September 8, 2022 • 40 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!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Have you ever thought about how incredibly complex I spit is.
It may only be water, but just aliva isn't simple.
That remaining one percent holds incredibly meaningful information that could
change everything. And I'm not just talking about your family
treat Hi. I'm Barrett day Thurston and on this season
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of Spit and I Heart Radio podcast with twenty three
and Me, we explore how DNA isn't just about ancestry,
it can also be key to understanding your health. Hey,
welcome back today on SPIT. We're heading back to Bachelor Nation,
this time to hang with a fan favorite contestant, Ashley
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I Connetti, and one of the most popular Bachelor's ever,
Ben Higgins. Together, Ben and Ashley are hosts of the
almost famous podcast. Usually you can find them discussing relationships
and breaking down new see Reasons of Bachelor shows, but
today is something special. Today Ben and Ashley are joined
by a Bachelor Nation all star team featuring now husband
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and wife Trista and Ryan Sutter, and the original Bachelor,
Bob Guinea. Recently, the gang all took twenty three and
Me tests and are getting together to share their experiences
after diving into everyone's bachelor origin stories. Trista, Bob and
Ashley get into what they found surprising about their health
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and traits reports and let me tell you the answers
they might surprise you. As parents, Trista, Ryan and Ashley
discuss how having children exponentially changes your sensitivity when it
comes to taking care of your health. Is no longer
just about you. Not only do you have to stay
healthy for the sake of your kids, but understanding your
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DNA could help you guide your children to a healthier lifestyle.
And on the lighter side, there's also plenty of talk
about back hair and what the discovery of Neanderthal DNA
personally did for Ryan interest this relationship. I'm for real,
you don't want to miss this one. Let's listen it.
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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. Is
this the first time we've ever hung out in person?
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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
Heeart podcast celebration. A lot of different podcasts are here.
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We're lucky enough today to sit down 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 with because so Whosier
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is what the mascot is for Indiana Indiana University. The
story goes there's many different stories to this, but the
the story that I hear the most often is one
guy was standing on one side of the Hio River,
another man was standing on the Indiana side of the
Higher River, and the person on the Ohio side kept
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yelling who's there. He did, 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 found who's No.
The guy in the Indiana side was who's your Hoosier?
And the guy would say who's there? And he goes Whosier,
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
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I've always be a 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
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raised in St. Louis until 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 at that happened. Um, while I
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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
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
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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
you know. She's casting director for longtime casting director for
the Bachelor franchise. And she was on Extra talking about
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this new reality show, and I thought, well, that 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, right, I just wanted to have fun.
So anyway, that's how I That's how I played. And
now you're here with your husband and your son in Tahoe.
It's great to see you all together. Okay, Bob, onto
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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 clashing man
story men never assigned themselves up or so they my
brother in law, I had the best story about it.
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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 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 all most thirty and I'm
not journey. So when that am I ever gonna be Journey?
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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 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 just had
reconstructive knee surgery, so I had this big leg cast
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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. I
don't know, maybe she had a cold, it's but it
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sounded like a guy trying to be a girl. And
I told I told Lacey this story before. I don't
feel bad, Sanda, 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 prey it. And they're like, well, no, we really,
you know, we really want to meet you. Would you
do a demo tape for us? And I'm like, so
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what you want me to be like the fact guy
in your blooper reel kidding out of the shower like Hi, Trista.
I'm like, 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 things
to fill out for a plane ticket, and I flew
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out to l A. I know, I flew out to
l A with my leg cast on, and like they
paid 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 sequester,
and so uh Sally and Selsano came out at the time.
