Episode 521: Jonah Weiner

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

b'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'