January 10, 2025 • 28 mins
Bryce has been hoping to meet his biological father for 30 years. I talk with him about that lifelong search, and what happened with this story in the past year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez got an email the other day from a
guy named Bryce and he said, my story starts in
nineteen ninety five. I was like delete, and then Lucy said, hey,
do you read that email from Bryce? He has a
really interesting story. So Polton, I'm kidding. I pulled it
out of the trash and no, I was reading about
his story here that says I've been looking for my
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biological father since nineteen ninety five. Bryce Holmes joins us
here on news radio eleven ten kfab Bryce, good morning,
Thank you very much for being on the radio with
me this morning. Good morning, thanks for having me. So
let's see here quick math. In nineteen ninety five, I
was graduating from high school. I'm just a few years
older than you. So you're in grade school, like sixth
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grade ish at the time there six seven, yes, somewhere
in middle school something like that. So when did you
find out that your biological father was out there somewhere
and maybe I should go looking for it?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Would have been around that time, Yeah, yep. I think
that's when I started getting interested and started asking questions.
What was what was your family life like up to
that point? Awesome?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, But did you. I don't know your circumstances. Were
you adopted, were you given to other family members? Were
you found floating on like Viking style on Styx or
something in the river?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
What happened there? No, So the story starts back in
what August or September of nineteen eighty. Yeah, and my
mom was stationed at Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Cuba, stationed there. He was not sentenced there correct important distinction.
She was on the other side of the bars.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Good. She was a nurse in the Navy, So she
was down there. And then my biological father was a marine,
and he was stationed there, and they met at what
I believe is like a communal movie theater out in
a movie theater, all right, and they had a one
thing leads to another, and yep, here comes the price, right,
and then so he's shipped off. He has no idea
(02:02):
my mom's pregnant. And then my mom, I think she
was sent somewhere Jamaica, I believe, I don't really know
the whole details. And then once that happened, she came
back to Guantanamo and then to Pensacola, Florida, where I
was born.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Okay, and this guy is out there, you know, going
about his life going. Yeah, that was a nice, nice
relationship I had, however brief it was, but that was
really nice.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No idea, none, none. And the funny thing is is
that I don't think either one of them remember each other. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, well all judgment aside. You know, let's let's focus
on Now you're born into this circumstance. You've got a
loving mother there, Yep, father figure at all.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Not until nineteen ninety one. Okay, so I was my
mom raised myself and my younger sister here until ninety
one when she met my stepdad. I refer to him
as pops. Yeah, and great guy. So the work ethic
on him is incredible. You get to be, you know, twelve,
thirteen years old and you're like, hey, mom, who's my father?
(03:13):
I mean, how do you go about having that conversation
with your mom? The first conversation I remembers, we were
all over at my late aunt's house and myself, my sister,
and my cousin were all playing and then the adults
are in there playing cards and drinking. And then that
when that's when I asked, is when my mom had
a few alcoholic beverages there and she kind of loosened
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up and told me. She told me what she thought
his first and last name was and where he may
have lived. So she got the first and last name correct,
but where he lived she had told me New Jersey
and which is far from But she never I mean,
the relationship call it what you will. In nineteen eighty.
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It's not like, oh, well, just you know, I'll get
your cell phone number, you get mine, we keep in
touch or Facebook friends. I mean, none of that existed,
and none of it existed in nineteen ninety whatever either.
So but she had some idea. Did she ever think
like I should probably contact this guy and let him
know he's got a kid? So I believe she did try,
but the military wouldn't give her any information about him
(04:19):
at all. And my mother never applied for any kind
of state assistance, and so that request was never made
for who the father is.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So did she was she thinking like, hey, he's got
to help me. I need some child support payments? Or
for what reason did she ever say I do or
don't want to contact this guy? That was never just
it was just okay, so you know, you can think
about it a few ways, Like she could have said that,
or maybe she was doing all of this to protect me,
(04:50):
But I don't know. I don't hold any ill will
towards my mom.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I love her to death, sure, you know. And now
I've got a new family to love too. Well.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Let's we'll move up into the story here. So now
you're you're middle school aged. It's still the early nineties.
I mean, the resources to go and hunt down dear
old Dad don't really exist.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Not really, no, so I you know, it was mostly
you know, that's in ninety five is when I started
getting interested into it. And then you know, I didn't
have any obviously any resources at school. There's you know.
But then once the Internet was it brought into schools,
I started, you know, everybody else is looking at other stuff.
Let me do this. So every few years I would
do that at school, and I never really got anywhere ever. Yeah, wait,
(05:32):
what in nineteen ninety whatever, early nineties? If if you know, dad,
if you don't go to the Encyclopedia Britannica and look
up Dad, you know you're how are you gonna? Where
do you even start? Where did you start? Just a name?
And you know, I believe it was his first name
is last name Marine Corps and East Coast, I think
(05:56):
because my mom' said New Jersey. So I just you know,
brought tried to brought it out at least the East Coast. Okay,
so what you just call up? I did? Marines? No,
go Hi, is this the Marines. My name is Brice.
I'm an eighth grader. And the first thing my dad
was the whitepages dot com. Yeah, and that's where I
concentrated all my searches was white Pages because I didn't
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know anything else about it. I didn't know there was
a general search, so I just searched for the white
pages and then started searching, and there was a lot
of them, you know, a lot of Alan Watkinson's out there.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, so we're looking for the name Alan Watkins. Alan Watkins.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
That's what.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
We don't even have a real like this name stands out,
you know, Alan Watkins. It's a common enough name, as
I'm sure you you found here. So you found probably
dozens and dozens I did, even limiting your search to
the East Coast and so forth.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yep. And there was even a time where my mom
said she had her best friend here in town, and
I said, well, do you think maybe he and he says, no,
not him. Yeah, And I even so, like four years ago,
I even had a conversation with him and he was like, hey,
great to talk to you. Yeah, I'm glad she's doing good.
