1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: with her Radio. This is a very special episode of 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: the Almost Famous podcast. We are together in person. Yes 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 1: we have Ashley, Trista and Bob. The whole freaking almost 5 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: famous family is together. Maybe for the first time. This 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 1: is the first time we've ever hung out in person 7 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: with podcast of old stuff. But we were all the 8 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: Janner wedding yea six six years ago. We decided today. Yeah, 9 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: it was probably the last time we were together. The 10 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,480 Speaker 1: first time we're together, and now is the second. We're 11 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: in Tahoe. Uh, this is a big kind of I 12 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: Heart Podcast celebration. A lot of different podcasts are here. 13 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:48,160 Speaker 1: We're lucky enough today to sit down, uh and chat 14 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 1: together about twenty three and me. This is something really 15 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: fun that everybody participated in. Uh. It's become very popular 16 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: over the last I don't know how many years it's existed, 17 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: but it just keeps getting better. But to start, I'm 18 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,680 Speaker 1: gonna start with Bob and Trista. Trista, let's start with you, Um, 19 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: what was your life like? I don't think I've ever 20 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: asked you this question? And we've done a lot of 21 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: different conversations together that have been recorded. What was your 22 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: life like before you went on the Bachelor? Oh, now 23 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: we're both hoosiers, so we can just say that we 24 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: are both. That's a big deal for us people. Do 25 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: you know? Oh yes, you know the story behind it? 26 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:29,680 Speaker 1: Real quick? Okay, So one guy because so Whosier is 27 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: what the mascot is for Indiana Indiana University. The story goes. 28 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: There's many different stories to this, but the story that 29 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,839 Speaker 1: I hear the most often is one guy was standing 30 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: on one side of the Ohio River, another man was 31 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 1: standing on the Indiana side of the higher River, and 32 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: the person on the Ohio side kept yelling who's there? 33 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: Who's there? Yeah? And the person yeah. And that's how 34 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: they got Hoosier because it sounds like hoosier and the 35 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: guy would just froun, who's no? The guy in the 36 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: Indiana side, who's your Hoosier? I think I would say, 37 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 1: who's there? And he goes Hoosier, who's your Who's because 38 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: it's not just who's your dad to Indiana University, it's 39 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: if you were from Indiana. So I've always been a 40 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: Hoosier because I was born in India and that made 41 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: me a hoosier before I was, and you Hoosier. That's right. 42 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: Now we're official, So that's a good start here. You 43 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: grew up in Indiana. I was born in Indiana, lived 44 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: there for four years, moved to St. Louis with my 45 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: mom and dad. I was raised in St. Louis until 46 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 1: I went to college at IU, and then I went 47 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: to grad school in Miami. And that's kind of what 48 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: And I applied for to be on The Bachelor, to 49 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: this new reality show while I was a grad student 50 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: actually coming in high that happened, Um, while I was 51 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: living in Miami working as a as a physical therapist. 52 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: I applied for The Bachelor in Miami. And that's kind 53 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: of you know, at least the geographical data. Okay, real quick, 54 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: just to follow up. Then, Yeah, this new reality show 55 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: came out. How did you hear about it? And why 56 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: did you say that's something I want to try On Extra? 57 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: I was watching Extra one night on my couch in 58 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: Miami and I had gotten off work at Miami Children's 59 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: Hospital and I was watching Extra and they had um 60 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: Lacy Pemberton, who I'm sure you both know all of 61 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: you know. She's casting director for long time casting director 62 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: for the Bachelor. Franchise, and she was on Extra talking 63 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: about this new reality show, and I thought, well that 64 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: it could be fun. I could travel, like, meet some friends, 65 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: maybe meet a guy. It had nothing to do with 66 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: the guy at that point. I just wanted to have fun. 67 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: Any That's how I That's how I played. And now 68 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: you're here with your husband and your son in Tahoe. 69 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: It's great to see you all together. Okay, Bob onto 70 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: you Now what was your life like right before the show? Oh? 71 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 1: It was? It was interesting. So I I actually never 72 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: applied to be on the show. So I had a 73 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 1: really weird um thing. So I was a clash man story. 74 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: Men never assigned themselves up or so they my brother 75 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: in law, I had the best story about it. So 76 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: I had I had written some songs for a movie 77 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: called The Truth About Cats and Dogs, which was Janine 78 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 1: Garffalo and Uma Thurman, and so I got this kind 79 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: of uh, I got this big check basically, and so 80 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I'm not going to be 81 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: a touring musician anymore. I'm almost thirty and I'm not Journey. 82 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: So when that am I ever going to be Journey? 