Very Legal, Very Cool

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On The Gist, should people be let go for one bad idea? 30 for 30 has been a hugely successful documentary series in both video and audio form for ESPN. Jody Avirgan sits at its podcast helm with a new season covering stories like Jose Canseco’s steroid use, the 2003 World Series of Poker, and Japanese baseball player Hideo Nomo trying to join the Major League. He also hosts FiveThirtyEight’s political podcast, offering fresh and smart insight wherever he can. Avirgan joins us today to talk the difference of the audio documentary medium, how soon after events documentaries can be made, and what stories they almost told this season. In the Spiel, the very legal and very cool Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Avatar the Way of Water is now streaming on Disney+.
0:03.6	Come on, come on!
0:07.2	Relive the adventure of a lifetime.
0:09.6	Outstanding.
0:10.8	Woohoo!
0:12.3	It experienced the Academy Award-winning phenomenon.
0:17.0	Again and again.
0:19.8	You're one of us.
0:20.8	Now, let's do it.
0:23.7	Avatar the Way of Water, now streaming on Disney+.
0:26.7	Subscription required, 18+.
0:28.6	Terms of conditions apply.
0:30.1	The following recording may contain explicit language.
0:33.0	I can't get more explicit than May.
0:35.8	Let's just say it may.
0:41.2	It's Friday, November 30th, 2018, from Slate.
0:44.1	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:46.5	So by now we should be purged, right?
0:48.5	I mean, we've cleansed our discourse.
0:51.0	No.
0:51.8	David Edoelstein made a bad joke about Bernardo,
0:54.8	Bertolucci, and Butter.
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