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The Gist

The Life and Death of Aaron Swartz

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 8 July 2016

ā±ļø 28 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist,Ā SlateĀ correspondentJustin PetersĀ on the life and death of free-culture crusader Aaron Swartz and the history of copyright in the United States. Peters wroteĀ The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet. In the Spiel, reflecting on recent shootings of black men by police and of police by a black man.Ā  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:25.0

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0:30.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:33.0

It's Friday, July 8th, 2016 from Slate It's the GIST I might pesca.

0:42.0

Most days I do want to do a news analysis interview show with a lot of puns and a questionable portuguese sign off.

0:49.0

But sometimes I don't. I don't think that I want you anyway because the news is too depressing.

0:55.0

Well, it's not really that. It's that like what's the conclusion?

0:58.0

How much do we know I'd rather wait and absorb the news instead of quickly turning around and offering some analysis?

1:04.0

But then I realize, you know, you may be listening to this on a Saturday or a Sunday.

1:08.0

And the immediate wounds have healed. And some of the more salient facts will have emerged.

1:13.0

And you might need a little uplift.

1:16.0

So I will try to do that in a couple of ways.

1:19.0

In the spiel, I want more burnish my credentials as an optimist and put the shooting of black men by police and the shootings of police by a black man in perspective, statistic, historical,

1:32.0

jurisprudential perspective. I'll try at least.

1:35.0

But now I'll provide some comic relief, some distraction, some uplift.

1:40.0

And who is better for that than Donald Trump?

1:43.0

Now some people in the audience are saying, oh, the Trump can that a scene makes me anxious.

1:48.0

The guys at the podcast, keeping it 1600 call those people saying that bedwaters, call us, but probably accurate.

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