But no, I'm not your dad. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So all right, So now you at least got from
whitepages dot com at that time, which I had phone
numbers that you didn't have to pay for on that website.
Like here's a guy's name, here's an address if it's listed.
Here's a phone number if it's listed. But it's nineteen
ninety four or five, something like that. We didn't have
cell phones. No, you had to pay long distance yep.
(07:31):
So what mom is like, Hey, I just got the
AT and T bill. Who's making all these phone calls
up and down the Eastern cboard for all these Watkins people?
I actually did it at school. Did they at school?
Did they let you use like did they know? Like, Hey,
I just need to make a quick phone call?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh? Sure you go? You know, sure, no problem? Here
you go?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And here how do I dial out? Here to long dist?
Do I have one before the area code? They're like, wait,
who are you calling?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So you're in the library at school, the library would
go put books away, and I would just reach over,
grab the phone and dial four or five.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Well, you weren't even asking for permission. You're just grabbing
the phone number and just throwing numbers at the at
the phone.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yep, okay, and ask for forgiveness. Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
So that's that's one thing I'm pretty impressed by. The
Other thing is now you, at about the age of
twelve or thirteen, just random people are answering the phone yello.
Well how do you start that conversation, especially if a
male voice answers the phone and you're wondering, is this dad?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
So you got to remember that when I'm in school,
those are work hours. Nobody ever answered the phone. Yeah.
I left a lot of messages on voicemails, and I
don't believe I ever got a phone call back. Ever.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Well, yeah, they were calling the school. No, no, no, I
would leave my you leave your home number, yes, yep, yep.
And we had an answering machine, and I don't believe
I ever received any phone calls. But it was it
wouldn't matter because it was all or not anyway. So
you are we're talking here to Bryce Holmes nineteen ninety
five after you know, really, I mean you knew growing
(09:15):
up like Dad's not around, but you didn't really know
that your your mom had a vague idea as to
who your biological father was due to separation from the military.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
He goes about his.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Life, your mom and you, nine months later come along
and go a different path. So now you're just you
have a name in a rough geographic area. You're just
calling random numbers from available from whitepages dot com through
long distance. You were stealing from your elementary or middle school,
all right, So now you're leaving messages yep for probably
(09:47):
guys who are at that time are probably in their
thirties or forties about the age you are now, correct.
So you come home today, let's just put yourself in
these in these Alan Watkins guy's shoes. Okay, you come
home today, and let's say you still have an old
answering machine. Hey, I got a message, you know, first message.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Hi, My is Bryce, and I think you might be
my dad. I mean here, call me. Here's my phone number.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Do you call that number back or do you be like,
all right, who's messing with me right now? Or even worse,
your wife gets that message, Bryce, how many kids.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Do you have out here? You know?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Suddenly, now you've got that situation, right, What would you
think if you come home and you get that answering
machine message?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I guess I never really thought about that, but my
gut instinct would probably be, who's playing a joke. Yeah,
someone's jacking with me? Yep, right now.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I might keep it for a week or so and
then delete it. Well, we've only scratched the surface on
this one. You've just been making phone calls, You've been
leaving messages. No one's calling you back. But that's all
back in nineteen ninety five. Shocks me to say we
are thirty years down the road and the story has
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advanced quite a bit. We'll learn more from Bryce Holmes
here in his search for Dad here on news radio
eleven ten kfab after a Fox News update next Scott Boyes,
News Radio eleven ten KFAB. It occurred to me as
we were talking to Bryce Holmes, our guest in the studio,
because Bryce reached out the other day and said, I've
(11:20):
been looking for my biological father since nineteen ninety five,
and I said it's not me. He's like, no, no, no,
that's not the story. It's like, oh, thank goodness, But
I was having this conversation with you, Bryce, and it
didn't It kind of sounded familiar, and it didn't occur
to me until I got this email from Kevin where
some of this is starting to bubble over for me.
(11:42):
Kevin says, Scott, if you're gonna do this interview, you
need to do it right and sound more like Dennis Miller.
He's referencing, there's your nineties movie reference for this segment
of the radio program. Is this an episode of Joe Dirt?
That's from Kevin sent to Scott KFAP dot com. Kevin,
thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Thank you toy.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, I suppose it's a little bit like that. Bryce,
when he was about middle school age, starting his formative
teenage years, asked his mom, where is my dad? Who
is my dad? He was raised by a loving mother
who had a brief affair in the military. He ended
up going one way, she went another way. It was
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nineteen eighty or so. I mean, we didn't have cell
phones or any way of keeping in contact. It was
just oh, yeah, my name's Alan, and then he's gone,
and so here comes you. It's he has no idea
that you even exist, and you start looking for dad.
But it's the early to mid nineties and you're just
calling names in a phone book, leaving messages going, hey,
(12:49):
if you're my dad, give me a call back. No
one called you back, nobody, So then what bryce So
after nobody called back, I think it was probably three
or four years, you know, I just kind of gave
up on it. Hit high school and we had a
computer lab and obviously the internet had, you know, advanced
(13:10):
a little bit, and so so I started doing more
research and it didn't really lead me down any rabbit
holes per se. But then it started to get to
the point where you had to start paying for information.
You know, you go to the white pages and it
would blur out the phone number. Right, I'm not gonna
deal with that, right, I want to find my dad.
You're not going to pay three bucks for it, though, right,
(13:31):
So at least you're getting closer. I mean, the Internet
is growing. Your interest is of course always there. So
all right, so now we've got we're a few years
down the road. Maybe you're at one point you're kind
of giving up, but at the same time you're also thinking,
but I have a feeling that I might be able
to actually find my father at some point. But did
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that become a dream that you wouldn't let yourself believe
Because it's got to be emotionally devastating to want to
find your dad and be somewhat close, make a phone call,
lump in your throat, wondering if your dad's about to
answer the phone, and then that never happens. How long
do you let yourself believe that it's ever going.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
To It was nerve wracking, It really was, you know,
like the lump in your throat, Yeah, every time, every
single time, And I would clear my throat when the
phone was ringing, and and it you know, it never happened.
