The Mueller Dud

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, it's a shoe! It's a phone! It's… both? In the interview, Darrick Hamilton's ideas and research have the attention of more than one Democratic candidate for president. The Ohio State University professor—and head of the Kirwan Institute—studies income inequality and the policies that might help close it. He joins The Gist to talk baby bonds, inherited wealth, and the potential in a federal job guarantee. In the Spiel, special Robert Mueller's statement at the DOJ contained nothing new, and yet still it still moved the needle on impeachment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode could contain profanity, it's up to me, I guess.
0:03.5	Your Saturday could contain a just newsletter!
0:07.0	To sign up for it, or once a week newsletter,
0:09.7	go to slate.com slash justnews.
0:12.8	🎵
0:16.6	It's Wednesday, May 29, 2019 from Slated to the gist I'm Mike Paeska.
0:21.4	Sports Illustrated magazine has sold for practically nothing.
0:26.5	Just a dozen sneaker phones and a Mickey Mantle rubbed.
0:29.0	Well, actually, $110 million, so it's not.
0:32.2	Literally nothing, but there was a time when adjusted for inflation.
0:35.7	The expense accounts of the sports illustrated writers would have added up to about $100 million.
0:40.9	Sports Illustrated basically invented sports journalism on a national level,
0:45.3	invented high-brow narrative writing for sports,
0:48.5	and still, for me, represents the pinnacle of craft and reporting and sports writing.
0:54.0	I have friends, I know people who are there, they're top-notch people,
0:58.1	but my associations are a bit old.
1:01.1	I mean, today, the AP describes sports illustrated as, quote,
1:04.6	sports illustrated, which began publishing in 1954,
1:07.8	covers sports and has an annual swimsuit edition.
1:11.6	Well, put that on the headstone, I guess, that's pretty much what it all boils down to.
1:16.1	The swimsuit edition, that was a weird aspect of sports illustrated.
1:19.6	A one-week pause in the normal business to do this thing that is really, really, really
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