Episodes We Love: Who's Your Daddy?
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
When Steve Lickteig turned 18, he learned that his mother and father, who he thought were his adoptive parents, are in fact his biological grandparents. With the advent of affordable DNA testing and companies like 23andMe, more and more people are having revelations like Mr. Lickteig’s. For some, these revelations can be a welcome and exciting discovery process. For others, they’re shocking and unwanted. In today’s episode, Mr. Lickteig shares his story and helps the Sugars advise letter writers who are still reeling from their genetic discoveries. This episode was originally released on June 16th, 2018.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the I-Lab at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:07.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:17.0 | The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Steve Olman. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Cheryl Strayed. |
| 0:23.0 | This is Dear Sugar's. |
| 0:27.0 | Oh dear song, won't you please? |
| 0:33.0 | Yes, I'm better sweet days with these. |
| 0:41.0 | I check my bedbugs every day. |
| 0:49.0 | Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way. |
| 0:56.0 | Hi Steve. |
| 0:57.0 | Hi Cheryl. |
| 0:59.0 | So we're going to discuss today something that I've become really fascinated with. |
| 1:04.0 | Ancestry and in particular, what has been happening as many of us have started to do this DNA genetic testing |
| 1:12.0 | and getting information about where we came from, what our lineage is. |
| 1:17.0 | I was born curious about this, about people and relationships and movement. |
| 1:24.0 | Where was the chain broken and unbroken? |
| 1:27.0 | And maybe part of it is because my chain is broken. |
| 1:30.0 | I don't have a relationship with my father. |
| 1:33.0 | And so I've sotted myself. |
| 1:35.0 | And it's interesting because Brian has a very different family but also very similar in this way. |
| 1:41.0 | There's a lot of broken links in the chain. |
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