83 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:53,119 Speaker 1: I don't know. So I decided I was gonna start 84 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: this mortgage company, and I was going to make a 85 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 1: difference in the world. So I did, and I partnered 86 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 1: with um A, a buddy of mine from high school. 87 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 1: We hired a bunch of really great staff to work 88 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: for us. Those women submitted my information to The Bachelor 89 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: and without me knowing, so when they and I had 90 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 1: just had reconstructive knee surgery, so I had this big 91 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 1: leg cast on and I had gained like twenty pounds. 92 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, I get a call from 93 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 1: Lacey Pemberton and I think it's a joke because I 94 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: didn't sign up to be on the show. And someone's 95 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: name is Lacey who works for a show called The Bachelor. 96 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 1: I'm like, this is just too good to be true. 97 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: And her her voice was kind of like, Hi, it's lazy. 98 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe she had a cold, it's but 99 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: it sounded like a guy trying to be a girl. 100 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: And I told I told Lacey this story before. I 101 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 1: don't feel bad saying it, but and I was like, Oh, 102 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: I'm sure your name is Lacey, and I'm sure you 103 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 1: work for a show called the back Yeah, that sounds 104 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: that would happen every day in Detroit, so, you know, no, thanks, 105 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And they're like, well, no, we really, 106 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 1: you know, we really want to meet you. Would you 107 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: do a demo tape for us? And I'm like, so 108 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 1: what you want me to be? Like the fact guy 109 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 1: in your bloper reel getting out of the shower, like, Hi, Trista, 110 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: I might No, thanks, I'm good. So they're like, are 111 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: you You're seriously not gonna send it the tape. I'm 112 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 1: like no, I'm I'm okay, thank you. So then they 113 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 1: I had an old school fax machine right next to 114 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 1: my desk, like that kind of makes the weird noise 115 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: with the thermal paper, and they faxed me over the 116 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: thing to fill out for a plane ticket, and I 117 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 1: flew out to l A. I know, I flew out 118 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: to l A with my leg cast on and they 119 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: paged me and I responded no. So I got there 120 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: and um and I met all these girls at the 121 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 1: pool and I was having drinks and singing songs and 122 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: I didn't realize I was supposed to be like on 123 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: Sequester and sou Sally and Selsano came out at the time. 124 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: She was one of the Kobe p's of the show 125 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 1: and she came out and basically like they filmed me 126 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: in the hot tub and she yelled at me from 127 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: the balcony, Hey jackass, and I of course was like, yes, 128 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: she was, get up here. And so I actually did 129 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:54,359 Speaker 1: my my on camera interview in board shorts and a 130 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 1: T shirt. Of course you got gas. So they're like 131 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: and I and I we were just laughing. And I 132 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: heard that like they had like camera lions going through 133 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: to the adjoining suite and I would say something stupid 134 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:06,840 Speaker 1: out to hear people just cracking up in there, and 135 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: I'm like, who's over there. She's like, you'll find out 136 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 1: soon enough, don't worry. And so then you know, I 137 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: walk over there. It's Chris Harrison, Mike Fly I saw 138 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: those guys are like, you need to be on this show. 139 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: I'm like okay. And then I'm looking at the board, 140 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: like literally the other pictures of guys up on the board. 141 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: I see Ryan, you know, the eventual champion, and uh 142 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: I see him. He's like he's standing there like just yoked, 143 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: like I got like a cheeseburger. And again, anyway, yeah, 144 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: that was how I ended up on the show. And 145 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: then Ashley, You're gonna tell the story again, I feel 146 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: like this is totally serially, you're going to tell it really, Okay, start, 147 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: do we start with where I was born? Like Tris starting, 148 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: he asked, pre show, So I'm talking about what happened. Okay. 149 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: So Tris and I are both like born in Indiana, 150 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: so we have that together. So that's why that was 151 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: brought in. Okay, I'll bring mine in just because everybody 152 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: is confused by the fact that on the show it 153 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: said actually from Jersey. Okay, so I was living in 154 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: New Jersey for like a year before the show. But 155 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: I was very clear. I was like, I want you 156 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: to put my hometown Great Falls, Virginia, because that's where 157 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: I've lived for twenty years. Like that's my hometown. Um, 158 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: that's where my parents to live, you know whatever, that 159 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: will always be, like Hume. And they did not want 160 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: to listen because they were like, this girl is a 161 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: Jersey girl. Um, and I was born there, two very 162 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: Jersey parents. Love Jersey, love considering that part of my 163 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: home as well. Um, but I was born there two 164 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 1: years there. Then we moved to Boston for a couple 165 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: of years when my dad was in his residency up there, 166 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: and then we live in Virginia forever and then I 167 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: bounced around. But then but like but like Trista, I 168 