New Lore Drop
1/11/202659 min
People discovering information about their own lives that they did not know, and suddenly everything looks very different.
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Prologue: When Pete turned 18, his dad took him on a drive to reveal a family secret he was finally old enough to know. (11 minutes)Act One: Sometimes, a lore drop comes when you least expect it. That happened to Jake Cornell and his grandmother. Producer Aviva DeKornfeld talked to Jake about it. (14 minutes)Act Two: Ben Austen had a kind of new lore drop happen to him recen...
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
To make our newest bonus episode of This American Life, [door opening] Ira Glass went digging.
Ira Glass· Host0:05
Okay, we're in.
Speaker 00:06
Digging for an old recording in a storage space with 70 boxes of old tapes.
Ira Glass· Host0:11
[laughs] Oh, my God.
Speaker 00:13
And as luck would have it...
Ira Glass· Host0:15
I can't believe it. This is the one, two, three. This is the fourth box I'm opening, and literally right here, I think this is exactly [laughs] what I was looking for. I can- To hear what he found, plus dozens of other exclusive bonus episodes, and most importantly, to help us keep making the show, subscribe at thisamericanlife.org/lifepartners. Okay, I really am stunned.
Speaker 00:36
That link is also in the show notes of this episode. Thanks.
Speaker 20:40
First floor.
Speaker 00:42
A quick warning: There are curse words that are un-beeped in today's episode of the show. If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org.
Ira Glass· Host0:56
Back when Pete was 18 years old, it was the summer before he went away to college, he's home in the living room with his dad.
Peter Lang Stanton· Guest1:04
And he turns to me and he says, "Peter, let's go for a drive." And that was not something that he ever said. That's not something that we did.
Ira Glass· Host1:17
So Pete knows something's up, but he has no idea what. They go outside, get in the Volvo. Pete asks his dad...
Peter Lang Stanton· Guest1:24
"Shouldn't we get Will?" My younger brother, 'cause he was at home. He was probably 13 or 14.