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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, yeah,
she was get up here. And so I actually did
my my on camera interview in board shorts and a
T shirt. Of course you got gas. So They're like
and we were just laughing, and I heard the like
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they had like camera lions going through to the adjoining suite,
and I would say something stupid how 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 Flyes, all those guys are like, you need to
be on this show. 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,
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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 us anyway, Yeah, that was how
I ended up on the show. And then Ashley, you're
gonna tell the story again. I feel like this is
totally serially, You're gonna tell it really, Okay, we start
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where I was born, like trist he asked pre show,
so I was talking about what happened. Okay and I
are both like born in Indiana, 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,
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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 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 hump. And
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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 years there. Then we moved to
Boston for a couple of years when my dad was
a as residency up there, and then we live in
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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 next
step of my life is. You know, I was in
broadcast journalism, so wrong reasons and it all works out
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right now I have this podcast. Thank you. Somehow life
comes full circle for me. I was I was in
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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. 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
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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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zoo keeper 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, we
had eagle, we had hawks, We had monkeys, We had
a puma uh an ostrogen and this this zoo. You
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had to actually walk into um the they're like habitats
to feed them. So you'd have one person stand and
block with like a stick, kind of bang it 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.
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I get back shared. I've never I don't think i've
ever shared this story. I never knew he was a zookeeper,
lived out of the country, South America. 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, 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 stand
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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. Was wild.
There's a thousand stories from that month that I could
shoose ill. So I'll tell you so I have an
obsession in life, especially when I was younger, to create
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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
creating any story. Worries for like six months of my life.
And the chief marketing officer and my company came up
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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
next step. That is so so sweet. You had the
title speaking of like you know, and you had the
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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
after I was a bachelor. And I mean obviously, like
you go on national television, they put in sales. Yeah,
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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 instruct him.
I was a user manual writer. You must have wanted
to die. It was terrible for me. Think about me
and I get paid now to talk back. Then I
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got I got paid to do test scripts and like
case studies on our software and run but yeah, run
bugs and then write a user manual on how to
process do the But it was really hard on me. Um.
So then I want to show the rest is history.
Uh so that's how we all got on the show. Now,
I I want to talk about all this because this
podcast is a twenty three and me podcast, and a
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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
want to talk to all of you about today. So
everybody in the room has taken the test, I'm gonna
start back. I think we have a good flow with Trista.
What made you decide to take this test? What made
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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 in that when I grew up, I
always knew that on my dad's side of the family,
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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 know how much. And you know how
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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,
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so we're talking. I mean college is still a ways away,
but talking about college and 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
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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 they have a little bit, right,
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And I honestly think it's like any percentage you can
apply if you are didn't have enough, Yeah, exactly, Well
you're curious. I was curious. Yeah, That's why that's why
I did, 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 getting 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 Indigenous American Indian in my bloodline as well, because
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I've 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'm challenging my test results. Also, I'm
gonna call it twenty three folk, 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 are
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
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not giving my kit 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 one percent.
Isn't that wild? Though? I mean, how accurate it is
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your sister? So yeah, 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 all my relatives. Yes,
my cousins there and my dad's there. Got a lot
of people and my dad um and then some and
then and then it's like all of a sudden, they're
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like third cousin and like far off cousins. I'm like, wow,
I'm surprised that I don't have more people in 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?
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I thought that was one of the coolest parts. Yeah,
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 Fatatowski 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
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that her father didn't even know what he had given
like he had four I'm looking before he ever got
with his mom, he had a child and never was
so she didn't know she had a sister. And so
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going going into this test, I'm thinking, Okay, this is
Ali's life right now, where, holy cow, do we really
want to take this? And you know, nothing like that
happened for Ryan and I think so interesting, so interesting. Yes,
and she connected with this sister just crazy, just crazy anyway.
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So that's kind of like a scary situation where it
could it could really truthfully happen to so many men
who 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 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 chance that you
have little or no back hair, and I don't have
really yes, four chance you have at least some back hair.
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Then the same numbers for bald spots, which I don't
have that issue eight seven percent chance I do not
have a bald spot. This thing is as well bunny ins.
