359: The Sperm Donor Scandal: Man Fathers 1,000 Children Worldwide

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Intro 0:00
Early History of Sperm Donations 6:56
Early Signs of Fraud 10:37
A Good First Impression 19:31
The Truth Begins to Leak Out 21:33
Lack of Regulation 26:08
A Danger Lying in Wait 31:50
The Luke & Leia Conundrum 37:16
"Lord of the Donors" 42:20
Kyle Gordy 49:08
"America's Dad" 51:58
Another Scammer 1:04:13
"The Lion of *Insert Location Here" 1:07:39
Far From Lucrative 1:13:52
More Lies 1:18:17
Still a Danger 1:23:24
Johnathan's YouTube Channel & Outro 1:27:52

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:18.9	And welcome back to Myal Higher Podcast, episode 358.
0:24.3	I'm your host, Kendall.
0:25.9	I'm Josh.
0:27.3	Why do you do that?
0:29.0	Jush.
0:29.6	You know, I just am trying to be unique and different.
0:32.8	Okay.
0:33.5	Josh is one of the most common names in the world.
0:35.6	It is.
0:36.1	We are European today.
0:38.3	Yeah, exactly.
0:39.0	Okay.
0:39.9	Lots of European bros.
0:42.2	We're going all over the world.
0:44.3	Who else is here?
0:45.7	Our production crew, as always, the fantastic Ian and the wondrous Janelle who is injured in 31 years old.
0:53.1	No, I just ran my toe over.
0:53.1	What? What did a chair? Yes. Oh no. Like two of them. Two of the toes? Yes, dude. Do you get passed? Do you need help? I might. That hurt. Should I call a medic? So unbelievably bad. My big toe's dropping. Oh, no. With the fucking wheel. You were just talking about how you injured your hip like two minutes ago.
0:54.8	Now you really can't, you can't run anymore.
1:27.6	So. big toes throbbing. Oh, no. With the fucking wheel. You were just talking about how you injured your hip like two minutes ago. Now you really can't, you can't run anymore. It's all over for you. No, you've no idea how bad that hurt just now. I just saw stars. Do you need frozen peas? Oh, that hurts so bad. Someone kisses. These two are both injured. Ian's barely here.
1:31.3	He was very sick and slept wrong, so hurt himself badly. I was just adjusting this blanket and my fucking wheel over my toe.
	...

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