Episode 521: Jonah Weiner

Published: Feb. 8, 2023, 8:02 p.m.

Jonah Weiner is a contributing writer for\xa0The New York Times Magazine\xa0and co-author of the newsletter\xa0Blackbird Spyplane.\n\u201cIt's a version of myself. It's a hyperbolic version of myself. And I think it keeps it fun for me. It doesn't feel like a job. Ideally, it keeps it fun for readers. And I think that there actually is this function where X out of 10 people coming to it, their eyes are going to cross and they're going say,\xa0I'm out. No thanks.\xa0And that's fine, because the Y out of 10 who stick around feel that much more in on something and it just makes it feel like a funky, special place.\u201d\nShow notes:\n\n@jonahweiner\n\njonahweiner.com\n\nWeiner on Longform\n\n00:00\xa0Weiner on Longform Podcast\n\n\n01:00\xa0"Prying Eyes"\xa0(New Yorker \u2022 Oct 2012)\n\n01:00\xa0Blackbird Spyplane\xa0(Jonah Weiner and Erin Wylie \u2022 Substack)\n\n06:00\xa0"Don\u2019t Take This Hunk at Face Value"\xa0(New York Times \u2022 Mar 2011)\n\n11:00\xa0"Michael Mann\u2019s Damaged Men"\xa0(New York Times Magazine \u2022 Jul 2022)\n\n23:00\xa0"Wonders of Tokyo"\xa0(Blackbird Spyplane \u2022 Nov 2022)\n\n23:00\xa0"It\u2019s-a me, Tokyo!"\xa0(Blackbird Spyplane \u2022 Nov 2022)\n\n25:00\xa0"Blackpilled Swag"\xa0(Blackbird Spyplane \u2022 Jan 2023)\n\n31:00\xa0The Warning with Steve Schmidt\xa0(Steve Schmidt \u2022 Substack)\n\n33:00\xa0Weiner's\xa0Rolling Stone\xa0archive\n\n\n34:00\xa0Racket\xa0(Matt Taibbi \u2022 Substack)\n\n34:00\xa0Glenn Greenwald\xa0(Glenn Greenwald \u2022 Substack)\n\n36:00\xa0"Bob Odenkirk\u2019s Long Road to Serious Success"\xa0(New York Times Magazine \u2022 Feb 2022)\n\n36:00\xa0"Seth Rogan and the Secret to Happiness"\xa0(New York Times Magazine \u2022 Apr 2021)\n\n37:00\xa0The \u201cBlackbird Spyplane\u201d Interview Archive\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices