WEBVTT - Hood Politics: Real Spit with Ma Dukes 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:06.560 Have you ever thought about how incredibly complex I SPIT is. 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:11.280 It may only be water, but just aliva isn't simple. 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:17.440 That remaining one holds incredibly meaningful information that could change everything. 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.200 And I'm not just talking about your family treat Hi. 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:24.360 I'm barretton Day Thurston and on this season of SPIT 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:26.720 and I Heart Radio podcast with twenty three and me, 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:31.040 we explore how DNA isn't just about ancestry, it can 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:38.040 also be key to understanding your health. Hey, you welcome back. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.559 We've had some really great conversations on SPIT, but today's 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:47.000 episode is truly something special. On Hood Politics, rapper and 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:51.720 author Propaganda discusses geopolitical topics from the perspective of urban life, 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.480 and today he's using that perspective to talk about health 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:59.560 and how it relates to your family history. Prop discovering 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.160 more about his own health from his twenty three test reports, 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.920 sits down with his mother to help him better understand 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:07.920 what his DNA could be telling him about his past 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:12.680 and his future. Together, they slowly peel away the layers 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.080 of props family history, looking back at family members who 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:20.000 have gotten ill or sadly passed away. How can the 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.039 information from props twenty three and me test help him 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.600 stay healthy in the future. Together, these two learn more 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.839 about the awesome power of genetic testing when it comes 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.800 to understanding your health, as well as some other family 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:37.000 secrets and a few surprises. Hopefully this episode will inspire 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.560 you to learn more about your own family history and 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.399 maybe even inspire you to reach out to your own 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:46.760 mom or dad or grandma or grandpa or whoever else 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.560 you might owe. A phone call too, and I mean 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:57.240 a phone call, not a text. Let's listen in Okay, Okay, 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:02.560 so check this out. The politics this my mom, Mom, Yes, 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:12.840 you'll know what's called me. Hello. Hello. I'll call you 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:14.720 Jason when I'm close to you in case I need 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:16.680 to pop you one. But I give you your propers 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:21.560 to call your properm in. Okay, I appreciate it, you know. Okay, y'all. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.960 So this is a special hood politics. Uh, this is 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.000 in partnership with spit and twenty three and me. We're 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:32.000 gonna talk about little family issues and how it kind 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.240 of hits the hood and he hits us and what 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.680 we could possibly do about it. So a little background, 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.519 um I had at some point I feel like I 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.359 made this like off hand comment off of listening to 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:48.200 another podcast about Dolly Parton Believe it or not. She 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.440 had said in this podcast, like, and you know, you 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:55.640 kind of never really know your parents. And I thought 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.160 to myself when she said that, like, dude, that's crazy. Yeah, 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.880 I kind of don't. And let's sners. No, you know, 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.760 I'm boring to raise Los Angeles. My mom is not though. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.160 My mom Southeast d C. You know what I'm saying, 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.240 northwest Southeast, you feel me? She Obama right there, you 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.240 know what I mean? And uh came over here to 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.440 l A. You know, actually got married as kids, married 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:19.040 my dad as kids, stayed there until we were grown 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.679 and they split up and eventually she went back home. 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.720 But is itching to get back to l A because 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:32.960 you got grandkids now in my life? Come on now, 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:36.240 and okay, okay, I appreciate it. But there's an entire 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:40.280 history you know, with your parents that like you just 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.080 don't know, you know what I'm saying, And how could 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.240 you you were in there and just the reality that 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.840 like she was an entirely different person before kids, Like 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.640 you know what I'm saying, Like marriage and kids changed. Yeah, 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.360 so it was put on your heart to write me 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.440 a letter, right, that's right, Yeah, so you can take 0:03:58.520 --> 0:03:59.960 over from there a little bit like what you want 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.840 to talk about in a letter, not specifics obviously because 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.119 that's between us, but just kind of what you wanted 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.720 to inform well in the letter. I first of all, 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.360 it you had come on a surprise visit to me, 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.480 and when you made that comment, it was the look 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:21.160 on your face and almost like a dagger in my 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:26.359 heart for a couple of different reasons. That one was 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.960 because you and I in your growing up years were 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:34.760 very very close and we had a special bond that 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.520 you used to share with me some things that were 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:44.039 actually t m I for me. But but as a kid, 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.840 you were as just as curious as you are now, 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:52.720 very curious and inquisitive and either not I don't want 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:57.680 to say you demanded an answer, but you inquired until 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.400 you've got one that who ever you were speaking to 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.279 thought they had given you a sufficient answer. So when 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:09.640 you said you didn't know me, and I had taken 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.800 you to the airport, and it just haunted me and 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.320 was in my spirit the whole time coming back home 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:19.839 that I thought, well, you know, he really he knows me. 