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 through line the

hosts 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 through-line podcast from NPR.

On NPR's through-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.

To understand it, you have to get up close and reveal what may have gone unnoticed

by revisiting well-known historical

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