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🗓️ 10 September 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Following the tragic murder of his brother Asher, Mac's family finds disparate ways of re-assembling their shattered lives. Mac’s essay originally appeared in Gawker.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to WLT. |
0:02.5 | Oh, grown. |
0:06.7 | Homemade Radio. |
0:09.0 | Hello, a ghost family. |
0:10.7 | Welcome to Family Ghosts. |
0:12.2 | Welcome to Family Ghosts. |
0:14.7 | Back in season three, we did an episode with a guy named Mac Montandon. |
0:27.0 | Mac's a good friend of mine, and he's a really talented writer. |
0:31.6 | The episode we made with Mac is called The Ambassador, and it tells the story of Mac's |
0:36.9 | attempt to rebuild his relationship with his mom after decades of separation. |
0:47.4 | As we mentioned in that episode, one of the inciting incidents in Mac's separation from |
0:52.6 | his mom was the tragic murder of Mac's brother, Asher, back in 1992, which we made partial |
1:00.0 | reference to in the episode, but didn't go into very deeply because we were mostly telling |
1:05.7 | the story of Mac and his mom. |
1:08.8 | But as I also mentioned in that episode, one of our pieces of source material in that |
1:13.0 | story is an essay Mac wrote about his brother. |
1:18.2 | The essay is an extraordinary piece of memoir, and as part of our process on the ambassador, |
1:24.8 | I invited Mac into the studio to read it. |
1:27.7 | The essay is called A Hollywood Ending, and it's a family ghost's episode unto itself. |
1:34.7 | It takes a different approach to Mac's family story than we did in the ambassador, which |
1:39.4 | is to say it's primarily about Asher's murder and the different ways that it reverberated |
1:45.5 | through Mac's family, for him and both of his parents. |
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