Podcast Podcasts - What's the Difference Between a Podcast and a Print Story?

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S i feel like some of the very, very best, like stown is the very,very best of this stuff. For something to go over eight, 30, forty minute, even up to an hour episodes, like, it's a lot. Each one of the scripts is like, eight thousand words, you know, that's a long magazine story. The kind of story that you need to sustain over that, for me, is quite hard to find. And so that's the thing i be most paranoid about. It's like finding a story that' ans that much narrative, that much surprise in it,. Even by episode eight, people be like, i really want to find

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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