August 25, 2022 • 37 mins
Ben and Ashley are hanging out with Bachelor Nation OGs Bob Guiney and Trista Sutter and revealing some MAJOR Bachelor secrets you won’t hear anywhere else!
We hear about life before “The Bachelor”, Ben’s secret life as a zookeeper, and who has out of control back hair!
It’s wild what we can find from our spit, thanks to 23AndMe!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
with her Radio. This is a very special episode of
the Almost Famous podcast. We are together in person. Yes
we have Ashley, Trista and Bob. The whole freaking almost
famous family is together. Maybe for the first time. This
is the first time we've ever hung out in person
(00:23):
with podcast of old stuff. But we were all the
Janner wedding yea six six years ago. We decided today. Yeah,
it was probably the last time we were together. The
first time we're together, and now is the second. We're
in Tahoe. Uh, this is a big kind of I
Heart Podcast celebration. A lot of different podcasts are here.
(00:44):
We're lucky enough today to sit down, uh and chat
together about twenty three and me. This is something really
fun that everybody participated in. Uh. It's become very popular
over the last I don't know how many years it's existed,
but it just keeps getting better. But to start, I'm
gonna start with Bob and Trista. Trista, let's start with you, Um,
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what was your life like? I don't think I've ever
asked you this question? And we've done a lot of
different conversations together that have been recorded. What was your
life like before you went on the Bachelor? Oh, now
we're both hoosiers, so we can just say that we
are both. That's a big deal for us people. Do
you know? Oh yes, you know the story behind it?
Real quick? Okay, So one guy because so Whosier is
(01:29):
what the mascot is for Indiana Indiana University. The story goes.
There's many different stories to this, but the story that
I hear the most often is one guy was standing
on one side of the Ohio River, another man was
standing on the Indiana side of the higher River, and
the person on the Ohio side kept yelling who's there?
(01:53):
Who's there? Yeah? And the person yeah. And that's how
they got Hoosier because it sounds like hoosier and the
guy would just froun, who's no? The guy in the
Indiana side, who's your Hoosier? I think I would say,
who's there? And he goes Hoosier, who's your Who's because
it's not just who's your dad to Indiana University, it's
if you were from Indiana. So I've always been a
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Hoosier because I was born in India and that made
me a hoosier before I was, and you Hoosier. That's right.
Now we're official, So that's a good start here. You
grew up in Indiana. I was born in Indiana, lived
there for four years, moved to St. Louis with my
mom and dad. I was raised in St. Louis until
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I went to college at IU, and then I went
to grad school in Miami. And that's kind of what
And I applied for to be on The Bachelor, to
this new reality show while I was a grad student
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actually coming in high that happened, Um, while I was
living in Miami working as a as a physical therapist.
I applied for The Bachelor in Miami. And that's kind
of you know, at least the geographical data. Okay, real quick,
just to follow up. Then, Yeah, this new reality show
(03:20):
came out. How did you hear about it? And why
did you say that's something I want to try On Extra?
I was watching Extra one night on my couch in
Miami and I had gotten off work at Miami Children's
Hospital and I was watching Extra and they had um
Lacy Pemberton, who I'm sure you both know all of
(03:40):
you know. She's casting director for long time casting director
for the Bachelor. Franchise, and she was on Extra talking
about this new reality show, and I thought, well that
it could be fun. I could travel, like, meet some friends,
maybe meet a guy. It had nothing to do with
the guy at that point. I just wanted to have fun.
Any That's how I That's how I played. And now
(04:03):
you're here with your husband and your son in Tahoe.
It's great to see you all together. Okay, Bob onto
you Now what was your life like right before the show? Oh?
It was? It was interesting. So I I actually never
applied to be on the show. So I had a
really weird um thing. So I was a clash man story.
(04:26):
Men never assigned themselves up or so they my brother
in law, I had the best story about it. So
I had I had written some songs for a movie
called The Truth About Cats and Dogs, which was Janine
Garffalo and Uma Thurman, and so I got this kind
of uh, I got this big check basically, and so
I was like, you know, I'm not going to be
a touring musician anymore. I'm almost thirty and I'm not Journey.
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So when that am I ever going to be Journey?
I don't know. So I decided I was gonna start
this mortgage company, and I was going to make a
difference in the world. So I did, and I partnered
with um A, a buddy of mine from high school.
We hired a bunch of really great staff to work
for us. Those women submitted my information to The Bachelor
and without me knowing, so when they and I had
(05:10):
just had reconstructive knee surgery, so I had this big
leg cast on and I had gained like twenty pounds.
So all of a sudden, I get a call from
Lacey Pemberton and I think it's a joke because I
didn't sign up to be on the show. And someone's
name is Lacey who works for a show called The Bachelor.
I'm like, this is just too good to be true.
And her her voice was kind of like, Hi, it's lazy.
(05:31):
I don't know, maybe she had a cold, it's but
it sounded like a guy trying to be a girl.
And I told I told Lacey this story before. I
don't feel bad saying it, but and I was like, Oh,
I'm sure your name is Lacey, and I'm sure you
work for a show called the back Yeah, that sounds
that would happen every day in Detroit, so, you know, no, thanks,
I appreciate it. And they're like, well, no, we really,
you know, we really want to meet you. Would you
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do a demo tape for us? And I'm like, so
what you want me to be? Like the fact guy
in your bloper reel getting out of the shower, like, Hi, Trista,
I might No, thanks, I'm good. So they're like, are
you You're seriously not gonna send it the tape. I'm
like no, I'm I'm okay, thank you. So then they
I had an old school fax machine right next to
my desk, like that kind of makes the weird noise
with the thermal paper, and they faxed me over the
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thing to fill out for a plane ticket, and I
flew out to l A. I know, I flew out
to l A with my leg cast on and they
paged me and I responded no. So I got there
and um and I met all these girls at the
pool and I was having drinks and singing songs and
I didn't realize I was supposed to be like on
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Sequester and sou Sally and Selsano came out at the time.
She was one of the Kobe p's of the show
and she came out and basically like they filmed me
in the hot tub and she yelled at me from
the balcony, Hey jackass, and I of course was like, yes,
she was, get up here. And so I actually did
my my on camera interview in board shorts and a
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T shirt. Of course you got gas. So they're like
and I and I we were just laughing. And I
heard that like they had like camera lions going through
to the adjoining suite and I would say something stupid
out to hear people just cracking up in there, and
I'm like, who's over there. She's like, you'll find out
soon enough, don't worry. And so then you know, I
walk over there. It's Chris Harrison, Mike Fly I saw
those guys are like, you need to be on this show.
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I'm like okay. And then I'm looking at the board,
like literally the other pictures of guys up on the board.
I see Ryan, you know, the eventual champion, and uh
I see him. He's like he's standing there like just yoked,
like I got like a cheeseburger. And again, anyway, yeah,
that was how I ended up on the show. And
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then Ashley, You're gonna tell the story again, I feel
like this is totally serially, you're going to tell it really, Okay, start,
do we start with where I was born? Like Tris starting,
he asked, pre show, So I'm talking about what happened. Okay.