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: also applied while in grad school because I thought, I 169 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 1: don't know what the step in my life is. You know, 170 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:09,680 Speaker 1: I was in broadcast journalism, so wrong reasons and it 171 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: all works out right now I have this podcast. Somehow 172 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:25,559 Speaker 1: life comes full circle for me. I was I was 173 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: in college at any university, I go Hoosiers. I had 174 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: a girlfriend at the time that I was very serious about, UH, 175 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: and we broke up, and she broke up with me, 176 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: and so my buddy goes, let's just get away, like, 177 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 1: let's not get jobs out of college, Let's just moved 178 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,839 Speaker 1: to South America and teach and just hang out for 179 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: as long as we want. So we moved to Peru 180 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: and I was living in Cusco, Peru, my favorite you've been. 181 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: It's a beautiful place, a wonderful place to be. And 182 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 1: so we were down there for a few months. I 183 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: got really homesick, so I stopped teaching, which, as a result, 184 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: UH canceled my UM place to live because I was 185 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 1: leaving living with the teachers. And so I went into 186 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 1: the UM office for the city and I said, hey, 187 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: I just need a job for like another month. And 188 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: they said, do you have any farming background? We just 189 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: had the zoo keeper uh quit And I said, my 190 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: grandpa had two horses, and they go, that's good enough. 191 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: I'm not getting this a true story. I was the 192 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:37,439 Speaker 1: zookeeper at the Cousco Rescue Zoo for a full month 193 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: of my life. I fed bears. I have pictures to 194 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: prove this. We had bears, we had uh uh, we 195 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 1: had eagle, we had hawks, we had monkeys, we had 196 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 1: a puma uh an ostrogen And this the zoo. You 197 00:10:55,960 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: had to actually walk into um the their habitats to 198 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: feed them. So you'd have one person stand and block 199 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 1: with like a stick kind of banging across the ground 200 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: to keep the animals back, and you would dump the food. 201 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 1: And at that point then I raised got enough money 202 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:14,719 Speaker 1: to fly home. My parents probably would have paid for 203 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 1: my plane ticket, but I was too prideful. I get 204 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,319 Speaker 1: back shared. I've never I don't think i've ever shared 205 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,439 Speaker 1: this story. I never knew he was a zookeeper out 206 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 1: of the country, South America. A puma eat How does 207 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: someone how does someone who's not a zookeeper eat you? 208 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: Just like I'm gonna give them some tuna fish. No, 209 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: we get the So every morning the grocery store would 210 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,439 Speaker 1: have a shipment of all food that got outdated, come 211 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 1: in like a day old, like meat that was still 212 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: good enough for animals to eat, but like humans couldn't 213 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: consume it due to whatever regulations. And so we would 214 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 1: get that and we chop it up in the size 215 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: that the animals could eat, and then we would dump it. 216 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:55,680 Speaker 1: But like with the birds, it was really hard with 217 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: the birds that were meat eat ears because they would 218 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: stand over the top of you. Commodores would stand over 219 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:03,239 Speaker 1: the top of you and they're like nine ft wingspans 220 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 1: and just squeal and they'd be like right above you 221 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: on the tree branches trying to take the food wild. 222 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:14,559 Speaker 1: There's a thousand stories from that month that I could shoo. 223 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,959 Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I'll tell you. So. I have an 224 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,439 Speaker 1: obsession in life, especially when I was younger, to create 225 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 1: stories because my grandfather was a storyteller. And then this 226 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: is this is where this will end very quickly now 227 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,320 Speaker 1: and that was a great story. But I got back home, 228 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: went to Denver, had a job, wasn't dating, wasn't good 229 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: at my job, had no friends, got super sad. Wasn't 230 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: creating any stories for like six months of my life. 231 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: And the chief marketing officer and my company came up 232 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: and she said, let's get you like out of here, 233 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: like let's you gotta find out something. And so her 234 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: and I, I will say, sat down at her computer 235 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,839 Speaker 1: and signed up for the show because she's like, this 236 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 1: could be something for you, like this could be your 237 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: next step. So so sweet. Yeah, you had the title 238 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: speaking of like you know I had. You had the 239 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 1: title of software salesman. But then in your book you 240 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 1: reveal that you actually just wrote the booklets. Well, so 241 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,320 Speaker 1: I was a software salesman after the Bachelor. So I 242 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: moved up, I got I got promoted because I stayed. 