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.
| Title | Date published | ||
| Sleeping: You’re Doing It Wrong | 2015-06-09 | ||
| Grasping for the Ferguson Effect | 2015-06-08 | ||
| Sharon Van Etten, Banter Mentor | 2015-06-05 | ||
| His Dunkological Clock Was Ticking | 2015-06-04 | ||
| Mac McCaughan: Solochunk | 2015-06-03 | ||
| Nothing Up Their Sleeves? | 2015-06-03 | ||
| What a Cherokee Chief Can Tell Us About Andrew Jackson | 2015-06-02 | ||
| Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road Story | 2015-05-29 | ||
| Talking About Talking About Race | 2015-05-28 | ||
| Living in the Post-Material World | 2015-05-27 | ||
| Hoist Up the Liberland Flag | 2015-05-26 | ||
| Why Karaoke Carries a Torch for 1984 | 2015-05-22 | ||
| The Present Tense (and Other Storytelling Secrets) | 2015-05-21 | ||
| Dylan’s 14-Month Miracle | 2015-05-21 | ||
| Nine out of 10 Germs Agree | 2015-05-19 | ||
| Why We Lost It Over Beanie Babies | 2015-05-18 | ||
| It’s Letterman’s World, We Just Critique It | 2015-05-15 | ||
| Eating Chinese Food Out of the Carton | 2015-05-15 | ||
| Another Blow to Bipartisan Spirit | 2015-05-13 | ||
| On Twitter, TV Follows You | 2015-05-12 |