The Gist
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Mike Pesca on the Vig, the Fix, and the John Goodman Thumb
33 mins; December 06, 2025
Funny You Should Mention: Mohanad Elshieky
63 hours 8 mins; December 05, 2025
TJ Raphael on the Liberty Godparent Trap and the Cost of Coercion
37 mins; December 04, 2025
Rachel McCarthy James on Axe Murder, Salad Spinners, and the Hat-Brim Line
37 mins; December 03, 2025
Daniel Brook & Brandy Schillace: The Sex Expert Who Scared Hitler
32 mins; December 02, 2025
Murdaugh Showrunner Michael D. Fuller: Power Metastasizes
42 mins; December 01, 2025
Jesse Eisenberg: "Marv Albert Is My Therapist"
24 mins; November 29, 2025
Bob Saget & Chuck Klosterman: "I Really Have Become Liza Minnelli"
33 mins; November 28, 2025
Henry Winkler & Clint Watts: "Three Little Fonzies and a Trail of Dead Russians"
38 mins; November 27, 2025
Abby Phillip: "The Stones for David's Slingshot"
46 mins; November 26, 2025
Not Even Mad: Russ Muirhead & Nick Gillespie
63 hours 49 mins; November 25, 2025
Mike Vuolo & Bob Garfield: "Life Is a Flat Pizza Bagel"
50 mins; November 24, 2025
Mike on Matt Lewis Can't Lose
30 mins; November 22, 2025
Funny You Should Mention: Myq Kaplan
79 hours 23 mins; November 21, 2025
Fareed Zakaria on Revolutions, Backlashes, and the High Cost of Not Fixing Immigration
41 mins; November 20, 2025
James Patterson: "My Time Here Is Short. What Can I Do Most Beautifully?"
35 mins; November 19, 2025
John Amaechi: "Excellence Isn't Sorcery"
42 mins; November 18, 2025
Nicole Gelinas on Crime, Bail, and Mamdani's Vibesy Criminology
35 mins; November 17, 2025
David Ignatius on Space Wars, Skepticism, and His Father's Legacy
30 mins; November 15, 2025
Katie Herzog Is the Kind of Person Who Googles Recidivism Rates in an AA Meeting
32 mins; November 14, 2025
Not Even Mad: Charles Lehman & Brad Carson
58 mins; November 13, 2025
John J. Lennon — "I'm Owning My Sh*t on the Page"
45 mins; November 12, 2025
Jon Levy: "We Don't Really Want Authenticity"
39 mins; November 11, 2025
Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon on Life After Cars
40 mins; November 10, 2025
The Good Fight Club, or Good Fight Club?
34 mins; November 08, 2025
Funny You Should Mention: Dusty Slay
68 hours 57 mins; November 07, 2025
Sadie Dingfelder on "Hair, Feathers, and the Theater of Disgust."
27 mins; November 06, 2025
Colin Woodard: The Federation Is the Fault Line
42 mins; November 05, 2025
The Wars Trump Says He Ended, and the One Cheney Began
30 mins; November 04, 2025
Matthew Hiltzik on the Craft of Crisis Communications
33 mins; November 03, 2025
Mike Pesca on "Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em"
48 mins; November 01, 2025
Art Cullen on Iowa's Corn Gospel, Cancer, and Capture
32 mins; October 31, 2025
Beth Macy: "When the Local Paper Dies, the Community Follows"
42 mins; October 30, 2025
Karine Jean-Pierre: "Independent," Evasion, and the Party She Says Left Her
43 mins; October 29, 2025
Steve Hayes & Damon Linker: The Hole Truth
64 hours 42 mins; October 28, 2025
Barista Michelle Eisen on Face Tattoos, Short Staffs, and Union Shots Fired
34 mins; October 27, 2025
Jeremy Workman — “Walking Every Block, Hiding in a Mall”
38 mins; October 25, 2025
Funny You Should Mention: Ariel Elias
67 hours 33 mins; October 24, 2025
No Capes, Real Peace: U Thant's UN and What We Lost
42 mins; October 23, 2025
Please use this Draft for 10/22 - Libsyn Ads Ops
33 mins; October 22, 2025
Michael Kirk — "RFK Jr.'s Latest Addiction: Attention"
43 mins; October 21, 2025
Michael Townsend & Jeremy Workman: "Secret Mall Apartment"
33 mins; October 20, 2025
Chris Murphy: “Congress needs to take war powers back.”
23 mins; October 18, 2025
Lisa Graves: On The Roberts Court's Power Play
39 mins; October 17, 2025
Not Even Mad: Jonah Goldberg & Zee Cohen-Sanchez
66 hours 6 mins; October 16, 2025
Jonathan Mahler: The Tabloids That Made The City That Made the Country
48 mins; October 15, 2025
Cory Doctorow: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
35 mins; October 14, 2025
SCOTUS’s Shadow Docket, Calibrated + Steven Vladeck
35 mins; October 11, 2025
Funny You Should Mention: Steph Tolev
67 hours 34 mins; October 10, 2025
Plestia Alaqad: “The Eyes of Gaza,” Witness and Journalist
51 mins; October 09, 2025
Jake Tapper and the Race Against Terror
35 mins; October 08, 2025
Obama CDC Director Tom Frieden: “'Believe in Science' Is a Terrible Idea.”
