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Interrupted by Matt Jones

Episode 29 - Kat Rosenfield

Interrupted by Matt Jones

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, News, Sports

2.4888 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Kat Rosenfield is a culture writer for The Free Press, novelist and podcaster. Follow Kat on X @katrosenfield.

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0:00.0

This is Interrupted by Matt Jones on News Radio 840 WHAS.

0:06.9

Now here's Matt Jones.

0:10.2

Welcome everybody to Interrupted by Matt Jones.

0:13.9

This is episode, what are we at, Billy, 29, 27, 29, whatever, we're getting close.

0:19.8

And I am happy to be joined by, you know, I get a lot of people who say to me, Matt,

0:25.4

I love these conversations, but then you usually bring on people that you agree with.

0:30.7

And so I was thinking to myself, right, who's somebody that I agree with sometimes, but not always,

0:36.4

and who I always find interesting. And Kat

0:39.0

Rosenfield is joining us. She is the culture writer for the free press. And I always think it takes

0:46.5

very balanced, interesting looks at various issues. Kat, thank you very much. We've never met,

0:52.6

but we followed each other for a long time. Appreciate you joining us. Thank you so much for having me. It's thank you very much. We've never met, but we've followed each other for a long time.

0:54.8

Appreciate you joining us. Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be here.

0:58.7

I have to say, it's interesting. I have sort of a policy that if somebody that I don't know

1:03.5

write something, if I disagree with them, I just never really respond. But I actually do respond with yours because I generally think you always have a really balanced perspective.

1:16.5

And it feels like you get a lot of people who argue slash disagree with you on your writings but aren't mean necessarily and that you actually will debate online. Am I right about that?

1:30.0

Yeah, I do my best.

1:32.7

Well, that feels like I've seen you do it some. You write for the free press. So what does it mean to be a

1:38.1

culture writer for the free press? So culture is, you know, culture is the water that we all swim in. It is something that we have our own place in, in kind of contributing to and helping to shape, unlike politics, which, you know, most of us, especially at the national level, don't have any influence over. We are all making and consuming culture at the same time.

2:01.6

So culture is like what's happening between us socially.

2:04.0

It's how do we treat each other?

2:05.1

Who are we to each other?

2:06.1

It's also art.

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