Episode 523: Willa Paskin

Longform

Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Willa Paskin, a former TV critic, is the host of the podcast Decoder Ring. “I want it to feel like a trap door. When you push on a trap door, there’s like a little spring. If it’s the right idea, you start to look into it, and you’re like, Oh, it’s giving a little.” Show notes: @willapaskin 00:00 Paskin's Slate archive 00:00 Paskin's Salon archive 00:00 Paskin's Vulture archive 00:00 Decoder Ring (Slate) 00:00 "The Invention of Hydration" (Decoder Ring • Slate • Apr 2021) 00:00 "Cellino & Barnes, Injury Attorneys, 800-888-8888 " (Decoder Ring • Slate • Dec 2022) 01:00 "The Sideways Effect" (Decoder Ring • Slate • May 2022) 03:00 "Why I Became a TV Critic" (Slate • Jan 2016) 38:00 "The Laff Box" (Decoder Ring • Slate • Apr 2018) 38:00 "The Blue Steak Experiment" (Decoder Ring • Slate • Dec 2020) 40:00 "Chuck E. Cheese Pizza War" (Decoder Ring • Slate • Jun 2019) 40:00 "The Cabbage Patch Kids Riots" (Decoder Ring • Slate • Nov 2020) 42:00 "Selling Out" (Decoder Ring • Slate • Aug 2021) 42:00 "The Sign Painter" (Decoder Ring • Slate • Jun 2021) 53:00 "The Butt and the Bustle" (Decoder Ring • Slate • Nov 2022) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.0	Hello, welcome to the Longform Podcast. I'm Max Litsky. I'm here with my co-hosts.
0:44.0	They are Aaron Lammer and Evan Ratliffe, gentlemen. Hello.
0:48.0	Hello. Greetings, Max. Who was the guest on the show this week?
0:52.0	This week I talked to Willapaskin. You guys know Willapaskin? I do.
0:57.0	She for a long time was the TV critic at Slate before that she was the TV critic at Salon
1:03.0	before that she was an editor and writer at Vulture. But now, and for the last several years,
1:09.0	she has been the host of a podcast called Dakota Ring from Slate. Dakota Ring every episode
1:15.0	is a deep dive into some cultural mystery that Willa is trying to unlock.
1:22.0	The range of topics on the show is almost infinite. It's everything from hydration
1:28.0	to salino and barns to what impact did sideways actually have on the wine industry
1:34.0	to all kinds of things. I love the show. I've been listening to it for a long time.
1:39.0	It was a real pleasure to talk to her both about how she makes the thing.
1:43.0	She's actually working on the next season now. It comes out April 12th,
1:47.0	but also how she thinks about TV now, which has changed a lot and how those two things
1:53.0	talk to each other and how doing Dakota Ring is a lot like criticism, which was not a thing
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