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Bob Saget: "I just, I wanna entertain people."

2

Andrew Fox: Make something that surprises people because everyone's bored.

3

Derrick Palmer: "The union was always the solution."

4

Larry Wilmore: "I have pushed for the ability to suck in anything, rather than just racial content."

5

Kelsey Snelling: "Anytime there is a scale, you can't do so ethically."

6

Funny You Should Mention: Des Bishop

7

Nathan Alebach: "Don't listen to me, I'm just a frozen piece of meat."

8

Lara Bazelon: "What are the repercussions when you speak outside your tribe?"

9

Justin Garson: "If you turn dopamine on and off, you can turn schizophrenia on and off."

10

Maria Konnikova: "If you're looking for a healthy food, this ain't it."

11

Robby Hoffman: "For me, to complain is to enjoy."

12

Helen Lewis: "Vulnerable guys could use a friend, but they get a charlatan."

13

Ted Kaye: "You can love a flag and have it co-opted."

14

Vincent Schiraldi: Mass Supervision and Criminal Justice Reform

15

Michael Murphy: "The Spaces Around Us Are Shaping Us and Changing Us"

16

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

17

Funny You Should Mention: Jeff Arcuri

18

Pesca La Vista

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

Not Even Mad: Elizabeth Bruening & Ben Kawaller

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

Ro Khanna & Mike Pesca: The Middle

28

Funny You Should Mention: Graham Kay

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

Not Even Mad: Anthony Weiner & Matt Welch

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

Not Even Mad: Bradley Tusk & Charles Fain Lehman

41

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

42

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

43

Tom Steyer’s Very Expensive Optimism

44

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

45

Claude Steele Has a Better Way to Talk About Race

46

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

47

Simone Stolzoff: We’re Getting Worse At Not Knowing

48

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

49

Mike Pesca on The Reason Roundtable

50

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

51

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

52

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

53

Beyond the Politics of Contempt

54

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

55

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

56

Not Even Mad: Isaac Saul & Jamie Kirchick

57

David Oppenheimer: "Diversity Is Not About Being Comfortable"

58

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

59

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

60

Mike Pesca on Fake the Nation

61

Matt Sterling: Finding the Strength to Survive

62

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

63

Franklin Foer: Chronicling The Purged

64

David Epstein: Thinking Inside the Box

65

Kevin Williamson: The Psychotic State of Texas Politics

66

Finding Political Kryptonite with Paula Poundstone

67

Benjamin Saltzman: The Art of Turning Away

68

Not Even Mad: Russ Muirhead & Ben Dreyfuss

69

Jonathan Vigliotti: The Olympic Rush to Rebuild LA

70

Joseph Moore: Negotiating With Drug Dealers for Real Estate Success

71

Joseph Moore: The Despair Industrial Complex

72

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

73

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

74

Liz Hoffman: Will AI Trigger a Jobless Food Fight?

75

Suzy Hansen: How The Syrian War Radicalized Erdoğan

76

Ted Dintersmith: The Life-Changing Math Schools Ignore

77

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

78

Maya Kornberg on How Congress Got Stuck

79

Not Even Mad: Sarada Peri & Sarah Isgur

80

Jennifer Shahade on the Grandmaster of Intermezzos: Donald Trump

81

Jonathan Cheng on the Realities of Uncovering North Korea

82

Jonathan Cheng on When Pyongyang Was the Jerusalem of the East

83

The Middle - Making the case for Voting by Phone

84

Chuck Todd: Why Politicians Are "The Weirdos"

85

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

86

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

87

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

88

Jacob Mchangama On "Elite Panic"

89

Across The Movie Aisle: Mike Pesca's "***hole Tracker" Enters The Pitt

90

Matt Yglesias & Richard Kreitner: A Billion Americans vs. Breaking It Up

91

Not Even Mad: John Ganz & Nick Gillespie

92

Freddie DeBoer and Devon Price on the "Identity Trap" of Neurodiversity

93

Noam Scheiber and the "Vinyl Record" Phase of American Unions

94

Noam Scheiber on the "Class Confidence" of the Overqualified

95

Uncertain Things: "Joy as an Act of Resistance is the Dumbest Slogan of the Woke Era"

96

Funny You Should Mention: Raanan Hershberg

97

Are You There God? It’s Me, Mark Oppenheimer

98

Tyler Goodspeed: Why "Pattern-Seeking Mammals" Blame Bankers Instead of Locusts

99

Why Brazil Stopped Its Bolsonaro and We Didn't Stop Ours

100

Zack Beauchamp: "You Kind of Have to Pick a Lane to Be an Effective Autocrat"

101

Magic Shops, $200 Million Horse Ads, and the Ghost of Nibbles the Goat

102

Julia Minson: You're Probably 50% Wrong

103

Not Even Mad: Yascha Mounk & Colin Cole

104

Ben Ritz on Slopulism and the Democrats' 2024 Lesson

105

Larry Charles: "I Am Willing To Die To Get This Scene"

106

Larry Charles: "I Finally Had to Fire the Kid"

107

The Myth of the Iranian Moderate & The "Undecided" War

108

Derrick Stroup: "I Sound Like a Bowl of Gravy and You Sound Like a Traffic Cone"

109

Is That Bulls*it: Does The Body Keep the Score - in Your Hips

110

Molly Worthen: "Charisma Is a Tool of the Weak"

111

Mickey Bergman: "Even Maduro Has a Soft Spot"

112

Mickey Bergman: The Psychology of the Hostage Deal

113

Chris Cillizza: Male Friendships, Political Posturing, and the Death of Shared Sacrifice

114

Geeta Gandbhir: "She Weaponized Her Privilege"

115

Not Even Mad: Jeff Nussbaum & Dan Rothschild

116

Aaron Tracy and Roald Dahl's Dangerous Double Life

117

Nir Eyal: "Your Brain Is Already Lying To You"

118

Elizabeth Tsurkov: Surviving 900 Days as a Hostage

119

Mike Pesca on Lifelong: The Bliss Molecule and the Psychology of Weight Loss

120

Funny You Should Mention: Jena Friedman

121

Jamie Denbo: Why I Walked Away From Grey's Anatomy

122

Brian Platzer: A Story that Literally Couldn't be Told

123

Gina Gershon: "They Treat You Differently With Boobs"

124

Eli Lake: "It Could Be An Epic Historic Geopolitical Mitzvah"

125

John Fugelsang & Corey Brettschneider: "Stochastic Self-Censorship"

126

James Kimmel Jr. : "Revenge Is Dopamine With a Law Degree"

127

Not Even Mad: Austin Berg & Andrew Egger

128

C. Thi Nguyen: "The Appearance of Winning"

129

Kenji Yoshino & David Glasgow: "Go Where the Pain Is"

130

Kenji Yoshino & David Glasgow: Saving DEI

131

Is Anyone Not A Fan Of Eileen Gu?

