The Gist
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Al Franken: " I had a career in identifying absurdity. And I know it when I see it."
Aug 24, 202633 min
TJ Miller: "When the air hits your brain, it's never the same."
Aug 21, 202649 min
Chris Smalls: "Worker led means worker led."
Aug 19, 202644 min
Bob Saget: "I just, I wanna entertain people."
Aug 17, 202621 min
Andrew Fox: Make something that surprises people because everyone's bored.
Aug 14, 202647 min
Derrick Palmer: "The union was always the solution."
Aug 12, 202622 min
Larry Wilmore: "I have pushed for the ability to suck in anything, rather than just racial content."
Aug 10, 202624 min
Kelsey Snelling: "Anytime there is a scale, you can't do so ethically."
Aug 7, 202645 min
Funny You Should Mention: Des Bishop
Aug 5, 20261h 8m
Nathan Alebach: "Don't listen to me, I'm just a frozen piece of meat."
Aug 3, 202623 min
Lara Bazelon: "What are the repercussions when you speak outside your tribe?"
Jul 31, 202629 min
Justin Garson: "If you turn dopamine on and off, you can turn schizophrenia on and off."
Jul 29, 202634 min
Maria Konnikova: "If you're looking for a healthy food, this ain't it."
Jul 27, 202621 min
Robby Hoffman: "For me, to complain is to enjoy."
Jul 24, 20261h 5m
Helen Lewis: "Vulnerable guys could use a friend, but they get a charlatan."
Jul 22, 202636 min
Ted Kaye: "You can love a flag and have it co-opted."
Jul 20, 202628 min
Vincent Schiraldi: Mass Supervision and Criminal Justice Reform
Jul 17, 202635 min
Michael Murphy: "The Spaces Around Us Are Shaping Us and Changing Us"
Jul 15, 202642 min
Steven Johnson: "We Have Three Levels of Probability. It's Gonna Happen, It's Not Gonna Happen, and Maybe"
Jul 13, 202634 min
Funny You Should Mention: Jeff Arcuri
Jul 10, 202658 min
Pesca La Vista
Jul 9, 202634 min
David Wain & Ken Marino: "We're Always Modulating The Madcap"
Jul 8, 202638 min
Batya Ungar-Sargon: "Anti-Zionism Now Is A Central Plank Of Leftist Politics"
Jul 7, 202649 min
Ray Madoff: "The Tax System No Longer Taxes Investments And Inheritances"
Jul 6, 202651 min
Chris Cillizza: "Most Of Those People Don't Pay"
Jul 4, 20261h 3m
Not Even Mad: Elizabeth Bruening & Ben Kawaller
Jul 2, 20261h 2m
Isaac Butler: "Part Of Living In A Society Means Giving Over A Certain Amount Of Agency"
Jul 2, 202646 min
Eric Lichtblau: "Hate Speech Leads Directly To Hate Crimes"
Jul 1, 202636 min
Ben Fountain: "We're Real Good At The Blur"
Jun 30, 202646 min
Ro Khanna & Mike Pesca: The Middle
Jun 27, 202653 min
Funny You Should Mention: Graham Kay
Jun 26, 20261h 4m
Anna Varfolomeeva: "Eighty Percent Of Russian Troops Are Getting Wiped Out Before They Reach The Front Line"
Jun 25, 202634 min
Ben Rhodes: "The Thing They Do As The Next Step Is The Most Consequential Part Of The Deal"
Jun 24, 202631 min
Ben Rhodes: "If We Had To Pay With All This Blood, It Was Worth It"
Jun 23, 202642 min
Michael A. Cohen: "There Is an Inherent Bias Toward Exaggerating the Benefits of Using Military Force"
Jun 22, 202643 min
Michael Schur: "The Afterlife Score Is Mathematical and Omniscient, But It Might Be Wrong"
Jun 20, 202627 min
Not Even Mad: Anthony Weiner & Matt Welch
Jun 18, 202653 min
Sadie Dingfelder: "You Cannot Be Burned by Wind Alone"
Jun 17, 202630 min
Michael Schur: "It Is Funny to Watch Fans Turn Themselves Inside Out to Try to Hold on to Something That No Longer Exists"
Jun 16, 202629 min
Joe Posnanski: "Life Is Lonely, and Sports Provides a Community"
Jun 15, 202640 min
Chris Cillizza: "Most of the People I Know in Media Can Barely Pay Their Bills"
Jun 13, 202646 min
Gary Slutkin: "Violence Meets Every Scientific Definition of a Contagious Disease"
Jun 12, 202630 min
Not Even Mad: Bradley Tusk & Charles Fain Lehman
Jun 11, 202655 min
Sadie Dingfelder: "Raccoons Have Never Been a Rabies Vector in America"
Jun 10, 202634 min
Benoit Denizet-Lewis: The Case Against “I’ve Changed”
Jun 8, 202646 min
Tom Steyer’s Very Expensive Optimism
Jun 6, 202627 min
Christian Miller: Why We Say We Love Honesty, Then Reward Liars
Jun 5, 202635 min
Claude Steele Has a Better Way to Talk About Race
Jun 4, 202641 min
Ian Coss: How One Man Controlled A Quarter Of New England’s Groundfish
Jun 3, 202639 min
Simone Stolzoff: We’re Getting Worse At Not Knowing
Jun 2, 202633 min