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Episode Date: November 14, 2024

Episode #636: Mike Pesca, longtime friend of the show and host of The Gist, joins Bryan & Krissy to discuss politics! Just kidding...kind of. Mike, Bryan & Krissy discuss Mike's new series of comedian interviews: Funny You Should Mention. Mensa The guardrails are OFF at TCB! Ask TCB Dump Him!!!!!!! Mike Pesca and The Gist The many lotions for bald heads Why the democrats lost Pollsters Bryan’s mind gets blown Deportation Mike’s new interview series: Funny You Should Mention Comedians Vine Special Guest: Mike Pesca Listen: The Gist Watch: The Gist/Funny You Should Mention on YouTube Text us or leave us a voicemail: [phone]TCB Follow Us: IG: @thecommercialbreak TikTok: @tcbpodcast YT: youtube.com/thecommercialbreak www.tcbpodcast.com Executive Producer: Bryan Green Hosts: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Producer: Astrid B. Green Producer & Audio Editor: Christina Archer Christina’s Podcast: Apple Podcasts & Spotify To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It might be the case. It might be the case. And this guy's like, I'm playing ho-hos in a ho-focus. I'm busting my ass in this ball damn effort. The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Go 30 in the morning! Oh yeah, cats and kittens, welcome back to The Commercial Break. Commercial break starts now. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and co-host of the show, Chris and Joy

Hoadley. Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Super excited about today's activities, today's events. Soon we will be bringing in Mr. Mike Peska, noted political pundit and overall commentarian on current events and news. He used to work for Slate Magazine, now a host of the very popular daily podcast The Gist. And The Gist is taking a long and winding road, and we'll talk to him

about this, into the land of comedy. I thought that was our lane, but Mike's going to take over as he always does, because he's much smarter than I am. I think he's actually a member of Mensa, so we'll discuss that with him. One Mensa member to another, we'll have a discussion on the fees and how the locker rooms have gotten quite messy. The secret handshakes? Secret handshakes and how the locker room

has gotten quite messy over there at the Mensa Country Club. But I wanna get right to an ask TCB that we received. I thought it was timely. We should discuss it. Let everything be on the table here, Chrissy, at the commercial break. All the guardrails are now off TCB.com. TCBpodcast.com. They weren't before? Yeah, but we kind of stayed in a certain lane.

I don't want to open it up just a little bit, because I think this is an important question, and one that my wife and I have dealt with directly in our own sphere of influence. Like, not us, like, we haven't dealt with this particular issue, but people we know have. So here is the Ask TCB. It's flat out simple.

I don't even need to read it. Here it is. My boyfriend and I have been together for four years, recently moved in together about six months ago, and everybody in the entire world, us included, and I have been together for four years, recently moved in together about six months ago, and everybody in the entire world, us included, were affected by the election, like the ramp up to the election,

and the stress that comes along with that, and all the daily news and daily junk. But without having much conversation about it, the two days before the election, she learned that her boyfriend would be voting for the candidate she did not care for. And she is now rethinking her entire relationship with said boyfriend. What to do? Dump them. That's what I mean. You gotta dump them. I don't know any other way to put it. How did that not get talked about before?

Well, there's a little bit more to the email. I need to leave out certain identifying like factors. So I don't want to get into every single clue. But I will say this is that they had agreed they were going to vote for one candidate. And then a couple of days beforehand, he changed his mind and thought for the following reasons, this would be the better candidate. Now, of course, you probably figure out, you don't, she voted for Harris, he voted for Trump,

but I'm not gonna allude, I'm just gonna say it out loud. And what to do? Here's my opinion on opinion. You can have a difference of opinion. Differences of opinion are what make the world go round. I don't think there's any, you know, I don't think that, a difference of opinion is, I don't like blue cheese stuffed olives.

That's an opinion. That is an opinion, right? Do you really not? Or I nutfully don't like blue cheese stuffed olives. That's an opinion. That is an opinion, right? Do you really not? Or I nutfully, I hate blue cheese stuffed olives. God damn are they disgusting. And look at us. That is fine, but we're not married and we don't live together.

I mean, we kind of live together, but only for like four hours, three days a week. So that's good. But we have heard about similar situations going on in our own sphere of influence. Yeah, and how this young lady says, it really makes my stomach turn to think that he voted for the other person.

Now, let's take out of it who you like or who you don't like. I think in 2024, these are not differences of opinion. These are like differences in 2024, these are not differences of opinion. These are like differences in fundamental, universal, spiritual energy, right? It's like good versus evil on both sides of the aisle. I'm sure everyone feels the same way. That is something that is stomach turning. And it's going to be hard to give that guy a hand shandy in the shower when you disrespect his universal spiritual energy. That's really hard. And the fact that he told you two days ahead of time meant that he was just scared all along to tell you that he was a Musk fanboy, right? That's just it. And so put aside all of

the details regarding the political differences. I don't see how you live under the same roof with somebody and literally suck them off when you just despise everything that they feel the world needs to be. How do you do that? I don't know. I'm not, I'm sure there are people that are very civil in this world that could do that. Who is that famous couple? George Conway and Kellyanne Conway? Divorce now. Oh, they are? Well, there you go. Now, see, there you've had it. I don't think it worked out.

Yeah. And Astrid and I have heard from a couple of couples, one way or the other, that there's significant other. They know, voted for the other person and they're very unhappy. This is tough. Very, very tough. Because again, I felt like with this election, it wasn't the, you know, like, okay, a moderate Republican, you know, like it wasn't a normal Republican. I feel like you're voting for the actual person and his beliefs. Well, he's a populist, right? He's a populist by all definitions. And by some definitions, he's other things.

But I'm not going to get into that. I'm not here to poke the honeypot too much. But what I will say is that a populist is a cult of personality by definition. It's somebody that you really like because of who they are, not because of what they stand for. Like, Mitt Romney is a, like, he's just a politician. You either like his platform or you don't like his platform. He is about as personalityless as it gets. And like, I know about Mitt and all,

I mean, Chrissy and I worked for Mitt for like three months. And so we know all about the guy and, you know, his beliefs and all that other bullshit. You don't need to do too much research. But Mitt Romney is just a vessel through which political action will take place or not take place. Trump is a personality.