So Tris and I are both like born in Indiana,
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so we have that together. So that's why that was
brought in. Okay, I'll bring mine in just because everybody
is confused by the fact that on the show it
said actually from Jersey. Okay, so I was living in
New Jersey for like a year before the show. But
I was very clear. I was like, I want you
to put my hometown Great Falls, Virginia, because that's where
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I've lived for twenty years. Like that's my hometown. Um,
that's where my parents to live, you know whatever, that
will always be, like Hume. And they did not want
to listen because they were like, this girl is a
Jersey girl. Um, and I was born there, two very
Jersey parents. Love Jersey, love considering that part of my
home as well. Um, but I was born there two
(08:42):
years there. Then we moved to Boston for a couple
of years when my dad was in his residency up there,
and then we live in Virginia forever and then I
bounced around. But then but like but like Trista, I
also applied while in grad school because I thought, I
don't know what the step in my life is. You know,
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I was in broadcast journalism, so wrong reasons and it
all works out right now I have this podcast. Somehow
life comes full circle for me. I was I was
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in college at any university, I go Hoosiers. I had
a girlfriend at the time that I was very serious about, UH,
and we broke up, and she broke up with me,
and so my buddy goes, let's just get away, like,
let's not get jobs out of college, Let's just moved
to South America and teach and just hang out for
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as long as we want. So we moved to Peru
and I was living in Cusco, Peru, my favorite you've been.
It's a beautiful place, a wonderful place to be. And
so we were down there for a few months. I
got really homesick, so I stopped teaching, which, as a result,
UH canceled my UM place to live because I was
(10:11):
leaving living with the teachers. And so I went into
the UM office for the city and I said, hey,
I just need a job for like another month. And
they said, do you have any farming background? We just
had the zoo keeper uh quit And I said, my
grandpa had two horses, and they go, that's good enough.
I'm not getting this a true story. I was the
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zookeeper at the Cousco Rescue Zoo for a full month
of my life. I fed bears. I have pictures to
prove this. We had bears, we had uh uh, we
had eagle, we had hawks, we had monkeys, we had
a puma uh an ostrogen And this the zoo. You
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had to actually walk into um the their habitats to
feed them. So you'd have one person stand and block
with like a stick kind of banging across the ground
to keep the animals back, and you would dump the food.
And at that point then I raised got enough money
to fly home. My parents probably would have paid for
my plane ticket, but I was too prideful. I get
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back shared. I've never I don't think i've ever shared
this story. I never knew he was a zookeeper out
of the country, South America. A puma eat How does
someone how does someone who's not a zookeeper eat you?
Just like I'm gonna give them some tuna fish. No,
we get the So every morning the grocery store would
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have a shipment of all food that got outdated, come
in like a day old, like meat that was still
good enough for animals to eat, but like humans couldn't
consume it due to whatever regulations. And so we would
get that and we chop it up in the size
that the animals could eat, and then we would dump it.
But like with the birds, it was really hard with
the birds that were meat eat ears because they would
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stand over the top of you. Commodores would stand over
the top of you and they're like nine ft wingspans
and just squeal and they'd be like right above you
on the tree branches trying to take the food wild.
There's a thousand stories from that month that I could shoo.
I'll tell you, I'll tell you. So. I have an
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obsession in life, especially when I was younger, to create
stories because my grandfather was a storyteller. And then this
is this is where this will end very quickly now
and that was a great story. But I got back home,
went to Denver, had a job, wasn't dating, wasn't good
at my job, had no friends, got super sad. Wasn't
(12:39):
creating any stories for like six months of my life.
And the chief marketing officer and my company came up
and she said, let's get you like out of here,
like let's you gotta find out something. And so her
and I, I will say, sat down at her computer
and signed up for the show because she's like, this
could be something for you, like this could be your
(12:59):
next step. So so sweet. Yeah, you had the title
speaking of like you know I had. You had the
title of software salesman. But then in your book you
reveal that you actually just wrote the booklets. Well, so
I was a software salesman after the Bachelor. So I
moved up, I got I got promoted because I stayed.
I kept that job for a year and a half
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after I was a bachelor. And I mean obviously, like
you go on national television, they put in sales. Yeah,
they upgraded me. Yeah so for some by downgrade, for
me the upgraded. Oh my god. They would explained what
you were doing before you were writing the instruction. I
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was a user manual writer. You must have wanted to die.
It was terrible for me. Think about me. I get
paid now to talk back then I I got paid
to do test scripts and like case studies on our
software and run but yeah run bucks is and then
write a user manual on how to process do the bug.
It was really hard on me. Um. So then I
want to show the rest is history. Uh so that's
(14:03):
how we all got on this show. Now, I I
want to talk about all this because this podcast is
a twenty three and Me podcast, and a lot of
it is about our origin stories, or about even our
ancestral stories of where we come from, who we are,
what makes us us. And that's what I'm gonna talk
to all of you about today. So everybody in the
room has taken the test. I'm gonna start back. I
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think we have a good flow with Trista. What made
you decide to take this test? What made you excited
about it? I feel like I've always been just really curious,
and I guess curiosity is just part of my nature,
you know. And I so I'll share a little story
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and that when I grew up, I always knew that
on my dad's side of the family, I had Uh
they call it in the in the twenty three and
Me they call it indigenous American. Now that's that's what
it's titled. And so I grew up knowing that I
had some Cherokee blood in me, and but I didn't
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know how much. And you know how so my kids
are at the point where we're five years away from
Ryan and I being empty nesters, which is freaking crazy
to me, Like it scares me to death. I don't
know what I'm going to do without my children. And
is not empty I know, but still um So, anyway,
(15:33):
so we're talking, I mean college is still always away,
but talking about college and it kind of brought back
memories about me in college and I'm thinking, oh gosh, like,
you know, scholarships whatever. So when I was applying for
a scholar for you know, scholarships or whatever, and I
didn't get any for college, I just you know paid
(15:53):
for it. Um it came up as you know, you
do have some Indigenous American in you. And I never
applied for that kind of scholarship. But I'm thinking to myself,
well maybe with twenty three and me, I can actually
figure out how much because they have a little bit, right, Yeah,
(16:16):
And I honestly think it's like any percentage you can
apply if you are didn't have enough Yeah, exactly. Well, yeah,
you're curious. I was curious. Yeah, that's why. That's why
I did it, because I wanted to see I was curious,
and I think, honestly, these results are so freaking comprehensive
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in terms of your health, and it's not like a
diagnosis by any means. But I really feel like it's
it's amazing information. So I'm really glad I did it.
But that's why I think one of the reasons that
I did it. Yeah, you're intrigued, we're in the health
questions here later on, because that is a huge benefit
three and me, especially for those that are parents. You know, um,
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you can help your kids, tell your kids kind of
what you're health history is within your family. It's a
big benefit. So for you, Bob, again, the same question
to you when this was offered to you, what made
you excited about taking it? Um? Yeah, I was curious too, Um,
And I too was under the impression that I had
indigitous American Indian in my bloodline as well, because I've
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been told that my whole life until this report pops
up and tells me that I don't feel I feel robbed.
I feel I feel I feel victimized. Right now, I
think that I I'm challenging my test results. Also, I'm
gonna call it twenty three and folks, we're gonna do
it again. But um no, I was curious because you know,
um my my, I've always heard that I was American, Indian, Irish,
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and um, the Irish definitely shows up on there. But
what else, I mean, what else shows up? Then? Uh?
