July 9, 2025 • 24 mins
The hosts dive deep into the world of consumer DNA testing with contrasting perspectives. Kerry shares her journey of identity recalibration after discovering she's only 2% Northern Italian despite growing up with strong Italian cultural influences. While Chrisy won't even lick an envelope.
The conversation takes thought-provoking turns as we consider the broader implications of sharing genetic material. With law enforcement increasingly using these databases to solve crimes through family matching and companies potentially facing bankruptcy or data breaches, is the curiosity worth the potential privacy trade-offs? And what happens when you discover unexpected family connections—are you prepared to expand your "dysfunctional family" to include newfound relatives?
Whether you're contemplating sending your own DNA sample, have already discovered surprising ancestry results, or remain firmly in the skeptics' camp, this episode offers plenty to contemplate about technology's growing role in defining who we are. Join us for two-episode journey of this fascinating discussion!
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DJ Nick (00:07):
Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast.
We may not have seen it all,but we've seen enough.
And now here are your hosts,Chrisy and Kerry.
Kerry (00:19):
Hello Junkie family.
I'm Kerry
Chrisy (00:22):
and I'm Chrissy,
Kerry (00:23):
so this is a subject that Chrisy's been really wanting to
do for a while, so we are goingto tackle it today.
Chrisy (00:31):
Yes.
Kerry (00:32):
We're going to be talking about the genetics.
Send your DNA off to whateveroh I don't know company of your
choice, without saying the namesof.
Let's see who you are, whereyou're from, who you related to
Chrissy go.
Chrisy (00:47):
Well, this has become a very big deal in the last decade
two decades maybe.
Yes, and it sounds fascinating.
Yes, that back when it firststarted, I thought, well, this
might be interesting, but I havean issue sending anything in
the mail, let alone my DNA.
(01:09):
I have a hard enough time,because if you know anything
about me and how crazy I am, Igenerally don't even like to
lick an envelope and send itsomewhere.
I'm serious.
I generally will take my finger, stick it under the faucet, rub
my finger along the envelopeand seal it that way.
I'm that paranoid.
Yes, people, I am that paranoid, I am.
Kerry (01:29):
So always been this way, or is this something that has
evolved over the years?
Chrisy (01:33):
Oh, it probably has evolved.
Yeah, I mean, it's somethingthis at this is and that's that,
but I admire your bravery fordoing this and I understand the
appeal of it.
(01:54):
I really do, because it isinteresting to find out things
about you yourself, I guess.
But are you really finding outanything that's really that
great?
And then you, I myunderstanding somewhat.
I understand a little bit aboutthis, hearing other people talk
about it, and do you reallywant to be contacted by these
people who now you share someconnection with?
Kerry (02:16):
You're inviting more family into more yes.
Hi, I have my immediatedysfunctional family.
Chrisy (02:23):
And now I'm interested in knowing about my extended
dysfunctional heritage.
I mean, do you really thinkthat you're out there and you're
going to locate somebody whoyou are somehow related to?
That's life is completelynormal.
I mean, I hate to be insulting,but you're doing this and you
found somebody else who waswilling to do this.
Yes, double, double trouble.
(02:45):
I guess I really want to knowwhy you're so interested.
Yes, I mean, okay, you want toknow.
Like I had a sibling that didthis.
So now, just by association,somehow I've your DNA is out
there.
Except maybe I can say, say,maybe we're not really related.
(03:06):
I'm gonna have to do mine too.
So now I'm just gonna say no, II don't think we're related.
That's gonna be a hard one toargue, unfortunately, but you
know it is fascinating becauseyou, like you had mentioned, you
always thought that you wereItalian, right, right, and then
you found out, not that.
So I'm confused now because I'mtrying to remember back to our
(03:26):
conversation, because I kind oflike, totally like, didn't think
about your Italian heritage,because you family was sort of
like.
So, like you know, we're gonnaeat, you know Italian on Sundays
(03:49):
.
So what was the outcome of that?
Again, please.
Kerry (03:51):
Okay, that's what I was actually.
As you were talking, I wasopening up the app to my oh, and
it comes with the app and thespreadsheets red sheets.
Okay, so according to the sendoff DNA place that I sent mine
to, I am 64% dramatic Europe 13%.
England and Northwestern Europe9%.
