The New Gawker and Leon Neyfakh on the 'Fiasco' Podcast
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The Ringer
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🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:58.2 | Mr. Remembering Zombie, am I conflating zombie deadspin with zombie gocker? |
| 1:02.8 | No, I think there... I mean, it wasn't zombie gocker because it was the same owner that owns it now, |
| 1:07.2 | but it was sort of a very... I don't think there was any of the old gocker staff or much of its DNA. |
| 1:14.0 | It was more of just like, you know, they took gocker's IP and did gocker in space. |
| 1:21.0 | So this is an interesting relaunch because we have had some zombies like Deadspin, |
| 1:27.6 | which is the name, but not the pirate spirit of the original. |
| 1:32.0 | In this case, Lea Fennigan, who was a big editor at Old Gocker, is running New Gocker. |
| 1:38.8 | So it's coming back and it can't be what it was because nothing is what it was at a moment in time, |
| 1:45.2 | moment in media time, but it is trying to recapture and rechannel some of the spirit of old gocker. |
| 1:51.8 | Is that a fair way to describe it? |
| 1:54.4 | Yeah, I mean, and like you said, Lea Fennigan was a part of the old gocker. |
| 1:58.8 | I think there's some more people involved to a part of the old gocker and there's... |
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