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This is Planet Money from NPR.

One of the best and worst things about our jobs here at Planet Money are the deadlines.

They're relentless, but they keep us honest.

Because while we're being honest, without deadlines, we would work on stories forever.

Reading that one last paper, doing that one last interview, checking that one last paper doing that one last interview checking that one last fact

that is of course if it weren't for the deadline because of deadlines at a certain point

we fade up the music read read the end credits, turn off our

recorders, and go on to thinking about the next story. But it's not like that for the people

we talk to for our stories. The music doesn't just fade up on

their lives. No, they fight on another day. Encounter new obstacles, learn new lessons.

And so every once in a while around here we like to check in on those people and their stories.

Call them up and say, hey, how'd that work out for you?

It's a show that we've been doing for over a decade here at Planet Money, an idea we kind of stole from a radio great,

the legendary Paul Harvey.

We had a show called The Rest of the Story.

Hello and welcome to Planet Money, I'm Nick Fountain. That's our show today. The

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