He changes his mind every fucking five seconds. He doesn't know what he's for or what he's against. It doesn't matter, whichever room he's in will dictate his agenda, particularly. And there's no particular platform whatsoever. Now, a lot of people will say the same thing about Harris, although she had like a truncated amount of time to put that platform out there. I think she tried to play the same card.

Will you vote for me because you like me? Right. And we can see how well that went. Um, but you know, I got to tell you, young lady, I don't know. I mean, and she's young too. This, this woman who, who, who dialed up and let us know this is like 29 years old. You got a lot of life living ahead of you and this might not be the one. I'm just sharing that.

I don't know how you're going to get through the next four years when he's rooting on everything that you dislike. That's a really hard thing to do. And if you do it, you're better than I am. And it doesn't mention children or dogs or cats or anything like that. So, give him the fish and let him walk out. Let him go on his way. That's my opinion. That is an opinion. That is an opinion, not a fundamental, you know, spiritual energy that I have. I just- Jared Sussman I agree. I think it'd be really hard.

Jared Sussman It's very difficult. Yeah, and I think that's like my personal opinion is that it's difficult in 2024 for all of us, no matter what side of the aisle you're on, to look at each other on the opposite aisle and say fundamentally, I want to like hang out with you. I want to be your friend. I think you're a great person." Because politics has become so deeply emotional for everybody, because it really has become deeply personal for a lot of people. Like some of the things that some people on both sides of the aisle are talking about doing or not doing are like fundamental rights, like things that can change your life. And- And generations.

And generations in a heartbeat. And so when you, when it gets that part, like, I don't care if State Highway 92 is named after a traffic reporter that died in a terrible accident. That to me does not affect my life whatsoever. A penny gas tax so the schools can get more pencils. That doesn't affect me except for maybe in my, in my pocketbook. Like, uh, I'm going to deport you tomorrow because, because is another thing altogether. Not that I don't believe that we should have laws or borders, but like just some of the rhetoric and some of the things that are being said are so fiery and so firebending on both sides of the aisle, just to let you know that.

Um, because there are people on the left who have equally like life-changing things they wanna do to people, for people, around people, that it's hard not to look at somebody on the other aisle and say, if you believe in that stuff, do I believe in you? Like, that's a really difficult thing to do. So I will say this to this young lady. Thank you for listening to the commercial break. Your boyfriend is a terrible person and he should be,

no, I'm kidding. No, I don't know. I don't know how you think it works. Let us know how it works out. Oh, I'm sure she would. I mean, that's tough after moving in together too. I think the decision has already been made. Just the fact that she texted in.

I mean, I think the decision was made when he told you this. And I can only imagine, if you're as fiery as I am, I can only imagine the conversation that went down when the two of you decided to go vote. Like, how do you even, I don't know, how do you broach that subject? How do you smooth that over? How do you make that better? How do you make that better?

I'm not sure, I don't know. I don't know how you do that. Yeah, because even if you do say, try and say, hey, okay, agree to disagree and let's not even talk about it, you're still there. There's that little kernel in your brain that's gonna know and it's gonna fester.

And especially over these next four years, we'll see. But yeah, like, I don't know, you know, when you like, I don't know, you know, when you like you have differences, it's like I didn't care for the spring salad that you made tonight. You know, I mean, that's like a difference of that's like a difference. It's like a little argument that you guys have, you know, I just didn't care for it. It didn't taste good. I don't like walnuts, whatever the deal is. When it's like, I don't have autonomy over my body. That's a whole different animal. Exactly. It really is. So good luck to you, young lady. I hope everything turns out well for you and the

rest of the earth, to be quite frank, hoping everything turns out well. Did you hear the- Me too. I'm trying to be positive. Trying. It's hard. It's hard. It's hard. But you got to remember, we voted for the person on the losing side. It doesn't mean that I loved everything about Harris or hate everything about Trump and their agenda. It just means that when you lose, there's always a lump in your throat and a sour belly, always. So I'm trying not to be too, like, you know, kicking my dirt and stuff like that. But at the end of the day, it hurts. It hurts. And we're all still feeling it. And it hasn't even started yet. So there we go. It hasn't even started yet. So this will be a, for sure, without a

doubt, there will be political conversation on this particular episode of The Commercial Break, because we have invited Mike Peska weeks ago to come in and have this conversation around his new comedy podcast focus. He's talking to comedians around the world, a lot of the same comedians we are talking to. One that I listened to last night was Rachel Feinstein, who is fantastically funny. He has a podcast called The Gist. It's terribly popular. A lot of people like it. He is a pragmatic pragmatist, if you will. And he's a lovely human being, been a friend of the shows for a long time. We just never had a chance to bring him in.

And so, I mean, we never took guests until recently anyway, but I'm so glad he's coming in. Mike Peska from the Gist in just a few moments. So let's do this. Let's take a break. And when we get back, we'll have Mr. Mike Peska here with us on the commercial break. Nice.

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Follow and listen to Office Ladies on the free Odyssey app and wherever you get your podcasts. And Mike Peska from The Gist here. Now Mike, thanks for joining us. We certainly appreciate it. Hello. It certainly appreciate it. Hi, Mike. Hello. It's my pleasure. Live from the cat habitat in Brooklyn, New York, if I'm not mistaken.

Cat-pitat, correct. The cat-pitat. Yeah. How are the cats? They're good. They don't have hair. Are they both hairless or just one of them hairless? No, no. Noke and Matza are both hairless. They don't know that though, so they don't know that. They just lick themselves regardless. You know who else is hairless who is a little know that though. So they just they lick themselves regardless.

You know who else is hairless who is sensitive about me and you. But the amount you know what the receptivity to all the good lotions they've come out with. Yeah, pretty good. That's a pretty big upside. Wait, the lotions that take away the hair? No, I'm just saying that there are many products. There are many lotions for the bald head. And if I had hair there, I wouldn't appreciate that there are many products, there are many lotions for the bald head, and if I had hair there, I wouldn't appreciate them as much.

