Hello, just fans. Mike here today. I'm doing things a little bit differently and bringing you a preview of a new podcast

That's not the gist, but I am quite enjoying it. It's called Story of the Week with journalist Joel Stein. Joel is

Engaging and witty and

personable and interesting and

Interested he's just the best person to give you this show because we all wish we had the time and attention span to

Legally parse through the latest and long-form journalism, but you know the reality is we don't Joel does and he's sharing his findings with each of us each week

Joel chooses an article that fascinates him convinces the writer of set article to tell him all about it and then interrupts a perfectly good

Conversation by mostly talking about himself a story that Joel covers might be one everyone's talking about like that New Yorker article about

Smoking hallucinogenic toads or it could be a story you missed like the Verges piece about a rock group he turns 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 and like the gist it may challenge your own way of thinking in this

Preview Joel is joined by Douglas Rushkopf to talk about his experience speaking to a group of tech billionaires in the middle of the

Desert he thought he'd be chatting about the latest and tech advancements, but all those guys wanted to talk about was

Building doomsday bunkers. All right. Here's a clip. I hope you enjoyed as much as I did

You can hear the full episode and more from story of the week wherever you get your podcasts the story of the week is

Survival of the richest by Douglas Rushkopf published on medium. Congratulations Douglas

Congratulations medium. Congratulations to the richest

To be absolutely clear. I am not rooting for a nuclear war

However a bunker does seem kind of fun. I mean in the same way that living in an RV is sort of a fantasy

Like the idea of having to live in a bunker just seems kind of

cozy and and simplified and intimate and sort of like the way a weighted blanket is

So I'm kind of ashamed to say that I had a little bit of empathy for the billionaires who are building bunkers

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