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:24.360 He doesn't realize that he knows me because the am 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.000 the person that I am in my heart and in 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:32.120 my spirit. I have always been that person because that 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:36.919 was how God made me. But the fact that you 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:42.320 really didn't know my background on my childhood and specifics 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.880 because I would only tell you or we only would 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:50.679 discuss certain things when they came up, as to, well, 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.080 you know, your dad was in the house, your dad 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.520 drove a cab, you know, speaking to my dad, my 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.599 dad smoked a cigar, my dad. You know, my mom 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:04.320 and dad had nine children. We lived in a certain place, 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.120 and some of the things that went on is we 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:13.040 were children. But I never really really told you anything 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.840 about me as a child. And the funny thing about 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:21.400 that is that I always had a curiosity and still 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:27.480 do about how my parents were as children. By the 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:32.560 time you really know them or actually realize anything about them, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:37.120 you're a little person, or you're a teenager, or you're 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:41.359 an adult. But you fail or I feel, or we 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.799 felt sometimes I realized that our parents were little people 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.719 at one point too, you know, they were they were 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.919 little people that played on the playground and they go 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.200 to bed when their parents told them to go to bed. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:59.320 Maybe played top Scotch or whatever they played in the 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.800 areas or the cities where they lived. Because my mother 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.480 was born and raised in Washington, d c. She's a 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.600 blood Washingtonian, but my dad was raised in the South, 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:14.720 in South Carolina. So I always, you know, I used 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:18.080 to reflect and think a lot about I wonder what 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.120 they were like as little kids. You know, what did 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.280 they think about when did they get hurt themselves, or 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.680 when did somebody pick on them? Or you know, what 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.560 were the things that they did that they didn't want 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:32.240 their parents. It's just little people's life. And so when 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.640 I was going over all that and I said, well, 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:38.000 my son, you know, he doesn't he didn't. My my 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.920 children they don't know that about me. It was just 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:45.080 something that came up. Nothing that wasn't that, it wasn't important. 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:49.640 It just was something that never presented itself. So in 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.880 writing the letter, which you know, I started when you 0:07:54.040 --> 0:08:00.720 left in February, and I was writing the letter and 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.360 writing the letter, then we were hit with COVID or 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:09.040 COVID came and I stopped. Then I had a little 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.880 issue with one of life. I slipped and fell and 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:17.280 hurt my finger naturally, so I couldn't type on the 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.720 computer as I wanted to, and then one thing happened 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.880 right after the other, then more COVID, and then I 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.200 got kind of like, okay, I wanted to. Once I 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:32.160 got into it, everything opened up. And even now the 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:36.640 letter that you have is only what they say, half 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:40.720 of the story, because there was so much and you 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:44.040 know so um yeah, you came back a lifetime into 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:48.440 a letter, yes, a letter, and then individuals that touched 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.920 your lives, what they meant to you, the little, small, 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.240 little things that you go through. So what I did 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:59.600 in the letter was trying to give to you whatever 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.240 God brought into my heart to give to you. That 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:06.200 was about me, And it wasn't about trying to make 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:11.400 the letter all about me, but in essence, I wanted 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.840 you to know all about me, the things that you 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.640 didn't know, Like how was I in junior high school? 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.520 And I told you about that where I started off, 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.400 you know, a brainy ac and then what happened and 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.120 so those things that you probably you never you never 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:36.560 knew those things. So I went in writing the letter 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:42.160 and it got longer and longer, not only chronologically but 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:46.760 in the duration of the letter. And finally I gave 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:51.560 you the letter with something still unfinished, and probably some 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.319 things that I thought were very important left out because 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.520 I thought you got tired of waiting, And I thought, Okay, 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.280 how much longer is this going to be? Because it 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.720 was supposed to be a letter it ended up being 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:08.120 over forty page. Yes, it ended up being a novel. 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.800 And then I went through, Okay, well do I the titles? 