Bruce Feiler
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802 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Jun
Bruce Feiler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This was a group quake, if you will.
Like, it felt like all the relationships in my life had been frayed and needed to be remade, right?
And so that is the thing that I began to hear, that everybody had this kind of craving or longing, right?
We're coming out of the pandemic.
There's digital saturation.
There's loneliness.
We're a
We're almost a generation into we've heard about loneliness a lot.
Where are the solutions?
There must be something out there.
And so that's when I realized, oh, I need a ritual.
I need some call to reconnect with people, at which point I basically stumble into what I think of as the greatest story I've encountered in nearly four decades of doing this kind of work professionally.
So homesickness then.
So I think there's two ways of answering this question.
Let me start with the second first, which is that it turns out actually, like I kind of love this idea of geeking out on this with you, that homesickness actually has a huge and long history.
Like the term was essentially coined in the 18th century, right?
George Washington complained that a lot of the soldiers fighting during the Revolutionary War experienced homesickness, right?
So you have all the...
In a lot of ways, America is built on the idea of leaving one home and going to another home.
It becomes a medical condition, actually.
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