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Scott Kolb lost his job in the financial world. He thought he’d get another one immediately, but good jobs have been hard to come by recently. But his downtime had an unexpected upside – a chance to spend more time with his daughter. When Scott headed back to work, daughter Emma sent him off with a special surprise.

In the 90a, Dr. William Boden was concerned there wasn't enough data to show how effective stents actually were in the long term. So he conducted a trial, called Courage, that looked at patients with stable but chronic angina. The results were highly contentious, especially for interventional cardiologists like Rajiv Jauhar. Dr. Boden and Dr. Jauhar talk to Dick Gordon about treating chest pain with and without stents, and the challenges of practicing medicine in the enormously complicated U.S. health care system. Also in this episode, a check-in with Roody Joseph.

These are uncertain days for the car industry. President Obama was at a GM plant on Friday talking about what the government has done to help troubled U.S. manufacturers. One place the car industry is growing is in the American South - but it's not American carmakers. In Mississippi, Barry Emison trains the next generation of Toyota workers. In Georgia, Chris Frost works for a local Kia auto plant supplier.

Roman Mars of the 99% Invisible podcast looks back to a time when we sent information using pneumatic  tubes - the kind you might still see in a drive through bank.