(04:14):
Wales, 6% Ireland 3%.
Cornwall Where's Cornwall?
Chrisy (04:20):
In the United Kingdom.
Kerry (04:22):
I don't know, and 2% Northern Italy.
And then there's 2% Netherlandsand 1% Sweden.
Yes, okay, when I was growingup, my let me think so my mom's
mom's mom.
So my mom, grandma, my greatgrandmother, was from Italy and
she was Italian and she spokeItalian and everything, and so
(04:44):
we knew we had this, thislineage, and I think somewhere
on my dad's side there mighthave been someone too and we
knew they were from NorthernItaly, which is again the where
we get the blonde hair, blueeyes.
So it just was always like, oh,we're Italian and that's how I
always that's what I thought Iwas.
But then, after doing thislittle send off DNA, you know so
(05:05):
much.
Chrisy (05:06):
So what was the?
Kerry (05:07):
majority of your ethnicity.
Germanic Europe.
So I think, like I think,that's where you're.
Let's see Dutch and German.
Okay, yes, the regions risefrom Dutch and German lowlands
along the North Sea, austria,alps yeah, so, and that does
make sense.
My other great grandmother was,I do know she had German in her
(05:28):
.
So yeah, but yeah.
So I lived a life of delusionuntil I was, I don't know, five
years ago.
DJ Nick (05:37):
Cornwall is a section of England.
Chrisy (05:39):
United Kingdom.
Oh okay.
DJ Nick (05:41):
United.
Kerry (05:42):
Kingdom.
Yeah, all right.
DJ Nick (05:43):
But yeah, but that also explains the Durganunders.
Kerry (05:46):
The Durganunders.
That's right, it does so.
Going back to our food episode,then, and honestly, the reason
why I did this was a little bitbecause of the ancestry, like
looking at the where am I reallyfrom?
And then there was also alittle just curious, just making
(06:06):
sure I, my parents, are who myparents are supposed to be.
Chrisy (06:09):
I guess you can say how does that prove that though?
Kerry (06:13):
because when you do this it matches you with people and
so it kind of proved that likebecause, like some of my nieces
are on there and it showed thatso that would mean me and my
sisters are actually me and myfull sisters.
Chrisy (06:26):
Oh, oh, yeah, OK, so great, yeah.
How does that make you feelbetter?
Kerry (06:38):
That sounds like curiosity killed the cat.
There's a little bit ofcuriosity, but I will tell you
that every time, every time theemails come from this company
and it says we have a new match,I am always waiting for oh, did
my dad maybe have?
Because that that was somethingthat wondered about growing up,
(06:59):
was that?
Did dad have, maybe?
extra I understand that extrakids somewhere, you know right
and so there is a little part ofme that every time that comes
up I always wonder like oh, Iwonder if this is a long lost
half sibling, and you know.
But no, so far it hasn'thappened.
Good job dad, good job dad.
So yay, dad absolutely seeagain my just very dysfunctional
(07:25):
brain, the things I thinkyou're not the only one that
thinks that.
Chrisy (07:28):
I know I mean that is, and it's generally coming from
the father.
Yeah, because harder to hidefrom them yeah, because they
seem to remember when they'vehad kids.
It's just a different animal.
But yeah, I mean, my list isnot as short as yours.
Yes, well, it's not mine, it'syour sibling, the sibling that
(07:49):
did this Right.
But it's crazy to what levelthe different areas and
ethnicities that have beenfiltered down.
Kerry (07:59):
Yes, so what are you?
98%?
Chrisy (08:01):
I probably have the list somewhere.
I don't have it handy, but well, my majority is Italian.
Yes, my mother is legitimatelyItalian.
Yes, I mean, there might besome Greek heritage there.
Kerry (08:16):
Again, relative to the area.
Chrisy (08:18):
Fairly common for that area, I guess.
I guess my father was more ofthe diverse background, but
nothing of a surprise.
Yeah, really at all.
Kerry (08:28):
I guess I'm thinking about it for mine, because it is
northern Italy where it bordersa lot of these other countries.
Yes, I guess it shouldn'tsurprise me that there is an
infiltration of others whereyour family is definitely more
down.
Like you said before, in theboot, yeah Bottom of the boot.
So you don't yeah bottom of theboot Right so you don't got any
real borders, except for oceansRight, or seas, or whatever
(08:51):
they call it.