Yes. There you go. Your emoluments, your rub-ins, etc. I have a 38-minute routine after I get out of the shower. That does not include the hour and a half I spend in the shower, notorious for long showers. That's why I got a water heater that's the size of one of my bedrooms. But at the same time, I love a good lotion, and I got to say- Who doesn't? I got a water heater that's the size of one of my bedrooms. But at the same time, I'd love a good lotion. And I gotta say, I love a good lotion. I've just become

this way in my old age. Pete Slauson And it's good to put it on your head because when it's on other parts of your body, you know, slippage can result. But the head is usually up there alone navigating the world. Did you see the SNL song about the bald men? I don't know, I didn't understand their point. I mean, it's good to be seen, right? Jared Slauson Yes. It is good to be seen. Mike, you are a noted, I want to say, a pundit, an observationist. I mean, you are really good at what you do on the gist because

you are so damn intelligent. Are you part of Mensa? Mike McDonald It's funny because my wife and I just took IQ tests and after me telling her that there are a lot of statistics that show the ideal IQ in a mate and leader is 120. I thought she'd be about a 120. She tested higher than that and then I tested lower. Oh no. I have a lot of excuses, a number of them, like I wasn't paying attention, I didn't mean it. You know, you shouldn't get sarcastic on an IQ test.

These are some of my excuses. No. I consider you a brilliant guy, one of the smarter guys that I've known in my life. And it would not be fair to the audience for me to let you start this conversation without sharing your thoughts on the recent election and why the Democrats lost and why Trump has won. Yet again, the Teflon Don avoids consequences of any actions and he also gained followers, you know, gained popularity. Yeah. How did this happen? Pick any ethnic group or any group at all in America that he was supposed to have

offended and he actually gained with all of them. Every single one of them, right? The only ones he didn't offend were college educated whites. He didn't bother going against them. I guess he needed their money and he did well with them. So, the election results was the word is over determined. Do you know what I mean by that? Yeah, explain. Yeah, many different reasons. Yes. It's a horrible college educated white term for many different reasons. And if you took out one of them, you probably still would have won, but I would say in order, number one, inflation, it's killed every incumbent party the world over. And no matter who the Democrats were running in this term, they probably would have lost.

But who the Democrats were running was number two. And I don't think Kamala Harris was some sort of awful candidate. No, I don't think so at all. She only had 106 days. She wasn't running with her own people. And if there was a regular primary and if she was awful, and that did happen once, I mean, I don't know if all are awful, but she was happen once, I mean, awful, but it was not appealing. She wouldn't have been the candidate. So like there is a logic to having a primary and

testing people and making sure they get their bad answers out of the way then. Yeah, that was two. I think the third one is the what the Democratic Party, the brand, what it means to people and a lot of it's deserved. And I have an article in the Atlantic called the HRification of the Democratic Party. And you've worked in corporate jobs, you both have and HR might be necessary, but it's definitely not beloved. And I just think the Democrats come across as the HR department, you know, their initiatives and their supposed fun that is compelled and their bureaucracy and their form filling and their DEI and their not really being that essential to the mission, all that stuff.

It's just like a bummer of an experience. And even if the non-reptilian parts of your brain are saying to yourself, well, we need HR and aren't the Democrats kind of the adults in the room? It just doesn't feel good, you know? It doesn't. I think I agree with you here is that it feels a little nanny-ish, right? The whole situation and then, you know, some parts of the Democratic Party, I think, get me and I, my father-in-law has this saying that extremes on both sides end up in the same place, right? And so I think that on the way opposite end,

there's just like this very loud segment of the Democratic party that rings that bell way too much. And it does feel a little nanniesh and it's like a buzz killer, right? It's like a fun sponge. It's taking all the fun out of what we're supposed to be doing. And I think that the people in the middle,

who are me and you and Chrissy and whoever else, I would like to think anyway, feel not attached to it as much as maybe we should and the message gets lost a little bit. Right. Because what's one main job of the HR department? Compliance. They'll admit that and compliance isn't what we turn to politics for. It's not aspirational. And you know, Donald Trump for all his flaws, he's certainly not offering compliance. And I think that the Democrats, you know, and that extreme loud part of the party, they have big sway on Democrats who want to say normal things that would appeal to normal people, but they're a little afraid of what that part of the party

will say. And recently, we had a couple of representatives, of course, only after the election saying, maybe we should have said something about, you know, boys and girls, teams and girls on boys teams. And the answer was no, that's just bigotry. And even if you think it is bigotry, they couldn't even make a point other than it was bigotry. They ignored that really, really effective commercial that Donald Trump is for you and therefore they, them, and it was everywhere. And it wasn't the sort of thing you could put up on PolitiFact or Fact Check and say, oh no, she never said that. Like, she did say that. So just, I don't think, hey, I said overdetermined, right? And it's about installation. It's definitely not about the trans rights issue, but it is sort of what that symbolized in terms of Kamala

Harris giving like a really bad weird answer because she thought it was the spirit of the time, but also the inability of Democrats to be a little sensible about that and say, Yeah, I heard that ad and I don't agree with it. And I hear your concerns. They don't say that, you know, because the HR department, essentially that they are, tells them not to. Yes. And as Kristi and I were sharing a couple of days ago, the hard fact is it's really not over determined.

More people showed up to vote for Trump that voted for Harris in the states where it mattered and he gained amongst almost every swing state he gained and less Democrats or less people who voted for Biden last time showed up at the at the ballot box. The excitement that we all thought was in the air was not really in the air, right? Yeah. How did pollsters get this so wrong? Well, a couple of points. I hated the joy part of the campaign. I just like if the campaign

is joyous, be joyous, but don't be explicitly joyous or meta joyous. It's like, Kamala's coming to town. What's she selling? What program? Joy. That is not what I go to a Kamala Harris rally for or a concert for. Yeah.

