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 podcast.

Hey, everybody. Robert Evans here. I wanted to let you know this is a compilation episode.

Every episode of the week that just happened is here in one convenient and with somewhat less ads package.

For you to listen to in a long stretch if you want.

If you've been listening to the episodes every day this week, there's going to be nothing new here for you.

But you can make your own decisions.

Hi. Welcome to It Could Happen Here. The show where we just spent a few minutes not recording by accident and also trying to shoot my cat away.

So they would stop throwing old grenades off my desk. So that's the vibe that we're going for today.

And oh, do you know what today is?

Today is Mayday. Famed one of the best holidays.

So in the Mayday tradition, I'm not doing my job today.

So we're not doing a real episode. But don't worry.

We still have other content for you to listen to.

Speaking of content, a friend of the pod, Market Kill Joy. Hi.

Do you have anything that we can listen to today?

No, was I supposed to prepare something?

Oh, oh, wait. What if I released the very first episode of my new podcast today?

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