So I think it went, oh man, five eight years
before I even tried to do anything else again. I
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just kind of went about my life and you know,
did high school and you know, my young years and
all that and doing.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Stupid stuff and then that's another show. Yeah, but all right,
so now we're we're out of high school. We're out
of high school and nothing. I can't you know, all right,
sitting get when do we get to the end?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Then? All right, so what happens next? So I met
my wife, and I you know, also, and she's not
your so that's correct, yep, yep. And her dad's not
my dad.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
That's a good star for any relationship. It was, it was,
it was I was scared because he was a marine.
So she was a marine? No, he was her dad
was a marine. Oh okay, So I went, ah, what's
his name? Does he kind of look like me?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Right? All right? So I told her the story and
she was like, well, that's kind of cool. You need
to you know, we need to try and find him.
And you know, it is two thousand, and she's gonna
kill me three okay, two thousand and three when we met,
got married in two thousand. Do not screw this. Yeah,
I know, I already did. It's five and seven.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, okay, so all right, so bet in five, married
in seven, dude, I'm done, all right, okay. So it's
the it's the early to mid two thousand. So I
met this wonderful, understanding woman. Awesome and uh you And
she's now like, she's probably I don't know what your
wife is like, but if I gave my wife a mystery,
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she would be all about it.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah, kind of was, yeah, she uh so behind the scenes.
She actually contacted a television show that does this, and
so I was getting emails from producers and people wanting information,
and I kind of looked at her and I said,
what is this all about? And she told me that
she contacted this television show and I had sent in
all the information. I had some pictures of me throughout
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my years growing up.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I television show Jerry Spring.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I can't remember it. You know. It was something with
the word angels in the show. It only lasted one season,
Touched by an Angel. They're not going to do anything.
That was a great show?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
A right, yes, all right. So she contacts the fine
year dad TV show, right, And so I.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Spend months talking to producers and giving information and they
want to meet with my mom. And I said, she
doesn't have any information, and she's not going to be
you know, she's she's she's probably not going to be
one to she's yep.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
So because she probably has her own emotion about that,
and probably I mean, I think about this as someone
came to me now and said, hey, by the way,
here's your thirty year old son. I'm gonna have a
range of emotions, and some of them are going to
be some level of anger slash frustration at the woman
who hadn't told me for the last three decades, you've
(17:19):
got a kid. I'd feel like I'd missed out. I'd
feel like I'd let you down. I mean it would
I mean, my gosh, that would be a lot to
deal with. And so she's probably like, I'd rather not
deal with any of that. Yeah, I can't speak to her,
you know, but you know, she for whatever reason she
did what she did. Yeah, it doesn't bother me at all.
(17:40):
I still love her. Yeah, of course she's got her reasons. Yep,
she'll be on the show next Friday. Okay, perfect.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
So they scheduled me for I think episode three, season two,
and then I got an email saying that the show
was canceled, but if it ever fired back up, I
would on the lit. And then it was eighteen years ago.
So now you're now, you're like getting a suit. I'm
gonna be on TV, right, I'm gonna find my dad, right,
(18:08):
I'm gonna be on a television. Yeah, So nothing ever
happened with that. It kind of fizzed out, and so
I just kind of let it go again for a while,
and then DNA started coming around. So the first one
we did was my heritage, I believe, and that would
have been two thousand and twelve, thirteen fourteen, somewhere around there.
(18:29):
Nothing really, I mean, I got a couple of hits
from my mom's cousins over on that side of the family,
and then that was it. But I had all of
these ones over here, and I knew they were paternal
but I just don't know. We don't know the connection.
You know, at the time, we don't know the connection.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
So then does that when you when you hey, we
got a DNA match and here did like they give
you like and his name is Ralph and he lives
in Trenton, and here's his phone number. I mean, does
it give you information like that? If they put that,
they allow it. Yes, okay, yep. So me, I was
an open book. I put everything there. I you know,
(19:09):
I you know, a little bio. I said, here's my
purpose for being here, and you know, if you want
to read further, here it is, and you know, my
telephone number, my email address, all of that. I just
put it out there because it's something I really wanted.
And you know, nothing ever happened of it. There was
a few hitt and misses and you know, some conversations
here and there, but nothing ever transpired. Okay, so you're
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still but you're getting closer, and I'm still trying getting close.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You know. Now we've got Facebook and we've got all
these other social media so trying, and I did for years.
I would check Facebook, and I'm not.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Sure I would have fifty year old guy. Everyone's on
Facebook now, everybody. So it's now about you know, ten
about ten years ago. You're now in your early thirties, yep,
and you're you still want to try and find your dad.
But I'm sure that conversation you would have with him
if you found him is friend at thirty three, then
it was at thirteen. Absolutely, what was your what was
(20:04):
your rehearsal at that point as to what were you
gonna you were going to say to him? My I
and I told my wife to my initial thing, it
was gonna you know, I have my humor, my dry humor.
