When All the Jobs Are Gone

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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On The Gist, the pomposity and circumstantial evidence of the State of the Union. Janesville, Wisconsin, had the oldest operating GM assembly plant in the country until 2008. The factory's closure left thousands of employees in the lurch. Amy Goldstein's book Janesville: An American Story describes the choices facing three families as they pick up the pieces of a busted local economy. In the Spiel, the right things to say when you're being nuked and the right way to say them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains a bit of explicit material,
0:04.9	but much, much more that is not explicit, just as a percentage.
0:09.3	It's Tuesday, January 30, 2018 from Slate, it's the justime Mike Pesca,
0:17.8	so this means we are, but hours before the moment when our president,
0:22.4	elected president November 8, 2016, voted on by the Electoral College December 19, 2016,
0:28.6	sworn in January 20, 2017, and mere hours, January 30, 2018,
0:35.8	that will be the moment when he will have become president for the second time.
0:41.8	Also, time magazine man of the year for the second time,
0:44.6	according to wall hangings in his golf club, the state of the union,
0:48.6	O the pomposity, O the circumstantial evidence,
0:52.8	the state of the union is such a glorious event in this hour museum of democracy,
0:58.3	as we inch towards that.
0:59.8	People from the crowd will be gestured at,
1:03.6	some will be asked to stand,
1:06.3	members of the crowd will give standing ovation with all the sincerity of a hostage video.
1:13.5	It will be fulsome and then some,
1:16.1	and then we will see Melania Trump poised luminous,
1:20.8	stoic, cat-like eyes,
1:23.7	svinks like me and this, this cipher will be deciphered by the critics,
1:28.6	and it's already happening.
1:29.7	Last week, times columnist Marine Dowd wrote of quote,
1:34.2	Melania's rebellious vanishing act.
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