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That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast

Father Dearest w/ Eric Close

That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast

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Tv & Film

4.57.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liza and Kara break down the SVU episode, “Father Dearest” (Season 13, Episode 20) and discuss the real-life story of prolific sperm donor Ben Seisler. Plus, they interview the delightful Eric Close.

SOURCES:
Daily Mail
Salon
Wikipedia - Genetic sexual attraction
Wikipedia - Westermarck effect
ABC7
Time
Center for Genetics and Society

WHAT WOULD SISTER PEG DO:
Families Rising

Next week’s episode will be “Deadly Ambition” (Season 14, Episode 15).

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:06.1

Of the Law and Order franchises,

0:08.1

SVU is considered especially watchable.

0:10.7

We are the amateur detectives

0:11.9

who kind of investigate the vicious felonies

0:14.0

these episodes are based on.

0:15.6

These are our stories.

0:17.1

Dun-dun!

0:17.7

Dun! Dun-d-Dun!

0:42.8

Yay, that's messed up an SVU podcast. I'm Lisa Trager. And I am Kara Klank and we are here to talk SVU, true crime, guests, interviews, random crap from the internet, things going on in our lives.

0:51.8

And here we are, we're back. We're in a little, this is a little bit of a

0:54.4

time machine episode because when this episode comes out, I'll have just come back from Spring Break,

0:59.7

which is something I have to engage in because I have my kids. But it's Spring Break, baby.

1:06.3

And what are you doing? Well, I'm going this week, this, tomorrow I leave actually for Boston, and then I'm going

1:15.1

to New Hampshire to do my like yearly camp girls weekend in New Hampshire.

1:20.0

And then I'm going to come to New York for a night.

1:24.3

And then I'm going to fly to North Carolina where Jared will meet me with the kids.

1:28.0

And so he's flying alone with the kids for the first time. So prayers up to him. He'll be fine. They're way better. They just watch TV now. But then we'll be in North Carolina. We're going to be in Raleigh, North Carolina. What are their drinks? What are their drinks in the air? What are their drinks? Yeah, like, what do they like to get at the beverage cart, the kids?

1:47.6

They just get, they don't get anything. They don't get an apple juice, ginger ale, nothing. They don't get anything. They don't drink soda. So they, I'll get them water if they need water. But I don't give them apple juice'll spill it everywhere they're too young when they're a little older they can fuck around with the drink cart Oscar I'm truly like shocked Oscar will spill it all over himself like it's just I can't do that that's a risk that's a huge risk and honestly I've gotten them the Biscoff and they're not huge fans.

2:18.3

It's disgusting.

2:19.5

I'm a cheese.

2:20.0

It's giving the cheese.

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