Here's Where It Gets Interesting - Introducing Family Lore

Episode Date: May 20, 2026

Family Lore is a weekly narrative podcast that celebrates and investigates ancestral mystique. Each episode begins with a guest sharing a fascinating family legend, followed by a historical deep-dive to uncover the truth and meaning behind the tale. Available now. https://link.pscrb.fm/f0281/FLFD To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 can, 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, 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. 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. But every once in a while, you'll hear something a little more unusual. I have a really vague memory of somebody saying, did you know your great-uncle killed somebody? I've heard my whole life that she invented the margarita. He gets a patent. one month before the Wright brothers. Oh my God.

Some of these stories are hard to believe. Others are hard to imagine. And as these tall tales get passed down through the generations, they become something more than a family story. They become family lore. My name is Lloyd Lockridge. And in this podcast, I'm going to have people on to tell stories about their families. And then we're going to investigate those stories and find out how much of it is true.

To go into the archive and find out how much of it is true. To go into the archive and find what you think is like not just the secret of your family's life, but the explanatory secret of your family's life. Wow. You know, maybe this old family story that I overheard in my grandmother's kitchen is true. This is family lore, a new series from Odyssey Podcasts. You're always wondering why your dad is a certain way. Well, here's one answer. I love when I hear somebody says, I have a boring family history. They didn't do anything. I say it's because you don't know anything about your history.

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