243 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: I kept that job for a year and a half 244 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: after I was a bachelor. And I mean obviously, like 245 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: you go on national television, they put in sales. Yeah, 246 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: they upgraded me. Yeah so for some by downgrade, for 247 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: me the upgraded. Oh my god. They would explained what 248 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: you were doing before you were writing the instruction. I 249 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: was a user manual writer. You must have wanted to die. 250 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: It was terrible for me. Think about me. I get 251 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 1: paid now to talk back then I I got paid 252 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 1: to do test scripts and like case studies on our 253 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 1: software and run but yeah run bucks is and then 254 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: write a user manual on how to process do the bug. 255 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: It was really hard on me. Um. So then I 256 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:03,560 Speaker 1: want to show the rest is history. Uh so that's 257 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 1: how we all got on this show. Now, I I 258 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:07,959 Speaker 1: want to talk about all this because this podcast is 259 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: a twenty three and Me podcast, and a lot of 260 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 1: it is about our origin stories, or about even our 261 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 1: ancestral stories of where we come from, who we are, 262 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: what makes us us. And that's what I'm gonna talk 263 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 1: to all of you about today. So everybody in the 264 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: room has taken the test. I'm gonna start back. I 265 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: think we have a good flow with Trista. What made 266 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 1: you decide to take this test? What made you excited 267 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: about it? I feel like I've always been just really curious, 268 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: and I guess curiosity is just part of my nature, 269 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: you know. And I so I'll share a little story 270 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: and that when I grew up, I always knew that 271 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: on my dad's side of the family, I had Uh 272 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: they call it in the in the twenty three and 273 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: Me they call it indigenous American. Now that's that's what 274 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: it's titled. And so I grew up knowing that I 275 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: had some Cherokee blood in me, and but I didn't 276 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: know how much. And you know how so my kids 277 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: are at the point where we're five years away from 278 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: Ryan and I being empty nesters, which is freaking crazy 279 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: to me, Like it scares me to death. I don't 280 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: know what I'm going to do without my children. And 281 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: is not empty I know, but still um So, anyway, 282 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: so we're talking, I mean college is still always away, 283 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: but talking about college and it kind of brought back 284 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: memories about me in college and I'm thinking, oh gosh, like, 285 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: you know, scholarships whatever. So when I was applying for 286 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: a scholar for you know, scholarships or whatever, and I 287 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: didn't get any for college, I just you know paid 288 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 1: for it. Um it came up as you know, you 289 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: do have some Indigenous American in you. And I never 290 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: applied for that kind of scholarship. But I'm thinking to myself, 291 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: well maybe with twenty three and me, I can actually 292 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: figure out how much because they have a little bit, right, Yeah, 293 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: And I honestly think it's like any percentage you can 294 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: apply if you are didn't have enough Yeah, exactly. Well, yeah, 295 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 1: you're curious. I was curious. Yeah, that's why. That's why 296 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 1: I did it, because I wanted to see I was curious, 297 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: and I think, honestly, these results are so freaking comprehensive 298 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: in terms of your health, and it's not like a 299 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: diagnosis by any means. But I really feel like it's 300 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: it's amazing information. So I'm really glad I did it. 301 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: But that's why I think one of the reasons that 302 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 1: I did it. Yeah, you're intrigued, we're in the health 303 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: questions here later on, because that is a huge benefit 304 00:16:55,920 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 1: three and me, especially for those that are parents. You know, um, 305 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: you can help your kids, tell your kids kind of 306 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: what you're health history is within your family. It's a 307 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: big benefit. So for you, Bob, again, the same question 308 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: to you when this was offered to you, what made 309 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: you excited about taking it? Um? Yeah, I was curious too, Um, 310 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 1: And I too was under the impression that I had 311 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: indigitous American Indian in my bloodline as well, because I've 312 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 1: been told that my whole life until this report pops 313 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: up and tells me that I don't feel I feel robbed. 314 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: I feel I feel I feel victimized. Right now, I 315 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: think that I I'm challenging my test results. Also, I'm 316 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: gonna call it twenty three and folks, we're gonna do 317 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 1: it again. But um no, I was curious because you know, 318 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 1: um my my, I've always heard that I was American, Indian, Irish, 319 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:49,679 Speaker 1: and um, the Irish definitely shows up on there. But 320 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: what else, I mean, what else shows up? Then? Uh? 321 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:56,360 Speaker 1: I got some some France, got some Germany. What else 322 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: do I have on my thing here? But actually I did, 323 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: I went like one step further. So I started doing 324 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:04,159 Speaker 1: all the test questions, and so I started getting a 325 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: lot of information. I I have some Switzerland in me, 326 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: British and Irish, uh, broadly Northwestern European, Greek and Balkan. 