Episode 393: Isaac Chotiner

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Isaac Chotiner conducts interviews for The New Yorker. “People like to talk. They like to be asked questions, generally. In the space that I’m doing most interviews, which is politics or politics-adjacent, people have strong views and like to express them. It may be just as simple as that.” Thanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode. @IChotiner Chotiner on Longform Chotiner's New Yorker archive [08:03] "V.S. Naipaul on the Arab Spring, Authors He Loathes, and the Books He will Never Write" (The New Republic • Dec 2012) [25:16] Talk (New York Times Magazine) [28:30] He Was a Science Star. Then He Promoted a Questionable Cure for Covid-19." (New York Times Magazine • May 2020) [29:24] "What We Know About Masks and the New Coronavirus" (New Yorker • April 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In December 2020, a Latino couple was falsely accused by a white momfluencer of attempting to kidnap her children.
0:07.0	The Karen phenomenon where white women falsely accuse people of color of crimes usually fixates on the
0:13.5	accuser the so-called Karen. But for this series we focus on the
0:17.2	innocent couple at the heart of this story. I just want the public to know
0:21.9	what she did was wrong.
0:24.0	In Perfect Paradise People versus Karen,
0:26.4	available now wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.2	Hey, it's Max, before we get started,
0:31.6	I have a podcast recommendation for you it's called
0:34.5	Partners it just wrapped its first season it's a production of male chimp in
0:38.6	partnership with radiotopia and it's hosted by Rishikesh Hirway who has been on long form before he's also the host of
0:45.4	song-exploder and the whole season the whole premise of the show is he's talking to
0:50.9	partners some of which will be familiar names to you.
0:55.4	PJ Vote and Alex Goldman of Reply All were on the first season.
0:58.8	Samine Nosrat and her collaborator, the illustrator Wendy McNaughton, were on the show, Tegan and Sarah,
1:06.1	Jeff Tweedie and Spencer Tweedie, all kinds of incredible partnerships.
1:10.0	Anyway, the show just wrapped its first season, it's fantastic, it's short, like the episodes are under 20 minutes,
1:16.4	and you get a lot out of them. Go check it out. Partners, a MailChimp production,
1:20.4	producers with Radio Topia. Now here's our show. Hello, welcome to the long-form podcast. I'm Aaron Lamer. I'm here with my co-host Max Linsky and Evan Rallif.
1:35.6	Hey you guys.
1:36.6	Hey guys, how you doing Aaron?
1:38.8	We did an intro before this and I brought up that one of my cats is missing and it got too sad so I'm just going to say everyone out there
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