Coming Soon: Inconceivable Truth
2024-03-25 00:03:38
Investigative reporter Matt Katz has been searching for his biological father since he was a little kid. But it wasn't until his 40s that he realized he was on the wrong journey altogether. The true story is wrapped in confusion and secrecy, and in the end it upended the truth about who he is – raising questions about identity, fatherhood, medical ethics and what family really means. But will finding answers make him whole, or just make things even more complicated? Inconceivable Truth is an 8-episode series with new episodes publishing Thursday mornings.
I don't have memories of us as a family. I was little when my parents divorced, and my father seemed to almost disappear, showing up late for his scheduled weekly visits, or not at all.
You knew how to read an analog clock before anybody else of your age, because he was always late and you would always look at the clock. You would know he's supposed to come at two o'clock. Two o'clock came and he didn't come.
I didn't know where my father Warren lived. I didn't have his phone number. I didn't know the truth about him. But all of my questions about who my father was, turns out, I wasn't asking the right questions at all.
After I took a DNA test, the results blew up my world.
That's when I found out that the secrets about my family went far deeper. This is my question for you. Did you and Warren get any fertility help?
Yeah, we did.
Is it possible? there was a sperm donor?
I don't think it's my father. Holy shit.
This guy, who caused like so much emotional kind of angst, was a fucking stranger to me.
I'm Matt Katz, and I've been a reporter for more than 20 years. But now I'm on the hardest story I've ever worked on, my own. And what I'm finding out is turning out to be way stranger and more personally intense than anything I've ever investigated before. At the heart of it all is a mystery about my family that I need to solve.
Your whole life, actually, from middle school onwards, has been about what's my identity? Who am I?
We know that the DNA is the truth. Everything else is just a story. Finding the truth in it, and if it's not what you want it to be, if you can deal with that kind of stuff, then jump in. If you are somebody who would have a difficult time adjusting to anything, that's not the story you've been told, it may not be for you.
I've spent seven years looking for answers.
So if you go down the road here, it's literally over the mountain there. If you go into the shop, she might tell you where.
What shop?
There's just one shop.
Just one shop. But when it comes down to it, there's only one person who really knows the truth, and I'm not going to stop until I find him.
I know he was in New York in the 70s. Yeah.
He was there. He was there.
I make cold calls all the time for work, like I call the relatives of crime victims. I call dirty politicians who don't want to talk to the media.
I'd be scared shitless to make that call, though.
From Waveland and Rococo Punch, this is Inconceivable Truth.
People sometimes believe what they want to believe, as far as that's concerned. It becomes the truth. Let's put it that way.
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