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Happy Valentine's Day lovers! On today's episode, Jasmine sits down with Hannah who shares her exciting experience of meeting the love of her life on none other than Valentine's Day! Only... he wanted to set her up with his friend. Fast forward through a singles party, very unconventional first date, navigating historical feelings of misplaced self-worth, an age gap and visas/permanent residency issues, Hannah tells us why being a fighter for your love is the key to all of it. Got a great story to share? Send it it through on Instagram @storyofuspodcast or via email storyofusthepodcast@gmail.com Never want to miss an episode? Follow The Story of Us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and anywhere else you get your podcasts! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestoryofuspodcast/message
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This episode is a rebroadcast of the interview Matt Tullis did Wil S. Hylton in March of 2014. At the time, the two talked about Hylton’s new book, Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II. The book focuses for the modern-day search for one American bomber that crashed over the Pacific Islands during the war. That bomber carried 11 men, who for decades, were listed as missing in action. When Hylton started the piece, he thought it was going to be a magazine piece. He had no idea it would expand into his first book. “I never really imagined that I would write a book to be honest,” Hylton says. “I venerate the magazine form. I always have. To me, it's the perfect gem-like distillation of a story, and it comes with all of its own special habits and history that are quite different from either doing fiction books or newspaper writing, broadly speaking. I just love it. This is the form that I've always wanted to work in, but what happened was this particular story forced me to try a new medium.” On May 8, Hylton had a new magazine piece published by The New York Times Magazine. It was headlined “My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me.” It’s a brutal yet important piece that looks at toxic masculinity and how it impacts all of us, and how it nearly ended Hylton’s life. Hylton opens up entirely about his own life in this piece, and it’s not always pretty. That’s what makes the essay so effective, and, hopefully, imactful. Hylton’s work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, New York, and many other magazines. He has been selected for numerous anthologies, including The Best Music Writing, Best American Political Writing, Best Business Stories, and Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists.
This week on The Waves, Hanna, June and Noreen discuss the New York Times article “My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me”. Then, the Zero Waste movement has made its way to instagram. Have we totally missed the point? Finally, they discuss the recent anti-abortion laws passed in multiple state legislations and the various protest reactions to them. In Slate Plus: Is it sexist to criticize Constance Wu for her reaction to the renewal her sitcom Fresh Off the Boat? Podcast production by Danielle Hewitt. Our production assistant is Alex Barasch. Email your topic suggestions and responses to thewaves@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on The Waves, Hanna, June and Noreen discuss the New York Times article “My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me”. Then, the Zero Waste movement has made its way to Instagram. Have we totally missed the point? Finally, the impact of the recent anti-abortion laws passed in multiple state legislations and the various protest reactions to them. In Slate Plus: Is it sexist to criticize Constance Wu for her reaction to the renewal her sitcom Fresh Off the Boat? Podcast production by Danielle Hewitt. Our production assistant is Alex Barasch. Email your topic suggestions and responses to thewaves@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ethan Chiel, Catherine Cusick, Aaron Gilbreath and Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads. This week: My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me from the New York Times Magazine Going Under at the Playboy Club at The New Republic How America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery from The New York Times Magazine The Race to Develop the Moon from The New Yorker Produced by Longreads and Charts & Leisure.