327 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:18,360 Speaker 1: I love Greek food, Um, Sardinian, I don't really like sardine's. 328 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: I know that's not the same thing. So yeah, I 329 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:23,639 Speaker 1: don't know. I got a lot of good stuff on here. 330 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: But you know, surprisingly the one thing that didn't show 331 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 1: up was indigitous, American, Indian. So I'm a little surprised 332 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: by that. Well it could be, I mean, it is 333 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 1: one of maybe one of the benefits twenty three and 334 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 1: me is you know. For you gotta think like our 335 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 1: grandparents were told stories, but they didn't have the technology 336 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: in the ability to actually prove that those stories were 337 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:45,400 Speaker 1: true or false or kind of how they worked out. 338 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 1: And now we do, and then now you get a 339 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,639 Speaker 1: better picture, uh in, a clearer picture of where you 340 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 1: come from, who you are, Um Ashley, for you, why 341 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,120 Speaker 1: did you say yes to this? Well, now I'm regretting 342 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 1: not giving my key to Jared because he's definitely more 343 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: of the mutton. He doesn't really know as much about 344 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 1: his background as I do. My sister had taken a 345 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 1: twenty three of the test a couple of years ago. 346 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 1: Everything is not only what you got a couple of 347 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: years ago, but also pretty much exactly what we have 348 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,360 Speaker 1: been told our entire lives. We are, we really are. 349 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: I will say that I am only twenty one person Italian, 350 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 1: which makes me sad because I thought I was a 351 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: full quarter. You didn't swipe your mouth on the Italian side, 352 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: you know, no. Lawrence also said it was is that 353 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 1: wild though? I mean, how accurate it is? So yeah, 354 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: it's so crazy that it's the exact same as my 355 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:50,440 Speaker 1: sister and we did years apart. We have different spit 356 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 1: and all that. Did you pull up your relatives like 357 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: I pulled up Yes, my cousin's there, and my dad's there, 358 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:01,159 Speaker 1: like my and my dad, um, and then some and 359 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: then and then it's like all of a sudden, they're 360 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,640 Speaker 1: like third cousin and like far off cousins. I'm like, wow, 361 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:08,479 Speaker 1: I'm surprised that I don't have more people my immediate 362 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: family who have taken this test. Yeah, well, that's a 363 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 1: great segue there about because I wanted to talk One 364 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: of the cool parts about the test was seeing relatives, 365 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 1: uh and seeing the third cousins, second cousins. We'll just 366 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 1: open it up here. There's no direct question to anybody. 367 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 1: Was that interesting for you all to see your relatives? 368 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 1: I thought that was one of the coolest parts. Yeah, 369 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:30,160 Speaker 1: I think so too. It's very interesting, I have to say. 370 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 1: So this is on the heels like us taking this 371 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: test is on the heels of Ali Faedatowski sharing how 372 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:39,640 Speaker 1: she did Did you hear about the have you guys 373 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: talked about it? So? Ali took I think it was 374 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 1: twenty three and me and she found out that she 375 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,400 Speaker 1: has a sister that her father didn't even know what 376 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 1: he had given like he had four he im before 377 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 1: he ever got with his mom, he had a child 378 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:08,159 Speaker 1: and never so she didn't know she had a sister. 379 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:12,160 Speaker 1: And so going going into this test, I'm thinking, Okay, 380 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: this is Ali's life right now. Where holy how do 381 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 1: we really want to take this? And you know, nothing 382 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: like that happened for Ryan, and I think so interesting, Yes, 383 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 1: and she connected with this sister just crazy, just crazy anyway, 384 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 1: So that's kind of like a scary situation where it 385 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,400 Speaker 1: could it could really truthfully happen to so many men 386 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:43,399 Speaker 1: who if you're actually if you were sexually active with 387 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: with anyone prior to the person that you ended up marrying, 388 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: it could be something that happens and pops up in 389 00:21:50,800 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: your twenty three and me. Okay, so one of the 390 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,959 Speaker 1: cool parts about twenty three and me, we've not discussed 391 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: why we did it, uh, kind of what we found out, 392 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,439 Speaker 1: you know, the really exciting parts about maybe getting up 393 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 1: and seeing some relatives that have taken it as well 394 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 1: and and match with that. But I think and I'm 395 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 1: not a parent, but I think one of the interesting 396 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: parts for me would be finding out some of the 397 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: health history, uh, and some of the things that you 398 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: should look out for in your family. I know my 399 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 1: mom took it in arthritis and heart disease kind of 400 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,199 Speaker 1: pops up in there. Uh so for you all that 401 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 1: are now parents, all three of you are are parents. 