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Trudeau Virtue-Signaled Himself Out of Office Jan 08, 2025

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Journalist Stephen Marche, author of the NYT op-ed "Justin Trudeau Was His Own Worst Enemy," argues that the soon-to-be-former Prime Minister's virtue signaling too often came across as piety, exhausting Canadians. Plus, medical debt is cleared from credit ratings, and a hockey analogy that belongs in the penalty box.

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The Brief Highs and Crushing Lows of Drug Decriminalization Jan 07, 2025

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Oregon, San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver have all experimented with drug decriminalization over the past few years. The results? A deadly disappointment. Stanford professor Keith Humphreys explains why. Plus, advice on how hard a bargain Greenland should drive as a target of U.S. acquisition. And why we should embrace New York City's anti-NIMBY declaration, "It Can Happen," as the city strives to become a CITY OF YES.

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The Wages of Lawlessness and the Laws of Wages Jan 06, 2025

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An analysis of the most "sympathetic" January 6th rioters hardly supports their innocence. Plus, have we been measuring economic progress all wrong? Allison Schrager, of Bloomberg and the Manhattan Institute, says, "Kind of, yeah."

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BEST OF THE GIST: Jimmy Edition Jan 04, 2025

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Each weekend on Best Of The Gist, we listen back to an archival Gist segment from the past, then we replay something from the past week. This weekend, we are doing two from the vault. We hear Mike's interview with Ben Bradford, whose podcast Landslide tells the story of the 1976 Presidential race, which was seminal in the invention of modern conservatism. And then we time warp back to 2016 for Mike's interview with Meg Jacobs joins us to discuss the lasting political legacy of the '70s gas crisis. She's the author of Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s.

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Posthumous Presidential Reappraisals Jan 03, 2025

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Services honoring former President Jimmy Carter begin this weekend. We assess his legacy, explore which presidents have rewritten history from the grave, and discuss the growing trend of historians being asked to act as present-day pundits with Lindsay Chervinsky, Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library and co-editor of Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture. Plus, as incidents of people being pushed in front of subways increase, one transit activist has proposed a solution so unconventional it just might work—or almost certainly make things worse.

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Brain Imaging Studies: Are They BS? Jan 02, 2025

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Brain imaging studies are often cited to prove a point about human behavior, but the claims surrounding them can be quite grand. Sadie Dingfelder is back to ask: Is that bullshit? Plus, Jimmy Carter—a kind, decent man but with a badly bungled presidency. And Gavin Newsom speaks out against snitching but in support of law enforcement.

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Funny You Should Mention...Again - Roy Wood JR Jan 01, 2025

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Comedian Roy Wood Jr., host of CNN's Have I Got News for You and former Daily Show correspondent, joins this episode of Funny You Should Mention. We delve into topics like a near-DUI incident in South Dakota, why the police should occasionally let a criminal go free, and the responsibility comedians have to challenge harmful political ideas—and the politicians who promote them. We also explore the surprising lessons humanity can learn from floating balls of ants and what it reveals when the premise of a joke is proven wrong.

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Funny You Should Mention...Again - Mike Yard Dec 31, 2024

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Mike Yard is a standup comic who has appeared on Inside Amy Schumer, Flatbush Misdemeanors, and was a contributor to The Nightly Show with Larry WiImore. He is both an ex-felon and a union leader at the Museum of Modern Art. In this conversation, we discuss Yard's jokes about his pro-prison stance, leaving the Virgin Islands for the worst neighborhood in Brooklyn, and his suspicions about candlelight vigils.

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Funny You Should Mention...Again - Django Gold Dec 30, 2024

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Django Gold is a stand-up comedian, a former writer for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and a veteran of The Onion. In his stand-up special "Bag of Tricks," he explores not being cool, show-off toilet seats, and the privilege of owning multiple pairs of scissors. His comedy has been described as "cynical and bizarre" but also "surprising, insightful and properly deranged." We discuss the right amount of weird to present to the audience without seeming too weird, and the evolution of the archetype of nerd to IT guy to incel.

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BEST OF THE GIST: Joking About Parenting Edition Dec 28, 2024

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Each weekend on Best Of The Gist, we listen back to an archival Gist segment from the past, then we replay something from the past week. But this weekend, we're simply going to listen to Mike's appearance on Ophira Eisenberg's Parenting Is A Joke podcast. Happy holidays.

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