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 podcasts.

Here in the last archive, I've been trying to figure out what happened to Truth.

I've been telling stories about how we know what we know, and why it seems sometimes lately is if we don't know anything at all.

But I am done with the problems of Truth. I want solutions.

The season of the last archive is all about common knowledge.

Is that kind of knowledge still possible? I tried to find out. Coming soon.

Listen to the last archive on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Pushkin.

Hello. Tim Halford here, and there'll be a brand new episode of Corsion Retails next week

as per our usual schedule. But this week I want to talk about something a bit different.

Well, about all kinds of different things because the conversation you're about to hear is full of the most

delectable digressions. We talk about the invention of the bicycle.

Why some inventions fail? Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Amman's Patient of Women,

the great stock market bicycle bubble, and the four possessions that define any successful household.

Who's we? Well, me, Tim Halford, host of Corsion Retails in my alter ego is the author of a book,

50 inventions that shaped the modern economy, and Dallas Campbell, the host of Payton Tid, History of

Inventions. Payton Tid is a wonderful podcast from the History Hit Network. Every few days there's

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