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The Gist

The Thing I Need To Do Before "I Do"

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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On The Gist, Adam Davidson from Planet Money explains what tax inversions tell us about cooperate taxes. Plus, Slate's Emily Yoffe joins us for a Post-Prudence Impact Statement with past letter writer Young and Restless. For Mike's Speil, he looks at the relationship between first names and successful careers in politics. Get The Gist by email as soon as it's available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.8

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0:52.6

It's Friday, August 29th, 2014 from Slate It's the GIST on Mike Pasca. We answer today's

1:01.3

show with an exit. It's CNN reporter, Lisa Desjardins, who is anchoring the cable newser. She

1:06.9

recorded a goodbye video for her colleagues, which is appropriate given the medium. It was

1:11.2

funny. It was informative. At one point, she constructs a word cloud made out of all the

1:15.6

official goodbye emails flying around CNN. There was a big buyout and those official emails

1:20.9

were filled with phrases like Cherish. Amazing. But then she goes to a word cloud of the emails

1:25.4

that were emailed to her personally. They are filled with phrases like sucks. I licked

1:30.0

all the eighth floor coffee cups. It's funny and it's a shame to just leave and it's

1:34.4

a well done video. Then Desjardins takes a moment in between stealing office supplies to

1:39.4

make a very interesting point. I'm concerned that members of Congress could put the entire

1:44.0

text of 50 shades of gray into a bill and no one but maybe me, Jamie Dupri of Cox Radio,

1:51.0

and a few lobbyists would ever notice. Yikes, scary. Maybe if we were an enious nin novel,

1:57.1

we wouldn't be so freaked out. But let's hope by the time the House Select Committee on

2:00.7

Intelligence comes up with the reauthorization act on best sellers based on Twilight Fan

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