It says I have a high likelihood for bunnyans my grandfather,
And I said, I'm need a test for that because
it's right there in front of my face. But yeah,
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my grandfather had it, my mom had them, and now
I have them. See. And then it told me 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 I'm I'm clocking about seven
thousand steps a day, seven steps per day. I mean
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it's prettyccurate. Okay, so Trista speaking and a vial of things,
but I think it's fantastic, and I love you and me,
God bless you. Well. So before Trista we get to
you here, 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
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an infomercial. I don't know how to not make it
sound like one. It's so 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
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here and he is as bald as a cucumber, Like, no,
that is yeah, that is very accurate. Uh. And also
with Ashley in or bunyans, like I don't think anybody
on the I mean an even knows Ashley knows that
she has some very aggressive bunyans. And like the fact that, uh,
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this test, I mean, I find it amazing could actually
pick up on the fact that you have bunyans. This
tells you this, Okay, I don't even like the word spit,
Like that's pretty gross. This makes me appreciate no I
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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, bitter taste,
bunyan's cheek, dimples, cilantro taste, aversion, cleft, chin dan druff,
earlobe type, ear wax type, eye color, fear of heights,
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fear of public speaking, finger length ratio, flat feet, freckles.
Like the list goes on. It is so detailed. It's
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
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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
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
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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
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
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increased risk, it's something 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 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 doctor and
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actually start a 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
a vial and somehow from that is like thinking about
space for real. That's really I don't disagree with you.
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I think it's crazy. It's crazy. I think it's wild,
And I mean this is how like a knowledgeable I am.
I'm thinking, like what if I had something weird to
eat right before I did it? Right? I know, I know,
but like people obviously getting accurate results even through like
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whatever they're doing throughout the day. Um, there's a great
way to take the test. Right, you follow directions, you
you know your your mouth is clean. 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
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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 and me test? So 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 reading to you? His
ancestry but he has I think it's like it's like
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a very small percentage, but he has like point to
Neanderthal you. I have a little of that and myself
as hold I so mind you this is my house
for the two or some like that. I have to
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I'll have to go back and look at it, but
it's very minimum. Jack is a cave man. You guys
like my house the last two weeks, three weeks or whatever.
It's guys like walking around eating rons, like you know,
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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. GAT. Yeah,
life is good anyway, that's my life lately. That's funny.
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Say so for you, what are you going to take
from this? You know, I like, I'm gonna continue filling
out a lot of the questions that I didn't do yet.
So there's like some stuff because I 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.
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I'm not sorry 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
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that I'm reading about myself right now, so and I mean,
I don't want 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. They find out that, yes, what I've
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been told or what my family might have known is
not true to me, and I, now, would you do
with that what you want? I went from American, Indian
Irish to Neanderthal. He's stealing for you, okay. Um. For me,
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I think it's kind of like a storytelling like Origin
the 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,
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to be like you're like part of you from here.
This is where like this great grandparent from this where
this great grandparent was from. Um, you can actually find
like pinpoint the location. Yeah, Like I'm looking at this
map right now, I'm like, this is when we could
travel here, and that's where you know of me came
from there, And that's crazy. So I think for me
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it has to do with just kind of like knowing
where your roots are. It's all so great. Before we
in 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.
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Now we've already got 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?
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I feel like it 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
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sound totally totally a knowledgeable and that's fine. Uh, aren't
we all at some level having roots from Neanderthals? Apparently not?
I think there. I think so I don't know where
the actual Homeo Sapien side of things came from, but
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they entered the picture after the Neanderthals. So my family,
your family came onto the planet Earth after my family.
So you're origin, you're yeah, you've been around since. 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
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like wooly mammoth since. Yeah, it wasn't easy. I'm looking
up the definition. Okay. Inderstals, by definition, are an extinct
species or subspecies of archaic humans that lived in Eurasia
about forty thousand years ago. While the cause of their
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extinction remains highly contested, demographic factors like small population size,
in breeding, in random fluctuations are considered to be likely factors.
