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🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Louise Buck and I live in San Diego and I'm a great |
0:07.5 | grandmother as you said to Colin and tell you how much I like this season and I loves it. I love |
0:13.7 | love StoryCorps, I look forward to it. |
0:16.2 | I think it's something that holds everybody in the country together |
0:20.5 | and God knows we need it. So thanks and have a little |
0:38.5 | surprise for you. |
0:40.1 | This past season, at the end of every episode, we asked you a question and invited you to share your answers by calling 702 706 talk. |
0:49.0 | And wow, a lot of you called in. |
0:52.0 | So this week, we're going to step outside the booth and hand the mic to you, our listeners. |
0:57.0 | I'm Jasmine Morris, and this is the StoryCorps podcast from NPR. Now let me just hit play here on our voicemail. |
1:09.8 | You've reached the voicemail for the StoryCorps podcast. We're so glad you called. Our most recent episode |
1:15.0 | was about Nick Tucci, who has a little boy in 1964 ran away to the New York World's |
1:20.0 | fair and lived there for 11 days. We asked you, what's a family legend you thought was too good to be true? |
1:27.6 | Hi, my name is Tyler Johnson and I am from Tucson, Arizona. My great-grandmother and great-grandfather, |
1:35.0 | they were ranchers in southern New Mexico, |
1:38.0 | and they lived there their entire lives out near the town of Los Crucid. |
1:42.0 | They told us that in 1945 they had gotten the family car and driven to a town |
1:49.3 | near the border of Arizona and they had to stop for the night. |
1:53.2 | They couldn't get a hotel so they slept in their car on the side of the road. |
1:57.2 | Early the next morning, they were awoken by a bright flash and that bright flash turned out to be the Trinity test, the first |
2:06.4 | atomic bomb ever tested at White Sands and they just happen to witness it in |
2:11.4 | their car. |
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