I got some some France, got some Germany. What else
do I have on my thing here? But actually I did,
I went like one step further. So I started doing
all the test questions, and so I started getting a
lot of information. I I have some Switzerland in me,
British and Irish, uh, broadly Northwestern European, Greek and Balkan.
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I love Greek food, Um, Sardinian, I don't really like sardine's.
I know that's not the same thing. So yeah, I
don't know. I got a lot of good stuff on here.
But you know, surprisingly the one thing that didn't show
up was indigitous, American, Indian. So I'm a little surprised
by that. Well it could be, I mean, it is
one of maybe one of the benefits twenty three and
me is you know. For you gotta think like our
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grandparents were told stories, but they didn't have the technology
in the ability to actually prove that those stories were
true or false or kind of how they worked out.
And now we do, and then now you get a
better picture, uh in, a clearer picture of where you
come from, who you are, Um Ashley, for you, why
did you say yes to this? Well, now I'm regretting
(18:59):
not giving my key to Jared because he's definitely more
of the mutton. He doesn't really know as much about
his background as I do. My sister had taken a
twenty three of the test a couple of years ago.
Everything is not only what you got a couple of
years ago, but also pretty much exactly what we have
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been told our entire lives. We are, we really are.
I will say that I am only twenty one person Italian,
which makes me sad because I thought I was a
full quarter. You didn't swipe your mouth on the Italian side,
you know, no. Lawrence also said it was is that
wild though? I mean, how accurate it is? So yeah,
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it's so crazy that it's the exact same as my
sister and we did years apart. We have different spit
and all that. Did you pull up your relatives like
I pulled up Yes, my cousin's there, and my dad's there,
like my and my dad, um, and then some and
then and then it's like all of a sudden, they're
like third cousin and like far off cousins. I'm like, wow,
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I'm surprised that I don't have more people my immediate
family who have taken this test. Yeah, well, that's a
great segue there about because I wanted to talk One
of the cool parts about the test was seeing relatives,
uh and seeing the third cousins, second cousins. We'll just
open it up here. There's no direct question to anybody.
Was that interesting for you all to see your relatives?
I thought that was one of the coolest parts. Yeah,
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I think so too. It's very interesting, I have to say.
So this is on the heels like us taking this
test is on the heels of Ali Faedatowski sharing how
she did Did you hear about the have you guys
talked about it? So? Ali took I think it was
twenty three and me and she found out that she
has a sister that her father didn't even know what
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he had given like he had four he im before
he ever got with his mom, he had a child
and never so she didn't know she had a sister.
And so going going into this test, I'm thinking, Okay,
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this is Ali's life right now. Where holy how do
we really want to take this? And you know, nothing
like that happened for Ryan, and I think so interesting, Yes,
and she connected with this sister just crazy, just crazy anyway,
So that's kind of like a scary situation where it
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could it could really truthfully happen to so many men
who if you're actually if you were sexually active with
with anyone prior to the person that you ended up marrying,
it could be something that happens and pops up in
your twenty three and me. Okay, so one of the
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cool parts about twenty three and me, we've not discussed
why we did it, uh, kind of what we found out,
you know, the really exciting parts about maybe getting up
and seeing some relatives that have taken it as well
and and match with that. But I think and I'm
not a parent, but I think one of the interesting
parts for me would be finding out some of the
health history, uh, and some of the things that you
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should look out for in your family. I know my
mom took it in arthritis and heart disease kind of
pops up in there. Uh so for you all that
are now parents, all three of you are are parents.
That was this something that you looked at? Did you
do any I guess the second follow up question would be,
did you do anything with this information? Um, after you
saw kind of what you're more susceptible to. There is
(22:47):
some stuff on here that's really interesting, like for example,
and it's accurate. So I've clicked on this thing that
said back hair. I'm like, oh, says you. Uh, your
genetics predict you are eighty six percent ants that you
have little or no back hair and I don't have
really yes, fourteen percent chance you have at least some
back hair. Then the same numbers for bald spots, which
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I don't have that issue than eighty seven percent chance
I do not have a bald spot. This thing is
aces bunyans. It says I have a high likelihood for
bunyans my grandfather. I said, I'm need a test for
that because it's right there in front of my face.
But yeah, my grandfather had it, my mom had them,
and now I have them, and then it told me
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how many steps I walked this last few days. So
I don't really know exactly why that has that, how
it gets that, but I apparently am I'm clocking about
seven thousand steps a day. Second, you lying about that?
I swear seven thousand one steps per day. I mean
it's prettyccurate. Okay, so Trista from me speaking in a
(23:53):
vial of things, but I think it's fantastic. And I
love you twenty three and me God bless you. So
before Trista we get to you, you're I want to
take a second though. I'm amazed by twenty three me
and not because they're sponsoring the podcast, but because and
this is gonna sound like an infomercial. I don't know
how to not make it sound like one. It's so
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easy to take, Like I think all of us are
giggling and laughing because the the ease at which you
take this test and the information that comes back and
the accuracy of this information, Like it would be different
if we're looking at this being like that's not true,
Like Bob's covered him back here and he is as
bald as a cucumber, Like no, that is yeah, that
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is very accurate. Uh. And also with Ashley and or Bunyan's, Like,
I don't think anybody on the I mean anybody knows
Ashley knows that she has some very aggressive bunyans. And
like the fact that, uh, this test, I mean, I
find it amazing could actually pick up on the fact
that you have bunyans. This tells you this don't even
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like the word spit, Like that's pretty gross. This makes
me no, I will say, there are things on here.
So there's all these traits. I'm just going to go
through the list. Ability to match, musical pitch, asparagus, odor detection,
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bitter taste, bunyan's cheek, dimples, cilantro taste, aversion, cleft, chin
dan druff, earlobe type, earwax type, eye color, fear of heights,
fear of public speaking, finger length ratio, flat feet, freckles.
Like the list goes on. It is so detailed. It's
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under traits. So um, it's under the health. And I
will say, because I am a parent, yes it is.
It is important to me to know this stuff, but
not necessarily to pass on to my kids just yet.
For me, I want to know, like my dad, my
grandfather had macular degeneration, and I show up as having
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a slightly increased risk for that, and and that's a
scary thing, but it's something that I feel like I
can talk to my doctor about, like, you know, maybe
in twenty years or something like that. But knowing that
I have an increased risk for that, and Celiac disease
shows up, and as having a slightly increased risk type
two diabetes, which I knew because my dad has it
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and my grandmother had it. Like I know that that stuff,
but having it in this form as a report, like
a black and white report that says this is an
increased risk, it's something that I can you know, I
was really concerned about breast cancer, not that I have
it in my family, but that shows up the br
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br C A genes, and then like kidney disease and
all these heart conditions. I feel like it's really great
information that you can utilize to take to your actor.
And actually started discussion, start a conversation that is so wild,
and I just have to say one more time, I
just gotta bring it up. You guys, we spit into
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a vial and somehow from that, I mean, this is
like thinking about space that I don't disagree with you.
I think it's crazy. It's crazy. I think it's wild,
And I mean, this is how like a knowledgeable I am.
