The things we leave behind

This Is Uncomfortable

Marketplace

News, Business

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

While sorting through her father’s belongings after his death, Amanda Petteruti came across a collection of locked toolboxes. What she discovered inside made her rethink what she knew about her family’s finances and left her with unsettling questions about her dad: Why had he spent so much money on this secret hobby? Why was it now Amanda’s burden to handle? And how do you find closure with someone once they’re gone?

This episode is the first of a three-part miniseries exploring the intersection of money, grief and loss.

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive
0:03.4	It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist,
0:08.3	I was flying for the Navy.
0:09.7	Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
0:14.4	It was the cold war, and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.
0:18.6	Today, though, there's another threat out there, climate change.
0:22.5	This could be the warmest year on record.
0:24.6	Climate change is here.
0:25.7	Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.
0:29.5	And while the threat seems new,
0:31.6	the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.
0:35.9	I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.
0:44.7	This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis
0:47.5	to see how the military is preparing for the threat.
0:51.0	Listen to how we survive,
0:52.3	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:54.0	Dementia, in my opinion, takes your worst qualities and just turns them up to 11.
1:06.9	Last year, Amanda Pederudi had to watch her dad suffer from dementia.
1:11.2	It was painful, seeing him become confused, argumentative, no longer the affectionate
1:16.2	dad reaching for hugs.
1:18.3	And that's so hard for the people that are left because you don't want to remember like the aspects of them that
1:25.8	were the most challenging.
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