Dysfunctional Family Storytime

Look, this is the funniest goddamned thing we’ve ever made. You owe it to us to listen. Hell, you owe it to yourself to listen. Because if you don’t listen, we’ll never forgive you. We’ll never forgive your descendents. We won’t even forgive your antecedents. In fact, your whole rotten genetic line will be sent to go pound sand.

Today we celebrate the massively acclaimed podcast Resistance with an episode called  Borders Between Us. It’s the deeply personal, absolutely beautiful story about host Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.’s own family. About the parents he lost, the regrets left behind, and the lessons he’s still trying to learn. It’s a deeply resonant, straight-up beautiful story. And it’s the best thing you'll hear today. Ev...

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Amuse-bouche: Katelyn tries to increase audience engagement by putting a tracking device on Jorge.

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When Francesca was born her family had a lot going on. Like a mysterious death, a coffin flop, a miraculous resuscitation, and a brand new baby. For decades, nobody ever talked about what had happened. But then Francesca had a daughter of her own. And one day, that daughter started asking questions. 

On the season premiere of Dysfunctional Family Storytime, Jorge gets a wake up call from the powers that be. 

It’s the time of year when you feel all the emotions that come with being part of a family. To help you cope, Gimlet editor Jorge Just brings you a collection of stories about regular, don’t quite fit together families.

This is a story about a big, sprawling, functional family, and the lengths they’ve had to go to stick together, generation after generation. It’s a story about growing up in that family. And the moment you realize just how much has been taken for granted.

When Mark was a little kid, his dad taught him to swear with abandon, because swearing gives you power. Which is a fun lesson when you’re growing up. But now that Mark’s a parent himself, he’s trying to figure out if it’s actually true or just totally weird. This episode originally ran on Every Little Thing, hosted by Flora Lichtman

Parents lie to their children all the time -- you have to eat your vegetables, Santa is always watching, I’ll be right back, just going out for a pack of cigarettes -- but what happens if they never stop? In this story, a son gradually discovers what his father does for a living, and it forever changes who they are to each other and to themselves. This episode originally aired on Crime Show, hosted...

When you look past the deep-rooted traditions -- the turkey, the travel and the massive corporate marketing spends -- Thanksgiving gets a little rough. This episode shares the story of the Wampanoag Tribe’s protest of Thanksgiving in 1970 in Plymouth, MA and how it led to the first National Day of Mourning. This episode, ‘Sabotaging Thanksgiving’ originally aired on Not Past It, hosted by Simone Po...

What’s one of the best ways to convert family members who either don’t believe in or don’t care about climate change? Talk to them! Sounds hard, right? It doesn’t have to be. Today’s episode is a how-to guide for talking to family without spitting up stuffing.  'Trying to Talk to Family about Climate Change? Here's How' originally aired on How to Save a Planet hosted by Alex Blumberg and Dr. Ayana ...

Thanks to at-home DNA kits, abandoning your family is a lot harder than it used to be. This episode of is a who-done-it mystery about the lengths one man went to conceal his identity. ‘The Man Who Died Twice,’ originally aired on Science VS, hosted by Wendy Zukerman.

What do you remember about your childhood? And can you trust it? Did the those things actually happen, or are you just remembering the stories you’ve been told and photos you were shown? In this episode, which originally aired on Every Little Thing, a caller wonders whether her most cherished family memory - a visit with her great grandmother, over a plate of eggplant parmesan — is something she ac...

Meet the Marshes, a family that was mostly happy, until one summer night around a campfire a conversation about Ouija boards revealed a decades-old family secret that changed The Marshes forever. This episode originally aired on Heavyweight, hosted by Jonathan Goldstein of Gimlet.

Jacquie and Abdus are both very religious. And also very much in love. Soon they realize that the family they’re building together might not square with the church family they’re already a part of, Something has to change. And so, in order to stick together, they strike out on their own. This episode originally aired on Resistance, hosted by Saidu Tejan-Thomas of Gimlet.

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