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It’s All in the Spit with Bob Guiney and Trista Sutter · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with her Radio. This is a very special episode of
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Speaker 1: the Almost Famous podcast. We are together in person. Yes
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Speaker 1: we have Ashley, Trista and Bob. The whole freaking almost
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Speaker 1: famous family is together. Maybe for the first time. This
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Speaker 1: is the first time we've ever hung out in person
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Speaker 1: with podcast of old stuff. But we were all the
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Speaker 1: Janner wedding yea six six years ago. We decided today. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was probably the last time we were together. The
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Speaker 1: first time we're together, and now is the second. We're
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Speaker 1: in Tahoe. Uh, this is a big kind of I
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Speaker 1: Heart Podcast celebration. A lot of different podcasts are here.
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Speaker 1: We're lucky enough today to sit down, uh and chat
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Speaker 1: together about twenty three and me. This is something really
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Speaker 1: fun that everybody participated in. Uh. It's become very popular
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Speaker 1: over the last I don't know how many years it's existed,
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Speaker 1: but it just keeps getting better. But to start, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna start with Bob and Trista. Trista, let's start with you, Um,
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Speaker 1: what was your life like? I don't think I've ever
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Speaker 1: asked you this question? And we've done a lot of
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Speaker 1: different conversations together that have been recorded. What was your
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Speaker 1: life like before you went on the Bachelor? Oh, now
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Speaker 1: we're both hoosiers, so we can just say that we
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Speaker 1: are both. That's a big deal for us people. Do
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Speaker 1: you know? Oh yes, you know the story behind it?
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Speaker 1: Real quick? Okay, So one guy because so Whosier is
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Speaker 1: what the mascot is for Indiana Indiana University. The story goes.
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Speaker 1: There's many different stories to this, but the story that
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Speaker 1: I hear the most often is one guy was standing
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Speaker 1: on one side of the Ohio River, another man was
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Speaker 1: standing on the Indiana side of the higher River, and
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Speaker 1: the person on the Ohio side kept yelling who's there?
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Speaker 1: Who's there? Yeah? And the person yeah. And that's how
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Speaker 1: they got Hoosier because it sounds like hoosier and the
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Speaker 1: guy would just froun, who's no? The guy in the
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Speaker 1: Indiana side, who's your Hoosier? I think I would say,
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Speaker 1: who's there? And he goes Hoosier, who's your Who's because
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Speaker 1: it's not just who's your dad to Indiana University, it's
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Speaker 1: if you were from Indiana. So I've always been a
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Speaker 1: Hoosier because I was born in India and that made
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Speaker 1: me a hoosier before I was, and you Hoosier. That's right.
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Speaker 1: Now we're official, So that's a good start here. You
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Speaker 1: grew up in Indiana. I was born in Indiana, lived
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Speaker 1: there for four years, moved to St. Louis with my
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Speaker 1: mom and dad. I was raised in St. Louis until
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Speaker 1: I went to college at IU, and then I went
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Speaker 1: to grad school in Miami. And that's kind of what
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Speaker 1: And I applied for to be on The Bachelor, to
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Speaker 1: this new reality show while I was a grad student
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Speaker 1: actually coming in high that happened, Um, while I was
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Speaker 1: living in Miami working as a as a physical therapist.
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Speaker 1: I applied for The Bachelor in Miami. And that's kind
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Speaker 1: of you know, at least the geographical data. Okay, real quick,
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Speaker 1: just to follow up. Then, Yeah, this new reality show
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Speaker 1: came out. How did you hear about it? And why
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Speaker 1: did you say that's something I want to try On Extra?
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Speaker 1: I was watching Extra one night on my couch in
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Speaker 1: Miami and I had gotten off work at Miami Children's
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Speaker 1: Hospital and I was watching Extra and they had um
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Speaker 1: Lacy Pemberton, who I'm sure you both know all of
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Speaker 1: you know. She's casting director for long time casting director
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Speaker 1: for the Bachelor. Franchise, and she was on Extra talking
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Speaker 1: about this new reality show, and I thought, well that
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Speaker 1: it could be fun. I could travel, like, meet some friends,
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Speaker 1: maybe meet a guy. It had nothing to do with
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Speaker 1: the guy at that point. I just wanted to have fun.
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Speaker 1: Any That's how I That's how I played. And now
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Speaker 1: you're here with your husband and your son in Tahoe.
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Speaker 1: It's great to see you all together. Okay, Bob onto
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Speaker 1: you Now what was your life like right before the show? Oh?
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Speaker 1: It was? It was interesting. So I I actually never
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Speaker 1: applied to be on the show. So I had a
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Speaker 1: really weird um thing. So I was a clash man story.
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Speaker 1: Men never assigned themselves up or so they my brother
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Speaker 1: in law, I had the best story about it. So
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Speaker 1: I had I had written some songs for a movie
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Speaker 1: called The Truth About Cats and Dogs, which was Janine
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Speaker 1: Garffalo and Uma Thurman, and so I got this kind
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Speaker 1: of uh, I got this big check basically, and so
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Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I'm not going to be
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Speaker 1: a touring musician anymore. I'm almost thirty and I'm not Journey.
