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The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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.

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3,112 episodes

  1. Ethan Strauss: "Great Writers, Bad Thinkers" 54:44
  2. Rosebud Baker: "I've always processed tragedy through jokes" 1:01:37
  3. James Clyburn: "The World Would Much Rather See a Sermon Than Hear One" 31:55
  4. How Much Has Changed In Two Years for Gen Z? 48:27
  5. Caitlin Doughty: "Death Can Almost Seem Like It's a Hypothetical" 22:29
  6. Presenting Great Question with Tony Dokoupil: Does America Need More Police? 44:49
  7. Jocelyn Benson: "I Chose Courage" 35:50
  8. Chris Turner: "I Am a Musical Comedian" 1:02:12
  9. Wes Moore: "I Am Data Driven and Heart Led" 26:21
  10. Gianna Toboni on Death Row: "I Don't Hear the Remorse of a Killer" 18:18
  11. Michelle Buteau: "Words Have Power" 48:54
  12. Michele Tafoya: "I'm a Big Freedom of Speech Person" 41:23
  13. John Fetterman: "It's Been a Long, Strange Trip" 39:10
  14. Alex Edelman: "There's not a lot of comedy in being right." 51:49
  15. Yaakov Katz: "An idea cannot be defeated." 39:38
  16. David Pakman: "The stage was really set." 45:59
  17. Roy Wood Jr.: "People just want to feel good." 1:01:01
  18. Axes and Sodium with Rachel McCarthy James and Maria Konnikova 30:48
  19. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Viral Misinformation and Public Health Failures 34:38
  20. Django Gold: "Don't Be Funny" 54:55
  21. KJ Steinberg: "The echoes of trauma are loud and they are long." 48:19
  22. Ken Bensinger: "To catch the devil, sometimes you have to go to hell." 38:39
  23. Sam Jay - Funny You Should Mention 49:51
  24. Gilbert Gottfried: "My feeling is, can I get the hell out of here?" 35:59
  25. Jennifer Esposito: "Finding a voice in a world that tells you not to have one." 37:35
  26. Philip Mudd: "Take out the stops, make sure it doesn't happen again." 23:19
  27. Gina Gershon: "You have to learn how to be tough." 42:37
  28. Chuck D: "Art is your signature, it's your pulse." 35:39
  29. Nimesh Patel: "I am always pro joke before I am pro anything." 55:14
  30. Diane Foley and Elizabeth Tsurkov on Hostages, Wrongful Detentions, and State Terror 1:01:34
  31. Vic Michaelis: "Improv is not just existing live in front of an audience on stage." 25:56
  32. Virginia Sole-Smith: "Weight loss is not the solution." 39:12
  33. Adam Kinzinger on Cults, Country, and Trump 37:14
  34. Al Franken: " I had a career in identifying absurdity. And I know it when I see it." 33:44
  35. TJ Miller: "When the air hits your brain, it's never the same." 49:03
  36. Chris Smalls: "Worker led means worker led." 44:57
  37. Bob Saget: "I just, I wanna entertain people." 21:12
  38. Andrew Fox: Make something that surprises people because everyone's bored. 47:48
  39. Derrick Palmer: "The union was always the solution." 22:00
  40. Larry Wilmore: "I have pushed for the ability to suck in anything, rather than just racial content." 24:13
  41. Kelsey Snelling: "Anytime there is a scale, you can't do so ethically." 45:14
  42. Funny You Should Mention: Des Bishop 1:08:27
  43. Nathan Alebach: "Don't listen to me, I'm just a frozen piece of meat." 23:22
  44. Lara Bazelon: "What are the repercussions when you speak outside your tribe?" 29:56
  45. Justin Garson: "If you turn dopamine on and off, you can turn schizophrenia on and off." 34:38
  46. Maria Konnikova: "If you're looking for a healthy food, this ain't it." 21:25
  47. Robby Hoffman: "For me, to complain is to enjoy." 1:05:24
  48. Helen Lewis: "Vulnerable guys could use a friend, but they get a charlatan." 36:57
  49. Ted Kaye: "You can love a flag and have it co-opted." 28:48
  50. Vincent Schiraldi: Mass Supervision and Criminal Justice Reform 35:51