Speaker 1: This was a family matter. This was something that was
Speaker 1: really no one's business. I shared a lot on the
Speaker 1: Today's Show, but this wasn't mine to share. That's Katie
Speaker 1: Couric reconciling her very private life with her very public life.
Speaker 1: It was just as you can imagine, to go from
Speaker 1: thinking you have a healthy husband too, and the span
Speaker 1: of twenty four hours having a doctor say it's very bleak.
Speaker 1: He's got calling cancer and it's all over his liver.
Speaker 1: The prognosis is very bleak is pretty astounding. It was
Speaker 1: something that I didn't want to share with the world.
Speaker 1: I'm Danny Shapiro and welcome to the new season of
Speaker 1: Family Secrets. Since the pod launched three years ago, I've
Speaker 1: been asked many times, where do you find your guests.
Speaker 1: My answer, every where, And we don't just find them.
Speaker 1: They find us, they find one another, and perhaps most strikingly,
Speaker 1: they find you. With over twenty five million downloads, the
Speaker 1: importance of both telling and hearing secrets is apparent, and
Speaker 1: I am so excited to share ten astonishing news stories
Speaker 1: with you, stories of family secrets that emerge from dark,
Speaker 1: hidden places, as they so often must. Welcome to season seven,
Speaker 1: which drops on Thursday, September one, here's rich Benjamin speaking
Speaker 1: about how little he knew of his own family history.
Speaker 1: I couldn't have told you whether they came on a boat,
Speaker 1: a raft, a plane. I assume it was a plane.
Speaker 1: But I couldn't have told you when they left. I
Speaker 1: couldn't have told you precisely why they left. I couldn't
Speaker 1: have told you what their mood, or their fears, or
Speaker 1: their anxieties were when they left. I couldn't have told
Speaker 1: you what happened when they land. Did A literally didn't
Speaker 1: have a detail to tell you. And Ashley Seaford grew
Speaker 1: up surrounded by danger and secrecy. I knew I had
Speaker 1: a dad out there in some respect, but I knew
Speaker 1: nothing about him. I didn't know what he looked like.
Speaker 1: I didn't know who he was in any respect, and
Speaker 1: I asked my uncle clearance to me. You know, that
Speaker 1: was my first question to him, was do you know
Speaker 1: why my dad is a president? I wasn't sure that
Speaker 1: he knew, and my mind wasn't sophisticated enough I guess
Speaker 1: to assume that he would. He reacted by saying that
Speaker 1: he didn't think it was his place to tell us.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll join me and my extraordinary guests for
Speaker 1: this new season of Family Secrets, coming Thursday, September one
Speaker 1: and available wherever you get your podcasts.