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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Call us at eight seven, seven, nine three, seven, one
oh four seven.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
The text line you text jj R whatever's on your
mind in nine six, eight nine and three. My god,
I just saw this text right now. Hmm, whoa Dylan,
You gotta get this person on the line. It says
John day Rich, my sister was kidnapped over fifty years ago.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
My mom always wanted to find her. We finally found
her and she looks exactly like my mother. Yeah, Dylan,
can you get her on the phone. Do you see
that text? Holy smokes?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Wow, that's that's insane. Wow, I know. I mean I
literally was going to read this other text that I
can't even find right now. Where is it fifty years ago? Oh? Here,
I was gonna read this text.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I got hung up on from being told I was
not the Disney winner, but I was actually calling about
something else. That's a bummer when you're really trying to
call in during those Disneys.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's so sad.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Sorry, your coaching buddy, what it is.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's our customer service.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
I called her and she ended.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Up actually talking with us, like she got through right right?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Okay, can you get the fifty years the kidnapp lady
on that's crazy?

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Is that nuts? Yeah? I can't wait to hear that story.
Told her, what is it like? Wow, well, a little.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Netflix docu series to be like like news, national news.
Someone was kidnapped fifty years ago, and I wonder what
that's I love that. I love when people just text
us about random stuff, especially when it's something so compelling.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
Is that so we didn't we didn't solicit for somebody
who was kidnapped, call us Texas text jj R and kidnapp. No,
she just literally just I think, I don't you know,
you never know. We got a thousand of these going
on the show.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
So Kyle's going through something which, by the way, Kyle
is so relatable in my world, and I never brought
it up.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Really. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Okay, So I think I have a theory about my car.
So I don't know how it is in everybody else's car.
But when I'm listening to a song in my car
and I leave to go run an errand or come
to work, the song, if I'm not listening to the
radio station is still on, right, should still be on
and playing?

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Right?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:07):
So normally I like, we'll just listen to our radio station.
But since the Life of a show Girl came out.
I've been listening to Taylor Swift's album over and over
again on repeat, all my favorite songs, like over and over.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
So I was like, you know what, I think I
need to take a break.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Like I love Taylor, I'm really into the album, but
I should probably listen to some other things. So, you know,
I'm like, oh, it's Benson Boone's this stickle.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
And then I'm waiting to hear that song when I
get back in the car and this is on, and
I wasn't looking to the album when I Love my.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Car, but since it's on, I'm like on next night,
you know, and I'm like okay.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Then I forget and I'm like, wait a minute, I
was taking a.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Break from this album. So then I start to listen
to something else and.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
I get out of my car, you know.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
But when I get out, it's and die with.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
A smile, and I expect affecting some you know, Bruno Mars.
When I get back in my car and this starts
saying it starts and you.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Know, it's so catchy that I like you and I have.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
This happens like probably I don't know ten times, and
I'm like, I think my car just likes the life
of a showgirl.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
It's you got the Tesla, so probably Elon Musk dictate.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
They all listen to Hope the like, no matter what
I wasn't to do.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
When I get back in my car picks it up
and it's not like this is the middle of the song.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
So I have this theory, like you know, like I
leave my car's like, yeah, that's a cool song and everything,
but we're gonna.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Get back to oplay and then I just pop in
the middle of it. Your car is like Toy Story
or Super lib Pats.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, So for me, and I didn't know why the
same thing happened in my car, but it was us.
And I don't know why I had this in my
my playlist or in my library, but it was one
of the songs from Titanic the soundtrack, and it would
just start.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
I would get my car and be like, and.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
It happened all the time, and I every time, so
much so that I remember my son Dutch getting in
the car and I get before I start the car,
he'd go and I'm just so angry that I ended
up deleting it. So I can't find it because I
just went through the soundtrack and there's like five albums
of James Horner's Titanic, and I don't know why I

(04:33):
was on there. Then I remember deleting it, and then
I think my car with alphabetical, and it.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Was every time I started the car with Alexander Hamilton.
I think it went alphabetically totally. And I think that
that's a it's like not a unique experience. I think
everyone has been through something like it.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
For me right now, the song that keeps playing and
popping up in my car is Olivia Dean Man I
need and I listened to it all the way.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Through, but then I like, it's coming back it.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
But every time I get in my car.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
That song songs you guys like, I love. It's actually
my favorite.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
Oh yeah, that's not at the beginning from it together.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, mine was eighteen. Because it's okay, I'm getting an.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Hey, the person that was kidnapped, that whole story, we
have them onth funk, but we will talk to them next. Okay,
we just got a text that said this person was
kidnapped fifty years ago.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
She was found.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
We're going to hear the whole story next King, I
opened up the text line when we started the show,
and I got a text from someone who says that
their sister was kidnapped fifty years ago and they found her.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Adriana, good morning, Good morning, What is your story? What happened?

