The Ongoing Black Mark of the Red Scare

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Clay Risen, author of Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, joins to discuss the era when suspicion was a political tool and civil liberties were sidelined. Today we have echoes—and outright repetitions—of McCarthyite tactics, from loyalty oaths to immigration crackdowns. Also- there may be three plastic spoons’ worth of microplastic in the average human brain—according to science, which Mike neither trusts nor understands, on account of his 0.5% spoon brain. 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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0:00.0	It's Friday, April 18th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.
0:07.2	It's the gist.
0:07.9	I'm Mike Peska.
0:09.2	So other than interviews, I don't think there was a single segment this week, which didn't
0:13.8	touch on tariffs, the economy, possibly the fauna of herd and McDonald Islands.
0:19.7	No tango.
0:20.7	Put the sardine down and disengage from
0:23.1	predatory pricing. By the way, I did find out that those islands with no structures or human
0:29.0	inhabitants do somehow show up on official government statistics as having exports. The experts
0:35.3	are not sure how, but when you're not sure how, slap a tariff on them, I say.
0:39.8	And I'll tell you what else I read besides McDonald and Hurd Island export coverage.
0:46.0	Well, not that much.
0:47.3	I read about bonds.
0:48.1	I read about tariffs.
0:48.8	I read about markets.
0:49.6	I read about equity flows, all that.
0:51.4	But I only barely hear that the Congo hostages were released and also that there were
0:57.3	hostages in Congo.
0:59.0	I did catch up on a lawsuit between Bill DeBarre and Squishmallows.
1:03.1	I think the name is.
1:04.0	I'm sure that's going to be a three-parter on the gist soon.
1:06.8	But one story that I got to today and that I read, it was in the New York Times, has left a fact buried, just lodged in my brain.
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