Podcast

The Gist

Author: Peach Fish Productions
Feed episode count: 3062
Official site: http://www.mikepesca.com
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Summary

For thirty minutes each day, Pesca challenges himself and his audience, in a responsibly provocative style, and gets beyond the rigidity and dogma. The Gist is surprising, reasonable, and willing to critique the left, the right, either party, or any idea.

Episodes

Jul 13, 2026 · not_requested

Steven Johnson: "We Have Three Levels of Probability. It's Gonna Happen, It's Not Gonna Happen, and Maybe"

Duration seconds: 2085
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Jul 10, 2026 · not_requested

Funny You Should Mention: Jeff Arcuri

Duration seconds: 3529
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Jul 9, 2026 · not_requested

Pesca La Vista

Duration seconds: 2080
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Jul 8, 2026 · not_requested

David Wain & Ken Marino: "We're Always Modulating The Madcap"

Duration seconds: 2297
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Jul 7, 2026 · not_requested

Batya Ungar-Sargon: "Anti-Zionism Now Is A Central Plank Of Leftist Politics"

Duration seconds: 2947
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Jul 6, 2026 · not_requested

Ray Madoff: "The Tax System No Longer Taxes Investments And Inheritances"

Duration seconds: 3090
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Jul 4, 2026 · not_requested

Chris Cillizza: "Most Of Those People Don't Pay"

Duration seconds: 3821
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Jul 2, 2026 · not_requested

Not Even Mad: Elizabeth Bruening & Ben Kawaller

Duration seconds: 3766
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Jul 2, 2026 · not_requested

Isaac Butler: "Part Of Living In A Society Means Giving Over A Certain Amount Of Agency"

Duration seconds: 2794
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Jul 1, 2026 · not_requested

Eric Lichtblau: "Hate Speech Leads Directly To Hate Crimes"

Duration seconds: 2206
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Jun 30, 2026 · not_requested

Ben Fountain: "We're Real Good At The Blur"

Duration seconds: 2799
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Jun 27, 2026 · not_requested

Ro Khanna & Mike Pesca: The Middle

Duration seconds: 3186
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Jun 26, 2026 · not_requested

Funny You Should Mention: Graham Kay

Duration seconds: 3874
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Jun 25, 2026 · not_requested

Anna Varfolomeeva: "Eighty Percent Of Russian Troops Are Getting Wiped Out Before They Reach The Front Line"

Duration seconds: 2069
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Jun 24, 2026 · not_requested

Ben Rhodes: "The Thing They Do As The Next Step Is The Most Consequential Part Of The Deal"

Duration seconds: 1860
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Jun 23, 2026 · not_requested

Ben Rhodes: "If We Had To Pay With All This Blood, It Was Worth It"

Duration seconds: 2579
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Jun 22, 2026 · not_requested

Michael A. Cohen: "There Is an Inherent Bias Toward Exaggerating the Benefits of Using Military Force"

Duration seconds: 2604
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Jun 20, 2026 · not_requested

Michael Schur: "The Afterlife Score Is Mathematical and Omniscient, But It Might Be Wrong"

Duration seconds: 1636
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Jun 18, 2026 · not_requested

Not Even Mad: Anthony Weiner & Matt Welch

Duration seconds: 3213
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Jun 17, 2026 · not_requested

Sadie Dingfelder: "You Cannot Be Burned by Wind Alone"

Duration seconds: 1808
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Jun 16, 2026 · not_requested

Michael Schur: "It Is Funny to Watch Fans Turn Themselves Inside Out to Try to Hold on to Something That No Longer Exists"

Duration seconds: 1798
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Jun 15, 2026 · not_requested

Joe Posnanski: "Life Is Lonely, and Sports Provides a Community"

Duration seconds: 2437
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Jun 13, 2026 · not_requested

Chris Cillizza: "Most of the People I Know in Media Can Barely Pay Their Bills"

Duration seconds: 2814
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Jun 12, 2026 · not_requested

Gary Slutkin: "Violence Meets Every Scientific Definition of a Contagious Disease"

Duration seconds: 1841
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Jun 11, 2026 · not_requested

Not Even Mad: Bradley Tusk & Charles Fain Lehman

Duration seconds: 3317
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Jun 10, 2026 · not_requested

Sadie Dingfelder: "Raccoons Have Never Been a Rabies Vector in America"

Duration seconds: 2081
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Jun 8, 2026 · not_requested

Benoit Denizet-Lewis: The Case Against “I’ve Changed”

Duration seconds: 2793
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Jun 6, 2026 · not_requested

Tom Steyer’s Very Expensive Optimism

Duration seconds: 1635
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Jun 5, 2026 · not_requested

Christian Miller: Why We Say We Love Honesty, Then Reward Liars

Duration seconds: 2117
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Jun 4, 2026 · not_requested

Claude Steele Has a Better Way to Talk About Race

Duration seconds: 2465
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Jun 3, 2026 · not_requested

Ian Coss: How One Man Controlled A Quarter Of New England’s Groundfish

Duration seconds: 2360
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Jun 2, 2026 · not_requested

Simone Stolzoff: We’re Getting Worse At Not Knowing

Duration seconds: 2021
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Jun 1, 2026 · not_requested

Aaron Tang: "Re-instill This Idea That We Can Sit Around and Talk to Each Other"

Duration seconds: 2510
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May 30, 2026 · not_requested