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Speaker 1: So when that am I ever going to be Journey?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. So I decided I was gonna start
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Speaker 1: this mortgage company, and I was going to make a
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Speaker 1: difference in the world. So I did, and I partnered
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Speaker 1: with um A, a buddy of mine from high school.
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Speaker 1: We hired a bunch of really great staff to work
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Speaker 1: for us. Those women submitted my information to The Bachelor
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Speaker 1: and without me knowing, so when they and I had
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Speaker 1: just had reconstructive knee surgery, so I had this big
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Speaker 1: leg cast on and I had gained like twenty pounds.
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Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, I get a call from
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Speaker 1: Lacey Pemberton and I think it's a joke because I
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Speaker 1: didn't sign up to be on the show. And someone's
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Speaker 1: name is Lacey who works for a show called The Bachelor.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, this is just too good to be true.
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Speaker 1: And her her voice was kind of like, Hi, it's lazy.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe she had a cold, it's but
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Speaker 1: it sounded like a guy trying to be a girl.
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Speaker 1: And I told I told Lacey this story before. I
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Speaker 1: don't feel bad saying it, but and I was like, Oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure your name is Lacey, and I'm sure you
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Speaker 1: work for a show called the back Yeah, that sounds
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Speaker 1: that would happen every day in Detroit, so, you know, no, thanks,
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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And they're like, well, no, we really,
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Speaker 1: you know, we really want to meet you. Would you
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Speaker 1: do a demo tape for us? And I'm like, so
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Speaker 1: what you want me to be? Like the fact guy
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Speaker 1: in your bloper reel getting out of the shower, like, Hi, Trista,
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Speaker 1: I might No, thanks, I'm good. So they're like, are
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Speaker 1: you You're seriously not gonna send it the tape. I'm
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Speaker 1: like no, I'm I'm okay, thank you. So then they
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Speaker 1: I had an old school fax machine right next to
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Speaker 1: my desk, like that kind of makes the weird noise
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Speaker 1: with the thermal paper, and they faxed me over the
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Speaker 1: thing to fill out for a plane ticket, and I
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Speaker 1: flew out to l A. I know, I flew out
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Speaker 1: to l A with my leg cast on and they
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Speaker 1: paged me and I responded no. So I got there
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Speaker 1: and um and I met all these girls at the
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Speaker 1: pool and I was having drinks and singing songs and
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize I was supposed to be like on
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Speaker 1: Sequester and sou Sally and Selsano came out at the time.
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Speaker 1: She was one of the Kobe p's of the show
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Speaker 1: and she came out and basically like they filmed me
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Speaker 1: in the hot tub and she yelled at me from
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Speaker 1: the balcony, Hey jackass, and I of course was like, yes,
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Speaker 1: she was, get up here. And so I actually did
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Speaker 1: my my on camera interview in board shorts and a
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Speaker 1: T shirt. Of course you got gas. So they're like
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Speaker 1: and I and I we were just laughing. And I
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Speaker 1: heard that like they had like camera lions going through
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Speaker 1: to the adjoining suite and I would say something stupid
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Speaker 1: out to hear people just cracking up in there, and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, who's over there. She's like, you'll find out
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Speaker 1: soon enough, don't worry. And so then you know, I
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Speaker 1: walk over there. It's Chris Harrison, Mike Fly I saw
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Speaker 1: those guys are like, you need to be on this show.
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Speaker 1: I'm like okay. And then I'm looking at the board,
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Speaker 1: like literally the other pictures of guys up on the board.
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Speaker 1: I see Ryan, you know, the eventual champion, and uh
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Speaker 1: I see him. He's like he's standing there like just yoked,
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Speaker 1: like I got like a cheeseburger. And again, anyway, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that was how I ended up on the show. And
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Speaker 1: then Ashley, You're gonna tell the story again, I feel
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Speaker 1: like this is totally serially, you're going to tell it really, Okay, start,
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Speaker 1: do we start with where I was born? Like Tris starting,
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Speaker 1: he asked, pre show, So I'm talking about what happened. Okay.
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Speaker 1: So Tris and I are both like born in Indiana,
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Speaker 1: so we have that together. So that's why that was
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Speaker 1: brought in. Okay, I'll bring mine in just because everybody
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Speaker 1: is confused by the fact that on the show it
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Speaker 1: said actually from Jersey. Okay, so I was living in
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Speaker 1: New Jersey for like a year before the show. But
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Speaker 1: I was very clear. I was like, I want you
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Speaker 1: to put my hometown Great Falls, Virginia, because that's where
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Speaker 1: I've lived for twenty years. Like that's my hometown. Um,
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Speaker 1: that's where my parents to live, you know whatever, that
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Speaker 1: will always be, like Hume. And they did not want
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Speaker 1: to listen because they were like, this girl is a
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Speaker 1: Jersey girl. Um, and I was born there, two very
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Speaker 1: Jersey parents. Love Jersey, love considering that part of my
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Speaker 1: home as well. Um, but I was born there two
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Speaker 1: years there. Then we moved to Boston for a couple
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Speaker 1: of years when my dad was in his residency up there,
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Speaker 1: and then we live in Virginia forever and then I
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Speaker 1: bounced around. But then but like but like Trista, I
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Speaker 1: also applied while in grad school because I thought, I
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Speaker 1: don't know what the step in my life is. You know,
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Speaker 1: I was in broadcast journalism, so wrong reasons and it
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Speaker 1: all works out right now I have this podcast. Somehow
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Speaker 1: life comes full circle for me. I was I was
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Speaker 1: in college at any university, I go Hoosiers. I had
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Speaker 1: a girlfriend at the time that I was very serious about, UH,
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Speaker 1: and we broke up, and she broke up with me,
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Speaker 1: and so my buddy goes, let's just get away, like,
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Speaker 1: let's not get jobs out of college, Let's just moved
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Speaker 1: to South America and teach and just hang out for
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Speaker 1: as long as we want. So we moved to Peru
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Speaker 1: and I was living in Cusco, Peru, my favorite you've been.
