Thank God It's The Good Friday Accords

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Treaties are on the wane. But it's not a lack of war to blame. Plus, Donald G. McNeil Jr., former lead Covid reporter for The New York Times, is back to talk about suppressing misinformation, his assessment of Deborah Birx, and how to think about the current state of the pandemic. And a heroic character with a quirky name gets a post-Mortyum. 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 Wednesday, April 11th, 2023.
0:06.8	From Peach Fish Productions, it's the GIST I'm Mike Pesca.
0:10.4	I read a story in New Yorker, an excellent story by Catherine Schultz, who is becoming
0:14.0	one of my favorite writers.
0:15.0	One of those for whom you see the by-line.
0:16.9	You know, skip the story.
0:18.5	So this story was about a mother who became a leader for gay liberation because her son
0:23.1	was gay.
0:24.1	And this was in the early 70s, late 60s or early 70s, and the son handled the beating and
0:29.6	engaged in activism and the mother stood by him and supported him every step of the
0:33.6	way.
0:34.6	And the problem with the story, actually no, no, let me, let me change that.
0:39.2	There was no problem with the story.
0:41.9	There was no problem with the history.
0:43.7	The problem was with me because the name of the main character son was, well, let's
0:50.3	hear from the audio version of the New Yorker story.
0:54.2	The woman's name was Jean Manford, and she was marching alongside her 21 year old
0:59.6	gay son Morty.
1:01.7	Morty.
1:02.7	Morty Manford.
1:05.0	And look, there is nothing wrong with the name Morty.
1:07.4	Many accomplished, cool people have been named Morty.
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