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Podcast: The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Episode: Mike Pesca's Esprit de Corps: The Gist Wipes The Slate Clean And Flies Solo
Description: For seven years Mike Pesca hosted the political commentary podcast The Gist under the aegis of the Slate Media Company. The show became the longest running daily podcast of all time, racking up somewhere around 1400 episodes and attracting an enormous audience that accounted for a significant portion of Slate's revenue. Last February, Slate suspended The Gist following an office meltdown over a race-related—actually a race vocabulary-related— discussion on the company Slack channel. This led to a seven-month investigation that made Mike yet another high profile casualty of cancel culture. He's anything but canceled though, which is proven by the retur...