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Speaker 1: It's a beautiful place, a wonderful place to be. And
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Speaker 1: so we were down there for a few months. I
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Speaker 1: got really homesick, so I stopped teaching, which, as a result,
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Speaker 1: UH canceled my UM place to live because I was
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Speaker 1: leaving living with the teachers. And so I went into
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Speaker 1: the UM office for the city and I said, hey,
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Speaker 1: I just need a job for like another month. And
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Speaker 1: they said, do you have any farming background? We just
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Speaker 1: had the zoo keeper uh quit And I said, my
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Speaker 1: grandpa had two horses, and they go, that's good enough.
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Speaker 1: I'm not getting this a true story. I was the
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Speaker 1: zookeeper at the Cousco Rescue Zoo for a full month
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Speaker 1: of my life. I fed bears. I have pictures to
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Speaker 1: prove this. We had bears, we had uh uh, we
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Speaker 1: had eagle, we had hawks, we had monkeys, we had
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Speaker 1: a puma uh an ostrogen And this the zoo. You
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Speaker 1: had to actually walk into um the their habitats to
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Speaker 1: feed them. So you'd have one person stand and block
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Speaker 1: with like a stick kind of banging across the ground
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Speaker 1: to keep the animals back, and you would dump the food.
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Speaker 1: And at that point then I raised got enough money
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Speaker 1: to fly home. My parents probably would have paid for
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Speaker 1: my plane ticket, but I was too prideful. I get
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Speaker 1: back shared. I've never I don't think i've ever shared
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Speaker 1: this story. I never knew he was a zookeeper out
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Speaker 1: of the country, South America. A puma eat How does
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Speaker 1: someone how does someone who's not a zookeeper eat you?
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Speaker 1: Just like I'm gonna give them some tuna fish. No,
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Speaker 1: we get the So every morning the grocery store would
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Speaker 1: have a shipment of all food that got outdated, come
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Speaker 1: in like a day old, like meat that was still
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Speaker 1: good enough for animals to eat, but like humans couldn't
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Speaker 1: consume it due to whatever regulations. And so we would
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Speaker 1: get that and we chop it up in the size
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Speaker 1: that the animals could eat, and then we would dump it.
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Speaker 1: But like with the birds, it was really hard with
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Speaker 1: the birds that were meat eat ears because they would
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Speaker 1: stand over the top of you. Commodores would stand over
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Speaker 1: the top of you and they're like nine ft wingspans
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Speaker 1: and just squeal and they'd be like right above you
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Speaker 1: on the tree branches trying to take the food wild.
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Speaker 1: There's a thousand stories from that month that I could shoo.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I'll tell you. So. I have an
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Speaker 1: obsession in life, especially when I was younger, to create
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Speaker 1: stories because my grandfather was a storyteller. And then this
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Speaker 1: is this is where this will end very quickly now
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Speaker 1: and that was a great story. But I got back home,
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Speaker 1: went to Denver, had a job, wasn't dating, wasn't good
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Speaker 1: at my job, had no friends, got super sad. Wasn't
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Speaker 1: creating any stories for like six months of my life.
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Speaker 1: And the chief marketing officer and my company came up
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Speaker 1: and she said, let's get you like out of here,
12:46
Speaker 1: like let's you gotta find out something. And so her
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Speaker 1: and I, I will say, sat down at her computer
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Speaker 1: and signed up for the show because she's like, this
12:56
Speaker 1: could be something for you, like this could be your
12:59
Speaker 1: next step. So so sweet. Yeah, you had the title
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Speaker 1: speaking of like you know I had. You had the
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Speaker 1: title of software salesman. But then in your book you
13:08
Speaker 1: reveal that you actually just wrote the booklets. Well, so
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Speaker 1: I was a software salesman after the Bachelor. So I
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Speaker 1: moved up, I got I got promoted because I stayed.
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Speaker 1: I kept that job for a year and a half
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Speaker 1: after I was a bachelor. And I mean obviously, like
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Speaker 1: you go on national television, they put in sales. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they upgraded me. Yeah so for some by downgrade, for
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Speaker 1: me the upgraded. Oh my god. They would explained what
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Speaker 1: you were doing before you were writing the instruction. I
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Speaker 1: was a user manual writer. You must have wanted to die.
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Speaker 1: It was terrible for me. Think about me. I get
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Speaker 1: paid now to talk back then I I got paid
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Speaker 1: to do test scripts and like case studies on our
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Speaker 1: software and run but yeah run bucks is and then
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Speaker 1: write a user manual on how to process do the bug.
