To Greta Goes the Glory?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, this week in the news, truth is stranger than science fiction. In the interview, guest host Seth Stevenson talks to the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. And it turns out that when you're a citizen for responsibility and ethics, as Noah Bookbinder is, you see plenty going wrong in Washington. In the Spiel, Greta Thunberg's cross-Atlantic trip was an exercise in inconvenience. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Want to see a special episode of The Gist live in New York? Get your tickets here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What you're about to listen to may include some potty talk.
0:05.0	Then again, it may not.
0:06.5	I hope it does, though.
0:11.5	It's Thursday, August 29th, 2019, from Slate.
0:14.9	It's the gist.
0:16.3	I'm Seth Stevenson, sitting in from Mike Pesca.
0:19.0	In Mike's absence, you can expect 70% fewer puns
0:21.8	and also a much less identifiably regional accent.
0:24.7	A little about me, I'm a writer here at Slate
0:26.8	and also one of the hosts of the Secret History
0:28.7	of the Future podcast, which is a collaboration
0:31.4	between Slate and the Economist.
0:33.2	As you're hearing this, our latest season is in full swing.
0:35.4	So once you've finished listening to the gist,
0:37.6	click over and subscribe to the Secret History
0:39.9	of the Future and give it a listen.
0:42.1	So I noticed there's been a bunch of sci-fi adjacent news
0:45.7	this week, slightly creepy, disquieting,
0:48.5	futuristic, seeming things, but they're actually happening.
0:52.0	This week in the news, truth is stranger than science fiction.
0:55.9	Yesterday, DARPA sent out a disturbing tweet.
0:59.0	DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
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