132

Alex Roarty: "The Status Quo Sucks Right Now"

133

Kat and Mike's Museum of Bad Ideas

134

Congress, the Potency Problem, and How To!

135

Charles Duhigg: "You can mobilize till you're blue in the face."

136

The Scalpel And The Chainsaw

137

Ben Terris: "Visiting A Parallel Universe"

138

Not Even Mad: Joe Nocera & Jonah Goldberg

139

Is That BS: Compostable Dog Poop Bags

140

Autocracy Watch with Yascha Mounk

141

Aaron Magid on King Abdullah, "The Most American King"

142

Chris Cillizza on Trump's "Unconstitutional" Election Riff

143

Funny You Should Mention: Geoffrey Asmus

144

Jonathan Cohen: "Add Friction" to the Super Bowl of Gambling

145

Conor Heffernan on Why "Ego Is A Transhistorical Phenomenon"

146

The Epstein Files Are a Distraction From… the Epstein Files

147

David Greene: "Obsession Is a Window Into the Human Soul"

148

Charlie Sykes on the "Little Platoons" that Humbled Trump

149

Paul D. Miller: "International Law Is Not the Same Thing as Justice"

150

Not Even Mad: Ruy Teixeira and Jesse Adams

151

"Chaos Isn't Enforcement": Minnesota Exposes ICE's Political Miscalculation

152

Thomas Goetz: "Medicine works by helping some people a lot and most people not at all."

153

Elliot Williams: "We'll get the girls from Annie to even things out"

154

Michelle Tafoya on the "Complete and Utter Ambush"

155

Kenneth Vogel on the "Sh*tbag Business"

156

Jason Guriel: Why Culture Got Nicer—and Much Less Useful

157

Trump Weaves His Way Through Davos

158

Chuck Klosterman: Football Isn't a Game—It's the Last American Monoculture

159

Jeremy Hobson on the "Rally Around the Flag" Risk in Iran

160

Funny You Should Mention: Liza Treyger

161

Charles Duhigg: "Looping for Understanding" and Other Supercommunicator Tricks

162

David McCloskey on Why Real-World Spying is "Too Crazy for Fiction"

163

Reese Gorman on Congress's Vanishing Backbone — and Dexter Filkins' Rubio "Zig and Zag" Portrait

164

Séamus McElearney on the End of Omertà as a Business Model

165

Fact-Checking the Maduro Raid—and the Art of Fucking Around

166

Ezekiel Emanuel: "Don't Be a Schmuck"—and Yes, Eat Your Ice Cream.

167

Not Even Mad: Michael A. Cohen & Charles Fain Lehman

168

Brad Meltzer on Plot Twists, Product Placement, and Violating Rules on Purpose

169

Andy Mills: "Acceleration Is Salvation" — and Why AI Might Be the Last Invention.

170

Quico Toro: Venezuela was never a one-man show

171

Dan Soder & Moshe Kasher: A Lighthouse for the Mentally Ill

172

Rosebud Baker: We're Raising Her Autistic

173

Robby Hoffman: Zero Personality Disorder

174

Chris Turner: Possession is 9/10 of the Word

175

Michelle Buteau: An Achievable Beyonce

176

T.J. Miller: You'll Do Better in Toledo

177

Sarah Silverman & Kyle Kinane: Comedy, Cancel Culture, and Conspiracies

178

Alex Edelman: "The Hardest Thing to Talk About in a Joke is Israel."

179

Roy Wood Jr.: "People Just Want to Feel Good."

180

Django Gold: The Comedian Who Wants to Dim Your Shine

181

Thomas Chatterton Williams: Why the Summer of 2020 Wasn't Inevitable

182

Quico Toro: "Charlatans Burrow Into Your Life and Don't Leave."

183

Rob Reiner: "I Just Viewed My Child in Pain"

184

Jay Jurden: High Profundities Per Minute

185

Nicholas Wright: When Ancient Brains Meet Modern War

186

James Clyburn: "The World Would Much Rather See a Sermon Than Hear One."

187

Mikhail Zygar: From Glasnost Whiplash to Social-Media Smog

188

Chris Dalla Riva: "Billboard's become a Christmas chart."

189

Finding the Next Terry Gross with Daniel Oppenheimer

190

Shadi Hamid: The Left Should Learn to Love American Power

191

Not Even Mad: Anthony Weiner & John Ketcham

192

Holiday Suicides: Is That BS? with Sadie Dingfelder

193

Mark Rowlands on Memory and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

194

Daniel Zoughbie: The Mightiest Turns an Enemy into a Friend

195

Mike Pesca on the Vig, the Fix, and the John Goodman Thumb

196

Funny You Should Mention: Mohanad Elshieky

197

TJ Raphael on the Liberty Godparent Trap and the Cost of Coercion

198

Rachel McCarthy James on Axe Murder, Salad Spinners, and the Hat-Brim Line

199

Daniel Brook & Brandy Schillace: The Sex Expert Who Scared Hitler

200

Murdaugh Showrunner Michael D. Fuller: Power Metastasizes

201

Jesse Eisenberg: "Marv Albert Is My Therapist"

202

Bob Saget & Chuck Klosterman: "I Really Have Become Liza Minnelli"

203

Henry Winkler & Clint Watts: "Three Little Fonzies and a Trail of Dead Russians"

204

Abby Phillip: "The Stones for David's Slingshot"

205

Not Even Mad: Russ Muirhead & Nick Gillespie

206

Mike Vuolo & Bob Garfield: "Life Is a Flat Pizza Bagel"

207

Mike on Matt Lewis Can't Lose

208

Funny You Should Mention: Myq Kaplan

209

Fareed Zakaria on Revolutions, Backlashes, and the High Cost of Not Fixing Immigration

210

James Patterson: "My Time Here Is Short. What Can I Do Most Beautifully?"

211

John Amaechi: "Excellence Isn't Sorcery"

212

Nicole Gelinas on Crime, Bail, and Mamdani's Vibesy Criminology

213

David Ignatius on Space Wars, Skepticism, and His Father's Legacy

214

Katie Herzog Is the Kind of Person Who Googles Recidivism Rates in an AA Meeting

215

Not Even Mad: Charles Lehman & Brad Carson

216

John J. Lennon — "I'm Owning My Sh*t on the Page"

217

Jon Levy: "We Don't Really Want Authenticity"

218

Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon on Life After Cars

219

The Good Fight Club, or Good Fight Club?

220

Funny You Should Mention: Dusty Slay

221

Sadie Dingfelder on "Hair, Feathers, and the Theater of Disgust."

