
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