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Season 6

Season 6, Episode 15: After Midnite — Santa Claus, Birth Parents and Other Myths

Queer Korean adoptee Midnite Townsend, 38, is many things. A large part of her/their past has been as a performer; first training to enter the world of musical theater to realizing her/their real desires were better applied to the art of burlesque and drag king performance. Midnite’s throughline has been a quest for authenticity – and the test of whether loved ones around her/them would see her. 

Audio available on March 16, 2023.
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Theme music: JaeJin

Other music appears under license with Blue Dot Sessions.

“Tempo” by Lizzo appears courtesy of fair use as the backing audio to a Tiktok video by @movewithmidnite.

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 14: Laure Badufle Returns to Seoul

Korean-born French adoptee Laure Badufle’s story and search for idenity is now the subject of a new Sony Pictures film, “Return to Seoul.” In December of 2021, Badufle, then 37, shared some of that story, including meeting her birth parents in her 20s. The film is now opening to more international audiences this month and is already winning accolades. This is a re-broadcast. 

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“Running” by JaeJin.

Other music under license with Blue Dot Sessions.

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 13: Michael Jessup and His Inner Game

Michael Jessup of Mountain View, California is a father, coach and adopted Korean. But it’s only been in the last six years that the 46-year old has explored his feelings about his adoption and  faced his pain about being abandoned and given up by presumably his first family at 13 months of age. He opens up about his life, how tennis has carried him through the years, and shares a touching letter to his eomma. 

Audio available Feb. 23, 2023.
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“Running” by JaeJin under license.

“Trajectories,” “Krotoa Hills,” “Helion Ruins,” “Engine Flicker” by Blue Dot Sessions under license.