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.440 Do I call it everything you wanted to know about 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.600 your mother? And you didn't know? Or he was going 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.319 he was getting creative. Yeah, I was just getting creative. 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.079 And then you kept hearing the phrase in this pop 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.199 culture is that you know your narrative? What's your narrative? 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.480 Let's somebody right? So I thought, you know what, that's 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.439 what I'm gonna call it. I'm writing my own narrative 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:38.920 so that my son, my daughter, and whomever they choose 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:44.160 to share it with. Yeah, family wise would would know. 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.400 And so here we are now you're sharing it on 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:51.480 a podcast. Yes, not the specifics per se, because some 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:53.760 of that stuffs like I'm still kind of processing, you 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.640 know what I'm saying. There's some things that I really loved, 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.160 like I knew, but like didn't know you know what 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.560 I'm saying, like ideas about like like granddad and and 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.600 you know, the the running the numbers and the card 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.360 games and the gambling and stuff like that, because which 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.760 is just hood life. You know what I'm saying, right, 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.760 And you know you get it. How are you living? 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.120 You call it hood life now? But for us, it 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.480 was survival. For them, it was survival. For them, it 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.240 was doing what you know to do the best way 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.719 you could do it and stand away from the popo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:27.600 so you get it. How you're living trying to stay out, 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.840 stay stay under the radar, you know what I'm saying 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:34.040 exactly exactly. Yeah. But what I what I found interesting 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.120 specifically for why I wanted to tell that story as 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:41.240 background for this was, um, I took a twenty three 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:45.240 and me DNA test right, and it gives you not 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.600 only like your ancestral heritage and stuff like that, but 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.280 it also talks about the part that we're interested in 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.000 is like is our health background right, and like a 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.240 wellness stuff, you know what I'm saying. And one thing 0:11:56.280 --> 0:12:00.520 that like that stood out for me in your story 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.719 in that story is like there's an assumption and and 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:07.120 it's a true in most situations that like you know, 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.960 the projects, you know what I'm saying, Like in the 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:15.280 in the sense that y'all actually experienced is a food 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:20.840 desert that you're just not eating well and making like 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:25.040 good choices for your your health, you know what I'm saying, 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.480 because you're just trying to survive. And what I noticed 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.679 your story, it seemed like that wasn't the case, Like 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.920 y'all ate, all right, It's exactly we were at all right. Now. 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.720 I'm not saying that we weren't exposed to the chidlins 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.680 and the hog mad and all of that, because we 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.640 had it, and I ate it and we ate it. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:51.720 But basically, I don't know if it was because and 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.960 it probably was because of my father's background being in 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.760 the South. My mother used to say rabbit food. That 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.560 he loved rabbit food. And out of the nine of 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.800 us of their children or nine of us are still 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.240 eating well, you know, my two brothers are deceased, but 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:16.560 the seven of us still live off and love rabbit food. Now, 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:21.480 the fact that nobody is in a vegetarian, I'm a Presbyterian, 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.160 and um, they love meat, they love their ribs. I 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.560 stay away from that because that was my matter of 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:32.480 choice after a few years after I got grown. Yeah, 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:36.719 and that's that's something I wanted to ask you about. Yeah, okay, okay, no, 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.320 but go on. Yeah, but generally rabbit food is in 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:43.600 like y'all eat fruits and vegetables. We eat fruits and vegetables. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.520 I mean I would sit by as a little girl 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:52.800 my mother watching her make potato salad and before she 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.320 would People in the black community, and I'm sure another 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:01.199 another races, uh, ethnic backgrounds, they may potato salad differently, 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.080 but my mother A lot of people peel the potatoes 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.600 and then this is just a side peeled potatoes and 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:13.320 then chop them up. But my mother would boil the 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:19.000 potatoes first before she chopped him up. And I was 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.320 always there sitting beside her with my elbow on the table, 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.840 waiting for a piece of raw potatoes before it even 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.360 went in the pod. My dad used to come and 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:36.280 he would give us rud Baker's. We would eat raw 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.320 sweet potatoes, anything that was. It was like right out 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.240 of the garden, and we all loved it. And to 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:48.160 this day, my sisters and my brother, we and you 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.080 will know in your and our family, when we all 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.560 lived as a family together. You always had a what 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.280 there was always a salad. There was always there was 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.000 always a salad. There was always we would come home 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:05.000 and always green, something green. You had to have something 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.200 green on your plate. So that's the way we were raised, 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.480 no matter what. And even now it's like any any 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.920 family functioning or gathering, somebody's going to make a salad. Yeah, 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.040 it's kind of crazy because, like like I said, like 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:22.480 in you know, in a macro sense, like living in 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.880 like inner cities are considered like we said, food deserts 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:28.200 where you can't really get fresh food. It was like 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.640 just what you said, like whatever decisions you made, that 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.280 wasn't the case in our house. There was always fruit. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.960 You always had it. We come home and it wasn't 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.160 like there wasn't a bag of chips. It was oranges, right, 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.240 we sat down and we ate oranges we had. That 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.000 was just a decision you made. And some of those 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.440 decisions were around like when I when I go through 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:54.040 these results, like I'm really interested in I want to 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.960 hear your reaction because some of the stuff you you 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.000 said you just kind of like made these food decisions 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.720 for us because you was watching what seemed like was 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.120 hereditary what was just happening in our families where we 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.440 was dying over getting sick over and so. And you 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.240 said it in the in a story too. But I 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.160 remember you telling us all the time like, yoll watch 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.280 out for this because this in your family, this in 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.880 your blood, and it's crazy without you doing any tests, 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.160 this was just the stuff that you was just like, 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.920 well it just keep having it, you know what I'm saying, right, 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.040 So tell the folks what what What were some of 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:29.520 those things that you just kind of picked up and 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.000 was like, we can't eat this because this in our family. 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.240 Well I don't, I don't know you. You didn't have 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.040 a lot of things that I said you couldn't eat 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:43.720 because the entire choice was not my own. You know, 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.360 your father was there and he had things that you 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:51.400 know that he believed that weren't detrimental, but they ended 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:57.280 up being detrimental. You can probably being detrimental. So um, 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.160 the thing is that I tried not to of you 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.640 a lot of sugar. Remember I used to say you 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.439 couldn't have right because of the diabetes that you I 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.520 didn't want you to have a lot of sweet sweet cereals, 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:16.480 those sugarcoated cereals that you couldn't have, which was torture, 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:21.120 which was torture. And as a matter of fact, when 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.159 I wanted to give you a treat, you could have 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:29.600 your captain crunch that. Yeah, and they and that was 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:34.280 because that the diabetes was running in the family. My 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:41.880 my grandfather, my my maternal grandfather had suffered from diabetes 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.560 that put him in it in a in a chair 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:49.679 towards the end of his life. My uncle on my 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:56.440 mother's side was diabetic and it took him put him down. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.840 And aunt that came to live with me as my 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:05.639 sweetie Luna caused her on n t Helen on Helen. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.320 When she was here living with me, it was always 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:15.359 sugar and my mother was a sugar candy fanatic. And 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:21.320 my sister, who later in years late in life, found 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:25.840 out she was a diabetic, would always we would always 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:30.959 have sweets. That part of it became and so you know, 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:35.359 I realized that these things just they weren't good healthy wise. 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:37.800 It had nothing to do with what you may hear 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.920 quote some people talk about generation curses. I don't believe 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:44.159 in generation curse. I don't believe in that. I believe 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:48.359 in our bloodline and the things that we are susceptible 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:53.240 due to because of our bloodline. And so I feel 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:58.360 that it's it's wiser to make the choices when you're 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.600 able to make the choices, then wish later on you 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.280 hadn't made the choices. Like I have an aunt that 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:08.400 passed away, and when I had spoken to her when 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:12.000 she had became ill, the one thing she said to 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:15.399 me was that I'm not afraid to die. I'll miss 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:20.560 the family, but I wish I had made better choices 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:25.280 in the way I ate. And so these were this 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:29.679 was almost her dying doxology that she had wished she 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:31.840 had made a better choice. And the things that she 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:36.040 ate because she loved to eat. And I mean it's fatty, 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:40.520 fatty stuff like raw ground beef and raw bacon. And 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:43.119 so you know, when I used to see a member 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.000 of our family delving into that, it would just it 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:49.840 would just make me cringe because there's no purpose in it. 