222

Colin Woodard: The Federation Is the Fault Line

223

The Wars Trump Says He Ended, and the One Cheney Began

224

Matthew Hiltzik on the Craft of Crisis Communications

225

Mike Pesca on "Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em"

226

Art Cullen on Iowa's Corn Gospel, Cancer, and Capture

227

Beth Macy: "When the Local Paper Dies, the Community Follows"

228

Karine Jean-Pierre: "Independent," Evasion, and the Party She Says Left Her

229

Steve Hayes & Damon Linker: The Hole Truth

230

Barista Michelle Eisen on Face Tattoos, Short Staffs, and Union Shots Fired

231

Jeremy Workman — "Walking Every Block, Hiding in a Mall"

232

Funny You Should Mention: Ariel Elias

233

No Capes, Real Peace: U Thant's UN and What We Lost

234

Alicia Wanless — "The Ecology of Information"

235

Michael Kirk — "RFK Jr.'s Latest Addiction: Attention"

236

Michael Townsend & Jeremy Workman: "Secret Mall Apartment"

237

Chris Murphy: "Congress needs to take war powers back."

238

Lisa Graves: On The Roberts Court's Power Play

239

Not Even Mad: Jonah Goldberg & Zee Cohen-Sanchez

240

Jonathan Mahler: The Tabloids That Made The City That Made the Country

241

Cory Doctorow: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

242

SCOTUS's Shadow Docket, Calibrated + Steven Vladeck

243

Funny You Should Mention: Steph Tolev

244

Plestia Alaqad: "The Eyes of Gaza," Witness and Journalist

245

Jake Tapper and the Race Against Terror

246

Obama CDC Director Tom Frieden: "'Believe in Science' Is a Terrible Idea."

247

Steven Pinker: "Common Knowledge Changes Everything"

248

Diane Foley on America's Hostage Blind Spot

249

Jonah Blank: "Very Quickly and Then Very Slowly" in Nepal

250

Not Even Mad: Ben Wizner & Ilya Shapiro

251

Yaakov Katz - While Israel Slept: Winning Tunnels, Losing Time

252

KJ Steinberg, on The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox

253

Amanda Knox — "You don't have to be a psychopath to wrongly convict somebody."

254

Is Masculinity A Prison? - Mike on Open to Debate

255

Andrew J. Taylor: "Blue-Collar Voters Don't Want Blue-Collar Politicians"

256

Justin Driver: "The Fall of Affirmative Action"

257

Laura Spinney on the Language That Conquered the World

258

Sadie Dingfelder on Mosquito Magnets and Who Tastes Best to Bugs

259

Andrew Fox on "Slam Frank": Make Something Dangerous

260

JD Vance, Jimmy Kimmel, and America's Radical Underground

261

Brendan Nyhan: Measuring Political Violence Without Panic

262

Not Even Mad: Michael A. Cohen and Jamie Kirchick

263

Christian Duguay Brings the Valley Heat

264

Garrett Graff: "Russia Sought Division More Than Victory"

265

Garrett M. Graff on "Long Shadow" and the Internet's Descent Into Outrage

266

Mike Pesca on The Good Fight Club

267

Bill McKibben: "Energy From Heaven, Not From Hell"

268

Aaron Sibarium on Charlie Kirk, Retribution, and the Cycle of Violence

269

Ryan Evans on Drones, Ground War, and Ukraine's Fight for Survival

270

Nim Shapira: Torn Between Empathy and Erasure

271

Christine Wenc: The Onion's Straight Face Made It Funnier

272

Immigration, Nuance, and a Leonhardt Vault Cut

273

Mike Hayes on Purpose, Grit, and Mission

274

Not Even Mad: Galen Druke and Josh Barro

275

Miles Taylor on Resistance Cascades, Rubio's Turn, and Testing the Judiciary

276

Ex-DHS Chief Miles Taylor: Trump, Treason, and Executive Power

277

Governor Wes Moore on Baltimore's Historic Drop in Homicides, Plus Laura Loomer's Lunacy

278

Edward Wong: At the Edge of Empire, China, Family, and Power

279

Nick Foster on How We Really Think About the Future

280

Inside a Fat Camp named Shame

281

Trump's Mortgage Attacks and Kessler on Weight Loss

282

David Kessler on Why Junk Food Is America's Nicotine

283

Trump's Long Game and Miles Taylor's Warning

284

The Working Class Party with the Post-Graduate Jargon

285

Not Even Mad: Rikki Schlott and Isaac Saul

286

CryptoDad's Pirate Clause: Reviving Letters of Marque

287

Rent-Stabilized and City-Run: Mamdani Rises as Rivals Flail

288

Katja Hoyer on Germany's AFD and the Limits of Calling Someone a Nazi

289

The Spiel Saturday Show

290

The Cheesecake Factory Model of Freedom

291

When the Train to Hell Runs on Time

292

Rights You Can't Use

293

The Case for Good Anger

294

Rebecca Lemov and the Instability of Truth

295

Sarah Ruhl on Lessons from the Teachers Who Shaped Her

296

Peter Moskos on NYC's Historic Crime Drop and the Lessons for Today

297

Steven Hahn Unmasks the Myth of Liberal America

298

Not Her Type: E. Jean Carroll vs. The President

299

High Stakes, Low Standards: America's Gambling Gamble

300

Pay to Play: The NCAA's Big Payout Era Begins

301

Puzzling The Puzzle Master on The Puzzler

302

The NIH vs. The New Grievance Politics

303

Airborne Assumptions and Subventilated Science

304

How to Make Crime Feel Weird

305

The Algorithm Is Hollywood's New God

306

When Hulk Turned Heel

307

Mike Pesca talks NPR Funding on The 21st Show

308

Phil Gramm Hearts Capitalism, From Dickens To The New Deal

309

Not Even Mad - Zee Cohen-Sanchez and Jesse Adams

310

Ben Smith On Truth At A Lower Resolution

311

The Bliss Gene And The Burden Of Mood

312

RFK Jr.: Sophist, Saboteur, Snake Oil Secretary

313

Live From America with Mike Pesca

314

Funny You Should Mention: Trae Crowder

315

Jake Tapper: Original Sin, Ongoing Fracturing

316

The Great Lantern Fly Freakout: Is That BS?

317

The War After the War: Hamas and Israel

318

Chris and Paul Weitz say Murderbot Doesn't Want to Be a Real Boy

319

Checking Bags and Attitudes

320

Poker Face Goes To Interesting Places

321

NEM: Carine Hajjar and Jeffrey Maurer

322

The Loyalty Trap: Inside the 2024 Biden-Harris Collapse

323

Iranian Would-Be Assassins and Shoe Would-Be Bombers

324

The Un "Fudge" America Tour Gets "Fudged" From Within

325

Cascade PBS: Tapper, Thompson, and Pesca

326

Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer's Political Past and America's Appetite for Spectacle

327

The Bane of the Blue Collar

328

Big Beautiful Blunder

329

Escaping the Nazis. Then Going Back

330

The Cuomo Special

331

The Wars We Carry: From Iraq To Port-au-Prince

332

Closed Schools, Closed Minds

333

The High Point of Mt. Mamdani?

