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In our cover story, David Pogue looks at the hit online instruction series "MasterClass." Rita Braver reports on the increase in adoption of children conceived by unwed mothers. And Conor Knighton explores extinct species that may not be extinct.

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I'm Jane Pauley and this is Sunday morning. Pandemic precautions are one year old and counting, forcing millions of us to search for ways to stay mentally active and alert at home.

Who would've guessed that so many people would be going back to school at an online destination in a class of its own. David Pogue will offer an introduction won't find more famous teacher processing than the ones on master class.I came up with. I'd like to make up from Helen Mirren to Penn and Teller hose, rope coming up on Sunday morning put back together the master class is in session.

Now it's magic the movie love story was a huge head half a century ago.

Yes, it's been that long. It's a film that change the lives of its two costars forever as well here from Ben Mankiewicz. You can ask Allie McGraw and Ryan O'Neill any question you want about stories they have answers for all except one start was that I don't know what does it mean to say I'm sorry a lot of during film and friendship is a popular singer had a hard time putting the bad times behind her. She will be talking with Tracy Smith superstar Demi Lovato seemed to be on top of the world until a drug overdose nearly cost her everything. How close did you come to die.

I had 5 to 10 minutes and before like no one had found me, then I wouldn't be here and now sharing her story Lovato later on Sunday morning.

Luke Burbank explores the risky business of sports betting night and rediscovers some species we thought were extinct and more on this first Sunday morning of spring March 21, 2021 will be back in a moment. For an online learning site in a class of its own.

David Pogue has a suggestion been on Facebook or YouTube. Lately, you've probably seen these ads for master classes start video courses between four and eight hours long taught by famous people.

Serena Williams on tennis is a recipe for disaster because it's going to go flat. I miss a lot of shots of his important job here is where rolling Steve Martin on comedy welcome to the Steve Martin master class. I'm Steve Martin, thank you for signing up for master class I've Jane Goodall on conservation.

Basically that means this is me this is Jane so CEO David Roget founded master class in 2015, I started trying to fare okay how can I get a hold of the best people the world how can I cold call called email them to ask them to teach and they started saying yes and during the pandemic. Customers also said yes to master. Watch out world and armchair observer might say wow master class get lucky when the pandemic came along and it fell in your lap obviously never dissipated. Pandemic never happened.

What we saw the impact on our business. There were weeks in this past year were we saw the man spiked by over thousand percent so will Dotson contributed to that spike is a Brooklyn filmmaker who became something of a master class super fan list ones. He watched the brightly lit errors for Tammy Mamet really interesting watch Gordo and I don't cook but I just am just interested.

Be careful of youthful film related people more marvelous is way to admirable understood not feed your crew like incredibly influenced by everything is done a lot of preparation and makes the actual writing much easier when I saw Spike's massive was no project, no foam products and so little firemen needed to skip start just do it. Inspired by Spike Lee's course during the pandemic.

He began making two-minute films like this one, just to hone his skills have always been violent by my voice this is a character trying to look younger than she quickly you know the whole little got anything going on with it that I should be almost incredibly resistant because I feel that I had anything to contribute was really interesting was once I started full stuff came to me. It was funny. I didn't realize it was that idea Helen Mirren has been busy during the pandemic to. She has two new projects coming out this year but three years ago, she became a master class instructor.

What was the appeal to you to do one of these master class products class in the University for two people in front you. You can communicate with people.

Well, it's fantastic when I'm given a script nowadays.

I always look I never found it. I immediately times the back page and I see if my character is on the loss in the last scene and there were a lot of good tips and there I made you start reading screenplays that are pitched you from the last guy that's terrible secret great scene is a great role course smart enough or silently magicians Penn and Teller teach a master class to tell her of course never speaks during performances when when you don't talk the audience has to tell itself the story and they don't know where it's going but you hear a lot of them in his math class and I said okay that is the one this hand has the ball in the balls were taught Greek support teaching part. Each course is known like a Hollywood movie instructor chooses the curriculum and gets final approval shop your knowledge magic.

Watch all classes procure payment what, but it's not all rave reviews for master class.

For starters, it's $180 a year which is the Saturday Night Live parody suggests isn't cheap just as expensive to find a way no manuals, even though they're called courses.

There are no tests, no grades, no office hours and no questions for the instructor. That's too bad. According to so will Dotson about one thing that will be kinda cool like a set up a live Q&A with Dr. Barbara albedo. Still, the formula seems to be working last year. Venture capitalists poured hundred million dollars company this year master class hopes to add 15 new celebrity courses CEO David Roget believes that this format can actually be other than formal training. I think we're at the intersection of learning and of entertainment.

If you ask most people they like school. Most will say no asked the same people they love to learn the law say yes. What we do at master class is try to bring the joy back to learning tree Barry mar all my goodness, I want to tell you about our new shout business podcast and each episode mean a weekly gas that can cover all the quirky find inspiring and informative stories that exist because well I and maybe you do to from the newest interior design trend Barbie car to the right and wrong way to wash her arm.

Also getting the things that you just kind of while probably not able to do in daytime television. So watch out.

Tristan is ever you get your podcast on the got option sounds like, and usually is an act of love and generosity, but in the years immediately after World War II Rita braver tells us that wasn't always the case.

All will will will invoice you are hearing belongs to the Rosenberg beloved after prayers congregation Sherry Laura Portland, Oregon is just a very loving big generous guy Rosenberg's without him and his children.

No salmon estate clearly adored him.