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Speaker 1: It was really hard on me. Um. So then I
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Speaker 1: want to show the rest is history. Uh so that's
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Speaker 1: how we all got on this show. Now, I I
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Speaker 1: want to talk about all this because this podcast is
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Speaker 1: a twenty three and Me podcast, and a lot of
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Speaker 1: it is about our origin stories, or about even our
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Speaker 1: ancestral stories of where we come from, who we are,
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Speaker 1: what makes us us. And that's what I'm gonna talk
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Speaker 1: to all of you about today. So everybody in the
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Speaker 1: room has taken the test. I'm gonna start back. I
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Speaker 1: think we have a good flow with Trista. What made
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Speaker 1: you decide to take this test? What made you excited
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Speaker 1: about it? I feel like I've always been just really curious,
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Speaker 1: and I guess curiosity is just part of my nature,
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Speaker 1: you know. And I so I'll share a little story
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Speaker 1: and that when I grew up, I always knew that
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Speaker 1: on my dad's side of the family, I had Uh
14:55
Speaker 1: they call it in the in the twenty three and
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Speaker 1: Me they call it indigenous American. Now that's that's what
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Speaker 1: it's titled. And so I grew up knowing that I
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Speaker 1: had some Cherokee blood in me, and but I didn't
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Speaker 1: know how much. And you know how so my kids
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Speaker 1: are at the point where we're five years away from
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Speaker 1: Ryan and I being empty nesters, which is freaking crazy
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Speaker 1: to me, Like it scares me to death. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what I'm going to do without my children. And
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Speaker 1: is not empty I know, but still um So, anyway,
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Speaker 1: so we're talking, I mean college is still always away,
15:37
Speaker 1: but talking about college and it kind of brought back
15:40
Speaker 1: memories about me in college and I'm thinking, oh gosh, like,
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Speaker 1: you know, scholarships whatever. So when I was applying for
15:48
Speaker 1: a scholar for you know, scholarships or whatever, and I
15:51
Speaker 1: didn't get any for college, I just you know paid
15:53
Speaker 1: for it. Um it came up as you know, you
15:58
Speaker 1: do have some Indigenous American in you. And I never
16:02
Speaker 1: applied for that kind of scholarship. But I'm thinking to myself,
16:05
Speaker 1: well maybe with twenty three and me, I can actually
16:08
Speaker 1: figure out how much because they have a little bit, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I honestly think it's like any percentage you can
16:19
Speaker 1: apply if you are didn't have enough Yeah, exactly. Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're curious. I was curious. Yeah, that's why. That's why
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Speaker 1: I did it, because I wanted to see I was curious,
16:32
Speaker 1: and I think, honestly, these results are so freaking comprehensive
16:38
Speaker 1: in terms of your health, and it's not like a
16:40
Speaker 1: diagnosis by any means. But I really feel like it's
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Speaker 1: it's amazing information. So I'm really glad I did it.
16:48
Speaker 1: But that's why I think one of the reasons that
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Speaker 1: I did it. Yeah, you're intrigued, we're in the health
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Speaker 1: questions here later on, because that is a huge benefit
16:55
Speaker 1: three and me, especially for those that are parents. You know, um,
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Speaker 1: you can help your kids, tell your kids kind of
17:03
Speaker 1: what you're health history is within your family. It's a
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Speaker 1: big benefit. So for you, Bob, again, the same question
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Speaker 1: to you when this was offered to you, what made
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Speaker 1: you excited about taking it? Um? Yeah, I was curious too, Um,
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Speaker 1: And I too was under the impression that I had
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Speaker 1: indigitous American Indian in my bloodline as well, because I've
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Speaker 1: been told that my whole life until this report pops
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Speaker 1: up and tells me that I don't feel I feel robbed.
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Speaker 1: I feel I feel I feel victimized. Right now, I
17:35
Speaker 1: think that I I'm challenging my test results. Also, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna call it twenty three and folks, we're gonna do
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Speaker 1: it again. But um no, I was curious because you know,
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Speaker 1: um my my, I've always heard that I was American, Indian, Irish,
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Speaker 1: and um, the Irish definitely shows up on there. But
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Speaker 1: what else, I mean, what else shows up? Then? Uh?
17:52
Speaker 1: I got some some France, got some Germany. What else
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Speaker 1: do I have on my thing here? But actually I did,
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Speaker 1: I went like one step further. So I started doing
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Speaker 1: all the test questions, and so I started getting a
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Speaker 1: lot of information. I I have some Switzerland in me,
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Speaker 1: British and Irish, uh, broadly Northwestern European, Greek and Balkan.
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Speaker 1: I love Greek food, Um, Sardinian, I don't really like sardine's.
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Speaker 1: I know that's not the same thing. So yeah, I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I got a lot of good stuff on here.
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Speaker 1: But you know, surprisingly the one thing that didn't show
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Speaker 1: up was indigitous, American, Indian. So I'm a little surprised
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Speaker 1: by that. Well it could be, I mean, it is
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Speaker 1: one of maybe one of the benefits twenty three and
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Speaker 1: me is you know. For you gotta think like our
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Speaker 1: grandparents were told stories, but they didn't have the technology
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Speaker 1: in the ability to actually prove that those stories were
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Speaker 1: true or false or kind of how they worked out.