334

Tehran Target Acquired...Damaged...Destroyed...Debated

335

Fordow The Mop Tolls

336

Chuck Todd and Mike Pesca Join On The Chuck ToddCast

337

Funny You Should Mention: Rosebud Baker

338

Pesca Plus Special: Arlie Hochschild

339

Unsympathetic Empathy

340

Helen Lewis on Dead Parents, Paper Animals, And The Politics of Genius

341

What Could Go Right, And Why We Rarely Hear About It

342

The Gist List Live with Kat Rosenfield

343

Putting Death Metal On Your Plants Playlist: Is That Bs?

344

Not Even Mad: Allison Schraeger and Matt Yglesias

345

Inside the Only Trump Trial (So Far)

346

The Ghost Lab — Bigfoot, Ghosts, and Government Distrust in the Granite State

347

Jay Inslee vs. the Climate Polling Problem

348

The Gist List Live with Ben Dreyfuss

349

Funny You Should Mention: Chris Turner

350

Lawless: A Storm of Shade and Sneering

351

Getting on Leah Litman's Case

352

Revolutionary Fog and Folly

353

Obama's Elon

354

Mike Stops by The Reason Roundtable

355

Ben Ansell on FAFO, FADFO, and the Myth of Immediate Consequence

356

Bark Buttons: "Who Let the Dogs Talk?"

357

Tusk Talk: Why Cuomo Leads and the Subways Smell Like Sh*t

358

Pig Sacrifices and Talking Drums: Don't Squeeze the Shaman

359

The Gist List Live w Ethan Strauss

360

Funny You Should Mention: Robby Hoffman

361

Realign for Palestine

362

Not Even Mad: Eli Lake, Michael Cohen on Biden's Health, and the New Human-Rights-Free Foreign Policy

363

Inside the Movement to Dismantle Democracy in God's Name

364

Katherine Stewart on Christian Nationalism's Influence on Conservatism

365

Alexa, What's with the Pope's Brother?

366

Henry Abbott on the Logistics of Ballistics

367

Jocelyn Benson on Being a Purposeful / Purple State Warrior

368

David Graham on The Project and the Plan to Remake American Government

369

Character Under Fire: Gen. Stanley McChrystal on the Costs of Conviction

370

Altman Almighty

371

BLT: Bacon, Lettuce, and Todd

372

Jim Lampley on the Blows That Made Broadcasting History

373

Not Even Mad: Eric Zorn and Austin Berg

374

Max Expression, Merz Confusion

375

Holy Vehicles and Hollow Coverage

376

Chuck Todd Presses On

377

Mike Stops by House of Strauss and The Dispatch

378

Funny You Should Mention: Michelle Buteau

379

Rust Director Joel Souza on Tragedy, Survival, and His Non-Relationship with Alec Baldwin

380

What is Gen-Z Doing with Mewing?

381

Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk

382

Trump 47: It's Not a Heart Attack, It's Gingivitis

383

The Full Ginsburg

384

Iran-Contra wrote the Playbook for Presidential Lawlessness

385

Punchlines and Straw Men

386

When Experts Circle the Wagons, The Public Wanders Off

387

Macedo and Frances Lee In Covid's Wake

388

Kilmar, Detained and Unnamed

389

Great Britain Chicken Friction

390

Funny You Should Mention - T.J. Miller

391

Not Even Mad: The Commercial Break's Bryan Green and Carine Hajjar

392

The Fight for the White House in 2024

393

Four More Years?

394

Trump's Trade Tactics: Betwixt Chaos and Coherence

395

Today's Show is About a Different Show That is Not About Tapirs

396

The Ongoing Black Mark of the Red Scare

397

The Bond Market Doesn't Do Ayahuasca

398

Then They Came For They

399

The Brand Is the Business: Devon Archer on Biden, Burisma, and Being the Fall Guy

400

Devon Archer, Recently Pardoned, Reflects

401

Mike on Uncertain Things and Vanderpump Robs

402

Funny You Should Mention Season 2 - Alex Edelman

403

Not Even Mad: Sarah Isgur and Sarada Peri

404

Crocodile vs. Bombshell

405

David Pakman Calls Out Right-Wing Lies—and Is Challenged on the Left's Spin

406

The Ideological Brain with Dr. Leor Zmigrod

407

Mike on The Mark Reardon Show

408

Trump Loves Women and Many Other Things

409

Code Name: Pale Horse — Scott Payne vs. the American Reich

410

Trump's Revenge

411

The Great Houthi Whoopsie

412

Chris Gethard and the Great Helsinki Caper

413

Penn Swimmer's Success Costs School Millions 3 Years Later

414

Joe Gatto Continues Messing with People

415

Not Even Mad: Anthony Weiner and Nick Gillespie

416

The German Jew Who Tried The Nazis

417

Murdering the Truth and Defying the Courts

418

The Dutch Once Owned This Isle

419

Mike Pesca on the Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast

420

Matthew Schrag Alzheimer's Whistle Blower, and Chuck Schumer Democratic Pain Sponge

421

Should You Shout "Help" or "Fire"?

422

The Opposition

423

While Wicked, Trump Is Not Defying Gravity

424

Elle Reeve Explains the Neo Nazis

425

The Tipping Point

426

Oren Kessler, Author of Palestine 1936

427

Not Even Mad: Tariffs and Doge's Dodgy Dogma

428

Veteran Diplomat Charles Kupchan Holds Out Hope For a Peace Deal in Ukraine

429

Those Tariffs Slap

430

The Gist: More News, Less Gratitude

431

Mike Pesca Gets Serious....Again!

432

Kat Rosenfield on Neil Gaiman, Blake Lively, and Women's Wants

433

Mark Cuban, Pete Buttigieg on the Right Words and Deeds for Dems

434

Chokepoints and Full Throated Screams

435

Is Trump Delusional, or Just Betting We Are?

