Listening to “The Gist” and I had to stop that in order to write this. “The Gist” like “The Unspeakable Podcast” and at times “The Jordan Harbinger Show” are news oriented talk shows that depart from the normal pablum you get from Fox, NPR, the evening news shows. These things have meat to them. So much meat that they are no longer welcome on the normal outlets. So you need to look them up. “The Gist” is especially fascinating. It was aired by The Slate from 201) until 2021 when he and they had a falling out. Mike P¢x¢ (when, oh when, am I going to get an erasure or eraser??) Pecsa has the longest running news podcast and he has been featured on, it seems, all the places you have appeared on This American Life, Radiolab, Planet Money, he has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, The Guardian, GQ, and on and on. Right now he is interviewing Jeff Nussbaum — the guy who was a speechwriter for President Biden. He was deeply involved in the last six Democratic National Conventions. Ahh enough, go dig out a copy of “The Gist” and give it a listen for some news that is not filtered.
“The Unspeakable” is run by Meghan Daum and when I say run by she does everything for the podcast. What a worker. Her most recent interviewee (??) was Frances Kissling who ran an abortion clinic in 1 970 and she has been called leading philosopher for the abortion movement. She is Catholic also. Fascinating talk between the two of them.
Now these two are examples of news that is ignored by mainstream news folks. Not to say you won’t, will not, hear either of them on those outlets. But what you will not hear is a deep talk with them. Great stuff to listen to for challenging yourself.
—— MichaelRpdx :: rkmm :: 2022-05-12