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Learn more@edwardjones.com volleyball today we kill this Sunday morning with thank you for listening to this venture bars but when it comes to listening, really listening to what people from all walks of life have the say. Hard to beat the listener. Jim Axelrod is been hearing out front cover story Helena Ballard keeps a journal full of other people secrets. This is an Army veteran thinking secret she's gathered from hundreds of conversations with total strangers and users to help them heal our veneers are quite perfectly look great. Only everyone's got holes in our heart heart-to-heart with the listener later on Sunday morning. Speaking of listening will be hearing a lot of singing from quartets, but are occasionally misunderstood and will be hearing what those singers have been saying about their past time to our Barry Peterson people laugh when you sell your singing barbershop.

How to build well in some sense you know when to smile about it too because barbershop does have a stereotype that I think were breaking out of that America's music is popular now was the all profile this morning's of Denzel Washington starved TV and films. Currently, thrilling audiences on Broadway show Miller be doing the owners and some movies here and now he says he's sharing the benefits of his own success, producer or director you hire people.

That's power.

That's opportunity the opportunity to give others opportunities about more all coming up in our Sunday morning podcast content you open up about your private life, to a total stranger promised just to listen you might go. But she was the right person to confide our cover story is reported by Jim someone.

His family in her journals. Helena Balla keeps a record of other people secrets. This is an Army veteran thinking Jalisco bank to this ideal notes for more than 300 conversations she's had in the past few years. Some of it is troubling fiction prostitution. Some of it heartbreaking childhood incest the hands of his uncle, but all of it is unusual because all these conversations, the latest people sharing their deepest and darkest all of them were with total strangers getting people who don't have a voice to their family.

Anyone else thing out there close lines of voice should name our sometimes the conversations are on the phone about my relationship and often their face-to-face. I wanted to just tell somebody what a wonderful person workforce that she wasn't defined by her drinking tea with the fine by this wonderful spirit likely to meeting she had with this man. He just wanted to tell someone about his wife who died from alcoholism.

I really felt I connected with her heart and she was so what such an incredible listener. This incredible listener's journey started five years ago in Washington DC where Helena was a lawyer heading back from a meeting carrying her lunch. She saw a homeless man, something inspired her to sit down share her sandwich and start listening. We are sitting on a street corner talking to each other and having a conversation much deeper and much more involved than any that I really had with close friends and family in the past Silas thinking I like to re-create that feeling for other people what you do if your Helena Balla's place an ad on Craigslist inviting anyone who needed to talk to get in touch her Craigslist confessional was an instant hit how quickly they hear from someone woke up and exploiting personalized woman who had been a heroine for 20 years and she wanted to share her experience walking downtown scene right by where I worked and she said I built right here. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for listening to me and my mind done anything extraordinary I wasn't providing any amazing insight into her own life.

I was sitting there listening to her client tell me about journey, all you were doing was listening and listening and listening to hundreds of people desperate to talk as I started gradually setting up my meetings and can and then he got a little bit overwhelming but instead of cutting back. Helena went all in. She quit her job and with her husband support gave her time full-time to strangers. Does your husband or any close friends or family say hey this is great you found what you love to do. Go get a graduate degree in psychology become a therapist. This is very different from therapy session I'm just listening. I'm not trying to get you to get better or end result in the sense of someone is in real pain in the tellers and there's no follow-up there is no healing, given then all she's doing is putting a Band-Aid on a toxic emotional will Barton Goldsmith leading psychotherapist admires Helene a huge heart but not what he sees as a naïve approach being listen to sincerely allows a release but one conversation to conversation a bunch of different conversations with a bunch of different people, does not give you the to help heal your pain not just to maybe pull the scab off to see if you have a wound but actually dress that you got heal it. You can't just let it sit there and asked her it's never going to heal. If you leave it open, but tell that to the man who lost his wife, like all of Helena strangers will remain anonymous so one time deal. Your life is change your thankful your grateful the active listening to you, allowed you to move forward yes but part of that being heard is a big self honest enough to hear myself to discover myself to reveal myself to myself. I know that sounds crazy, but that's what it is Helena Balla still talks with a few strangers every month and plans to continue as long as there are people who need or it's a much needed reminder about the world we inhabit, even though in this Facebook age we are sharing more than ever. Plenty of us still failing to connect. We live in this age of social media saturation. We already sharing too much of the wrong thing and our veneers are quite perfectly look quite functional human beings. No problems.