436

Outrage: Professor Kurt Gray Plus a Visit From The Proud Boys

437

Old Mitch and Minerals

438

Hizzoner Among Thieves

439

Not Even Mad: Noam Dworman, Dan Savage

440

Marc Dunkelman Dunks on Progressives to Explain "Why Nothing Works"

441

Eli Lake has Broken History

442

Vic Michaelis and Their Very Important People

443

Mike Goes Savage on LoveCast

444

Chuck D's Creative Process

445

Chuck D on Artificial Intelligence and Interficial ARTelligence

446

Andreas Krieg Doubts Israel Can Ever Really Win the War

447

Jonathan F. P. Rose on the Housing Crisis

448

Banning Pennies: Wise; NIH Funding Cut: Foolish

449

The 5 Years from Defund the Police to the Demise of DEI

450

Trump's Non-Tremendous Un-Beautiful Plan for Gaza

451

Not Even Mad: Trump's Overreach & the Democrats' Lack of Reach

452

Trigger Warnings: Are They BS?

453

One Big Difference Between BLM Rioters and J6 Rioters

454

How To Get Rid Of A Chemical Weapons Stockpile

455

BEST OF THE GIST: Very Serious Edition

456

Miriam Lewin: Surviving Torture, Exposing the "Disappeared"

457

Presidential Plane Blame

458

From Model to Mayhem With Michael Moynihan

459

The Mayor: Murder and Momentum

460

Carbon Capture—It's Not Just for North Dakota Anymore

461

BEST OF THE GIST: ERA Edition

462

Meghan Daum: Women Control Cancel Culture

463

Not Even Mad: Trump's First Four Days

464

Executive Order Overload

465

Carrie M. Lane On Organized Chaos

466

BEST OF THE GIST: Wildfire Edition

467

Your Burning Fire Questions Answered

468

In Defense of Partisanship

469

Fluoride Is Getting Dangerous: Is That BS?

470

No Holding Down Hegseth

471

L.A. Fires: The Cost and the Climate

472

BEST OF THE GIST: Greenland Edition

473

The Apocalypse Musical

474

Fact Check: Meta Goes Fact-Less

475

Trudeau Virtue-Signaled Himself Out of Office

476

The Brief Highs and Crushing Lows of Drug Decriminalization

477

The Wages of Lawlessness and the Laws of Wages

478

BEST OF THE GIST: Jimmy Edition

479

Posthumous Presidential Reappraisals

480

Brain Imaging Studies: Are They BS?

481

Funny You Should Mention...Again - Roy Wood JR

482

Funny You Should Mention...Again - Mike Yard

483

Funny You Should Mention...Again - Django Gold

484

BEST OF THE GIST: Joking About Parenting Edition

485

Funny You Should Mention...Again - Sam Jay

486

Funny You Should Mention...Again - Rachel Feinstein

487

Funny You Should Mention...Again - Nimesh Patel

488

Pittsburgh Steeler Scion Jim Rooney

489

Biden Commutes Death Penalties

490

BEST OF THE GIST: Christmas Content Edition

491

A Real Pain with the Analgesic Jesse Eisenberg

492

Plans Change: Elon, Fani, and Covering Alleged Ohio Cat Consumption

493

Brian Reed Questions Everything

494

Trump Library Bump

495

Drones, Thugs, and Disharmony

496

BEST OF THE GIST: Tight Edition vs Loose Edition

497

Funny You Should Mention - Episode 6 Roy Wood Jr.

498

Luigi Mangione, Daniel Penny, And Jordan Neely

499

Shadi Hamid Assesses Israel's Tactics

500

Daniel Penny Did Not Lynch Anyone

501

Kevin From The Office Tells The Story Of Christmas At Dunder Mifflin

502

BEST OF THE GIST: Award Winning Edition

503

Not Even Mad: The Pardon And The Parsing

504

IS THAT Bulls**t IS BACK

505

Who To Root For In Syria?

506

Ben Rhodes On Democrats' Missteps

507

Election 2024: Tall Tales Of A Short Campaign

508

BEST OF THE GIST: NewsGuard Edition

509

Funny You Should Mention - Episode 5 Mike Yard

510

Abraham Lincoln: Plow The Speed

511

All The President's Thighs

512

Congressman Seth Moulton

513

BEST OF THE GIST: HR-Ification Edition

514

A Healthy Dose Of Oz And RFK

515

What Does Jay Bhattacharya Want To Do With The NIH?

516

Parks And Rec, In Effect

517

A Traffic Jam Of Political Malfeasance

518

Ol' Doc Flugelhorn'll Heal You Right Up

519

BEST OF THE GIST: TCB Edition

520

Funny You Should Mention - Episode 4 Django Gold

521

Gaetz Rates As Latest Basket Case

522

Hegseth In Over His Head

523

Lock Em Up: from Threat to Truth

524

The Chicken Beer And Video Game Phase

525

BEST OF THE GIST: Trump Wins … Again Edition

526

Trump's Megaphone Is A Thing Of Envy

527

Polling Predictiveness And Nate-Hating Maniacs

528

Trump II, Day 1

529

The Migratory Patterns of the North American Elk as Rendered In Song

530

Pennsylvania's Battle Against Election Denial

531

BEST OF THE GIST: Endorsements Edition

532

Funny You Should Mention - Episode 3 Sam Jay

533

The Gist Presidential Endorsement

534

Garbage Gate Redux

535

A Panel Of Zoomers

536

Floating Pile Of Garbage Punchlines

537

BEST OF THE GIST: Zimbardo Edition

538

Dad Jokes

539

The End Of The World As Fred Knows It

540

How John Lewis Conceived Of Change

541

Stained Steele

542

Da Bulls, Da Bears, And Da Bottle

543

BEST OF THE GIST: Nobel Prize Edition

544

Funny You Should Mention - Episode 2 Rachel Feinstein

545

Saving The Earth By Salting The Clouds

546

Harry In A Hurry

547

The Pennsylvania Pollsters

548

Pesca Plus Jake Tapper

549

BEST OF THE GIST: The Dispatch Edition

550

Who Wants to Be A College President?

551

Talking Zoning Without Zoning Out

552

Shifting Shame To Blame, The Trump Way

553

Swing State Update: Nevada

554

The Eric Adams Mishegoss

555

BEST OF THE GIST: Terror Edition

556

Funny You Should Mention - Nimesh Patel

557

Wisconsin By A Whisker, Arizona By An Iota

558

Knucklehead Of State

559

For Israel, Tactics Are Strategy

560

Israel Ponders A "Winnable" War

561

BEST OF THE GIST: Dog Food Edition

562

A Barn, A Murder, And The Weight Of Secrecy

563

Liberalism As A Way Of Life

564

"Obamaha" For The Win

565

Weight Loss Drugs And Snacking On Monkey

566

Chronicling The Black-White Wealth Gap

567

BEST OF THE GIST: Reason Edition

568

Naked Came The Lieutenant Governor

569

Maryland Governor Wes Moore

570

Phoning In The Election

571

How A Judge Decides Who Gets A Second Chance

572

Television Doesn't Understand Why People Watch TV

573

BEST OF THE GIST: Dan Savage Edition

574

The Missiles That Pissed Off Putin

575

Defaming DiResta For Defining Disinformation

576

Got Cat?

