The Best Poem Ever?

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After estown came out, i got wind of a story in alaska that was about this fight they were having in this remote town over whether to pass a non binding resolution to simply state that the town is welcoming to emigrants or not. And it was just so like, dislocating and very strangean. The power of that really struck me. I started talking to people back of this american life, about, like, you just wantd i had this desire toke take somebody,. i was talking tod, and bring them to one of these places. Except it was like an actual mystery that felt like shermes oslik, oh, this is like a story

Brian Reed and Hamza Syed are co-hosts of the new podcast The Trojan Horse Affair.

“I had lost all faith in the reporting that already happened on the subject matter. And that was my mentality with each source and each interviewer. I wanted the debate ended in the room because I didn't want commentary beyond it. I didn't want any kind of interpretation beyond it. I wanted the situation to be resolved there and then…. And without certain answers, I thought we weren't going to be able to speak about this matter in the way that I wanted to speak about it.” —Syed

“I both desperately wanted to know the answer of who wrote the letter, but kind of understood that we probably weren't going to get it beyond a shadow of a doubt. And I thought that I had transmitted that to Hamza and that he understood that. But as time went on, I realized that he had not accepted that as the likely outcome. And this is what was actually so energizing to work with you, Hamza. You never let your hope and desire and hunger to get that answer ever get dimmed. Like, ever.” —Reed

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