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Episode 86: Mattathias Schwartz

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Mattathias Schwartz has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Harper's. "I figure it's like digging through a wall with a spoon: if you spend enough time at it eventually you get to the other side." Thanks to TinyLetter and Audible for sponsoring this week's episode. Show notes: mattathiasschwartz.com Schwartz on Longform [4:00] "A Massacre in Jamaica" (New Yorker • Dec 2011) [20:15] The Philadelphia Independent [25:00] "The Hold-'Em Holdup" (New York Times Magazine • Jun 2006) [26:45] "The Trolls Among Us" (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2008) [26:45] "The Church of Warren Buffett" (Harper's • Jan 2010) [35:00] "The Golden Touch" (Harper's • Dec 2008) [36:00] The Big Con (David Maurer • Bobbs-Merrill Company • 1940) [36:30] "The Still Lives of Wells Tower" (Paul Maliszewski • The Brooklyn Rail • Feb 2011) [37:00] "Petroleum, Louisiana" [37:00] "How Fast Can He Cook a Chicken?" (London Review of Books • Oct 2011) [49:00] "Camp Justice" (Kindle Single • Nov 2012) [50:45] "A Mission Gone Wrong" (New Yorker • Jan 2014) [53:15] "The Truth of El Mozote" (Mark Danner • New Yorker • Dec 1993) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:29.1

Support for this episode comes from Zell.

0:33.0

You'd never fall for an online scam, right?

0:37.0

You use two-factor authentication, ignore calls from everyone named spam risk, and never used the password.

0:45.0

Password.

0:47.0

But, scammers are getting more sophisticated and more active,

0:51.0

which means they're finding millions of new victims every single year.

0:56.1

The good news is that there's a lot you can do to protect yourself on the wild, wild web.

1:01.8

For starters, Zell wants to remind you,

1:04.5

only send money to people you know and trust.

1:08.0

Zell is available to United States bank account holders only.

1:11.1

Terms and conditions apply.

1:13.0

Hello and

1:15.0

and welcome to the long form podcast. I'm Evan Ratliff from Adavist. I'm joined by Maxlinsky and Aaron Lamer of long form for whom this

1:28.6

podcast is named. It's true, it's true, it's quite the honor. The eponymous team.

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