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Aaron Tang: "Re-instill This Idea That We Can Sit Around and Talk to Each Other"
Mike Pesca on The Reason Roundtable
Janet McNamara: Smart People Think I'm Smart, Stupid People Think I'm Dumb
Astead Herndon: Polling Has Blind Spots That Regular People Explaining the "Why" Can Fill
Holly Buck: A Pause on New Data Centers Isn't Really Going to Slow the Progress of AI
Beyond the Politics of Contempt
David Oppenheimer: "The LSAT Is a Wonderful Predictive Tool for Determining An Applicant's Family Wealth"
Alvin Roth: "A Repugnant Transaction Is a Morally Contested Transaction"
Not Even Mad: Isaac Saul & Jamie Kirchick
David Oppenheimer: "Diversity Is Not About Being Comfortable"
J Schuberth: "I'd Settle for Number Two"
David Sussillo: "I Had to Be Like a God"
Mike Pesca on Fake the Nation
Matt Sterling: Finding the Strength to Survive
Franklin Foer: Did the Press Miss Biden's Decline?
Franklin Foer: Chronicling The Purged
David Epstein: Thinking Inside the Box
Kevin Williamson: The Psychotic State of Texas Politics
Finding Political Kryptonite with Paula Poundstone
Benjamin Saltzman: The Art of Turning Away
Not Even Mad: Russ Muirhead & Ben Dreyfuss
Jonathan Vigliotti: The Olympic Rush to Rebuild LA
Joseph Moore: Negotiating With Drug Dealers for Real Estate Success
Joseph Moore: The Despair Industrial Complex
Ethan Strauss: Great Writers, Bad Thinkers, and the Death of the Sports Gamer
Liz Hoffman: Why We Are So Pessimistic About a Resilient Economy
Liz Hoffman: Will AI Trigger a Jobless Food Fight?
Suzy Hansen: How The Syrian War Radicalized Erdoğan
Ted Dintersmith: The Life-Changing Math Schools Ignore
Richard Lapper: Why Lula Didn't Become a Chavista
Mike Pesca Might Be Wrong & The Art of Korean Rock Throwing
Maya Kornberg on How Congress Got Stuck
Not Even Mad: Sarada Peri & Sarah Isgur
Jennifer Shahade on the Grandmaster of Intermezzos: Donald Trump
Jonathan Cheng on the Realities of Uncovering North Korea
Jonathan Cheng on When Pyongyang Was the Jerusalem of the East
The Middle - Making the case for Voting by Phone
Chuck Todd: Why Politicians Are "The Weirdos"
Sarah Isgur: Why Forum Shopping is a Bigger Threat Than the Ethics Crisis
Sarah Isgur: "Stop Blaming the Court and Start Blaming Congress"
Jacob Mchangama On The "Four Hateful Men" Who Saved Free Speech
Jacob Mchangama On "Elite Panic"
Across The Movie Aisle: Mike Pesca's "***hole Tracker" Enters The Pitt
Matt Yglesias & Richard Kreitner: A Billion Americans vs. Breaking It Up
Not Even Mad: John Ganz & Nick Gillespie
Freddie DeBoer and Devon Price on the "Identity Trap" of Neurodiversity
Noam Scheiber and the "Vinyl Record" Phase of American Unions
Noam Scheiber on the "Class Confidence" of the Overqualified
Uncertain Things: "Joy as an Act of Resistance is the Dumbest Slogan of the Woke Era"
Funny You Should Mention: Raanan Hershberg
On today’s show, Mike offers an unreserved endorsement of comedian Raanan Hershberg and his new special, Morbidly Jewish. In this installment of Funny You Should Mention, the two discuss the trap of "normalizing the absurdity" in political comedy, the agony of naming a stand-up special, and Raanan's experience debating conspiracy theories on The Joe Rogan Experience. Plus, how Raanan managed to craft a truly original joke about Israel, and what it’s like to be a guy who has read Ulysses three times but still accidentally pours hot coffee on his own crotch. Produced by Corey Wara Video and Social Media by Geoff Craig Do you have questions or comments, or just want to say hello? Email us at [email protected] For full Pesca content and updates, check out our website at https://www.mikepesca.com/ For ad-free content or to become a Pesca Plus subscriber, check out https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ For Mike's daily takes on Substack, subscribe to The Gist List https://mikepesca.substack.com/ Follow us on Social Media: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pescagist/ X https://x.com/pescami TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@pescagist To advertise on the show, contact [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.