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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's that time, time, time, time, looking load.
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Michael Very Show.
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Is on the air. What love is this.
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That calms our hearts?
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Whispers the promise into the dark that we are love,
Yes we are love. And to you forever, though we
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were homeless in need of rest, gave us a name.
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And daily bread.
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How we are love?
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Yes, we are love.
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It's our Adoption special and to you forever. We're gonna
get saty today.
Speaker 8 (01:07):
I know some people tune into talk radio because you
want to be pissed.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Off and mad. Not your day.
Speaker 8 (01:13):
I'm sorry, I'd love to have you every other day,
not today. Adoption is very important to us. This is
the most meaningful show we do per year. National Adoption
Day this year is this Saturday, twenty third, but obviously
we won't be live on the air on that day,
so we chose today.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Why not tomorrow because.
Speaker 8 (01:36):
Tomorrow is our annual Thanksgiving show, and that's also important
to us. We're going to talk about news of the
day throughout the course of the year, the way every
other show does. But we have some things that are
important to us, and we understand that's not for every listener.
The things that are important to us or mother's Day,
Father's Day, Adoption Special, our Thanksgiving Special, our Veterans Day,
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our Memorial Day, and we just think it's important to
stop the crazy world from spinning and pay tribute to that.
President Trump understands the importance of adoption during one of
his State of the Union addresses. One of the most
beautiful moments. Of course, Rush Limbaugh getting the Presidential Metal
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Freedom will always stick in my mind. But one of
the most beautiful moments was the story about an Albuquerque
police officer named I think it Ryan Holettes. I forget
we're going to hear it in just a moment. I
forget how you pronounce it. But we marked this years
ago for our Adoption Special. It's just a beautiful, beautiful moment,
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and President Trump knew.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It because we have seen tonight the most difficult challenges
bring out the best in America. We see a vivid
expression of this truth in the story How the Who
Lets Spend of New Mexico. Brian Holets is twenty seven
years old an officer with the Albuquerque Police Department. He's
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here tonight with his wife, Rebecca.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Frank you Ryan.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Last year Ryan was on duty when he'sa a pregnant
homeless woman preparing to inject heroine.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
When Ryan told.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Her she was going to harm her unborn child, she
began to weep. She told him she didn't know where
to turn, but badly wanted a safe home for her baby.
In that moment, Brian said he felt God speak to you,
will do it because you can.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
He heard those works.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
He took out a picture of his wife and their
four kids. Then he went home to tell his wife Rebecca.
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In an instant, she agreed to adopt.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So let's name their new daughter Hope.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Ryan and Rebecca, do you embody the goodness of our nation?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
I not only want to be the most powerful military
force in the world. I not only want to have
an economy with the most opportunity in the world. I
not only want to make the best movies, television, music, food, clothing,
airplanes in the world. I want to be a people,
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a civilization, a culture values life.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's who I want to be. That's who I want
our people to be. Very important to me.
Speaker 8 (05:10):
Ryan Holett told his story at the RNC, and I
really think if there wasn't so much hatred for Donald
Trump by the left, I really think that this story
should have received even more attention, and it really does
represent the goodness of humanity and drilling down the goodness
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of Americans. For all the talk, this is what the
goodness of Americans is. This is not just an adoption story.
It's a beautiful story about life and sacrifice and sharing
and compassion and mercy and love.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I love this story. Do you remember him telling this
at the RNC.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
Hi, I'm Ryan Holitz. I'm a police officer from New
Mexican co. In twenty seventeen, I had an encounter that
changed my life forever. I had just started my shift
and responded to a call for service at a gas station.
When I arrived, I saw a man and a woman
sitting on a grassy slope. I recognized the tepteale signs,
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a needle, a spoon. I knew immediately that they were
preparing to inject themselves with heroin.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Sadly, this is a common sight for me.
Speaker 9 (06:26):
I encountered the ravages of addiction every day, but nothing
could prepare me for what I discovered as I approached them.
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The woman was very pregnant.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
In my shock, I asked her if she knew that
she was harming her baby by doing drugs.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
She crumbled and burst into tears.
Speaker 9 (06:46):
Two worlds collided as I knelt down beside her, a
police officer and an almost drug addict, brought together by
forces outside of our control. As we talked our humanity,
this ind from our stations in life was made abundantly clear.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Her name was Crystal, and in the midst of her.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
Suffering, she confided that she loved her unborn baby.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
She wanted the best for her child.
Speaker 9 (07:14):
In that moment, I saw her the way that all
of you who know and love and addicts see them
as fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, cousins, and friends, as
human beings full of value and dignity.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
But robbed of their potential by this disease.
Speaker 9 (07:35):
When Crystal said that she was looking for a family
to adopt her baby, God showed me exactly what I
had to do. Without hesitation, I told her that my
family would welcome her baby through adoption. Today, our beautiful daughter,
Hope is a thriving two year old. Crystal is fast
approaching three years of recovery. She's a dear friend and
a constant inspiration to me and others. I hold a
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special place in my heart of those facing opioid addiction.
And that's why I'm enormously grateful to the President for
his leadership in fighting this deadly enemy.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Everything we do promotes life, life at birth, dignity in
life till death.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
Captain something wrong, well, something must be right.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You're listening to Michael Berry. You know, elections aren't the
beginning and the end of what matters in life.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
Very sweet when we consider the human condition, faith, family, science, medicine, commerce, transportation, literature, art, love,
When we consider the human condition and the things that
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really matter over the continuum of eternity. It has become
the case in America, and there's nowhere else in the world.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
This is the case that the issue.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Of abortion has become a talking point in every conversation.
