Chris Getherd and the Great Helsinki Caper

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Chris Gethard stops by to talk comedy, ethics, and how audience taste moves like an algorithm with a grudge. Meanwhile, the JFK files are finally released, and it turns out the real mystery was in Finland all along. Also, the government’s got a chainsaw, and it's not just for photo ops: cuts are coming to everything from colorectal cancer screening to the office that won the Cold War-winning offices. Somewhere between chaos and court orders, we try to figure out what still counts as governance. Produced by Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, contact [email protected] or visit https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g Subscribe to The Gist Instagram Page: GIST INSTAGRAM Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.4	It's Monday, March 24th, 2025 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:38.5	It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska.
0:40.6	The JFK files were a bust.
0:42.8	They don't even tell you which gay jet blues leaving from.
0:45.5	It's one right next to the Jamba Jews, by the way.
0:47.6	But in all seriousness, no, sorry, in some small degree of seriousness, there was a treasure trove
0:53.9	of information contained within.
0:56.2	I am finding out just now. Historians say we learned a lot about Finland. Yes, we learned
1:03.2	about Finnish elections and the CIA interference therein, thanks to the JFK files. You see,
1:09.4	Finland might seem to us just the land of ski jumps and
1:13.2	Scandinavian folk with too many consecutive As in their name. But during the Cold War,
1:18.8	it was all about Finland. The New York Times quotes Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi, University of South
1:25.4	Florida historian who said that the documents revealed
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