Mike Pesca on sports, musicals, and being nonplussed

Nerdette

Greta Johnsen

Tv & Film, Self, Nerd, Books, Technology, Tv, Improvement, Culture, Wbez, Society & Culture, Pop, Nerdette, Nerds

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Mike Pesca, host of The Gist, compartmentalizes sports nerderies, discusses the value of Bachman Turner Overdrive, and lets us in on a Twitter-related secret. Plus, we remember Jackie Mitchell, the woman who stuck out Babe Ruth, and there’s quite a romantic nerd confession.

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0:00.0	This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.
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0:12.6	slash events.
0:13.6	Hello you're listening to Nurdett from W be easy in Chicago.
0:19.5	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:20.4	And I'm Tricia Bobita.
0:21.4	Before we jump in, we do have a couple housekeeping notes.
0:24.1	We're still doing a Game of Thrones recap every week with Peter Sago,
0:26.8	host of NPR's News Quiz.
0:28.2	Wait, wait, don't tell me.
0:29.3	Game of Thrones airs on HBO every Sunday night,
0:32.1	and each Monday we meet up with Peter to
0:33.9	dissect the latest twists and turns in the Seven Kingdoms. That's a bonus episode
0:38.1	each week to this, our regular Nurdette show. Where this week we will be talking
0:41.7	with Mike Pesca.
0:43.0	Mike Pesca is the host of the slate podcast The Gist.
0:46.0	It's a podcast about basically everything and it happens five days a week, which is a lot of podcasting.
0:51.0	Seriously, this guy is talking about everything, like probiotics and conishes and
0:54.8	Shakespeare and spelling.
0:55.8	That's like all of the things right there.
0:57.3	Monday through Friday, and they've been doing it for just over a year now.
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