Episode 296: Leon Neyfakh

Published: May 30, 2018, 5:44 p.m.

b"Leon Neyfakh is a writer and the host of Slow Burn.\\n\\n\\u201cWe didn\\u2019t want to be coy about why we were doing the show. We wanted to be up front. We\\u2019re interested in this era because it seems like the last time in our nation\\u2019s history where things were this wild and the news was this rapid fire and the outcome was this uncertain. That was the main parallel we were thinking about when we started. It was only when we started learning the story and identified the turning points we kept running into these obvious parallels. We mostly didn\\u2019t lean into them. We didn\\u2019t chase them. There wasn\\u2019t a quota of parallels per episode.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, MUBI, and Thermacell for sponsoring this week's episode. Also: Longform Podcast t-shirts are now available for a limited time only!\\n@leoncrawl\\nLeon Neyfakh on Longform\\nLongform Podcast t-shirts\\n[02:05] Slow Burn\\n[03:00] The Next Next Level (Melville House \\u2022 2015)\\n[20:55] All the President's Men (Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein \\u2022 Simon & Schuster \\u2022 1974)\\n[22:05] Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (J. Anthony Lukas \\u2022 Viking \\u2022 1976)\\n[22:05] Wars of Watergate (Stanley Kutler \\u2022 Norton \\u2022 1992)\\n[22:15] The Dick Cavett Show\\n[30:25] Leon Neyfakh's archive at New York Observer\\n[31:40] \\u201cThree HarperCollins Imprints Face Off For $2.5 Million Sarah Silverman Book\\u201d (Observer \\u2022 Nov 2008)\\n[38:40] \\u201cThe Sadness of T-Pain\\u201d (The New Yorker \\u2022 Mar 2004)\\n[38:45] \\u201cPeak Drake\\u201d (The Fader \\u2022 Sep 2015)\\n[38:50] \\u201cRae of Light\\u201d (Maxim \\u2022 Apr 2015)\\n[38:55] \\u201cMr. Muthafuckin' eXquire's Music Biz Misadventures\\u201d (Rolling Stone \\u2022 Jun 2014)\\n[47:15] \\u201cWho Will Survive When Migos Meets Big Data?\\u201d (The Fader \\u2022 Nov 2014)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"