It's crazy, it's crazy, But I don't think we can
argue against abortion. Whatever your position is as to whether
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the federal government should outlaw it across the country, or
it should be outlawed across the country to outlaw it,
or whether states should be able to decide, and if
states can decide, as Dobbs said, that they should prevent
it or allow it or leave it to the vote.
Whatever your position on all of those things. Everyone can
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have their own position. What I hope we could all
agree on is that life is sacred and that we
would all prefer that when a woman is pregnant, she
choose life because that is a baby, and that there
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is an infrastructure in place, because I can assure you
because we adopted two children. I hear from people constantly
asking questions about adoption. Sometimes it is should we yes,
you don't need to finish the question. Yes, you should
adopt if you're thinking about it, Yes, should we do
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domestic or international? Those are very complicated questions. I'm not
going to address those today. Do your own research. Bringing
a child into your home is a major decision. I mean,
you research which vehicle you buy before you bring a
vehicle into your home, or decide whether to bring a
vehicle into your home. Bringing a child into your home
is going to be a major thing. This thing is
most likely going to outlive you. But the answer is
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always yes. The answer is that this is going to
bring joy into your life, and that's a beautiful, wonderful thing.
The aspects of adoption I would like to address today,
And if you're new to the show, we're not talking
politics today, just so you know, we take a break
from politics on our national on our adoption special every
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year is the Joys of Adoption. This is one that
it's a news report from. It comes from my hometown
of Houston, or my adopted town. I'm originally from Orange,
Texas in Southeast Texas. It's a news report from KHOU TV,
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which is a TV station in Houston. But a woman
who adopted a little girl she helped during a terrible
hurricane and storm that came through Houston called Hurricane Harvey.
I wish you could see the video that goes with it,
but I think you'll get the point just from this.
Speaker 10 (11:57):
Running down the hall of the fifteenth floor of the
Core House downtown, twenty three months old, Bella is full
of joy and excitement. She's running toward the woman she's
known since Hurricane Harvey?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Are you so?
Speaker 11 (12:10):
I would have never guessed that, you know, just by
me dropping off donations as a result of Harvey, that
I would have ended up with an entire baby.
Speaker 10 (12:17):
The pairs heading into the courtroom that will change their
lives forever does.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
Granted too, that the day has finally come. We've been
waiting for this day for the entire twenty eighteen.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
Doctor Bernaita Baker opened up her home to Bella right
after the storm.
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She'd been living in a car with her dad.
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Bella's mother was never in the picture, and Bella's father
couldn't provide a stable home, so he agreed to give
her up for adoption.
Speaker 12 (12:41):
And this is exactly what you want to do for
the child as a doctor.
Speaker 10 (12:44):
Yes, and today a judge made the undeniable bond Doctor
Baker and Bella's share unbreakable.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Granting your petition for adoption and the request for a
name changes branded.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Congratulations, Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
Doctor Baker now looks forward to spending her first Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
With Bella as mother and daughter.
Speaker 11 (13:02):
This was my first official Christmas as a mom.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Okay for a song.
Speaker 11 (13:07):
This is a Christmas miracle, one that I could have
never planned or prepared for, and one that I definitely
never expected.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Look look at the camera.
Speaker 10 (13:14):
After their first official portrait, Bella led her new family
out of the courtroom stealing. Not just doctor Beakers hardened
to walk the way.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
This one is another one that just the ladies, if
you were still wearing makeup at this.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Hour of the day, gets you. It's a news report
from w zz MTV.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
A little boy invice his whole class to his adoption hearing.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
This one gets me.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Yes, a big family.
Speaker 13 (13:50):
Family with an even bigger heart.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Michael Orlando Clark Junior.
Speaker 14 (14:00):
Who he is a very active and silly, silly.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Kindergartener, invited his entire class to watch this moment.
Speaker 15 (14:12):
It is ordered Michael that your forever mom and dad
will be David Andrew Eaton and Andrea Luis.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Melvin and cheer him on one, two, three.
Speaker 15 (14:30):
Sometimes their journeys have been very long. They've included miracle
and change for the children and family, and incredible community
support as you were able to see today in Michael's
adoption hearing with his whole kindergarten class and school being
here to say we love you, we support you, and
we'll be here not only today but in all the
years in the future.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
It's safe to assume how Michael feels.
Speaker 16 (14:53):
We've been working with Catholic charities and the workers there
have just been amazing. Love my daddy, Wow, I not
my daddy so much.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This is just too much. This is just too much. Yeah,
it's been amazing.
Speaker 16 (15:09):
Obviously how supportive they've much.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Man, that one gets me every child. Every child should
have that opportunity. I have at least one parent prefer too.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What a beautiful thing, Michael Barry.
Speaker 8 (15:47):
Every year, reading the emails I get from you related
to adoption, I will invariably hear from a mother who
gave up their child. And I think for many years
such women hid in shame, as if they were bad people.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
A mother are giving up their child. I don't look
at it that way.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
I look at it as a very heroic and brave
and courageous and difficult.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Thing to do, and I think we should honor it.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
If we're going to say to women, if you get
pregnant and you don't want or can't care for that child,
wait don't kill it. God placed that child inside you
for a reason. Bring that child into this world. There
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is somebody waiting. That child will have a chance, there's
somebody waiting to raise that child. Yes, it's difficult to
go through a pregnancy. Yes it's painful to give birth,
but you will have done something beautiful and wonderful. And
that child may be the child that here's cancer or
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solves the Rubik's cube or whatever it is. That wonderful
child's going to do this was a story out of Austin,
Texas on KVU kV UE of a woman who met
the child that she gave up for adoption fifty two
years later. And I just these stories are just so
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powerful and beautiful.
