WEBVTT - Prodigy: A Stroke of Insight 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:06.560 Have you ever thought about how incredibly complex I spit is. 0:00:07.240 --> 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 --> 0:00:21.279 And I'm not just talking about your family treat hat. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.360 I'm barrettun 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, 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:31.040 we explore how DNA isn't just about ancestry, it can 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:38.559 also be key to understanding your health. Hey hey, it's 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.879 barrettune Day, Welcome back. It is hard to deny that 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.879 family la familia is the most important aspect of an 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.840 Italian's life. We've seen the movies, read the books, sat 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.280 around the table family style, and we've witnessed the bond 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:57.240 of this highly passionate community. The Italian family life can 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:02.400 be characterized by loyalty and closeness, and Lowell Berlante's family 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.640 it's no different. Loll is the host of the popular 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:10.440 podcast Prodigy, a show that investigates human psychology. For this 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.759 special episode, Lowell sets out to connect with his family 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.280 after taking the twenty three and Me test, and they 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.920 lightheartedly share stories of their pasts challenge each other on 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:24.400 who's more likely to start balding earlier. This family connection, 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:28.360 sparking all kinds of conversations, memories new and old, is 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.600 exactly why so many families like Lowell's are drawn to 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.119 taking the twenty three me test together. It's only when 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.520 Lowell receives an unexpected call from his brother that he's 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.920 forced to look beyond ancestry and the more playful traits 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.400 and take a closer look at his own health history. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.480 It's a wake up call, he explains, one that will 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.480 lead him to make smarter choices. He doesn't want to 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:52.960 wait until he has an incident to start being healthier. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.000 Let's listen in as Lowell goes on a journey of 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.680 personal health discovery, connecting with other family members to talk 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.400 about what it means to understand your health and what 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:09.560 your genetic makeup can say about you. You're listening to Prodigy. 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:16.560 My name is Lowell brillianty Sorry, my name is Lowell 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:22.680 real lante, real yante. I'm really not sure how you're 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.119 supposed to say it, but it's one of the three 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:29.720 Italian words I know. The others are bunjurn no and manga. 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.720 I never gave it much thought until people started asking me, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.280 is that really your name? Yeah, it's not a pen 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:41.000 name means brilliant in Italian. Because I come from a 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:45.799 long line of geniuses or narcissists, we don't really look 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:49.240 it in my opinion, but I'm told we're Italian. My 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.120 dad can speak it fluently. He learned it from his 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.320 parents while growing up in Brooklyn, New York, which I 0:02:55.200 --> 0:03:00.840 imagine was like the beginning of a source case film. 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.639 He would tell me stories about his mom's loving hospitality, 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.520 her wonderful cooking, and how quickly she could remove her 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.560 shoe and fire it at you if you got out 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.880 of line. It was less civilized time compared to today's standards. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:16.920 The shoe throwing was one of many stories my father 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.480 would tell me. The passing of those stories felt like school. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.680 They were mandated not by his school board, but by 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:33.720 the human need to pass things. One. Being Italian is 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.760 a point of pride to my parents. Every Christmas Eve, 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.360 I had the Dinner of the Seven Fishes and boogie 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:44.120 at the Italian American Club's Christmas party. To this day, 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.760 every time we go to an Italian restaurant, my dad 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:48.840 will find a reason to chat with the owner while 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:53.440 emphatically gesturing with his hands. On those occasions, he'll bust 0:03:53.440 --> 0:04:00.480 out the absolute fanciest pronunciation, but it's the earlier to me. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.720 But to be honest, I never really cared that much. