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Some things you just have to learn on the job. This week, stories from funeral directors, garbage collectors, firefighters, and Golden Gate Bridge ironworkers about how their occupations challenged and changed them.Leave us a voicemail at 702-706-TALK, or email us at podcast@stor ... Show More

In Shreveport, Louisiana, one home has become a lighthouse for local kids. We meet the couple who opened their doors to the neighborhood, and discover how their work has not only changed the community, but changed them and their volunteers too.Leave us a voicemail at 702-706-TALK ... Show More

September 11, 2001 was 25 years ago. But if you lived through that day, it doesn’t feel like it. StoryCorps started recording survivors and the families of victims just a few years after, with the goal of archiving one interview for each person lost. We dug through more than two ... Show More

This episode, the season finale, is a reminder that none of us is alone in our grief. Anderson shares some of the thousands of extraordinarily moving voicemail messages he’s received from listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

There is a moment in every person's life where we have to say goodbye to someone we love. It's what we do with that moment—and how we prepare for that moment—that really matters. On today's episode of the Tuesday People Podcast, on the 26th anniversary of Morrie Schwartz's deat, ... Show More

Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King.  We give you highlights from his most well known speeches.  You will also get highlights from President Barack Obama's farewell address.  Along with this, the crew discuss many different topics from racism, mentoring, politics and more.  Tod ... Show More

It's four in the morning when Lyndon wakes up Lady Bird to the news that Senator Robert Kennedy has been shot. This episode takes us through the tragic hours of vigil as the nation grapples with his death -- the third political assassination in five years, and just two months sin ... Show More

We hear from a Latino city councilman who was there when it all went down, a Korean-American who worked at her family's gas station in Compton and a prominent black pastor who gave a memorable sermon to his South LA congregation. Oh, and we tag in our play cousins Mandalit Del Ba ... Show More

Getting out and going home. Survivors recount what it was like to go home and whether getting "back to normal" will be possible.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

<p>Many of us believe we know how we’d choose to die. We have a sense of how we’d respond to a diagnosis of an incurable illness. This week, we revisit a 2019 episode featuring one family’s decades-long conversation about dying. What they found is that the people we are when deat ... Show More

We talk about our experiences with losing a loved one, saying goodbye to family, and appreciating the moment you're in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

On this episode we discuss memories and how they create who we are. How do our recollections shape our consciousness and existence?