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This time, we'll hear stories about genetics.

We're learning more and more about our DNA, for better or for worse.

Genetics can shed light on mysteries in our lives,

but can also sometimes reveal things that folks would rather have kept in the dark.

DNA can shake the family tree, settle disputes, stir up old secrets,

and pass-on traits that are beloved, or maybe feared.

That's a case in our first story, told by many-time Moss storyteller and host Mike Rubiglia.

It concerns the genes that get passed down from grandparents to parents to children.

We recorded Mike at a show we did one evening in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Cemetery are outdoors, obviously,

so you can hear the sound of crickets

and even a few planes going by.

Here's Mike Barbiglia, live at the moth.

Thank you guys so much.

This is a really special thing.

I'm really honored to be a part of it.

It's an ominous, uh, thing to tell a story, uh, in, in a, in a graveyard.

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