And that's kind of what we want to portray the society right only everyone's got a heart Helene is prescription to heal those holes is a simple act of kindness just listen there set out there saying a prayer shared is important to have self you're doing having burdens and now a page from our Sunday morning almond April 29, 1929 years ago today. The day designer Donald desk.an advertising man with a sideline sign notice in 1932. The opening of New York's radio city musical and Art Deco monument featuring interiors of his design. Dakota newspaper reported the time it's been said of the new music Hall that it is so wonderful that it needs no performers but it's beauty and comfort alone are sufficient to cause praises were so right here on Sunday morning.

By the late party the architects resorted to in 1990. Nothing could be better than this building in 1932. Nobody could be so arrogant to think they could improve radio city. It can't be done. If you can't make it to New York experienced person admires Donald desk handiwork, your own home because he went on to enjoy a long midcentury career designing the packaging of countless household products including crest toothpaste bounty towels Prell shampoo, among many others. In short, you could say it comes to memorable large lake Donald desk back you can take the full measure of a man because he mopping the floor to school department tells us not to fast. We are just two seconds into the story and if you're like most people, you've already made some assumptions about our subject Maury Forrester the students here at Coulter Grove intermediate school near Knoxville, Tennessee all say wearing that first you never know what people have done anything under 77-year-old Forrester was part of the team that help man on the during the Saturn and Apollo programs work for subcontractor design.

Crucial launch component allocated now. I'm amazed that it happened it was so complex and so involved that were so many people's certificates and awards could fill a corner office yet here he is in the broom closet highly trained electromechanical design on the business that in 2014 Maury suffered a stroke or something like it.

Doctors are quite sure what the result was clear a major loss of cognitive function. Maury says it was humbling and humiliating, but he knew if he wanted to keep on living. He had to keep on working. He originally took this job solely for the exercise over the last few months he has become an integral part of the school community. I just love it there happy to sing and I'm happy to say that you care very much for you guys in this. Maury says that you can say I love you just hear that Max makes all the difference to me. Nobody ever said that NASA which leads me to the most astonishing part of the story of God. After that I asked you guys. What if, by some miracle he got his mind back and could go back to his old job. There was no hesitation, I can't. I can't say that I give this some people never figure out the key to a successful career. Maury show. It's not rocket science. I had from screen to stay And I will leave you ship.

I'm assuming she is Sunday morning and here again is Lee Cowan Denzel Washington challenge Jean Hackman for command of a nuclear submarine in the 1995 thriller Crimson top the neighbors. Nobody would challenge Washington's command above the screen and the Broadway stage show Miller as our Sunday profile my names Denzel Washington, Denzel Hayes Washington Junior dollars. I played during variety of character in some forty-year mathematics, though the lawyer may face rates and analyze it.

I don't over analyze it, try not to read about what people think I'm doing. It's not that precious to me. I'm just doing what I know how to doing what I love to do his work has been awarded with two skiers best supporting actor for his role in Lori is a defined soul in the Union Army training Dale all around their actor training rated narcotics officer. You gotta decide worship and in 20 oh lifetime achievement much more is there left for dental man gives the award God gives the reason so I like awards.

As we all want to be loved. You know you work hard and you want people to appreciate what you do. But that's not what I live for his long successful career has a role model to actors, especially African-Americans, and his reach extends to the stage to, he started on Broadway in Julius Caesar Checkmate's a raisin in the sun and fences for that play. He wanted Tony for best actor sleepy and tired. Now he's dying in Eugene O'Neill iceman, I say you I set 1912, written in 1939 it's about unrealized dreams, betrayal, addiction, company, Washington.

