Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about how incredibly complex I spit is.
Speaker 1: It may only be water, but just aliva isn't simple.
Speaker 1: That remaining one holds incredibly meaningful information that could change everything.
Speaker 1: And I'm not just talking about your family treat Hi.
Speaker 1: I'm Barren to day Thurston. And on this season of
Speaker 1: Spit and I Heart Radio podcast with twenty three and Me,
Speaker 1: we explore how DNA isn't just about ancestry, it can
Speaker 1: also be key to understanding your health. Hey you, and
Speaker 1: welcome back. Now. We've had plenty of episodes a Spit
Speaker 1: that make you think. Today we're also going to make
Speaker 1: you laugh because this episode features comedian Frankie ken yonez
Speaker 1: of The Very Funny Frankie Kenyon Show here to share
Speaker 1: his experience with twenty three and Me. Frankie took a
Speaker 1: test along with his mother, and they recently sat down
Speaker 1: to discuss their results. Frankie's mom was very excited to
Speaker 1: learn about her family's ancestry, but maybe she was a
Speaker 1: little more excited to learn that Frankie shares fifty point
Speaker 1: seven percent of her DNA. The way she sees it,
Speaker 1: Frankie's technically made up more of her than his father.
Speaker 1: Boom Braggon writes that she is more than happy to
Speaker 1: gloat about for the rest of her life. Now. As
Speaker 1: these two dive into their health reports, Frankie shows his
Speaker 1: mom how the information provided by twenty three in Me
Speaker 1: can help him take better care of himself in the future.
Speaker 1: From eating better to discussing reports with his doctor, it's
Speaker 1: all helpful for Frankie. And along the way, there might
Speaker 1: even be an appearance from the Frankie Kenyon shows very
Speaker 1: own creeper if you know, you know either way, let's
Speaker 1: listen in. Hey, what's up, homies? Is frank I'm excited today.
Speaker 1: I'm interviewing my mother. Yeah, yeah, say what's up? Mom? Hey,
Speaker 1: what's upp We have teamed up with twenty three and
Speaker 1: me and both my mom and I participated in it,
Speaker 1: got a reports back. It's actually been a really cool experience.
Speaker 1: And so what have you? What do you know about
Speaker 1: twenty three and me? Uh, you know what I heard
Speaker 1: about it from you, from family and friends, and I
Speaker 1: was a little like, what is this? You know, I
Speaker 1: was a little apprehensive at first, but then I got
Speaker 1: a little more informed and learned more about it, and
Speaker 1: I thought it could give me some health guidelines, find
Speaker 1: out about more about my ancestry, which was really a
Speaker 1: big question mark for me most of my life. So
Speaker 1: I thought if it could give me a general idea, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm in Yeah, that's what's so. I just figured I
Speaker 1: was a mutt. I didn't know. I I thought I
Speaker 1: was just a combination of a whole bunch of stuff,
Speaker 1: because my uncle used to say, we had some French,
Speaker 1: we had some I don't know, a bunch of stuff,
Speaker 1: kinds of stories. Yeah, just just I just went along thinking, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm just a much you know, just a mixture of
Speaker 1: all kinds of goodness. And here I am actually on
Speaker 1: my report right in front of me. Yes, so let
Speaker 1: tell us about that. Okay. So I got my report
Speaker 1: and it, uh, thirty six percent Native American and uh
Speaker 1: uh what is it like? Fifty six percent Southern European.
Speaker 1: And my family always said we came from Naples, Okay.
