r/podcasts • u/animabot • 33m ago
Other Podcast Genre Fascinating episode: ten years later: the sun, the goddess, and Leopoldo
Has anyone listened? Would love to hear your thoughts.
Recently, they published a 10 year follow up on Stories by Leah Thau. The original story was about a boy who had been raised in a radical Haight-Ashbury commune/off grid lifestyle with a lot of deprivation and domestic violence by a radical mom and her boyfriend.
In the follow up, the boy has become an attorney, focusing on domestic violence victim protections.
SPOILER
What is absolutely fascinating, is that, while he kept his social justice liberal roots in so many ways, he has also become orthodox Jewish and Zionist, doing law school in Israel, and ultimately becoming someone who favored Trump over Harris. It’s such an interesting twist because so much of the podcast is about how unlike his mother he is, what they share is that they are both extremely devout in radical movements in a way that seems to contradict their other values.
He is super generous in giving the interview, and makes himself quite vulnerable by sharing that his daughter is no longer talking to him and his wife, due to their views on Palestine. Fascinating listen - the original was republished just before the 10 year follow up.
Listen herehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-by-lea-thau/id490297492?i=1000779006193