Interviewing a French Subject?

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We tried all sorts of things, and you can hear em in the show. Like on tape it was me speaking english and them speaking french. But then we had no live translation on tape. So they would have to be voiced over by an actor with wonderful french accents or voices. And even after they told me, i still wouldn't do it, like, i was so out into the fact that i could understand french, that i i was not doing the best thing for the show. It kind of like came up every time, how are we going to do this one?

Evan Ratliff, a co-host of the Longform Podcast, is host of the new podcast Persona: The French Deception.

“One of these big scams is like a story. And in the story, what they're doing is they're manipulating you to be a participant in the story, and they're getting you so hooked that you will not just do anything they say, but you will invest yourself in bringing the story to its conclusion. And like, isn't that what you're doing if you're trying to get someone to listen to eight episodes, spend that much of their life listening to your voice? … The idea that every story has this person pulling the strings... I like revisiting that in everything that I do."

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