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The Bonfire. Hosting the Felix organizations walk this way during National Foster Care Month on May 9th in New York City. It is the legendary Darryl DMC McDaniels Darryl. What's up, man?

What's happening? How y'all doing? Let's go. Me and Dan were Dan here is my co-host and we were both reflecting on bring us back full screen Christine. We were both.

Yes, I'm lost. Oh, there we go. Yeah, there we go. Me and Dan, we were both discussing that we had met you before.

I don't know if you recall me, but you came on my SDR show podcast with Ralph Sutton and we had a wrap off. And you judged it. And you judged correctly, my friend. Let me tell you.

I remember that. That was what like two years ago, right? Yeah, yeah, we were still inside. Yeah, we were able to go places. And then if you're interested, we said Ralph did a funny thing. He did a really shitty rap the first time. And then I did mine. And then he was like, oh, I didn't know we were supposed to be.

And then he did a second one that was way better than his first one, but I already won. It was too late. I remember that. So yeah, just to remember, he had two in the pocket, thinking that he was going to have multiple rounds. And it was just one round.

Yeah, there's nothing sadder than a white guy who used to break dance, who now is too old to break dance. And now he's trying to write wraps. That's my Ralph Sutton. That was crazy. That is. It is great to have you here on the show. So yeah, it's been a while, man. And we got so excited to have you on Christine over here.

The producer on the show, like I spoke to already Christine was super excited about this foundation you guys started. It's pretty amazing here. And we were reflecting on how many it's surprising how many people we know who grew up in the foster care system. And it's not always great stories.

It's a lot, it's a lot, there's a lot of horrible tragic stories. Yeah. But the ones that we do know shows the resilience and shows the purpose and abilities and capabilities of these individuals. So it's up to those individuals.

All individuals who's been through something crazy made it true survive walk the walks, walk the talk, learn to less and add a bad experience because I realize you sharing your bad experiences has more power of them.

You sharing things about your life when things are going well. And I found it out because I found out that I was adopted when I was 35 years old.

What was was did you have any suspicion? Did you have any suspicion before 35 that you were adopted? No, I did. I mean, I you heard my records. My whole career was robbing about my family.

Yeah, no, there was no way in the world that I didn't think I was a McDaniel's, you know, son of Piper brother of Al, Ben as my mother runs my pal. It's McDaniel's not McDonald's. These rhymes are jarros, those burgers are around us.

I ran down my family tree, my mother, my father, my brother and me. Like, you know, I've said, well, all the rappers was robbing about gang banging and having sex and selling drugs and shooting. I'm robbing about Christmas times and eaters and bike.

By the way, every other day of the show, DJ Lou can't wait to start beatbox and all of a sudden today, he claims up.

But that's it that the second you find out you're adopted. Does that verse pop in your head? Where you're like, I wrote this verse about my family.

Yes, son of a like, like, like everything all of that, like when I found out that I was adopted, they say when you die, you see a life flash in front of you.

So when I found that out, that's what happened to me. And it just everything that every Christmas, every I went to Catholic school my whole life.

Like, my mother, every school I went to my mother father worked to pay for me to go. I thought about Christmas time and like, I had the best life as a kid. And then after I found out I was adopted and in there, because then I found out that I was a foster kid.

My mother, my father brought me home when I was a month old. And there was cousins that I had in and out my house. They officially adopted me when I was five years old. So from a month old to five years old, there was always other cousins like I stood as little girl named Latisha that disappeared.

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