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Hey Dateline fans! As a bonus for you, we’re sharing the trailer for Before & After with Lester Holt, an all-new original podcast series from Dateline.
Before & After with Lester Holt is a deeply personal interview series about moments that divide a life into before and after. In each conversation, Lester sits down with someone whose life was transformed in an instant by an unexpected twist of fate. The episodes explore what it takes to endure the unimaginable, rebuild a life, and find meaning and purpose in the aftermath.
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The Seduction — Introducing: Before & After with Lester Holt. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
What's it like to die? If you're gonna die, you don't wanna die, Loh. Over the years, I've reported on people whose lives were changed forever in a single moment. Actors. Everything was collapsed in my lung and I had no way to get air. It was like this breath, it was just everything. Professional athletes. It was just, hey, I'm gonna get mine. I would never protest, I would never check a D. Public figures. Have tricky enemies here. Yeah, yes. The bullet. Went through your head. Yes. An ordinary people suddenly pulled into a nightmare. Essentially, if your photo is on the internet, it could happen to you. A moment that arrives without warning. I heard a giant, enormous boom and blast. I didn't know if I was alive or dead. We know the headlines, but what I've always been curious about is what happens after. That's when the rest of the story begins.
We have people who try to send bombs to our house. I gotta get back to my family. He's sitting down for this podcast. Is this part of your road back? I hope so. And what does it take to move on? I wanted to turn my life into something a little bit more meaningful. I'm Lester Holt, and this is before and after. A new podcast from Dateline. My conversations with Jeremy Wetter, Colin Kaepernick, Gabby Giffords, and more. Premiering on Monday, September 14th, early access for Dateline Premium Subscribers begins Monday, September 7th. Follow and subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts. I think we should have an open relationship. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Let's definitely do that. With our cars. Oh, Flexcar. Yeah, that's what I meant, too. Flexcar is the first and only month to month,
Garly's. Swing from a Wrangler one month to a Prius the next. Flexcar, you drive everything.
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