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The Gist

This Guy Killed Hitler. All He Wants Is a Thank-You.

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2014

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show, writer Mike Sacks explains how it's easier than ever to begin a career in comedy. In his book Poking a Dead Frog, Sacks asks comedians to explain their process without killing their humor. Plus, Dru Johnston reads his essay "I Think I Should Get More Credit for Killing Hitler" from the Occasional. And Ivan Oransky of MedPage Today and Retraction Watch unwraps the illicit world of peer-review fakery. 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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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Lionsgate Plus. The third season of the Lionsgate Plus

0:04.8

original series The Great is available to stream on Friday July 14 exclusively on Lionsgate

0:10.0

Plus. Follow Catherine the second play by L-Fanning and Peter The Great, played by Nicholas

0:14.4

Holt, as they hilariously attempt to make their marriage work after some seemingly insurmountable

0:18.7

problems, from attempt to murder and the imprisonment of close friends to their never-ending

0:22.6

legal responsibilities. The Great Season 3 is available to stream on Friday July 14 exclusively

0:28.2

on Lionsgate Plus.

0:58.2

This is shocking, but the Green family have told LeBron James that he agrees to manage the

1:04.0

Pepper Pike Ohio Hobby Lobby outlet they will pay for his IUD. Do you believe that? That's

1:10.5

how crazy it's gotten. So underpinning this badness is the fact that there is a salary cap

1:16.2

and that LeBron James is severely underpaid. This is absolutely true. It makes about 20

1:20.8

million or will make about 20 something million. It's worth at least 40 million, but those are

1:24.9

the rules of the NBA and it got me to wondering what if there were some other restrictions of trade

1:30.7

leading to market inefficiencies that got this kind of attention. Maybe they'd sound something like this.

1:37.4

Let's get ready to reauthorize the Federal Sugar Subsidy.

1:44.5

You're all ready for this? We're going to guarantee 75. 80. 85% of the US sugar market.

1:52.4

The answer to the question everybody wants to know. What's your decision?

1:56.5

Um, actually Jim, I've made my decision. I'm going to take my trade tariffs to catfish.

2:06.5

Oh catfish fisheries, not lumber, not steel, and the lumber industry is burning lumber and effigy.

2:14.4

They're hanging a piece of lumber from gallows made of basketball jerseys and the steel industry is

2:20.6

trying to burn a sheet of steel, but they obviously can't reach 2750 degrees, which is the melting

2:27.2

point of steel. Oh, the humanity. You're all ready for this?

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