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The Gist

The Thin Bleu Line

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In France, riots over police killings, which are a small fraction of those in the U.S. Guess why our numbers are higher? Mike will explain. We are also joined by Jonathan Rosen to discuss his new book The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions about the descent into madness of his childhood friend, who seemed destined for greatness but never quite got there. And goat herders imported by California are being paid lawyer-level salaries ... insert late-night joke here. 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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0:00.0

It's Thursday, July 20th, 2023, from Peachfish Productions, it's the Jistai Micapesca.

0:09.9

As we wait for a possible indictment of Donald Trump, it's hard to pay attention to any

0:16.0

other news to much else, but other bits of news flit across my consciousness.

0:21.0

For instance, a bureaucratic error by the state of California may quadruple the wages of

0:28.4

goat herders and sheep herders, they're using goat herders to chew the grass to eliminate

0:35.4

potential kindling for wildfire.

0:38.3

They're hiring peruvians to do that.

0:40.0

Turns out not too many sacramentans are steeped in the art of goat herding, and these

0:45.0

peruvians, I believe the word for goat herder in Spanish, is Cabrera.

0:50.2

These Cabreras stand to make 191,000 a year.

0:55.6

This was the bureaucratic error.

0:57.3

It's supposed to be about a 50,000 a year job, which ain't bad for approving goat herder.

1:02.0

Now you, if you're skilled at the art of goat herding and you get in, before they correct

1:06.8

the bureaucratic error, you can make almost $200,000 a year, and the goats get nothing.

1:12.8

Another piece of news that I came across is the New York Times coverage of the wife of

1:18.9

the Gilgoboch Massapique Wapauk serial killer.

1:22.7

She is apparently was unaware of everything that her serial killer husband was doing.

1:28.7

She didn't seem happy.

1:30.2

Neighbors didn't want to interact with her that much.

1:32.9

She paid with food stamps, which is weird since Huremen supposedly made a good living.

1:38.6

But this woman, I thought that this was weird.

1:42.3

Posted on Twitter complaining about the cold, she's Icelandic.

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