Bonus: Radical Family Histories (A Crossover with Mother Country Radicals)
I Was Never There
Acast Creative Studios
4.6 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Karen and Jamie sit down with Zayd Ayers Dohrn and his mom Bernardine Dorhn of Crooked Media’s Mother Country Radicals to look back at the process of making a show so deeply rooted in personal family history. Jamie and Zayd interview the moms to learn how they felt reliving their radical pasts and what it was like to make a podcast with their children. And in a time that feels so similar politically to the turbulent decades Karen and Bernardine lived through - how do they find hope?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Jamie and welcome to this bonus crossover episode of I Was Never There. It's been a few |
| 0:11.8 | months since the series was released and we're so grateful to all of you for listening and |
| 0:17.7 | reaching out to my mom and me to tell us what you think. |
| 0:22.6 | It's been a wild ride. |
| 0:28.0 | This summer, we were honored to premiere I Was Never There at the Tribeca Festival. |
| 0:34.3 | Of all the amazing selections, I quickly noticed that I was never there wasn't the only show that took listeners back to the era of the American counterculture, |
| 0:38.3 | nor was I the only one who had just made a podcast with their parents, about their parents, |
| 0:43.9 | that at times interrogated their parents and their choices. |
| 0:48.5 | The other show was, of course, Mother Country Radicals. |
| 0:53.3 | Host Zade Ayersdorn was born underground. His parents were radicals and counterculture |
| 0:59.2 | outlaws on the run from the FBI. In Mother Country Radicals, Zade takes us back to the |
| 1:05.7 | 1970s when his parents and their young friends in the Weather Underground Organization |
| 1:10.3 | declared war on the United States government. |
| 1:14.4 | After we both released our shows, one of the things Zaid and I heard from listeners was that they wanted to know more about our moms, |
| 1:23.0 | what it was like to work with them, how it felt to re-examine their choices, |
| 1:27.4 | and how our relationships |
| 1:28.9 | evolved through the ups and downs of the creative process. And so today, that's what we're here |
| 1:34.9 | to do. We're interviewing the moms and introducing you to a fascinating new podcast series. |
| 1:42.0 | So stay tuned for my conversation with Zade and Bernadine Dorn and, of course, my mom, Karen. |
| 1:49.8 | Well, it's great to be part of this conversation. |
| 1:52.2 | So I guess to start out with Jamie and Karen, if listeners haven't yet heard I was Never |
| 1:57.2 | There, how would you describe the show? |
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