Episode 205: Sippy Cup Socialists (with Mike Pesca)

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by Mike Pesca to discuss California's failed experiment with Woke Kindegarten and the resulting school board battle. Plus, Sandwichgate.

https://www.mikepesca.com/

https://www.mikepesca.com/thegist

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0:00.0	Welcome to Blocked and reported. I'm Katie Herzog and joining me today while my
0:14.4	sidekick Jesse Single is off dousing himself with gasoline to protests against
0:19.6	Netflix's password sharing fees. We have the great Mike Pesca. Mike is a veteran
0:25.6	reporter and commentator and I first got to know his voice long ago many years ago
0:29.6	when he was the sports guy at NPR and then later as the host of Slate's The Jists.
0:35.0	Now Mike hosted that show for many years and then in 2021 he was famously pushed
0:40.4	out of Slate over some absolutely infuriating bullshit that he might not want to
0:44.4	revisit but I'm going to make him talk about it today anyway. After he was pushed
0:48.1	out of slate he took the just back and now produces it independently along with
0:51.7	his newsletter.
0:52.7	Pesca pro-fundedies, Mike, welcome back to Blockton reported.
0:56.2	Thank you, and I think we need to note that Jesse's self-immolation is clap,
1:01.0	not clap assigned, clap, mental,
1:03.7	health, clap, or it is, but the entire,
1:06.0	the mental health issues have nothing
1:07.4	to do with his very brave statement on self-immolation
1:10.3	and passwords.
1:10.9	He is just doing better.
1:12.3	That's right. He is, doing better. That's right.
1:13.0	He is, he's brave enough to do the thing that we all need to do in order to make absolutely no impact
1:19.1	on the world except kill ourselves.
1:20.8	Anyway, I am, do you know this that Blockton reported is, I think, my favorite podcast?
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