My My initial was going to be, hey, this is
who I am, and you're my father, where's my child support?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You were honestly gonna lead with my child? So yes,
I was, and but I was gonna laugh as I
said it, And I mean, you would have to know
me in my sense of humor, because that is exactly
where I would go, just the deepest, darkest places. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well, if if it's your dad, then he helped in providing.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
That you should have the same humor. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
He would initially be like what the and then like
all right, I got you. I got you kid, And
then and then what you go out and play ball
in the front yard?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
What right? What happens next? Yeah? You just I honestly,
that was as far as I got in my head
because I was bounded and determined that it wasn't going
to happen. I just I had almost given up. And
then my wife was like, Hey, this new DNA thing
came out my ancestry, and it's supposed to be huge,
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and it's just getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And
so we sat on it and sat on it. And
then I think in twenty eighteen is when I submitted
my spit for a sample and got back the same
results from my heritage, you know, all those. But then
there was this one Randy Powell, Jason Powell, and I
(21:37):
went okay, So I was like eighteen percent with Randy
Powell and nine percent with Jason. Well, when I'd go
back to my maternal side, my first cousin here, she
was sixteen percent. So so this Randy Powell has to
be more than a cousin. Still, we had conversations, he
and I did. We couldn't figure out the connection. Said
(22:00):
he was adopted it I don't think, he said at birth,
but very very very young age. So I kind of
let that go and then nothing really happened, like until
May ninth of twenty twenty four. Hold that thought, Yes, sir,
that's last year, and that will be the story we
(22:23):
hear in two minutes. Scott Voice's been talking throughout the
hour with Bryce Holmes in the studio. Here.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Bryce was the product of a brief but fruitful relationship
to two members of the military. He goes one way,
she goes the other. You're raised by her, and at
the age of about twelve or thirteen, you're like, I
want to find my biological dad. Tough to do in
the nineties. With internet and then DNA research, it became
more easy to do. And you started working on this
(22:51):
pretty hard about six or seven years ago. And then
we get to you said May ninth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
What happened? So May ninth, twenty twenty four, I received
a message john Ancestry from a young woman named Haley Watkins. Now,
if you remember, we said that his name was Alan Watkins. Now,
at this time, when I'm looking at this message, I
had totally forgotten why I was even on Ancestry. I
just see that she says, hey, it says we're you know,
I'm trying to figure out how we're so closely related.
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We were twenty four point nine to nine percent. And
I went, oh, I think I have a pretty good idea, okay,
And so I said, well, listen, this messaging service is
kind of slow. Here's my personal information. Feel free to
text me. And so she did. She text me, and
we talked back and forth. And I think I had
a standard spiel that I gave to everybody, just because
it was quicker and easier. You know, this is who
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I am and who what I'm here for, and so
on and so forth. And it all had you know
that his name was Alan, and didn't know it was
really his last name. It started with a W. Possibly
there was some controversy with my mom. She's like, I
don't know if it was right or Watkins or Wells
or whatever what have you. So the conversation, you know,
and I hit send and I didn't think anything about it.
(24:02):
And I go about my you know, my time, and
I'm talking to my two guys and we're working and
and all of a sudden, my phone dings. I look
at it and I went, you, guys, I need I
need to go sit in my pick up right now.
And so the one of my guys that works for
me is my best friend. He's best man at my wedding.
(24:23):
A life, my my, my, my life buddy. He comes
up later and he's like, what happened? And I was like,
I found my dad? So was she send you a picture?
And so the message, the message after she had read
that said I should pull it up and look, but
I think it was that's my dad, you're my brother.
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And you know, I'm standing there on a bridge deck.
You know, contractors are porn porn, concrete porn, a bridge,
and it just you know, I had to put my
sunglasses on because I instantly started tearing. And that's I
was like, guys, I gotta go, I gotta go. So
I went and sat in my pickup and cried for
a little bit, some happy tears, and her and I
talked and then she's like, he's alive. You know. That
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was one of my questions, was God, is he alive?
And she's like, Yep, he's alive. And you guys set
up a time to go meet him. So yeah, well
she sent me. She's like, Okay, are you on Facebook?
Here's his facebook, here's my facebook, here's you have two
other sisters, you know, there's he had three girls, And
so like it. I want to get to this point
in the story because we're running out of time. Yes,
(25:28):
at some point you meet him. Yes, So we set
up a date December. Had you talked to him on
the phone before this? Yes? Okay, yep. That day on
my drive home, he called me, did you use the
joke about child support? I did? Did he laugh?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
It's hard to see the look on your face over
the phone.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That's it. That's it in person joke, right, And if
I remember correctly, he kind of chuckled, but he was
kind of choked up and nervous and everything. Yeah, it
I think it went well.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
So all right, so you guys had a conversation how
you meet him?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yep? And it was not a letdown. I was so
so terrified that I was going to be disappointed or
they were going to be disappointed or you know something,
you know, and it was awesome. It was the great
the second greatest day of my life. Did your mom
want to meet him? Oh? We had to go to Kentucky.
(26:23):
My wife and I went to Kentucky where they're at.
So my mom wasn't going to travel down there.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I don't think she Okay, yeah, I mean, like I said,
I mean showed her pictures the circumstances, but yeah, this
is this is your dad, yep. And even though he
wasn't there growing up for dad stuff, it's your biological father.
So what do you guys spend Christmas Morning together? Like,
how do you have a relationship beyond the Hey, I
(26:48):
found you. Been looking for you my whole life and
here we are. Now what it was just a we
sit down at this pizza joint in their town and
we just talked and most of the who's and what
had already been taken care of over the last six
months over the phone, you know, just getting to know
(27:09):
each other, but to be in person, that was phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That really was.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
There are people right now listening who have different circumstances
where they're maybe adopted or whatever, and they've been wandering.
Should I go try and find biological family members? What
would you recommend?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
So he was adopted, and if you remember, I said
Randy Powell, Randy Powell was adopted. They're brothers, Oh my gosh,
and they live forty five minutes away from each other.