Speaker 14 (17:22):
For family history turns up a family one woman didn't
even know she had, and it.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Turned into a reunion one mother never thought would happen.
Speaker 13 (17:29):
Kv's Christy Millward follows the story of a mother meeting
her daughter for the first time in fifty years.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I can't work, my goodness.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
It's an anticipation you can only imagine.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I don't know what I want to do.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I want her to be here.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
From waiting outside, I.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Hope, my goodness, I don't know.
Speaker 14 (17:45):
It's so hard for me to wait any longer.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
To pacing indoors.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I can't breathe.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Donna Pavey is ready to meet someone.
Speaker 13 (17:52):
Special to fifteen nine minutes. She's counting down the minutes.
It's to sixteen to meet her daughter. I wanted to
with me fifty years ago as a young mother. Pevey
says she was forced by her parents to give her
child up. She's thought about her ever since.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Every day.
Speaker 13 (18:09):
Donna Sewan, Dianna Bordoline say they've wanted to meet their
big sister as long as they can remember.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
I've been looking forward to this day for thirty years. Excited,
nervous to calm their nerves. The three look at photos and.
Speaker 13 (18:21):
This is me, play the piano and even listen to
a little Elvis.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
They can't believe this day is here. We just always
felt like my mom was missing something.
Speaker 17 (18:34):
I always wondered where she was, what she could be
doing back outside.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Payvee consents her daughter is close, text her.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
And see how much long are we gotta wait? Where
are they?
Speaker 13 (18:43):
Finally, after hours of anticipation, agony, in five decades of wondering,
a mother is able to run to her daughter.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
This is the first touch in fifty two years. Wow, hug,
they just get told tight enough.
Speaker 13 (19:07):
Sharon Glynnon found out she was adopted only two days
ago after her adoptive parents have died, and she went
in search of her family history. A DNA test pointed
her to Payvee back inside. The family doesn't waste any
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time making up for lost time.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
I feel like I'm floating.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
It is surreal for me.
Speaker 14 (19:34):
Oh yeah, I'm finally breathing a little, even though they've
never met.
Speaker 13 (19:40):
It's clear the two are similar, from looks to matching shoes.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
This is a moment Payvee didn't think was possible.
Speaker 17 (19:48):
I knew I'd see her in heaven, but I never
dreamed this day would come.
Speaker 13 (19:52):
Now, neither mother nor daughter will let the forever bond
these two have always shared, ever fade away.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
I'd never want to let her go.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Man, That's what it's all about, by that, that you
felt that deep down in that woman's soul.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Because before we were doctors and lawyers and firemen and
cops and all that we are, human beings, were mothers
and fathers, and that's that's that's at our core who
we are. Another one from NBC Dallas DFW.
Speaker 18 (20:25):
If I could have taken care of him, I would have,
but it just wasn't right to do that to him.
Speaker 12 (20:30):
She ended up getting married, working in the TV news
business and now in the public Information office at the
Arlington Police Department. But back then, as a teenager, she
says her life was unstable and she simply couldn't care
for her newborn son.
Speaker 18 (20:43):
It was all I could do to sign those papers
and walk out the door and leave them.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It was really hard.
Speaker 12 (20:50):
Then one day, a few months ago, her phone rings.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
It was an awkward first conversation after.
Speaker 12 (20:56):
It was a name she didn't know, Wes Fenner's calling
from Newark.
Speaker 19 (21:00):
She was not expecting a phone call at work saying Hi,
I'm your Did you did you put child up for
adoption in nineteen seventy five?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
That was pretty pretty an odd phone.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Call nineteen seventy five, but I went, oh my.
Speaker 12 (21:19):
A few weeks later they agreed to me did a
hotel in till that's her waiting in the parking lot,
staring at a nearby pond.
Speaker 18 (21:27):
And then I hear a voice behind it goes, it's mom,
it's me.
Speaker 19 (21:32):
It was overwhelming. You know, I'm not a huge crier,
but it was definitely one of those moments.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
We both started crying and hugging, and.
Speaker 19 (21:47):
It was kind of like looking at myself, a slightly
older version of myself.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
In the mirror.
Speaker 18 (21:54):
I wiped away his tears, You wip wiped away mine.
Speaker 19 (21:57):
How do you described me and your birth mother the
first time after forty five years?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
And we'd probably hugged for twenty minutes.
Speaker 12 (22:04):
Turns out she had tried to search for him years ago,
but couldn't find him.
Speaker 18 (22:08):
All I had to go on was his birthdate and
the fact he was born in Terran County.
Speaker 12 (22:14):
He tried to find her too, but always got cold feet.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I've been thinking about doing this for over a decade.
Speaker 18 (22:20):
I've thought about him every day since he was born.
Speaker 12 (22:24):
She had no idea where her son was living, how
he was, even if he was still alive. Now she
knows he went on to have a good life with
a loving family and worked for a major bank and
start a family of his own.
Speaker 18 (22:37):
You know, you wonder about nature, virgus nurture. We send
each other song lyrics back and forth, and he listens
to the same music I do, and we like the
same movies. We had the same snarky sense of humor.
I'm going, yeah, this is my kid.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
We're still playing ketchup.
Speaker 18 (22:58):
I'm looking forward to the next because meeting him wasn't
the ending of the journey. It's an ongoing journey.
Speaker 12 (23:08):
It's just the beginning. After a mother and her baby
boy finally met forty five years later.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
You know, this is what matters in life. This is
what matters in life, his children and families and love.
I spend a lot of time on politics, and I
spent a lot of time talking about.
Speaker 20 (23:37):
Fighting for our country, and I believe it. But we
must remember what we're fighting for. We're fighting for families.
