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Speaker 1: Pushkin. I'm Joel Stein, and I've got two minutes to

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Speaker 1: save you, more like forty seconds, probably until you start

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Speaker 1: doom scrolling the news again. Here's what I want. I

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Speaker 1: want you to stop reading so much news because you're

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Speaker 1: missing the bigger stories, the deeper ones, the ones that

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Speaker 1: change how you think, the ones you probably stopped reading

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Speaker 1: around the same time you got a smartphone. Ones like

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Speaker 1: Hawaii's Crazy War over Zombie Cats. It's about how feral

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Speaker 1: cats have totally taken over the island. The cat looks

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Speaker 1: at the camera with blood dripping down its mouth, is

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Speaker 1: sort of like the cats, you know, saying, Yeah, what

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Speaker 1: the fuck are you gonna do about it? You know,

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Speaker 1: every week I pick out a story and then I

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Speaker 1: call him one of my fellow but greatly superior journalist

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Speaker 1: friends and get them to tell me about it. Like

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Speaker 1: did you read this on about this doctor who's prescribing

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Speaker 1: hallucinogenic toad poison. He used to have a little kind

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Speaker 1: of electric shocking device, like a taser that he would

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Speaker 1: sort of go and like zap people with why to

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Speaker 1: kind of tell them to stop the bullshit. Do your

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Speaker 1: toad trip property. Oh, and there's this one about this

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Speaker 1: woman named Susie Thunder who was a groupie who turned

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Speaker 1: into a hacker, and then she turned over all her

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Speaker 1: friends to the FBI. She had a groupie friend named

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Speaker 1: Elaine Lightning. No. With the two of them together, they

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Speaker 1: could really get anywhere because they had like the killer

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Speaker 1: combo of brains and beauty. She is the brains and

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Speaker 1: she is the body Thunder and Lightning. So I do

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Speaker 1: the work and you get the stories. Or more accurately,

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Speaker 1: some reporter does all the work and I call them

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Speaker 1: and steal their stories and don't pay them, and then

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Speaker 1: I put my name on the title of the podcast.

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Speaker 1: But the important part is you get the stories because

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Speaker 1: I joel Stein of Story of the Week with joel Stein,

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Speaker 1: Care about You auditory single story, Just listen to smart

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Speaker 1: people speak conversation. Filming information is the story of the week.

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Speaker 1: Listen to joel Stein's Story of the Week with joel

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