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.

There is a long-standing urban legend in Los Angeles County. The Sheriff's Department is the biggest gang on the streets.

Well, these guys are violent. I mean, no kill you.

These gangs have badges. Unlimited resources paid for by you. The taxpayer.

Listen to a tradition of violence wherever you get your podcasts.

Here in the last archive, I've been trying to figure out what happened to Truth. I've been telling stories about how we know what we know.

And why it seems sometimes lately is if we don't know anything at all.

But I am done with the problems of Truth. I want solutions.

The season of the last archive is all about common knowledge.

Is that kind of knowledge still possible? I tried to find out. Coming soon.

Listen to the last archive on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

Sitting at a pool bar in Maysauk, listening to covers of Creedon songs by the House Band and losing it pooled against Andy and the boys,

it's hard to think of them, hold up behind a barricade, clutching Molotovs.

But not so long ago, the choices the boys faced were pretty stark.

Every day, every time they went out from their little apartment, they knew they might not come back.

But I think the most fucked up thing that we had to plan was what did someone get shot, one of us.

And the other person have to go carry. Who do you go? Who gets hit?

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