Sorry About The Kid CBC STORIES
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How do you forget your favourite person in the world? Alex remembers everything about the day a speeding police car killed his brother. But his brother, alive? Those memories are lost. And now, 30 years later, Alex wants them back. In this emotional four-part series, Alex unearths his childhood grief — with help from family, friends, and a therapist who witnessed his brother’s death. What happens when trauma and memory collide? Sorry About The Kid is a deeply personal meditation on the losses that define us. Hosted by Alex McKinnon. Produced with Mira Burt-Wintonick (WireTap, Love Me).
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Sorry About The Kid Introduces: Come by Chance
If you’ve ever been to Newfoundland, you know it’s a place where fog can envelop you so deeply, you don’t know where you’re going or where you came from. When two men, born in the same rural Newfoundland hospital on the same day, discover an unbelievable 52-year-old secret, it changes the way they see themselves forever. But this isn’t the end of the story. Because it turns out these men are not alone. A series of other close calls and near misses have begun to emerge, and not only at Come by Chance hospital. Come By Chance is a story about what it means to belong in a family — and how a twist of fate can upend the life you thought you knew.
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Chapter 4: Macho Man Ninja
“Isn’t this the a-hole who killed Paul McKinnon? Shut up and die!” A distracting obsession. An unexpected letter. And a controversial method of regaining lost memories. Plus, a final message from Paul.
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Chapter 3: Ghost
“Were you waiting for me to just say goodbye?” Alex and his grief counsellor, Yvonne, dive into one memory of Paul that Alex never forgot and try to trigger others. Plus, Alex’s parents discover that some of their own memories are not what they seem.
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Chapter 2: Paulbearers
A funeral. A strange smell. A story that just doesn’t add up. In the days after Paul’s death, grief consumes Alex’s family. His mom is catatonic. His dad is furious. Both are focused on one thing: demanding the police take responsibility for what they’ve done. Meanwhile, Alex’s memories of Paul are already slipping away. Now, he confronts the roots of that memory loss with a grief counselor who has her own connection to Paul — she saw him die.
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Chapter 1: Where’s Paul?
Alex worshipped his older brother, Paul. But when Paul was killed by a speeding police car at age 14, Alex almost immediately started to forget him. First his voice. Then his laugh. Then pretty much everything else. But what if those memories could be retrieved? Through a series of intimate conversations with family and friends about Paul’s final moments alive, Alex begins to explore why Paul’s death has become the only thing he remembers.
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Trailer: Sorry About The Kid
How do you forget your favourite person in the world? Alex remembers everything about the day a speeding police car killed his brother. But his brother, alive? Those memories are lost – and he wants them back. Sorry About the Kid is an emotional, deeply personal meditation on the losses that define us. All four episodes available January 19th. Hosted by Alex McKinnon. Produced with Mira Burt-Wintonick (WireTap, Love Me).
Customer Reviews
Amazing podcast
Thank you so much for sharing your story. I could feel your pain throughout the episodes. May you be comforted in knowing that others share your family’s pain after all these years.
Brilliant
This is a podcast makes you feel and think deeply.
It makes me sad and angry that the person who killed a 14 year old boy and devastated a family kept insisting for decades that he‘d done nothing wrong and he’d act exactly the same way again. And that he did so with the support of his superiors.
You have explained grief perfectly
First I want to say how much I am in awe of your mom and dad for grieving and for not letting that anger destroy them. I lost my grandmother who raised me to cancer 40 years ago when I was 14. When she passed I remember seeing my grandfather crying (like it was yesterday, I’ll never get that memory out of my mind) as I too had never seen him cry. I blocked out a lot and have never let myself go through the grief process. I then lost my mom 11 years ago to severe depression. My kids were 10 and 14 and again I did not fully grieve because I had to take care of them. I very rarely cry anymore after holding all that in for all these years but it comes out at the strangest times. Hearing a song, listening to a podcast like yours. Thank you for sharing such a personal experience. Sending much love to you and your family and friends. PS: you have an excellent therapist