Speaker 1: But what I was really excited about is this really
Speaker 1: gave us the region. Okay, I didn't realize Naples was
Speaker 1: like a big general region. This pinpointed it too. We
Speaker 1: came from Campania sicily Lazio Embassy like Okay, So I
Speaker 1: think I just thought, Okay, Naples, but this like kind
Speaker 1: of narrow it down gave us more of a general
Speaker 1: idea of where our roots came from. So I was
Speaker 1: excited about that. And you know, I have family in
Speaker 1: Texas that are from the the what tribe that I
Speaker 1: growing to love all these years, you know, and my father, um,
Speaker 1: that's his brother, and I love my uncle Joe Man,
Speaker 1: chief of the tribe in El Paso, Texas, and so
Speaker 1: we assumed we were related. Um, of course we are,
Speaker 1: because you know they have the but the Indian side,
Speaker 1: the Indian side, you know, we didn't know what the
Speaker 1: other side was. So but when this came back that
Speaker 1: you know, thirty six whatever it said, it was exciting
Speaker 1: because I love my people and they're the people that
Speaker 1: have given us so much love. And it's like this
Speaker 1: brought us brought a greater connection to that love that
Speaker 1: our family has given us. Yeah, yeah, I was you know,
Speaker 1: I wasn't surprised. I was like, I know him, you know,
Speaker 1: Native American and you know, Mexican whatever, and it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, but I know, you know, it says forty
Speaker 1: four point one percent you know, Spanish and Portuguese la,
Speaker 1: but you know, obviously that Spaniards, you know, it took over. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know, Grandpa Marcelino used to go around saying to
Speaker 1: Grandma Carman, hey, I'm from Barcelona. She you know, she
Speaker 1: used to tell him he was full of it. You know,
Speaker 1: you're not from Barcelona. He say, I'm from Barcelona. Well
Speaker 1: it came back Barcelona, so hey, Grandpa sla. She went
Speaker 1: to the grave not believing that, yeah, you're not from
Speaker 1: barcelonadn't have three back then? He said, no, yeah, Grandpa
Speaker 1: Marcelina was right on he was from Barcelona. Yeah, dang, Yeah,
Speaker 1: calculations were calculations three back then to prove Grandma Carmen wrong.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, no, Grandpa Carmen would tell him he was
Speaker 1: full of it. Yeah yeah yeah. And then on mine
Speaker 1: also found some Portuguese in there. Yeah yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what this is. So yeah. But also that I was like,
Speaker 1: it was a thirty seven thirty eight percent. Let me see,
Speaker 1: I was thirty eight percent Native American. Also, I was like,
Speaker 1: I was surprised by that. I thought it would be
Speaker 1: a smaller. How much it's like thirty eight Oh really yeah,
Speaker 1: well then dad must have some Native American in him.
Speaker 1: Then Yeah, we gotta get him. Came out that to
Speaker 1: get a report from twenty three minutes. Wow, okay, hook
Speaker 1: us up with a discount, get another chest. Yeah there
Speaker 1: you go. There you go raise your arms up high
Speaker 1: on me, all right, Hi, like if you're at at
Speaker 1: BoNT on me and you're trying to reach for the
Speaker 1: good serially, you know what I mean, Like the Coco
Speaker 1: crispies or the frosted plates are on the top shell,
Speaker 1: all right, and it's a trip on me because I
Speaker 1: heard that they like nowadays on me they have a
Speaker 1: sour patch kids cereals a and even a marshmallow fruity
Speaker 1: pebbles on me. But I don't recommend those on me
Speaker 1: because you know they preb too much sugar and you
Speaker 1: don't wanna, you know, get that to your kids because
Speaker 1: you won't be able to calm them down for days
Speaker 1: on me, and they'll probably like take your car keys
Speaker 1: and flush them down the toilet or throw them on
Speaker 1: the neighbor's roof, even on me. And then you gotta
Speaker 1: go with there, and that's the neighbor like, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna need to get on your roof right now. And yeah,
Speaker 1: the neighbor might be cool or even down to help it.
Speaker 1: But after a while that's gonna be taxing on me,
Speaker 1: on them and the neighbor relationship or whatever. So I
Speaker 1: suggest that you stick to the more o g healthier options.
Speaker 1: They like Raisin Brand or Captain Crunch. So keep reaching
Speaker 1: up on me as high as you can, as high
Speaker 1: as you can, all right. You should fill the stretch
Speaker 1: on me all the way up and down your try
Speaker 1: sera three, pass your oblique. Kids, toll on me, all right, okay,
Speaker 1: good job. Okay. Now, as we all know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of negative energy in the world. They go, he
Speaker 1: hold on, you know what, Hold up a real band.
