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Jasmine, Jasmine Morris, Michael Garofalo, I remember you.

And listeners might remember us too.

We hosted this podcast for many, many years.

And we're back with you because this fall, we're celebrating something very special.

It's StoryCore's 20th anniversary in a mark two decades of StoryCore.

We're going to bring you a special season of the podcast hosted by Jasmine and me.

We'll be taking a look back at the early days and at the origin of the project, the launch

of our recording booths and revisiting some classic StoryCore conversations with updates.

It's sort of StoryCore than in now.

And we've both been lucky enough to have been here to witness a lot of it.

So we're going to warm up for this special series with a couple of short episodes this

week and next.

A lot has changed over the years, other than just who hosts this podcast.

But one of the places you can really see that is in our Military Voices Initiative, where

we've been recording stories of service members and their families.

Yeah, back when we started the Military Voices Initiative in 2012, there were still a lot

of troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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