In the first episode of LA Calling, two stories about fathers, sons, and the complicated things passed between them.

🎵 Act One: The Song

Bob Thiele Jr. tells the story behind Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World”—a song written and produced by his father that would haunt, frustrate, and eventually reshape Bob’s life.

🎭 Act Two: Father of the Bride

A father talks about gaining a son, but in the process, losing a daughter.

🔗 Links

Bob Thiele Jr. on Instagram: @bobthielejr

BackStory at the Victory Theatre Center

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✉️ Contact Don: donNPE@icloud.com

🎶 Music heard in this episode includes:

• “What a Wonderful World” - Louis Armstrong

• “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” - Bob Thiele and His New Happy Times Orchestra

• “A Love Supreme” - John Coltrane

• “Love for Sale”- Miles Davis

Plus the LA Calling theme, written by Don Anderson & Bob Thiele Jr. Produced and performed by Bob Thiele Jr.

LA Calling was formerly known as Missing Pieces — NPE Life.

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 changed everything.

Also in this episode: a pretty big announcement. Missing Pieces is becoming LA Calling. Same feed. Same storyteller. A much bigger world of stories.

🧩 Joanna: TikTok — @Joannamommma

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🎧 Thanks for listening

🎙️ 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 test made that already complicated family tree even more complicated.

This is a story about family secrets, identity, DNA, and one very unexpected ending.

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📚 Relative Strangers Anthology Launch
Sept. 12 at Village Well Books & Coffee
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