You could just talk to say the right thing but a cut to weigh in Roosevelt New Jersey didn't even know love team to love always love Margaret BORN in 1944 with David's birth mother during high school in upper Manhattan. She fell in love with George Capt. of the school baseball team. Did you even understand exactly how babies were made here in 1961. At 16 she found herself pregnant and she wasn't alone in the years after the war there was an explosion in unwed pregnancies, Gabrielle Glaser says the post-World War II years were confusing for young women was supposed to be sexy but not do anything about it, unless they were completely married, safely with a ring on their finger yeah you were supposed to be the good girl and tell the night of your wedding, in which case you were supposed to transform quickly into a sex kitten but how did you get that information. No one knew because there was no sex education.

Glaser is author of American baby, which details the history of American adoption in the mid 20th century. She says before the war. Usual response when unwed pregnancy was a forced marriage, the so-called shotgun wedding.

What changed suddenly there was a new middle class to aspire to the idea of a wedding and a baby six months later, was not part of the new conservative American life was. Like the worst thing you any family you just got married to E 21 50/18 because the parents did not want to get married. Her family center to our home for unwed mothers, there were some 200 nationwide. This line run by the now defunct Louise my service as an adoption agency based in Manhattan inside of the actual building can see how elegant and beautiful it is. Glaser says that adoption became industrial complex with more than 3 million young women forced into the system. You also had high demand of couples who wanted babies because it was the thing to have a family absolutely. In fact, if you were not able to conceive. There was suspicion that you weren't part of this whole patriotic duty to create the American family and George insisted they wanted to raise their baby and their own family when she gave birth to a son. She was not allowed to take him home. A couple insisted on visiting him at the agency on their second visit in May 1962. Social worker told her this trial. If you don't sign these papers. Your away word minor, you will go from here to Judy whole, which is essentially jail exactly David was adopted by Romanian Holocaust survivors and they absolutely adored their son Margaret and George married in 1963 and had three more children. She never gave up on finding her firstborn, but even today, only a few states allow birth parents or adoptees to see adoption records.

Meanwhile, David was raising his own family. His adoptive parents passed away and he developed severe health problems, diabetes, gout, cancer him at some point you decided to buy a DNA testing can't for David to do it knowing that there was this tool where we could find more information about David's background and perhaps connect with somebody that might give us more information about his health was very intriguing to me with a distant cousin was able to track down David's birth family and one night in 2014 years after her husband George had passed away. Margaret got a voicemail hi Mrs. Rosenberg I hope you're sitting down. I think in my birth mother marketing. David spoke by phone. She finally confided her secret to her other children and soon she had her youngest daughter Sherry on their way to meet David in Portland and it was just like hunting and holding.

Interestingly, David had followed in his adoptive father's career path by becoming a Cantor, but he always wondered about his own vocal ability until he met his sister Sherry professional opera singer in David and myself like music was like our heart and soul. Even as he was getting to know his birth family. You know she was dying and it was both profoundly beautiful and profoundly painful for all of us. David Rosenberg passed away just months after finding his birth mother, 50 years after he was born laws and public morays have changed with new acceptance of unwed mothers and though not everyone agrees. Margaret Katz believes more adoption records should be unsealed to millions of people right speak with children is just not right season for brackets and for betting here's the Burbank March madness is here pride and now more than ever a crazy amount of sports betting. An estimated 47 million Americans place bets on March madness this year, according to the American gaming Association with a lot of it happening right here in Las Vegas is where we found Norton Lamarr making some wagers of his own, even in the midst of a pandemic. Nard and others lined up to play their hunches circa casino sports book usually you could say sports betting itself is doing pretty good to be smaller if sports betting in the US as a Pope, probably legendary sportscaster Brent Musburger. I don't especially be careful because it's not as easy as number 13 Michigan Musburger is a lifelong sports gambler himself even popularized the term March madness back when he was covering it for CBS is run through those matchups and the people may not realize this but you know that office pool at work that's effectively support absolute. Everybody everybody in March feels out of brackets. People were always taking chance with brackets. Okay, everybody likes in 2017. Musburger rolled the dice himself when he left his lucrative sports casting job to work for his nephew's sports gambling TV network called to be sent welcome everybody which broadcasts 24 hours a day from, you guessed it, the floor of a Las Vegas casino. Beeson says it wants to be the CNBC of sports gambler which they see as a growing market thanks to a 2018 Supreme Court decision which made sports betting legal for any state that wants and why would a state want to do that for things like this in Colorado were taxes from sports gambling project to generate millions in revenue for water projects. Anything else you really sing, especially now in these times that the budget is is being stretched brusque sense is with the Colorado water conservation. He says Colorado already has so-called syntaxes on things like alcohol and marijuana. So why not spend dry passport sports bars full of people screaming and in some way that event if some of those people have money down. That event is also helping you take care of the water in Colorado absolutely that wherever that varsity is probably sitting next to a stream of water needs to be protected and if we can build better projects together makes Colorado stronger. Other states have joined into and as of today, 20 states and Washington DC have some form of legal sports betting up and running and what about the people who see betting on sports as immoral or tawdry little country was founded chance across the ocean. It was founded by speculators was founded by guys who gamble with their families life inspired.

I decided I'd try my luck as well with some guidance from frequent sports better nard Lamarr protest on sports betting. This is for the March madness bets hold on to write this down so thousand dollars tomorrow. I at a lower price $0.5 but even so be careful to temper my own expectations because of one final piece of advice I got from the legend himself. If you really want to stick with the stock okay but if you got some expendable cash you will enjoy yourself, then go ahead sports but if you think you sick you're going to be the God who is good to make this multimillion dollar fortune we leave you this Sunday in a redwood forest in Creek in Los Banos, California. Client home with a humble, thank you for listening. Please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning progress and crazy time is the point is, when people in the best way to protect good people.

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