Speaker 1: Can you play that that track real quick on me,
Speaker 1: the one that that sounds like dolphins and the forests
Speaker 1: or whatever? Yeah, alright, yeah, right there on me, right there. Okay,
Speaker 1: everybody close your eyes on me, all right, and just
Speaker 1: listen to my voice as we reset your mind, like
Speaker 1: they say in the meditational communities or what there. Alright,
Speaker 1: so close your eyes and breathe. Let me take a
Speaker 1: deep breath, then exhale. All right. Now, we all know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of negativity in the world on me,
Speaker 1: and we need to make changes all right, and it
Speaker 1: starts with yourself on me all right. That means take
Speaker 1: care of you first. So recently I teamed up with
Speaker 1: the good people at twenty three and me on me
Speaker 1: all right, and they hook me up with one of
Speaker 1: those their tests on me to like examinate my my
Speaker 1: DNAs on me all right. So you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to get all technicals of there, but that's what
Speaker 1: they do, homie, Like that's their job, you know. So
Speaker 1: they're pretty good at that alright. So trip out the
Speaker 1: reports suggests that that I may be predisposed to gout
Speaker 1: all right, homies. So I said, oh dangn you know
Speaker 1: trip out on gout? Uh. So I knew that I
Speaker 1: had to make some adjustments in my life, all right.
Speaker 1: Like I went to my Asian homies party recently, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to get you know, like stereotype anything
Speaker 1: or anything like that, but you know, it's just like
Speaker 1: Asians on me. They like to eat a lot of muscles.
Speaker 1: And so you know, we're there, homi, and it must
Speaker 1: have been like about thirty people there, HOI all right,
Speaker 1: and they were just you know, getting in and HOLDI
Speaker 1: and anti musks. You know, I'm just going in there
Speaker 1: and you know, and when they were done with me,
Speaker 1: the grandma would come out with another pot of muster day.
Speaker 1: They were just like it was like all you can need,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying on me, even the babies
Speaker 1: hold me. The babies were eating muscles. It was a trip,
Speaker 1: I said, dang. You know, they went straight from the
Speaker 1: bottle to own their macky muscles like that from everybody.
Speaker 1: And they were like, hey, creeper, come join us on
Speaker 1: me and I was like, hey, nah, I can't because
Speaker 1: you know I may be predisposed to gout. But happy
Speaker 1: birthday to Holmie, and I brought you a gift and everything,
Speaker 1: so you don't trip on me because I'm not eating
Speaker 1: muscles right now. But I don't even think they hurt me, Homie,
Speaker 1: because they were so busy slurping and the scallops off
Speaker 1: those muscles. I mean, like like all crazy. You know,
Speaker 1: it was like the orchestra of slurping, Homie. But that's
Speaker 1: either here nor there. HOI. The point is you gotta
Speaker 1: stay focused and keep it moving right, take care of
Speaker 1: yourself on me all right, and they'll respect that. Don't trip.
Speaker 1: So the twenty three and Me is a good thing,
Speaker 1: homie to help take care of yourself, all right, because
Speaker 1: the more you know, the better, homie. All right, Like
Speaker 1: my Primoto mass, I mean, this bottle might be the
Speaker 1: hardest fool that you've ever seen. On me, all right.
Speaker 1: When he's shrutting down the street, people like they would
Speaker 1: just walk to the other side HOMEI because he looks
Speaker 1: like he's done some things. Excuse me, but I bet
Speaker 1: that that fool just has gout hey, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And that's why he walks like that, in fact,
Speaker 1: on me, like his lady was was begging me to
Speaker 1: tell him to tell Tom to get the twenty three
Speaker 1: and me. But you know, I'm not gonna tell him
Speaker 1: because you don't. You don't talk about those like that
Speaker 1: like to do anything on me, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I'd stay on me. I had got a test
Speaker 1: and I hid it in the hood of his round
Speaker 1: plow with true story home me right there in his
Speaker 1: car on me. And I don't know if he took
Speaker 1: it or not, but his lady told me a week
Speaker 1: later that they all went to Sizzlers on me and
Speaker 1: that he didn't need any shrimp or state and he
Speaker 1: just asked for a sally so in conclusions or whatever.
Speaker 1: On mean, continue to think positive things. Hey, all right,
Speaker 1: and take care of yourself so that we can take
Speaker 1: better care of each other on me, right, okay, so
Speaker 1: hey that's a real band, So turn the lights on me.
Speaker 1: All right? Are you guys got a jam to home?