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.720 I don't feel all that Italian. I was born in 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.280 the South. I don't own a single gold chain, and 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.880 my hair looks terrible when I slick it back. But 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:15.080 I can't cook. I'm not sure if cooking was a 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.680 genetic hand me down, but if it was, I got 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.000 it from my dad. He can whip up a pasta 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.440 dish to go with your second espresso in no time 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:26.400 at all. Stereotypes aside. I think I was born just 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:30.400 one too many generations removed. My grandparents all passed away 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.080 before I was old enough to remember them. They didn't 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.800 exactly leave behind many selfies. I have some old photographs 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:42.040 of stiffly posed people I don't recognize in my father's stories. Honestly, 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.599 I don't even recall how they died, but I know 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.840 they are relatively young. I'm over here door dash and 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.839 dunkin Donuts without any regard to what could be lurking 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:55.440 in my genetic code. This episode was sponsored by twenty 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.640 three and me, and to be completely honest, I don't 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.760 really want to see the health or I never get sick. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.919 I'm not obese, I'm not charming, but some women do 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:10.280 appreciate my arms. Mentally, I feel pretty decent about my health. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.640 Why mess with that? What if there's something in there 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:18.000 I can't control? It's the fear of finding out the FOFO. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.080 It's fun to say. So for this episode, maybe I'll 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.080 just focus on the ancestry part. I can connect with 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.359 a third cousin that I'm not sure if it's okay 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:31.479 to be attracted to, and learn how to make mozzarella. Oh, 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:36.000 I'm sorry, learn how to make mozzarella. My name is 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:46.279 Lowell and this is prodigy. Alright. The reports are in 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.960 time to find out if I'm actually Italian or just short. Okay. 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.680 It's broken down into three main categories with several subcategories. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.320 I'm going around decimals here. In the first category, I'm 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:04.760 European and that is Italian, mostly from Sicily, so my 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:09.080 parents weren't lying. And oh look at this point Jewish. 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.240 That gives me a few extra holidays. Next category is 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:17.280 Western Asian and North African. The subcategories are a bit 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.400 of a mishmash, but the main ones I see are Coptic, Egyptian, 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.480 and Cypriot. I'm not sure to say that I couldn't 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.800 point those out on a map, but luckily it shows 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.279 you one. The final category is point seven percent sub 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:37.640 Saharan African, specifically Ghanaian, Liberian, and Sierra Leonian. That makes 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.800 me curious how many generations you have to go back 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.640 to find that ancestor probably not many, since each generation 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:47.760 you go up by multiples of two, two parents, four grandparents, 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:52.080 eight great grandparents, sixteen great great grandparents. If I go 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:55.719 up ten generations, there's one thousand, twenty four people contributing 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.839 to my DNA. But anyway, I'm mostly Italian. I should 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:01.920 I call my dad and hear one of those childhood 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.120 stories I used to ignore. We had a little bodies 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.120 market which was was was a chicken market. You're going 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.400 on your pointed chicken. It would be awive and then 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.280 you guy, I would take it, this is where you want, 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.559 let's float and they put in a machine that would 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.880 boil your real hot machines, take all the feathers off 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.800 like a rotating machine, and you they were your chicken 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.840 packages up there Oh my god, that's how fresh. Yeah, 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.960 that's that's good. That do you think you would pick 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.280 the chicken he hated the most, or like our which 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:37.560 one looked the most delicious? Well, when you went to 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:41.200 the rooties, I don't know. My father always I know chicken, chicken. 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.280 One guy was like, oh wait, wait, let me pick, 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:44.880 and you're like, all right, watch out for that guy. 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:52.360 How did your parents punish you? My mother was the one. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.440 My father never hit us at all. He would threatened, 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.360 but you know that my mother would hit me with 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.840 a shoe and she'd come after me. She grabbed man, 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.640 you ran from her. She on the head where she 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.960 had the shoes like a slipper, and it was wood 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.680 inside of it, like hitting someone with a bat on 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.040 the head. That's a harder. Still, when she could throw it, 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.720 she was really really good at throwing it. You could 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.160 be like fifteen peter away and she hit you in 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:27.040 the head. She beat me with it. I mean she 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.040 was pretty, she was really neat, but we loved it. 