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Poet and teacher Taylor Mali knows more about his family than anyone really needs to know, especially the branch that has lived in New York City for 400 years. However, they don't all know him or each other—they are relative strangers to each other—so getting all 450 of them to meet in person in the summer of 2024 is going to be a struggle or a train wreck.
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Signup to Generate a PitchPoet and teacher Taylor Mali knows more about his family than anyone really needs to know, especially the branch that has lived in New York City for 400 years.
Relative Strangers is hosted by Taylor Mali. The show has published 15 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "14. The Aftermath" (30 September 2025, 15 minutes), "13. The Prospect of Freedom" (23 July 2024, 34 minutes), and "12. The Letter" (1 July 2024, 20 minutes).
Relative Strangers publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 23 minutes across 15 episodes.
Booking probability for Relative Strangers is 17%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Relative Strangers requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Relative Strangers's contact route on record: public web form.
Taylor Mali hosts Relative Strangers, a history podcast with 15 episodes published.
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Relative Strangers
<p>Over a year after the event, Taylor Mali finally describes what <b>The Marble House Meeting</b> was actually like, from champagne at The Met to coffee in the cemetery, all in the company of cousins he'd never met...
Episode #13
<p>In this episode, which is the first to have been recorded after the singularly wonderful and marvelously successful Marble House Meeting at the end of June, Taylor has a proper conversation with <b>Kate McCabe</b>...
Episode #12
<p>One hundred sixty-one years ago today—on July 1, 1863, which was a Wednesday—<b>Frances Colles Johnston</b>, the 37-year-old wife of <b>John Taylor Johnston</b>, took advantage of the sudden quiet in her father's...
Episode #11
<p>This episode is built around a 40-year-old recording of <b>Eva Mali Noyes</b> and her brother <b>Henry "Harry" Mali</b> conducted in 1984 by David and Rosemary Coffin. The recording was discovered by Cousin <b>Amy...
Episode #10
<p>With about 10 weeks to go before 100 distant cousins get together in New York City for the first time in over a century, <b>Taylor</b> <b>Mali</b> takes a closer look at three female ancestors that all the relative...
Episode #9
<p>This episode begins with the most SHOCKING, PRURIENT, and SCANDALOUS installment of "The Scullion's Hearth," <b>Taylor Mali's</b> entirely fictional (although completely plausible) account of what life might have...
Episode #8
<p>Taylor talks with his second cousin <b>Sarah Elder</b> (1947) about how to be a lady and the tribal nature of most of the world. They talk about privilege and whether you can hide it, the paucity of motherly love...
Episode #7
<p>Taylor Mali interviews distant cousin <b>B. A. Van Sise</b>, a charmingly nerdy photographer and polymath and one of the closest living relatives of Walt Whitman. THERE IS ONE WELL-PLACED SWEAR WORD EARLY IN THE...
Episode #6
<p>Host Taylor Mali reveals all he knows about his great-great-uncle <b>Colles Johnston</b>, the only one of the Johnston kids to have died without marrying or having children of his own; as a result, Colles will have...
Episode #5
<p>Marble House was the name given to the white marble townhouse built by <b>John Taylor Johnston</b> (with railroad money) at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 8th St. in the 1860s. He lived there with his wife <b>Frances...
Episode #4
<p>Every family has secrets, and you eventually realize that most of them are not being kept from the world but from OTHER SIDES OF THE FAMILY! In this episode, cousin <b>Taylor Mali</b> talks about some of those...
Episode #3
<p>On this episode of Relative Strangers host <b>Taylor Mali</b> (1965) speaks with third cousin <b>Robert Whitman Easton</b> (1945), whom he has yet to meet in person, about pretentiousness, family resentment over...
Episode #2
<p><b>John Taylor Johnston</b>, one of host Taylor Mali's great-great-grandfathers, was one of those 19th-century railroad tycoons whom Malcolm Gladwell has noted were all born in New York City within about a decade of...
Episode #1
<p>In this first episode, host Taylor introduces <b>John Taylor Johnston</b> and <b>Frances Colles</b>, the patriarch and matriarch of the family, at least this branch of it. If you ever watched The Gilded Age on HBO...
Episode #0
<p>Poet and "longtime New Yorker" <b>Taylor Mali</b> introduces himself and some of the themes of the podcast: Family, Privilege, Poetry, and Secrets. Please subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and follow us on...
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