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Join Wundry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. You're going to be here. It's February 2015 and a Monday morning in Manhattan.

John Carriu climbs the stairs of a subway station alongside a crush of other commuters.

When he steps out into the city streets in Midtown, he's greeted by bumper to bumper traffic

and crowds of people hurrying into skyscrapers. Karyru buttons up his coat, the cold wind blowing through his mop of brown hair.

Then he slips into the crown and begins hurrying to his office in a building that also reaches toward the gray winter sky.

Carri Roo has a lot of work ahead of him.

For years, he's been a reporter at the Wall Street Journal.

He's a highly respected journalist, and he's recently finished an investigative piece about Medicare fraud.

That story was all consuming, but now that it's behind him, it's time to get back to work

to find his next great feature story.

Cary Roos steps into the newsroom of the Wall Street Journal.

It's a beautiful chaotic scene.

Reporters type furiously on their keyboards while interviewing sources for their stories.

Phones ring in every direction.

Up above, flat screen TVs are tuned to news about the markets and politics.

Harry Roo has been in this building a thousand times,

but he'll never get tired of the newsroom,

or the important work of holding people in power accountable for their actions.

A moment later, Kerry Roo reaches his messy desk.

He barely has a chance to take off his coat when his phone rings.

Oh, this is John.

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