The Gist
Peach Fish Productions
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.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Gist podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 6 episodes
Hope for Cynics
The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
Jamil Zaki
#2 Mentioned in 5 episodes
How Do You Know
Chris Mayer
#3 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Pronoun Trouble
the story of us in seven little words
John McWhorter
#4 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Original Sin
President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Alex Thompson
Jake Tapper
#5 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Lawless
The Miseducation of America’s Elites
Ilya Shapiro
#6 Mentioned in 3 episodes
An Abundance of Caution
American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of the Worst Policy Failure in a Century
David Zweig
#7 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Do I Know You? A FaceBlind Reporter's Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination
Sadie Dingfelder
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
2024
How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America
Tyler Pager
Isaac Arnsdorf
Josh Dawsey
#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Outclassed
How the Left Lost the Working Class
Joan C. Williams
#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Interficial Art-Telligence
None
Chuck D
#11 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Revenge
Michael Cohen
#12 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies
Inalienable Rights
Aziz Huq
#13 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Original Sin
Henri Blochet
#14 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Black Pill
How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
Elle Reeve
#15 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Codename: Pale Horse
How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis
Scott Payne
#16 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Money Lies and God
Katherine Stewart
#17 Mentioned in 2 episodes
On Bullshit
Harry Frankfurt
#18 Mentioned in 2 episodes
How to Save a Constitutional Democracy
None
Aziz Huq
#19 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Say Hello to the Bad Guys
How Professional Wrestling's New World Order Changed America
Mark Raimondi
#20 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Hate Inc.
Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
Matt Taibbi
