Sex, Threats, And Audio Tape

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In the new Podcast The 13th Step, reporter Lauren Chooljian tracked down allegations of sexual misconduct against the founder of the largest addiction treatment center in New Hampshire. She further documented how the world of rehab and substance abuse treatment is as rife with sexual harassment as it is weak on regulation. Then came the threats against Chooljian, and the lawsuits, and the bricks through the window of her and her parents' home. Two alleged attackers were arrested and arraigned today. Plus, a rich man's submersible vs. poor migrants' rafts, and how the prosecutor who cut a deal with Hunter Biden matters. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday June 20th, 2023 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:08.1	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:10.2	I have been, as I'm sure you have been paying close attention to the submersible which,
0:16.0	as of you hearing this, might have only a few more hours of air left, unless it can't
0:22.0	be recovered, which does not seem likely.
0:25.1	One of the constant critiques and complaints that I'm seeing on social media about coverage
0:29.6	of this story is that what about the recent story of migrants' boats capsizing?
0:34.8	And if you said, wait, which recent story of migrants' boats capsizing, you've put your
0:38.9	finger on one of the reasons why we're paying more attention to the submersible.
0:42.9	There are many valences that attract our attention, but in general, magnitude of death
0:48.2	isn't a big one.
0:50.0	Sometimes it is, but often it's pictures or relatability or novelty.
0:56.8	The strange details are ability to project ourselves into a situation.
1:02.6	The thinking goes, when you talk about migrants and their boats capsizing and dozens to hundreds
1:07.9	of migrants dying versus five people on a submersible, the inclination is to say something vaguely
1:13.7	like, you know, if we were really good people, we would care more about those migrants' deaths
1:18.2	because they're more vulnerable and just more of them.
1:21.7	Of course, that's supposed to be that we're not such good people that we'd be doing enough
1:25.5	that there wouldn't be these migrants' deaths.
1:28.6	I, in my coverage, often note that we pay attention to things that are but a fraction of the
1:35.8	overall problem and usually a unique fraction or an unrepresentative fraction.
1:41.5	I talk about this with shootings all the time.
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