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:34.240 She was someone that we absolutely loved. Even though she 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:38.760 has loved every one of us, five of us, and 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.400 everyone that knew her would love her. Anybody was invited 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.800 to our house. The guy would be the mailman she'd 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.920 invited to dinner. Anybody. Why. She just liked to do 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.280 nice things for people. She was just very generous. That 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.920 she was tough, but she was very very generous. What 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.760 she did and how she treated people, everybody seek to 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.720 like her, even in neighbors. He just went to the 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.760 decent person. You're six, You brought you things you know 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.560 she would take care of. Well, that clears things up 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.320 a bit. Turns out I'm a descendant of a kind 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.440 and generous woman that weaponized her footwear to beat her 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.439 children better. I wonder if three and me will hear this, 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.600 or if they're spending all their time on many Drivers episode. Oh, 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:26.640 getting a phone call from my sister hang on, okay, yeah, Hi, 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.320 So my cousin Josie is visiting and she did twenty 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.800 three and me too. She wants to compare reports, So 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.080 I'm gonna hit record and open up the website on 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.160 my new custom built PC. Well you gotta get the 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:42.599 hap alright, fine, but better not send me fifty entifications 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.400 like door dash. That's how I just set your request 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.400 or an invitation. I don't know what it's called. An 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:52.360 invitation to share. Once you accept Lowell, we can do 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.000 a side by side. It is really amazing that it 0:09:55.080 --> 0:10:00.320 knows like your second called one once removed. Ye okay, 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:07.600 you're like, you're pretty Asian and me I guess Western 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.839 Asian and North Africa. That's like a lot more than 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:17.439 Josie is. So he is a lot more Arab, Egyptian 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.200 and Levingine than I am. And one and a half 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.880 and he's six and a half. Yeah, and then all 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:27.840 this other stuff that I have zero he's Northwestern? Where 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.400 where are They're in West Asian. They're pretty excited, and 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.319 I'm kind of realizing why this is such a big 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:41.560 deal for families. I just got a Google math. So 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.960 this is so interesting. Jespine, you're like a super Neanderthal. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:52.920 I am, are you? What's that? From? Where? Said? You're it? 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.040 Just as you're like five pirsont war that we are 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.480 pretty sure it's that makes sense? Well, it explains a lot. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.240 Rachel really neanderthal? You think, I am? Check Rachel out. 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.320 So the Neanderthal percentages are pretty funny because of how 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.480 the word is commonly used, but it doesn't actually mean 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.199 anything about Josie's intelligence, stature, or ability to make fire. 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:19.880 I could look at this, Oh day long, it's so fun. Josie, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.600 how come there's no trait for you on your back 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:29.880 hair or your bald spox. I'm not saying that food, Lowell. 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.560 We're both predisposed to weigh more than average. I don't 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:39.360 like that one. Oh man, that's a great laugh. But 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:43.400 she's wrong. Yours says predisposed to weigh more than average. 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.240 Mind says predisposed to weigh about average. Oh you're right, 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:54.520 low Oh my god, early hair loss. No you don't 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.319 have a hair law, Yeah no I do. I do. 0:11:58.160 --> 0:11:59.920 It was no early hair. Well, I don't know what 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.920 early is, but like around colleges started to like get thinner, 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.240 but I still have like hair on my head, you know. Yeah, 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.000 well it's not lucky. And then your family, God would 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.120 be so terrible to be bald. So Josie wants me 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.679 to connect with other family members that have done it too. 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:19.440 Call Phil and tell him to accept. Send Phil an invitation. 