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Speaker 1: And now we do, and then now you get a
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Speaker 1: better picture, uh in, a clearer picture of where you
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Speaker 1: come from, who you are, Um Ashley, for you, why
18:56
Speaker 1: did you say yes to this? Well, now I'm regretting
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Speaker 1: not giving my key to Jared because he's definitely more
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Speaker 1: of the mutton. He doesn't really know as much about
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Speaker 1: his background as I do. My sister had taken a
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Speaker 1: twenty three of the test a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 1: Everything is not only what you got a couple of
19:15
Speaker 1: years ago, but also pretty much exactly what we have
19:20
Speaker 1: been told our entire lives. We are, we really are.
19:24
Speaker 1: I will say that I am only twenty one person Italian,
19:27
Speaker 1: which makes me sad because I thought I was a
19:29
Speaker 1: full quarter. You didn't swipe your mouth on the Italian side,
19:37
Speaker 1: you know, no. Lawrence also said it was is that
19:40
Speaker 1: wild though? I mean, how accurate it is? So yeah,
19:45
Speaker 1: it's so crazy that it's the exact same as my
19:47
Speaker 1: sister and we did years apart. We have different spit
19:50
Speaker 1: and all that. Did you pull up your relatives like
19:54
Speaker 1: I pulled up Yes, my cousin's there, and my dad's there,
19:57
Speaker 1: like my and my dad, um, and then some and
20:01
Speaker 1: then and then it's like all of a sudden, they're
20:03
Speaker 1: like third cousin and like far off cousins. I'm like, wow,
20:06
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that I don't have more people my immediate
20:08
Speaker 1: family who have taken this test. Yeah, well, that's a
20:10
Speaker 1: great segue there about because I wanted to talk One
20:13
Speaker 1: of the cool parts about the test was seeing relatives,
20:17
Speaker 1: uh and seeing the third cousins, second cousins. We'll just
20:20
Speaker 1: open it up here. There's no direct question to anybody.
20:22
Speaker 1: Was that interesting for you all to see your relatives?
20:25
Speaker 1: I thought that was one of the coolest parts. Yeah,
20:27
Speaker 1: I think so too. It's very interesting, I have to say.
20:30
Speaker 1: So this is on the heels like us taking this
20:33
Speaker 1: test is on the heels of Ali Faedatowski sharing how
20:37
Speaker 1: she did Did you hear about the have you guys
20:39
Speaker 1: talked about it? So? Ali took I think it was
20:42
Speaker 1: twenty three and me and she found out that she
20:45
Speaker 1: has a sister that her father didn't even know what
20:49
Speaker 1: he had given like he had four he im before
20:59
Speaker 1: he ever got with his mom, he had a child
21:02
Speaker 1: and never so she didn't know she had a sister.
21:08
Speaker 1: And so going going into this test, I'm thinking, Okay,
21:12
Speaker 1: this is Ali's life right now. Where holy how do
21:16
Speaker 1: we really want to take this? And you know, nothing
21:19
Speaker 1: like that happened for Ryan, and I think so interesting, Yes,
21:25
Speaker 1: and she connected with this sister just crazy, just crazy anyway,
21:32
Speaker 1: So that's kind of like a scary situation where it
21:35
Speaker 1: could it could really truthfully happen to so many men
21:39
Speaker 1: who if you're actually if you were sexually active with
21:43
Speaker 1: with anyone prior to the person that you ended up marrying,
21:47
Speaker 1: it could be something that happens and pops up in
21:50
Speaker 1: your twenty three and me. Okay, so one of the
22:03
Speaker 1: cool parts about twenty three and me, we've not discussed
22:06
Speaker 1: why we did it, uh, kind of what we found out,
22:08
Speaker 1: you know, the really exciting parts about maybe getting up
22:11
Speaker 1: and seeing some relatives that have taken it as well
22:13
Speaker 1: and and match with that. But I think and I'm
22:16
Speaker 1: not a parent, but I think one of the interesting
22:18
Speaker 1: parts for me would be finding out some of the
22:21
Speaker 1: health history, uh, and some of the things that you
22:24
Speaker 1: should look out for in your family. I know my
22:26
Speaker 1: mom took it in arthritis and heart disease kind of
22:30
Speaker 1: pops up in there. Uh so for you all that
22:33
Speaker 1: are now parents, all three of you are are parents.
22:36
Speaker 1: That was this something that you looked at? Did you
22:39
Speaker 1: do any I guess the second follow up question would be,
22:41
Speaker 1: did you do anything with this information? Um, after you
22:44
Speaker 1: saw kind of what you're more susceptible to. There is
22:47
Speaker 1: some stuff on here that's really interesting, like for example,
22:50
Speaker 1: and it's accurate. So I've clicked on this thing that
22:53
Speaker 1: said back hair. I'm like, oh, says you. Uh, your
22:57
Speaker 1: genetics predict you are eighty six percent ants that you
23:00
Speaker 1: have little or no back hair and I don't have
23:03
Speaker 1: really yes, fourteen percent chance you have at least some
23:06
Speaker 1: back hair. Then the same numbers for bald spots, which
23:10
Speaker 1: I don't have that issue than eighty seven percent chance
23:14
Speaker 1: I do not have a bald spot. This thing is
23:17
Speaker 1: aces bunyans. It says I have a high likelihood for
23:22
Speaker 1: bunyans my grandfather. I said, I'm need a test for
23:25
Speaker 1: that because it's right there in front of my face.
