It's the way I heard it.

And I'm Mike Roe.

And there's hope in possum trot, if you haven't heard.

In fact, this episode is called hope in possum trot.

Because, I mean, I think it works no matter how you say it, Chuck.

There's a lot to be hopeful about if you go to possum trot. And if you don't go to Possum Trot, you should put your hope in Possum Trot based on recent

events. Well, I would say, yeah, you want to hope that what happened at Bennett Chapel Church

in Possum Trot spreads throughout the country and other churches get involved and sort of help solve the foster care

problem in this country.

Shouldn't take but a minute.

There are only 400,000 kids stuck in this giant, I don't even know what to call it, a myasma.

Bureaucracy, maybe.

Yeah, yeah.

This really came to my, got on my radar during returning the favor four or five years ago, did a story on the Isaiah House.

And I just was just blown away by everything, like the bureaucracy, the scope of the problem.

Why is this so insanely bad?

Why are so many people willing to adopt but unable to adopt through the foster care system?

You know, part of the answer probably is because people are in charge of the well-being of these kids

who in many cases have already been abused and the last thing you want to see them do is wind

up in the wrong household or further abused or so forth and so on. But because of that, that

tension, so many just go neglected. And it's just, I mean, look, if it sounds heavy, it's because

it is. And the reason we're doing an episode on this is because there's a movie that I just watched called The Sound of Hope, which you've watched, and which happily a lot of people have watched.

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