39: The Old Block

Family Ghosts

Sam Dingman

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Jim grabs the baton, and Gastor sees the face behind the mask. You can hear more of Jim's work on "Blindspot: The Road to 9/11" at https://www.npr.org/podcasts/908344999/blindspot-the-road-to-9-11, and more of Gastor's on "The War Report" at https://anchor.fm/warreportpod.

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0:00.0	You're listening to WALT.
0:02.3	Whoooow, bruh, bruh,
0:06.6	homemade radio.
0:09.6	One of my favorite scenes in the HBO series Six Feet Under
0:13.5	comes about halfway through season two.
0:16.3	If you've never seen Six Feet Under,
0:18.0	the series opens with the patriarch of the Fisher family,
0:21.4	Nathaniel Fisher, dying in a car accident.
0:24.6	And the show primarily tells the story
0:26.9	of Nathaniel's children discovering
0:29.1	that their father was a very different person
0:32.2	than the one they knew, or thought they knew,
0:35.1	when he was alive.
0:37.0	So in this one scene that I love,
0:39.5	Nathaniel's daughter Claire goes to visit her aunt, Sara.
0:43.8	Sara is this total free spirit, a visual artist,
0:47.7	and a yogi and a world traveler.
0:51.0	Sara is the sister of Claire's mom, Ruth.
0:54.2	And Ruth is basically the opposite of all those things,
0:57.1	a homebody who spends a lot of the series
0:59.3	cleaning the kitchen and scolding her kids when they curse.
1:03.4	Claire is 18, and she's never spent much time with Sara.
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