402 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 1: That was this something that you looked at? Did you 403 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: do any I guess the second follow up question would be, 404 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 1: did you do anything with this information? Um, after you 405 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: saw kind of what you're more susceptible to. There is 406 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 1: some stuff on here that's really interesting, like for example, 407 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 1: and it's accurate. So I've clicked on this thing that 408 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 1: said back hair. I'm like, oh, says you. Uh, your 409 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,439 Speaker 1: genetics predict you are eighty six percent ants that you 410 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: have little or no back hair and I don't have 411 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: really yes, fourteen percent chance you have at least some 412 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 1: back hair. Then the same numbers for bald spots, which 413 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:14,440 Speaker 1: I don't have that issue than eighty seven percent chance 414 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: I do not have a bald spot. This thing is 415 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: aces bunyans. It says I have a high likelihood for 416 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 1: bunyans my grandfather. I said, I'm need a test for 417 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 1: that because it's right there in front of my face. 418 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,120 Speaker 1: But yeah, my grandfather had it, my mom had them, 419 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 1: and now I have them, and then it told me 420 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: how many steps I walked this last few days. So 421 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 1: I don't really know exactly why that has that, how 422 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,959 Speaker 1: it gets that, but I apparently am I'm clocking about 423 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: seven thousand steps a day. Second, you lying about that? 424 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,919 Speaker 1: I swear seven thousand one steps per day. I mean 425 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 1: it's prettyccurate. Okay, so Trista from me speaking in a 426 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 1: vial of things, but I think it's fantastic. And I 427 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: love you twenty three and me God bless you. So 428 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: before Trista we get to you, you're I want to 429 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 1: take a second though. I'm amazed by twenty three me 430 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: and not because they're sponsoring the podcast, but because and 431 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,679 Speaker 1: this is gonna sound like an infomercial. I don't know 432 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: how to not make it sound like one. It's so 433 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 1: easy to take, Like I think all of us are 434 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: giggling and laughing because the the ease at which you 435 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: take this test and the information that comes back and 436 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: the accuracy of this information, Like it would be different 437 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 1: if we're looking at this being like that's not true, 438 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 1: Like Bob's covered him back here and he is as 439 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: bald as a cucumber, Like no, that is yeah, that 440 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: is very accurate. Uh. And also with Ashley and or Bunyan's, Like, 441 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: I don't think anybody on the I mean anybody knows 442 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: Ashley knows that she has some very aggressive bunyans. And 443 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: like the fact that, uh, this test, I mean, I 444 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: find it amazing could actually pick up on the fact 445 00:24:55,320 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: that you have bunyans. This tells you this don't even 446 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: like the word spit, Like that's pretty gross. This makes 447 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: me no, I will say, there are things on here. 448 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: So there's all these traits. I'm just going to go 449 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:21,640 Speaker 1: through the list. Ability to match, musical pitch, asparagus, odor detection, 450 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 1: bitter taste, bunyan's cheek, dimples, cilantro taste, aversion, cleft, chin 451 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:33,159 Speaker 1: dan druff, earlobe type, earwax type, eye color, fear of heights, 452 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:37,800 Speaker 1: fear of public speaking, finger length ratio, flat feet, freckles. 453 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:43,120 Speaker 1: Like the list goes on. It is so detailed. It's 454 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,919 Speaker 1: under traits. So um, it's under the health. And I 455 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 1: will say, because I am a parent, yes it is. 456 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: It is important to me to know this stuff, but 457 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 1: not necessarily to pass on to my kids just yet. 458 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: For me, I want to know, like my dad, my 459 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: grandfather had macular degeneration, and I show up as having 460 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,919 Speaker 1: a slightly increased risk for that, and and that's a 461 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: scary thing, but it's something that I feel like I 462 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: can talk to my doctor about, like, you know, maybe 463 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: in twenty years or something like that. But knowing that 464 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,640 Speaker 1: I have an increased risk for that, and Celiac disease 465 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,640 Speaker 1: shows up, and as having a slightly increased risk type 466 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,919 Speaker 1: two diabetes, which I knew because my dad has it 467 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 1: and my grandmother had it. Like I know that that stuff, 468 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 1: but having it in this form as a report, like 469 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: a black and white report that says this is an 470 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: increased risk, it's something that I can you know, I 471 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: was really concerned about breast cancer, not that I have 472 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,399 Speaker 1: it in my family, but that shows up the br 473 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 1: br C A genes, and then like kidney disease and 474 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,439 Speaker 1: all these heart conditions. I feel like it's really great 475 00:26:55,480 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 1: information that you can utilize to take to your actor. 476 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: And actually started discussion, start a conversation that is so wild, 477 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 1: and I just have to say one more time, I 478 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: just gotta bring it up. You guys, we spit into 479 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:14,399 Speaker 1: a vial and somehow from that, I mean, this is 480 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:21,719 Speaker 1: like thinking about space that I don't disagree with you. 481 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 1: I think it's crazy. It's crazy. I think it's wild, 482 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 1: And I mean, this is how like a knowledgeable I am. 483 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 1: I'm thinking like what if I like had something weird 484 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: to eat right before I did it? Right? I know you, 485 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,920 Speaker 1: I know, but like people obviously are getting accurate results 486 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 1: even through like whatever they're doing throughout the day. Um, 487 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,159 Speaker 1: there's a great way to take