I’m The Man You’re Looking For

Family Secrets

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Brando’s father is an American Indian incarcerated political activist. Or is he? His mother tells a lot of stories. It’s almost impossible to know what’s true and what isn’t.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.3	Family Secrets is a production of IHeart Radio.
0:09.3	I was five when I'd clung to Paul's legs like a tree and called him Daddy.
0:15.7	I was 15 when the father I'd waited 10 years for, the one father I'd believed in, or thought I'd had a right to, abandoned me, just like the others.
0:28.0	Hadn't my other fathers, Gandhi, though, Frank, Robert, been billing up to this one father whose name I shared?
0:37.4	Who was supposed to stay for good?
0:40.3	Was I no longer a sky horse?
0:42.7	I was still, quote-unquote, Indian,
0:45.7	closing yearbook signatures the way I had in seventh and eighth grades.
0:50.1	Quote, may the great spirit guide you, end quote.
0:53.6	The same signature Paul used in his letters.
0:56.9	If I wasn't a skyhorse,
0:59.2	the only part of my identity I felt was, quote unquote, me.
1:03.6	Then who was I?
1:06.2	A Mexican who had no idea what being Mexican meant,
1:10.9	pretending to be an American Indian in name only?
1:15.1	An abandoned son?
1:17.2	Mourning his dead father?
1:19.2	Who wasn't dead?
1:21.0	And wasn't his father?
1:25.1	That's Brando Skyhorse,
1:27.3	writer, associate professor of English at Indiana University,
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