We're fighting for children or fighting for their futures. Never
lose sight of us. It's our adoptions is our.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Annual Michael Show Adoption Special. My kids are adopted. I
think it's very important to me.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
I believe in it. I think it's part of our mission.
It's part of my advocacy, part of my values. Glad
you're here with us. I understand. Every year I hear
from a couple of folks who go I tuned in
to hear the news of the day. I know, and
you're not going to get it today, and I'm sorry
for that, I really am. But this is important to us,
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and we do it every year, and every year I
hear from someone that last year you talked about adoption
and we adopted, or last year you talked about adoption
and I reached out and found or reconnected with a
child that I had put up for adoption, or last
year you talked about adoption and I went searching for
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my birth mother or father or both, and I connected
And I'm so glad I did so it's important to us.
It was a I woulda did a Super Bowl ad
a while back. Do you remember what year this was?
But it was it was pretty good stuff. It was
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a It was an adoption featuring a Paralympic gold medalist
swimmer named Jessica Long.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
See if you remember this, Missus Long.
Speaker 21 (25:23):
Yes, we've found a way to girl for your adoption,
but there are some things you need to know. She's
in Siberia and she was born with a rare condition.
Her legs will need to be amputated. I know this
is difficult to hear her life. It won't be easy
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at all.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
It might not be easy, but it'll be.
Speaker 17 (26:02):
I can't wait to meet.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
We believe there is hope and strength and all of us.
Toyota proud partner of Team USA.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
If they sold a couple extra Toyotas from that spot,
so be it. But they make you look at life
very differently. And children who are not born completely quote
unquote healthy. This next one is the heartwarming moment a
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daughter surprises her stepdad and I haven't addressed it yet
on today's show. But children need love. They also need
direction and discipline and guidance and correction. Did I say
correction from parental figures? And that's mothers and fathers and
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uncles and grandparents and teachers and coaches. And my call
to you is, if you marry a person who had
children already, you don't have to be their primary parent.
You don't have to assume that role, especially if they
have one who is. But why not in that moment
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give love to that child. I see so many cases
of people. If you fall in love with a person,
their children aren't baggage. If you fall in love with
a person and they have children, you owe it to
that person that you love to be as good as
you can and as good as those kids were willing
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to let you be to them. And some will reject
you at first, and you owe it to humanity. You
owe it to humanity to be good to those kids,
to love them and let them know that you love them,
to care enough about them to disaib on them. You
owe it to them. You owe it to society.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
To do that.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
This is a beautiful moment where a little girl whose
stepdad raised her as if he was her own dad,
and she surprises him with the big news.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Can you read it?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Out loud.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Yeah, yeah, I open, but don't say anything because Haley
hasn't opened hers.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Can you read it?
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I know your birthday is thirteen days away, but I
am too excited to hold it in.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
What do you get it?
Speaker 14 (28:36):
Bed?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
What do you get in?
Speaker 21 (28:41):
Bed?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Has ever? Once?
Speaker 14 (28:45):
I could hit at poder day, But in the is
I know that it would make you happier that what.
Speaker 22 (28:56):
I'm about to say today to one two thousand two Bed.
Speaker 14 (29:08):
We would share it forever as we grow, Haiti? Did
you I belive this, dog, Haiti?
Speaker 22 (29:14):
That yell could be ye happy birthday and happy Vattletales day.
You stole her heart from day walk, but today she
stole your last thing forever.
Speaker 23 (29:27):
Everybody says that. Everybody thinks that she to daddy man.
Speaker 14 (29:41):
Everybody says she worship up to the ground.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I won't come, but I'll I'll worship the down.
Speaker 10 (29:47):
She walks up.
Speaker 14 (29:52):
I love you, I love you, Love you?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Who was too serious?
Speaker 8 (29:56):
We can't be that serious in here, people trying to
drive home getting all choked up. If you're anything like me,
so here's comedian Leo Allen.
Speaker 16 (30:04):
You know they say you can never go home again.
At least that's what my parents say. At least that's
what the letter from their lawyer said. I'm adopted, and
I'm glad that my parents were honest enough with me
to tell me that I'm adopted. But why every day
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that seems excessive, That seems.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
And I'll never forget. Well my parents first told me.
Speaker 16 (30:38):
I was adopted, because it was a very emotional day
for everyone in my whole family, because that was the
same day my parents decided to tell my brother he
was gay. That's rough on a five year old. Laughter
really is the best medicine. You remember that time on
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Good Times when Penny got adopted. Did you watch Good Times?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Mom?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Oh? Man, I wore Good Times out.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Maybe I wanted too much, you know, wanting to be
a mother, wanting.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
Someone to love.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
I knew it was a long shock from the beginning. Melana, Honey, Hey.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Jay, are you crying. I'm not crying, Michael.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
It just encouraged me though.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Now that you're not leaving, I'm gonna have to eat
thumbus cookies.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
I'd almost given up hope.
Speaker 17 (31:41):
Well, you know, in the past, Miss Woods, it was
very difficult for single parents to adopt. But laws have
changed and times have changed. And there are so many
older children waiting for a good home. And anyway, we
got such glowing reports about you, especially for mister Bookman,
that well, we decided that one could get just as
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much love as to.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Thank you, Penny.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
I know we have so much to learn about each other,
but I promise you I'll love you more than any
mother's ever loved a little girl.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Oh, Mama, you remember when we didn't know that Penny
was Janet Jackson. Sheted some fine little girl on the
TV show. Well, you didn't watch it, so you want
to know. I remember thinking that grows fine. And then
one day.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
There she was singing on stage. Oh Penny's all gone.
