I remember there was an article about Borges in the New York or maybe 20, 25 years ago.

And the last line he said the soul was contained in the human voice and I was like, that's

it.

And I've been saying it ever since.

This hour I get to have a conversation about the art of listening and the impact of stories

with one of my media comrades and heroes, David, I say.

You may have heard snippets from StoryCore, the project he founded on NPR.

But radio pieces are just the tip of the iceberg.

As Dave sees it, the StoryCore booth, settings where two people ask the questions they've

always wanted to ask each other.

These are sacred spaces.

Listening he's learned is an act of love.

And eliciting and capturing our stories is a way of insisting that every life matters.

I'm Christopher Tippett and this is on Beeing.

David I say is the creator and president of StoryCore.

He's also one of MacArthur Genius Grant and more recently the Ted Prize.

StoryCore has collected over 60,000 stories from across the country with an archive at the

Library of Congress.

I spoke with him in 2014.

I just want to say how happy I am that you're doing this and I understand that you're having

to step outside your comfort zone.

So I just want you to think of this as like we're in a StoryCore booth and it's just a little

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