LA Calling
by Don Anderson
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About this podcast
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*LA Calling*
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*Where Stories Belong*
LA Calling, formerly Missing Pieces, is a show about people and the stories they carry. Family secrets, strange turns, complicated relationships, and things we've lived with for years. Things we've only just discovered. The show emanates from Los Angeles, but the stories can come from anywhere. Hosted and produced by Don Anderson.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 93 episodes
- Fathers and Sons · 45 min · Episode 1Two stories about fathers, sons, and the complicated things passed between them. Bob Thiele Jr. tells the story behind “What a Wonderful World,” followed by a father who gains a…
- Joanna Go Forth · 58 min · Season 7 Episode 13Joanna grew up believing she was the miracle baby. Her two older siblings were adopted, but Joanna was the biological child her parents had waited years for. Then, when she was…
- Uncle Clarence · 59 min · Season 7 Episode 12🎙️ Uncle Clarence Ed Hill grew up with a complicated family story. His mom married his uncle — technically, his dad’s sister’s ex-husband — and Clarence became the man who helped…
- Alison-From-Ashes · 1 h 12 min · Season 7 Episode 11🧩 In this episode of Missing Pieces, Don sits down with Alison, a sober solo traveler who has explored some of the most remote places in the world. A DNA test she took out of…
- Lisa Joyner · 1 h 2 min · Season 7 Episode 10🧩 In this episode of Missing Pieces, Don sits down with television host, journalist, adoptee, and adoptive mother Lisa Joyner. Lisa shares the story of searching for and meeting…
- Relative Strangers · 44 min · Season 7 Episode 9🧩 Relative Strangers This week on Missing Pieces — NPE Life, Don talks with writer Laura Jenkins, whose essay appears in the new anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance…
- Analog Rick · 58 min · Season 7 Episode 8🧩 Analog Rick In 1992, Rick set out to find his birth mother’s family without DNA tests, without Ancestry, without 23andMe, without Facebook, and without the internet as we know…
- Veronica From The Other Side · 57 min · Season 7 Episode 7Veronica From The Other Side In this episode of Missing Pieces — NPE Life, Don talks with Veronica, who discovered in middle age that her father had two children outside of his…
- Christina’s Truth - LIVE · 47 min · Season 7 Episode 6🧩 Christina’s Truth - LIVE 🎙️ On today’s episode of Missing Pieces, we hear Christina’s incredible story — the questions, the search, the emotions, and the years spent trying to…
- Jamilia - Out of Anonymity · 42 min · Season 7 Episode 5🧩 Jamilia - Out of Anonymity Years ago, I did an episode called The Moment of Truth — a collection of stories about that exact instant when denial disappears… and the truth hits…
- 3 Sisters United · 54 min · Season 7 Episode 4🧩 3 Sisters United On today’s episode of Missing Pieces, we tell the story of June — raised in Canada by her grandparents, growing up with questions instead of answers. As a…
- Tonia - Dirty John's First Wife · 58 min · Season 7 Episode 3🎙️ Tonia – Dirty John’s First Wife Today on Missing Pieces, I’m joined by Tonia Bales, the first wife of John Meehan, also known as Dirty John. 🧬 At one point in the episode, an…
- Amanda From Texas · 53 min · Season 7 Episode 2🎙️ Missing Pieces explores the stories of people who’ve discovered—or are still searching for—their "missing pieces". In this episode, Don talks with Amanda, who grew up in South…
- A Christmas Check-In With Don · 33 min · Season 7 Episode 1🎄✨ Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays, everyone! ✨🎄 This is a very special episode. I take a moment to share a few things happening in my own life—and one hugecoincidence that…
- David Field Actor from Down Under · 46 min · Season 7 Episode 1🎧 Missing Pieces – NPE Life Today I’m joined by Australian actor David Field, whose world was shaken by a deathbed confession and a DNA truth decades in the making. 🔗 Links…
- Shelby - Sister of NPEs · 41 min · Season 6 Episode 13✦ EPISODE: Shelby – Sister of NPEs ✦ Shelby shares the astonishing story of discovering not one, but two NPEs in her immediate family. Born in Detroit and now settled in…
- Anonymous Newbie · 60 min · Season 6 Episode 12🎧 Missing Pieces Welcome to another episode of Missing Pieces – NPE Life. Today’s anonymous guest takes us from her childhood in Maine to a life-changing discovery just a few…
- Stephanie Finds Herself · 60 min · Season 6 Episode 11🎧 Missing Pieces Stephanie shares her remarkable journey from growing up in Detroit to discovering her true identity. She’s a born storyteller, very moving. 📖 A Penny on the Hood…
- One Big Happy Family · 48 min · Season 6 Episode 10🎙 Welcome to Another Episode of Missing Pieces! Today’s guest is Lisa Brenner — actor, writer, and producer — who bravely shares her own NPE/DCP journey through her brand-new…
- Jake - Raised in a Cult · 59 min · Season 6 Episode 9Welcome to another amazing episode of Missing Pieces – NPE Life In this episode, Jake shares an incredible life story that’s equal parts jaw-dropping and inspiring — from growing…