(27:30):
I'm thinking like what if I like had something weird
to eat right before I did it? Right? I know you,
I know, but like people obviously are getting accurate results
even through like whatever they're doing throughout the day. Um,
there's a great way to take the test, right, you
follow the directions. You you know, your your mouth is clean,
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everything is good. But you're right, the details of this
are incredible. Okay, So final question for you all, Now
that you have the details and you have the information,
what are you going to do with it or what
is it done for you personally? We'll start with Trista
again because that's kind of our flow. Um, even if
it's just enjoying it and reading it, what are you
going to take from taking the twenty three test? So
(28:15):
it's hard for me to not bring Ryan into this.
I wish I had it up um like that I
could actually read it and what's you're read it to
you to his ancestry, But he has I think it's
like it's like a very small percentage but he has
like point Neanderthal, and that's awesome. I have a little
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myself as well. Hold I so mind you, this is
my house for the like that I have to I'll
have to go back and look at it. But it's
very minimally caveman. So you guys like my house the
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last two weeks, three weeks or whatever. It's guys like
walking around eating round. It's like, you know, we have
to procreate. So oh yeah, there's a lot of sorry
to my children and I and my in laws, but
there's a lot of getting naked lately. Yeah, life is good. Anyway,
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that's my life lately. That's funny. Say so, Bob, for you,
what are you going to take from this? You know,
I like, I'm going to continue filling out a lot
of the questions that I didn't do yet. So there's
like some stuff because I want my kids to know
if there's a chance for genetic stuff, you know, things
like that. Um, I am also going to use the
procreate neanderthal thing when I get home. I'm not sorry
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to my in laws about that. Um, but I think
it's kind of interesting. I mean, there's a lot of
stuff in here that I mean, I haven't even It's
the tip of the iceberg for me. So I'm gonna
go through and really start to answer some more of
these things on the next reports and and share that
stuff with my family because I think it's important. And
I've never known half of this stuff that I'm reading
about myself right now. And I mean, I don't want
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to diminish. I know, you know, this is all interesting
and it's fun and you learn a lot, but I
don't want to diminish that you're your story of your
origin changed from this test. Yeah, you know. And so
that's a big deal for for many people taking the
tests as they find out that yes, what I've been
told or what my family might have known is not
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true to me. And I now, would you do with
that what you want? I went from American, Indian Irish
to Neanderthal. Too of a cave man is for you? Okay? Um?
For me, I think it's kind of like a story
(31:06):
telling like origin there God, I am becoming my husband.
It's an origin story story of Superman, our son Dawson.
I think it's like the ancestry part for me that
I didn't really like. I think it'll be cool for
like traveling purposes, just like throughout our kids or Dawson
or possibly plural children's lives, to be like you're like
(31:28):
part of you from here. This is where like this
great grandparents from. This where this great grandparent was from. Um, yeah,
you can actually find like pinpoint the location. Yeah. Like
I'm looking at this map right now and I'm like,
this is when we can travel here and that's where
you know of me came from there, and that's crazy.
So I think for me it has to do with
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just kind of like knowing where your roots are. It's
all so great. Before we end today's podcast, we do
have a very special guest. Uh, it's late, but Ryan
did step in because he cares um to talk about
his twenty three and me results. Now, we've already got
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a hint of this from Trista before you came in.
We know some of your results, so don't be shy.
Uh what did you learn Ryan and your results? Well,
the biggest thing, really, the only thing I learned that
I sort of stopped. I stopped after I saw was
that I have some pretty unique Neanderthal roots, Which is
does that make you extra manly? I feel like it
(32:32):
definitely does. Yeah, I mean, I think I think my
ancestors were actually around before Homeo Sapiens, Right, Yeah, I
think that's how it works, right, the Neanderthals. Can I
ask you a question that you might know because I'm
sure you've researched it and it might make me sound
totally totally a knowledgeable and that's fine. Um, aren't we
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all at some level having roots from Neanderthals? Apparently not,
I think there. I think so. I don't know where
the actual Homeo Sapiens side of things came from, but
they entered the picture after the Neanderthals. So my family,
your family came onto the planet Earth after my family.
(33:20):
So you're an origin you're yeah, you've been around since
the beginning. That answers a lot of questions I've always
had about Ryan is how does he have such big muscles? Um? Yeah,
we had to. Yeah, you had to. We were wrestling
like wooly mammoth. Since. Yeah, it wasn't easy. I'm looking
up the definition, okay. Neanderthals, by definition, are an extinct
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species or subspecies of archaic humans that lived in Eurasia
about forty thousand years ago. While the cause of their
extinction remains highly contested. Demographic factors like small population size,
in breeding, in random fluctuations are considered to be likely factors.
(34:04):
And this is a photo crime. Yeah, I can see
the resemblance. Yeah, brows and such. Right, how did you
feel when you read your results? Was any? I mean,
this is obviously, uh, super interesting. I think that you
have those roots. But did anything else pop up with
your health history or things you're more susceptible to that
(34:26):
that kind of stood out health history? Not really. I
think some of the interesting things were, um, that I
have a tendency or I guess I'm less likely to
be able to sneeze with the full stomach part of this.
This is one of the things that they talk about
on t DA mate, and it's some people can't sneeze
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when too full, and I apparently have a good chance
of being one of those. So although, like in you know,
full disclosure, the other night, I had a bowl of
cereal and shortly after you're sneezed. So I'm wondering if
maybe I admit that skipped me. You're gonna remember every
time now that you sneeze on a full stomach. I
wouldn't say a bowl of cereal is a full stomach.
(35:09):
Though that's true, it wasn't a very big bowl of cereal. Yeah,
I'm used to like yeah, like I'm used to eating
large amounts of meat, so cereal is not that big
of a deal. So I think I'm still I'm still
in the running for not sneezing with a full stomach.
But I think just like Neanderthal component aside, just just
(35:31):
seeing sort of where your heritage came from, sort of
that part of it was really interesting. Can you share
with us what you are besides neanderfl since we focus
a lot on that. Yeah, like, no, none of it's
really as important. I was Northwestern European, so German French area,
and then also there was a British component, which was
(35:54):
more of an Irish side, which seems to go correlate
with what my parents have said over there. And then
there was some um, oh gosh, what's the term. I
can't think of it. It's like Iceland and Greenland and
that No, no, that would be a good guest. Scandinavian. Yeah,
I had some Scandinavian in there, and um yeah, and
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then the rest of it I think was just full
in Neanderthal, but other than that. It was mostly like it,
but it was interesting just to see kind of where
that came from. Not right, I would love to say,
like trist is sitting over there like this is ridiculous
right now, But right before you came in, Um, she
did seem very intrigued by your results and in fact
kind of alluded that the twenty three of me has
(36:39):
helped your intimacy as a couple. Yeah, explains it really
explains a lot. I'm able to use that as an
excuse for like, listen, I mean, I can't help I
can't help it thousand years like you can't stop that,
and and she it, she mentioned it. And so I
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just want to say kudos to you and kudos to me,
Um for supporting every Yeah, thank you changed life changing
really at pleast for the last week or so. Until
next time. Follow our lade. I've been been, I've been
ash I've been Trista, and I'm Bob. That works. The
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This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
with her Radio. This is a very special episode of
the Almost Famous podcast. We are together in person. Yes
we have Ashley, Trista and Bob. The whole freaking almost
famous family is together. Maybe for the first time. This
is the first time we've ever hung out in person
(00:23):
with podcast of old stuff. But we were all the
Janner wedding yea six six years ago. We decided today. Yeah,
it was probably the last time we were together. The
first time we're together, and now is the second. We're
in Tahoe. Uh, this is a big kind of I
Heart Podcast celebration. A lot of different podcasts are here.
