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Story of the Week with Joel Stein

Pushkin Industries

On Story of the 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 we’ll find 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. These are stories you’ll

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1:10

Introducing: The Big Take

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2025/11/24

The Big Take from Bloomberg News brings you inside what’s shaping the world's economies with the smartest and most informed business reporters around the world. The context you need on the stories that can move markets. Every afternoon. Listen here and subscribe to The Big Take on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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52:33

The Secret of Southwest's Success: Free Whisky, Hot...

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2025/11/12

It's hard to make money running an airline - but Southwest was profitable every year for nearly five decades. How did it manage it? Business History hosts Jacob Goldstein and Robert Smith explore how a carrier with just four airplanes shuttling across Texas revolutionized flying by offering free whisky, cheap late-night tickets and free-for-all seating allocation. Southwest developed a winning formula that forced its competitors to change how they did business - but then the Southwest model fell

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38:14

Heavyweight Presents: The Messenger

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2025/10/07

Here's an episode from Heavyweight, a new addition to the Pushkin slate of shows. Heavyweight, hosted by Jonathan Goldstein, creates space for difficult conversations and resolving long-standing regrets and unanswered questions. Balancing humor and empathy, host Jonathan Goldstein helps his subjects pinpoint the moment things went wrong and joins them on a quest to make them right. This episode features Michael, who, as a high school senior got his lucky break—the chance to star in a

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38:49

Introducing The Chinatown Sting: Lucky Bird

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2025/09/23

Here’s a preview of a new Pushkin podcast, The Chinatown Sting. In the late 1980s, a group of women connected through the mahjong parlors in Manhattan’s Chinatown were caught in a massive undercover drug bust. But this bust was just the beginning of an even bigger case. Host Lidia Jean Kott and co-reporter Shuyu Wang interview sources who’ve never spoken on record before, including witnesses, defendants, and federal prosecutors, to reconstruct a case that still has repercussions

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48:42

Introducing Fiasco: Benghazi — The Dictator

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2025/09/08

Here’s a preview from another Pushkin podcast, Fiasco. Slow Burn co-creator Leon Neyfakh transports listeners into the reality of America’s most pivotal historical events, bringing life to the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present. In his new season, Leon looks at the 2012 Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead—and the ensuing political storm, which raised questions about America’s role in the world, established a playbook to

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26:31

L’Oréal and IBM: AI-Powered Beauty from Smart Talks...

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2025/07/20

This week, the show takes you behind the scenes at L'Oréal’s research center in New Jersey. Malcolm Gladwell delves into the complexities of cosmetic formulation and the AI partnership with IBM. Learn how AI is poised to revolutionize the creation of beauty products, to make them even more sustainable and innovative. This is a paid advertisement from IBM. The conversations on this podcast don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions. Visit us

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38:53

Don’t Panic! Preview Douglas Adams: The Ends of the...

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2025/06/24

Here's a preview of a new audiobook, Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth, which celebrates the wit and wisdom of the legendary science fiction author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Twenty-five years after his death, Adams’ books continue to be read by new generations and his creations along with his ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything being “42”, have seeped deep into public consciousness. Written

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35:29

How Dogs Changed my Life (with The Dogist) from The...

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2025/06/16

We all have our own ways of coping - especially when things get tough. So for the next few shows we're going to talking to people with interesting coping strategies. And we start with Elias Weiss Friedman, aka The Dogist. Throughout his life, Elias has found comfort in dogs. And when he got fired from his job, dogs came to the rescue again - they helped him forge a new career as a photographer and a social media star. Elias discusses his journey and what he thinks dogs can teach us about being our

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42:37

Stories of Courage from Medal of Honor

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2025/06/11

The new season of Medal of Honor: Stories of Courage tells the tales of the brave people who have been rewarded the United States’ top military decoration, uncovering what their experiences tell us about the nature of sacrifice and what happens after you become a hero.Here's a preview of episode 1. When fighter pilot Jefferson DeBlanc survived being shot at in a dogfight over the Solomon Islands in World War Two, his adventure was only beginning. What happened after he parachuted out of his

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25:21

China’s Race to Dominate: Listen to Global Tech Wars

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2025/04/22

Here’s a preview of a new audiobook, Global Tech Wars: China’s Race to Dominate. For decades, China’s economic rise has been symbolized by its unstoppable force of low-cost manufacturing. Now, it’s the leading country in cutting-edge industries like artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, surveillance technology, and more. In Global Tech Wars, Financial Times’ veteran journalist James Kynge analyzes China’s rapid technological ascent and what it means for the

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2:39

A Secret War, A Secret Deal, A Secret Scandal —...

