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The Gist

The Guy Who Started "Retweets Don't Equal Endorsements"

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2014

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Gist, we ask what it would be like to take the worst thing that has ever happened to you and see it displayed in a famous new building with a gift shop. We spoke with BuzzFeed's Steve Kandell about his Sunday visit to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. Then, Patrick LaForge from the New York Times tells us the origin story behind a certain ubiquitous Twitter disclaimer that's attached itself to social media like a barnacle. For Mike's Spiel, he considers the North Korean pop star who shocked the world by actually being alive. Get notified as soon as The Gist posts each weekday: www.slate.com/gistemail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I am so over this situation, Peter. I'm unbumble to find something real. You know, like someone

0:07.5

you can count on, someone who actually cares about what you think. I just want someone

0:12.5

who's ready for that long-term kind of love. Whether you're looking for your next boyfriend,

0:18.9

girlfriend, casual date or just someone who truly gets you, it's waiting for you unbumble.

0:25.5

It's Tuesday, May 20, 2014. From Slate, it's the gist, I'm Mike Pesca.

0:36.8

Ugly Gorilla, Candy Goo, Win X Y Happy. These are the names of Chinese hackers the US

0:42.9

indicted for economic espionage. Ugly Gorilla, Candy Goo. Alright, their unit is known as

0:49.1

Unit 61398, which is an exactly chaos or specter or the legion of doom. And this is the

0:55.4

first time the US is prosecuting members of the Chinese military for economic hacking, so that's new.

0:59.9

But the names, these names are not worthy of the word nefarious. You know what, in fiction,

1:06.4

the villains' names are always better than the hero's names. So probably the best hero's name is

1:11.5

James Bond. But Ernst Stavros Blowfeld, that is much better. John McLean? Eh, Hans Gruber,

1:19.2

the mustache practically twirls itself. Athello. Oh, nice fellow. Yago, Yago, so schemeful. God,

1:28.3

good. Lucifer. Now, there you go. But in real life, the heroes of better names in the villains

1:34.0

seal Team 6, the granite mountain hot shots, or Martin Luther King. The villains, Candy Goo,

1:40.6

and that's Candy with a K, by the way. Coming up on the show, the ubiquitous Twitter disclaimer

1:46.3

that has attached itself to social media like a barnacle, and the brother of a woman who died in

1:51.8

the World Trade Center on 9-11 goes to the New Museum and finds it all so weird. We'll talk to him.

1:59.2

And in the spiel, the North Korean pop star who shocks the world by actually being alive.

2:05.4

But now onto processing, actually not processing, but acknowledging the impossibility of processing

2:13.2

loss in 9-11. Steve Kendall's sister Sherry died during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade

2:27.6

Center on September 11th. His family was not very public with their mourning, but they were

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