37 mins; October 07, 2025
Steven Pinker: “Common Knowledge Changes Everything”
37 mins; October 06, 2025
Diane Foley on America’s Hostage Blind Spot
29 mins; October 04, 2025
Jonah Blank: “Very Quickly and Then Very Slowly” in Nepal
34 mins; October 03, 2025
Not Even Mad: Ben Wizner & Ilya Shapiro
62 hours 34 mins; October 02, 2025
Yaakov Katz - While Israel Slept: Winning Tunnels, Losing Time
44 mins; October 01, 2025
KJ Steinberg, on The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox
37 mins; September 30, 2025
Amanda Knox — “You don’t have to be a psychopath to wrongly convict somebody.”
33 mins; September 29, 2025
Is Masculinity A Prison? - Mike on Open to Debate
41 mins; September 27, 2025
Andrew J. Taylor: “Blue-Collar Voters Don’t Want Blue-Collar Politicians”
31 mins; September 26, 2025
Justin Driver: “The Fall of Affirmative Action”
41 mins; September 25, 2025
Laura Spinney on the Language That Conquered the World
31 mins; September 24, 2025
Sadie Dingfelder on Mosquito Magnets and Who Tastes Best to Bugs
26 mins; September 23, 2025
Andrew Fox on “Slam Frank”: Make Something Dangerous
51 mins; September 22, 2025
JD Vance, Jimmy Kimmel, and America’s Radical Underground
14 mins; September 20, 2025
Brendan Nyhan: Measuring Political Violence Without Panic
29 mins; September 19, 2025
Not Even Mad: Michael A. Cohen and Jamie Kirchick
61 hours 21 mins; September 18, 2025
Christian Duguay Brings the Valley Heat
29 mins; September 17, 2025
Garrett Graff: “Russia Sought Division More Than Victory”
30 mins; September 16, 2025
Garrett M. Graff on “Long Shadow” and the Internet’s Descent Into Outrage
37 mins; September 15, 2025
Mike Pesca on The Good Fight Club
43 mins; September 13, 2025
Bill McKibben: “Energy From Heaven, Not From Hell”
39 mins; September 12, 2025
Aaron Sibarium on Charlie Kirk, Retribution, and the Cycle of Violence
38 mins; September 11, 2025
Ryan Evans on Drones, Ground War, and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival
27 mins; September 10, 2025
Nim Shapira: Torn Between Empathy and Erasure
31 mins; September 09, 2025
Christine Wenc: The Onion’s Straight Face Made It Funnier
28 mins; September 08, 2025
Immigration, Nuance, and a Leonhardt Vault Cut
31 mins; September 06, 2025
Mike Hayes on Purpose, Grit, and Mission
38 mins; September 05, 2025
Not Even Mad: Galen Druke and Josh Barro
49 mins; September 04, 2025
Miles Taylor on Resistance Cascades, Rubio’s Turn, and Testing the Judiciary
35 mins; September 03, 2025
Ex-DHS Chief Miles Taylor: Trump, Treason, and Executive Power
36 mins; September 02, 2025
Governor Wes Moore on Baltimore’s Historic Drop in Homicides, Plus Laura Loomer’s Lunacy
20 mins; August 30, 2025
Edward Wong: At the Edge of Empire, China, Family, and Power
33 mins; August 29, 2025
Nick Foster on How We Really Think About the Future
32 mins; August 28, 2025
Inside a Fat Camp named Shame
52 mins; August 27, 2025
Trump’s Mortgage Attacks and Kessler on Weight Loss
38 mins; August 26, 2025
David Kessler on Why Junk Food Is America’s Nicotine
41 mins; August 25, 2025
Trump’s Long Game and Miles Taylor’s Warning
31 mins; August 23, 2025
The Working Class Party with the Post-Graduate Jargon
54 mins; August 22, 2025
Not Even Mad: Rikki Schlott and Isaac Saul
61 hours 13 mins; August 21, 2025
CryptoDad’s Pirate Clause: Reviving Letters of Marque
32 mins; August 20, 2025
Rent-Stabilized and City-Run: Mamdani Rises as Rivals Flail
42 mins; August 19, 2025
Katja Hoyer on Germany’s AFD and the Limits of Calling Someone a Nazi
28 mins; August 18, 2025
The Spiel Saturday Show
23 mins; August 16, 2025
The Cheesecake Factory Model of Freedom
34 mins; August 15, 2025
When the Train to Hell Runs on Time
40 mins; August 14, 2025
Rights You Can’t Use
36 mins; August 14, 2025
The Case for Good Anger
39 mins; August 12, 2025
Rebecca Lemov and the Instability of Truth
39 mins; August 11, 2025