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A production of I-Heart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel. They call me

Ben. We are joined as always with our super producer Bull Mission Control Decent.

Most importantly, you are you, you are here.

That makes this, the stuff they don't want you to know,

and we want to do something very important at the top of tonight's

exploration we are talking about adoption and we want to start off by saying adoption is an amazing thing.

It can be a profound testament to the noble aspects of the human experiment.

I was reading this old quote from an amateur wrestler who later became president, Abe Lincoln?

You're going to say Jesse the body of insurers.

He didn't become president, he was just a governor.

Well, there's this concept in an inaugural speech that Lincoln makes about the better

angels of our nature.

And that quote stays with me. I think it stays with a lot of us. And adoption is one of the true real life examples of how people can be better than you would imagine them to be.

Yeah, we have several colleagues who have adopted and we've kind of followed that trajectory from, know the all the paperwork and the

craziness that goes into it and it really does require a lot of effort can be

very expensive and time-consuming and all ultimately disappointing for some who do not you know actually get to the

to the final stage but it's a beautiful thing absolutely yeah several of our

colleagues have multiple children that they've adopted and, you know, have raised children all like all the way, all the way to adulthood.

It is just to say that like it is their child you know what I mean because we

get into this later in the show but the idea of what adoption means it is a

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