Yeah.
Chrisy (08:53):
To that level.
I think it's interesting andit's fun.
I love that.
I and I'm just guessing herethat people go into this because
they think they might be ableto find out that they're related
to somebody.
Great yeah, and it's terrifyingto think who you're gonna find
(09:13):
out you related to.
It's generally not gonna beroyalty or someone famous.
I mean, those are far and fewbetween stories.
Yeah, my husband watches thisone show.
Who are you?
Who do you think you are?
Kerry (09:25):
Is that the name of it?
Something like that, yeah.
DJ Nick (09:28):
It's on PBS Finding your Roots.
Kerry (09:32):
Oh, Finding your Roots.
Chrisy (09:33):
That historian, Dr Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates, yeah
and it is an interesting show,but generally they're featuring
people who are famous, yes, andthen you find out who they're
related to.
That's famous and that's fun, Iguess.
Yeah, but yeah, I just ingeneral.
Kerry (09:53):
I just don't know that you want to be on this list
Because nowadays they're solvingcrimes by looking up these, by
finding people's DNA matches onthese things.
Chrisy (10:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, Again there's my.
Don't commit a crime and youwon't have to live, I know, but
again then they screw things upwith DNA.
You know this is where I'm.
Somebody put it in the wrongbucket, yeah, and now I'm
completely implicated insomething I didn't do.
So just don't give it out there.
Yeah, I'm sorry, eh.
Kerry (10:28):
I figured I've never been much of a conspiracy person,
theory person or whatever, andso I totally get and respect
people's opinion on this, onthings like that.
But for me I'm just like ifthey're going to find it,
they're going to find it.
You know it's, you know sowhatever.
Chrisy (10:43):
Know so whatever I'm gonna go somewhere dark with
this go dark, because I don'twant to give you my dna, but I
wonder because they're sort ofnot doing anything anyhow, these
people that we put in theground, oh, yeah maybe we could
retrieve their dna and testsomebody out there.
Kerry (11:03):
So part of the prerequisite to when someone
passes away, you know you havethe whole burial process or the
you know death process that wehave to extricate their DNA.
Is that what you're saying?
Put it in the data bank.
Chrisy (11:14):
Well, I was just going to start digging people up, but
actually your idea is betterbecause Well, at least we'd
start from this point on, andthen you can start you know what
?
I'm really starting to getfrustrated with you, everyone
out there in these industries.
I'm giving you ideas to be ableto, you know, bulk up your
bottom line, and maybe you needto offer this.
(11:36):
I mean, my understanding is thefuneral industry is in trouble
as far as that, it's not one ofthose professions that's going
to be able to stand the test oftime.
Kerry (11:47):
I don't understand.
Death is always going to bethere.
I think it's people, becausewe're not burying people as much
.
Chrisy (11:51):
We're not doing the funerals like we used to.
Kerry (11:54):
Oh, I see.
Chrisy (11:55):
So that whole industry is changing.
Kerry (11:59):
I believe.
Yes, it is.
Chrisy (12:01):
Not that it's something I want to sit around and think
about, but it usually makes alist of, like, what industries
aren't going to be aroundanymore.
I mean, we already know aboutcashiers and secretaries and
morticians.
I don't know how they made thatthey're in that group, I guess
I don't know.
You'd have to look that up.
(12:21):
I'm not creating a list here,this is just something I saw.
I'm not giving it anylegitimacy, except that it's
just a list that's been floatingaround out there.
It could have no great backup.
Kerry (12:34):
It is amazing the dysfunctional things we think
about.
Chrisy (12:37):
Well, we do create more.
Kerry (12:40):
We do as if we aren't already dealing with enough.
Chrisy (12:43):
I know I mean that you're seeking out more.
Kerry (12:48):
Here's the other part of the DNA testing that I just find
fabulous.
Just intriguing is not onlydoes it tell you like okay, this
is where your heritage is fromand you know so.
Here's why you have frecklyskin, or here's why you have
this, or whatever, but it alsotells you about traits that you
have so like.
For instance, did you know thattaking naps is actually
(13:13):
genetically related to if you'rea nap person or not?
So like for me, yeah, so for me,on my testing, it says that I
am more likely to be a nap takerperson.
