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.

So 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.

Oh, it could happen here and earlier this week, not the week you're hearing this, but the week we recorded it.

It did. It being the end of Roe v Wade via Supreme Court fiat and also the coming end of 100 years of show, show progress and less people get real organized and aggressive real fucking quick.

I'm Robert Evans. Who else? Who else do I got on with me today? Is there a is there a is there a Christopher Wong on the line?

Yes. There is one. There are many others, but but I am me.

Yeah, the others do not count. Is there a Garrison Davis on the line?

The only one that I know of.

That's right. That's right. We exterminated the others in a brutal set of purges, all a Stalin.

And then of course, Shereen Lonnie and a Shereen.

I'm here to. Would you like to introduce Sophie?

Of course, I mean, the one and only Sophie.

Okay. Well, that's us.

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