Introducing: Before & After with Lester Holt
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Introducing: Before & After with Lester Holt

B1IntermediateSeptember 7, 20261 min

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. Follow now to get the first episo...

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It was like this breath, it was just everything.

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What's it like to die? If you're gonna die, you don't want to die alone. Over the years, I've reported on people whose lives were changed forever in a single moment. Actors.

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Everything was collapsed in my lung and I had like 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.

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I would never protest it. I would never took a knee. Public figures, the tracheotomy scar... Yeah, yeah, yes. The bullet... ...went through your head.

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