In honor of Father’s Day, tales of little children discovering out the one factor they’ve all the time needed to learn about their father. The solutions aren’t all the time what they’d hoped for.
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- Prologue: As a child, Aric Knuth despatched cassette tapes to his dad, a service provider marine gone for months at a time. He’d depart one aspect clean and ask for a reply—however none ever got here. Aric talks to Ira Glass about what it was prefer to lastly ask his dad why. (7 minutes)
- Act One: Lennard Davis was all the time instructed to keep away from his no-good Uncle Abie. After his father died, Abie claimed he was really Lenny’s organic father by way of synthetic insemination. At first, the story appeared potential, then uncertain. It took Lenny greater than 20 years to kind out whether or not it was true, and he finds out the reply—definitively—as tape is rolling. (31 minutes)
- Act Two: Paul Powerful’s father was a mild-mannered professor—till he instantly left the household to pursue a lifelong quest: making contact with extraterrestrial life. For the primary time, Paul joins him and asks the questions he’s lengthy saved to himself about his father’s alien pursuits. (18 minutes)
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