the test, right, you 488 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 1: follow the directions. You you know, your your mouth is clean, 489 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,639 Speaker 1: everything is good. But you're right, the details of this 490 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,719 Speaker 1: are incredible. Okay, So final question for you all, Now 491 00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: that you have the details and you have the information, 492 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,439 Speaker 1: what are you going to do with it or what 493 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,159 Speaker 1: is it done for you personally? We'll start with Trista 494 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 1: again because that's kind of our flow. Um, even if 495 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: it's just enjoying it and reading it, what are you 496 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,199 Speaker 1: going to take from taking the twenty three test? So 497 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,640 Speaker 1: it's hard for me to not bring Ryan into this. 498 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,359 Speaker 1: I wish I had it up um like that I 499 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,439 Speaker 1: could actually read it and what's you're read it to 500 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 1: you to his ancestry, But he has I think it's 501 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: like it's like a very small percentage but he has 502 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 1: like point Neanderthal, and that's awesome. I have a little 503 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: myself as well. Hold I so mind you, this is 504 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 1: my house for the like that I have to I'll 505 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 1: have to go back and look at it. But it's 506 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: very minimally caveman. So you guys like my house the 507 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 1: last two weeks, three weeks or whatever. It's guys like 508 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: walking around eating round. It's like, you know, we have 509 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 1: to procreate. So oh yeah, there's a lot of sorry 510 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 1: to my children and I and my in laws, but 511 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 1: there's a lot of getting naked lately. Yeah, life is good. Anyway, 512 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 1: that's my life lately. That's funny. Say so, Bob, for you, 513 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: what are you going to take from this? You know, 514 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,479 Speaker 1: I like, I'm going to continue filling out a lot 515 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 1: of the questions that I didn't do yet. So there's 516 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: like some stuff because I want my kids to know 517 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 1: if there's a chance for genetic stuff, you know, things 518 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 1: like that. Um, I am also going to use the 519 00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: procreate neanderthal thing when I get home. I'm not sorry 520 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 1: to my in laws about that. Um, but I think 521 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting. I mean, there's a lot of 522 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: stuff in here that I mean, I haven't even It's 523 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 1: the tip of the iceberg for me. So I'm gonna 524 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 1: go through and really start to answer some more of 525 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: these things on the next reports and and share that 526 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 1: stuff with my family because I think it's important. And 527 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: I've never known half of this stuff that I'm reading 528 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: about myself right now. And I mean, I don't want 529 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: to diminish. I know, you know, this is all interesting 530 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 1: and it's fun and you learn a lot, but I 531 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: don't want to diminish that you're your story of your 532 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: origin changed from this test. Yeah, you know. And so 533 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 1: that's a big deal for for many people taking the 534 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 1: tests as they find out that yes, what I've been 535 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,160 Speaker 1: told or what my family might have known is not 536 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 1: true to me. And I now, would you do with 537 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 1: that what you want? I went from American, Indian Irish 538 00:30:50,920 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 1: to Neanderthal. Too of a cave man is for you? Okay? Um? 539 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 1: For me, I think it's kind of like a story 540 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 1: telling like origin there God, I am becoming my husband. 541 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 1: It's an origin story story of Superman, our son Dawson. 542 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: I think it's like the ancestry part for me that 543 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: I didn't really like. I think it'll be cool for 544 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 1: like traveling purposes, just like throughout our kids or Dawson 545 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 1: or possibly plural children's lives, to be like you're like 546 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:29,960 Speaker 1: part of you from here. This is where like this 547 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 1: great grandparents from. This where this great grandparent was from. Um, yeah, 548 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: you can actually find like pinpoint the location. Yeah. Like 549 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 1: I'm looking at this map right now and I'm like, 550 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 1: this is when we can travel here and that's where 551 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,959 Speaker 1: you know of me came from there, and that's crazy. 552 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 1: So I think for me it has to do with 553 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:53,640 Speaker 1: just kind of like knowing where your roots are. It's 554 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 1: all so great. Before we end today's podcast, we do 555 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:02,080 Speaker 1: have a very special guest. Uh, it's late, but Ryan 556 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 1: did step in because he cares um to talk about 557 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 1: his twenty three and me results. Now, we've already got 558 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,360 Speaker 1: a hint of this from Trista before you came in. 559 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 1: We know some of your results, so don't be shy. 560 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 1: Uh what did you learn Ryan and your results? Well, 561 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 1: the biggest thing, really, the only thing I learned that 562 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 1: I sort of stopped. I stopped after I saw was 563 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:29,160 Speaker 1: that I have some pretty unique Neanderthal roots, Which is 564 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 1: does that make you extra manly? I feel like it 565 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: definitely does. Yeah, I mean, I think I think my 566 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: ancestors were actually around before Homeo Sapiens, Right, Yeah, I 567 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 1: think that's how it works, right, the Neanderthals. Can I 568 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 1: ask you a question that you might know because I'm 569 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 1: sure you've researched it and it might make me sound 570 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 1: totally totally a knowledgeable and that's fine. Um, aren't we 571 00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,920 Speaker 1: all at some level having roots from Neanderthals? Apparently not, 572 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:05,640 Speaker 1: I think there. I think so. I don't know where 573 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:11,240 Speaker 1: the actual Homeo Sapiens side of things came from, but 574 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 1: they entered the picture after the Neanderthals. So my family, 575 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: your family came onto the planet Earth after my family. 