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Virginia Heffernan & Mike Pesca Make Their Debuts, April 8, 2020
Season 1, Ep. 15
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Wherein we are joined for a pre-seder, pre-Easter drink by Virginia Heffernan—host of Slate's Trumpcast, writer, thinker, student of plague literature, and Episcopalian mother of Orthodox Jewish children—and Mike Pesca, host of Slate's podcast, The Gist, and all around great talker and wit.
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