577

How Is This Election Close?

578

Barack Talk

579

BEST OF THE GIST: Paper Straw Rant Edition

580

Endemic Is Less Polemic Than An Epidemic

581

Colony Calumny

582

Kamala Nails The Soundbite

583

Heavy Metal Thunder

584

Well, like, dude...its Labor Day

585

BEST OF THE GIST: Jonah Goldberg Edition

586

Gaming Out Insurrection

587

Homo Economicus

588

The Rise And Fall Of Crypto

589

Writing Comedy

590

Releasing Robot You Into The World

591

BEST OF THE GIST: Mike Visits The Free Press

592

They Are Out Of Their Minds

593

Coach Schmalz

594

What Are Kamala Harris' Legislative Priorities?

595

On Line For The DNC, Left Harasses Not-Quite-So Left

596

Fixing The Constitution

597

Best Of - Ethics and Journalism

598

The Societal Profusion Of Rapid Onset Mass Delusion

599

Living In A Vibrant Vibocracy

600

Juul Of Denial

601

Risking It All

602

The Woman Who Catches Serial Killers

603

BEST OF THE GIST: Predictions Edition

604

Nate Silver vs. The Village People

605

Why Stop The Gravy Train Of Joy?

606

Walz Wields His Midwesternry

607

Tim Time

608

Bear Market

609

BEST OF THE GIST: Tim Walz and John Adams

610

Will Judaism Make Josh Shapiro The Unchosen Person?

611

Biden's Black Hole Polling Effect

612

Dangerous Presidents: The Second, And The Second-To-Last

613

Kamala Harris, For Whom the Ding Dongs

614

The Fine Line Between Greatness And OCD

615

BEST OF THE GIST: Like Gold, Bronze Is Better Than Silver Edition

616

Cool To Be Cringe Kamala

617

Cherrying The Biden Tenure

618

How To Moderate Great Debate

619

Harris "Prosecuting" Trump

620

Biden Out, Harris In, GOP Still Thinks They'll Win

621

BEST OF THE GIST: RNC 2024 Edition

622

Trump Reflects, Then Rages

623

Trump's Unexpected Strength With Black Voters

624

Babydog And Boebert

625

Republicans Explain Polarization

626

Heated Rhetoric (And Deranged People With Guns) Are Making Politics Dangerous

627

BEST OF THE GIST: The Good Fight Edition

628

Water War

629

France vs USA When "Democracy Is At Stake"

630

Elon Musk: Space Innovator or Inefficient Colonel Sanders?

631

Facing Faceblindness

632

The AUKUS Caucus Can Be Raucous

633

BEST OF THE GIST: Founding Fathers Day Edition

634

Living Constitutionally Requires A Strong Constitution

635

Spinning The Insidious

636

Cringing Oneself Out Of The Presidency

637

Donald Trump, Immune Buffoon

638

BEST OF THE GIST: Mixed Signals Edition

639

Must Joe Go?

640

The Bear, The Draft, The Debate

641

All The Editor's Mess

642

Southlake

643

Joe, Abe Dissimilar

644

BEST OF THE GIST: Father And Son Edition

645

Warning: This Discussion Of Warnings Might Cause Googly Eye At Night

646

Tricking Spotify Into Getting Weird

647

The Politics Of Holidays

648

Birds Aren't Real (SHHH ... Don't tell the Crested Warbler)

649

BEST OF THE GIST: SCOTUS Gone Wild Edition

650

Strom Thurmond Cost Him An Apartment From The Grave

651

Gaza And Other Sieges

652

Flooding the Dumb Zone

653

Mrs. Alito's Secret Vergogna

654

We Just Haven't Been Flapping Them Hard Enough

655

BEST OF THE GIST: D-Day Anniversary Edition

656

Why We Can't Have Nice Vexillogical Things

657

October 7 Rape Denialism

658

Intifada Revolution? Or is that a linguistic delusion?

659

The Gov Who Cried Wolf, Then Shot It

660

The Selective Invocation Of Safety

661

BEST OF THE GIST: Quail And Panda Edition

662

The Travesty Of A Mockery Of A Sham Of Trump's Denials

663

North Korean Poop Balloons

664

That Time Alito's Wife Spat At Me

665

Space Nukes And Ukraine's Troops

666

Memorial Day- I Might Be Wrong

667

BEST OF THE GIST: Endless Shrimp Edition

668

Not ALL Things Considered

669

Overruled On Appeal To Heaven

670

The Right Side Of The Left Side Of History

671

De-Veining The End Of Endless Shrimp

672

Vexed And Illogical But Vexillological

673

BEST OF THE GIST: Wide Right Edition

674

Arizona Abortions Laws Are Highly Subject To Change

675

Who's Your Daddy?

676

Retirement: A Decreasingly Septuagenarian Phenomenon

677

You Gotta Eat The Bug

678

Michael Cohen, Forma' Fixa'

679

BEST OF THE GIST: Pulitzer Edition

680

A Drug That Kills Drink's Thrills With Andy Mills

681

One Cop's Questionable Confessions

682

A Half-Baked Full-Blown Famine Assessment

683

Lobbyists As Apex Predators

684

Objectivity And Other Obsolescent Ideals

685

For Your Consideration: No Small Endeavor

686

BEST OF THE GIST: Criticizing NPR on NPR Edition

687

Posturing over Protests and Protesting over Posture

688

Does $61 Billion For Ukraine Come Too Late?

689

Cops On A Campus, Chaos On Another

690

Divulge, Divest, Surely You Chant In Jest

691

The Dog Days Of American Politics

692

BEST OF THE GIST: Harvey, Tossed Edition … Gross

693

Bezos Uber Alles

694

The Caucasian Perquisite

695

What's Eating Uncle Bosie?

696

Immigration: A Story Both Inspiring And Whack

697

When "Anti-Zionism" Is A Get Out Of "Antisemitism" Free Card

698

BEST OF THE GIST: NPR CEO OMG Edition

699

Saving NPR

700

Gold Heist, Foiled

701

Family Guy Guy Guides Us Through Danger

702

Getting Aid to Gaza

703

Bond, Trump Bond

704

BEST OF THE GIST: The Juice, Squeezed Edition

705

Delicious Chicken 'n' Mice

706

Pour Some Sugar On The Man In The Mirror O' Mine

707

Florida, Abortion, and Trump

708

Arizona's 1864 Abortion Law Stands

709

Oregon Drug Debacle

710

BEST OF THE GIST: Podcast Implosion Edition

711

Remembering The Repressed Memory Movement

712

Public Radio Podcast Pounded

713

Trump Is Their Barbarian

714

Barge Bilge

715

Real Rolexes, Fake Story

716

BEST OF THE GIST: March Madness

717

Can We Wait To Take The Economic Loss On Weight Loss

718

Our Politicians Far More Extreme Than Our People

719

Genocide, Famine. Nursery Rhymes

720

Atomic Habits

721

Running Out Ronna

722

BEST OF THE GIST: Tradition! Vacation! Edition!