23:27
Speaker 1: But yeah, my grandfather had it, my mom had them,
23:30
Speaker 1: and now I have them, and then it told me
23:32
Speaker 1: how many steps I walked this last few days. So
23:36
Speaker 1: I don't really know exactly why that has that, how
23:38
Speaker 1: it gets that, but I apparently am I'm clocking about
23:42
Speaker 1: seven thousand steps a day. Second, you lying about that?
23:46
Speaker 1: I swear seven thousand one steps per day. I mean
23:49
Speaker 1: it's prettyccurate. Okay, so Trista from me speaking in a
23:53
Speaker 1: vial of things, but I think it's fantastic. And I
23:55
Speaker 1: love you twenty three and me God bless you. So
23:58
Speaker 1: before Trista we get to you, you're I want to
24:01
Speaker 1: take a second though. I'm amazed by twenty three me
24:04
Speaker 1: and not because they're sponsoring the podcast, but because and
24:09
Speaker 1: this is gonna sound like an infomercial. I don't know
24:11
Speaker 1: how to not make it sound like one. It's so
24:14
Speaker 1: easy to take, Like I think all of us are
24:16
Speaker 1: giggling and laughing because the the ease at which you
24:20
Speaker 1: take this test and the information that comes back and
24:23
Speaker 1: the accuracy of this information, Like it would be different
24:27
Speaker 1: if we're looking at this being like that's not true,
24:29
Speaker 1: Like Bob's covered him back here and he is as
24:32
Speaker 1: bald as a cucumber, Like no, that is yeah, that
24:36
Speaker 1: is very accurate. Uh. And also with Ashley and or Bunyan's, Like,
24:42
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody on the I mean anybody knows
24:44
Speaker 1: Ashley knows that she has some very aggressive bunyans. And
24:48
Speaker 1: like the fact that, uh, this test, I mean, I
24:52
Speaker 1: find it amazing could actually pick up on the fact
24:55
Speaker 1: that you have bunyans. This tells you this don't even
25:00
Speaker 1: like the word spit, Like that's pretty gross. This makes
25:07
Speaker 1: me no, I will say, there are things on here.
25:13
Speaker 1: So there's all these traits. I'm just going to go
25:16
Speaker 1: through the list. Ability to match, musical pitch, asparagus, odor detection,
25:21
Speaker 1: bitter taste, bunyan's cheek, dimples, cilantro taste, aversion, cleft, chin
25:28
Speaker 1: dan druff, earlobe type, earwax type, eye color, fear of heights,
25:33
Speaker 1: fear of public speaking, finger length ratio, flat feet, freckles.
25:37
Speaker 1: Like the list goes on. It is so detailed. It's
25:43
Speaker 1: under traits. So um, it's under the health. And I
25:47
Speaker 1: will say, because I am a parent, yes it is.
25:50
Speaker 1: It is important to me to know this stuff, but
25:53
Speaker 1: not necessarily to pass on to my kids just yet.
25:57
Speaker 1: For me, I want to know, like my dad, my
26:00
Speaker 1: grandfather had macular degeneration, and I show up as having
26:04
Speaker 1: a slightly increased risk for that, and and that's a
26:06
Speaker 1: scary thing, but it's something that I feel like I
26:08
Speaker 1: can talk to my doctor about, like, you know, maybe
26:12
Speaker 1: in twenty years or something like that. But knowing that
26:15
Speaker 1: I have an increased risk for that, and Celiac disease
26:19
Speaker 1: shows up, and as having a slightly increased risk type
26:22
Speaker 1: two diabetes, which I knew because my dad has it
26:25
Speaker 1: and my grandmother had it. Like I know that that stuff,
26:28
Speaker 1: but having it in this form as a report, like
26:34
Speaker 1: a black and white report that says this is an
26:37
Speaker 1: increased risk, it's something that I can you know, I
26:41
Speaker 1: was really concerned about breast cancer, not that I have
26:43
Speaker 1: it in my family, but that shows up the br
26:46
Speaker 1: br C A genes, and then like kidney disease and
26:51
Speaker 1: all these heart conditions. I feel like it's really great
26:55
Speaker 1: information that you can utilize to take to your actor.
27:00
Speaker 1: And actually started discussion, start a conversation that is so wild,
27:04
Speaker 1: and I just have to say one more time, I
27:06
Speaker 1: just gotta bring it up. You guys, we spit into
27:08
Speaker 1: a vial and somehow from that, I mean, this is
27:14
Speaker 1: like thinking about space that I don't disagree with you.
27:21
Speaker 1: I think it's crazy. It's crazy. I think it's wild,
27:24
Speaker 1: And I mean, this is how like a knowledgeable I am.
27:30
Speaker 1: I'm thinking like what if I like had something weird
27:34
Speaker 1: to eat right before I did it? Right? I know you,
27:36
Speaker 1: I know, but like people obviously are getting accurate results
27:41
Speaker 1: even through like whatever they're doing throughout the day. Um,
27:45
Speaker 1: there's a great way to take the test, right, you
27:49
Speaker 1: follow the directions. You you know, your your mouth is clean,
27:51
Speaker 1: everything is good. But you're right, the details of this
27:54
Speaker 1: are incredible. Okay, So final question for you all, Now
27:57
Speaker 1: that you have the details and you have the information,
28:00
Speaker 1: what are you going to do with it or what
28:03
Speaker 1: is it done for you personally? We'll start with Trista
28:06
Speaker 1: again because that's kind of our flow. Um, even if
28:09
Speaker 1: it's just enjoying it and reading it, what are you
28:11
Speaker 1: going to take from taking the twenty three test? So
28:15
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to not bring Ryan into this.
