The document discusses how oral history interviews from a phenomenological perspective can allow for new understandings of being to emerge through conversation. It explains that oral historians, through asking historical questions, can help connect people to the originary power of the past and bring possible futures into view. This process of meaning making through interview struggles to put experiences into language burdens being in the present. The document promotes a radical, phenomenological approach to oral history that focuses on inter-subjective meaning making and informed consent through a minimalist interview method.