Speaker 10 (32:36):
Oh she was already.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I had no idea
It's that time, time, time, time, looking load.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Michael Very Show.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Is on the air. What love is this.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
That calms our hearts?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Whispers the promise into the dark that we are love,
Yes we are love. And to you forever, though we
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were homeless in need of rest, gave us a name.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And daily bread.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
How we are love?
Speaker 6 (00:54):
Yes, we are love.
Speaker 7 (00:57):
It's our Adoption special and to you forever. We're gonna
get saty today.
Speaker 8 (01:07):
I know some people tune into talk radio because you
want to be pissed.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Off and mad. Not your day.
Speaker 8 (01:13):
I'm sorry, I'd love to have you every other day,
not today. Adoption is very important to us. This is
the most meaningful show we do per year. National Adoption
Day this year is this Saturday, twenty third, but obviously
we won't be live on the air on that day,
so we chose today.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Why not tomorrow because.
Speaker 8 (01:36):
Tomorrow is our annual Thanksgiving show, and that's also important
to us. We're going to talk about news of the
day throughout the course of the year, the way every
other show does. But we have some things that are
important to us, and we understand that's not for every listener.
The things that are important to us or mother's Day,
Father's Day, Adoption Special, our Thanksgiving Special, our Veterans Day,
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our Memorial Day, and we just think it's important to
stop the crazy world from spinning and pay tribute to that.
President Trump understands the importance of adoption during one of
his State of the Union addresses. One of the most
beautiful moments. Of course, Rush Limbaugh getting the Presidential Metal
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Freedom will always stick in my mind. But one of
the most beautiful moments was the story about an Albuquerque
police officer named I think it Ryan Holettes. I forget
we're going to hear it in just a moment. I
forget how you pronounce it. But we marked this years
ago for our Adoption Special. It's just a beautiful, beautiful moment,
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and President Trump knew.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It because we have seen tonight the most difficult challenges
bring out the best in America. We see a vivid
expression of this truth in the story How the Who
Lets Spend of New Mexico. Brian Holets is twenty seven
years old an officer with the Albuquerque Police Department. He's
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here tonight with his wife, Rebecca.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Frank you Ryan.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Last year Ryan was on duty when he'sa a pregnant
homeless woman preparing to inject heroine.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
When Ryan told.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Her she was going to harm her unborn child, she
began to weep. She told him she didn't know where
to turn, but badly wanted a safe home for her baby.
In that moment, Brian said he felt God speak to you,
will do it because you can.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
He heard those works.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
He took out a picture of his wife and their
four kids. Then he went home to tell his wife Rebecca.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
In an instant, she agreed to adopt.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So let's name their new daughter Hope.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Ryan and Rebecca, do you embody the goodness of our nation?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
I not only want to be the most powerful military
force in the world. I not only want to have
an economy with the most opportunity in the world. I
not only want to make the best movies, television, music, food, clothing,
airplanes in the world. I want to be a people,
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a civilization, a culture values life.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's who I want to be. That's who I want
our people to be. Very important to me.
Speaker 8 (05:10):
Ryan Holett told his story at the RNC, and I
really think if there wasn't so much hatred for Donald
Trump by the left, I really think that this story
should have received even more attention, and it really does
represent the goodness of humanity and drilling down the goodness
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of Americans. For all the talk, this is what the
goodness of Americans is. This is not just an adoption story.
It's a beautiful story about life and sacrifice and sharing
and compassion and mercy and love.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I love this story. Do you remember him telling this
at the RNC.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
Hi, I'm Ryan Holitz. I'm a police officer from New
Mexican co. In twenty seventeen, I had an encounter that
changed my life forever. I had just started my shift
and responded to a call for service at a gas station.
When I arrived, I saw a man and a woman
sitting on a grassy slope. I recognized the tepteale signs,
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a needle, a spoon. I knew immediately that they were
preparing to inject themselves with heroin.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Sadly, this is a common sight for me.
Speaker 9 (06:26):
I encountered the ravages of addiction every day, but nothing
could prepare me for what I discovered as I approached them.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
The woman was very pregnant.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
In my shock, I asked her if she knew that
she was harming her baby by doing drugs.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
She crumbled and burst into tears.
Speaker 9 (06:46):
Two worlds collided as I knelt down beside her, a
police officer and an almost drug addict, brought together by
forces outside of our control. As we talked our humanity,
this ind from our stations in life was made abundantly clear.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Her name was Crystal, and in the midst of her.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
Suffering, she confided that she loved her unborn baby.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
She wanted the best for her child.
Speaker 9 (07:14):
In that moment, I saw her the way that all
of you who know and love and addicts see them
as fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, cousins, and friends, as
human beings full of value and dignity.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
But robbed of their potential by this disease.
Speaker 9 (07:35):
When Crystal said that she was looking for a family
to adopt her baby, God showed me exactly what I
had to do. Without hesitation, I told her that my
family would welcome her baby through adoption. Today, our beautiful daughter,
Hope is a thriving two year old. Crystal is fast
approaching three years of recovery. She's a dear friend and
a constant inspiration to me and others. I hold a
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special place in my heart of those facing opioid addiction.
And that's why I'm enormously grateful to the President for
his leadership in fighting this deadly enemy.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Everything we do promotes life, life at birth, dignity in
life till death.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
Captain something wrong, well, something must be right.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You're listening to Michael Berry. You know, elections aren't the
beginning and the end of what matters in life.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
Very sweet when we consider the human condition, faith, family, science, medicine, commerce, transportation, literature, art, love,
When we consider the human condition and the things that
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really matter over the continuum of eternity. It has become
the case in America, and there's nowhere else in the world.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
This is the case that the issue.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Of abortion has become a talking point in every conversation.
