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Before we start today's show, we want to shout out another show in the Radiotopia family, Radio Diaries.

For over 25 years, Radio Diaries has been creating sound-rich, personal stories on history and

beyond.

A year after the release of their series The Unmarked Graveyard,

they're back with a slate of new stories this summer and fall.

Their new mini series, Making Waves, will explore the rise of Talk radio in America with stories about four

little-known controversial broadcasters who change the airwaves. You'll also hear

stories about the US Navy's mission to get humans to live in the ocean, a group that led to the rise of

American conspiracy theories, and a woman who was part of the greatest climate migration

in American history.

More than eight decades ago, her family fled Arkansas in the history. More than eight decades ago her family fled Arkansas in the

wake of the Dust Bowl to find a better life in California. Here's a clip from that

story. I know mama thought when we got to California her and her kids would be fine.

Plenty of work for everybody, places to live, plenty of fruit and vegetables and all this stuff. But that wasn't true.

The New Yorker calls Radio Diaries a venerable and remarkable audio documentary project.

Subscribe to Radio Diaries wherever you get and remarkable audio documentary project.

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or visit them at radio diaries.org.

We all have people in our lives who have changed us, and for me,

Lille Finkel was one of those people.

Lille met my parents in Russia, literally a few days before they immigrated to the US in the 80s.

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