Hello, welcome to the long form podcast. I'm Aaron Lamer. I'm here with Max Lindsky and Evan Ratliff.

Hey Aaron. Hey Aaron.

Hey you guys, it's Tuesday night.

The show is coming out tomorrow and Aaron,

today you talk to Wesley Lowry.

Wesley has been on the show before.

He won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Ferguson.

At the time we talked, he had landed in Minneapolis the day before and I basically wanted to understand his

process for reporting the story which is happening in real time.

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Now here's Aaron with Wesley Lowry. Wesley, hello. How you doing? Did you just fly, you're in Minneapolis, as I understand.

How long have you been there?

So this is my second day in Minneapolis.

I got him yesterday and covered the protest,

and then I'll be here for a bit and prior to that I was back home in DC

kind of doing some desk work but then also kind of out in the streets doing some street reporting there too.

What caused you to want to make the jump from reporting on protests in DC to reporting on a

protest in Minneapolis. So there are two things like the first is that I always kind of want to get to the heart of the story, right?

And so you look at all these other protests that are popping off and they all are kind of branches that have grown off of the Minneapolis protest.

And so for me, if I want to be able to write something

that feels definitive or that really helps explain it,

I feel like I gotta get all the way to the original source. The second thing I'll say is like I've covered protests in Minneapolis here before.

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