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Everyone Has an Interview Show, But Nobody Interviews

Everyone wants to record themselves chatting. Is that good?
Katherine Dee /
Illustration by Noah Hickey/The Dispatch (Photos via Getty Images).

In Brooklyn apartments, two friends with microphones dissect TikTok trends or recapitulate Twitter drama. There are the marathon sessions like The Joe Rogan Experience, where conversations sprawl like suburban development: three hours of nothing punctuated by moments destined for Instagram Reels. There's the parade of glossy celebrity sit-downs with cinematic camera work that cost thousands to produce, ostensibly have millions of listeners, and yet, you’ve never heard of them.

Katherine Dee is the pen name of a Chicago-based writer. Her work can be found in UnHerd, Tablet, The Spectator, The Critic, and at her blog, default.blog.

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