Please take my salesman down on the far rector skilled actor who uses all his skill set to disappear inside of the characters. I think there are a number of actors we go to see who are enjoyable and compelling and you're seeing them play this role in this round and they don't disappear. I think he surrenders to his characters an Extraordinary Way, Washington grew up in Mount Vernon, New York with his mother, Glynis, who managed her own beauty shop and his father didn't tell senior a Pentecostal minister who worked two jobs is to sit in the driveway with his foot out the car door open, listening to the radio and I still wonder why we do that, I think it was. He just left one boss was another boy was waiting for me in the house so that was the only time you had to be to be the boss. Washington says when he was young his parents, especially his mother helped prepare him for the challenges he'd face. I remember when I was a kid and we were in Florida and someone called his neck as we are like nine years old.

Me and my brother spit and always angry when even what they said but the way they felt someone inside asked my mother I said my why they don't like that.

She said oh that's just somebody was worried about you taking their place. I said okay and Took His Pl. in Hollywood in the early 1980s. Shortly after graduating at the star of Fordham University's theater program in New York anyway to get the change that's most of all body. Most of all my blue-eyed friend most of all, you know he had talent. He says he found few mentors and even fewer opportunities compared to white actors nearly 20 years ago. He expressed his frustration to Ed Bradley see how the playing field is laid out is not level you know is not fair. You can still be ahead go, but so far because of race, ignorance on to say race raises the obvious, you know, because as a black man we can hi you know there are other races that can hi you can't change this. Is it any better. I sat and watched like where they have to billion some so that that that answers that question is that the seminal moment not that's where we are now coming proud father might be not finish the race. But I feel like I passed the baton when you run a relay race when you had a baton off you still run about 2030 yards behind. The next person. So I'm still running, enjoying watching this generation take off capable and he is in a position to help your producer or director you hire people.

That's power. That's opportunity and you know the opportunity to give others opportunities. I'm happy about Washington is about to be action thriller visor to wisely meet all set up. Until then, each night, he'll stay in the glow of the spotlight. Denzel Hayes Washington Junior says the work really pays off. How do you know when you done your time at the end of the night. You know you, nobody blotted ovation, but now you are grateful and humble below, thank you this past week losses to jazz musicians each left his mark Bob Singer girl broke through starting in 1973 Schoolhouse Rock Saturday morning.

Catchy songs conjunction among and we were in Friday of the death of Charles and three brothers formed a band unique blend of jazz and blues another was the room. CBS interview back in 1989 Charles Neville told us there band of brothers was on a mission part of the message we are doing great, would maybe pitchfork artwork one of America's most familiar paintings in his life story remains unfamiliar multiples for the exhibit and orders about to walk us through company you've at least seen it before saying no pitchfork to stand side-by-side on that one. That one is American Gothic artist grant would likely the only work many Americans have ever seen by him, but curator Barbara Haskell at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York is out to change that with a retrospective of his work, he works hundred and 20 works show the most extensive Brentwood show that's ever been and at its heart, that famous painting who are the people in this picture really posing for the picture was grant with dentist and his sister when it was first presented it was listed as a husband and wife.

One of the interpretations is that actually it's a sublimated portrait of what's parents and the brooch that the sister is wearing is approach that belong to the mother or maybe just reading too much into it exactly that. That's what he wanted all of us to try to figure out what is going on. So what are these people in some of his portraits, thinking what other stories was he trying to tell. He had a vision of American history love the idea, Paul Revere, but this is a great example of how earache's landscapes and narrative pictures are turns out there's more to grant would then renew in rural Iowa line 1891 woods tell it was apparent from an early age. After graduating high school, he traveled abroad to refine his craft, but eventually returned home to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It was there he became known for his regionalists style and artwork focused on rural life in America. She felt that every day seems just as important as the kinds of things that were being taught in the major art schools. Sean Ulmer is the director of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. He took us to woods studio a few blocks away from the museum. Welcome to the grant studio so that's all one big open space so big but open and that this is where grant weightlifting work from 1924 1935 grant got into it and some unit with a few modifications can actually live here bring my mother in here and my sister and we don't have to pay rent someplace else. It was here that would painted American Gothic, which won a bronze medal in a competition hosted by the Art Institute of Chicago and brought the 38-year-old artist national fame.

