Hello, GIST podcast listeners, podcast, an audio medium.

But really, I've been gearing up to make the big time.

Yes, the GIST is now on Instagram.

We start an Instagram page.

It's a way to foment discoverability.

I just always, whenever I was doing my interviews,

I never realized that what I really wanted was to extract a one-minute clip with subtitles and big block letters.

But it's really cool, and it's a really good way to help people find the show.

Because people don't pass around audio, but they pass around video, and we're populating

the Instagram feed.

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It's Tuesday, February 18th, 2025.

From Peachfish Productions, it's the Gist.

I'm Mike Peska. This from the Minneapolis Star Tribune,

or Strip. Preliminary data from across the country indicates violence and other crimes are

sliding back toward pre-pandemic levels. But in the Twin Cities, the full violent crime

picture is more complicated.

Well, it is more complicated, but I would also say a bit less complicated than the

strip would have it.

There are many, many sentences in this story that will flesh out the idea of complication,

of nuanced, multi-causal explanations.

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