(00:44):
We're lucky enough today to sit down, uh and chat
together about twenty three and me. This is something really
fun that everybody participated in. Uh. It's become very popular
over the last I don't know how many years it's existed,
but it just keeps getting better. But to start, I'm
gonna start with Bob and Trista. Trista, let's start with you, Um,
(01:05):
what was your life like? I don't think I've ever
asked you this question? And we've done a lot of
different conversations together that have been recorded. What was your
life like before you went on the Bachelor? Oh, now
we're both hoosiers, so we can just say that we
are both. That's a big deal for us people. Do
you know? Oh yes, you know the story behind it?
Real quick? Okay, So one guy because so Whosier is
(01:29):
what the mascot is for Indiana Indiana University. The story goes.
There's many different stories to this, but the story that
I hear the most often is one guy was standing
on one side of the Ohio River, another man was
standing on the Indiana side of the higher River, and
the person on the Ohio side kept yelling who's there?
(01:53):
Who's there? Yeah? And the person yeah. And that's how
they got Hoosier because it sounds like hoosier and the
guy would just froun, who's no? The guy in the
Indiana side, who's your Hoosier? I think I would say,
who's there? And he goes Hoosier, who's your Who's because
it's not just who's your dad to Indiana University, it's
if you were from Indiana. So I've always been a
(02:16):
Hoosier because I was born in India and that made
me a hoosier before I was, and you Hoosier. That's right.
Now we're official, So that's a good start here. You
grew up in Indiana. I was born in Indiana, lived
there for four years, moved to St. Louis with my
mom and dad. I was raised in St. Louis until
(02:38):
I went to college at IU, and then I went
to grad school in Miami. And that's kind of what
And I applied for to be on The Bachelor, to
this new reality show while I was a grad student
(02:58):
actually coming in high that happened, Um, while I was
living in Miami working as a as a physical therapist.
I applied for The Bachelor in Miami. And that's kind
of you know, at least the geographical data. Okay, real quick,
just to follow up. Then, Yeah, this new reality show
(03:20):
came out. How did you hear about it? And why
did you say that's something I want to try On Extra?
I was watching Extra one night on my couch in
Miami and I had gotten off work at Miami Children's
Hospital and I was watching Extra and they had um
Lacy Pemberton, who I'm sure you both know all of
(03:40):
you know. She's casting director for long time casting director
for the Bachelor. Franchise, and she was on Extra talking
about this new reality show, and I thought, well that
it could be fun. I could travel, like, meet some friends,
maybe meet a guy. It had nothing to do with
the guy at that point. I just wanted to have fun.
Any That's how I That's how I played. And now
(04:03):
you're here with your husband and your son in Tahoe.
It's great to see you all together. Okay, Bob onto
you Now what was your life like right before the show? Oh?
It was? It was interesting. So I I actually never
applied to be on the show. So I had a
really weird um thing. So I was a clash man story.
(04:26):
Men never assigned themselves up or so they my brother
in law, I had the best story about it. So
I had I had written some songs for a movie
called The Truth About Cats and Dogs, which was Janine
Garffalo and Uma Thurman, and so I got this kind
of uh, I got this big check basically, and so
I was like, you know, I'm not going to be
a touring musician anymore. I'm almost thirty and I'm not Journey.
(04:49):
So when that am I ever going to be Journey?
I don't know. So I decided I was gonna start
this mortgage company, and I was going to make a
difference in the world. So I did, and I partnered
with um A, a buddy of mine from high school.
We hired a bunch of really great staff to work
for us. Those women submitted my information to The Bachelor
and without me knowing, so when they and I had
(05:10):
just had reconstructive knee surgery, so I had this big
leg cast on and I had gained like twenty pounds.
So all of a sudden, I get a call from
Lacey Pemberton and I think it's a joke because I
didn't sign up to be on the show. And someone's
name is Lacey who works for a show called The Bachelor.
I'm like, this is just too good to be true.
And her her voice was kind of like, Hi, it's lazy.
(05:31):
I don't know, maybe she had a cold, it's but
it sounded like a guy trying to be a girl.
And I told I told Lacey this story before. I
don't feel bad saying it, but and I was like, Oh,
I'm sure your name is Lacey, and I'm sure you
work for a show called the back Yeah, that sounds
that would happen every day in Detroit, so, you know, no, thanks,
I appreciate it. And they're like, well, no, we really,
you know, we really want to meet you. Would you
(05:51):
do a demo tape for us? And I'm like, so
what you want me to be? Like the fact guy
in your bloper reel getting out of the shower, like, Hi, Trista,
I might No, thanks, I'm good. So they're like, are
you You're seriously not gonna send it the tape. I'm
like no, I'm I'm okay, thank you. So then they
I had an old school fax machine right next to
my desk, like that kind of makes the weird noise
with the thermal paper, and they faxed me over the
(06:12):
thing to fill out for a plane ticket, and I
flew out to l A. I know, I flew out
to l A with my leg cast on and they
paged me and I responded no. So I got there
and um and I met all these girls at the
pool and I was having drinks and singing songs and
I didn't realize I was supposed to be like on
(06:32):
Sequester and sou Sally and Selsano came out at the time.
She was one of the Kobe p's of the show
and she came out and basically like they filmed me
in the hot tub and she yelled at me from
the balcony, Hey jackass, and I of course was like, yes,
she was, get up here. And so I actually did
my my on camera interview in board shorts and a
(06:54):
T shirt. Of course you got gas. So they're like
and I and I we were just laughing. And I
heard that like they had like camera lions going through
to the adjoining suite and I would say something stupid
out to hear people just cracking up in there, and
I'm like, who's over there. She's like, you'll find out
soon enough, don't worry. And so then you know, I
walk over there. It's Chris Harrison, Mike Fly I saw
those guys are like, you need to be on this show.
(07:15):
I'm like okay. And then I'm looking at the board,
like literally the other pictures of guys up on the board.
I see Ryan, you know, the eventual champion, and uh
I see him. He's like he's standing there like just yoked,
like I got like a cheeseburger. And again, anyway, yeah,
that was how I ended up on the show. And
(07:36):
then Ashley, You're gonna tell the story again, I feel
like this is totally serially, you're going to tell it really, Okay, start,
do we start with where I was born? Like Tris starting,
he asked, pre show, So I'm talking about what happened. Okay.