Yeah. And then the brat summer thing, she didn't lose because of brat summer, but that lasted a little too long and no one understood it. And as soon as like Jake Tapper on CNN was making jokes about it, it was dead. And Jake's a cool guy for a 55 year old news man, but it ain't Brad. We said this when it was happening. I was like, when the news guys are trying to explain Brad summer is over like it's done. Like from dances to YMCA, the worst form possible. Somehow we put that in a part of our brain of beloved

grandpa at a, well, maybe not beloved, but tolerated grandpa at a wedding. And when Kamala or the people around her think that brat is the selling point, we just go, nah, nah. So, wait, what was your original question? Jared Sussman The pollsters. How did they get it so wrong? They are essentially futurists, right? And I don't believe anybody can see into the future. People have been trying to do this for, you know, since the beginning of time, they've been trying to see into the future and I can tell what's going on. But is it time to say that the polling as it has been traditionally in the past, it's just

a dead version of trying to see the future? I'm going to blow your mind, Brian. Oh, here it comes. Blow that ball. My mind's not the mine. The glasses. My mind. Yeah. Polsters did really well.

You think so? Yes. In the swing states. First of all, we all know about margin of error and you can't really expect a poll to get it right within one point or two points. If you talk to 4000 people and you could correctly figure out where and you nail where 2,000 are going, but you don't nail where 1,770 are going, you didn't do a bad job. And that's essentially what the pollsters did. And if you look at

the really close states, they were, I think they missed a little in Arizona, but they were within like a point and a half in Michigan and a point and a half in Wisconsin and a point or two points in Pennsylvania. They actually did really well in the margin of error. And Nate Silver, who I guess took some heat because he said it's very, very, very close, but he thought Kamala Harris, he didn't think his numbers show Kamala Harris would win, although he wrote an article in the New York Times two weeks before saying that's what the numbers say, my gut says Trump's going to win. He had day before the election, a chart of all the likely outcomes or all the possible outcomes in terms of the electoral college. And if you look at his chart, the number one outcome that he predicted would happen, the most likely outcome, was Trump winning exactly 312 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Trump win? 322, was it? 312. 312, geez. He nailed it exactly. You know, I did watch Nate Silver. Yeah. I did watch Nate Silver, and I know that he came close.

So I guess I want to maybe illuminate a different point. Why does everyone feel so let down? Everyone got so excited because the pollsters showed that, you know, Kamala is on the upswing, the undecideds are swinging toward Kamala. It's going to be a close election, but we can, I'd rather be Kamala than be Trump. And I guess if you're living in an echo chamber, then on the other side, they were saying the same thing about Trump. But everybody that I have spoken with, that I consider relatively intelligent about this

stuff and informed voters, fuck the polls, the polls were so wrong, they took all the swing states. But you make an interesting point point is that the margin of error is three points plus or minus. They got it right. Three points plus or minus. They did. Pete Slauson Yeah. Jared Sussman And every swing state was within a point at the last, most of the last polls that came out were within a point. Pete Liesveld Yeah, point issue, right.

Jared Sussman Yeah. So, what happens now? Does democracy… Pete Slauson Let me tell you one more thing about that. Jared Sussman Sure, please. Pete Slauson So, you know odds and maybe, you know, sports gambling or people in your audience do and if there's a 50% free throw shooter, what are the chances he makes seven free throws in a row or what's the chance there are seven heads in a row? Yeah, the answer is one out of 128. Right?

It's one over two 50% of the time, times seven. Yep. So you say, wait, so then they were wrong when they said seven swing states were all a coin flip and they got them all wrong, but states and elections don't work like coin flips. It's actually correlated. So if Pennsylvania goes one way, for the most part, Michigan's going to go that way and Wisconsin's going to go that way. And the same is true with Georgia and North Carolina, they're going to go in way. And the same is true with Georgia and North Carolina, they're gonna go in unison. Arizona and Nevada are gonna go in unison, and then they're

all connected. So like, if everyone's a little wrong in one direction, they're most likely gonna be all wrong in one direction. And that's what happened. I think we kind of confused what coin flip meant seven times versus the fact that it's an election. I, and we just want, we want to be, why are people who lost the election disappointed when they were told it was close? Obviously they're going to be very disappointed because they had a lot invested in it. And then there is motivated reasoning for why you see a cloud and think it's a cowboy and not a spaceship, right? Pete Yeah, interesting. Yeah. Pete And then there's the fact that a lot of the people, a lot of the people in our

media aren't like the media when we were kids, which really, not that they don't care, but it was very incumbent upon them not to favor one side or the other. Most media consumption is by people who want an outcome, and they're not diverse in terms of which media you're looking at. So MSNBC knows that 90 something percent of its viewers want Kamala to win. So when you have people who want to hear that, you're more incentivized. I'm not saying people were lying, but you're more incentivized to see the cloud as a cowboy, or to only tell your audience things that will get them excited. Plus, there's the component of some of these outlets, I was listening to the Dan Bongino show, he's a conservative guy, former secret service agent. And the day of the election,

his pitch was, we're gonna win, I'm telling you we're gonna win all the and then he would cite, he would cite early voting, which actually did trend for Republicans. And we could have seen that if we looked at it. But he was saying, we need you to go out and vote. We need you to do this because if you don't execute the plan, we're not going to win as much as we know we can. Now MSNBC wouldn't be that explicit, but they're essentially trying to motivate their viewers to vote because everyone at the network wants a win.

And so we're not in a situation where people are just reporting the news really in an unbiased way. Bias exists in human nature, right? But I think now more there is an audience incentive to not even examine the bias or to lean into the bias, because that's where you make your money. That's what the audience is telling you. I agree with you. There's a bifurcated audience. We want that echo chamber. It makes us feel good. It warms us and sure it warms the cockles of our heart. It assures us that, you know,

Rachel Maddow is telling us all the good news out of the polls while the bad news is largely ignored. And so, and to some degree, we are getting what we asked for, right? They're just following the trends of living in echo chambers, all of us in these siloed media environments. Maybe you listen to Pod Save America, right? Which is all a bunch of former Obama guys. And it's newsy. They're telling you nonfiction, but that's not a news show. It seems newsy. I'm not saying they're lying to you. They're not presenting as something else.

