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Estimated from 2 chart positions in 2 markets.
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- 🇨🇦CA · Relationships#1925K to 30K
- 🇸🇦SA · Relationships#3110K to 30K
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11K to 42K🎙 Weekly cadence·26 episodes·Long inactive - Monthly Reach
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15K to 60K🇨🇦50%🇸🇦50% - Active Followers
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4.5K to 18K
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The Dark Trail of Sandra Bridewell - Dead Husbands & Stolen Identities
Apr 22, 2025
4m 50s
Defining Diego | Adoptee Voices
Dec 5, 2022
30m 38s
Defining Diego | What Brought Me Here
Nov 28, 2022
21m 45s
Defining Diego | 8. Becoming Aa Tiko’
Nov 21, 2022
40m 13s
Defining Diego | 7. What's On Paper
Nov 14, 2022
47m 27s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 4/22/25 | The Dark Trail of Sandra Bridewell - Dead Husbands & Stolen Identities | She had a million-dollar smile and a trail of dead men behind her— who was Sandra Bridewell? Host and investigative report Cooper Moll exposes the secrets of the 'black widow' on Fatal Beauty - the latest true crime series to drop on The Binge. Search for Fatal Beauty wherever you get your podcasts to start listening today. Subscribers to The Binge can listen to all episodes right now, completely ad-free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 4m 50s | ||||||
| 12/5/22 | Defining Diego | Adoptee Voices | Aa Tiko' travels to a meet up of Guatemalan adoptees in Washington D.C., though he’s a little unsure of what he’ll find there. He talks to three different adoptees from two different continents about their lives, and how they manage to live in two worlds. While hesitant at first, Aa Tiko' begins to see himself as part of the larger adoptee community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 30m 38s | ||||||
| 11/28/22 | Defining Diego | What Brought Me Here | Aa Tiko' takes us on a journey through Guatemalan history — from the Spanish invasion to the rise of the banana industry and eventually the Guatemalan Civil War — to understand how indigenous communities have resisted oppression again and again. And we see Dolores not as translator but as storyteller, sharing her own family’s history and her hopes for Aa Tiko'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 21m 45s | ||||||
| 11/21/22 |  Defining Diego | 8. Becoming Aa Tiko’ | A birth family reunion in 2022 helps Diego piece together more parts of his identity, but it also sparks new questions that he struggles to process — especially as he and Laurie grapple with what it means to take a baby from one culture and raise him in another. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 40m 13s | ||||||
| 11/14/22 |  Defining Diego | 7. What's On Paper | It’s 2022, and Diego has a mission: to reclaim his Guatemalan citizenship. But on the ground in Guatemala City, he finds that his identity as an adoptee is still complicated, even 23 years later. Diego asks his birth mother if he can meet his birth father, Cristobal — but it’s unclear if that will actually happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 47m 27s | ||||||
| 11/7/22 |  Defining Diego | 6. Resist and Release | We hear from a family whose adoption was in-progress when the Guatemalan government shut everything down. A few years after his fateful diagnosis, Diego is a surly teenager. The family’s figuring out a way forward. Laurie takes Diego back to Guatemala, where he learns about the meanings behind his birth names — Xicay and Petzey. Diego asks Isabel more questions about his birth father, Cristobal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 42m 52s | ||||||
| 10/31/22 |  Defining Diego | 5. When Everything Changed | When Diego turns 12, he’s diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, and his entire world turns inside out. The family goes into survival mode. Sick and angry Diego acts out — and Laurie and Dan struggle with how to parent him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 41m 33s | ||||||
| 10/24/22 |  Defining Diego | 4. The Fall of International Adoption | The international adoption racket is surging — and it’s gotten way out of control. All over the world, ugly stories begin to surface: of stolen children, shady adoption lawyers, and birth mothers pressured to give up their children. So in 2008, under increasing pressure from human rights activists, the Guatemalan government shuts the whole thing down. And on a trip to Guatemala, Diego’s curiosity is sparked by seeing a photograph of his birth father for the first time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 35m 48s | ||||||
| 10/17/22 |  Defining Diego | 3. Baby Boom | Adoption has become a booming industry — the price is soaring, and Guatemala has become a top exporter of babies for adoption, second only to China. But when making families becomes secondary to making money, the cost to Guatemalan birth mothers is incalculable — and babies are treated more like products than people. Meanwhile, on a trip back to his birth village, six-year-old Diego receives tragic news — and Laurie and her husband Dan face a tough decision. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 38m 15s | ||||||
