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Episode 163: Matthew Shaer

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Education, Books, Arts, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Shaer is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York, GQ, and The Atavist Magazine. “I could not turn off the freelance switch in my head. I could not not be thinking about these different types of stories. My Google Alert list looks like a serial killer's.” Thanks to MailChimp, Squarespace, Howl, and MasterClass for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: @matthewshaer matthewshaer.com Shaer on Longform [12:00] "A Shtetl Divided" (Harper's • Jan 2011) [sub req'd] [15:00] Among Righteous Men: A Tale of Vigilantes and Vindication in Hasidic Crown Heights (Wiley & Sons • 2011) [18:00] "A Monster Among the 'From'" (New York • Dec 2011) [24:00] "The Orthodox Hit Squad" (GQ • Sept 2014) [27:00] "Whatsoever Things Are True" (Atavist • Sept 2015) [46:00] "How Thailand's Most Notorious Prison Became a Fight Club" (Men's Journal• Apr 2014) [47:00] "Freedom Fighters" (Hemispheres• Nov 2013) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:29.1

Support for this episode comes from Zell.

0:33.0

You'd never fall for an online scam, right?

0:37.0

You use two-factor authentication, ignore calls from everyone named spam risk, and never used the password.

0:45.0

Password.

0:47.0

But, scammers are getting more sophisticated and more active,

0:51.0

which means they're finding millions of new victims every single year.

0:56.1

The good news is that there's a lot you can do to protect yourself on the wild, wild web.

1:01.8

For starters, Zell wants to remind you,

1:04.5

only send money to people you know and trust.

1:08.0

Zell is available to United States bank account holders only.

1:11.1

Terms and conditions apply.

1:14.0

Hey it's Max before we get started I want to tell you about how the show is made possible

1:19.1

this week. First off it's by Squarespace. Squarespace is the easiest way to create a beautiful website,

1:24.0

blog or online store for you and your ideas.

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