Speaker 4 (05:53):
So my when my mom was young, she lived in
California and she had her first daughter. My mom was
like eighteen, I know, she was seventeen. Her daughter was two.
When my mom was nineteen, she was kidnapped, and it's
a crazy story, but she got My mom got deported
to Mexico and the people that my mom was living
with were not the best people in the world, and

(06:14):
they were coyotes. So they kept my sister and they
knew that, you know, I was my mom child. And
my mom was like trying to tell the water patrol,
I that's my child, and they didn't believe her, so
they deported her. And so of course my mom was
really young, so she had my grandma trying to come
over here, trying to look for her daughters the people,
I guess had moved, and she can never do anything,

(06:35):
of course, you know, being from Mexico and not knowing
a lot of stuff. So she when I came to
live out here. She always telled me like, please, like,
please find your sister, and this is the information, and
bless her heart, my mom passed away already, but she'll
give me names. She'll be like, the lady's name was
this name, and she had two sons and that this
was their names, and look for them, and they live
in this street. And so I, you know, I try

(06:56):
to look, but of course they had moved over the years,
and so we never found her. We just, you know,
we had a very little information. Passed forward fifteen some
years later and my sister who now lives here too,
my other sister, we always knew that we had this sister.
We always knew that she existed. She was her older sister,
and we knew. But when my sister did her ancestry

(07:18):
a year later, this other lady sent her a message
and told her, hey, I think that we're related. I
did my ancestry and it comes up that you were
probably my cousin. And so my sister called me immediately,
the one that lives here, and she's like, hey, somebody
message me. This is her name. She says, she's probably
my cousin. And then when she told me the name.
They never changed her name. So when she told me

(07:40):
the name, I'm like, let me look her up. And
when I looked her up, I'm gonna cry. When I
looked her up, and I looked her up on Facebook
and I opened her face. I found her and I
opened her Facebook and she looked just like my mom.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Oh, she looked like what what did you feel in
that second? Right when you saw it? You had to know?

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Oh. I was screaming. I was screaming. I had my
sister another line. I was like screaming. I knew it immediately.
I'm like, oh, my last Bettie, that's our sister. And
my sister's like what and I'm like yeah, I'm like,
so I'm taking screenshots, sending her pictures. It was just
like adrenaline rush, like I have right now. And I
was just like sending her other information. And then I
sent her a message like immediately on Facebook and she

(08:21):
had a private but I sent I commented on one
of her pictures and I said, if you message somebody
and answers to can you please accept my friend request?
I think that were related, and so she answered like
ten minutes later. Me Meanwhile, I was going crazy looking
through all her pictures that I could see and Facebook,
and she looked exactly like my mom. We're all very tall,
but my mom was like like for something, and my

(08:43):
sister's like for something like my mom. She's like super
short with my mom. And so when she replied, I
told her, I'm like, hey, I think that you're my sister,
and she was like what. She didn't she knew that
this is a long it's a long story, but she
never knew that she that she was like kidnapped like that.

(09:03):
She actually was told that my mom abandoned her.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Okay, but so did you ever connect with her and
see her? And now you guys are close.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Yes, we're actually very close. She came to see us.
I have a video when we came to pick her
up at the airport. She came to PS, I haven't
on Instagram if you guys want to see it. So
we went to pick her up. Yeah, sure she is.
We went to pick her up at the airport and
then of course, like we were all crying because she
looks just like my mom. We traveled. She lives in
New York, so we traveled to see her, and she's
come to see us as well.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
But Adrian, what about this? Here's my follow up question.
How was her life? Did she have a good life?

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Her life was hard. She I'm sorry, she had a
really hard life. She has a better than life now,
but she had a really tough life. She grew up.
These people were awful, they were evil. When we met
her the first or we did call that night immediately,
but my kids and my sister and we need to
call it. Her kids and her and a video calling,

(10:03):
and we told her, I mean, you were always loved,
We always everybody knew. My husband knew about her like
our family, like you existent.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
But she got away. She got away from those bad people.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
She got away from those bad people. When she was twelve.
She found somebody in her church, and those people helped
her move to New York and that she in the
up with you.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Okay, I can't help, but things like your mom passed
away and she never stopped looking for her. And then
even like from heaven, she helped you guys find her
and like bring you all together.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
Totally, absolutely, one hundred percent. And that's what we tell her.
We tell her like she loved you so much to
her last breath, she she would beg us to find you.
I mean, I have no books. When I have I
have read all the information my mom will give us
about the people, and she would always say, please like
look and now that they have Facebook, you can look,
you know, when they had my Stacey're like look put
the names and she never lost hope, you know. And

(10:52):
so I just wish that no, mom kne look at it.
No that you know she find me? I know she yeah, Adriana,
now that we when she comes to visiting, we play cards.
And my mom used to love to play cards. She
always cheated too. Funny thing. My sister loves to play

(11:13):
cards and she shuffles cards the same way my mom
is whoa that?

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Well, we're grateful that you shared that story with us,
So thankful that you listen. What a beautiful story, what
a great ending.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
No, thank you, thank you. I like I said, I
have a video when we picked up in the airport,
but I have pictures up my mom and her, and
you can see it's like the same person.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well, hold on, we'll get your Instagram so we could
look at her. Okay, unless you want everybody to know
your Instagram? Do you want to share your Instagram with everybody?

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Don't I don't care.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
What's your what's your Instagram?

Speaker 4 (11:43):
It's Adriana, Adriana Square. My last name is square, like
the shape.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Oh cool, last name was square.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
My husband.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Is he like an engineer or a nerd? That would
be kind of cool. Geometry teacher.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Absolutely, okay, Adriana Square.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
All right, we'll look it up. Thank you for listening
to Adriana.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
All right, thank you,
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