You are ancestry dot com. So I need the other everyone. Yeah,
So I connected those two and within three hours of
me giving that information to Randy, I get a text
there side by side at the Harley dealership Arm and
(27:46):
Arm brothers. This sixty some years has a son and
a brother now thanks to your work, right right. And
then Jason Powell is Randy Powell. So I have a
cousin Jason now, yeah, yep. And then another Bryce and Tiffany.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
This amazing, amazing story, and thank you very much for
letting us dig into your personal life so you could
share it with us here this morning. I imagine there
are people on the fence wondering should I find something.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
That And that's why I want people to hear this,
because of my story can tell people yes or no.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I'm so glad it worked out great for you. Thanks
a lot for coming and tell us about it.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Thank you. Scott Boyes Mornings nine to eleven, Our News
Radio eleven ten KFAB
Scott Vordiez got an email the other day from a
guy named Bryce and he said, my story starts in
nineteen ninety five. I was like delete, and then Lucy said, hey,
do you read that email from Bryce? He has a
really interesting story. So Polton, I'm kidding. I pulled it
out of the trash and no, I was reading about
his story here that says I've been looking for my
(00:21):
biological father since nineteen ninety five. Bryce Holmes joins us
here on news radio eleven ten kfab Bryce, good morning,
Thank you very much for being on the radio with
me this morning. Good morning, thanks for having me. So
let's see here quick math. In nineteen ninety five, I
was graduating from high school. I'm just a few years
older than you. So you're in grade school, like sixth
(00:44):
grade ish at the time there six seven, yes, somewhere
in middle school something like that. So when did you
find out that your biological father was out there somewhere
and maybe I should go looking for it?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Would have been around that time, Yeah, yep. I think
that's when I started getting interested and started asking questions.
What was what was your family life like up to
that point? Awesome?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, But did you. I don't know your circumstances. Were
you adopted, were you given to other family members? Were
you found floating on like Viking style on Styx or
something in the river?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
What happened there? No, So the story starts back in
what August or September of nineteen eighty. Yeah, and my
mom was stationed at Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Cuba, stationed there. He was not sentenced there correct important distinction.
She was on the other side of the bars.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Good. She was a nurse in the Navy, So she
was down there. And then my biological father was a marine,
and he was stationed there, and they met at what
I believe is like a communal movie theater out in
a movie theater, all right, and they had a one
thing leads to another, and yep, here comes the price, right,
and then so he's shipped off. He has no idea
(02:02):
my mom's pregnant. And then my mom, I think she
was sent somewhere Jamaica, I believe, I don't really know
the whole details. And then once that happened, she came
back to Guantanamo and then to Pensacola, Florida, where I
was born.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Okay, and this guy is out there, you know, going
about his life going. Yeah, that was a nice, nice
relationship I had, however brief it was, but that was
really nice.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No idea, none, none. And the funny thing is is
that I don't think either one of them remember each other. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, well all judgment aside. You know, let's let's focus
on Now you're born into this circumstance. You've got a
loving mother there, Yep, father figure at all.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Not until nineteen ninety one. Okay, so I was my
mom raised myself and my younger sister here until ninety
one when she met my stepdad. I refer to him
as pops. Yeah, and great guy. So the work ethic
on him is incredible. You get to be, you know, twelve,
thirteen years old and you're like, hey, mom, who's my father?
(03:13):
I mean, how do you go about having that conversation
with your mom? The first conversation I remembers, we were
all over at my late aunt's house and myself, my sister,
and my cousin were all playing and then the adults
are in there playing cards and drinking. And then that
when that's when I asked, is when my mom had
a few alcoholic beverages there and she kind of loosened
(03:35):
up and told me. She told me what she thought
his first and last name was and where he may
have lived. So she got the first and last name correct,
but where he lived she had told me New Jersey
and which is far from But she never I mean,
the relationship call it what you will. In nineteen eighty.
(03:55):
It's not like, oh, well, just you know, I'll get
your cell phone number, you get mine, we keep in
touch or Facebook friends. I mean, none of that existed,
and none of it existed in nineteen ninety whatever either.
So but she had some idea. Did she ever think
like I should probably contact this guy and let him
know he's got a kid? So I believe she did try,
but the military wouldn't give her any information about him
(04:19):
at all. And my mother never applied for any kind
of state assistance, and so that request was never made
for who the father is.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So did she was she thinking like, hey, he's got
to help me. I need some child support payments? Or
for what reason did she ever say I do or
don't want to contact this guy? That was never just
it was just okay, so you know, you can think
about it a few ways, Like she could have said that,
or maybe she was doing all of this to protect me,
(04:50):
But I don't know. I don't hold any ill will
towards my mom.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I love her to death, sure, you know. And now
I've got a new family to love too. Well.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Let's we'll move up into the story here. So now
you're you're middle school aged. It's still the early nineties.
I mean, the resources to go and hunt down dear
old Dad don't really exist.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Not really, no, so I you know, it was mostly
you know, that's in ninety five is when I started
getting interested into it. And then you know, I didn't
have any obviously any resources at school. There's you know.
But then once the Internet was it brought into schools,
I started, you know, everybody else is looking at other stuff.
Let me do this. So every few years I would
do that at school, and I never really got anywhere ever. Yeah, wait,
(05:32):
what in nineteen ninety whatever, early nineties? If if you know, dad,
if you don't go to the Encyclopedia Britannica and look
up Dad, you know you're how are you gonna? Where
do you even start? Where did you start? Just a name?
And you know, I believe it was his first name
is last name Marine Corps and East Coast, I think
(05:56):
because my mom' said New Jersey. So I just you know,
brought tried to brought it out at least the East Coast. Okay,
so what you just call up? I did? Marines? No,
go Hi, is this the Marines. My name is Brice.
I'm an eighth grader. And the first thing my dad
was the whitepages dot com. Yeah, and that's where I
concentrated all my searches was white Pages because I didn't
(06:19):
know anything else about it. I didn't know there was
a general search, so I just searched for the white
pages and then started searching, and there was a lot
of them, you know, a lot of Alan Watkinson's out there.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, so we're looking for the name Alan Watkins. Alan Watkins.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
That's what.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
We don't even have a real like this name stands out,
you know, Alan Watkins. It's a common enough name, as
I'm sure you you found here. So you found probably
dozens and dozens I did, even limiting your search to
the East Coast and so forth.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yep. And there was even a time where my mom
said she had her best friend here in town, and
I said, well, do you think maybe he and he says, no,
not him. Yeah, And I even so, like four years ago,
I even had a conversation with him and he was like, hey,
great to talk to you. Yeah, I'm glad she's doing good.
But no, I'm not your dad. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So all right, So now you at least got from
whitepages dot com at that time, which I had phone
numbers that you didn't have to pay for on that website.
