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It was an era of swaggering excess on Wall Street and in Cineplexes.

I feel the need for speed.

It was also a time of hardship and deprivation in cities all over the U.S.

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 through Buckner and the Mets win it!

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

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