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The Gist

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions · Mike Pesca

3,100 episodesEN

Show overview

The Gist has been publishing since 2014, and across the 12 years since has built a catalogue of 3,100 episodes. That works out to over 1600 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.

Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 27 min and 35 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 197 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Mike Pesca.

Episodes
3,100
Running
2014–2026 · 12y
Median length
30 min
Cadence
Near-daily

From the publisher

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.

Alex Edelman: "There's not a lot of comedy in being right."

Oct 9, 202651 min

Yaakov Katz: "An idea cannot be defeated."

Oct 7, 202639 min

David Pakman: "The stage was really set."

Oct 5, 202645 min

Roy Wood Jr.: "People just want to feel good."

Oct 2, 20261h 1m

Axes and Sodium with Rachel McCarthy James and Maria Konnikova

Sep 30, 202630 min

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Viral Misinformation and Public Health Failures

Sep 28, 202634 min

Django Gold: "Don't Be Funny"

Sep 25, 202654 min

KJ Steinberg: "The echoes of trauma are loud and they are long."

Sep 23, 202648 min

Ken Bensinger: "To catch the devil, sometimes you have to go to hell."

Sep 21, 202638 min

Sam Jay - Funny You Should Mention

Sep 18, 202649 min

Gilbert Gottfried: "My feeling is, can I get the hell out of here?"

Sep 16, 202635 min

Jennifer Esposito: "Finding a voice in a world that tells you not to have one."

Sep 14, 202637 min

Philip Mudd: "Take out the stops, make sure it doesn't happen again."

Sep 11, 202623 min

Gina Gershon: "You have to learn how to be tough."

Sep 9, 202642 min

Chuck D: "Art is your signature, it's your pulse."

Sep 7, 202635 min

Nimesh Patel: "I am always pro joke before I am pro anything."

Sep 4, 202655 min

Diane Foley and Elizabeth Tsurkov on Hostages, Wrongful Detentions, and State Terror

Sep 2, 20261h 1m

Vic Michaelis: "Improv is not just existing live in front of an audience on stage."

Aug 31, 202625 min

Virginia Sole-Smith: "Weight loss is not the solution."

Aug 28, 202639 min

Adam Kinzinger on Cults, Country, and Trump

Aug 26, 202637 min
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