But you're like, oh, I listen to a lot of news. I listen to Pod Save America. That's not news. Those are democratic operatives trying to get a democratic result, trying to give you good news, probably a little self-deluded themselves. And it's a lot different from the ideal of Walter Cronkite. Peter T. Laxley So let me ask you this. What happens now?

Does the democracy crumble? Does democracy fail? Do we have another fair election? Do we have any elections whatsoever? Is the worst of liberals' fears and tears going to come true or is this just a lot of bluster to make us scared of the other side of the aisle and the fact is democracy holds? Yeah, I do think democracy holds. I do think it will be tested. And the clearest indication of this is it happened from 2017 through 2020. And it held. Now I know all the arguments, oh, there are no guardrails. Well, we've seen who Trump is picking. And there are some head scratchers. And there are some, I think, pleasant surprises with, say, Marco Rubio seems

of the people to be Secretary of state seems like a fair enough pick for Donald Trump. So it is true that you could look at all societies and all of them, all the big ones from the Romans to the Ottomans have crumbled, but it's also not true that if you were living inside those societies, you'd get it right the moment that it does crumble. Pete Slauson Fair. Pete Slauson So, I do think the thing that saved us first time around

were competent people doing their jobs, competent people in the justice department and in the different agencies and in Homeland Security. And those people are still there. They're still dedicated to doing their jobs. They're still paid to do their jobs. They probably a bunch of them don't like Trump. So they're incentivized to do their jobs. He's not a guy with a ton of follow up. Also, I don't think he's literally a Hitler figure. I don't think he's a murderous psychotic. I think he's someone who's very vain and very thin-skinned and likes to punish his enemies, but it'll just take so much work to effectively punish his enemies. So for instance, I don't think Kamala Harris is going to be in an orange jumpsuit unless, you know, that's her fashion

choice that day. I don't think that some of the big name people that he threatened to prosecute, I don't think that'll happen. But on my show, I was talking to an expert who was saying what he can do is launch investigations and the little guy, people we don't heard of, people who signed off on a document or was the special counsel Jack Smith's assistant. I don't know, maybe they did something wrong, maybe they did nothing wrong, but they're going to spend a lot on lawyers to try to defend themselves. That's terrible, that's horrible. Does it affect your life unless it gets to the point of full-scale political prosecutions? No. The other thing he's going to do is he's, I think he's definitely going to pardon some January 6th insurrection. That's bad. What can you do? And then there's

the question of deportations and some will happen and it's what's the scale, you know, there's, he says there's 20 million unlawful people unlawfully in America. That's probably too high. It's probably 12. If he went after even three or four million, it would be a big deal, but it would also like really hurt the economy. He doesn't want to hurt the economy. He doesn't want to hurt stock markets. His stated tariff deal is never going to go in at that high price point because it would wreck the economy. This happened the first time. When he says something in a speech and people cheer, he'll keep saying it, but that's the sign that he doesn't usually believe in. I don't think he ever believed Mexico is going to pay for

the wall. When he says something over and over not in a speech, like his goal of deportation and his pardons, that's probably something he will do, but will probably survive it. I'm an optimist. Jared Svelter As far as deportations are concerned, I'm an optimist too. And you know, a lot of the things that Trump said last time, and granted, he did, you know, it's kind of like the gang that couldn't shoot straight, right? A lot of these things did not come true because democracy held or because Trump just kind of let it go.

He just like, it fell apart. And as far as deportation is concerned, I read somewhere that it costs on average about $140,000 to $400,000 to deport one person from the United States of America and fly them back to their home country if the home country will take them at all. That is a massive amount of money if you're talking about even 2 million people. Where does the money come from? Where is the manpower? Where are the hours the money come from? Where's the manpower? Where are the hours gonna come from and what are we what ball are we dropping if we all start focusing on? You know our ebolita who's been here for 20 years not bothering anybody

So that's that and I I have to you know I have to think that at the end of the day This is a lot like high school for those who are And what I mean by high school the first day of high school is, it's never as good as you hoped it would be. It's never as bad as you feared it would be, right? It's somewhere in the middle. It ends up being just kind of a ho-hum day

where maybe a few little exciting things happen. And I think that's what's gonna happen. And what we forget about in retrospect are things like how much your sweater itched and how tired you were in the morning and these little indignities. And then you remember, I don't know, maybe if the prom was good or that one game where the football team, you know, outkicked the competition. And so our memory and this is probably why Trump won, right? Our memory of it was a little gauzy. Although I do have to say about that

deportation number. You know, I'm sure the Trump people would say, well, that's all it's only that high because we haven't been doing it enough. If you do it at scale, we'll lower the number. Then again, if you deport the people on planes and they, you know, buy that snack kit, that's like 799. We have to not let them do that. I'm a humanitarian, but yeah, you shouldn't allow them to buy the, yeah. No more nuts and pretzels. Yeah. Yeah. Just the pretzels? Yeah? Yeah. Well, that's a Chacuna Rebord.

Just the pretzels. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Not the cheese plate. Come on, guys. We've got a country to run here. We can't give champagne out on the deportation flight. Well, listen, you make me feel better,

because you are a pragmatic pragmatist, Mike, if you're anything. And you make me feel a little bit better, because I was saddened by the result. I can't say that I me feel a little bit better because I, you know, I was saddened by the result. I can't say that I wasn't a little bit shocked, but I also probably had that delusional optimism that comes with any election that is close as I did in 2016, as I did in 2020 and ended up on the side of the coin that I chose.

But the reality I think is there's a lot of bluster going on right now. And I think at the end of the day, you know, most of this bluster ends up just being a fart in the wind. And the other thing is, is that, you know, oh, Elon Musk is going to tear apart the country. No, he's not. Congress can only do that. And with a Congress, with a house that's going to be so close, regardless, I don't think much of anything is going to get done just like it hasn't gotten done in the last eight years. I mean, I don't think anything's going to get done. That is the bad thing is that there is no action. There is a lot of I understand he's a weirdo jumping around billionaire richest guy in the world and quote unquote bought the election.

