Journalist Samuel Burke on the Podcast "Sudden Family"
>> I THINK WHAT REALLY RIPPED THE LAYER OFF FOR ME, YOU SEE ALL THESE ADS, SO MUCH MARKETING FROM THE INDUSTRY SHOWING THIS IS A HAPPY JOYOUS OCCASION WHEN THE RESULTS COME IN. SOME TAKE THE TEST AND FIND OUT ONE OF THEIR PARENTS ISN'T THEIR BIOLOGICAL PARENTS. IT SEEMED LIKE A RIDICULOUS NUMBER UNTIL IT HAPPENED TWICE IN MY OWN FAMILY. IT'S NOT A LOT OF LAUGHTER AS YOU SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF DNA, MAKE HUGE REALIZATION AND YOUR WHOLE WORLD CAN BE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN. WHO YOU ARE CAN BE REWRITTEN BY THIS AT-HOME TESTING, DNA TESTING. >> LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR FAMILY. IT IS EPISODE 4. IT IS WHAT YOU SAY BROUGHT YOU INTO THIS INVESTIGATION. IT'S ABOUT YOUR FATHER, RIGHT, AND YOUR GRANDFATHER. WHAT HAPPENED IN THEIR INVESTIGATION? >> WELL, I COME FROM A JEWISH DISH FAMILY ON MY FATHER'S SIDE WHEN WE GET THE DNA RESULTS BACK RIGHT AWAY MY FATHER IS INCREDIBLY UPSET BECAUSE IT COMES BACK HALF JEWISH, AS WE'D EXPECT FROM HIS MOM SIDE, BUT HALF SWEDISH. AND THAT JUST MAKES NO SENSE TO US. THERE ARE NO SWEDES IN OUR FAMILY. AND THE DNA TEST ALSO SAYS THAT WE'RE MORMON. IT'S A BIG SURPRISE FOR A JEWISH FAMILY TO SEE MORMON. AND, OF COURSE, MORMON IS A RELIGION. YOU EXPECT AN ETH KNOW RELIGIOUS GROUP LIKE JEWS TO SHOW UP ON YOUR DNA TEST. NOT PROSELYTIZING MORMONS WHO TAKE PEOPLE FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD. SO VERY QUICKLY MY DAD NEW SOMETHING WAS OFF MAYBE SWEDEN IS CLOSE TO HOLLAND. WE HAD AN PROCESS TORRES THAT WENT BACK AND FORTH. THERE WASN'T BURKE. MY DAD'S LAST NAME IS BURKE. WE STARTED REALIZING HIS FATHER WAS LIKELY NOT HIS FATHER AND WE'RE RELATED TO ALL THESE MORMON'S INSTEAD. IT WAS A DARK PERIOD, THE MAN HE THOUGHT HE LOOKED LIKE WAS NOT HIS FATHER BIOLOGICALLY WE HAD THIS WHOLE OTHER HISTORY, A 0 SECRET IN THE FAMILY NOBODY KNEW ABOUT.
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