Mike Pesca is one of our very favorite guests — on any number of topics.
His book, , is a whole series of earth-shattering, hypothetical, what-if questions (and posited answers to said earth-shattering, hypothetical, what-if questions):
What if a blimp full of money had exploded over world track headquarters in 1952? What if Bobby Fischer had received proper psychiatric help? What if basketball rims were smaller than basketballs? And yes: What if the Olympics had never dropped tug of war?
It goes on and on.
Pesca joins us for the hour.
GUESTS:
- Will Leitch: Contributing editor at New York magazine, founder of Deadspin, and a whole bunch of other things
- Mike Pesca: Host of and the author of Upon Further Review
- Louisa Thomas: Staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of
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