It was an era of swaggering excess on Wall Street and in synoplexes, it was also a time

of hardship and deprivation in cities all over the US.

Millions linked hands to raise money for America's hungry and homeless.

I'm Josh Levine.

In the third season of Slate's podcast one year, we're going to rewind all the way

back to 1986.

There has been an accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Power Station.

It gets too popular in the next way there.

Just say no to drugs.

You'll get new perspectives on the year's most shocking moments like the explosion of

the Space Shuttle Challenger.

I just had this whole shiver that went through me, this premonition that something bad was

going to happen to that mission.

Do I really want to do this?

We'll bring you inside Al Capone's vault.

We didn't know if we were going to find bodies, we didn't know if we were going to find

riches, a car, we didn't know, and that helped sell the show.

You'll hear forgotten stories that still reverberate today about a school hostage crisis

in Wyoming that takes a miraculous turn.

And then I remember hearing a voice, calling my name.

And she says you have to run, you have to get out.

And basketball star Isaiah Thomas has an audacious plan to transform the trade.

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