And this is a photo a crime. Yeah, I can
see the resemblance. Yeah, brows and such. Right, how did
you feel when you read your results? Uh? Was any?
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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 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. Party this,
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This is one of the things that they talk about
on Mate, and it's crazy. Some people can't sneeze when
too full, and I apparently have a good chance of
being one of those. So although, like in your full disclosure,
the other night, I had a bowl of cereal and
shortly after sneezed. So I'm wondering if maybe I admit
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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, 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
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the running for not sneezing with the full stomach. But
I think just like Neanderthal component aside, just just 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 Nanderfl's to focus a lot. Yeah, like, no,
none of it's really as important. I was northwestern European,
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so German French area, and then also there was a
British component, which was more of an Irish side, which
seems to go correlate with what my parents have said.
What there's 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 Atlantic No, no, that would
(38:30):
be a good guest. Scandinavian. Yeah, I had some Scandinavian
in there, and um yeah, and then the rest of
it I think was just full Neanderthal. But other than that,
it was mostly like it. But it was interesting just
to see kind of where that came from. Now right,
I would love to say, like trist is sitting over
there like this is ridiculous right now, But right before
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you came in, um, she did seem very intrigued by
your results, and in fact kind of alluded that the
twenty three me his up your intimacy as a couple. Yeah,
explains it really explains a lot. I'm able to use
that as an excuse for like listening. I mean, I
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can't help I can't help it. Thousand years Bogy, you
can't stop that. No, and she did, she mentioned it,
And so I just want to say kudos to you
and kudos and me Um for supporting. Yeah, thank you.
Life changing really at pleast for the last week or so.
Until next time. Follow I've Been Been I and I'm
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Did this episode inspire you to take a closer look
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of Spit and I Heart Radio podcast with twenty three
and Me, we explore how DNA isn't just about ancestry,
it can also be key to understanding your health. Hey,
welcome back today on SPIT. We're heading back to Bachelor Nation,
this time to hang with a fan favorite contestant, Ashley
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I Connetti, and one of the most popular Bachelor's ever,
Ben Higgins. Together, Ben and Ashley are hosts of the
almost famous podcast. Usually you can find them discussing relationships
and breaking down new see Reasons of Bachelor shows, but
today is something special. Today Ben and Ashley are joined
by a Bachelor Nation all star team featuring now husband
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and wife Trista and Ryan Sutter, and the original Bachelor,
Bob Guinea. Recently, the gang all took twenty three and
Me tests and are getting together to share their experiences
after diving into everyone's bachelor origin stories. Trista, Bob and
Ashley get into what they found surprising about their health
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and traits reports and let me tell you the answers
they might surprise you. As parents, Trista, Ryan and Ashley
discuss how having children exponentially changes your sensitivity when it
comes to taking care of your health. Is no longer
just about you. Not only do you have to stay
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DNA could help you guide your children to a healthier lifestyle.
And on the lighter side, there's also plenty of talk
about back hair and what the discovery of Neanderthal DNA
personally did for Ryan interest this relationship. I'm for real,
you don't want to miss this one. Let's listen it.
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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. Is
this the first time we've ever hung out in person?
(02:36):
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
Heeart podcast celebration. A lot of different podcasts are here.
(02:57):
We're lucky enough today to sit down 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 with because so Whosier
(03:42):
is what the mascot is for Indiana Indiana University. The
story goes there's many different stories to this, but the
the story that I hear the most often is one
guy was standing on one side of the Hio River,
another man was standing on the Indiana side of the
Higher River, and the person on the Ohio side kept
(04:04):
yelling who's there. He did, 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 found who's No.
The guy in the Indiana side was who's your Hoosier?
And the guy would say who's there? And he goes Whosier,
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
(04:27):
I've always be a 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
(04:49):
raised in St. Louis until 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 at that happened. Um, while I
(05:19):
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
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
(05:41):
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
you know. She's casting director for longtime casting director for
the Bachelor franchise. And she was on Extra talking about
(06:01):
this new reality show, and I thought, well, that 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, right, I just wanted to have fun.
