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Imagine standing in a courtroom, tears of joy streaming down your face as your daughter reads a poem so touching that even the judge is moved. That's exactly the kind of emotional whirlwind we experienced when my husband officially adopted our daughter, Faith. This episode is all about that pivotal moment, the laughter, the tears, and the symbolic fresh start that came with replacing her birth certificate's past with a future filled with love and safety. We'll talk about how this adoption signifies a new beginning, freeing Faith from the shackles of a painful history while touching on the persistent shadow of challenges like cyber stalking.

But it’s not all seriousness here—we shift gears and dive into the quirky, laughter-filled dynamics of our family life post-adoption. Faith joins us, showcasing her quick wit as we engage in playful debates about who in the family is the true chatterbox and why her dad's nickname is "Burrito." We also invite you to be part of our family fun by sharing your prank ideas for future episodes. Plus, get excited for an extended episode this weekend where we promise more engaging and light-hearted antics. Stick around, because this journey is filled with unbreakable love, resilience, and a hearty dose of humor.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good evening, morning , afternoon coffee.
Welcome to another episode of AContagious Smile, Unstoppable.
This is going to be probablyone of the most intense, yet
exciting, yet celebratory buckleup.
Trigger warning this is an allall for all episode today.

(00:28):
This is an amazing day for somany reasons.
We have my husband here, who isactually awake because, for
those that heard our otherepisode, Faith filled in for you
because she said you wereexamining the inside of your
eyelids.
So we have some amazing,amazing news, and one thing you

(00:54):
know about us is we are notscripted, so we had a pretty
important day today.
You want to tell everybody kindof sort of what happened
Without saying names.
You take too long.
You're saying I'm kind of sortof what happened Without saying
names you take too long.
You're saying I'm big-winded andI talk too much.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I got a chance of a lifetime to adopt best little
girl.
Faith is now mine.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Didn't you already already consider her?
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:28):
she was my little squiggly back then and it's just
a proven fact now that she ismy little squiggly, so she has
my last name and she wasecstatic, y'all and you know,
sitting in the judge's chambersin the back there dang, the
windows were open and you know,here it is.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
There were no windows February or in the chambers.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
The pollen must have got in and, you know, got in my
eyes I have it recorded.
But Arlo, faith, she read apoem, she said Faith, she read a
poem, she said no, she wrote apoem.
Your Honor, do you mind if Iread this?
He said go ahead.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
No, he said I would be honored.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Excuse me Y'all, we're getting over the flu here
for the past.
That my husband brought homefor me.
So yes, Continue.
She read the poem.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
That she wrote.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
And it was beautiful.
It made the judges day.
I'm going to laugh from thispodcast.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
You'll be fine.
I keep coughing.
You have fluid over there, sohe got a little emotional, very
sweet.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Any man would dad, would Not any dad they, they
better would my bio dad it's apiece of.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
So we not only did that, but a little surprise at
the end this is going to begreat.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Now, why don't you say it?
Because it was your surpriseand her surprise.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
So in the in the um order order.
Well, request was made.
Not only that, but she'schanged her name like not just
her last name on the download,but she's still gonna go by
faith.
Everybody who knows her willknow her as Faith.
As my husband clears out yourear pods, everybody will still
know her as Faith.

(03:30):
She's changing her first nameand her last name and something
of a little gift came for themout of a request.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
So the POS?
Okay, piece of shit.
Biological was removed from herbirth certificate and I was put
in the place where you belongas birth father, y'all.

(04:09):
That was just just.
I did not expect that in amillion years and it's just um,
it's just freaking awesome anduh, faith, she didn't know about
it, I guess she did not um, youknow she was so happy coming
out of there.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
She did not, you know she was so happy coming out of
there.
She was clear on everybody'sthroat.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
She came out of that after we took a picture in the
courtroom with us and the judgeand the seal of the state behind
us.
She come out of the courtroomand howled like a wolf.
It was hilarious.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
It was so cute.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
And then she gave me a big old dad hug and, uh, you
know it may not seem like a lotto some people, but to be
adopted when you know you reallydidn't have a bio father to
begin with or who abused you, um, you know this is a big deal

