Introducing BioHacked: Family Secrets

Defining Diego

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Parenting, Kids & Family, Relationships, Documentary

4.6 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In the age of DNA, not many things can stay buried forever. BioHacked S1: Family Secrets, explores how at-home genetic testing is upending the baby business, and putting the children of anonymous sperm and egg donors into direct conflict with the industry that created them. Coming March 9th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:01.3	Hey, how's it going?
0:02.5	Four years ago, on a quiet street in Brooklyn,
0:06.1	29-year-old Amber made a life-changing phone call.
0:09.5	I wanted to talk to you guys about something, though.
0:11.7	You're okay, what's up?
0:13.4	Mom, I told dad, but there is a girl on 23 and me, the DNA test we did in.
0:19.9	Okay.
0:20.8	And genetically, she's my half-sister.
0:26.9	Okay.
0:27.9	I'm just curious, like, how that makes sense.
0:31.7	This call turned her world upside down
0:34.3	and upended the lives of the people on the other end of the line. Amber's mom and dad.
0:40.3	This has been heavy on my heart, honey.
0:43.3	I just, I mean, I need to like process all this.
0:48.3	I mean, I just like this. Please forgive us, Amber, please.
0:51.3	Yes.
0:52.3	Over the last few years, Amber has allowed me to document her journey as she's wrestled with a family secret.
1:00.0	You don't know who your dad is and you don't know who you are.
1:02.0	And searched for the truth.
1:04.0	I'm not your father.
1:05.0	Your father's the guy that teaches you ride a bike.
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