The Gist

Georgia Is a Laboratory

In the Gist, Georgia is opening back up.
In the interview, Mike talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling author Jon Meacham about his new podcast with Cadence13 - Hope, Through History – a documentary series on confronting and triumphing over crises in America. 
In the spiel, the end of irony?
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Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley.
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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.