So anyway, that's how I That's how I played. And
now you're here with your husband and your son in Tahoe.
It's great to see you all together. Okay, Bob, onto
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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 clashing man
story men never assigned themselves up or so they my
brother in law, I had the best story about it.
(06:43):
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 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 all most thirty and I'm
not journey. So when that am I ever gonna be Journey?
(07:04):
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 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 just had
reconstructive knee surgery, so I had this big leg cast
(07:26):
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. I
don't know, maybe she had a cold, it's but it
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sounded like a guy trying to be a girl. And
I told I told Lacey this story before. I don't
feel bad, Sanda, 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 prey it. And they're like, well, no, we really,
you know, we really want to meet you. Would you
do a demo tape for us? And I'm like, so
(08:07):
what you want me to be like the fact guy
in your blooper reel kidding out of the shower like Hi, Trista.
I'm like, 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 things
to fill out for a plane ticket, and I flew
(08:27):
out to l A. I know, I flew out to
l A with my leg cast on, and like they
paid 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 sequester,
and so uh Sally and Selsano came out at the time.
(08:50):
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, yeah,
she was get up here. And so I actually did
my my on camera interview in board shorts and a
T shirt. Of course you got gas. So They're like
and we were just laughing, and I heard the like
(09:13):
they had like camera lions going through to the adjoining suite,
and I would say something stupid how 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 Flyes, all those guys are like, you need to
be on this show. 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,
(09:34):
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 us anyway, Yeah, that was how
I ended up on the show. And then Ashley, you're
gonna tell the story again. I feel like this is
totally serially, You're gonna tell it really, Okay, we start
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where I was born, like trist he asked pre show,
so I was talking about what happened. Okay and I
are both like born in Indiana, 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,
(10:21):
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 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 hump. And
(10:41):
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 years there. Then we moved to
Boston for a couple of years when my dad was
a as residency up there, and then we live in
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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 next
step of my life is. You know, I was in
broadcast journalism, so wrong reasons and it all works out
(11:23):
right now I have this podcast. Thank you. Somehow life
comes full circle for me. I was I was in
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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
(12:08):
as long as we want. So we moved to Peru
and I was living in Cusco, Peru. 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
(12:31):
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
(12:53):
zoo keeper 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, we
had eagle, we had hawks, We had monkeys, We had
a puma uh an ostrogen and this this zoo. You
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had to actually walk into um the they're like habitats
to feed them. So you'd have one person stand and
block with like a stick, kind of bang it 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.
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I get back shared. I've never I don't think i've
ever shared this story. I never knew he was a zookeeper,
lived out of the country, South America. 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
(13:58):
have a shipment of all food that got outdated, come
in like a day old, like meat that was still
good enough for animals, 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 stand
(14:19):
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. Was wild.
There's a thousand stories from that month that I could
shoose ill. So I'll tell you so I have an
obsession in life, especially when I was younger, to create
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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
creating any story. Worries for like six months of my life.
And the chief marketing officer and my company came up
(15:04):
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
next step. That is so so sweet. You had the
title speaking of like you know, and you had the
(15:26):
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
after I was a bachelor. And I mean obviously, like
you go on national television, they put in sales. Yeah,
(15:46):
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 instruct him.
I was a user manual writer. You must have wanted
to die. It was terrible for me. Think about me
and I get paid now to talk back. Then I
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got I got paid to do test scripts and like
case studies on our software and run but yeah, run
bugs and then write a user manual on how to
process do the But it was really hard on me. Um.
So then I want to show the rest is history.
Uh so that's how we all got on the show. Now,
I I want to talk about all this because this
podcast is a twenty three and me podcast, and a
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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
want to talk to all of you about today. So
everybody in the room has taken the test, I'm gonna
start back. I think we have a good flow with Trista.