Like here's a guy's name, here's an address if it's listed.
Here's a phone number if it's listed. But it's nineteen
ninety four or five, something like that. We didn't have
cell phones. No, you had to pay long distance yep.
(07:31):
So what mom is like, Hey, I just got the
AT and T bill. Who's making all these phone calls
up and down the Eastern cboard for all these Watkins people?
I actually did it at school. Did they at school?
Did they let you use like did they know? Like, Hey,
I just need to make a quick phone call?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh? Sure you go? You know, sure, no problem? Here
you go?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
And here how do I dial out? Here to long dist?
Do I have one before the area code? They're like, wait,
who are you calling?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So you're in the library at school, the library would
go put books away, and I would just reach over,
grab the phone and dial four or five.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Well, you weren't even asking for permission. You're just grabbing
the phone number and just throwing numbers at the at
the phone.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yep, okay, and ask for forgiveness. Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
So that's that's one thing I'm pretty impressed by. The
Other thing is now you, at about the age of
twelve or thirteen, just random people are answering the phone yello.
Well how do you start that conversation, especially if a
male voice answers the phone and you're wondering, is this dad?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
So you got to remember that when I'm in school,
those are work hours. Nobody ever answered the phone. Yeah.
I left a lot of messages on voicemails, and I
don't believe I ever got a phone call back. Ever.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Well, yeah, they were calling the school. No, no, no, I
would leave my you leave your home number, yes, yep, yep.
And we had an answering machine, and I don't believe
I ever received any phone calls. But it was it
wouldn't matter because it was all or not anyway. So
you are we're talking here to Bryce Holmes nineteen ninety
five after you know, really, I mean you knew growing
(09:15):
up like Dad's not around, but you didn't really know
that your your mom had a vague idea as to
who your biological father was due to separation from the military.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
He goes about his.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Life, your mom and you, nine months later come along
and go a different path. So now you're just you
have a name in a rough geographic area. You're just
calling random numbers from available from whitepages dot com through
long distance. You were stealing from your elementary or middle school,
all right, So now you're leaving messages yep for probably
(09:47):
guys who are at that time are probably in their
thirties or forties about the age you are now, correct.
So you come home today, let's just put yourself in
these in these Alan Watkins guy's shoes. Okay, you come
home today, and let's say you still have an old
answering machine. Hey, I got a message, you know, first message.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Hi, My is Bryce, and I think you might be
my dad. I mean here, call me. Here's my phone number.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Do you call that number back or do you be like,
all right, who's messing with me right now? Or even worse,
your wife gets that message, Bryce, how many kids.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Do you have out here? You know?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Suddenly, now you've got that situation, right, What would you
think if you come home and you get that answering
machine message?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I guess I never really thought about that, but my
gut instinct would probably be, who's playing a joke. Yeah,
someone's jacking with me? Yep, right now.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I might keep it for a week or so and
then delete it. Well, we've only scratched the surface on
this one. You've just been making phone calls, You've been
leaving messages. No one's calling you back. But that's all
back in nineteen ninety five. Shocks me to say we
are thirty years down the road and the story has
(10:59):
advanced quite a bit. We'll learn more from Bryce Holmes
here in his search for Dad here on news radio
eleven ten kfab after a Fox News update next Scott Boyes,
News Radio eleven ten KFAB. It occurred to me as
we were talking to Bryce Holmes, our guest in the studio,
because Bryce reached out the other day and said, I've
(11:20):
been looking for my biological father since nineteen ninety five,
and I said it's not me. He's like, no, no, no,
that's not the story. It's like, oh, thank goodness, But
I was having this conversation with you, Bryce, and it
didn't It kind of sounded familiar, and it didn't occur
to me until I got this email from Kevin where
some of this is starting to bubble over for me.
(11:42):
Kevin says, Scott, if you're gonna do this interview, you
need to do it right and sound more like Dennis Miller.
He's referencing, there's your nineties movie reference for this segment
of the radio program. Is this an episode of Joe Dirt?
That's from Kevin sent to Scott KFAP dot com. Kevin,
thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Thank you toy.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, I suppose it's a little bit like that. Bryce,
when he was about middle school age, starting his formative
teenage years, asked his mom, where is my dad? Who
is my dad? He was raised by a loving mother
who had a brief affair in the military. He ended
up going one way, she went another way. It was
(12:25):
nineteen eighty or so. I mean, we didn't have cell
phones or any way of keeping in contact. It was
just oh, yeah, my name's Alan, and then he's gone,
and so here comes you. It's he has no idea
that you even exist, and you start looking for dad.
But it's the early to mid nineties and you're just
calling names in a phone book, leaving messages going, hey,
(12:49):
if you're my dad, give me a call back. No
one called you back, nobody, So then what bryce So
after nobody called back, I think it was probably three
or four years, you know, I just kind of gave
up on it. Hit high school and we had a
computer lab and obviously the internet had, you know, advanced
(13:10):
a little bit, and so so I started doing more
research and it didn't really lead me down any rabbit
holes per se. But then it started to get to
the point where you had to start paying for information.
You know, you go to the white pages and it
would blur out the phone number. Right, I'm not gonna
deal with that, right, I want to find my dad.
You're not going to pay three bucks for it, though, right,
(13:31):
So at least you're getting closer. I mean, the Internet
is growing. Your interest is of course always there. So
all right, so now we've got we're a few years
down the road. Maybe you're at one point you're kind
of giving up, but at the same time you're also thinking,
but I have a feeling that I might be able
to actually find my father at some point. But did
(13:55):
that become a dream that you wouldn't let yourself believe
Because it's got to be emotionally devastating to want to
find your dad and be somewhat close, make a phone call,
lump in your throat, wondering if your dad's about to
answer the phone, and then that never happens. How long
do you let yourself believe that it's ever going.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
To It was nerve wracking, It really was, you know,
like the lump in your throat, Yeah, every time, every
single time, And I would clear my throat when the
phone was ringing, and and it you know, it never happened.
