Brian Lear on WNYC and we are so thrilled to celebrate the 20th anniversary today of the public radio series StoryCorps

which records people in real conversations in their real lives and has moved people so much when they are.

You know, back when it started, the founder Dave Visei said he wanted to make us a nation of oral historians.

He once said on this show that he wanted to make us a nation that doesn't scream at each

other so much, but actually talks and listens to each other. Okay, that's a work in progress.

But we share the goal, and Dave has actually created an

across the aisle political conversation track of StoryCorps, so that's one of the

things we'll celebrate and

remember from now, almost every public radio listener has probably heard story core conversations of one kind or another by now

and remembers one or another that touch them.

So we will tell you how to make your own as well and on the occasion of

this 20th anniversary, Dave I say is back with us with a couple of clips that are

among the most memorable for him to share one more time

and for some more conversation. Dave always good to talk welcome back to the

show and o. M. G. Congratulations on 20 years. Thank you, Brian.

It was, I was sitting here in this studio 20 years ago today

celebrating with you.

So this is where the radio part of Storycourt was born.

So I'm incredibly grateful to you and to this show.

Present at the creation.

One of the questions you suggest people ask in StoryCorps interviews is,

what's your earliest memory?

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