Tusk Talk: Why Cuomo Leads and the Subways Smell Like Sh*t

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Mike Pesca

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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Political strategist and author Bradley Tusk joins to diagnose the 2025 New York City mayor’s race—why voters seem fine with Andrew Cuomo’s refusal to reckon with past scandals, and why the race feels like it’s happening in a parallel city only 3% of residents live in. Plus The Rehearsal, not only the best comedy on TV, makes a serious point about pilot mental health while still landing the plane with artistry and pathos. ⁠Cascade PBS Info Produced by Corey WaraProduction Coordinator Ashley KhanEmail us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠ or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to The Gist Instagram Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠GIST INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow The Gist List at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pesca⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I have a substack. Don't know if you know that. Sometimes on my substack, I'll write an essay,
0:05.9	that I call the Peska Profundities portion of the substack, but really every day I'll have
0:11.4	five to seven items that if you fail to acknowledge them, you're going to be a worse person,
0:18.3	not just worse off, but not as interesting, behind the times,
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0:27.2	It is shot through with my aphorisms and observations.
0:31.4	For instance, did you know that Texas was making daylight savings time permanent?
0:36.0	You would, if you read The gist list. Do you know that
0:39.9	penguin poop cools the planet? You would if you read the gist list. Did you know that if
0:47.0	Trump's threats to Harvard go through their crew team, or I guess you could say their crew is going to be
0:53.8	hit hard? A lot of Englishmen and women on the crew team, or I guess you could say their crew, is going to be hit hard.
0:54.4	A lot of Englishmen and women on the crew team.
0:58.0	These are just some of the exciting items on the gist list.
1:02.6	Again, I would just hate for you to be an unoptimized, less than extremely interesting person.
1:10.5	Go to Mikepeska. Substack.com to get the written word and now enjoy the spoken.
1:21.5	It's Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.
1:25.6	It's the gist I'm Mike Pasca.
1:29.4	So I substack noted,
1:35.7	snowed, I snowed an observation the other day. It was about the TV show, The Rehersal,
1:41.2	which just had its season two finale last night. And I snowed that the rehearsal is the best comedy on television, but if it weren't a comedy, it would be the best
1:45.4	non-comedy on television. Sometimes when you're invested in an ongoing cultural project and you
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