Weekly Wrap: Tax Season Nears Its End, Plus Our Digital Lives After We Die

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🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The deadline to file your taxes is right around the corner. We ask a tax preparer how things have changed since the Republican-led tax overhaul. After Facebook introduced a new feature to help memorialize deceased users, Elise wonders what becomes of our online presences after we die. Plus what's going on at the U.S. southern border and what closing it could mean. Guest host Elise Hu is joined by KPBS reporters Jean Guerrero and Claire Trageser.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Ava, Elise is my mom.
0:02.5	This week on the show, from NPR Member Station, K-P-B-S in San Diego,
0:08.4	reported Jean Guerrero and Claire Triggaser.
0:12.4	Okay, let's start the show up.
0:16.4	I nailed it.
0:18.8	Oh man, she got it.
0:20.0	Thank you.
0:20.4	Hey everybody, from NPR, I'm Elise Queue in our Sam Sanders, who's on assignment this week.
0:25.2	Happy weekend.
0:26.2	Thank you.
0:27.0	We are taping the show this week at NPR Member Station, K-P-B-S, as Ava mentioned,
0:31.8	in San Diego, which means this is not only a treat for me to be in San Diego,
0:36.4	but we get to have two amazing reporters from the station here on the show.
0:39.8	Jean Guerrero, who covers immigration.
0:41.5	Hey Jean, hey Elise Queue to be here.
0:43.5	And investigative reporter Claire Triggaser, hey Claire.
0:46.2	Hi, you all know the song you're hearing?
0:48.1	It's Jeppa.
0:57.6	Two of America's most wanted.
0:59.2	This is the performance used in making the Tupac hologram that perform.
1:03.6	How is it going to...
1:04.8	See something called hologram?
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