Mike Pesca on The Reason Roundtable

Duration seconds: 1520
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May 29, 2026 · not_requested

Janet McNamara: Smart People Think I'm Smart, Stupid People Think I'm Dumb

Duration seconds: 3829
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May 28, 2026 · not_requested

Astead Herndon: Polling Has Blind Spots That Regular People Explaining the "Why" Can Fill

Duration seconds: 2833
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May 27, 2026 · not_requested

Holly Buck: A Pause on New Data Centers Isn't Really Going to Slow the Progress of AI

Duration seconds: 1933
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May 26, 2026 · not_requested

Beyond the Politics of Contempt

Duration seconds: 2060
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May 23, 2026 · not_requested

David Oppenheimer: "The LSAT Is a Wonderful Predictive Tool for Determining An Applicant's Family Wealth"

Duration seconds: 1186
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May 22, 2026 · not_requested

Alvin Roth: "A Repugnant Transaction Is a Morally Contested Transaction"

Duration seconds: 1958
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May 21, 2026 · not_requested

Not Even Mad: Isaac Saul & Jamie Kirchick

Duration seconds: 3194
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May 20, 2026 · not_requested

David Oppenheimer: "Diversity Is Not About Being Comfortable"

Duration seconds: 3292
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May 19, 2026 · not_requested

J Schuberth: "I'd Settle for Number Two"

Duration seconds: 2109
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May 18, 2026 · not_requested

David Sussillo: "I Had to Be Like a God"

Duration seconds: 2997
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May 16, 2026 · not_requested

Mike Pesca on Fake the Nation

Duration seconds: 1471
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May 15, 2026 · not_requested

Matt Sterling: Finding the Strength to Survive

Duration seconds: 2054
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May 14, 2026 · not_requested

Franklin Foer: Did the Press Miss Biden's Decline?

Duration seconds: 2461
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May 13, 2026 · not_requested

Franklin Foer: Chronicling The Purged

Duration seconds: 2220
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May 12, 2026 · not_requested

David Epstein: Thinking Inside the Box

Duration seconds: 2695
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May 11, 2026 · not_requested

Kevin Williamson: The Psychotic State of Texas Politics

Duration seconds: 2755
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May 9, 2026 · not_requested

Finding Political Kryptonite with Paula Poundstone

Duration seconds: 2075
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May 8, 2026 · not_requested

Benjamin Saltzman: The Art of Turning Away

Duration seconds: 2464
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May 7, 2026 · not_requested

Not Even Mad: Russ Muirhead & Ben Dreyfuss

Duration seconds: 3437
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May 6, 2026 · not_requested

Jonathan Vigliotti: The Olympic Rush to Rebuild LA

Duration seconds: 2606
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May 5, 2026 · not_requested

Joseph Moore: Negotiating With Drug Dealers for Real Estate Success

Duration seconds: 1788
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May 4, 2026 · not_requested

Joseph Moore: The Despair Industrial Complex

Duration seconds: 2262
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May 2, 2026 · not_requested

Ethan Strauss: Great Writers, Bad Thinkers, and the Death of the Sports Gamer

Duration seconds: 3274
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May 1, 2026 · not_requested

Liz Hoffman: Why We Are So Pessimistic About a Resilient Economy

Duration seconds: 2252
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Apr 30, 2026 · not_requested

Liz Hoffman: Will AI Trigger a Jobless Food Fight?

Duration seconds: 2187
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Apr 29, 2026 · not_requested

Suzy Hansen: How The Syrian War Radicalized Erdoğan

Duration seconds: 2471
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Apr 28, 2026 · not_requested

Ted Dintersmith: The Life-Changing Math Schools Ignore

Duration seconds: 2623
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Apr 27, 2026 · not_requested

Richard Lapper: Why Lula Didn't Become a Chavista

Duration seconds: 2319
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Apr 25, 2026 · not_requested

Mike Pesca Might Be Wrong & The Art of Korean Rock Throwing

Duration seconds: 2040
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Apr 24, 2026 · not_requested

Maya Kornberg on How Congress Got Stuck

Duration seconds: 2012
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Apr 23, 2026 · not_requested

Not Even Mad: Sarada Peri & Sarah Isgur

Duration seconds: 3693
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Apr 22, 2026 · not_requested

Jennifer Shahade on the Grandmaster of Intermezzos: Donald Trump

Duration seconds: 2514
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Apr 21, 2026 · not_requested

Jonathan Cheng on the Realities of Uncovering North Korea

Duration seconds: 2016
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Apr 20, 2026 · not_requested

Jonathan Cheng on When Pyongyang Was the Jerusalem of the East

Duration seconds: 1820
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Apr 18, 2026 · not_requested

The Middle - Making the case for Voting by Phone

Duration seconds: 1736
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Apr 17, 2026 · not_requested

Chuck Todd: Why Politicians Are "The Weirdos"

Duration seconds: 2769
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Apr 16, 2026 · not_requested

Sarah Isgur: Why Forum Shopping is a Bigger Threat Than the Ethics Crisis

Duration seconds: 1877
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Apr 15, 2026 · not_requested

Sarah Isgur: "Stop Blaming the Court and Start Blaming Congress"

Duration seconds: 1804
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Apr 14, 2026 · not_requested

Jacob Mchangama On The "Four Hateful Men" Who Saved Free Speech

Duration seconds: 1572
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Apr 13, 2026 · not_requested

Jacob Mchangama On "Elite Panic"

Duration seconds: 2061
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