He spent a hundred million dollars on a get out the vote effort that didn't really get out the vote. I mean, the vote got out by itself. But you know, Gates and Bloomberg billionaires I like, they combined to spend to spend $100 million. Kamala Harris had billionaires and millionaires funding this pack called future forward that raised $700 million and tested ads, she had a lot more billionaire support millionaire support. So one of the things getting you down is like this election was bought and it was bought by the richest people in the world. Actually the richest people in the world mostly threw away their money on their preferred candidate.

Yes. I agree with, I was talking to someone, texting with someone the other day and they were pissing and moaning about Elon Musk bought the election and Elon Musk and Elon Musk. And I said, let's not yell, let, who cast the first stone not throw too many more because the truth is most billionaires, celebrities, corporate high flyers, they're mostly quietly moving toward Harris because that's the administration they prefer. And Jeff Bezos, you have to say master class move, not allowing the Washington Post to publish an editorial for whatever reason he had stated.

But at the end of the day, he ended up on the, if you're Jeff Bezos, you don't want to be in the sights of Trump. It's just going to make for a miserable experience for the next four years. But our media is all bought and paid for anyway. So what does it really matter? And also, you know, I do see silver linings. Elon Musk understands that climate change is real. And if he has an important role in the administration, maybe he'll moderate Trump on that issue. Yes. Let's say America turns into the national equivalent of the cyber truck in four years. That's so bad. I'm going to be a little ugly. They're very ugly, Mike.

They're very terribly ugly. I mean, like if someone gifted you a cyber truck, you'd say no. No, I would say no. I don't like it. I honestly think it's one of the most distracting things. They're all over here in Atlanta. Do you know this Kia Sportage? Is that it?

Is that what it's called? The Sportage? Yeah, the Kia Sportage. That's much worse. No one... But I'm not making a statement with my Kia Sportage. You are. You are unwittingly making a statement. Well, they're built here in Georgia, so I'm just supporting the local account.

Oh, they're built actually right over the state line, but we say they're built in Georgia. Yeah, you make me feel a little bit better, Mike. I always enjoy talking to you about this. Okay. So, Mike, you're not here to talk about the election. You just happen to have come at a very sensitive time. Unopportunity. Yeah, it was a very charged up time for us.

But you really came to talk about your new series of interviews with comedians and comedians, which is just wonderful because you are a great conversationalist and you are doing a great job talking to these comedians in a way that I don't think we get a chance to dig in or would get a chance to dig in. It's just a very different room. Tell us more about this. Yeah, it's called Funny You Should Mention. It's a limited series and I think we're going to do another one because this one's been

so successful. And my idea was, comedians are pretty important people, pretty important thinkers, a lot of times they'll put their finger on something societally true, and they'll convince everyone or in some way describe a phenomenon, and then that's the description that takes hold. The Saturday Night Live sketch with Tom Hanks about poor people and white people and them voting for Trump. That became one of those things that cut through because it was comedy and under and explained us to ourselves. The comedians are not to be too highfalutin. I don't think they like being called philosophers. They're

kind of public intellectuals. They can be, right? Some of them just tell dick jokes. And I say, God bless them. Some of them's, you know, Louis C.K. or Shane Gillis will want to essentially have a premise and comedically convince you of the premise. It's more interesting for them and to fans of comedians like that, more interesting for us. Wanda Sykes does it, it's done on the left and the right. So I wanted to take these comedians who are essentially doing humorous op-eds and talk to them as I do every day on my show about just like the people write actual op-eds, right? Why do you say this? How do you back this up? But I never lose sight of the real point with a comedian isn't to make a point, it's to be funny. So how do you say this in a way that maximizes being funny? How do you say this

in a way that is true, but not so true? Comedians hate claptor. So these are the discussions I've been having. And so far, it's been really interesting to me and the audience has responded well. I am so interested in comedians and their effect on the world. It's part of the reason why we have interviewed so many of them here on the show. Their effect on the world, their ability to push the envelope, to invite new ideas in society or normalize through laughter ideas that otherwise were taboo or maybe frowned upon. I really think a good comedian, a good, as you said, op-ed comedian, right, if you want to say it like that, a good op-ed comedian's job, like a Chris Rock or whoever, is to push the envelope while you're at your most vulnerably emotionally open, and that is when you're

laughing when you find something funny, or you agree with something and find it funny because you yourself are that idiot, right? You yourself have that opinion. You yourself are on the other side of the joke. And then it plants that seed. Maybe I'm wrong about this or maybe I should change my mind or he thinks it's cool, so now I think it's cool. And comedians often have just a wonderful vessel to bring those ideas into our head in a way that the news or pundits or commentarians cannot because you're just in a different space, you're in a different energetic space. And I like how you're getting to the bottom of that.

That makes me feel interesting. This goes back to Plato, who we definitely don't talk about. But you know, he would point to the fact that he was pretty suspicious of humor because he thought it was, well, you're just sneaking in under the tent, making people laugh and filling them with bad ideas. But what a lot of these comedians think about is, why do we think this way? And then they, perhaps alone in our society, are allowed and incentivized to say the opposite of the group think, or to try to explore why we are saying things this way. And then to play around with a premise that might seem offensive. And one great thing that I talk to comedians, what they love is when they start off with

the premise that we all agree on, and then they take the opposite side of the premise. And then they essentially convince people, you know what, maybe you're right. Like Sam Jay talking about why shouldn't blackface be acceptable, which is something that most of us would say, Whoa, hey, makes her point. Is she being absurd? Is she exaggerating a little bit of both? But at the end, you're like, huh, that is interesting. There is a contradiction there, you know, and maybe it's just funny, but it is thoughtful. And so the thoughtful part I'm really, really fascinated with. And yeah, I think this is a good lane for you, Mike. I think you should continue to do this because it's a good intersection of...

