How to Capture Your Parents' Story Before It's Gone
Updated August 18, 2026
Everyone says they'll sit down with a recorder someday. Then the funeral comes, and the stories are gone. These conversations explore memory, family narrative, and what it means to actually know the people who raised you — including a real example of a Legacy Interview, so you can hear what a professionally guided life story sounds like.
Episodes from the archive
From 487 episodes of the Vance Crowe Podcast, these conversations go deepest on this ground:
- How to Record Your Parents' Life Story: Phil Bender Legacy Interview Example
- How Family Stories Shape Identity: A Literature Professor's Guide to Inherited Narratives
- Funeral Director Explains What Really Happens Between Death and Burial
- How Ordinary People Convince Themselves Genocide Is Righteous: Attorney on Jewish History
- Fourth-Generation Cattle Rancher on Bitcoin, Boomer Wealth Collapse, and Reading the Land
- Why Your Toddler Doesn't Want That Toy: Mimetic Desire and Parenting Insights
- Why Stories Can Change Your Past: Jungian Psychology and Soviet Survival Tales
- Why Rural and Urban America Live in Different Countries: Montana School Board Perspective
- Why 1,500 Kids Are Homeless in St. Louis: CEO Explains Hidden Youth Crisis
- Ukrainian Citizen Describes Life During Russian Invasion: Real-Time Account from Western Ukraine
- UK Debate Festival Founder on Cancel Culture, JK Rowling, and Why Open Debate Is Dying
- Trump's Tariffs Crash Markets $3.1 Trillion, Public Land Sales, and H-2A Labor Defense
- Strange Donuts Founder on Depression, Cult Recovery, and Social Media Mob Attacks
- St. Louis Radio Host on Viral Police Car Incident, Media Distortion, and Pandemic Theater
- Russian Historian Explains Putin's Perspective on Ukraine War
- Romanian Podcaster on Ukraine War Censorship, Trans Social Contagion, and Childless America
- Retired Bond Executive's Plan to Fix Healthcare: Subsidize Deductibles, Not Premiums
- Real Estate Attorney Explains Why He Invests in Downtown St. Louis Despite the Risk
- Pakistan's Inflation Crisis: How US Dollar Printing Devastates Developing Countries
- Open Fields Doctrine: Why Federal Agents Can Enter Your Land Without a Warrant
- Living with Williams Syndrome: Heightened Senses, Trusting Everyone, and Feeling Others' Emotions
- Iowa Fights Federal Eminent Domain for CO2 Pipelines, MAHA Pesticide Report Analysis
Where to go from here
Vance's company Legacy Interviews records private, professionally guided life-story conversations with parents and grandparents. Families get the voice, the laugh, and the stories — forever.
Learn About Legacy Interviews