Speaker 1: Family Secrets. It seems just about every family has them.
Speaker 1: Some secrets are kind of small and insignificant, and some
Speaker 1: are shocking and massive. But I know one thing for sure,
Speaker 1: when they come out, and they always do, our new
Speaker 1: knowledge has the power to change our lives. I'm Danny Shapiro,
Speaker 1: host of the hit podcast Family Secrets. Welcome to our
Speaker 1: fourth season, launching October one. There are secrets we don't
Speaker 1: know how to speak aloud. It was a really strange
Speaker 1: way to be in the world, because not only do you
Speaker 1: you have the sense of yourself of being different and
Speaker 1: having a problem that you can't solve, but you also
Speaker 1: have a pretty big secret. You have a an atomic
Speaker 1: secret that you don't have a language for. You don't
Speaker 1: know how to to share your what's in your heart,
Speaker 1: your most fundamental truth with the people who love you.
Speaker 1: Secrets we only understand in retrospect. I hadn't really felt
Speaker 1: the terror of it, or the recklicness of it, or
Speaker 1: the the layers of the danger of that until until
Speaker 1: that moment. And it's strange to say it compelled me
Speaker 1: to see it, or what force to sear was that
Speaker 1: my daughter turned the same age I had bed I
Speaker 1: so looked at her when she was set and I
Speaker 1: was just like, wait, that's that's a really that's kind
Speaker 1: of a crazy thing to do, to set a house
Speaker 1: on fire with a kid in it, secrets whose legacy
Speaker 1: we have to contend with. When my cousin plopped those
Speaker 1: books on the counter, I was shocked. I was horrified.
Speaker 1: I was certain I had never seen them. I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe that anyone would want to bring them into a
Speaker 1: house with this two year old child in it and
Speaker 1: let him see them. And I didn't believe that my
Speaker 1: father had written them. And she said to me, no jewels,
Speaker 1: look in the back and her mom had written written
Speaker 1: by George wool on the back so that everyone would
Speaker 1: remember plasterity and secrets that shape us from the inside out.
Speaker 1: I just felt like I was having an out of
Speaker 1: body experience. And the next thing I know, you know,
Speaker 1: I realized this man, this pastor, has been talking for
Speaker 1: several minutes because I was just like, what's going on?
Speaker 1: And I just realized she said, this is my grandson,
Speaker 1: said he's from Texas, his mother's do best and he
Speaker 1: basically he basically put a curse on my mother, join
Speaker 1: me and our millions of listeners. As we dive deep
Speaker 1: into the stories of this new season's amazing guests. We
Speaker 1: will explore the secrets that are kept from us, the
Speaker 1: secrets we keep from others, and the secrets we keep
Speaker 1: from ourselves, and most of all, most of all, we
Speaker 1: will connect with one another on that deepest level, heart
Speaker 1: to heart, and reminded that we're all just human beings
Speaker 1: doing our best, trying our hardest, longing to be known
Speaker 1: and loved. Family Secrets launches on October one. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to share it with you. You can listen and
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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.