Twice removed is Gimlet Media's new family history show. Each episode we take a guest and build a massive family tree filled with people they are connected to. We then follow one branch of that tree, stopping at the most fascinating people and stories along the way. At the end of the hour, we introduce the guest to a surprise relative, someone they couldn't possibly have imagined they're related to. It's a family reunion unlike any other. They could be filled with delight... or abject horror. You never know. It's family.

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Dan Savage’s family tree is full of people who speak truth to power. People caught up in crime, corruption, and a sex scandal in the closets of the White House.

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#1: Dan Savage

Ted Allen’s family tree is buffet of culinary delights throughout history. We tour through wartime coffee substitutes, sugar sculptures, celebrity diets, and much more.

#2: Ted Allen

Nazanin Rafsanjani’s family tree is full of people in exile: people who left their communities and started over, from the victim of an epidemic to two literary icons.

#3: Nazanin Rafsanjani

Astor And Sweet Fern by Lowland Hum

Sometimes the best way to tell a story, a really strange story, is with a song. So here's the story of an undead husband, a husband on the run and a wife named Lydia.

Bonus: Lydia & Barnabas

#4: Abbi Jacobson

Jean Grae is a writer, comedian, producer, chef, minister and more with a family history as wide-ranging as her career. But Jean doesn’t know much about her family. So we help her out - taking her through South Africa’s complicated racial history, the birth of a political movement, and the pivotal role of carnivorous plants in science. And then, we introduce her to a mystery relative.

#5: Jean Grae

A new family history podcast that proves we are all one big family. Hosted by A.J. Jacobs, from Gimlet Media.

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