Pushkin

Hey Broken Record listeners, it's Justin Richmond.

We'll be back with our regularly scheduled episode next week, but today I'm bringing you

a preview of a new show from Pushkin I think you're really going to like.

It's called Story of the Week with Journalist Joel Stein.

A lot of us, myself included, wish we had the time and attention span to leisurely

parse through the latest and long-form journalism.

But the reality is, most of us don't.

Joel Stein, however, does, and is sharing his findings with all of us.

Each week, Joel chooses an article that fascinates him, convinces the writer of said article

to tell him all about it, and then interrupts at perfectly good conversation by mostly

talking about himself.

The story Joel covers on a given week might be one everyone is talking about, or it could

be a story that you missed, like the Verges piece about a rock groupie turned hacker who

had huge corporations at her mercy.

Either way, it'll always be a story you tell your friends about, a story that sticks

with you long after you forget whatever headline you just doom scrolled through.

Today's story about smoking hallucinogenic toads was written by a commone degree for the

New Yorker.

A Mexican doctor turned to Toad Poison to help cure himself of a crack addiction.

The doctor then talked about his experiences during a TEDx talk at Burning Man, which

started his career as a world's leading proponent of the drug.

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