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 | ||
| Stop Calling Teaching a Calling. It's a Profession. | 2014-09-05 | ||
| A Brilliant Cellist Embraces the Devil's Music | 2014-09-04 | ||
| The Almost Mystical Yet Totally Routine Process of Reading | 2014-09-03 | ||
| Can Naps Make You Feel Worse? | 2014-09-02 | ||
| The Thing I Need To Do Before "I Do" | 2014-08-29 | ||
| Gilbert Gottfried Speaks for the Birds | 2014-08-28 | ||
| Happy People in Love … Boring | 2014-08-27 | ||
| Puppies Don't Win Pulitzers | 2014-08-26 | ||
| The Bomb Makers' Bomb Maker | 2014-08-25 | ||
| The Proud Mom of 23 Could-Be Kids | 2014-08-22 | ||
| Is Infidelity Still a Third Rail for TV? | 2014-08-21 | ||
| Dude, on the Set of the Big Lebowski | 2014-08-20 | ||
| Hillary's Early Primary Polling | 2014-08-19 | ||
| Baby Panda vs. George Washington | 2014-08-18 | ||
| Is That Ferguson or Selma? | 2014-08-15 | ||
| In Ukraine, Even the Flags Are Clashing | 2014-08-14 | ||
| Would You Report a Creepy Correspondence? | 2014-08-13 | ||
| The Pursuit of Happiness Studies | 2014-08-12 | ||
| The Vin Scully of Horseracing Retires | 2014-08-11 | ||
| Crazy Funny | 2014-08-08 |