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 | ||
| Jon Ronson, Imam of Shame | 2016-04-04 | ||
| The Hamilton Rule | 2016-04-01 | ||
| Abolitionist Heroes Lost to History | 2016-03-31 | ||
| Are The Winter Blues BS? | 2016-03-30 | ||
| The Huge Lingering Why | 2016-03-29 | ||
| 40 Years for Genocide | 2016-03-28 | ||
| The Height of Clinton-Era Pop Music | 2016-03-25 | ||
| Crazy Funny with Sara Benincasa, Chris Gethard, and Gary Gulman | 2016-03-24 | ||
| 1,145 Police Killings | 2016-03-22 | ||
| When Words Change World Events | 2016-03-21 | ||
| The Secret Genius of the T-Shirt Cannon | 2016-03-18 | ||
| A Triumph of Small Talk | 2016-03-17 | ||
| Are The Dangers of GMOs BS? | 2016-03-16 | ||
| All Things Horse Race | 2016-03-15 | ||
| The Duke Lacrosse Case, 10 Years Later | 2016-03-14 | ||
| The Year of Travolta | 2016-03-11 | ||
| Ctrl-Alt-DESTROY | 2016-03-10 | ||
| The Things That Dreams Are Made Of | 2016-03-09 | ||
| What Detroit Gave America | 2016-03-08 | ||
| Is Torture Ever Worthwhile? | 2016-03-07 |