(05:03):
and, excuse me, you know this isa chance to erase some of that,
that negativity, uh, thatnegative past of our daughter
and and that's what she'slooking forward to, you know a
clean start, a fresh start.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
So you can't talk drink your drink, which is great
, and my little sassy child saysdoes that mean I get two
birthdays a year?
Since I had, and I was borntoday as a new person, do I get
two birthdays a year?
And so to know, you know, Iknow so many people know our

(05:45):
backstory.
But to survive the domesticviolence and I went through it
when I was pregnant my husbandwent with me and went with me
for my TPO and my permanentrestraining order and there is a
period of time where theywalked into the restroom and I

(06:07):
have no idea what happened andto this day I don't know.
It's like the seven wonders ofthe world for me.
But my ex hated my husband.
I mean like absolutely despisedMichael, and now he will end up
somehow getting notifiedsomehow that he's off the birth

(06:29):
certificate because of a fewdifferent factors that I'm sure
he's going to find out.
I'm sure he's going to be sidehimself amongst his other 19
personalities, or my cyberstalker probably let that leak

(06:51):
out, I guess.
Um, interesting that I have acyber stalker.
Um, chat about that for just asecond.
Uh, you know, when you goonline and you and you look and
it gives suggested people thatshould follow you or things you
have in common.
It does that because it triesto pair you with people that

(07:16):
either watch you or is taking aninterest in what you do.
And what is ironic in a weirdoutlandish way is the fact that
my smoke burn down hasconstantly been coming in, but

(07:39):
yet his profiles as if it's nosurprise has no posts on it.
They are private, but everybodyhe follows looks like they
could be his granddaughter onthe porn-like realm.
That's where they would follow,not all, but 99.999% of them,

(08:04):
and at first I was like, no,that's not him.
But I was getting literallynotification daily of here, suck
on one of these gummies so youwon't keep coughing everybody's
ears.
Yes, I was gettingnotifications daily that this

(08:26):
name was coming up.
When I looked, I saw a coupleof the people that'd be that
.00001% that he knew, that Iknew, he knew.
And so, ironically enough,there you go, knew.

(08:48):
And so, ironically enough,there you
go.
And I think and I have beentold by so many people that have
read the nightlife, who's theirprequel?
How nice I've been because Idid redact faces, I did redact
email addresses.
Uh, but you can't fake evidence, you can't fake proof, and

(09:09):
there is more than enough.
I think Michael can tell youfor what we put in there.
How much more did I not?
How much did I not put in Right, like what, would you say?
Oh, you're being nice.
I mean, you're talking abouthundreds and hundreds of other
documents, pictures, photographs, emails, whatever that I chose

(09:32):
not to put in there for onereason, and I kept even the
geographics out of it.
But they have like a cyber andyou know I do thank them for
what they have.
We're gonna have so much crapgiven to us about this.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Um, don't, since I interrupted y'all go to amazon
and pick my second book, so tospeak.
Amazon and picking my secondbook, so to speak.
Who's there?
You will see and read thatthese narcissists, they still
want to have control, eventhough you may be out of their

(10:16):
life.
So he may be looking for an endor something to hold over her
head right now.
Okay, and it's just the natureof the beast for these people.
So what do you do?

(10:38):
Do you block them?
Do you get rid of them?
Do you?

Speaker 1 (10:41):
The greatest revenge is success, and I don't risk
revenge on anyone because I'vehad people lined up wanting
idiot's name and I've nevergiven it out.
I mean, you and I both knowsome people that really wanted
the name and I and I didn'tprovide it because it's not mine

(11:02):
to give.
I mean, I'm human and I like tohear about the aftermath, but
it won't be at my hand, I'llhave nothing to do with it, and
so you know, knowing that you'resaying.
That's some acdc nerdy deeds Ithink so, but knowing that they
had something to do with knowinghim and putting him in my life
makes it even harder than thefact that now I really really

(11:24):
love your opinion on how youfeel about how they treated your
dog.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Another piece of shit , excuse me y'all.
Um, like I said, we you know,you give us.
We've had the flu and it's this.
This nagging cough will not goaway yet.
Um, my daughter and I stillhave it and, um, victoria here
has a little bit, but she's somuch of a survivor that she

(11:52):
knocked out the flu in like twodays or, as it's taken me, like
a week.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
But also, you know people might not know that
you've known me 20 plus yearsand you've known my bios for 20
plus years and you saw firsthandhow they treated.
Not just I'm not talking aboutme, but I'm talking about Faith,
you know.
You saw how they were.
We've been no contact becauseof this.

