Sorry About The Kid

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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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LoolooHoops

What a beautiful gut-punch

Just finished and I want to start it over. The poem Dolores eloquently recites will haunt me. Kudos to the McKinnon family for your unflappable candor. What a journey. Well done.
alliep1985

Heartbreakingly beautiful

This one made me teary eyed every episode. ❤️💔
ElizabethC117

A Must Listen

Alex does a phenomenal job making you feel as though you are right there with him and his family in each moment. What a project of love this podcast is, and I can’t begin to imagine how proud his family, friends, community, and farther are of him. An incredibly emotional and honest journey. It’s not hard to be pulled into every episode. I recommend everyone give this a listen!
LaPicosita

Recommend

The grief and loss in the family was palpable, beautifully written and told. I especially enjoyed the processing of the diverse feelings one feels when they lose a brother.
Acjake

Beautifully told, heartbreaking story

Shattering story so beautifully told. I ached for Paul’s family, every one of whom is so heartbreakingly real and each of whom tell Paul’s and their story with such dignity and honesty.
naureeeen

Beautiful.

A beautiful story that brought me to tears.
TransPjofan

I can relate

My grandma passed in 2021
Socrates1932

Thank you!

Heartbreakingly candid, definitely enlightening and so heartwarming. I will download to listen again and again. Grief is definitely a long and personal journey.
Woke in Time

Heartbreaking

As a mother who also lost a son I listened with tears behind closed eyes, Thank you for sharing your story.,
Iflyaa

Emotional and moving story

So sorry for your family’s senseless loss of your brother.
Stephanie 063017

Well done!

Thank you for taking us through your journey. Sorry to you and your family! I can feel Pauls memory still alive.
Jaisy!

Thank you

Thank you for giving voice to childhood bereavement and the return to grief as an adult. You told your story both painfully and beautifully. You helped me think about my own loss of memory around the death of my brother a little differently —even what I can’t remember helped shape me and goes with me.
AmyECap

Powerful

A powerful telling of the heart wrenching loss of a brother by his surviving brother. The story told is a look back on a family’s struggle in it’s wake.
bheise

Perfectly sad

Heart wrenching story, beautifully told
jimmyp3000

A great story about a sad thing

I loved this podcast. I didn’t love what happened, but I appreciate the story telling. I won’t say more, don’t want to spoil.
AlyTrisket

All The Emotions

As a mother, this was an emotional podcast to listen to. But how brave to share Paul’s story, and the pain that you all dealt with in your own way. I will also say, I often start podcasts and never finish them because I get annoyed by little things like how they’re written, how scripted the interviews sound, music choice, etc. I didn’t want this podcast to end, very well put together!
Jill and Stuff

Heartbreaking/heartfelt

Wonderful, well-written, real! You have a gift Alex - do more.
Janberrie

Great reflection on loss and grief

So good and moving
Oliviaken

amazing

amazing
tholmz

Grief and love is so raw

A short but powerful podcast that I imagine I'll never forget.
HDD90

October 25

Paul died the day and year I was born, listening to this podcast I reflected on my life and how something so tragic happened yet that day my life started. Such a shaking listen, highly recommend.
John Deere Spoker Model D

Heart Achingly Sad

Still, grudgingly, life affirming. It’s only five episodes, I couldn’t listen to one episode at a time. My much younger brother died six years ago and I’m still very affected by his death. After the second episode, I knew I could listen to the last three in a row. There’s nothing than can fill the hole of his absence, but by not avoiding that absence, he is still alive in me.
kc2318

Heartfelt; well edited podcast

Very good podcast - a very heartfelt topic on grief, trauma and memories. Outstanding work on putting this podcast together from the interviews, music, fact sharing, therapy sessions, and overall edits to make this podcast. It’s the perfect length with so much details to share and balances emotional topics very well.
carefullistener123

Captivating

A sad but beautiful story, well told. Thank you for sharing your brother Paul in this documentary-style audio portrait.
running sal

Great podcast!

Your podcast was heartbreaking! It made me think about my own relationship with my sister who I lost and has helped me be more grateful, Your brother sounds like he was a great guy! You also sound like an equally great guy! Thanks so much for sharing your story! Your bro would be proud!
crysboehne

My heart breaks

Without a doubt one of the most beautiful podcasts I’ve ever listened to. The storytelling is heartfelt, heartbreaking, and unbelievably shattering. I cried through most of each episode, imagining the trauma of these souls and in awe of how brave they are telling their stories. Alex’s voice is kind and full of goodness and I do hope to hear more stories from him in the future.
kookoo3000

Touching and sensitively done

Thank you for sharing your story about Paul and yourself. Deeply personal and a testament of enduring love, which I’m never forgettable.
Futureballad

Stunning and beautiful

I found myself sobbing whilst driving around listening to this. So open and raw. Highly recommend.
AJ Gillen