So Tris and I are both like born in Indiana,
(07:58):
so we have that together. So that's why that was
brought in. Okay, I'll bring mine in just because everybody
is confused by the fact that on the show it
said actually from Jersey. Okay, so I was living in
New Jersey for like a year before the show. But
I was very clear. I was like, I want you
to put my hometown Great Falls, Virginia, because that's where
(08:19):
I've lived for twenty years. Like that's my hometown. Um,
that's where my parents to live, you know whatever, that
will always be, like Hume. And they did not want
to listen because they were like, this girl is a
Jersey girl. Um, and I was born there, two very
Jersey parents. Love Jersey, love considering that part of my
home as well. Um, but I was born there two
(08:42):
years there. Then we moved to Boston for a couple
of years when my dad was in his residency up there,
and then we live in Virginia forever and then I
bounced around. But then but like but like Trista, I
also applied while in grad school because I thought, I
don't know what the step in my life is. You know,
(09:04):
I was in broadcast journalism, so wrong reasons and it
all works out right now I have this podcast. Somehow
life comes full circle for me. I was I was
(09:25):
in college at any university, I go Hoosiers. I had
a girlfriend at the time that I was very serious about, UH,
and we broke up, and she broke up with me,
and so my buddy goes, let's just get away, like,
let's not get jobs out of college, Let's just moved
to South America and teach and just hang out for
(09:47):
as long as we want. So we moved to Peru
and I was living in Cusco, Peru, my favorite you've been.
It's a beautiful place, a wonderful place to be. And
so we were down there for a few months. I
got really homesick, so I stopped teaching, which, as a result,
UH canceled my UM place to live because I was
(10:11):
leaving living with the teachers. And so I went into
the UM office for the city and I said, hey,
I just need a job for like another month. And
they said, do you have any farming background? We just
had the zoo keeper uh quit And I said, my
grandpa had two horses, and they go, that's good enough.
I'm not getting this a true story. I was the
(10:33):
zookeeper at the Cousco Rescue Zoo for a full month
of my life. I fed bears. I have pictures to
prove this. We had bears, we had uh uh, we
had eagle, we had hawks, we had monkeys, we had
a puma uh an ostrogen And this the zoo. You
(10:55):
had to actually walk into um the their habitats to
feed them. So you'd have one person stand and block
with like a stick kind of banging across the ground
to keep the animals back, and you would dump the food.
And at that point then I raised got enough money
to fly home. My parents probably would have paid for
my plane ticket, but I was too prideful. I get
(11:17):
back shared. I've never I don't think i've ever shared
this story. I never knew he was a zookeeper out
of the country, South America. A puma eat How does
someone how does someone who's not a zookeeper eat you?
Just like I'm gonna give them some tuna fish. No,
we get the So every morning the grocery store would
(11:38):
have a shipment of all food that got outdated, come
in like a day old, like meat that was still
good enough for animals to eat, but like humans couldn't
consume it due to whatever regulations. And so we would
get that and we chop it up in the size
that the animals could eat, and then we would dump it.
But like with the birds, it was really hard with
the birds that were meat eat ears because they would
(11:58):
stand over the top of you. Commodores would stand over
the top of you and they're like nine ft wingspans
and just squeal and they'd be like right above you
on the tree branches trying to take the food wild.
There's a thousand stories from that month that I could shoo.
I'll tell you, I'll tell you. So. I have an
(12:18):
obsession in life, especially when I was younger, to create
stories because my grandfather was a storyteller. And then this
is this is where this will end very quickly now
and that was a great story. But I got back home,
went to Denver, had a job, wasn't dating, wasn't good
at my job, had no friends, got super sad. Wasn't
(12:39):
creating any stories for like six months of my life.
And the chief marketing officer and my company came up
and she said, let's get you like out of here,
like let's you gotta find out something. And so her
and I, I will say, sat down at her computer
and signed up for the show because she's like, this
could be something for you, like this could be your
(12:59):
next step. So so sweet. Yeah, you had the title
speaking of like you know I had. You had the
title of software salesman. But then in your book you
reveal that you actually just wrote the booklets. Well, so
I was a software salesman after the Bachelor. So I
moved up, I got I got promoted because I stayed.
I kept that job for a year and a half
(13:20):
after I was a bachelor. And I mean obviously, like
you go on national television, they put in sales. Yeah,
they upgraded me. Yeah so for some by downgrade, for
me the upgraded. Oh my god. They would explained what
you were doing before you were writing the instruction. I
(13:40):
was a user manual writer. You must have wanted to die.
It was terrible for me. Think about me. I get
paid now to talk back then I I got paid
to do test scripts and like case studies on our
software and run but yeah run bucks is and then
write a user manual on how to process do the bug.
It was really hard on me. Um. So then I
want to show the rest is history. Uh so that's
(14:03):
how we all got on this show. Now, I I
want to talk about all this because this podcast is
a twenty three and Me podcast, and a lot of
it is about our origin stories, or about even our
ancestral stories of where we come from, who we are,
what makes us us. And that's what I'm gonna talk
to all of you about today. So everybody in the
room has taken the test. I'm gonna start back. I
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think we have a good flow with Trista. What made
you decide to take this test? What made you excited
about it? I feel like I've always been just really curious,
and I guess curiosity is just part of my nature,
you know. And I so I'll share a little story
(14:46):
and that when I grew up, I always knew that
on my dad's side of the family, I had Uh
they call it in the in the twenty three and
Me they call it indigenous American. Now that's that's what
it's titled. And so I grew up knowing that I
had some Cherokee blood in me, and but I didn't
(15:11):
know how much. And you know how so my kids
are at the point where we're five years away from
Ryan and I being empty nesters, which is freaking crazy
to me, Like it scares me to death. I don't
know what I'm going to do without my children. And
is not empty I know, but still um So, anyway,
(15:33):
so we're talking, I mean college is still always away,
but talking about college and it kind of brought back
memories about me in college and I'm thinking, oh gosh, like,
you know, scholarships whatever. So when I was applying for
a scholar for you know, scholarships or whatever, and I
didn't get any for college, I just you know paid
(15:53):
for it. Um it came up as you know, you
do have some Indigenous American in you. And I never
applied for that kind of scholarship. But I'm thinking to myself,
well maybe with twenty three and me, I can actually
figure out how much because they have a little bit, right, Yeah,
(16:16):
And I honestly think it's like any percentage you can
apply if you are didn't have enough Yeah, exactly. Well, yeah,
you're curious. I was curious. Yeah, that's why. That's why
I did it, because I wanted to see I was curious,
and I think, honestly, these results are so freaking comprehensive
(16:38):
in terms of your health, and it's not like a
diagnosis by any means. But I really feel like it's
it's amazing information. So I'm really glad I did it.
But that's why I think one of the reasons that
I did it. Yeah, you're intrigued, we're in the health
questions here later on, because that is a huge benefit
three and me, especially for those that are parents. You know, um,
(17:00):
you can help your kids, tell your kids kind of
what you're health history is within your family. It's a
big benefit. So for you, Bob, again, the same question
to you when this was offered to you, what made
you excited about taking it? Um? Yeah, I was curious too, Um,
And I too was under the impression that I had
indigitous American Indian in my bloodline as well, because I've
(17:24):
been told that my whole life until this report pops
up and tells me that I don't feel I feel robbed.
I feel I feel I feel victimized. Right now, I
think that I I'm challenging my test results. Also, I'm
gonna call it twenty three and folks, we're gonna do
it again. But um no, I was curious because you know,
um my my, I've always heard that I was American, Indian, Irish,
(17:47):
and um, the Irish definitely shows up on there. But
what else, I mean, what else shows up? Then? Uh?
