DiscoverThe Fifth Column343 w/ Mike Pesca (ex-Slate, The Gist podcast) "Inexplicable Offense, Boring Exile, Triumphant Return"
343 w/ Mike Pesca (ex-Slate, The Gist podcast) "Inexplicable Offense, Boring Exile, Triumphant Return"

343 w/ Mike Pesca (ex-Slate, The Gist podcast) "Inexplicable Offense, Boring Exile, Triumphant Return"

Update: 2022-01-20
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Almost a year after being run out of Slate for possession of an unpopular opinion, journalist and podcaster Mike Pesca joins the Fifth for his first post-controversy conversation on how it all went down, when banal opinions became "harassment," and what we can expect from the The Gist 2.0.


  • Is Kmele being prioritized for Covid treatment? Because, ya know...
  • Mike Pesca gets pushed out of Slate (for referencing, but not saying, a magic word)
  • Bull Connor's boss, Steve
  • A "harassment-worthy" opinion
  • Was anyone brave and did they call bullshit? Ummm...
  • N-words and Mohammad cartoons
  • Insert $5 for more podcast
  • Kmele's Kovid fog
  • The roughest period of Mike's life, ever
  • The new, new journalism
  • Hating Joe Rogan
  • You don't have the truth, journalists. But you can get there
  • The Gist's approchal
  • Moynihan likes The Gist. Except that one episode...
  • The media is atomized. Or maybe balkanized
  • Coleman is a good rapper
  • Don't catastrophize the normal


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343 w/ Mike Pesca (ex-Slate, The Gist podcast) "Inexplicable Offense, Boring Exile, Triumphant Return"

343 w/ Mike Pesca (ex-Slate, The Gist podcast) "Inexplicable Offense, Boring Exile, Triumphant Return"

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