Well, here, let me back up for a second. I don't think most people go to a comedy show to be preached to or to find a new idea or to have their minds open in any spectrum. I don't think most people think on that level. Some do, but I think, and some understand who they're going to see, right? When they go to see, I don't know, Shane Gillis, or when you go to see Sam Marill. You know when you're walking in the door, there are going to be seeds planted. There are going to be ideas. They're really good at that. But I don't think most people think that. But you have an inner, there's an intersection

there between intellectual and comedy that I find myself fascinated by. And you have an inner, there's an intersection there between intellectual and comedy that I find myself fascinated by. And you do a really good job of bringing that, at least in the ones that I've seen, you do a really good job of bringing that out in the community. Who's your favorite? What is your favorite nugget of information truth, surprise that you've received in these conversations? Well, let's see, as I go through them, you know, I had, I suppose I had a, not so much a debate, but I did push back on Sam Jay, and what we got to was the pricing of lived experience, as they say, they used to just call it experience,

but then they put a lived in front of it. I wonder why. Yeah, so much more important. And I am more- Sounds snobby. It's a little bit, right? And I'm a little more, I guess, data driven and thinking, okay, but if that's just an anecdote, why would that, you know, essentially apply to the entire population? But I did have my mind a little bit changed about the importance, especially what she's doing through

art of talking about, you know, her lived experience and being essentially profiled by police when she was nine years old and earlier. Yeah, so that was good. That changed me. Roy Wood and I had a similar conversation. Alex Edelman, which wasn't part of this series, but definitely part of what I do. That was a great conversation. That guy just won a Tony and an Oscar for his one man show. Yeah. And so I just have pretty much enjoyed all of them. I've got something out of all of them. And they're all funny here or there. So like you might think, well, you do this a lot. Hey, come on, you don't have to be quote unquote on. I used to think that that was an inducement for a comedian to do the show. But 90% of them want to be on and want to be funny.

That's the mode they're most comfortable with. We have found a couple things through our time with comedians who's 99% of the interviews that we have done are comedians and an actress or actor here or there. And now Mike Pesco from the Gist, which is certainly the most intellectual conversation ever had on the commercial break because of you, not because of us. But I do have to say that what we find is there's like three types of comedian, three types of personality types,

or entertaining type, entertainment types that come on the show. One of them is the comedian who is on from the moment that we say record and we almost have, I don't have to do anything. You drop a, you know, you drop a word and they go. And there's a few of them literally filled up the entire hour. We didn't have much to say. Is that good? Do you like that? It can be, it can be refreshing, especially if it's a personality that is larger than life and known for being that way, then you're reassured that they're just

doing what they do. And that's fun to watch. It's fun to watch it unfold. And of course, there's always a little bit of interaction. You can almost tee it up. It's like, you know, it's like putting a little gas on the tank and watching it go. Right. It is also interesting because as interviewers, it's the only time that you're not asking someone about the thing. You're just saying, do the thing. Do the thing. We're not even saying it, you're just saying do the thing. Do the thing.

You're not even saying it. You're just saying it. Right, you talk to a musician, they're probably not, you know, pulling an accordion out and singing for you. Or anyone who has an idea, they're not actually, you know, showing you their data or writing the idea. But the comedian is actually doing the thing. That's it.

You know Brad Williams? Do you know who Brad Williams is? Yes. Okay. So Brad came in, this is a great example. Brad came in, so much to talk to him about, so many things I wanted to cover. And I said, I saw you were on a WWE cruise last week, like a cruise with WWE people, you know, one of those cruises. And an hour later, he wrapped up the story.

And I'm not kidding. The guy just went. He just like, it's like you spun him and he went. It was crazy. There is a second type, which don't come in on. They come in, I think they get disarmed by the fact that we are not going to tee up their jokes and just let them do their asset, right? Like they would on a late night show or some other podcasts or whatever, just a conversation. And that conversation is often light and silly and sometimes leads to funny things. And then there's a third type, which just come in really difficult,

I think is the best word to put it. They're difficult. They don't know why they're here. Their publicist has set it up. I'm not sure who I'm talking to or why I'm talking to them. And it shows. Now that could just be a bad day. But I find that what you see a lot of times on stage or on a video or on a TikTok, you think of as a personality, like it's just them entertaining. But sometimes you get exactly what you see on that TikTok video or that show or HBO or whatever. And sometimes it's not for the good when you're interviewing them.

You're like, oh, okay, you're smarmy and kind of, you know, snot little nose little kid. Pete Slauson You must have had this experience though, and please, name names, where they may come in like that, but you crack them. You ask the good question or show you know their work or in some way, communicate to them, well, I don't know why I'm here and I've never heard of this podcast. Jared Slauson Yeah. Pete Slauson Because I don't have the ability to look at the

top 20 podcasts in America. Anyway, but then your skill, essentially, or whatever the alchemy of the moment comes through and they brighten up. And maybe for the audience, it's better to have Brad Williams just like boom, right out of the gate. But for you, that must be very satisfying. Yes, totally. And there have been a few. And Gina Gershon was one, you know, Gina Gershon is an actress, she's not a comedian, but you know, you look at Gina Gershon on screen and you think sexy, sultry, smarmy, right? That's just the kind of the character that she plays. And she came on in the first few minutes, okay, whatever, but then she just turned on

like a light and it felt really good. Then there's others, I'll give you names, but not here on the air, but then she just turned on like a light and it felt really good. Then, then there's others, I'm not going to, I'll give you names, but not here on the air, but there was one person in particular came in really kind of snarky, uh, at, at first lovely, then turned really snarky for the rest of the interview. But again, I think that was just his personality. I think that was just his personality. I think that's who he is. What you saw was what you got and it didn't matter who he was talking to.

You weren't going to be the, uh, you weren't going to be the funnier one in the room, right? He was going to make sure that at all expense. And that's okay. Like, you know, you- Yeah, yeah, there is that. There is that, yes. It's a little competitive almost. Who the hell does this guy think he is?

Ooh, maybe that person had a podcast lower rated. I think that might be the case. It might be the case. It might be the case. And this guy the case. It might be the case. And this guy's like, I'm playing ho-hos in a ho-hocus. I'm busting my ass and this ball damn F-r. Or I'm on my fourth Netflix special and I can't get higher ranked than the commercial break.