It's crazy, it's crazy, But I don't think we can
argue against abortion. Whatever your position is as to whether
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the federal government should outlaw it across the country, or
it should be outlawed across the country to outlaw it,
or whether states should be able to decide, and if
states can decide, as Dobbs said, that they should prevent
it or allow it or leave it to the vote.
Whatever your position on all of those things. Everyone can
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have their own position. What I hope we could all
agree on is that life is sacred and that we
would all prefer that when a woman is pregnant, she
choose life because that is a baby, and that there
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is an infrastructure in place, because I can assure you
because we adopted two children. I hear from people constantly
asking questions about adoption. Sometimes it is should we yes,
you don't need to finish the question. Yes, you should
adopt if you're thinking about it, Yes, should we do
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domestic or international? Those are very complicated questions. I'm not
going to address those today. Do your own research. Bringing
a child into your home is a major decision. I mean,
you research which vehicle you buy before you bring a
vehicle into your home, or decide whether to bring a
vehicle into your home. Bringing a child into your home
is going to be a major thing. This thing is
most likely going to outlive you. But the answer is
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always yes. The answer is that this is going to
bring joy into your life, and that's a beautiful, wonderful thing.
The aspects of adoption I would like to address today,
And if you're new to the show, we're not talking
politics today, just so you know, we take a break
from politics on our national on our adoption special every
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year is the Joys of Adoption. This is one that
it's a news report from. It comes from my hometown
of Houston, or my adopted town. I'm originally from Orange,
Texas in Southeast Texas. It's a news report from KHOU TV,
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which is a TV station in Houston. But a woman
who adopted a little girl she helped during a terrible
hurricane and storm that came through Houston called Hurricane Harvey.
I wish you could see the video that goes with it,
but I think you'll get the point just from this.
Speaker 10 (11:57):
Running down the hall of the fifteenth floor of the
Core House downtown, twenty three months old, Bella is full
of joy and excitement. She's running toward the woman she's
known since Hurricane Harvey?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Are you so?
Speaker 11 (12:10):
I would have never guessed that, you know, just by
me dropping off donations as a result of Harvey, that
I would have ended up with an entire baby.
Speaker 10 (12:17):
The pairs heading into the courtroom that will change their
lives forever does.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
Granted too, that the day has finally come. We've been
waiting for this day for the entire twenty eighteen.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
Doctor Bernaita Baker opened up her home to Bella right
after the storm.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
She'd been living in a car with her dad.
Speaker 10 (12:34):
Bella's mother was never in the picture, and Bella's father
couldn't provide a stable home, so he agreed to give
her up for adoption.
Speaker 12 (12:41):
And this is exactly what you want to do for
the child as a doctor.
Speaker 10 (12:44):
Yes, and today a judge made the undeniable bond Doctor
Baker and Bella's share unbreakable.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Granting your petition for adoption and the request for a
name changes branded.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Congratulations, Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
Doctor Baker now looks forward to spending her first Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
With Bella as mother and daughter.
Speaker 11 (13:02):
This was my first official Christmas as a mom.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Okay for a song.
Speaker 11 (13:07):
This is a Christmas miracle, one that I could have
never planned or prepared for, and one that I definitely
never expected.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Look look at the camera.
Speaker 10 (13:14):
After their first official portrait, Bella led her new family
out of the courtroom stealing. Not just doctor Beakers hardened
to walk the way.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
This one is another one that just the ladies, if
you were still wearing makeup at this.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Hour of the day, gets you. It's a news report
from w zz MTV.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
A little boy invice his whole class to his adoption hearing.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
This one gets me.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Yes, a big family.
Speaker 13 (13:50):
Family with an even bigger heart.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Michael Orlando Clark Junior.
Speaker 14 (14:00):
Who he is a very active and silly, silly.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Kindergartener, invited his entire class to watch this moment.
Speaker 15 (14:12):
It is ordered Michael that your forever mom and dad
will be David Andrew Eaton and Andrea Luis.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Melvin and cheer him on one, two, three.
Speaker 15 (14:30):
Sometimes their journeys have been very long. They've included miracle
and change for the children and family, and incredible community
support as you were able to see today in Michael's
adoption hearing with his whole kindergarten class and school being
here to say we love you, we support you, and
we'll be here not only today but in all the
years in the future.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
It's safe to assume how Michael feels.
Speaker 16 (14:53):
We've been working with Catholic charities and the workers there
have just been amazing. Love my daddy, Wow, I not
my daddy so much.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This is just too much. This is just too much. Yeah,
it's been amazing.
Speaker 16 (15:09):
Obviously how supportive they've much.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Man, that one gets me every child. Every child should
have that opportunity. I have at least one parent prefer too.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What a beautiful thing, Michael Barry.
Speaker 8 (15:47):
Every year, reading the emails I get from you related
to adoption, I will invariably hear from a mother who
gave up their child. And I think for many years
such women hid in shame, as if they were bad people.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
A mother are giving up their child. I don't look
at it that way.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
I look at it as a very heroic and brave
and courageous and difficult.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Thing to do, and I think we should honor it.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
If we're going to say to women, if you get
pregnant and you don't want or can't care for that child,
wait don't kill it. God placed that child inside you
for a reason. Bring that child into this world. There
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is somebody waiting. That child will have a chance, there's
somebody waiting to raise that child. Yes, it's difficult to
go through a pregnancy. Yes it's painful to give birth,
but you will have done something beautiful and wonderful. And
that child may be the child that here's cancer or
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solves the Rubik's cube or whatever it is. That wonderful
child's going to do this was a story out of Austin,
Texas on KVU kV UE of a woman who met
the child that she gave up for adoption fifty two
years later. And I just these stories are just so
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powerful and beautiful.