What made you decide to take this test? What made
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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 in that when I grew up, I
always knew that on my dad's side of the family,
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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 know how much. And you know how
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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,
(17:53):
so we're talking. I mean college is still a ways away,
but talking about college and 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
(18:14):
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 they have a little bit, right,
(18:37):
And I honestly think it's like any percentage you can
apply if you are didn't have enough, Yeah, exactly, Well
you're curious. I was curious. Yeah, That's why that's why
I did, because I wanted to see. I was curious,
and I think, honestly, these results are so freaking comprehensive
(18:59):
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 getting the health
questions here later on, because that is a huge benefit
three and me, especially for those that are parents. You know, um,
(19:21):
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 Indigenous American Indian in my bloodline as well, because
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I've 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'm challenging my test results. Also, I'm
gonna call it twenty three folk, 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 are
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
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not giving my kit 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 one percent.
Isn't that wild? Though? I mean, how accurate it is
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your sister? So yeah, 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 all my relatives. Yes,
my cousins there and my dad's there. Got a lot
of people and my dad um and then some and
then and then it's like all of a sudden, they're
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like third cousin and like far off cousins. I'm like, wow,
I'm surprised that I don't have more people in 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?
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I thought that was one of the coolest parts. Yeah,
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 Fatatowski 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
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that her father didn't even know what he had given
like he had four I'm looking before he ever got
with his mom, he had a child and never was
so she didn't know she had a sister. And so
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going going into this test, I'm thinking, Okay, this is
Ali's life right now, where, holy cow, do we really
want to take this? And you know, nothing like that
happened for Ryan and I think so interesting, so interesting. Yes,
and she connected with this sister just crazy, just crazy anyway.
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So that's kind of like a scary situation where it
could it could really truthfully happen to so many men
who 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 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 chance that you
have little or no back hair, and I don't have
really yes, four chance you have at least some back hair.
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Then the same numbers for bald spots, which I don't
have that issue eight seven percent chance I do not
have a bald spot. This thing is as well bunny ins.
It says I have a high likelihood for bunnyans my grandfather,
And I said, I'm need a test for that because
it's right there in front of my face. But yeah,
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my grandfather had it, my mom had them, and now
I have them. See. And then it told me 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 I'm I'm clocking about seven
thousand steps a day, seven steps per day. I mean
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it's prettyccurate. Okay, so Trista speaking and a vial of things,
but I think it's fantastic, and I love you and me,
God bless you. Well. So before Trista we get to
you here, 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
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an infomercial. I don't know how to not make it
sound like one. It's so 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
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here and he is as bald as a cucumber, Like, no,
that is yeah, that is very accurate. Uh. And also
with Ashley in or bunyans, like I don't think anybody
on the I mean an even knows Ashley knows that
she has some very aggressive bunyans. And like the fact that, uh,
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this test, I mean, I find it amazing could actually
pick up on the fact that you have bunyans. This
tells you this, Okay, I don't even like the word spit,
Like that's pretty gross. This makes me appreciate no I
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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, bitter taste,
bunyan's cheek, dimples, cilantro taste, aversion, cleft, chin dan druff,
earlobe type, ear wax type, eye color, fear of heights,
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fear of public speaking, finger length ratio, flat feet, freckles.
Like the list goes on. It is so detailed. It's
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
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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
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
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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
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
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increased risk, it's something 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 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 doctor and
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actually start a 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
a vial and somehow from that is like thinking about
space for real. That's really I don't disagree with you.
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I think it's crazy. It's crazy. I think it's wild,
And I mean this is how like a knowledgeable I am.
