1 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: This was a family matter. This was something that was 2 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: really no one's business. I shared a lot on the 3 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: Today's Show, but this wasn't mine to share. That's Katie 4 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 1: Couric reconciling her very private life with her very public life. 5 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: It was just as you can imagine, to go from 6 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: thinking you have a healthy husband too, and the span 7 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: of twenty four hours having a doctor say it's very bleak. 8 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: He's got calling cancer and it's all over his liver. 9 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: The prognosis is very bleak is pretty astounding. It was 10 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: something that I didn't want to share with the world. 11 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 1: I'm Danny Shapiro and welcome to the new season of 12 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: Family Secrets. Since the pod launched three years ago, I've 13 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: been asked many times, where do you find your guests. 14 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: My answer, every where, And we don't just find them. 15 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: They find us, they find one another, and perhaps most strikingly, 16 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 1: they find you. With over twenty five million downloads, the 17 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 1: importance of both telling and hearing secrets is apparent, and 18 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: I am so excited to share ten astonishing news stories 19 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: with you, stories of family secrets that emerge from dark, 20 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: hidden places, as they so often must. Welcome to season seven, 21 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 1: which drops on Thursday, September one, here's rich Benjamin speaking 22 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: about how little he knew of his own family history. 23 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 1: I couldn't have told you whether they came on a boat, 24 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: a raft, a plane. I assume it was a plane. 25 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: But I couldn't have told you when they left. I 26 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: couldn't have told you precisely why they left. I couldn't 27 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 1: have told you what their mood, or their fears, or 28 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: their anxieties were when they left. I couldn't have told 29 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: you what happened when they land. Did A literally didn't 30 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: have a detail to tell you. And Ashley Seaford grew 31 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:11,119 Speaker 1: up surrounded by danger and secrecy. I knew I had 32 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,359 Speaker 1: a dad out there in some respect, but I knew 33 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,119 Speaker 1: nothing about him. I didn't know what he looked like. 34 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 1: I didn't know who he was in any respect, and 35 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,399 Speaker 1: I asked my uncle clearance to me. You know, that 36 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: was my first question to him, was do you know 37 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 1: why my dad is a president? I wasn't sure that 38 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: he knew, and my mind wasn't sophisticated enough I guess 39 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: to assume that he would. He reacted by saying that 40 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 1: he didn't think it was his place to tell us. 41 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: I hope you'll join me and my extraordinary guests for 42 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:51,239 Speaker 1: this new season of Family Secrets, coming Thursday, September one 43 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:53,799 Speaker 1: and available wherever you get your podcasts.