Wild Wild Story

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On The Gist, in doing less than his son did in the Middle East, George H.W. Bush did better. In the interview, Wild Wild Country was one of the year’s most riveting documentaries. But one of its sources, journalist Les Zaitz, argues that it pulls punches on the cult that overtook a small town in Oregon, committed the biggest bioterror attack in American history, and had designs to assassinate its critics. In the Spiel, taking stock of George H.W. Bush’s legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast may have explicit content and also has this implicit request.
0:04.8	If you follow me on Twitter, why not follow the gist at SlateGist.
0:09.9	It's Monday, December 3rd, 2018, from Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pasca.
0:18.5	George H.W. Bush has passed on to be with his beloved wife Barbara, wife and mother of
0:24.8	President.
0:25.8	And up there will be his father Prescott Bush, the US Senator, and his maternal grandfather,
0:30.5	his namesake George Herbert Walker, for whom the Walker Cup, the prestigious golfing trophy,
0:36.4	is named.
0:37.4	What I'm saying is that heaven is nepotistic.
0:40.1	And please know this.
0:41.8	I've done quite a few interviews on this program about George H.W. Bush.
0:46.4	I kind of am interested in the guy.
0:48.5	I in fact came close to voting for him twice.
0:51.6	I was too young.
0:53.4	And then when I was old enough, I thought I'd take a chance on this Clinton kid and the
0:57.9	quail thing.
0:58.9	That was a big impediment I thought.
1:00.4	But I liked and admired George H.W. Bush.
1:03.9	I thought he was a fair, you know, B2B minus president.
1:07.2	And I'm a tough grader, unlike Yale, where everyone named Bush gets to go to school.
1:11.2	I met George H.W. Bush once while covering the NCA tournament in Houston.
1:16.9	And we spoke about college basketball.
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