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Hosted by Don Anderson · society · EN-US
*************LA Calling**************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.–––📧 Contact: *donNPE@icloud.com*📸 Instagram: @ ( https://instagram.com/npe_life_podcast ) LACalllingPodcast
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Signup to Generate a Pitch*************LA Calling**************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.
LA Calling is hosted by Don Anderson. The show has published 93 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Joanna Go Forth" (4 September 2026, 58 minutes), "Uncle Clarence" (18 August 2026, 59 minutes), and "Alison-From-Ashes" (2 August 2026, 73 minutes).
LA Calling publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 53 minutes across 93 episodes.
Booking probability for LA Calling is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. LA Calling requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. LA Calling's contact route on record: verified email.
Don Anderson hosts LA Calling, a society podcast with 93 episodes published.
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Joanna 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 15, her sister told her a secret that...
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 raise him. Years later, an Ancestry DNA...
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 curiosity revealed that the man who raised...
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, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship...
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 it. All he had were a few pieces of...
Episode #7
Veronica 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 marriage. For NPEs — Not Parent Expected...
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 understand where she came from. But...
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. Who you are. Who your parents are. No...
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 teenager, she learns who her father is… —or...
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 unknown sibling comes into the...
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 Texas always wondering why she didn’t...
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 huge coincidence that stopped me cold. 🧩😳 It was one of those...
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 Mentioned • Every Family Has a Secret...
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 Tennessee, she brings warmth, humor, and...
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 months ago. She’s brand-new to the NPE...
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 (her forthcoming book) — She's looking...
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 film. 🎬 About the Film Lisa’s movie, One...
Episode #9
Welcome 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 up in a cult to discovering his...
Episode #8
Hi Welcome to an amazing episode of Missing Pieces. This one is amazing for multiple reasons. A) Donna's story is amazing and she tells is so well B) Tracy interviewed Donna and co-produced the episode with me. And she...
Episode #7
Hi, Today is a very special episode. Remember the episode called Richie Blair? Well, this episode we have his mom and his bio dad, telling their story. It's a side we rarely get to hear in this NPE world of ours. I'd...
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