723

A Cancer On Royal Rumors

724

The Gang That Couldn't Kidnap Straight

725

CRIME WEEK: Shoplifting And Murder, In That Order

726

CRIME WEEK: Charging Countries With "Genocide"

727

CRIME WEEK: Using Data To Predict Crime

728

BEST OF THE GIST: "Photographic" Memory Edition

729

Jake Tapper On Political Scandal

730

Gerald Ford Sees His Reflection In The Snow-Covered Hills

731

Biden's Remembers Photographs, Doesn't Have Photographic Memory

732

Terrible Leaders And Horrible Followers

733

Matt Gaetz Temps Fate

734

BEST OF THE GIST: Unusual Protest Methods Edition

735

Anatomy Of A Barbenmaestro Of The Flower Moon

736

Carbon Capture: Boon, Bane, or Balderdash?

737

Luxuriating In Luxury Beliefs

738

A Dearth Of Sinemaphiles

739

Border Porous? Blame Mayorkas

740

BEST OF THE GIST: Fast-Food Innovation Edition

741

Get Used To It

742

Bloody American History, Long Before the Founders

743

Surge Burgers

744

Saddam's Secret Recordings

745

When An Insurmountable Obstacle Meets A Hubristic Work Force

746

American History Tellers: The Underground Railroad

747

BEST OF THE GIST: Women In Film

748

So Close To China, They Can Hear The Music

749

Not a Fan of Fani

750

Meet Your Raconteur Guide

751

Your Enemy's Victory Speech

752

BEST OF THE GIST - Presidents Day

753

BEST OF THE GIST: Tunnel Edition

754

Trump Liable, Willis Excitable, Guatemalan Democracy Viable

755

Parades, Churches, Super Bowls and Guns

756

God, Guns, and Sedition...In That Order

757

Our Unconvincing Gun Arguments

758

Rush To Kill

759

BEST OF THE GIST: Sunday TV Edition

760

Identifying Non-Identity-Based Solutions

761

Self-Executing Themselves In The Foot

762

The Insurrection And Trump's Election

763

Color Blindness: Bad for Traffic Signals, Good For Countries?

764

Does DEI Work?

765

BEST OF THE GIST: Death Penalty Edition

766

Who Are The Night Owls?

767

Bland Tacos, Tap Water, And Joe Biden

768

Innovation, Alabama-Style

769

Yellow Lines And Dead Armadillos

770

Paging Doctor Death

771

Introducing American Scandal: Police Corruption in Baltimore

772

BEST OF THE GIST: Penguin Poop Edition

773

Hague: Vague, Schmague, Or Making A Mistake?

774

Fluke Happens

775

Will Haley Bail-y?

776

Donald Dockett

777

Nikki's Not Taking NH For Granite

778

BEST OF THE GIST: Hogwarts Edition

779

Putin Loser, Times Disagrees

780

Trauma And Gaza

781

When There's A Willis There's A Wade

782

Did DEI Blow The Doors Off An Airplane?

783

BEST OF THE GIST: Chaos Edition

784

The Houthi Haircut

785

Liar Liar Pants On Fire Dot Com

786

Secret Tunnels, Secret Deals

787

Bottled Water: Nanoplastics and Mega-freakout

788

Defeating Putin: Tactics, Weapons, and Will

789

BEST OF THE GIST: Three Years After January 6th Edition

790

The Houthis Suck

791

The NY Times Objective In Objecting to Objectivity

792

The History Of Scandal At The New York Times

793

David Duchovny: A Reservoir Of Talent

794

Mike's Birthday Present To Himself

795

The Best Podcasts Of 2023

796

They Found Navalny, And We Found Bernoulli

797

A Boxing Day Grab Bag

798

BEST OF THE GIST: Christmas Eve Eve Edition

799

Coal Deaths In Your Stocking

800

Hamas, Holy Warriors

801

The State Of A Two-State Solution

802

Northern Cities, Southern Problems

803

AOC: A Revolutionary Who Wants To Be Loved

804

BEST OF THE GIST: Sludge Train Edition

805

Victor Orban And Other Smelly Pigs

806

Perspectives On War Time Proportionality

807

Hunter In The Crosshairs, Horses In The Back

808

Not Graduating College Shortens Your Life

809

The Trial(s) Of Those Who Killed Elijah McClain

810

BEST OF THE GIST: Hate Speech On Campus Edition

811

Untangling The News

812

Does Donald Trump Still Know How To Talk: An Investigation

813

"Vast Labyrinth" Or "Box Of Dates"?

814

When Rewrites Go Wrong

815

Every Little Thing Xi Does Is Tragic

816

BEST OF THE GIST: Misused Political Slogan Edition

817

The Slings And Poop Maps Of Outrageous Fortune

818

The Tempest In Elon Musk's Brain

819

Flying Cars Grounded By Red Tape And The Russian Mob

820

"From The River To The Sea" Rebranded As A Call For Peace

821

The Future Looked Brighter In The Past

822

BEST OF THE GIST: Cease-Fire Edition

823

60 Hours In Israel

824

Architecture's Weird Definition of "Natural"

825

Alaskan Booze Cruise

826

The Proper Corralling and Taming of Disinformation

827

BEST OF THE GIST: Israel Story Edition

828

Israel's War Clock Is Ticking

829

Gist In Israel: The Deadliest Single Site Of October 7th

830

Live From Israel: A Nation Held Hostage

831

De-Polarized By An Existential Threat

832

Fast, Efficacious, And Safe: A Tall Order

833

BEST OF THE GIST: Competing Narratives Edition

834

The Science Of History

835

We Have FedEx'd Our Pandas Back To China

836

Beaten To Protect Democracy

837

A Moderate Party's Immoderate Self Perception

838

Fleeing North Korea

839

BEST OF THE GIST: Fentanyl Edition

840

Dalmatian Bumps, The Cuckoo's Nest Effect, and Heists Adjusted For Inflation

841

The Principled Never Tern A Blind Eye

842

Geese Buffalo Sensors, Prisoners On The Lam

843

When Intellectual Rigor Is No Longer De Rigueur

844

Counting On Hamas For A Count

845

BEST OF THE GIST: The Power, Wealth And How We Use Them Edition

846

Israel's Existential Threat Matrix

847

Too Much Justice Scares The System

848

What Makes Protests Fail

849

"Andrew Cuomo Resigned For This?"

