Family Secrets: Season 2 Trailer

Check out the trailer for season two of Family Secrets, from best-selling author, Dani Shapiro. Season two premieres on Monday, August 19th.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm Danny Shapiro, and this is family secrets, secrets that
are kept from us, secrets that we keep from others,
and secrets we keep from ourselves. As a toddler, he
was the shadowy figure. He was just the smell of
cigarettes and gold and cash, and and that's who my

(00:22):
father was, this kind of gravelly voice figure in my house.
That's an upcoming guest from season two looking back on
a childhood with her father, who, along with her mother,
suffered from addiction. It wasn't until she was older that
she began to put together the pieces of their addiction
and the secrets that surrounded them. Sometimes the impressions from

(00:45):
our childhoods, the smells, the sights, the sounds, remain fingerprints
on the windows of our memories. But when we get older,
when we obtain a vital piece of information, these impressions
come flooding back in. Every thing we experienced as a
child is rearranged in our minds and finally settles into
a pattern we can understand, and naturally we want to

(01:09):
know more. When a kid, I think, is denied stories
and answers, it just makes them more curious. That's the
power of sharing our secrets. It allows us to untether
ourselves from what feels like invisible forces holding us back.
It allows us to see one another clearly, to become
curious about why things happened the way they did, or

(01:32):
why we are who we are. In Season two of
Family Secrets, you'll hear from courageous people who confronted the
secrets surrounding them. Some of these people grew up with
a secret kept from them by someone else. What I
didn't know was that evening would mark the beginning of
just an epic extramarital love affair that my mother brought

(01:55):
me along on. Some of these people were secret keepers,
hiding their set sruality or concealing a medical condition, all
in the hopes of sparing their loved ones. Marl and
I called it the loving decision and loving choice to
provide them enough information that they knew what was going
on and not every detail. And though each secret is

(02:16):
as unique as the person holding it, all my guests
took the extraordinary step of walking into the light to
tell their story, to know their story, and in so
doing help all of us to confront the secrets in
our own lives. It turns dark. She's standing at the door,
pacing upset. Everyone's in their bed. He comes home and

(02:39):
the same two person play plays out from ten to
midnight like it was the first day, like I never left.
It starts to come together for my mother that he
is literally forgetting to lie, and my father sort of
realizes that his brain has betrayed him and he's admitted
to this thing, and he said, as oh, oh, I

(03:02):
did a bad thing. Join us for Season two of
Family Secrets, premiering on Monday August. Listen and subscribe to
Family Secrets at Apple Podcasts or on the I Heart
Radio app, or wherever you listen to podcasts.