Episode 32 - Max Linsky

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Higher Ground

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this week's show, our guest is one of the inspirations for this very podcast. Max Linsky, co-host of the 'Longform' podcast, which features excellent in-depth interviews with many of the best journalists in the field. Max is also the co-founder of Pineapple Street Media, a podcasting and media company, as well as the host of the 'With Her' podcast, the official podcast of the Hillary Clinton campaign. That's right, Max co-hosts a podcast with Hillary Clinton herself. Sam and Max discuss Hillary, journalism, the art of interviewing, the wild story of how he met his wife, and much, much more. Be sure to subscribe to the 'Longform' podcast to hear Max's many interviews with some of the best journalists around: https://longform.org/podcast Then check out 'With Her' to for Max's interviews with Hillary Clinton and others on the Clinton campaign team: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/page/podcast/ Pineapple Street Media: http://pineapple.fm ------------------------------------- Music for the show provided by @Vanilla. Original illustrations by Krishna Shenoi: http://krishnabalashenoi.com/. Learn more about the show at http://talkeasypod.com

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0:00.0	Pushkin. I'm David Remnickin each week on the New Yorker radio hour.
0:12.8	My colleagues and I unpack what's happening in a very complicated world.
0:17.6	You'll hear from the New Yorker's award-winning reporters and thinkers.
0:21.0	Jilani Cobb on race and justice. Jillapour on American history. and Thinkers and
0:24.0	Jil Lepore on American history, Vincent Cunningham and Gia Tolantino on
0:27.6	culture, Bill McKibbon on climate change and many more.
0:31.6	To get the context behind events in the news,
0:34.4	listen to the New Yorker radio hour,
0:36.6	wherever you get your podcast. I'm going to Talk Easy. A weekly podcast around conversations with the people shaping our culture today.
1:07.0	I'm Sam Fregoso and thank you for being here.
1:10.0	This week we're excited to welcome Max Lindsky to the show. Born and raised in Boston, Max is the co-founder
1:16.3	of Long Form, a website and podcast that celebrates the art of Longform journalism both in print and online.
1:25.4	Right alongside WTF, it's one of the first podcasts I really got into.
1:30.4	They've had great episodes with folks like David Remnick of the New Yorker, Elizabeth Gilbert,
1:35.6	Malcolm Gladwell, Tanahassee Coates.
1:38.7	The show is so good in fact that over the summer the Hillary Clinton campaign reached out to Max about the idea of doing a podcast with Hillary on the campaign trail
1:50.0	you're not alone if you think that ideas sound strange or far-fetched for a potential future
1:55.2	president to be the co-host of a weekly podcast.
1:59.2	Max was a little shocked too, but it happened. Since August, Max has sat down with Hillary or someone from the Clinton
2:06.4	campaign to just talk. The conversation is casual, interested in, as Linsky says, feeling.
2:14.4	Titled with her, it's a show that wants to understand the head space of someone who is
2:18.9	running for the Oval Office, especially in this election.
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