We all inherit stories. Some of them are big cultural narratives, like the ones that shape what ends up in history books.

And then there are the personal ones. The stories passed across the dinner table, retold at holiday gatherings, refined over time into something that feels authoritative.

But look a little closer and you start to see those stories aren't fixed. They shift, they evolve,

and we begin to ask better questions of them. Not to dismantle everything, but to understand what we've

inherited and how it continues to shape us. That's what the new podcast family lore is doing.

It revisits the stories families tell about themselves and examines them with fresh curiosity.

Not to provoke, but to clarify, to surface what's been assumed, what's been constructed, and what

might be more complicated than it first appears, because understanding the stories we're told

helps us understand our personal history. Here's a preview of family lore.

You can find full episodes wherever you get your podcasts. So here's what I want to understand.

Yes. What made you so interested in all this ancestral lines and ancestral influences?

So I've been interested in it for so long that I can't remember when it started, but all I

can tell you...

So maybe like in childhood?

Childhood.

Did you do the DNA test?

I've not done that.

I wasn't all that interested in the statistical breakdown of my DNA.

I'm more interested in the stories.

The stories of your ancestors. I'm more interested in the stories. Stories of my ancestors and the circumstances that moved them around the planet.

Every family has its stories.

Your grandparents met on a blind date or your great-grandmother passed through Ellis Island.

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