I'm thinking, like what if I had something weird to
eat right before I did it? Right? I know, I know,
but like people obviously getting accurate results even through like
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whatever they're doing throughout the day. Um, there's a great
way to take the test. Right, you follow directions, you
you know your your mouth is clean. 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
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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 and me test? So 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 reading to you? His
ancestry but he has I think it's like it's like
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a very small percentage, but he has like point to
Neanderthal you. I have a little of that and myself
as hold I so mind you this is my house
for the two or some like that. I have to
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I'll have to go back and look at it, but
it's very minimum. Jack is a cave man. You guys
like my house the last two weeks, three weeks or whatever.
It's guys like walking around eating rons, like you know,
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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. GAT. Yeah,
life is good anyway, that's my life lately. That's funny.
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Say so for you, what are you going to take
from this? You know, I like, I'm gonna continue filling
out a lot of the questions that I didn't do yet.
So there's like some stuff because I 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.
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I'm not sorry 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
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that I'm reading about myself right now, so and I mean,
I don't want 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. They find out that, yes, what I've
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been told or what my family might have known is
not true to me, and I, now, would you do
with that what you want? I went from American, Indian
Irish to Neanderthal. He's stealing for you, okay. Um. For me,
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I think it's kind of like a storytelling like Origin
the 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,
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to be like you're like part of you from here.
This is where like this great grandparent from this where
this great grandparent was from. Um, you can actually find
like pinpoint the location. Yeah, Like I'm looking at this
map right now, I'm like, this is when we could
travel here, and that's where you know of me came
from there, And that's crazy. So I think for me
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it has to do with just kind of like knowing
where your roots are. It's all so great. Before we
in 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.
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Now we've already got 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?
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I feel like it 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
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sound totally totally a knowledgeable and that's fine. Uh, aren't
we all at some level having roots from Neanderthals? Apparently not?
I think there. I think so I don't know where
the actual Homeo Sapien side of things came from, but
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they entered the picture after the Neanderthals. So my family,
your family came onto the planet Earth after my family.
So you're origin, you're yeah, you've been around since. 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
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like wooly mammoth since. Yeah, it wasn't easy. I'm looking
up the definition. Okay. Inderstals, by definition, are an extinct
species or subspecies of archaic humans that lived in Eurasia
about forty thousand years ago. While the cause of their
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extinction remains highly contested, demographic factors like small population size,
in breeding, in random fluctuations are considered to be likely factors.
And this is a photo a crime. Yeah, I can
see the resemblance. Yeah, brows and such. Right, how did
you feel when you read your results? Uh? Was any?
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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 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. Party this,
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This is one of the things that they talk about
on Mate, and it's crazy. Some people can't sneeze when
too full, and I apparently have a good chance of
being one of those. So although, like in your full disclosure,
the other night, I had a bowl of cereal and
shortly after sneezed. So I'm wondering if maybe I admit
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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, 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
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the running for not sneezing with the full stomach. But
I think just like Neanderthal component aside, just just 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 Nanderfl's to focus a lot. Yeah, like, no,
none of it's really as important. I was northwestern European,
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so German French area, and then also there was a
British component, which was more of an Irish side, which
seems to go correlate with what my parents have said.
What there's 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 Atlantic No, no, that would
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be a good guest. Scandinavian. Yeah, I had some Scandinavian
in there, and um yeah, and then the rest of
it I think was just full Neanderthal. But other than that,
it was mostly like it. But it was interesting just
to see kind of where that came from. Now right,
I would love to say, like trist is sitting over
there like this is ridiculous right now, But right before
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you came in, um, she did seem very intrigued by
your results, and in fact kind of alluded that the
twenty three me his up your intimacy as a couple. Yeah,
explains it really explains a lot. I'm able to use
that as an excuse for like listening. I mean, I
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can't help I can't help it. Thousand years Bogy, you
can't stop that. No, and she did, she mentioned it,
And so I just want to say kudos to you
and kudos and me Um for supporting. Yeah, thank you.
Life changing really at pleast for the last week or so.
Until next time. Follow I've Been Been I and I'm
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Did this episode inspire you to take a closer look
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could reveal so much about our past while also holding
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I continue to be inspired by these stories, and I
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