576 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 1: So you're an origin you're yeah, you've been around since 577 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 1: the beginning. That answers a lot of questions I've always 578 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 1: had about Ryan is how does he have such big muscles? Um? Yeah, 579 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: we had to. Yeah, you had to. We were wrestling 580 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:37,960 Speaker 1: like wooly mammoth. Since. Yeah, it wasn't easy. I'm looking 581 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:42,880 Speaker 1: up the definition, okay. Neanderthals, by definition, are an extinct 582 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 1: species or subspecies of archaic humans that lived in Eurasia 583 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: about forty thousand years ago. While the cause of their 584 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 1: extinction remains highly contested. Demographic factors like small population size, 585 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:04,520 Speaker 1: in breeding, in random fluctuations are considered to be likely factors. 586 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:09,640 Speaker 1: And this is a photo crime. Yeah, I can see 587 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:13,719 Speaker 1: the resemblance. Yeah, brows and such. Right, how did you 588 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,640 Speaker 1: feel when you read your results? Was any? I mean, 589 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 1: this is obviously, uh, super interesting. I think that you 590 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 1: have those roots. But did anything else pop up with 591 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,960 Speaker 1: your health history or things you're more susceptible to that 592 00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 1: that kind of stood out health history? Not really. I 593 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,080 Speaker 1: think some of the interesting things were, um, that I 594 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,640 Speaker 1: have a tendency or I guess I'm less likely to 595 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,880 Speaker 1: be able to sneeze with the full stomach part of this. 596 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:42,759 Speaker 1: This is one of the things that they talk about 597 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:47,360 Speaker 1: on t DA mate, and it's some people can't sneeze 598 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,520 Speaker 1: when too full, and I apparently have a good chance 599 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:54,759 Speaker 1: of being one of those. So although, like in you know, 600 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,840 Speaker 1: full disclosure, the other night, I had a bowl of 601 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,759 Speaker 1: cereal and shortly after you're sneezed. So I'm wondering if 602 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: maybe I admit that skipped me. You're gonna remember every 603 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 1: time now that you sneeze on a full stomach. I 604 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 1: wouldn't say a bowl of cereal is a full stomach. 605 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:13,839 Speaker 1: Though that's true, it wasn't a very big bowl of cereal. Yeah, 606 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,640 Speaker 1: I'm used to like yeah, like I'm used to eating 607 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,799 Speaker 1: large amounts of meat, so cereal is not that big 608 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,000 Speaker 1: of a deal. So I think I'm still I'm still 609 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,920 Speaker 1: in the running for not sneezing with a full stomach. 610 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:31,080 Speaker 1: But I think just like Neanderthal component aside, just just 611 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 1: seeing sort of where your heritage came from, sort of 612 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,759 Speaker 1: that part of it was really interesting. Can you share 613 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,240 Speaker 1: with us what you are besides neanderfl since we focus 614 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,160 Speaker 1: a lot on that. Yeah, like, no, none of it's 615 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 1: really as important. I was Northwestern European, so German French area, 616 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,239 Speaker 1: and then also there was a British component, which was 617 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 1: more of an Irish side, which seems to go correlate 618 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,400 Speaker 1: with what my parents have said over there. And then 619 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:05,640 Speaker 1: there was some um, oh gosh, what's the term. I 620 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,080 Speaker 1: can't think of it. It's like Iceland and Greenland and 621 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:12,200 Speaker 1: that No, no, that would be a good guest. Scandinavian. Yeah, 622 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:17,480 Speaker 1: I had some Scandinavian in there, and um yeah, and 623 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,279 Speaker 1: then the rest of it I think was just full 624 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,920 Speaker 1: in Neanderthal, but other than that. It was mostly like it, 625 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,600 Speaker 1: but it was interesting just to see kind of where 626 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,680 Speaker 1: that came from. Not right, I would love to say, 627 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,000 Speaker 1: like trist is sitting over there like this is ridiculous 628 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,800 Speaker 1: right now, But right before you came in, Um, she 629 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:37,040 Speaker 1: did seem very intrigued by your results and in fact 630 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:38,879 Speaker 1: kind of alluded that the twenty three of me has 631 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:44,719 Speaker 1: helped your intimacy as a couple. Yeah, explains it really 632 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:51,000 Speaker 1: explains a lot. I'm able to use that as an 633 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,800 Speaker 1: excuse for like, listen, I mean, I can't help I 634 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:58,759 Speaker 1: can't help it thousand years like you can't stop that, 635 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,000 Speaker 1: and and she it, she mentioned it. And so I 636 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,719 Speaker 1: just want to say kudos to you and kudos to me, 637 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,200 Speaker 1: Um for supporting every Yeah, thank you changed life changing 638 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,320 Speaker 1: really at pleast for the last week or so. Until 639 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,799 Speaker 1: next time. Follow our lade. I've been been, I've been 640 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:16,759 Speaker 1: ash I've been Trista, and I'm Bob. That works. 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