(12:21):
Now the one that hurts me isthe fact that you have seen my
bio dad a dozen times easilysafe number and running into him
, and this was after we almostlost faith and he knew even
after you lost your arm well,it's not about me.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
I know that no, but still your granddaughter.
She's the granddaughter, andyet they don't ask about you.
How's your, your arm?
How are you doing after thesurgery?
Uh, after the loss?
How's how's our daughter doingafter?

Speaker 1 (13:00):
you know, fighting the reaper, you know and then we
ran into them one time and theydidn't even want to speak or
speak to me.
They wouldn't even look at us,they literally just turned the
other way and did everythingthey could to not even
acknowledge our existence.
And that's just sad, you know.

(13:22):
But I've had a lot of peopleask me I'm going to ask you
because he didn't know this wascoming and so I'm going gonna
throw this at him.
I've had a lot of people ask mewhat would michael say after
the adoption goes through tothat piece of shit if he was
listening?

Speaker 2 (13:47):
she's mine, she's always been mine.
She was never yours.
I've always been the dead andyou've always been the piece of
shit.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
No warning about anything.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
No, there's no more warning.
How many times you got to tellsomebody stay off your grass,
right, one time's enough.
My fault, he didn't listen.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
You know, he really dislikes you.
I don't care, I don't care.
You're very protective, Yepyou'll see.
What does that mean?
You'll?

Speaker 2 (14:36):
see what's that mean?
I'm a quiet guy Since when yougot the big mouth.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Oh, really, really.
Yes, I have the big mouth.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yes, and you know you always watch out for the quiet
ones.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
I am the quiet one.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
No, you're not.
I don't believe you would say Iam.
You have a no, you always talk,and our daughter would tell you
that is so not true.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
That is not true.
And you know what?
Because of that, I'm going tobring her in here.
Who are you more scared of?
Oh, she'll openly say who's hermom.
No, she'll openly say, yeah,I'm calling her right now.
Mr Fancy Hands Coughing yourhead off, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
So y'all be sure to go on Amazon and pick up the
first book who Kicked First andthen the prequel Dark Dark.
Who's they?

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Come in here real quick, we're on air.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
You can type in Victoria Curie on Amazon.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
He's spilling his mouth.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
I think she's up to like 41 books right now.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
Come on in Hurry up.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Pick up those two books.
Learn about narcissism in thesecond book.
It'll really open your eyes.
You may have one in your family, my loved one, and you know.
All these years you just wasand hey, oh, that's, that's just
some kebab or that's just dad,you know.

(16:02):
And then you kind of find out,hey, this is the characteristics
of a narcissist oh yeah, here'shere's my daughter.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Here's Faith, my daughter.
So we have a couple questions.
Say hi, everybody Give me a hugdaughter.
So we were talking and I toldhim how you know you filled in
for him, since he was watchingthe inside of his eyelids.
He says that I have a big mouthand he's the quiet one.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Why you talk, I talk, who are?

Speaker 1 (16:36):
you?
Yeah, because I asked him ifthere was something he would
want to say.
I had listeners that askedFaith.
I had listeners that asked ifhe could give a message to idiot
.
Now that there is an adoptionfinished and we told everybody

(16:59):
you're staying by the name offaith.
What would he say?
And he was like you have to beready and you know for the quiet
ones, because it's the quietones you have to worry about.
And I was like he's not quiet.
What do you have to say?

(17:19):
Yeah, he does jaw jack.
All the time he says I have abig mouth and I never stop
talking and if there was amessage you would like to say to
idiot, I'll give you thatopportunity.
No F-bombs.
You deserve this Triggerwarning ahead of time, just in
case you may say whatever youwant, without that kind of

(17:40):
profanity.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
You've earned this that asshole has nothing on me
now.
That's what I said, damn it.
It's cuter yes, it is and whatelse it could not be kept down,

(18:07):
that's right.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
what else?
Crickets not good kept down.
He could not be kept down,that's right.
That's right.
What else?

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Crickets not good From all I can follow no matter
what yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
It was a good day right Incredible, incredible.
Listen to this.
He's blaring out people'seardrums.
I know.
Even when he snores he's loudand he says I have a big mouth.
No, yeah, that's what he says.