But no, that's okay. We'll get it. I think you're doing a lovely job. Where- Congratulations. How do people find this? Tell us all about the contact details. I tried to look you up on Instagram and you are sparse, my friend. You as a person. I'm not an Instagram type.

I saw one picture. You have an account with one picture. Was it good? I saw. It was. Yeah, you look handsome. You had hair. Did this come out of my good side? You had hair. Let's put it that way. I had hair, wide lapels and was holding, you look handsome. You had hair. Did I say my good side? You had hair. Let's put it that way. I had hair, wide lapels, and was holding a Nixon does it again headline.

So The Gist is the name of the show. It is actually the longest running news and opinion daily podcast show. That's right. I forgot about that. You're right about that. We do. We give it over to Funny You Should Mention, which is our limited series every other week. And on the YouTube channel for The Gist is where you can see all the videos

of all these interviews. So, we try not to hide it behind too many places. And definitely not Instagram. We have taken a stance against Instagram. Jared Well, good for you. Pete But also Vine. So, we were right about that one. Vine. Yeah. Vine, I remember that. Didn't Vine get bought by Instagram?

Isn't that what became Reels? I mean, Vine definitely, like TikTok is Vine, but just maybe some more seconds, a lot into it. Wow, that TikTok has taken off. Thank God we only have five followers on it. But we don't post, to be honest. Your TikTok is my vine. Yeah. Both agree that Myspace is the place to show.

Right. Always. Mike, you've been a friend of the show for a long time. I really appreciate you coming on today. I would like to say to you that if you would periodically come back and make us feel better as we run into the next kind of unknown chapter in our United States history. I would love it too, actually. So let's put a pin in it and you and I will communicate. I know we do. So Mike Peska from the Gist, the longest running daily news podcast or daily commentary on

current events podcast. Hosted by a bald man who lives in Brooklyn. But if you like what you heard here today, you get that unfiltered five days a week. Did you sense I was filtered, Brian Crissy? Did you just filter the word that came to mind? Mike, we love you. Check out his new comedy special on YouTube. We'll put links in the show notes. Thanks, and we will catch you on the flip side, Mike. Thanks, Mike.

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I heard facts in there I did and I knew he was gonna bring the heat Mike and I have known each other for a long time. Yeah, you guys have. Yeah, and he's supposedly been a fan of the show and I've been a fan of his. You know, and I like, whenever anybody says they're a fan of the show, I take it with a grain of salt that Mike just might be listening because he knows me

and he wants to say nice things about me. But regardless, he's always said nice things about the show. Yeah, he's a great guy. And he's an extraordinarily intelligent human being. His show is fact driven. He has some of the most interesting guests. Like if you're interested in geopolitics, how the world turns, current events and news stories, the gist is honestly a great place to get it. Where Mike, while you'll certainly figure out how he feels at the end of the day, he doesn't whitewash anything.

He was talking about like this conversational bias that sometimes goes on the news where they're incentivized to just show you all the good stuff, but nope, show you all the bad stuff. Mike doesn't sugarcoat it a lot of times. He goes right at it. So it's one of the more, I like the gist. If you're gonna listen to a daily current events podcast,

try out the gist, give it A Try for a couple of weeks. See how you like it. I think you'll find his voice and his point of view is good. Yeah, I was going to say his personality really shines through and that's something that a lot of just daily news shows miss. Yeah, it does. So I just wanted to get it out of my system. To be honest with you, we agreed, like Mike had this new thing with the comedians and

he was like, you know, can you, can I come on and talk about it? And I was like, of course, I've always wanted to have Mike on the show, but didn't really have a good reason, meaning like he's a pundit, like that wasn't what we were doing. And then when he says this about the comedians, when he's doing this and I watch,

I'm like, oh, that's right up our alley. This is the perfect way to get Mike on the show and the perfect reason to get Mike on the show. And then of course, all the holy hell breaks loose in the liberal and conservative worlds as the election goes down. And I thought it was, I knew it was going to be an interesting conversation, no matter who won the election one way or the other. But he makes me feel better. Listen, all those who voted for Harris, the world will not come to an end. It will feel like it at times, but it will not come to an end. And all those who voted for Trump, you're not going to get

everything you want, but your guy is in office. And for this, I can only say, no matter who the president or the vice president, the secretary of state or the DOJ or whatever, I can only hope that they do a great job for the country and the people that they serve fairly, honestly, and with justice in mind. We're going to stay optimistic. Until January 20th. I'm very optimistic, Christy. I'm staying optimistic.

That's what I choose to be. So there you go. And to our friend who has decided she is going to move in with someone who's not voting the same way she is. What were you thinking? I mean, I know you, you had to have known. You had to have caught him like, you know, trawling X or something like there. He wasn't in like a crypto bro room at some time.

At some point he wasn't in spaces listening to Elon drone on. Are you sure? I think you saw signs. Speaking of red flags, I'm sure you saw signs. There had to have been a couple of red flags. I'd love to hear them. And I'd love to hear what your relationship red flags are. Things that you've been through, like relationships you've been in and you look back and you go,

yeah, that was a red flag. Hindsight's 2020. That's right. So give us the site. He took me to Wahlburgers on our third date. That's a red flag right there. That is a red flag. Give us the skinny.

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allow you to interact, throw in ideas, give us something to talk about. I love this idea. And luckily a number of people have already said, yeah, love the idea. But I'd love to hear from you if you haven't let us know. Would you like to see a Twitch episode 2025. If you haven't let us know, would you like to see a Twitch episode 2025?

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Well, you heard it here last. You didn't hear it. There's only so much we can do. You can get your free sticker. Go to the contact us button drop down menu. I want my free sticker. Give us your address and away it will go at the commercial break on Instagram, TCB podcast on TikTok and youtube.com slash the commercial break for all of our episodes starting on December 1st. Okay, Chrissy, I guess that's all I can do for today. I think so. But I'll tell you that I love you. And I love you. I'll say best to you. Best to you. And best to you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I always say, we do say and we must say, goodbye! Love and love