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.
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Another amateur podcaster who doesn’t understand that it’s more important to introduce himself to the audience, then it is to start by running consecutive ads then eventually get into the introduction, followed by a bunch more ads. We didn’t join your podcast to hear ads - we joined to hear content and a well organized podcast, so do that. Maybe you hire a professional to help you with this. more
I have been a faithful listener of The Gist for about six years now. I don’t want all my information to come from an echo chamber, and I liked that Mike Pesca would sometimes present a viewpoint that challenged my own. Having said that, it feels more and more to me that he is often just playing the contrarian for his own sake. His jokey use of puns and rhymes no longer feels cute to me. He comes off as someone who feels like he is the smartest person in the room, and it has become stifling. He o... more
Consistently excellent and thought-provoking even when you disagree with the host or the guests. Give it a listen or three (or 3,000) before you believe the naysayers.
Mike Pesca is great, but I lost a lot of admiration for him when he started advertising gold. Gold, seriously?
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