I wrote a story about Svalana Stolen, Stolen's beloved daughter, she's, you know, the

Sasha Obama of the Kremlin.

And then she has a falling out, you know, at about the time of World War II where she falls

in love with the Jewish man who then Stolen sends to a gulag.

And so eventually she comes to you, she defects.

She has enough of the Soviet Union, she defects.

There's a lot of heartbreak, there's a lot of trauma.

A lot of us have complicated feelings about our fathers, but many of them are bad few

of them killed 30 million people.

And so I wrote it and they never ran it and actually they killed it twice.

From Justine Harmon and audio chuck, this is killed.

The podcast that brings dead stories back to life.

Episode 9 The Stranger

Nick Thompson is a pretty serious guy.

He's the former editor-in-chief of Wired and the current CEO of The Atlantic, which means

he has ideas and also solutions, very rare in editorial types.

Nick's also a devoted runner, a topic he routinely discusses on his Instagram and LinkedIn

and in interviews.

I do think that my running is very closely connected to the way I work.

There's a psychological theory that discipline in your hobby to traction the rest of the day

and psychological theory that the opposite is true and I'm very much in that camp.

Nick likes his runs, like he likes his journalism, long.

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