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:24.000 I've never called Phil before or text him. I've never 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.000 texted him. I don't even know if it is he 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:27.800 in the app. I'm not. I don't know his number 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.680 like in the message group, you know how I messaged, 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.520 you just now the other number on there, so he's 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.240 done it. So I sent philow request to connect and 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.720 sign off. The next night, I get a phone call, 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.760 but it's not Phil, it's my brother and sister. One 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.080 side of my dad's face was drooping, so my mom 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.959 took him to the hospital. I've been dreading a call 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:51.000 like this. Losing a dog last year tore me apart 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:56.760 with grief. I don't know how the process losing my father. Thankfully, 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.920 it seems like he's doing okay, but they're keeping him 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:00.920 in the hospital so they can run some more scans. 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:03.720 My mom goes home for the night and my dad 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.320 doesn't have a charger, so we can't reach him. He's 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.760 probably resting, but I can't shake the thought that he's alone. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:12.599 The next day, my dad gets his charger and I 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.960 have a brief chat with him. His speech is a 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.080 bit slurred, but he's in good spirits. He gets excited 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.320 telling me about a Netflix show he's watching, and I 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:24.320 can hear a speech clear a bit. He's gonna be 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.240 all right. We'll keep him another day for scans and 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:31.040 then he can go home. Josie's mom had a stroke too. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.920 Is that my fate. Is it inevitable and I should 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.080 just say screw it and continue to live care free? 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.559 Where can I prevent or delay it? Well, it's probably 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.600 time I look at my health report. My last physical 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.880 showed high L d L cholesterol, so it wasn't much 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.040 of a surprise to see an increased likelihood for that 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.360 and coronary artery disease, which is what led to my 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:57.080 father's stroke. I can't do anything for my dad at 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.319 the moment, so I decided to call Phil. His mom 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:04.720 is my dad's sister, aunt, Josephine. How you been. I've been, well, 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.760 how about you? But before we started, how is your father? Oh? 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:09.800 He's good, But yeah, I guess he had like a 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.320 mild stroke or whatnot because of you know, like a 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.520 blockage in the heart, and they're considering right now whether 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.360 they have it cleared out surgically. April thinks he should 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.160 do it. Your mother and father are still considering it. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.560 That's my information. Do you have any more? No, that 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.600 was that's the same information that I have, because I 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.920 guess the question is like, well, my dad actually changes 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:36.120 diet and exercise and stuff, or from what he tells me, 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:42.240 he has such a great diet vegan or vegetarian vegan. Yeah, 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.840 well he does, but then he'll also you know, it 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:50.320 goes off. Yeah, you know what, I do the same thing. 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:55.120 My fear that it's the same age as Aunt Angela 0:14:55.400 --> 0:15:00.200 having a stroke. Yeah, I did the like the any 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.120 three and meat plus one and it has an increased 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.760 likelihood for coronary artery disease. And that I mean, I 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.360 guess you know, we can lead to stroke. And what 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:12.120 do you what do you look at to avoid that? 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.840 I mean, do you look at your cholesterol? I don't 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.480 know that's a good question. I mean, what do you 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.960 think so you have a chance of getting coronary like 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.120 chance higher than the average population. I think, so what 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:29.000 do you do between now and seventy to prevent that? 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:33.680 I'm on web MD actually for how to prevent um 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.920 this end stroke And it says, you know, eat a 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.040 balanced diet, cut back on sodium, sugar, and saturated fat. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.520 And I think sugar was a top one for my dad. Yeah, 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:45.920 it just says like exercise healthy weight. Um, you know 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.400 he's not super overweight now, but he was always overweight 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.280 like his entire life. You know, you've always been thin, 0:15:51.920 --> 0:16:01.000 right end? And how you how you're judging me compared 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.800 to who for this family? Yet in this family I 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:09.080 would be considered thin. I have quite a bit of 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:14.240 Neanderthal Wait, more than you. Jessie has a lot, so 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.120 it's gonna make fun of her. But oh what does 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:23.800 she really Josie? Yeah, you get that from Uncle Bill. Yeah, 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.640 you have eleven percent more than everybody else? Are we? 