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The Gist

Why Iran-Contra Hardly Rings a Bell

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On the Gist, the Houston Astros cheating scandal is like the US Democracy. Mike and former host of Slow Burn, and current host of Luminary Podcast network's Fiasco, Leon Neyfakh get into the details of the Iran-Contra Affair. They discuss the key players in the saga, why this story was such a fiasco and the new Slow Burn TV-show. In the spiel, let's just go with Caucus debacle avoidance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

One thing we can all agree on, no one wants another energy crisis.

0:07.1

But just talking about it won't make it go away.

0:09.7

Here's what we're actually doing at British Gas.

0:11.9

We're increasing the UK's gas storage so that we can help make energy prices more predictable

0:16.9

for everyone.

0:18.3

And so the 8 million homes and businesses who rely on us for their energy today can rely

0:23.1

on us tomorrow too.

0:25.4

That's enough talking.

0:26.4

Let's get on with the doing.

0:28.2

British Gas.

0:30.5

The following recording may or may not include instances of words being said that the FCC

0:36.7

would find me for if their long arm could ever reach.

0:39.5

It's Friday, February 14th, 2020 from Slated to the Gistai Mic Pesca.

0:48.0

The Houston Astros are the Donald Trump of baseball teams, both are orange and both

0:54.9

cheat.

0:55.9

Donald Trump is also always banging on about rigged witch hunts and perfect phone calls

1:00.7

and the Russia hoax.

1:02.2

The Astros are always banging about 2-1 sliders and 3-2 curveballs.

1:06.2

If you've ever been following the baseball scandal, the Houston Astros used cameras to steal

1:10.8

signs from opposing catchers and relayed these signals to their hitters via a banging scheme

1:17.4

what was called in the official reports, the banging scheme.

1:21.3

They did bang on a trash can to alert hitters of what pitch was coming.

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