Prepping for the Apocalypse from Story of the Week
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Here’s a preview of a new Pushkin podcast, Story of the Week. Each week, journalist Joel Stein chooses an article that fascinates him, convinces the writer to tell him about it, and then interrupts a good conversation by talking about himself. Sometimes the story will be the one everyone is talking about, like the New Yorker article on smoking hallucinogenic toads. Other times, it’s a story you might have missed, like the one in the Verge about the rock groupie turned hacker who had huge corporations at her mercy. Stories that stick with you long after you forget whatever headline you just doom-scrolled through. In this preview, Joel is joined by Douglas Rushkoff 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 in tech advancements, but all these guys wanted to talk about was building doomsday bunkers.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey there against the rules listeners, it's Michael Lewis and I miss you and I hope you |
| 0:13.5 | miss me. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm popping into your feeds to tell you about this new Pushkin show I love that I think |
| 0:19.2 | you'll love too. |
| 0:20.3 | It's called Story of the Week and it's hosted by the journalist Joel Stein. |
| 0:26.6 | Every week Joel chooses an article that fascinates him, convinces the writer to tell him about |
| 0:31.0 | it and then as he says interrupts a perfectly good conversation by talking about himself. |
| 0:37.2 | It is laugh out loud funny. |
| 0:40.2 | The story might be one everyone's talking about like that New Yorker piece on smoking |
| 0:43.7 | hallucinogenic toads or could be a story you missed like the one in the verge about |
| 0:49.0 | a rock groupie turned hacker who brought huge corporations to their knees. |
| 0:54.6 | Either way it'll always be a story you'll want to tell your friends about and like we |
| 0:59.4 | tried to do on against the rules it may just inspire you to think a little deeper about |
| 1:03.5 | some weird facet of American culture. |
| 1:06.4 | In this preview Joel is joined by tech writer Douglas Rushkov to talk about his experience |
| 1:12.3 | speaking to a group of billionaires in the middle of the desert. |
| 1:16.4 | He thought he'd be chatting about the latest tech advancements but all these guys really |
| 1:20.0 | wanted to talk about was building doomsday bunkers. |
| 1:24.7 | Okay here's the clip you can hear the full episode and more from story of the week wherever |
| 1:30.3 | you get your podcasts. |
| 1:32.2 | The story of the week is survival of the richest by Douglas Rushkov published on medium. |
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