850

Pushing Back On Pushing Out Cuomo

851

For Your Consideration: No Small Endeavor

852

BEST OF THE GIST: The Slippery Truth Edition

853

With The Heights Of The Depths

854

Church (Commission) And State

855

Misinformation: Hard To Combat, Slippery To Define

856

The First Definitive History Of Covid In The U.S.

857

Has Hamas Laid A Trap?

858

BEST OF THE GIST: Swords of Iron Edition

859

A Pound Of Promise Yields 10 oz. Of Cure

860

Every Hamas Member A Dead Man

861

A "Brokenism" Breakdown

862

In Trump's Fraud Who's the Victim?

863

Columbus Day ... Or Maybe Not

864

Israel Attacked, The World Appalled

865

BEST OF THE GIST: Mr. Speaker Edition

866

Trevor Bauer Victim Or Victim Blamer?

867

Picked The Wrong Week To Stop Sniffing Glue

868

Life Lessons From Peyton Manning

869

Keep Your Friends Close And The Know-Nothing Doughfaces Closer

870

Muzzling Trigger Warnings

871

BEST OF THE GIST: U.S. History Edition

872

The Hippest Thing About Adam Sandler's Aching Hip

873

A Constitution Ripe For Authoritarian Exploitation

874

Phil-Loot-Delphia

875

It's The Corruption, Stupid

876

Island Of The Cancelled

877

BEST OF THE GIST: Labor Unions and Fake Anthrax Edition

878

Trump vs Boris Johnson As Cult Leader

879

Politics Was Making Him Stupider Every Day

880

What's An Accurate Intersex Accounting?

881

Everything You Wanted To Know About Intersex...

882

Politics Is A Fist Utah's Governor Wants To Unclench

883

BEST OF THE GIST: Great Leader Edition

884

Overturning Convictions By Debunking The Junk

885

In Defense Of The SAT

886

He Ran Rikers And Now Probes Probation

887

Andrew Yang Goes Dark

888

A Maritime, Marital Novel

889

BEST OF THE GIST: Vegemite Sandwich Edition

890

A Marathon Of Charitable Frivolity

891

How The Privileged Roll The Proles

892

Korean Teachers Abused By Parents

893

Joe Biden's Superpower

894

A Pesca Plus For The Rest Of Us!

895

BEST OF THE GIST: Labor Day Weekend Edition

896

I WAS WRONG: The Nunes Memo

897

I WAS WRONG: The Central Park Karen

898

I WAS WRONG: Aziz Ansari

899

I WAS WRONG: Louis C.K.

900

I WAS WRONG: Swedish Covid Deaths

901

BEST OF THE GIST: Pop Music Edition

902

Listen Now: Sports Explains the World

903

Plastic Straw Critics Were Always A Straw Man

904

Forgiving The Fumble-Fisted, Not The Underhanded

905

Candidates Going "Full Prigozhin" On The Leader

906

Hijacking A Memory ... And Also An Actual 12 Year Old

907

Uber Uber Alles

908

BEST OF THE GIST: Politics-On-A-Stick Edition

909

To Sound The Maui Sirens?

910

Trump Diehards And De-Meh-Crats

911

A Georgia Defense Lawyer Walks Us Through The Charges

912

The Science Of Covid Misdirection

913

African Prisons Too Crowded For Ex-Presidents

914

BEST OF THE GIST: Population and Bathrooms Edition

915

Jumping The Gungan

916

Dead Drops, Cops, And Special Ops: The Novels Of Brad Thor

917

The Bathrooms Of Loudoun County

918

A Truly Deluded Trump Is A Truly Not Guilty Trump

919

Selling Nuclear Secrets To The Soviets

920

BEST OF THE GIST: Smart People Edition

921

Rudy and Lizzo, Sued As Sexists

922

Crackpot Lawyers With Itchy Ears

923

The Sincerity Of Trump's Lies

924

Artificial Intelligence Turns Suicidal And Possibly Genocidal

925

Trump's 2024 Agenda (Is Not Good)

926

Listen Now - Think Twice: Michael Jackson

927

BEST OF THE GIST: Climate Communications Breakdown Edition

928

Bernie Goetz The Fiasco Treatment

929

The Great Facebook De-Siloing Study

930

Give 'Em A Hellish Degree Of Accountability, Harry

931

Conservative Gold

932

Sports Slaughter

933

BEST OF THE GIST: Nuclear Armageddon Edition

934

Summer Flops-Office

935

The Thin Bleu Line

936

A Veritable Vibes-Session Cessation

937

Shipwrecks And Fact Checks

938

Prigozhin Rebellion Exposes Putin's House Of Cards

939

BEST OF THE GIST: NATO Edition

940

They Got A Monster

941

Toxic Masculinity And The Autocado

942

Welcome Back To McWhorter's Quarters

943

Jake Tapper And Evel's Hog

944

Muster The Cluster

945

BEST OF THE GIST: Affirmative Phosphogypsum Quotas

946

Prune Lola Prune

947

Technology Revolutionizes Life But Not Incomes

948

Cooling Down The Tik-Tok Experience

949

God Bless America … And Scotland, Too, Some Day

950

Is Ron Deathsantis Eager To Spread Cancer Over The Florida Roads?

951

BEST OF THE GIST: Who Started The Fire?

952

Poland Perspective On Putin's Pugnacity

953

The FBI Lost Their Son

954

Earth Off Its Axis

955

Small Person Buries Bones, Scratches Wall, Changes History

956

Prigozhin Supposin' His Notions Are Well Chosen

957

BEST OF THE GIST: Homosexual Penguin Edition

958

House Of Representatives: What The Hell?

959

Dykes To Watch (And Listen) Out For

960

An Actual-Sized Map Of Steven Wright's Mind

961

Sex, Threats, And Audio Tape

962

Injustices: Current And Historic

963

BEST OF THE GIST: Frances Suarez Edition

964

For The Defense: U.S. vs Donald Trump

965

Betting On Elections

966

The Prettiest Nazi Double-Agent In Tulsa

967

Siren Song vs Whistleblower At Facebook

968

Silvio Berlusconi HUNGA HUNGA Around For 86 Years

969

BEST OF THE GIST: Zombie Gerrymander Edition

970

Blissed Off

971

Damming Alabama's Crimson Tide

972

Abortion, Guns, And Money

973

The Geeks Shall Inherit The Turf

974

DereLICHTion Of Duty

975

BEST OF THE GIST: Sacramento Nazi Edition

976

Snakes On The Vain

977

Who Doesn't Loathe A Sacramento Nazi? (But Then What)

978

The Steele Dossier Was A Straw Man

979

Comey On Crime, Real And Imagined

980

Memorial Day Deliberations

981

BEST OF THE GIST: Summer Of Love Edition

982

Chewing The Fat

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