The Donor Podcast

Welcome to The Donor: An Absolutely True DNA Horror Story!

Introduction

In the mid 1980’s, Hal worked his way through medical school as an anonymous sperm donor. Thirty years later, Hal was one of 23AndMe’s first customers, curious about his health genes. He had no idea that he’d just destroyed his donor anonymity. Suddenly seven total strangers found “daddy”. Except six of them had no idea that their actual biological father was a sperm donor. And the seventh? She knew. And she’d been looking for him. The Donor: A DNA Horror story follows an unexpected ripple effect of the personal genomics business – and its unanticipated impact on peoples’ lives.

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Do you REALLY know who you are?

Back in the mid-1980s, HAL worked his way through medical school as an anonymous sperm donor. Jump forward 25 years to 2013. Now a successful radiologist – and curious about his health genes – Hal was one of 23AndMe’s first customers. But when he added his DNA to 23AndMe’s growing DNA DATABASE, he unwittingly lost his anonymity. Suddenly, seven total strangers found “daddy”. Six of them had no idea that their biological father was actually a sperm donor.

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Our SUBSCRIBERS get waaaaaaaaay more than just AD-FREE podcasts.

For $3/month, they get:

Continued ACCESS to all Donor Episodes AD-FREE.

A NEW, BONUS EPISODE EVERY MONTH—Exclusive content for SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. Some episodes will tell stories from the donor-conceived community. Others will continue Hal’s story, and still others will take you on my journey as I track my DNA story via 23andMe.

ACCESS to our CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: there’s a lot of great content that didn’t make the final cut. Some amazing stories remain untold – except for our subscribers!

ACCESS to our RESEARCH FILES.

A SUBSCRIBER’S ONLY Q&A with HAL HIMSELF

LOTS MORE!!!!