(18:46):
No, yeah, Should you be worriedabout me or dad you?

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Well see, she said him.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
No, I said you.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Because him is the quiet one.
No, Mom, Mom's not the quietone.
Yes, she is.
Have you met Mom?
I had a night.
You didn't want to talk to her.
Mom's got a big mouth.
You can't talk to me.
Let's uh cut Commercial.
Do we have commercial?
No, I'm going to cough up a lothere.

(19:22):
Okay, you're done Out.
Goodbye.
Exit stage left.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Exit stage up.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
She's so damn cute.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
She's my daddy.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Don't forget to subscribe.
Wow, and that's her face.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
So they have these nicknames for each other and I
think it's hilarious.
And so, for those who don'tknow, my husband liked
previously to swim the stream ofdirty waters and so because of
that, and he likes Mexican foodmy daughter has come up with
naming him.
People take that the wrong way,but she calls him Burrito, and

(20:14):
it has to do with the fact thathe likes Mexican food.
Now, remember, in all fairness,that you know, faith is, even
though she is legal age,mentally she's still not, and so
when she's saying it she doesmean the food.
She's not being inappropriate.
So I just want to clarify thatfor people who might be like

(20:36):
what the hell is that?
So she also put out a request.
I will tell you, babe.
She asked everybody to do her asolid favor.
She asked everybody to do her asolid favor and anyone who has
any good prank ideas to let herknow, because she wants them

(21:03):
here but I have to approve themfirst, so you have to send them
to me no, you don't and yes, soyou have to send them to me.
No you don't.
And then she got all over myBecause she's like look how many
texts you have, you haven'teven gone through yet, plus
emails.
I'm busy Okay, I'm busy, and Idon't ever get to take time off,

(21:28):
so I go through emails and textand stuff every day.
I don't just sit around and eat, bomb bombs and sew and
whatever it is, because thatwould drive me.
We do go and do all thisSpeaking of, we have.
Within a week, we're reeling outour new online course on how to

(21:52):
podcast incredibly exciting andwe will have a lot of following
.
It will be a one cool thing,and so if you wanted to learn
how and you want to learn theins and outs take advantage of
the thousands of not onlydollars but hours I put in to
training and learning what worksand what doesn't work, and how

(22:17):
to, and what and when and whereto make your podcast successful
then feel free to look out forour new announcement of the
upcoming class so that you canenroll and learn how to make

(22:38):
your voice matter, unlike myhusband's who's yakking his up
and then in a minute he's goingto say he can't paint because
the smell is going to make himcough For your earbuds and
eardrums and all of that.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Sorry listeners, appreciate y'all coming out and
joining us today tonight.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Do you have it in you to take us out, since it's
probably the shortest podcast inhistory, do you?

Speaker 2 (23:11):
have it in you to take us out, since it's probably
the shortest podcast in history.
Oh man, my happy father.
I knew it was mine all along.
I've told her for years nowthat she's my little Quigley, my
little leftover.
It's fun.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
What.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
It's awful, awful.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
It's awful right.
Does it say you're my leftover?
Yeah, squiggly, Think how manysperm come out, and then that's
the one that wins.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
I think there's millions, right, it could be
billions, I don't know, amillion, I don't remember.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
If she said I'll read my comment.
Okay, many times you would knowthis.
Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
So it's a happy day for me and her and my wife, who
made all this possible, and Ithanked her with a forehead kiss
and a good hug, because youknow that's one of the greatest
gifts my wife's given me besideher heart.
You know that's one of thegreatest gifts my wife's given
me Beside her heart, man.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
And again I apologize for my sickness on air and
there's no pollen in this room,but yet you're all teary-eyed.
No, that's straightened, no.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
So thank y'all for listening to this very short
episode on this glorious day.
Y'all come back for more.
We'll do another longer podcastthis week, this weekend.
Forget it's Thursday.
I can tell you to smileunstoppable, awesome, sexy,
lovely.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Who actually wore a dress.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yeah, she was hot and yeah, we'll get back.
Actually wore a dress.
Yeah, she was hot and yeah,we'll get back and we're going
to do another show.
Okay, y'all email us thosepranks that my wife mentioned,
and then don't forget to jump onAmazon and look at those books
by Victoria Curie.
Bye, y'all.
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