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.160 So in randers All? I mean I feel it feels 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:33.720 like an insult. Why well, you know the the connotation 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.680 of the word, you know, because you're a caveman. Yeah, right, 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.320 like you're like the guy go commercial? Yeah, pretty much. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.080 Do you guys have anyone with like a d h 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:50.920 D decide you and me? Do you? Because like do 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.640 you and me? Right? Yeah, I guess have you been diagnosed? 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.000 Pay attention? These are the jokes. I don't do anything. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.600 I can't say for sure. That's somebody in our family 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.240 has been like I feel like that. Yeah. My father, 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:09.240 Oh yeah, you know I'm always looking down too younger 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:12.639 than me. Your your father has it. Yeah, he hasn't 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.080 touch them, and he he does like to touch everything, 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.639 and he doesn't He bounces around quite a bit a 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.760 touch of it. He likes to touch everything, touches everything. 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:25.919 One time I was traveling with your father, I just 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.560 had We went to the keys together in like. It 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:32.080 was a fairly brand new truck of mine, and we 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.920 stopped at a rest stop, and your father thought it 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.320 would be a good idea to take that you know, 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.680 that dirty window cleaner by the side of the game, 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:46.040 and washed the clean the window. But but on the 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:49.640 inside of the truck. No, I can't believe that. Yeah, 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.600 I tread to God, I'm pumping against Mexican and it's 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.960 dripping on my dash. You know, all that chemicals and 0:17:56.000 --> 0:18:02.840 the bug parts. What are you doing the inside? The inside? 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.520 Did Rachel like connecting with people? Like why did she 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.920 buy a you a test? She brought me a test? 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.320 Because I asked her buy me a test. I said, 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.080 you know, that would be a good Christmas gift for me. 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:18.480 So I wanted to do it, and I didn't want 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.200 to spend the money so that would be I thought 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.080 it was a good idea. And what got me interested 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:24.760 in it was the fact that she told me that 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.840 she was fifty Italian. So I said, well, for you 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:29.560 to be fifty percent time, I need to be a 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:35.240 hundred percent Italian. I'm not sure exactly how the science works, 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:40.440 but I was close to but not fully. Yeah, I 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.560 guess it's it's like some kind of recommindation. I think 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:46.399 um or maybe her mom had, like you know, some 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:57.560 Italian Yeah, like just anymore. My dad told me he 0:18:57.560 --> 0:18:59.960 stayed at Phil's house once and there was no food 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.920 in the fridge. That story made me think that Phil 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:06.359 couldn't control his late night ice cream cravings, but turns 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.960 out he does intermitute fasting. I sleep better when I fast. 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:12.760 Then when i'm when I want to eat a lot 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:14.439 and I get in the bed and then my body 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.639 I'm like hot. You want to see something amazing. You 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:23.400 fast and go to bed. You need to blankets. You 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:25.960 eat all day. You can't have the sheet on you 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:31.840 when I break that thirty six hours. This is I 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.160 had to find this out the hard way is that 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.639 if you go forty eight hours and then eat, you 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:46.639 better be. You better be by a bathroom. Yeah, it 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.959 seems like you've really focused on being thin, and how 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.960 did you get into it? Oh, I think it looks 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:59.000 better right, Vanity. That is a motivator though, Yeah, that's 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:00.760 the same with me. I just wanted to rip so 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.239 I could get lots of girls. You ain't a rock 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:09.520 star that you ain't rich got going for you. I 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:12.480 appreciate it. Thanks having a good one, philm Bye bye bye. 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:17.560 Remember Josie. Her brother is my cousin Arnold. He's this 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:21.320 crazy talented video guy. His mom was my dad's sister, 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:25.720 Aunt Angela, and also suffered from strokes. So I rang 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.879 them up. Actually this isn't a phone call because Arnold 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:32.800 is one of those lovely guests that knows their audio. 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:44.480 Whoa and to relax, be a goog girl. Ah Uh, 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.760 your your mom had a stroke too, right, she had 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:52.720 a lot. Yeah, well she had one massive stroke. Um. 