28:17
Speaker 1: I wish I had it up um like that I
28:20
Speaker 1: could actually read it and what's you're read it to
28:22
Speaker 1: you to his ancestry, But he has I think it's
28:30
Speaker 1: like it's like a very small percentage but he has
28:33
Speaker 1: like point Neanderthal, and that's awesome. I have a little
28:40
Speaker 1: myself as well. Hold I so mind you, this is
28:49
Speaker 1: my house for the like that I have to I'll
28:54
Speaker 1: have to go back and look at it. But it's
28:56
Speaker 1: very minimally caveman. So you guys like my house the
29:07
Speaker 1: last two weeks, three weeks or whatever. It's guys like
29:11
Speaker 1: walking around eating round. It's like, you know, we have
29:15
Speaker 1: to procreate. So oh yeah, there's a lot of sorry
29:22
Speaker 1: to my children and I and my in laws, but
29:24
Speaker 1: there's a lot of getting naked lately. Yeah, life is good. Anyway,
29:37
Speaker 1: that's my life lately. That's funny. Say so, Bob, for you,
29:40
Speaker 1: what are you going to take from this? You know,
29:42
Speaker 1: I like, I'm going to continue filling out a lot
29:45
Speaker 1: of the questions that I didn't do yet. So there's
29:47
Speaker 1: like some stuff because I want my kids to know
29:50
Speaker 1: if there's a chance for genetic stuff, you know, things
29:53
Speaker 1: like that. Um, I am also going to use the
29:56
Speaker 1: procreate neanderthal thing when I get home. I'm not sorry
30:02
Speaker 1: to my in laws about that. Um, but I think
30:06
Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting. I mean, there's a lot of
30:08
Speaker 1: stuff in here that I mean, I haven't even It's
30:11
Speaker 1: the tip of the iceberg for me. So I'm gonna
30:13
Speaker 1: go through and really start to answer some more of
30:14
Speaker 1: these things on the next reports and and share that
30:16
Speaker 1: stuff with my family because I think it's important. And
30:18
Speaker 1: I've never known half of this stuff that I'm reading
30:21
Speaker 1: about myself right now. And I mean, I don't want
30:23
Speaker 1: to diminish. I know, you know, this is all interesting
30:26
Speaker 1: and it's fun and you learn a lot, but I
30:29
Speaker 1: don't want to diminish that you're your story of your
30:32
Speaker 1: origin changed from this test. Yeah, you know. And so
30:36
Speaker 1: that's a big deal for for many people taking the
30:39
Speaker 1: tests as they find out that yes, what I've been
30:41
Speaker 1: told or what my family might have known is not
30:44
Speaker 1: true to me. And I now, would you do with
30:47
Speaker 1: that what you want? I went from American, Indian Irish
30:50
Speaker 1: to Neanderthal. Too of a cave man is for you? Okay? Um?
31:04
Speaker 1: For me, I think it's kind of like a story
31:06
Speaker 1: telling like origin there God, I am becoming my husband.
31:10
Speaker 1: It's an origin story story of Superman, our son Dawson.
31:16
Speaker 1: I think it's like the ancestry part for me that
31:19
Speaker 1: I didn't really like. I think it'll be cool for
31:21
Speaker 1: like traveling purposes, just like throughout our kids or Dawson
31:24
Speaker 1: or possibly plural children's lives, to be like you're like
31:28
Speaker 1: part of you from here. This is where like this
31:30
Speaker 1: great grandparents from. This where this great grandparent was from. Um, yeah,
31:34
Speaker 1: you can actually find like pinpoint the location. Yeah. Like
31:38
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this map right now and I'm like,
31:40
Speaker 1: this is when we can travel here and that's where
31:43
Speaker 1: you know of me came from there, and that's crazy.
31:47
Speaker 1: So I think for me it has to do with
31:49
Speaker 1: just kind of like knowing where your roots are. It's
31:53
Speaker 1: all so great. Before we end today's podcast, we do
31:58
Speaker 1: have a very special guest. Uh, it's late, but Ryan
32:02
Speaker 1: did step in because he cares um to talk about
32:07
Speaker 1: his twenty three and me results. Now, we've already got
32:10
Speaker 1: a hint of this from Trista before you came in.
32:12
Speaker 1: We know some of your results, so don't be shy.
