WEBVTT - Update: Share Your Family Secret

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<v Speaker 1>Family Secrets is a production of I Heart Radio High

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<v Speaker 1>Family Secrets Listeners. Danny here, thank you for making Season

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<v Speaker 1>two of Family Secrets such an amazing success. We've had

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<v Speaker 1>over five million downloads since the podcast launched last February,

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<v Speaker 1>which is such an indication of the hunger out there

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<v Speaker 1>to create community around the unsaid, the hidden, and what

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<v Speaker 1>happens when we finally speak and understand the truth of

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<v Speaker 1>ourselves and our lives. I'd like to thank my season

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<v Speaker 1>two guests. John Melman, who talked with me about his

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<v Speaker 1>wife's profoundly difficult diagnosis and their decision not to tell

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<v Speaker 1>their children. Sasha Rothschild, who spoke about a lifetime of

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<v Speaker 1>secret affairs her father revealed while in the throes of

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<v Speaker 1>Alzheimer's Brigette M. Davis, whose beautiful mother was a numbers

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<v Speaker 1>runner in Detroit. William Dameron, who kept his own sexuality

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<v Speaker 1>hidden even from himself as he tried hard to be

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<v Speaker 1>a straight family man. Frank Gold, who discovered that his

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<v Speaker 1>father had been eating a dumble life. Noah Letterman, who

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<v Speaker 1>spoke movingly about the legacy of his grandparents Holocaust Secrets,

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<v Speaker 1>Ti Kira Madden, whose parents addiction was just the first

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<v Speaker 1>layer in an entirely hidden world. Joanna Raykoff, for whom

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<v Speaker 1>a tragic loss permeates her childhood home without being fully

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<v Speaker 1>revealed until well into her adulthood. Adrian rodu whose mother

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<v Speaker 1>made her her accomplice in a long term love affair.

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<v Speaker 1>And k s A Lehman, whose childhood and adolescence were

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<v Speaker 1>marked by three daily assaults American racism, his mother's physical

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<v Speaker 1>and emotional abuse, and our cultural obsession with weight. If

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<v Speaker 1>you haven't listened to all of the episodes in season two,

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<v Speaker 1>you can download and binge listen to them all right now.

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<v Speaker 1>We're already hard at work on season three of Family Secrets,

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<v Speaker 1>which will launch in February. If you have a family

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<v Speaker 1>secret you'd like to share, we're very interested in hearing

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<v Speaker 1>from you and making you part of our growing community.

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<v Speaker 1>Please call one eight eighth Secret zero to record your story.

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<v Speaker 1>That's one eight eight eight Secret and the number zero.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll try to include as many of your stories as

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<v Speaker 1>we can during the bonus season, and who knows, perhaps

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<v Speaker 1>we'll tap you to come on as a guest for

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<v Speaker 1>a future season of the podcast.