| 10/10/22 |  Defining Diego | 2. Where I'm From | Laurie takes three-year-old Diego back to Guatemala for the first time since his adoption. While Diego bonds with his birth mother Isabel, Laurie starts talking with birth mothers all over the country. Many are young, live in poverty, or are survivors of the Guatemalan civil war. Despite how much adoption costs for families in the U.S., Laurie begins to realize how little birth mothers receive in exchange. Meanwhile, Diego is growing up as an indigenous Mayan kid in St. Paul, Minnesota — loving hockey, hating Spanish lessons, and navigating what it means to have family in two places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 40m 44s | ||||||
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| 10/3/22 |  Defining Diego | 1. My Two Mothers | It’s 1999, and reporter Laurie Stern wants to adopt a child with her husband. At the time, international adoption seems pretty straightforward — Laurie wants a baby, and there are babies who need parents. But once she arrives in Guatemala City to meet a five-month old boy named Diego, she realizes that nothing about adopting a baby from Guatemala is that simple. 23 years later, Diego’s an adult, and he has questions of his own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 40m 34s | ||||||
| 9/26/22 | 24 Years in the Making | Defining Diego is the story of one Guatemalan adoptee and his mother, a reporter who documented their journey from his earliest steps, as they try to understand how international adoption boomed and busted — and what it all means for families like theirs, with feet in two worlds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 2m 50s | ||||||
| 9/19/22 | What Makes a Family? | Families are complex, and so are the ways they come together. TJ Raphael, host of BioHacked, speaks with the host of our upcoming season — All Relative: Defining Diego, coming to this feed on October 3rd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 5m 04s | ||||||
| 5/18/22 |  BioHacked | 12. A Future Without Shame | The baby business has used shame and secrecy as tools for decades. But a new generation of parents are removing stigma by leaning into a model that centers love, science, and determination. How can the lessons of the past shape the way forward for the fertility industry? Have feedback about the show? Email us at biohacked@threeuncannyfour.com. Follow our host on Twitter @TJRaphael. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 43m 55s | ||||||
| 5/11/22 |  BioHacked | 11. Underground Markets | From Facebook groups to Tinder-like apps, a new generation of parents are using unregulated tech to form families outside the baby business. Get to know the women and couples seeking out sperm online – and the donors stepping up to the plate to help them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 40m 38s | ||||||
| 5/4/22 |  BioHacked | 10. The Great Sperm Drought | Fertility industry experts have a warning for donor conceived activists: new rules in the baby business could have some big, unintended consequences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 41m 07s | ||||||
| 4/27/22 |  BioHacked | 9. Anger To Action | Donor conceived activists want lasting change, but they'll have to go big with their plans to overhaul the baby business. They've organized and strategized — and now, they're ready to take on the multi-billion dollar industry that created them. Even if it is an uphill battle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 40m 13s | ||||||
| 4/20/22 |  BioHacked | 8. A Deadly Donation? | Thousands of women donate eggs for cash or freeze them for personal use. Could this life-altering treatment be a lot more dangerous than we think? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 43m 03s | ||||||
| 4/13/22 |  BioHacked | 7. Cease and Desist | A grandmother, a granddaughter, and one anonymous donor's fight to maintain his privacy. What happens when a genetic test creates a family rift? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 34m 03s | ||||||
| 4/6/22 |  BioHacked | 6. Wrongful Life | The David and Goliath battle between an industry powerhouse and a family with a sick child. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 37m 55s | ||||||
| 3/30/22 |  BioHacked | 5. The Genius Experiment: Part 2 | A look at a family built by Robert Graham’s infamous Repository for Germinal Choice reveals the dark side of this genius sperm bank. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 39m 27s | ||||||
| 3/23/22 |  BioHacked | 4. The Genius Experiment: Part 1 | An improbable tale to transform the human race, one genius at a time. Find out how a plan so seemingly out there wound up revolutionizing the baby business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 35m 26s | ||||||
| 3/16/22 |  BioHacked | 3. The Birth of The Sperm Bank | Frozen semen, a media circus, and the father of sperm banking. The man and the moment that gave life to millions — and catapulted the fertility industry into a global business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 36m 50s | ||||||
| 3/9/22 |  BioHacked | 2. Lost and Found | Kurt donated his sperm hundreds of times. He thought his identity could stay hidden forever, but Amber and Kaitlin are on his trail. Will he connect with them, or forever remain a mystery? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 37m 36s | ||||||
| 3/9/22 |  BioHacked | 1. Pandora’s Box | A Christmas present turns Amber’s life upside down. Shaken, she questions the very foundation of her identity — and struggles to learn the truth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 38m 33s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.