StoryCorps Then and Now: Listen More, Shout Less

StoryCorps

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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As we close out our special series celebrating 20 years of StoryCorps, hear how our One Small Step initiative is helping to facilitate a national conversation by bringing people together from across the political spectrum.

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0:00.0	This message comes from NPR sponsor Subaru, celebrating the Subaru Share the Love event now through January 2nd.
0:06.5	By years end, Subaru and its retailers will have donated over $285 million to charity.
0:12.2	Visit Subaru.com slash share. $185 million to charity to charity.
0:12.6	Visit Subaru.com slash Share.
0:15.0	Let's go back one more time to one of Dave Iceay's early appearances
0:19.8	on the Brian Lehrer show in New York City.
0:22.4	This one is from 2004. the Brian Lehrer show in New York City.
0:22.8	This one is from 2004.
0:25.0	We're trying to create an oral history of America
0:27.2	from the bottom up and that's what we're getting,
0:28.9	everyday people, just regular people,
0:31.2	talking in the booth and it's been incredibly gratifying.
0:33.6	And so I know you're a big-think kind of guy.
0:36.6	What's the larger impact that you hope this will have on America if your vision really succeeds in getting a lot of people around America doing this.
0:45.0	It's a project about getting people to listen to each other.
0:48.0	I mean, we live in such a culture of, you know, even when you look at the bestseller list, you've got these books that are all the way on the right and all the way on the left,
0:56.0	and it just seems like everybody is screaming at each other.
0:59.0	There's just this lack of real honest communication, and it's simply about getting people to sit down and talk to each
1:04.2	other and listen.
1:05.2	So now you're going to get die-hard Democrats and die-hard Republicans to the booth to really
1:09.7	listen to each other about where their views come from?
1:11.7	Hey, you never know. You never know.
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