Mike Pesca

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Great conversation with Mike Pesca in which I, unfortunately, regressed to my old ways of pronouncing Chuck Klosterman’s name incorrectly. This is possibly our most controversial and free associative podcast yet.

* Was Alec Baldwin’s best Trump imitation actually Jack Donaghy?

* “Seinfeld sucks and isn’t funny”?

* Mike disagrees with certain Minnesota ICE takes from my podcast with Kat Rosenfield

* Berkeley made me biased against protestors

* We discuss Brian Phillips’ belief that Trump era chaos is all a devious strategy

* The oddness of initially not knowing whether the 2nd Alex Pretti video was AI

* Should the new Pretti vs. police video have any influence on how one feels about the possibly unrelated deadly encounter 11 days later?

* We aren’t conquering Canada and also, adding Alberta would look so stupid on the map

* Mike weighs in on whether the NFL should All 22 itself

* Most people agree that a man’s morality shouldn’t influence his NFL Hall of Fame case, but nobody will make the Hall of Fame case for serial rapist Darren Sharper

* Is Robert Saleh good or just good at playing the media game?