Hey, I'm Joel Stein. I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch.

It's moving from side to side. You're getting very sleepy.

Great. Now that I've hypnotized you against your will, you're going to start liking long-form journalism.

Like so much. You're going to listen to a podcast where the host interviews a writer about their long-form story every week.

I'm that host.

Listen to Story of the Week on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Mo Raka and I'm back with season three of my podcast, Mo Bituaries.

I've dug up even more stories about the people and things that fascinate me.

From the fruit that once scandalized...

The shape of the banana made it taboo.

...to the band that played second banana to the Beatles.

They were lucky to come in second and the truth is they only came in second for about two months.

Listen to Mo Bituaries on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future.

But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show.

And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it.

And maybe you're not interested in internet culture and the future of life on planet Earth and why John Carpenter movies are so good.

You may just want to listen to a podcast about, I don't know, sports or whatever Joe Rogan talks about.

And that's fine, you know, no judgment.

But if you like what you're hearing and I know that you do, you can listen to all of what future on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hello, welcome to Assassination Week. I hope you liked that intro from our good friend, we commissioned to do that intro from.

So big props to them for giving us like 10 seconds of their time to record that intro.

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