32:15
Speaker 1: Uh what did you learn Ryan and your results? Well,
32:19
Speaker 1: the biggest thing, really, the only thing I learned that
32:22
Speaker 1: I sort of stopped. I stopped after I saw was
32:24
Speaker 1: that I have some pretty unique Neanderthal roots, Which is
32:29
Speaker 1: does that make you extra manly? I feel like it
32:32
Speaker 1: definitely does. Yeah, I mean, I think I think my
32:35
Speaker 1: ancestors were actually around before Homeo Sapiens, Right, Yeah, I
32:42
Speaker 1: think that's how it works, right, the Neanderthals. Can I
32:46
Speaker 1: ask you a question that you might know because I'm
32:48
Speaker 1: sure you've researched it and it might make me sound
32:51
Speaker 1: totally totally a knowledgeable and that's fine. Um, aren't we
32:56
Speaker 1: all at some level having roots from Neanderthals? Apparently not,
33:01
Speaker 1: I think there. I think so. I don't know where
33:05
Speaker 1: the actual Homeo Sapiens side of things came from, but
33:11
Speaker 1: they entered the picture after the Neanderthals. So my family,
33:16
Speaker 1: your family came onto the planet Earth after my family.
33:20
Speaker 1: So you're an origin you're yeah, you've been around since
33:23
Speaker 1: the beginning. That answers a lot of questions I've always
33:26
Speaker 1: had about Ryan is how does he have such big muscles? Um? Yeah,
33:31
Speaker 1: we had to. Yeah, you had to. We were wrestling
33:33
Speaker 1: like wooly mammoth. Since. Yeah, it wasn't easy. I'm looking
33:38
Speaker 1: up the definition, okay. Neanderthals, by definition, are an extinct
33:43
Speaker 1: species or subspecies of archaic humans that lived in Eurasia
33:49
Speaker 1: about forty thousand years ago. While the cause of their
33:53
Speaker 1: extinction remains highly contested. Demographic factors like small population size,
34:00
Speaker 1: in breeding, in random fluctuations are considered to be likely factors.
34:04
Speaker 1: And this is a photo crime. Yeah, I can see
34:09
Speaker 1: the resemblance. Yeah, brows and such. Right, how did you
34:13
Speaker 1: feel when you read your results? Was any? I mean,
34:17
Speaker 1: this is obviously, uh, super interesting. I think that you
34:20
Speaker 1: have those roots. But did anything else pop up with
34:23
Speaker 1: your health history or things you're more susceptible to that
34:26
Speaker 1: that kind of stood out health history? Not really. I
34:28
Speaker 1: think some of the interesting things were, um, that I
34:32
Speaker 1: have a tendency or I guess I'm less likely to
34:35
Speaker 1: be able to sneeze with the full stomach part of this.
34:40
Speaker 1: This is one of the things that they talk about
34:42
Speaker 1: on t DA mate, and it's some people can't sneeze
34:47
Speaker 1: when too full, and I apparently have a good chance
34:50
Speaker 1: of being one of those. So although, like in you know,
34:55
Speaker 1: full disclosure, the other night, I had a bowl of
34:57
Speaker 1: cereal and shortly after you're sneezed. So I'm wondering if
35:01
Speaker 1: maybe I admit that skipped me. You're gonna remember every
35:04
Speaker 1: time now that you sneeze on a full stomach. I
35:06
Speaker 1: wouldn't say a bowl of cereal is a full stomach.
35:09
Speaker 1: Though that's true, it wasn't a very big bowl of cereal. Yeah,
35:14
Speaker 1: I'm used to like yeah, like I'm used to eating
35:18
Speaker 1: large amounts of meat, so cereal is not that big
35:21
Speaker 1: of a deal. So I think I'm still I'm still
35:24
Speaker 1: in the running for not sneezing with a full stomach.
35:26
Speaker 1: But I think just like Neanderthal component aside, just just
35:31
Speaker 1: seeing sort of where your heritage came from, sort of
35:34
Speaker 1: that part of it was really interesting. Can you share
35:36
Speaker 1: with us what you are besides neanderfl since we focus
35:40
Speaker 1: a lot on that. Yeah, like, no, none of it's
35:42
Speaker 1: really as important. I was Northwestern European, so German French area,
35:50
Speaker 1: and then also there was a British component, which was
35:54
Speaker 1: more of an Irish side, which seems to go correlate
35:58
Speaker 1: with what my parents have said over there. And then
36:01
Speaker 1: there was some um, oh gosh, what's the term. I
36:05
Speaker 1: can't think of it. It's like Iceland and Greenland and
36:08
Speaker 1: that No, no, that would be a good guest. Scandinavian. Yeah,
36:12
Speaker 1: I had some Scandinavian in there, and um yeah, and
36:17
Speaker 1: then the rest of it I think was just full
36:19
Speaker 1: in Neanderthal, but other than that. It was mostly like it,
36:23
Speaker 1: but it was interesting just to see kind of where
36:25
Speaker 1: that came from. Not right, I would love to say,
36:27
Speaker 1: like trist is sitting over there like this is ridiculous
36:30
Speaker 1: right now, But right before you came in, Um, she
36:33
Speaker 1: did seem very intrigued by your results and in fact
36:37
Speaker 1: kind of alluded that the twenty three of me has
36:39
Speaker 1: helped your intimacy as a couple. Yeah, explains it really
36:44
Speaker 1: explains a lot. I'm able to use that as an
36:51
Speaker 1: excuse for like, listen, I mean, I can't help I
36:53
Speaker 1: can't help it thousand years like you can't stop that,
36:59
Speaker 1: and and she it, she mentioned it. And so I
37:01
Speaker 1: just want to say kudos to you and kudos to me,
37:04
Speaker 1: Um for supporting every Yeah, thank you changed life changing
37:07
Speaker 1: really at pleast for the last week or so. Until
37:09
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37:11
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