Speaker 14 (17:22):
For family history turns up a family one woman didn't
even know she had, and it.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Turned into a reunion one mother never thought would happen.
Speaker 13 (17:29):
Kv's Christy Millward follows the story of a mother meeting
her daughter for the first time in fifty years.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I can't work, my goodness.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
It's an anticipation you can only imagine.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I don't know what I want to do.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I want her to be here.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
From waiting outside, I.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Hope, my goodness, I don't know.
Speaker 14 (17:45):
It's so hard for me to wait any longer.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
To pacing indoors.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I can't breathe.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Donna Pavey is ready to meet someone.
Speaker 13 (17:52):
Special to fifteen nine minutes. She's counting down the minutes.
It's to sixteen to meet her daughter. I wanted to
with me fifty years ago as a young mother. Pevey
says she was forced by her parents to give her
child up. She's thought about her ever since.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Every day.
Speaker 13 (18:09):
Donna Sewan, Dianna Bordoline say they've wanted to meet their
big sister as long as they can remember.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
I've been looking forward to this day for thirty years. Excited,
nervous to calm their nerves. The three look at photos and.
Speaker 13 (18:21):
This is me, play the piano and even listen to
a little Elvis.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
They can't believe this day is here. We just always
felt like my mom was missing something.
Speaker 17 (18:34):
I always wondered where she was, what she could be
doing back outside.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Payvee consents her daughter is close, text her.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
And see how much long are we gotta wait? Where
are they?
Speaker 13 (18:43):
Finally, after hours of anticipation, agony, in five decades of wondering,
a mother is able to run to her daughter.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
This is the first touch in fifty two years. Wow, hug,
they just get told tight enough.
Speaker 13 (19:07):
Sharon Glynnon found out she was adopted only two days
ago after her adoptive parents have died, and she went
in search of her family history. A DNA test pointed
her to Payvee back inside. The family doesn't waste any
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time making up for lost time.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
I feel like I'm floating.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
It is surreal for me.
Speaker 14 (19:34):
Oh yeah, I'm finally breathing a little, even though they've
never met.
Speaker 13 (19:40):
It's clear the two are similar, from looks to matching shoes.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
This is a moment Payvee didn't think was possible.
Speaker 17 (19:48):
I knew I'd see her in heaven, but I never
dreamed this day would come.
Speaker 13 (19:52):
Now, neither mother nor daughter will let the forever bond
these two have always shared, ever fade away.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
I'd never want to let her go.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Man, That's what it's all about, by that, that you
felt that deep down in that woman's soul.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Because before we were doctors and lawyers and firemen and
cops and all that we are, human beings, were mothers
and fathers, and that's that's that's at our core who
we are. Another one from NBC Dallas DFW.
Speaker 18 (20:25):
If I could have taken care of him, I would have,
but it just wasn't right to do that to him.
Speaker 12 (20:30):
She ended up getting married, working in the TV news
business and now in the public Information office at the
Arlington Police Department. But back then, as a teenager, she
says her life was unstable and she simply couldn't care
for her newborn son.
Speaker 18 (20:43):
It was all I could do to sign those papers
and walk out the door and leave them.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It was really hard.
Speaker 12 (20:50):
Then one day, a few months ago, her phone rings.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
It was an awkward first conversation after.
Speaker 12 (20:56):
It was a name she didn't know, Wes Fenner's calling
from Newark.
Speaker 19 (21:00):
She was not expecting a phone call at work saying Hi,
I'm your Did you did you put child up for
adoption in nineteen seventy five?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
That was pretty pretty an odd phone.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Call nineteen seventy five, but I went, oh my.
Speaker 12 (21:19):
A few weeks later they agreed to me did a
hotel in till that's her waiting in the parking lot,
staring at a nearby pond.
Speaker 18 (21:27):
And then I hear a voice behind it goes, it's mom,
it's me.
Speaker 19 (21:32):
It was overwhelming. You know, I'm not a huge crier,
but it was definitely one of those moments.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
We both started crying and hugging, and.
Speaker 19 (21:47):
It was kind of like looking at myself, a slightly
older version of myself.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
In the mirror.
Speaker 18 (21:54):
I wiped away his tears, You wip wiped away mine.
Speaker 19 (21:57):
How do you described me and your birth mother the
first time after forty five years?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
And we'd probably hugged for twenty minutes.
Speaker 12 (22:04):
Turns out she had tried to search for him years ago,
but couldn't find him.
Speaker 18 (22:08):
All I had to go on was his birthdate and
the fact he was born in Terran County.
Speaker 12 (22:14):
He tried to find her too, but always got cold feet.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I've been thinking about doing this for over a decade.
Speaker 18 (22:20):
I've thought about him every day since he was born.
Speaker 12 (22:24):
She had no idea where her son was living, how
he was, even if he was still alive. Now she
knows he went on to have a good life with
a loving family and worked for a major bank and
start a family of his own.
Speaker 18 (22:37):
You know, you wonder about nature, virgus nurture. We send
each other song lyrics back and forth, and he listens
to the same music I do, and we like the
same movies. We had the same snarky sense of humor.
I'm going, yeah, this is my kid.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
We're still playing ketchup.
Speaker 18 (22:58):
I'm looking forward to the next because meeting him wasn't
the ending of the journey. It's an ongoing journey.
Speaker 12 (23:08):
It's just the beginning. After a mother and her baby
boy finally met forty five years later.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
You know, this is what matters in life. This is
what matters in life, his children and families and love.
I spend a lot of time on politics, and I
spent a lot of time talking about.
Speaker 20 (23:37):
Fighting for our country, and I believe it. But we
must remember what we're fighting for. We're fighting for families.
