on WNYC.NyC. So if you're a regular listener to the station,

you're probably familiar with our next guest,

but be prepared to meet him in a different context.

Matt Katz has been a staple in our station's reporting on criminal justice issues,

migration, abuse of power, Chris Christie before that.

You may recall his coverage of Christie gained him a pea body for his reporting on

Bridgegate and he wrote a book about it. Or maybe you've heard him talking more recently

about Rikers and seeing the exclusive images he uncovered of abused inmates locked in caged showers.

He's also sat in this chair as guest host of this show on some of my days off.

Today, Matt joins us with his own story.

In 2016, he held a call in on these airwaves

and revealed that he was half Irish after doing an ancestry.com

test. Until he had taken that DNA test, he believed that he was 100% Ashkenazi Jewish.

How this could be remained, how this could have been remained a mystery

until now.

Over the last seven years,

Matt took on the questions of his paternity and now

shares his findings in the podcast Inconsievable Truth which by the way

just hit number 10 on all of Apple Podcasts top shows chart.

So we're going to invite your calls on anything similar that may have happened to you

and the emotional and even social importance of it.

But here's a minute and a half of the trailer from Matt's podcast series.

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