Hello Culture Gabfest listeners, I have another treat for you in our feed.

Perhaps if you've listened to this show, you've heard a certain swoon creep into the voice of

me and Dana Stevens when we talk about

certain actors did an actor's name pop to mind and was that actor's name

Jesse Eisenberg if so you are a close and careful listener to this show

guess whose voice you'll hear So you are a close and careful listener to this show.

Guess whose voice you'll hear in the podcast that follows.

Jesse Eisenberg, he recorded

for Beloved Slate Podcast Star

and Sometime Culture guest Mike Pesca

an episode of a pond further review the special limited edition podcast

We are launching in tandem with a book that Pesca has edited this spring.

Hello Mike.

Hello.

Can you tell us what Jesse Eisenberg's dulcetones are doing on your podcast?

I remember when you guys discussed the great actors and I guess the premise of the discussion

was there are no great American actors and everyone was careful to say, well what about

Ryan Gosling? Canadian, there was a Jesse. everyone was

a Jesse Eisenberg codicil to that. I do remember. So Jesse wrote a chapter for my book.

He's a playwright and he writes humor for the New Yorker and I asked him what about

sports he says I've got you covered and he wrote an essay which we turned into a

fully realized fully fleshed out piece of audio storytelling with the help of

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