Speaker 1: Because there's a neck classes waiting outside already? All right,
Speaker 1: all right later, Okay, the one thing that you kept
Speaker 1: throwing in my face is like you better recognized, ful, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you better recognize Okay, it shows a what was it
Speaker 1: the percentage that I'm your son? Or fifty point oh
Speaker 1: seven baby, fifty point seven? Okay, so you gotta got
Speaker 1: my DNA more of my dna? M yeah for that
Speaker 1: just chilling rate thor like yeah, that explains that craziness. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah to the listeners, she's been like throwing that
Speaker 1: in my face, you know, like any time something happens
Speaker 1: to a fifty point seven fifty point seven seven, fifty
Speaker 1: point oh seven point oh seven, fifty point oh seven,
Speaker 1: you're mine, You're more of mine, You're more of mine.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I get it. That's right. So thank
Speaker 1: you twenty three, me for thank you twenty three and
Speaker 1: me for confirming what I knew all along. Yes, but
Speaker 1: this was exciting to go through. You know, yeah, what
Speaker 1: about all the the other information or you've got some
Speaker 1: of your health stuff in there. Yeah, but I'm good, homie,
Speaker 1: all right, you're the one with the issues. Hey, these hey,
Speaker 1: these these reports are not definitive, all right when it
Speaker 1: comes to the health. So now we're moving to the
Speaker 1: you know, the health side of of the twenty three
Speaker 1: and me reports. And so you say you're good huh yes, son, okay,
Speaker 1: so that that must be on the other half of that,
Speaker 1: oh seven, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, just a little awareness
Speaker 1: to look out for, you know, but you know, like
Speaker 1: you're everything in life, you know, just tread lightly right
Speaker 1: right right. Yeah. The first one that came up from
Speaker 1: me was type two diabetes. You know, it's typical likelihood
Speaker 1: and uh my DNA. But it's interesting because you can
Speaker 1: and you know, on the app right here in the
Speaker 1: twenty three mapp, you can you know, click on all
Speaker 1: these things and it gives you information on things you
Speaker 1: could do, preventative things you can do to avoid that,
Speaker 1: and you know, diet and stuff like that, and just
Speaker 1: just lets you know, what what what you know type
Speaker 1: type two beauties, entails and all that stuff. So that's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Yeah, because you're not. It doesn't like scare me.
Speaker 1: It's just like, hey, you know something helpful hints. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go to some day, you know, check this
Speaker 1: out and you're you know, DNA. There's things you could
Speaker 1: do to prevent it, which is like you said, though
Speaker 1: with anything, you know, but it's just well, mine does
Speaker 1: say I'm a cop out. Now mine does say silly
Speaker 1: ac disease, slightly increased risk. Okay, but it's just you know,
Speaker 1: like you say, not definitive. You know, it's just but
Speaker 1: I do get heartburned with too many tacos, so you
Speaker 1: know that who does it? So you know, tread lightly Yeah,
Speaker 1: where you like when you're when your mind saying Mr
Speaker 1: Tackles saying no, no homie, because yeah there's a risk,
Speaker 1: there's a risk, slightly increased risk. Okay yeah yeah so
Speaker 1: so maybe you know, just Bi Tackles are not sick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it is a nice guideline, nice guideline. Yeah. It
Speaker 1: was cool though to see that there was you know, stuff,
Speaker 1: all the stuff that wasn't detected. Also you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was kind of an upper like oh hell yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like, did you say that? Okay? Yeah, okay, like yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty good. Here, I have familial hyper cholesterol cholesterol mida. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's on your daddy's side. Okay, because I just had
Speaker 1: my physical. My cholesterol is one se okay, perfection, Well
Speaker 1: yeah I would mom. I'm saying that it wasn't detected
Speaker 1: in me. Okay, I thought it were. There was a risk. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: can I enjoy that? Or you go? Hey do you
Speaker 1: do you shine? Shine? But hereditary? Uh emilio diosis? Am
Speaker 1: I saying that right? Emy Lloyd Doss, emy Looy Doss.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so that's t TR related. So basically like
Speaker 1: like the heart stuff is looking good, you know good,
Speaker 1: it's mostly uh yeah yeah, just that that diabetes I
Speaker 1: gotta look out for. Hey alcohol, Yeah yeah, hey, they
Speaker 1: ain't got real with me? Made I contact Hey alcohol? Okay, Hey,
Speaker 1: well you know you're you're you want to take that
Speaker 1: precautionary road here, Yeah yeah, yeah, I don't know. You know.