We're fighting for children or fighting for their futures. Never
lose sight of us. It's our adoptions is our.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Annual Michael Show Adoption Special. My kids are adopted. I
think it's very important to me.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
I believe in it. I think it's part of our mission.
It's part of my advocacy, part of my values. Glad
you're here with us. I understand. Every year I hear
from a couple of folks who go I tuned in
to hear the news of the day. I know, and
you're not going to get it today, and I'm sorry
for that, I really am. But this is important to us,
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and we do it every year, and every year I
hear from someone that last year you talked about adoption
and we adopted, or last year you talked about adoption
and I reached out and found or reconnected with a
child that I had put up for adoption, or last
year you talked about adoption and I went searching for
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my birth mother or father or both, and I connected
And I'm so glad I did so it's important to us.
It was a I woulda did a Super Bowl ad
a while back. Do you remember what year this was?
But it was it was pretty good stuff. It was
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a It was an adoption featuring a Paralympic gold medalist
swimmer named Jessica Long.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
See if you remember this, Missus Long.
Speaker 21 (25:23):
Yes, we've found a way to girl for your adoption,
but there are some things you need to know. She's
in Siberia and she was born with a rare condition.
Her legs will need to be amputated. I know this
is difficult to hear her life. It won't be easy
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at all.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
It might not be easy, but it'll be.
Speaker 17 (26:02):
I can't wait to meet.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
We believe there is hope and strength and all of us.
Toyota proud partner of Team USA.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
If they sold a couple extra Toyotas from that spot,
so be it. But they make you look at life
very differently. And children who are not born completely quote
unquote healthy. This next one is the heartwarming moment a
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daughter surprises her stepdad and I haven't addressed it yet
on today's show. But children need love. They also need
direction and discipline and guidance and correction. Did I say
correction from parental figures? And that's mothers and fathers and
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uncles and grandparents and teachers and coaches. And my call
to you is, if you marry a person who had
children already, you don't have to be their primary parent.
You don't have to assume that role, especially if they
have one who is. But why not in that moment
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give love to that child. I see so many cases
of people. If you fall in love with a person,
their children aren't baggage. If you fall in love with
a person and they have children, you owe it to
that person that you love to be as good as
you can and as good as those kids were willing
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to let you be to them. And some will reject
you at first, and you owe it to humanity. You
owe it to humanity to be good to those kids,
to love them and let them know that you love them,
to care enough about them to disaib on them. You
owe it to them. You owe it to society.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
To do that.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
This is a beautiful moment where a little girl whose
stepdad raised her as if he was her own dad,
and she surprises him with the big news.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Can you read it?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Out loud.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Yeah, yeah, I open, but don't say anything because Haley
hasn't opened hers.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Can you read it?
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I know your birthday is thirteen days away, but I
am too excited to hold it in.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
What do you get it?
Speaker 14 (28:36):
Bed?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
What do you get in?
Speaker 21 (28:41):
Bed?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Has ever? Once?
Speaker 14 (28:45):
I could hit at poder day, But in the is
I know that it would make you happier that what.
Speaker 22 (28:56):
I'm about to say today to one two thousand two Bed.
Speaker 14 (29:08):
We would share it forever as we grow, Haiti? Did
you I belive this, dog, Haiti?
Speaker 22 (29:14):
That yell could be ye happy birthday and happy Vattletales day.
You stole her heart from day walk, but today she
stole your last thing forever.
Speaker 23 (29:27):
Everybody says that. Everybody thinks that she to daddy man.
Speaker 14 (29:41):
Everybody says she worship up to the ground.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I won't come, but I'll I'll worship the down.
Speaker 10 (29:47):
She walks up.
Speaker 14 (29:52):
I love you, I love you, Love you?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Who was too serious?
Speaker 8 (29:56):
We can't be that serious in here, people trying to
drive home getting all choked up. If you're anything like me,
so here's comedian Leo Allen.
Speaker 16 (30:04):
You know they say you can never go home again.
At least that's what my parents say. At least that's
what the letter from their lawyer said. I'm adopted, and
I'm glad that my parents were honest enough with me
to tell me that I'm adopted. But why every day
(30:32):
that seems excessive, That seems.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
And I'll never forget. Well my parents first told me.
Speaker 16 (30:38):
I was adopted, because it was a very emotional day
for everyone in my whole family, because that was the
same day my parents decided to tell my brother he
was gay. That's rough on a five year old. Laughter
really is the best medicine. You remember that time on
(31:02):
Good Times when Penny got adopted. Did you watch Good Times?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Mom?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Oh? Man, I wore Good Times out.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Maybe I wanted too much, you know, wanting to be
a mother, wanting.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
Someone to love.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
I knew it was a long shock from the beginning. Melana, Honey, Hey.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Jay, are you crying. I'm not crying, Michael.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
It just encouraged me though.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Now that you're not leaving, I'm gonna have to eat
thumbus cookies.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
I'd almost given up hope.
Speaker 17 (31:41):
Well, you know, in the past, Miss Woods, it was
very difficult for single parents to adopt. But laws have
changed and times have changed. And there are so many
older children waiting for a good home. And anyway, we
got such glowing reports about you, especially for mister Bookman,
that well, we decided that one could get just as
(32:02):
much love as to.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Thank you, Penny.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
I know we have so much to learn about each other,
but I promise you I'll love you more than any
mother's ever loved a little girl.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Oh, Mama, you remember when we didn't know that Penny
was Janet Jackson. Sheted some fine little girl on the
TV show. Well, you didn't watch it, so you want
to know. I remember thinking that grows fine. And then
one day.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
There she was singing on stage. Oh Penny's all gone.
Speaker 10 (32:36):
Oh she was already.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I had no idea
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