Our Father with Jacoba Ballard

You Can’t Make This Up

Netflix

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Film Interviews

4.2 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, we are talking about the Netflix documentary "Our Father" out now on Netflix. Host Rebecca Lavoie interviews documentary subject Jacoba Ballard. Jacoba’s mother became pregnant with the help of an Indiana fertility clinic and donor sperm. When she used a home DNA kit to find possible half-siblings, she found more people than would be conceived by an average donor. Jacoba and the others realized their shared relative was the clinic’s doctor, Donald Cline. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched "Our Father" yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on. Please note that this episode contains material some listeners may find challenging. Please listen at your own discretion.

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0:00.0	I'm Rebecca Lervoy and this is you can't make this up is the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind your
0:20.6	favorite Netflix documentaries and films. On today's episode we take a behind your
0:24.4	Netflix documentaries and films.
0:23.4	On today's episode, we take a closer look at the Netflix documentary, Our Father.
0:28.6	When I opened up ancestry, I had over 3,000 hints.
0:32.2	All of these random names were popping up and it said close family.
0:36.0	We all matched the name Klein.
0:39.0	Dr. Klein was the best infertility doctrine in Indianapolis.
0:43.8	Today we're talking to one of the subjects of the film,
0:46.7	Jacoba Ballard.
0:49.1	Jacoba's mother became pregnant with the help
0:51.6	of an Indiana fertility clinic and donor sperm.
0:55.2	When she used a home DNA kit to find possible half-siblings, she found more people than would
1:00.8	be conceived by an average donor.
1:03.2	Jacoba and the others realized their shared relative was the clinic's doctor, Donald Klein.
1:10.2	As Jacoba and her ever growing number of new found siblings try to untangle his dark web of deceit,
1:16.7	their pursuit of justice lies at the heart of this profoundly unsettling story
1:21.5	about an unimaginable breach of trust.
1:24.4	It's disgusting to sit there and lay in bed at night and wonder if the person that
1:30.3	created you is some racist bad and he used my mom as a pawn.
1:39.0	And he did it over and over and over again.
1:43.0	Jacoba Ballard,
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