In Absentia

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Olivia is 7 years old when her dad moves out of state to take a new job … and is never heard from again. In high school, a manilla envelope appears in Olivia’s mailbox letting her know the reason she never heard from him is because he died by suicide. But when Olivia learns as a young journalist that her father might have faked his own death all those years ago, she decides to investigate. Support our new independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Nora McNeerney and this is Terrible Thanks for Asking.
0:08.8	And today's episode is a bit of a mystery.
0:12.7	Now today's guest is a child of the 90s, much like me, much like many listeners of this
0:18.4	podcast, but if you were of any age in the 90s, you might remember a little TV show called
0:26.4	Unsolved Mysteries.
0:35.6	Now I have no idea how I was allowed to watch this.
0:38.3	I was not allowed to watch it.
0:39.3	I guarantee you I was not allowed to watch most things.
0:42.3	This was definitely not a TV show meant for kids, but nearly every millennial I know
0:47.6	remembers watching this show and being scarred for life.
0:51.9	Staying up in bad just shivering, shaking because the mysteries were always, obviously
0:56.2	it's right in the title, they were unsolved.
0:59.1	And episodes ended with zero resolution and sometimes one of those, if you have any information
1:04.8	as to the whereabouts of So-and-So call this number, which felt frightening like where
1:09.3	was so-and-so.
1:11.4	Is he under my bed?
1:13.9	The only thing scarier than watching Unsolved Mysteries would have been living in one.
1:24.0	Growing up, Olivia, again a child of the 90s, she didn't know her world would eventually
1:29.0	turn into a real life Unsolved mystery.
1:33.5	Olivia was just a kid, enjoying any time she could spend with her dad, Albert.
1:39.2	Olivia's parents divorced when she was two, so Olivia only saw her dad on holidays
1:44.0	and every other weekend.
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