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2025/04/07

Fiasco, Leon Neyfakh's podcast about the most pivotal historical events in the United States, returns for a new season on the Iran-Contra affair. Leon brings to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present. In Fiasco: Iran—Contra, Leon exposes a secret war, a secret deal, and a scandal that threatened to destroy Ronald Reagan’s presidency—until it didn’t. Get early, ad-free access to the entire season of Fiasco: Iran-Contra by

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36:41

The Harms of Eating Alone: An International Day of...

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2025/03/20

For theInternationalDay of Happiness, we're sharing a special episode from The Happiness Lab. It's a chance to talk about happiness and what we can all do to be happier. March 20th also sees the release of theWorld Happiness Report. A big finding of 2025's report is that more of us are dining alone—and that's bad news. The report's editor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve shares the stark figures showing that shared meals are in decline, while Dr. Anne Fischel ofThe Family Dinner Projectgives tips on how

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49:01

Introducing Fiasco: The Battle for Boston

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2025/02/04

In 1974, a federal judge ruled that Boston’s public schools were unconstitutionally segregated. The solution? A controversial experiment in desegregation known as “busing,” which would take children from majority-white schools and bus them to predominantly Black schools, and vice versa. What followed was a year of upheaval, violence, and fierce protests, as Boston became a battleground for the heated national debate over school integration and racism in the North. In this dramatic

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28:12

Ebola: Preventing the Next Pandemic

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2024/10/24

What did the 2014 Ebola outbreak teach us about preventing future pandemics? Our guests this week, Christian Happi and Pardis Sabeti, are world experts on disease surveillance, and have worked together fighting infectious disease in Africa for over a decade. Happi shares a gripping account of how he courageously helped stop Ebola from spreading in Nigeria during the 2014 West Africa outbreak. Then Sabeti explains how a new era of surveillance may help prevent future pandemics.See

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51:38

Bush v. Gore: Episode 1 – Homestead

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2024/10/16

How the largely forgotten race between Al Gore and George W. Bush roiled Florida long before anyone had ever heard of a hanging chad. For a full list of sources, check out the Fiasco website.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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7:50

Introducing: Where’s Dia?

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2024/08/01

In the beautiful mountain town of Idyllwild, a wealthy widow named Dia Abrams suddenly vanishes from her home. She leaves behind her idyllic ranch, estranged children and a messy legal battle. Two men in her life, her son and a man who claims to be her fiance, launch public campaigns to find her. But soon, their efforts – and stories – begin to unravel. Enjoy this preview from Where's Dia? A new podcast from Pushkin Industries and iHeartPodcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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36:07

Hitler’s Olympics from Revisionist History

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2024/07/01

Adolf Hitler swept to power in Germany in the early 1930s and soon set out to stage the most extravagant and spectacular summer Olympics yet: the 1936 Berlin Games. And countries around the world dutifully put together their teams and made the trip to Germany. Why?In a new series from Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell and Ben Naddaff-Hafrey explore the games behind the Games, the most consequential Olympics in history. Along the way, they meet a collection of the world’s daffiest aristocrats. A

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31:23

Introducing Medal of Honor: Stories of Courage

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2024/06/26

Medal of Honor: Stories of Courage is a new podcast telling extraordinary tales of heroism. The Medal of Honor is awarded for bravery in combat that goes far above and beyond the call of duty – those acts of heroism and courage that save lives despite impossible risk. Each week on the show, host Malcolm Gladwell dives into the story behind a different Medal of Honor recipient. If you enjoyed this episode, you can find Medal of Honor: Stories of Courage wherever you're listening now.See

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22:06

Crash from Death of an Artist: Krasner and Pollock

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2024/05/24

You’ve heard of artist Jackson Pollock, but you may have never heard of Lee Krasner. Krasner was an artist, Pollock’s wife, and the woman who made him famous. She also changed everything about the landscape of modern art.Death of an Artist: Krasner and Pollock is a story about love, power, alcoholism and an ill-timed death. Hosted by curator, author, and broadcaster Katy Hessel, this 6-episode series from Pushkin Industries and Samizdat Audio offers an inside look into two of the greatest artists

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48:05

Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day

Story of the Week with Joel Stein ·

2024/03/20

The Happiness Lab’s Dr. Laurie Santos brings together other Pushkin hosts to mark the International Day of Happiness. Revisionist History’s Malcolm Gladwell talks about the benefits of the misery of running in a Canadian winter. Dr. Maya Shankar from A Slight Change of Plans talks about quieting her mental chatter. And Cautionary Tales host Tim Harford surprises everyone with the happiness lessons to be learned from a colonoscopy.Hear more of The Happiness Lab HERE.See omnystudio.com/listener for

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