He became well-known a bit of a puzzle. They were overall uniform and have this all shucks kind of personality that he presented to the press was very sophisticated. His brief marriage in his 40s combined with a focus on the male form in his art raised questions in the Midwest in the 1930s within a community that was very masculine, had homosexual tendencies that he was afraid of confronting to think you had a happy life. I think he had a very troubled life. I think you see that troubled life in all the pictures and that's what holds our interest.

On one hand, their bucolic and harmonious and ordered, and then on second glance or something else going on. Although not everyone agrees.

Do you think that this was a man who was in the closet at a time when being gay was, not widely accepted.

We have no evidence at all that he was gay. It certainly was rumored during his own lifetime. I attended lean more towards the facts that do exist and looking at the work itself. That's something the public can do now at the Whitney in New York and always in his hometown and people now is grant would household name in Iowa absolutely is beyond doubt. I was most famous artistic son. I think that one think the grant would really did is shared with a much larger public.

The beauty that exists in the Iowa landscape and the people who populate Las Vegas shows more and not usually this kind of you the same stage where Backstreet Boys perform boys of all annual convention of the men's shop held before man who happened to me soon. Even though women have their own separate barbershop associations women no problem, David Wright is associate director of barbershop chorus. Mr. was putting them together with the chorus and to computer professors like myself doctors, others attorneys, there's people to work in sales. The only one I can think of is not there is a Barbara number have a Barbara American American tradition, much like lose some perform music from others like Rachel all this is gold medal winner here. They are superstar that burn but fortune Erin Singh spiritual how much work well zero and teaches taught us that pretty much everyone concerned barbershop. She had me grabbed producer John Goodwin who would never son barbershop and two quartet members were walking by with a little guidance minimum of practice male on take three all confession barbershop. During high school in Sydney Montana 15 years ago in June and Tom Noble got married yet some of the oldest singers. Here are some of the young 17 moments from the shop family, which became a quartet and so 19 going up so loving this 1946 that you really polarized little more harm some thoughts on Bill Cosby's guilty Bill Cosby is a big part of why I'm in this business. I was a fan. I grew up watching him do everything from stand-up comedy and Saturday morning we do hosting specials on black history. The history of slavery right selling Jell-O pudding Jell-O brand putting I listen to his albums. I love to stories about growing up in Philly, they were a lot like mine. Growing up in Queens and in some way. Just seeing him made me believe that I could be on TV to me. I thought I knew was before Cliff Huxtable. Back then he was Scotty. I spy with short cropped Afro and white cheese side-by-side with Robert Culp and around the world as the coolest espionage agent. If you ever saw that he was check-in came running down the basic fundamentals high school coach and single guy deftly navigating multicultural single camera comedy world with no laugh track goofy things I knew they were just characters, but I guess in some ways I didn't. I needed to believe they were Bill Cosby and Scotty and Chet, and certainly not Cliff Huxtable could never do what the more than 50 women have accused Bill Cosby of doing work. You can't serve up wine and pills to women and then have some kind of sloppy sex with them ever be consensual can't.

There is no consent.. At the very least, Bill Cosby could have taken response ability for what he did apologize.

However, Layton again even though 50 years of bad behavior can't be excused. This was like watching someone die of cancer. It's been agonizing I feel for the women who want listen to. I'm hurting for Andrea can't stand in the women who were harmed and I'm hurting for the death of an image that meant a lot to me.

The truth hurts, and the truth is, Bill Cosby is 80 years old and now stands convicted of three counts of sexual assault which could put him in prison for 30 years. Minutes after Thursday's guilty verdict, Tom Lazzaro, one of Cosby's attorneys said I disagree it is over. Thank you for listening and please join us again next Sunday will.

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