The Well-Crafted, Certainly Amusing Sameness Of Late Night TV

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Maurer is a 5-time Emmy Award-winning writer for HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, which he says never strayed from the POVs you'd expect, during the six years he wrote for the show. Jeff's proud of the show, but he also realized that there was little opportunity to tackle topics that weren't firmly in the liberal/progressive consensus. So he left. In the Spiel, Mike assesses critics of The New York Times' David Leonhardt. He's cautiously offering a glimpse at a post-Covid conviction, they're accusing him of crimes against humanity. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because
0:05.4	I'm a bit for homebody and I love a 5.
0:08.0	But I think it's just the holiday period, it's just for me, it's the most romantic period.
0:14.2	And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.
0:18.8	Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.
0:26.2	The following program has language that might be offensive, depending on your definition
0:31.1	of might and offensive and your understanding of the language.
0:35.2	It's Thursday, February 3, 2022 from Peach Fish Productions, it's the Gest-Dime, Mike
0:43.4	Pasca.
0:44.4	CNN had the latest news of dissent into ignominy for the man we once called America's Mayor.
0:50.6	This story will blow your mind.
0:52.5	The subpoenaed, disgraced former Mayor of New York, Rijuliani, whose actions contributed
0:57.5	to not one but two impeachments, who vigorously and publicly worked to overturn an election.
1:03.8	Married to cousin Yalded a ferro donor, performed in drag in SNL, mistook a landscaper for
1:08.0	a luxury hotel, no none of those.
1:10.2	Turned up as they contested on a game show.
1:13.3	The Fox show, the masked singer, prompting two judges to storm off the set in protest.
1:20.4	That's the resistance we've been talking about.
1:23.8	And it was all anyone could talk about Jake Tapper on CNN.
1:27.8	Who unmasked these Trump advisors and is it possible that any of this unmasking was
1:32.6	being done for political reasons instead of for legitimate ones?
1:36.2	Rand Paul weighed in, getting some details wrong.
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