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:55.480 You know, vegetables will well suffice in and keeping you 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.520 and keeping you healthy. And I and I, you know, 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:02.480 I had tripping that I don't brag. I thank I'm 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.639 thankful for the grace of God on my life. But 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.520 you know where I am in life. You know how 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:12.480 old I am. You know what I have suffered physically 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:16.240 and what I haven't suffered physically. And I attribute all 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.520 of that because of the choices that I said. Not 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:22.320 a whole lot of ship since I was a child, 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:26.480 That's what I'm saying, not a lot of fats. And 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.640 for the past two years, I haven't had a piece 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:35.639 of fried chicken. Now you're talking crazy, okay, uh no. Um, 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:40.320 So what I noticed what our family was like kidney cancer, 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:43.399 you know what I'm saying. And then but some of 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:45.960 these weird things. So so the aunt that she talked about, 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.520 my Helen, which is my great aunt, that's my grandmother's sister. 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:52.280 My mom's direct hunt was like, I mean, she was 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:56.800 a two packet day smoker and she outlived everyone more 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.480 than that, more than more than two packs to see, 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:01.040 That's what I'm say. And so like there was these 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.080 weird like things where you just like, I don't know, 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.360 is that just that's just in our blood? Like why 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:10.119 how come that ain't? And of all the things that 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.120 actually killed it was the sugar, you know what I'm saying. 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:15.840 So we like, how is it that you know? Say it? 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:19.080 So so there's these things that are like our diet 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.120 and then these things that are in our blood. So 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:23.920 but there's one thing I want to interrupt to say, 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:27.880 then this could be an inspiration to someone who may 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:30.359 have been or know someone that had been a three 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:36.840 packet day smoker, is that she had a stroke. After 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:40.680 the stroke, she gave up cigarettes at eighty eight years old, 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:45.399 so she had been smoking from her twenties until in 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:49.560 her eighties and still not a not a thing, not 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:56.320 a drop of cancer in her blood. She um was hilarious, y'all. 0:21:56.480 --> 0:22:00.520 Like the one thing that is in our DNA. I'm 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:03.480 pretty sure this some twenty three and me thing is 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:06.119 going to prove is that we have sarcasm in our 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:10.000 DNA and for some reason, like everybody really good at it. 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:12.840 You know my right now, y'all, my mom is being 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:16.160 very well behaved, but she being real nice. But Helen 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:19.919 was hilarious. She was remarkably sarcastic and uh and would 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:22.359 say stuff like that like smoke to me, facts, I 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:27.879 won't you being prejudiced against my age exactly to say that. 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:40.680 So I'm gonna read through a few of these things 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:43.119 can get your reactions on this. Some of the stuff 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:46.440 that you thought maybe like you was like yep, or 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:50.080 are surprised about. So the first thing I'm gonna look 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:51.760 at is like, once you get this result, I'm gonna 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:55.159 look at like the my wellness thing. Right, So how 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:59.440 my DNA responds to like diet, exercise, and sleep. Right, 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:06.600 So your boy's genetic weight meeting, like in my predisposed 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:09.639 to become overweight or stay pretty pretty thin. What you 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:13.880 think you're gonna stay thin? Yep, that's predisposed to weigh 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:17.080 less than average. That's what this monk said. So you 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:18.639 know what I'm saying. And it's funny because you know, 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:21.119 even as a kid, I'll try my best. Remember we 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:26.359 bought all the weights, never worked and oh yeah, I 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:30.520 just did not work, right, So all the variants in 0:23:30.520 --> 0:23:34.080 my blood are associated to like that you're just gonna 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:38.520 be thin? Right? Well? Can I say something there too, though, yeah, 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:42.439 go for it. Is that you know that out of 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:47.560 my eight siblings, I was considered the runt. Yeah, because 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:50.960 I was the only one five five. I say five too, 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:54.560 but I'm five one and a half. I never got 0:23:54.640 --> 0:24:00.520 any bigger. Then, you know, I've always kept my weight down. 0:24:01.240 --> 0:24:05.520 And then your father was tall and slim. It's tall 0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:09.120 and slim, so I can see how that would happen. Yeah, yeah, 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:12.840 I look good now, but he's yeah much older anyway. 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:18.439 And also your choices too. Yeah yeah, totally. Uh, lactose intolerant. 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:25.880 It's in my blood and it's true. Here's what's funny. 0:24:25.920 --> 0:24:30.080 Here's a funny one caffeine consumption. I am likely to 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:34.639 consume less caffeine than anyone else. Really, ain't that weird? 0:24:35.640 --> 0:24:38.800 That's what it says based on my DNA. It says 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:42.200 that if you consume caffeine. The current Guidelines of Healthy 0:24:42.200 --> 0:24:46.879 Adults says adults should drink no more than three twelve 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:49.720 ounce cups of coffee or eight ounce cups of tea 0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:57.920 per day, which is crazy because I drink probably for yeah, 0:24:57.960 --> 0:25:00.240 I don't be getting jittery, but I don't know. Maybe 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:04.800 I'm defining my DNA here. Muscle composition, it's my muscle 0:25:04.800 --> 0:25:09.960 composition is common for elite athletes. Okay, I can see that. 0:25:10.320 --> 0:25:14.000 I can see that totally. Yes, let's see. Now, let's 0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:19.600 go to like the not so fun stuff health highlights. Okay, dementia, Alzheimer's. 0:25:19.920 --> 0:25:22.600 What do you think do I think that? In your DNA, 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:28.719 you're prone to it. Yeah, uh possibly, yeah, so slightly 0:25:28.760 --> 0:25:33.879 at risk. Yeah. And and I say that because of 0:25:34.240 --> 0:25:40.320