So I think it went, oh man, five eight years
before I even tried to do anything else again. I
(14:33):
just kind of went about my life and you know,
did high school and you know, my young years and
all that and doing.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Stupid stuff and then that's another show. Yeah, but all right,
so now we're we're out of high school. We're out
of high school and nothing. I can't you know, all right,
sitting get when do we get to the end?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Then? All right, so what happens next? So I met
my wife, and I you know, also, and she's not
your so that's correct, yep, yep. And her dad's not
my dad.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
That's a good star for any relationship. It was, it was,
it was I was scared because he was a marine.
So she was a marine? No, he was her dad
was a marine. Oh okay, So I went, ah, what's
his name? Does he kind of look like me?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Right? All right? So I told her the story and
she was like, well, that's kind of cool. You need
to you know, we need to try and find him.
And you know, it is two thousand, and she's gonna
kill me three okay, two thousand and three when we met,
got married in two thousand. Do not screw this. Yeah,
I know, I already did. It's five and seven.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, okay, so all right, so bet in five, married
in seven, dude, I'm done, all right, okay. So it's
the it's the early to mid two thousand. So I
met this wonderful, understanding woman. Awesome and uh you And
she's now like, she's probably I don't know what your
wife is like, but if I gave my wife a mystery,
(15:59):
she would be all about it.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah, kind of was, yeah, she uh so behind the scenes.
She actually contacted a television show that does this, and
so I was getting emails from producers and people wanting information,
and I kind of looked at her and I said,
what is this all about? And she told me that
she contacted this television show and I had sent in
all the information. I had some pictures of me throughout
(16:23):
my years growing up.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I television show Jerry Spring.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I can't remember it. You know. It was something with
the word angels in the show. It only lasted one season,
Touched by an Angel. They're not going to do anything.
That was a great show?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
A right, yes, all right. So she contacts the fine
year dad TV show, right, And so I.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Spend months talking to producers and giving information and they
want to meet with my mom. And I said, she
doesn't have any information, and she's not going to be
you know, she's she's she's probably not going to be
one to she's yep.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
So because she probably has her own emotion about that,
and probably I mean, I think about this as someone
came to me now and said, hey, by the way,
here's your thirty year old son. I'm gonna have a
range of emotions, and some of them are going to
be some level of anger slash frustration at the woman
who hadn't told me for the last three decades, you've
(17:19):
got a kid. I'd feel like I'd missed out. I'd
feel like I'd let you down. I mean it would
I mean, my gosh, that would be a lot to
deal with. And so she's probably like, I'd rather not
deal with any of that. Yeah, I can't speak to her,
you know, but you know, she for whatever reason she
did what she did. Yeah, it doesn't bother me at all.
(17:40):
I still love her. Yeah, of course she's got her reasons. Yep,
she'll be on the show next Friday. Okay, perfect.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
So they scheduled me for I think episode three, season two,
and then I got an email saying that the show
was canceled, but if it ever fired back up, I
would on the lit. And then it was eighteen years ago.
So now you're now, you're like getting a suit. I'm
gonna be on TV, right, I'm gonna find my dad, right,
(18:08):
I'm gonna be on a television. Yeah, So nothing ever
happened with that. It kind of fizzed out, and so
I just kind of let it go again for a while,
and then DNA started coming around. So the first one
we did was my heritage, I believe, and that would
have been two thousand and twelve, thirteen fourteen, somewhere around there.
(18:29):
Nothing really, I mean, I got a couple of hits
from my mom's cousins over on that side of the family,
and then that was it. But I had all of
these ones over here, and I knew they were paternal
but I just don't know. We don't know the connection.
You know, at the time, we don't know the connection.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
So then does that when you when you hey, we
got a DNA match and here did like they give
you like and his name is Ralph and he lives
in Trenton, and here's his phone number. I mean, does
it give you information like that? If they put that,
they allow it. Yes, okay, yep. So me, I was
an open book. I put everything there. I you know,
(19:09):
I you know, a little bio. I said, here's my
purpose for being here, and you know, if you want
to read further, here it is, and you know, my
telephone number, my email address, all of that. I just
put it out there because it's something I really wanted.
And you know, nothing ever happened of it. There was
a few hitt and misses and you know, some conversations
here and there, but nothing ever transpired. Okay, so you're
(19:32):
still but you're getting closer, and I'm still trying getting close.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You know. Now we've got Facebook and we've got all
these other social media so trying, and I did for years.
I would check Facebook, and I'm not.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Sure I would have fifty year old guy. Everyone's on
Facebook now, everybody. So it's now about you know, ten
about ten years ago. You're now in your early thirties, yep,
and you're you still want to try and find your dad.
But I'm sure that conversation you would have with him
if you found him is friend at thirty three, then
it was at thirteen. Absolutely, what was your what was
(20:04):
your rehearsal at that point as to what were you
gonna you were going to say to him? My I
and I told my wife to my initial thing, it
was gonna you know, I have my humor, my dry humor.