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.919 She was driving when she lived in the villages. She 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.960 lived near Uncle Jerry and at lou and she was 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:01.800 I don't know if she was going to the grocery 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.639 store or something in the middle of the day and 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:08.760 she had a stroke and ran through a red light 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:12.399 and t boned another car. So she got into a 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:16.920 really bad accident, and she called Uncle Jerry, and Uncle 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:19.879 Jerry came and picked her up, and he thought she 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:24.040 was just, you know, shaken up from the accident, so 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:27.760 he brought her back to his house and she kind 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:31.200 of stayed there and at dinner, this is a couple 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:36.480 hours later, she was talking to him and she just 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:39.480 kind of fell out of her chair onto the floor. 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:42.159 That was when Uncle Jerry said, up, we're going to 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:45.000 the hospital. So at the hospital they were like, no, 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:50.160 you've had a quite a massive stroke. Actually, um, which 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:54.119 isn't you know? It's if they had known that she 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:57.040 had had a stroke and taken her to the hospital, 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:01.040 there would have been less damage done. I guess right, um, 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:03.159 from what I've read about strokes as you have like 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.080 you know, a couple hours to you know, do some 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:11.320 massive oxygen intervention and there's some other drug that they 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:15.360 can give you two burst up blood clots and whatnot, 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.119 you know. So I mean, really, if you know that 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:20.639 you've had a stroke or even suspect, getting to the 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:23.400 hospitals like the best thing that you can do. It's 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:26.199 a horrible thing that, you know, when something happens to 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:30.240 your parents and you know, here, there, here, and then 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:33.520 they go down to here and they never quite make 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:36.920 it back up to here. So this is the new baseline, 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:40.439 and then the new baseline, and then the new baseline 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:44.960 did ever make you think about like your own health? 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:50.080 And uh, like trying to avoid something similar happening to you. Yes, yeah, 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:56.880 absolutely so. My mom was not a fan of her 0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:03.120 medication whatever that you know, beside effects probably were not fun. 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:06.720 I'm guessing I don't think it was that bad. I don't. 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:09.879 I remember just at one point her telling me like, oh, no, 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:15.800 I've decided I'm gonna cure myself with eating plants. Like, oh, yeah, 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:19.239 that's great, Mom, don't don't you know why would you 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:22.840 listen to medicine where they can make sure that, you know, 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:27.480 because you know, she had um type two diabetes I 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:31.359 think it was, and she was supposed to take whatever 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:34.720 that medicine was, and she just decided one day she 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:39.400 was going to stop doing it. And so I make 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:42.440 you know, I'll tell you that, after seeing how my 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:46.600 mom went downhill, I'm pretty serious about making sure I 0:23:46.680 --> 0:23:48.720 get to the doctor at least once a year for 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:51.879 physical you know, get the blood work, what you know. 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:54.600 But I'm only fifty, and you know, nothing really major 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:57.639 has happened to me health wise. I'd imagine that that 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:01.520 first health scare will probably more for me than it 0:24:01.600 --> 0:24:06.080 maybe did for my mom. I don't know. Growing up, 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:14.800 Um of the five siblings, Uncle Jerry, uncle, Anthony, aunt Josephine, 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:18.200 and my mom all lived within four hours of each other. 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:22.840 Your dad moved away to North Carolina, so we would 0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:25.439 only see him like once or twice a year, and 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:29.240 it was always like, you know, Fourth of July or Christmas. 0:24:29.760 --> 0:24:35.400 All of the children of Jerry, Josephine, Anthony, and Angela 0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:40.400 would see each other almost like a monthly basis. So 0:24:40.520 --> 0:24:45.000 I would constantly see tons of people that I was 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:49.000 related to and have that familial bond. And I would 0:24:49.000 --> 0:24:53.320 get to see you know, you, April and Frederick once 0:24:53.440 --> 0:24:56.719 or twice a year, and that was about it. Our 0:24:56.800 --> 0:25:03.520 cousin Tom. I saw Tom every other weekend until I 0:25:03.560 --> 0:25:06.800 was fifteen years old, so you know, he and I 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:10.760 had a tight bond. We were we're you know, six 0:25:10.800 --> 0:25:14.199