I didn't know what to make of these guys at first, and I noticed the old defensiveness of preparing to be offended coming up (old news of making myself a victim, yawn). Then I started laughing. The song is good! Yeah, here's some shame with your ham sandwich in the lunchroom, feeling different from the other kids who weren't obviously not wanted. It's all over you when you're adopted. Filling out forms about family history of disease. How about International Day at school where we talk about our genetic heritage and make the foods of our family of origin. Well let's see, what shall I create this week. Last year i was Scottish because of the freckles, and this year maybe um... I'll be Russian, yeah.

Mom didn't want me (tried to off me at three months too she confessed). Booohoo, too bad for me. Here's my life's mission: accept that I'm an adopted daughter of god. Just like Jesus, only less perfect. And female. And one day I'll eat that ham sandwich without the shame. Just butter please. And some mustard, the dijon type.

Keep writing and playing this good stuff all you guys.
Alana

I'm a fan of God's Pottery, and found this hilarious. Maybe the only error here was not introducing the boys with a more instantly 'gettable' joke, like Jesus I Need A Drink. I'm astounded anyone didn't get it though. Love those guys, love TSOYA.

I'm adopted, and I'm not offended.
But then again, my personal god I keep in this book says that red is a sinful color and that I need to "prune" myself before I act out against God's will.

MAXIMUMFAIL

i know and have known people who are adopted and i plan on adopting children myself because i want to provide the love and security to children whose parents, for whatever reason - i won't judge, were unable to. these "christians" are basically promoting the dickensian idea that adopted children are somehow defective, but if they truly believe, they can rise above and become "normal". this is extremely offensive and i am very disappointed in TSOYA.

I just finished listening to the podcast of God's Pottery adoption spoof. Yes, I understand this was an attempt at humor. It failed and it offended. If you are trying to be South Park or Borat try something else, you're really bad at it. If this actually aired on the radio, shame on you. If you substituted race or sexual persuasion in place of adoption, would this skit still be ok? If one of my children, both adopted, had heard this skit, how would you explain to them why it was funny? This was base and tasteless. Before you can find the humor in a subject, you need to know the subject, and these idiots obviously didn't do their homework.

So I was duped, it took me about 3 or 4 minutes into the piece to finally realize that, no, Jesse Thorn is not being open minded; incorporating many diverse view points of our ever growing, complex, world.

Well done, I couldn't stop chuckling and smiling for the rest of the interview... especially through the song bit.

thanks for the unexpected humor,

- lyn

This is awful and hurtful. Not at all funny. These two men should be ashamed of themselves. What if I had listend to this with my children in the car? These are not funny jokes about adoption. They are outright insults to adopted persons and adoptive parents. Shame on you for airing such a hateful show!

I completely agree! Extremely unfunny and offensive. I couldn't even finish the podcast. How on earth did you sit through an interview with these guys?! God that must have been painful!

In my view, it showed very poor judgement to feature these artists on a public radio show, especially with the host playing along. It's fine if this group wants to give a Spinal Tap treatment to Christian folk music in clubs, etc. But this segment, which I heard on WNYC, was deeply offensive and hurtful.

Were they serious or joking. Hard to tell. In either case, their message was quite offensive.

I was expecting some sort of witty, ironic insights about adoption but got none. Just mean spirited. They commit the worst comedic offense of not being at all interesting.

Really? As someone who is adopted I am just offended. I can't imagine hearing that as a child. What a terrible message to adopted children. I never once thought I wasn't a normal child. My parents always told me that my mother gave me up because she loved me and wanted what was best for me. Having the great good fortune to meet my birth mother when I became an adult, guess what, my parents were right! The conversation before the playing of the song suggests these people think parents give up children because they don't love them. How can they know if that is true? How can they know if some parents give up children for adoption because they want what is best for them. These people are Christians?? If they don't believe in abortion then they might consider fostering the idea that adoption is normal. That in a world where Christ's love is ever present, God provides for all of his children, even those whose parents are not able to. How about that for a song? I will personally lobby for WNYC to remove your show from the air if you continue to have such scary and insensitive guests. Good thing my children weren't listening!

Don't get me wrong I am all for making fun of people how are less fortunate than myself, I mean who isn't. I would hasten to point out, however, that being funny is a key component to making fun of the process of making fun of anyone. God's Pottery seems to just repeat other people's unfunny offensive tropes and stereotypes about adopted children. It takes more than the intention to be "ironic" to convert a simply offensive statement into a funny one.