I got some some France, got some Germany. What else
do I have on my thing here? But actually I did,
I went like one step further. So I started doing
all the test questions, and so I started getting a
lot of information. I I have some Switzerland in me,
British and Irish, uh, broadly Northwestern European, Greek and Balkan.
(18:12):
I love Greek food, Um, Sardinian, I don't really like sardine's.
I know that's not the same thing. So yeah, I
don't know. I got a lot of good stuff on here.
But you know, surprisingly the one thing that didn't show
up was indigitous, American, Indian. So I'm a little surprised
by that. Well it could be, I mean, it is
one of maybe one of the benefits twenty three and
me is you know. For you gotta think like our
(18:36):
grandparents were told stories, but they didn't have the technology
in the ability to actually prove that those stories were
true or false or kind of how they worked out.
And now we do, and then now you get a
better picture, uh in, a clearer picture of where you
come from, who you are, Um Ashley, for you, why
did you say yes to this? Well, now I'm regretting
(18:59):
not giving my key to Jared because he's definitely more
of the mutton. He doesn't really know as much about
his background as I do. My sister had taken a
twenty three of the test a couple of years ago.
Everything is not only what you got a couple of
years ago, but also pretty much exactly what we have
(19:20):
been told our entire lives. We are, we really are.
I will say that I am only twenty one person Italian,
which makes me sad because I thought I was a
full quarter. You didn't swipe your mouth on the Italian side,
you know, no. Lawrence also said it was is that
wild though? I mean, how accurate it is? So yeah,
(19:45):
it's so crazy that it's the exact same as my
sister and we did years apart. We have different spit
and all that. Did you pull up your relatives like
I pulled up Yes, my cousin's there, and my dad's there,
like my and my dad, um, and then some and
then and then it's like all of a sudden, they're
like third cousin and like far off cousins. I'm like, wow,
(20:06):
I'm surprised that I don't have more people my immediate
family who have taken this test. Yeah, well, that's a
great segue there about because I wanted to talk One
of the cool parts about the test was seeing relatives,
uh and seeing the third cousins, second cousins. We'll just
open it up here. There's no direct question to anybody.
Was that interesting for you all to see your relatives?
I thought that was one of the coolest parts. Yeah,
(20:27):
I think so too. It's very interesting, I have to say.
So this is on the heels like us taking this
test is on the heels of Ali Faedatowski sharing how
she did Did you hear about the have you guys
talked about it? So? Ali took I think it was
twenty three and me and she found out that she
has a sister that her father didn't even know what
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he had given like he had four he im before
he ever got with his mom, he had a child
and never so she didn't know she had a sister.
And so going going into this test, I'm thinking, Okay,
(21:12):
this is Ali's life right now. Where holy how do
we really want to take this? And you know, nothing
like that happened for Ryan, and I think so interesting, Yes,
and she connected with this sister just crazy, just crazy anyway,
So that's kind of like a scary situation where it
(21:35):
could it could really truthfully happen to so many men
who if you're actually if you were sexually active with
with anyone prior to the person that you ended up marrying,
it could be something that happens and pops up in
your twenty three and me. Okay, so one of the
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cool parts about twenty three and me, we've not discussed
why we did it, uh, kind of what we found out,
you know, the really exciting parts about maybe getting up
and seeing some relatives that have taken it as well
and and match with that. But I think and I'm
not a parent, but I think one of the interesting
parts for me would be finding out some of the
health history, uh, and some of the things that you
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should look out for in your family. I know my
mom took it in arthritis and heart disease kind of
pops up in there. Uh so for you all that
are now parents, all three of you are are parents.
That was this something that you looked at? Did you
do any I guess the second follow up question would be,
did you do anything with this information? Um, after you
saw kind of what you're more susceptible to. There is
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some stuff on here that's really interesting, like for example,
and it's accurate. So I've clicked on this thing that
said back hair. I'm like, oh, says you. Uh, your
genetics predict you are eighty six percent ants that you
have little or no back hair and I don't have
really yes, fourteen percent chance you have at least some
back hair. Then the same numbers for bald spots, which
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I don't have that issue than eighty seven percent chance
I do not have a bald spot. This thing is
aces bunyans. It says I have a high likelihood for
bunyans my grandfather. I said, I'm need a test for
that because it's right there in front of my face.
But yeah, my grandfather had it, my mom had them,
and now I have them, and then it told me
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how many steps I walked this last few days. So
I don't really know exactly why that has that, how
it gets that, but I apparently am I'm clocking about
seven thousand steps a day. Second, you lying about that?
I swear seven thousand one steps per day. I mean
it's prettyccurate. Okay, so Trista from me speaking in a
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vial of things, but I think it's fantastic. And I
love you twenty three and me God bless you. So
before Trista we get to you, you're I want to
take a second though. I'm amazed by twenty three me
and not because they're sponsoring the podcast, but because and
this is gonna sound like an infomercial. I don't know
how to not make it sound like one. It's so
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easy to take, Like I think all of us are
giggling and laughing because the the ease at which you
take this test and the information that comes back and
the accuracy of this information, Like it would be different
if we're looking at this being like that's not true,
Like Bob's covered him back here and he is as
bald as a cucumber, Like no, that is yeah, that
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is very accurate. Uh. And also with Ashley and or Bunyan's, Like,
I don't think anybody on the I mean anybody knows
Ashley knows that she has some very aggressive bunyans. And
like the fact that, uh, this test, I mean, I
find it amazing could actually pick up on the fact
that you have bunyans. This tells you this don't even
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like the word spit, Like that's pretty gross. This makes
me no, I will say, there are things on here.
So there's all these traits. I'm just going to go
through the list. Ability to match, musical pitch, asparagus, odor detection,
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bitter taste, bunyan's cheek, dimples, cilantro taste, aversion, cleft, chin
dan druff, earlobe type, earwax type, eye color, fear of heights,
fear of public speaking, finger length ratio, flat feet, freckles.
Like the list goes on. It is so detailed. It's
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under traits. So um, it's under the health. And I
will say, because I am a parent, yes it is.
It is important to me to know this stuff, but
not necessarily to pass on to my kids just yet.
For me, I want to know, like my dad, my
grandfather had macular degeneration, and I show up as having
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a slightly increased risk for that, and and that's a
scary thing, but it's something that I feel like I
can talk to my doctor about, like, you know, maybe
in twenty years or something like that. But knowing that
I have an increased risk for that, and Celiac disease
shows up, and as having a slightly increased risk type
two diabetes, which I knew because my dad has it
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and my grandmother had it. Like I know that that stuff,
but having it in this form as a report, like
a black and white report that says this is an
increased risk, it's something that I can you know, I
was really concerned about breast cancer, not that I have
it in my family, but that shows up the br
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br C A genes, and then like kidney disease and
all these heart conditions. I feel like it's really great
information that you can utilize to take to your actor.
And actually started discussion, start a conversation that is so wild,
and I just have to say one more time, I
just gotta bring it up. You guys, we spit into
(27:08):
a vial and somehow from that, I mean, this is
like thinking about space that I don't disagree with you.
I think it's crazy. It's crazy. I think it's wild,
And I mean, this is how like a knowledgeable I am.