My My initial was going to be, hey, this is
who I am, and you're my father, where's my child support?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You were honestly gonna lead with my child? So yes,
I was, and but I was gonna laugh as I
said it, And I mean, you would have to know
me in my sense of humor, because that is exactly
where I would go, just the deepest, darkest places. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Well, if if it's your dad, then he helped in providing.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
That you should have the same humor. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
He would initially be like what the and then like
all right, I got you. I got you kid, And
then and then what you go out and play ball
in the front yard?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
What right? What happens next? Yeah? You just I honestly,
that was as far as I got in my head
because I was bounded and determined that it wasn't going
to happen. I just I had almost given up. And
then my wife was like, Hey, this new DNA thing
came out my ancestry, and it's supposed to be huge,
(21:13):
and it's just getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And
so we sat on it and sat on it. And
then I think in twenty eighteen is when I submitted
my spit for a sample and got back the same
results from my heritage, you know, all those. But then
there was this one Randy Powell, Jason Powell, and I
(21:37):
went okay, So I was like eighteen percent with Randy
Powell and nine percent with Jason. Well, when I'd go
back to my maternal side, my first cousin here, she
was sixteen percent. So so this Randy Powell has to
be more than a cousin. Still, we had conversations, he
and I did. We couldn't figure out the connection. Said
(22:00):
he was adopted it I don't think, he said at birth,
but very very very young age. So I kind of
let that go and then nothing really happened, like until
May ninth of twenty twenty four. Hold that thought, Yes, sir,
that's last year, and that will be the story we
(22:23):
hear in two minutes. Scott Voice's been talking throughout the
hour with Bryce Holmes in the studio. Here.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Bryce was the product of a brief but fruitful relationship
to two members of the military. He goes one way,
she goes the other. You're raised by her, and at
the age of about twelve or thirteen, you're like, I
want to find my biological dad. Tough to do in
the nineties. With internet and then DNA research, it became
more easy to do. And you started working on this
(22:51):
pretty hard about six or seven years ago. And then
we get to you said May ninth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
What happened? So May ninth, twenty twenty four, I received
a message john Ancestry from a young woman named Haley Watkins. Now,
if you remember, we said that his name was Alan Watkins. Now,
at this time, when I'm looking at this message, I
had totally forgotten why I was even on Ancestry. I
just see that she says, hey, it says we're you know,
I'm trying to figure out how we're so closely related.
(23:18):
We were twenty four point nine to nine percent. And
I went, oh, I think I have a pretty good idea, okay,
And so I said, well, listen, this messaging service is
kind of slow. Here's my personal information. Feel free to
text me. And so she did. She text me, and
we talked back and forth. And I think I had
a standard spiel that I gave to everybody, just because
it was quicker and easier. You know, this is who
(23:40):
I am and who what I'm here for, and so
on and so forth. And it all had you know
that his name was Alan, and didn't know it was
really his last name. It started with a W. Possibly
there was some controversy with my mom. She's like, I
don't know if it was right or Watkins or Wells
or whatever what have you. So the conversation, you know,
and I hit send and I didn't think anything about it.
(24:02):
And I go about my you know, my time, and
I'm talking to my two guys and we're working and
and all of a sudden, my phone dings. I look
at it and I went, you, guys, I need I
need to go sit in my pick up right now.
And so the one of my guys that works for
me is my best friend. He's best man at my wedding.
(24:23):
A life, my my, my, my life buddy. He comes
up later and he's like, what happened? And I was like,
I found my dad? So was she send you a picture?
And so the message, the message after she had read
that said I should pull it up and look, but
I think it was that's my dad, you're my brother.
(24:44):
And you know, I'm standing there on a bridge deck.
You know, contractors are porn porn, concrete porn, a bridge,
and it just you know, I had to put my
sunglasses on because I instantly started tearing. And that's I
was like, guys, I gotta go, I gotta go. So
I went and sat in my pickup and cried for
a little bit, some happy tears, and her and I
talked and then she's like, he's alive. You know. That
(25:07):
was one of my questions, was God, is he alive?
And she's like, Yep, he's alive. And you guys set
up a time to go meet him. So yeah, well
she sent me. She's like, Okay, are you on Facebook?
Here's his facebook, here's my facebook, here's you have two
other sisters, you know, there's he had three girls, And
so like it. I want to get to this point
in the story because we're running out of time. Yes,
(25:28):
at some point you meet him. Yes, So we set
up a date December. Had you talked to him on
the phone before this? Yes? Okay, yep. That day on
my drive home, he called me, did you use the
joke about child support? I did? Did he laugh?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
It's hard to see the look on your face over
the phone.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That's it. That's it in person joke, right, And if
I remember correctly, he kind of chuckled, but he was
kind of choked up and nervous and everything. Yeah, it
I think it went well.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
So all right, so you guys had a conversation how
you meet him?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yep? And it was not a letdown. I was so
so terrified that I was going to be disappointed or
they were going to be disappointed or you know something,
you know, and it was awesome. It was the great
the second greatest day of my life. Did your mom
want to meet him? Oh? We had to go to Kentucky.
(26:23):
My wife and I went to Kentucky where they're at.
So my mom wasn't going to travel down there.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I don't think she Okay, yeah, I mean, like I said,
I mean showed her pictures the circumstances, but yeah, this
is this is your dad, yep. And even though he
wasn't there growing up for dad stuff, it's your biological father.
So what do you guys spend Christmas Morning together? Like,
how do you have a relationship beyond the Hey, I
(26:48):
found you. Been looking for you my whole life and
here we are. Now what it was just a we
sit down at this pizza joint in their town and
we just talked and most of the who's and what
had already been taken care of over the last six
months over the phone, you know, just getting to know
(27:09):
each other, but to be in person, that was phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That really was.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
There are people right now listening who have different circumstances
where they're maybe adopted or whatever, and they've been wandering.
Should I go try and find biological family members? What
would you recommend?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
So he was adopted, and if you remember, I said
Randy Powell, Randy Powell was adopted. They're brothers, Oh my gosh,
and they live forty five minutes away from each other.
You are ancestry dot com. So I need the other everyone. Yeah,
So I connected those two and within three hours of
me giving that information to Randy, I get a text
there side by side at the Harley dealership Arm and
(27:46):
Arm brothers. This sixty some years has a son and
a brother now thanks to your work, right right. And
then Jason Powell is Randy Powell. So I have a
cousin Jason now, yeah, yep. And then another Bryce and Tiffany.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
This amazing, amazing story, and thank you very much for
letting us dig into your personal life so you could
share it with us here this morning. I imagine there
are people on the fence wondering should I find something.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
That And that's why I want people to hear this,
because of my story can tell people yes or no.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
I'm so glad it worked out great for you. Thanks
a lot for coming and tell us about it.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Thank you. Scott Boyes Mornings nine to eleven, Our News
Radio eleven ten KFAB
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