Hello everybody it's Paul Giamotti speaking. Stephen Asmas I live and breathe.

How are you sir? I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast?

Yeah, it's an excellent podcast and I've been listening to it for a while.

Yeah, you're a listener. Yeah. I love this show. Every week they go back in time to understand the present because you can't

fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been, right?

Very true.

And on every episode of NPR's throughline, the host take a story from the news and go back to where it started.

They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?

It's interesting stuff.

They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing.

There was a recent one about the scientist who tried to stop the aging process

because he deemed old age to be a disease that he could cure.

So it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.

Wow. Eternal youth, our fear of aging, our fear of death,

that traces he feelings back thousands of years.

It's remarkable discussion.

So very cool stuff.

If you're interested in learning about how the past informs the present,

you'll love the Thru Line podcast from NPR. On NPR's Thru Line, the Past is brought back to life,

and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shape the world we live in now.

Past is shrouded in mystery, correct Steve?

It is.

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