Marc Sollinger stepped up to host a deeply personal episode of The Moth Podcast titled "Death and What Remains," guiding listeners through stories of loss and the physical items that survive our loved ones. Opening the show, Sollinger reflected on how these belongings function as "little shards of their soul, still here," even after they are gone.
Beyond introducing storyteller Kristina Miggiani, Sollinger shared his own poignant history with grief, noting how his family "moved around a lot when I was a kid, which meant that we didn't have too much stuff," preventing them from accumulating the usual decades of household clutter. When his father passed away during his early twenties, the scarcity of physical objects made the grieving process uniquely tricky.
The episode closed with a lighter, self-aware moment during the credits. Sollinger, who is also known as the co-creator of the audio drama Archive Eighty-One, described himself as "someone who feels very strange reading his own bio" while wrapping up the Audacy-presented production.