The People We Meet with Ty Bruner

These are the heroic untold stories of everyday people. Every day, we cross paths with remarkable people who carry stories of courage, resilience, and unique life experiences that are just waiting to be shared.

The People We Meet with Ty Bruner is a society podcast hosted by Ty Bruner, with 37 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Ty Bruner hosts The People We Meet with Ty Bruner, a society show with 37 episodes published.

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  Episode #40

  5 Miles Over Germany

  Oct 2, 202638 min

  December 20, 1943. Twenty-one-year-old Charlie Brown is five miles above Nazi Germany at the controls of a B-17 called Ye Olde Pub. It's his first mission as an aircraft commander. And it's going very, very badly. His bomber is crippled. One crewman is dead. Others are badly wounded. Most of the guns no longer work. The oxygen system is failing. Parts of the airplane are simply gone. And Charlie Brown is hundreds of miles from home. What happens next would stay with him for nearly fifty years. This is a story from World War II. But it isn't really a story about war. It's about what can happen when, in the middle of one of humanity's worst moments, one person makes a choice nobody expects. A story about enemies. A story about mercy. And ultimately, a story about why we matter to each other.

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  Episode #39

  Vanessa’s Name on the Door: How One Child Changed a City

  Sep 25, 20261h 6m

  More than forty years ago, a two-year-old girl named Vanessa Behan died in Spokane, Washington. A man named Bill Bialkowsky heard her story and couldn't simply feel terrible and move on. He decided his community needed something it didn't have—a safe place where overwhelmed parents could ask for help before a moment of crisis became a tragedy. That decision became Vanessa Behan. In this episode, Development Director Lacey Renner tells Vanessa's story, how one man's determination grew into a crisis nursery, and what actually happens when a parent reaches the point of saying, "I need help." We talk about the children who come through the doors, the parents who sometimes just need someone to help them "calm the molecules," and the ordinary people who step in when a family needs a village. This isn't really a story about an organization. It's about what can happen when one person's tragedy matters enough to someone else that they decide to do something about it. Vanessa's name is still on the door. And more than forty years later, people are still walking through it. This is why we matter to each other.

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  Episode #37

  Pappy Boyington: More Than a Black Sheep

  Sep 11, 202640 min

  At eight years old, Ty Bruner met Gregory “Pappy” Boyington through a television set. Robert Conrad's swaggering Marine fighter pilot, a bottle of root beer, a box of Cheez-Its and those unmistakable blue Corsairs began a fascination with aviation—and with Pappy—that never completely went away. Almost fifty years later, a chance encounter with Boyington's story sent Ty looking for the man behind the legend. What he found was more interesting than the television version. This episode follows Pappy from a childhood fascination with airplanes to the skies of World War II and beyond—but the real story isn't about how many airplanes he shot down or the medals pinned to his chest. It's about the people whose lives crossed his, what they remembered about him decades later, and what those relationships reveal about leadership, courage and the complicated ways we leave pieces of ourselves behind in other people. And somewhere along the way, Ty discovers that maybe the people who change our lives aren't always people we've actually met.

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  Episode #36

  Becoming Crimson Rice — The Long Way There

  Sep 4, 20261h 35m

  We love the finished product. The athlete in the uniform. The achievement. The moment when all that work finally looks inevitable. What we rarely see are the thousands of ordinary days that made it possible. Crimson Rice grew up playing softball in a small Washington town with a simple promise from her parents: whatever you put into this, we'll match. What followed were years of long drives, backyard bullpens, early mornings, weight rooms, setbacks, sacrifice, faith—and a whole lot of work when nobody was watching. In this episode, Ty Bruner follows Crimson's journey from a little girl who loved softball to a Division I athlete—and looks at the parents, coaches, teammates, and community who helped her get there. Because success looks individual from a distance. Up close, it's crowded.

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  Episode #35

  What If They’re Talking? — A Conversation with an Animal Communicator

  Aug 28, 20261h 12m

  What if your dog understands a hell of a lot more than you think? For more than 25 years, Lisa Lucas has worked with animals and the people who love them. Along the way, she became convinced that what passes between us goes far deeper than commands, body language, and training. Lisa joins Ty to share the funny, heartbreaking, and sometimes downright uncanny experiences that shaped that belief—from animals carrying trauma to one old dog named Sequoia who arrived at exactly the right moment and changed everything. You don't have to believe in animal communication to enjoy this conversation. You just have to have loved an animal enough to wonder: What if they've been trying to tell us something all along?

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