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Episode 300: May Jeong

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

May Jeong is a magazine writer and investigative reporter. “I don’t have kids, I don’t have an expensive drug habit. Everything that I do right now at this moment in my life is to serve the story. That means that sometimes I’m not the best partner. I’m not the best friend. I’m a really terrible daughter probably. If my parents had a satisfaction survey, I don’t think I’d rank really high. I have friends who are buying houses and stuff. I’m very far away from that. What else have I sacrificed? I don’t know. Sometimes I let my body atrophy because I’m on the road all the time. I think I can do it for five more years. I’m 30, so thing will have to change.” Thanks to MailChimp, Read This Summer, Casper, and You Can't Make This Up for sponsoring this week's episode. Also: Longform Podcast t-shirts are still available! @mayjeong mayreports.com May Jeong on Longform May Jeong's archive at The Intercept [01:50] "The Final, Terrible Voyage of the Nautilus" (Wired • Feb 2015) [14:00] Nathan Thornburgh on Longform [17:45] May Jeong's archive at The New Yorker [24:30] "Death from the Sky" (The Intercept • Apr 2016) [36:15] "The Avenger" (Patrick Radden Keefe • The New Yorker • Sep 2015) [41:30] "Losing Sight" (The Intercept • Jan 2018) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

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0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment,

0:26.4

and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:30.6

Can humans live in space?

0:33.0

NASA has plans for a permanent moon base, so does China.

0:36.0

There's a U.S. company trying to open an orbiting space hotel in a couple years.

0:41.0

The only thing is...

0:42.0

Space is terrible. It wants to... in a couple years. The only thing is...

0:42.8

Space is terrible. It wants to kill us.

0:45.6

There's radiation, microgravity, moon dust.

0:49.8

Every piece of moon dust is jagged.

0:52.8

So it's just flying like bullets.

0:54.4

Man, I hate it, just...

0:56.4

This weekend,

0:58.4

explainable, how much space can the human body handle?

1:01.2

Follow on explainable for new episodes every Wednesday.

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