Such a great podcast

The rawness and details of this family and all they’ve endure for years was so pure. Such a sad story of how the loss of a family member effects each person for many years. Thank you for sharing!
Spr1ng26

Loved this

Dealing with a loss is so hard. A lot of what was said resonated with me. I lost my mom a few years back unexpectedly. Pictures and memories are all we have left of her. It's like the world stopped but really kept going. I hope that you are able to find those memories of your brother and cherish them!
Kiki Bubbles

Sorry about the Kid

I loved this podcast because it digs deep into the nuances of grief. Anyone who has ever lost a loved one will find this cathartic and meaningful, especially because of the culpability angle: that loss is always unfair, and justice is always beyond our reach. Our task as humans is to learn to live with our losses.
mama_birds

Beautifully done

I am so deeply sorry for you and your families unimaginable and tragic loss. I wanted to let you know that you all did an amazing job on this podcast. It truly was beautiful and made me hug my two girls extra hard in honor of Paul and all of you ♥️
LSD122070

My 13 year old son was also struck and killed by a vehicle

My favorite podcast ever. Thank you for sharing Paul’s story and your family’s pain. This really made me think back through everything and how much I also cannot remember. Bless you all.
Sammy Wammy 1

Engrossing and heartbreaking

Well-written and produced, this podcast takes you through a family tragedy that is every parent’s nightmare.
BriBriC253

Absolutely gripping

I listened to this entire show in one sitting. It makes you feel that hollow overwhelming feeling of grief. It’s not a “feel sorry” story, it’s a story where you feel with Alex and Paul, and his family and his friends. I will think of Paul and I will envision the life he would have had.
chenson203

Touching story about a boy

Very poignant story. Loved the narrator. Moving and sincere.
NYC LI gal

Raw and from the heart

Even if you haven’t experienced such grief, this story will break your heart. I hope making this podcast was cathartic for Alex and his family.
jenzokl

Emotional journey

Alex’s story is very close to my own. It’s this kind of podcast that makes me grateful for this medium. Anyone who’s grieved a loss will be moved by this.
sstorm1981

Incredibly moving!

Having lost my own brother, this was an incredibly moving podcast to listen to. Very well done. Raw and emotional, it doesn’t hold back and really makes you think about your grief. Highly recommend!
Plainmama

Great story teller

I know this was a one and done kind of story, but you have the gift of being a great teller of stories. I listen to a lot of podcasts and some people have it and some don’t. You do. Please find more stories to tell. Throughout these 4 episodes I cried and laughed so much. Having lost my brother at 30 I found myself relating and empathizing with so many people in the podcast. Anyone wondering on whether this podcast is worth listening … it is.
FairfieldGoos

Sorry About the Kid

Incredibly insightful view into the collateral damage done to the people Paul left behind. I did not want this series to end.
ThasTurrable

My biggest fear

Very well done. Absolutely heartbreaking, I cried through out most of it. It’s my biggest fear as a parent, losing one of my boy’s and being so lost that I lose sight of my other son. My heart hurts for all of you. ❤️
Appaddict9123

Excellent

Such a beautiful podcast. Heartbreaking and also heartwarming. Perfectly done.
TrueCrimeJunky

Amazing & beautifully Raw

I just wanted to say thank you for doing this! I too struggle with faint memory of someone very important to me who passed when I was 15, my father. This was incredible to listen to and relate to so much!
barefoot03

Unbelievably Sad & Infuriating

I’m so sorry for this family’s loss and troubles they’ve gone through and continue to go through. Everyone should hear this podcast…it truly makes you think of a tragedy at all angles.
Karabear601

Gripping!

I listen to A lot of true crime but this podcast really got me.. a murderer who truly wasn’t evil but a family bursted from heart break .. as a mother , and a child this pod cast was eye opening! Thank you for sharing your family’s story ♥️
Kiki Zapata

Thank you

Thank you so much for sharing your story. It really touched my heart.
lblueboyyy

Sorry about the kid

I’ve listeed to a lot of podcasts these last two years. But this is the first podcast I’ve chosen to review.Something about it touched my heart. It was so true and spoken with such feeling about the teen brother and son they lost in a reckless accident after he was kull f by a speeding police car outside of his school. In this podcast the younger brother shared their lives before and after the accident. He also shared their grief and it affected the next 40 years of their lives.
S Scully

Hits close to home but amazing listen

I lost my mother when I was 11. I always felt I grieved differently then my two older brothers, who were both adults when she passed. This show explained almost exactly what my experience was like. Great listen.
Ishbaa

Thank you

Thank you for sharing such a meaningful and personal struggle. You express yourself so honestly and I love how your family has supported you and how you made real changes in police procedure. I couldn't help but thinking you were 10 years old and 10 year olds can only process so much and go only so deep into their souls. Be easy on yourself. God bless you and the people who are walking beside you on this journey.

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