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

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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