Tell Me About Your Father Podcast
1) A Season in Hell With Christian Nightmares
Christian Nightmares, our favorite chronicler of evangelical Christianity’s tightening grip on American politics in 2025, returns to Tell Me About Your Father for a look back at a truly frightening ye...Show More
2) The Sad Ballad of Tim and Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley spent his life trying to escape the shadow of his estranged father, folk musician Tim Buckley. Yet after both died young, Tim of an overdose in 1975, Jeff in a tragic river accident in 19...Show More
3) Finding Her Father in the Margins of His Books
It’s not quite accurate to say that Hester Kaplan’s father Justin Kaplan was a man of few words because Justin Kaplan was a man of many. His first book, a biography of Mark Twain published in 1966, wo...Show More
4) Task Finale Recap: A Still, Small Voice
In the Task finale, "A Still, Small Voice," TMAYF gets into three Fs that have always been at the core of the series: faith, forgiveness, and fatherhood. (Also, feathers, but this is our least bird-ce...Show More
5) Task Recap: Episode 6: "Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing, There is a River."
The one thing we don’t discuss in this, our penultimate, recap of HBO’s Task is that the title of episode 6 is a play on a line from a poem by the 13th century Persian poet Jelaluddin Rumi (sorry if y...Show More
6) Julian Brave NoiseCat on Fathers and the Stories We Inherit
Writer and filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat joins Elizabeth to talk about We Survived the Night, his new book about his father, Indigenous North Americans, survival, and storytelling. Listen as he refl...Show More
7) Task Recap: Ep 5: "Vagrant"
“Vagrant,” the fifth episode of HBO’s Task, which we are recapping for TMAYF nation, is overflowing with more moles than a dermatologist’s office. And don’t get us started on the animal references in ...Show More
8) Task Recap: Ep 4: All Roads
In this recap of episode 4 of HBO’s Task, we wonder aloud for 58 (tight) minutes about why this show isn’t actually called I’m Going to Tell You About Some Fathers, unpack Lizzie's chunky highlights, ...Show More
9) Task Recap: Ep. 3 "Nobody’s Stronger Than Forgiveness"
This week on Operation Recap HBO’s Task, we ask why Task isn’t called Dads of Delco or Maeve of Easttown, or even, For Fifty-Year-Old Men, By Fifty Year Old Men, and actually deliver an answer that we...Show More
10) Task Recap: Ep. 2 "Family Statements"
Pull up a seat with an alarmingly overstuffed hoagie, because it's time for this week's episode 2 recap of HBO’s Task! From FBI war rooms to chicken coops (both are essentially shacks), Task keeps bui...Show More