Thinking Outside the America Box

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, racial slurs and context. In the interview, Maria Konnikova is back for another round of "Is That Bullshit?" This time, she and Mike figure out if sunscreen is good for us, what we should be wary of, and why many of us need more sunlight. Maria's latest book is The Confidence Game. In the Spiel, the Canadian election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following recording may contain explicit language.
0:02.9	I can't get more explicit than may.
0:05.7	Let's just say it may.
0:07.0	["Main Theme Song"]
0:10.8	It's Tuesday, October 22, 2019, from Slate.
0:13.6	It's the Gist-I Mic Pasca.
0:15.3	One thing about our current state of whipsod and
0:18.4	peach mint coverage and the March of House Committee
0:21.9	investigations is that our attention becomes dominated by
0:25.8	nothing else.
0:27.3	I'm not advocating for a moment of sin or time to stop and
0:31.3	smell the roses or those uplifting stories we like to call
0:35.9	good news.
0:36.8	No, I'm not saying that.
0:38.2	I just like the old news of the weird.
0:40.0	News are the things that happen where you say,
0:41.9	what, that happened?
0:43.2	Remember those things?
0:44.3	Like when the sheriff arrested the mom for not putting
0:46.4	sunblock on her kids, let's all debate that.
0:48.6	Or the student who pointed a chicken finger at a classmate
0:51.6	and said bang and he was suspended, basically opining
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