(27:30):
I'm thinking like what if I like had something weird
to eat right before I did it? Right? I know you,
I know, but like people obviously are getting accurate results
even through like whatever they're doing throughout the day. Um,
there's a great way to take the test, right, you
follow the directions. You you know, your your mouth is clean,
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everything is good. But you're right, the details of this
are incredible. Okay, So final question for you all, Now
that you have the details and you have the information,
what are you going to do with it or what
is it done for you personally? We'll start with Trista
again because that's kind of our flow. Um, even if
it's just enjoying it and reading it, what are you
going to take from taking the twenty three test? So
(28:15):
it's hard for me to not bring Ryan into this.
I wish I had it up um like that I
could actually read it and what's you're read it to
you to his ancestry, But he has I think it's
like it's like a very small percentage but he has
like point Neanderthal, and that's awesome. I have a little
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myself as well. Hold I so mind you, this is
my house for the like that I have to I'll
have to go back and look at it. But it's
very minimally caveman. So you guys like my house the
(29:07):
last two weeks, three weeks or whatever. It's guys like
walking around eating round. It's like, you know, we have
to procreate. So oh yeah, there's a lot of sorry
to my children and I and my in laws, but
there's a lot of getting naked lately. Yeah, life is good. Anyway,
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that's my life lately. That's funny. Say so, Bob, for you,
what are you going to take from this? You know,
I like, I'm going to continue filling out a lot
of the questions that I didn't do yet. So there's
like some stuff because I want my kids to know
if there's a chance for genetic stuff, you know, things
like that. Um, I am also going to use the
procreate neanderthal thing when I get home. I'm not sorry
(30:02):
to my in laws about that. Um, but I think
it's kind of interesting. I mean, there's a lot of
stuff in here that I mean, I haven't even It's
the tip of the iceberg for me. So I'm gonna
go through and really start to answer some more of
these things on the next reports and and share that
stuff with my family because I think it's important. And
I've never known half of this stuff that I'm reading
about myself right now. And I mean, I don't want
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to diminish. I know, you know, this is all interesting
and it's fun and you learn a lot, but I
don't want to diminish that you're your story of your
origin changed from this test. Yeah, you know. And so
that's a big deal for for many people taking the
tests as they find out that yes, what I've been
told or what my family might have known is not
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true to me. And I now, would you do with
that what you want? I went from American, Indian Irish
to Neanderthal. Too of a cave man is for you? Okay? Um?
For me, I think it's kind of like a story
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telling like origin there God, I am becoming my husband.
It's an origin story story of Superman, our son Dawson.
I think it's like the ancestry part for me that
I didn't really like. I think it'll be cool for
like traveling purposes, just like throughout our kids or Dawson
or possibly plural children's lives, to be like you're like
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part of you from here. This is where like this
great grandparents from. This where this great grandparent was from. Um, yeah,
you can actually find like pinpoint the location. Yeah. Like
I'm looking at this map right now and I'm like,
this is when we can travel here and that's where
you know of me came from there, and that's crazy.
So I think for me it has to do with
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just kind of like knowing where your roots are. It's
all so great. Before we end today's podcast, we do
have a very special guest. Uh, it's late, but Ryan
did step in because he cares um to talk about
his twenty three and me results. Now, we've already got
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a hint of this from Trista before you came in.
We know some of your results, so don't be shy.
Uh what did you learn Ryan and your results? Well,
the biggest thing, really, the only thing I learned that
I sort of stopped. I stopped after I saw was
that I have some pretty unique Neanderthal roots, Which is
does that make you extra manly? I feel like it
(32:32):
definitely does. Yeah, I mean, I think I think my
ancestors were actually around before Homeo Sapiens, Right, Yeah, I
think that's how it works, right, the Neanderthals. Can I
ask you a question that you might know because I'm
sure you've researched it and it might make me sound
totally totally a knowledgeable and that's fine. Um, aren't we
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all at some level having roots from Neanderthals? Apparently not,
I think there. I think so. I don't know where
the actual Homeo Sapiens side of things came from, but
they entered the picture after the Neanderthals. So my family,
your family came onto the planet Earth after my family.
(33:20):
So you're an origin you're yeah, you've been around since
the beginning. That answers a lot of questions I've always
had about Ryan is how does he have such big muscles? Um? Yeah,
we had to. Yeah, you had to. We were wrestling
like wooly mammoth. Since. Yeah, it wasn't easy. I'm looking
up the definition, okay. Neanderthals, by definition, are an extinct
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species or subspecies of archaic humans that lived in Eurasia
about forty thousand years ago. While the cause of their
extinction remains highly contested. Demographic factors like small population size,
in breeding, in random fluctuations are considered to be likely factors.
(34:04):
And this is a photo crime. Yeah, I can see
the resemblance. Yeah, brows and such. Right, how did you
feel when you read your results? Was any? I mean,
this is obviously, uh, super interesting. I think that you
have those roots. But did anything else pop up with
your health history or things you're more susceptible to that
(34:26):
that kind of stood out health history? Not really. I
think some of the interesting things were, um, that I
have a tendency or I guess I'm less likely to
be able to sneeze with the full stomach part of this.
This is one of the things that they talk about
on t DA mate, and it's some people can't sneeze
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when too full, and I apparently have a good chance
of being one of those. So although, like in you know,
full disclosure, the other night, I had a bowl of
cereal and shortly after you're sneezed. So I'm wondering if
maybe I admit that skipped me. You're gonna remember every
time now that you sneeze on a full stomach. I
wouldn't say a bowl of cereal is a full stomach.
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Though that's true, it wasn't a very big bowl of cereal. Yeah,
I'm used to like yeah, like I'm used to eating
large amounts of meat, so cereal is not that big
of a deal. So I think I'm still I'm still
in the running for not sneezing with a full stomach.
But I think just like Neanderthal component aside, just just
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seeing sort of where your heritage came from, sort of
that part of it was really interesting. Can you share
with us what you are besides neanderfl since we focus
a lot on that. Yeah, like, no, none of it's
really as important. I was Northwestern European, so German French area,
and then also there was a British component, which was
(35:54):
more of an Irish side, which seems to go correlate
with what my parents have said over there. And then
there was some um, oh gosh, what's the term. I
can't think of it. It's like Iceland and Greenland and
that No, no, that would be a good guest. Scandinavian. Yeah,
I had some Scandinavian in there, and um yeah, and
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then the rest of it I think was just full
in Neanderthal, but other than that. It was mostly like it,
but it was interesting just to see kind of where
that came from. Not right, I would love to say,
like trist is sitting over there like this is ridiculous
right now, But right before you came in, Um, she
did seem very intrigued by your results and in fact
kind of alluded that the twenty three of me has
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helped your intimacy as a couple. Yeah, explains it really
explains a lot. I'm able to use that as an
excuse for like, listen, I mean, I can't help I
can't help it thousand years like you can't stop that,
and and she it, she mentioned it. And so I
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just want to say kudos to you and kudos to me,
Um for supporting every Yeah, thank you changed life changing
really at pleast for the last week or so. Until
next time. Follow our lade. I've been been, I've been
ash I've been Trista, and I'm Bob. That works. The
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