Trailer: Introducing What Next

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.3 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

A smart round-up of the biggest stories of the day. When the news feels overwhelming, we’re here to help you answer: What next? Look for the show every weekday afternoon.

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0:00.0	Okay, so Mike, I just arrived here at Slate. You sit a couple desks over. I am the guy if the
0:06.2	beef jerky in the communal kitchen ever runs low, you just give me a call. You just give me a holler.
0:11.4	I'll restock the jerky. If you're a fan of Slate podcasts, you know, Slate's already got a daily show.
0:18.3	I also host the gist, but you know, it's mostly jerky.
0:25.2	How much news do you take in every day?
0:26.9	Like three quarters of it.
0:28.3	Love all the news. Yeah. Like, I'm not going to brag and say, I take in all the news.
0:31.9	Even for Mike Peska, the news can be a lot.
0:36.3	And I assume you mean the English language news.
0:39.0	How are you doing with the Chinese language news?
0:41.7	Not so good.
0:43.5	The problem with the news right now is that it's everywhere.
0:48.3	It's on your phone, on Twitter, on that elevator at your office.
0:53.4	Leon Nafoc, you know him from over at Slowburn.
0:56.4	He gets most of his news from Slack.
0:59.4	I do not pick up the paper in the morning.
1:00.8	I'll start there.
1:02.6	Leon's even come up with a word for that mindless scrolling you do in bed every night just before you go to sleep.
1:08.3	My wife and I call that doinking.
1:10.6	Are you doinking?
1:11.9	Stop doinking.
1:13.1	I don't know why it sounds right, but it does.
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