In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we start with a podcast extra we held over from our Thursday interview with Professor of Rhetoric Jennifer Mercieca, author of Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump, about how the former President uses language as a weapon. And then, in honor of Boris Johnson’s removal from the UK Prime Minister role, we listen back to Mike’s 2016 interview with Financial Times columnist Ed Luce conducted shortly after Boris was named UK Foreign Minister. Luce is the author of Time to Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline, and he shared some interesting insights about Boris as he rose to the top of UK politics.
Interview with Dr. Dave Stanton; Special Segment: The Fate of Fireworks; News Items: Universal Coronavirus Vaccine, Preserving Ukraine's Landmarks, Detecting Particles with Gravitational Waves, Who Owns the Moon; Your Questions and E-mails: What Is a Skeptic?; Science or Fiction
Warren Buffett isn’t planning on paying his shareholders a dividend, but he’s a big fan of getting a piece of his stocks’ profits. Ricky Mulvey joins The Motley Fool’s Matt Argersinger and Anthony Schiavone to talk about the fundamentals of dividend investing, including: - The case for buying dividend stocks - How to spot healthy payouts - A few interesting income-generating opportunities
Jack Barsky is a former KGB spy and author of “Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America”. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(06:52) – KGB
(19:43) – Communism
(38:45) – Childhood
(45:32) – Becoming a KGB agent
(1:24:04) – Training
(1:37:53) – Language
(1:43:45) – Moscow
(1:58:45) – Spying
(2:15:43) – Putin
(2:18:35) – War in Ukraine
(2:30:02) – Putin in the KGB
(2:36:56) – Yuri Bezmenov
(2:47:33) – FSB and CIA
(2:55:24) – Putin and Zelenskyy
(3:04:13) – Quitting the KGB
(3:30:32) – Love and regrets
(3:38:44) – Mortality
Phoenix Mercury star center Brittney Griner pleaded guilty Thursday to drug charges in Russia and faces up to 10 years in prison. But the U.S. says she’s been wrongfully detained, leading many of her supporters to wonder why officials haven’t done more to intervene.
GUESTS:
Julie DiCaro, writer and editor at Deadspin
Cheryl Raye-Stout, WBEZ sports contributor
After years of what many would consider hostility to the industry, the British government did a major about-face in April when Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced the country’s intention to make the U.K. a global crypto hub. But as Sunak resigned as part of a mass exit leading to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation this week, that ideal seems unlikely.
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Special guest Ray Smock. He has written many books and was official historian of the US house for 12 years. We discuss politics, Trump, elections etc....
In the mid-19th century, the various games called football separated and evolved into their own games.
While association football and rugby became dominant on one side of the Atlantic, a totally different version of football evolved on the other side of the Atlantic.
That version of the game over the course of 150 years has grown into the move valuable professional sports league in the world.
Learn more about American Football and how it grew into the game it is today, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
You may have heard of Web3. The idea has been around for several years but it’s better known now thanks to its link to the blockchain and cryptocurrencies. And yet, not everyone is sure exactly what it is and whether it’s the internet of the future or just a dead-end trend.
Today, our guest is here to help break it all down in plain English. Gilad Edelman is a senior writer for WIRED magazine. He wrote the June cover story called “Inside the Web3 Revolution.” He learned all about Web3, got to know the people hoping to make it a mainstream reality, and shares the potential pros and cons of this latest buzzword.