Speaker 1: Three and Me is giving us some good advice here
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Speaker 1: three and me getting ready for twenty of them. We
Speaker 1: showed twenty people claim to be signists on TikTok a
Speaker 1: photo of you, and then they tell you what hereditary
Speaker 1: issues they think you might have. This is for entertainment
Speaker 1: purposes only, and it's not based on any twenty three
Speaker 1: and me service or reports. I send a photo myself
Speaker 1: to twenty and then, and they had said that I
Speaker 1: looked like my ancestors quote fell out of the ugly
Speaker 1: tree and hit every frinch on the way down. I
Speaker 1: don't know how there's it's helpful. We never promised value
Speaker 1: full feedback. I showed twenty of them a photo of
Speaker 1: my wife and I and they made a TikTok saying
Speaker 1: I have good news and bad news. You can both
Speaker 1: do better. Um. It went viral. I just don't think
Speaker 1: these are real scientists though. I think these are like
Speaker 1: roast comics or something. And I'm pretty sure this is
Speaker 1: just an old Ronnie Dangerfield joke. Actually it's called street joke. Sucker.
Speaker 1: If you can't take the heat, then get out the kitchen. Um,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't I just use twenty three and me. Um,
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Speaker 1: helpful service. We are not, nor do we claim to be. Also,
Speaker 1: your head looks like your neck is plowing the bubble
Speaker 1: twenty and them from ram check. And and it makes
Speaker 1: sense because it's it pretty much is a line with
Speaker 1: every last you know, physicals I've had, even recently, my
Speaker 1: heart has been in good condition or they even mentioned
Speaker 1: it like wow, you got a great heart rate or
Speaker 1: you know, they so this is in line with that.
Speaker 1: It's cool enough. So it's it's kind of cool because
Speaker 1: I was I was a little bit like, oh man,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to learn something that I
Speaker 1: need to be scared about it. I didn't get that
Speaker 1: feeling at all, like when I was reading the reports.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just very like information on just hey,
Speaker 1: these are things that to think about it. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't like, oh my gosh, I was like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: it was just like thank you. You know, I didn't either.
Speaker 1: To me, it came across as helpful hints, you know,
Speaker 1: helpful guidelines. Here you go, you know, kind of keep
Speaker 1: an eye out on this, just keep a lookout, you know.
Speaker 1: That's how I took it. So it wasn't scary at all.
Speaker 1: You know, I was a little apprehensive taking the uh
Speaker 1: doing this, but after doing it, I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is pretty good, feel good about it? Nice? Well
Speaker 1: that's awesome man. Um. Yeah, so I assume we're going
Speaker 1: to spend the rest of our lives. You're throwing me,
Speaker 1: uh these reports in my face with the whole fifty
Speaker 1: point on seven, and and anytime I act up, you're
Speaker 1: gonna blame it on all the good stuff, all the
Speaker 1: positive outlook here on your twenty three and me report
Speaker 1: comes from the fifty point oh seven side of you,
Speaker 1: the dominating side, dominating it coughed out all right, that
Speaker 1: city right behind you over here. So anytime I act before,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be like, oh, that's that forty nine point
Speaker 1: or whatever person acting because all that good things come
Speaker 1: from me. Yeah, that domination. All right. Well, thank you, mom,
Speaker 1: thanks for sitting here, Thanks for doing the test. I
Speaker 1: hope it was helpful and you liked it. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was. It was a trip going through
Speaker 1: all this. And yeah. The only thing is, you know,
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of relatives popping up here and there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, I got I mean I think just
Speaker 1: this week I got seventeen more cousins. Yeah, so thank
Speaker 1: you three of you. Granddaddy was busy, Yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 1: But the cool thing I like about it too, is
Speaker 1: like you can you keep finding more information? You know,
Speaker 1: you go to the app and and then there's like more. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've had to go back and forth several times. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't get it in one sitting, like go through it.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta go back look at it again.
Speaker 1: And yeah, but I have found it very helpful, right on,
Speaker 1: right on, all right, Well, thank you and enjoying the
Speaker 1: rest of your day or we'll be kicking it right now.
Speaker 1: And thank you to twenty three and me. It's been
Speaker 1: a great experience and uh definitely recommend it to all
Speaker 1: the homies out there. Yeah, do it, do it. It's
Speaker 1: exciting And that's it. On another dope show. Did this
Speaker 1: episode inspire you to take a closer look at your
Speaker 1: health history, your genetic makeup? Who new DNA could reveal
Speaker 1: so much about our past while also holding the keys
Speaker 1: to certain health insights that may impact our future. I
Speaker 1: continue to be inspired by these stories, and I hope
Speaker 1: you do as well. Catch you next time. Listen to Spit,
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