So my DNA from my paternal sidehas a strong influence that I
like to take naps, and so and ifyou're trying to get them in
(13:36):
before 3pm, just goes on.
This thing about napping is isgenetically, it's like it's in
my DNA to want to take a nap.
Chrisy (13:45):
I just think that's amazing.
I did not know to what levelthis gives you lists.
Kerry (13:50):
Yes, so the other thing is heart rate recovery.
Heart rate recovery how quickyour heart rate returns to its
resting pace, whatever it saysthat.
You know, I have a very strongDNA likelihood that my heart
rate recovers very quick.
And that is very true, Becausewhen I'm at the gym and I'm
working out or whatever, myheart rate, yes, it goes up, but
(14:11):
, man, it comes right back down.
Chrisy (14:13):
So did you pay extra for this?
Kerry (14:15):
No, it's all part of it.
Chrisy (14:17):
I had no idea that this was part of this.
This is we have not curedcancer yet.
Not cured cancer yet I know.
How is it that you can do allof this from somebody
swashbuckling the inside oftheir mouth with a crazy Q-tip
or spitting in a tube?
The other reason I won't dothis is it's just gross.
(14:40):
I don't want to sit there andspit till I'm dry in a tube and
then ship it somewhere.
Yeah, my goodness, hey, god,love you.
People out there doing that.
Good for you.
I'm sorry and I try to notoffend.
It's hard for me.
I am not into this on any level.
Kerry (15:02):
It's just so.
Here are some other of traitsthat you can find out if you're
more or less likely to getcavities If you have alcohol
flush.
You know like some people whenthey drink they get that like
rosacea flush.
Chrisy (15:15):
Isn't that just where you're from?
If you're of lighter skin, wellagain but this is what I'm
saying.
Kerry (15:22):
This is part of that.
Chrisy (15:23):
No, I could figure that out without you spitting in a
tube.
Kerry (15:26):
Okay, but did you know that asparagus odor?
Oh geez Going back to.
Chrisy (15:31):
Let's eat asparagus till .
Our pee smells funny.
Kerry (15:34):
Yes, that is why some people can't smell that or think
that they are right, because itis a genetic thing.
If you're able to, your DNAsuggests you smell a distinctive
odor in your urine after eatingasparagus.
Chrisy (15:47):
I am shocked that this is even something that we can
discuss right now, that this isimportant, that somebody's
sitting there analyzing this ohhey, your pee's going to smell
stronger than this muchpercentage of the other
population.
Kerry (16:11):
Ear wiggling if you can easily focus.
If you're a goal setter.
If I'm trying to find thingshangriness, if you're likely or
more likely or unlikely to behangry.
Chrisy (16:21):
All right, I need to lock some people up in a room
randomly and not feed them andsee who.
Kerry (16:28):
Let's see Mosquito bites.
If you're you know one, thatone that gets you know more
likely less to be.
I mean all, see, to me this isthe fascinating stuff about this
is like, you know, spicy foods.
You know, some people can'thandle spicy foods, other people
can, it's all related to ourdna.
Chrisy (16:47):
Your dna says you're a wuss.
What percentage is thelikelihood that I'm a big wuss
and I can't eat the spicy food,so get out of my face.
So my husband worked very hard.
DJ Nick (17:06):
Yes, he was and took my phone and I was like thinking
something happened.
Yes, you're right.
Chrisy (17:10):
He located this.
Oh, your DNA results.
This happened, yes, you'reright.
He located this.
Oh your DNA results.
This list, yes, okay, do I evengo out and tell you what this
is?
DJ Nick (17:18):
Okay.
Chrisy (17:19):
I will.
43% Southern Italy.
Wow, yeah, I knew that.
And then it says two possibleancestors story stories.
You mean, I can read a story.
This isn't mine, I can't accessthis.
But I wonder what those storiesare.
That's interesting.
Eastern Europe and Russia.
DJ Nick (17:39):
Okay 26%.
That's probably your dad.
Chrisy (17:42):
That would be my father.
Yeah, scotland, that's your dad.
11%.
Germanic Europe oh, we'rerelated, chrissy.
Oh, yay, 6% for me.
Aegean Islands, which I thinkare sort of like Greek.
Greek, yeah, that was 6%.
That could be your mom.
Yeah, european Jewish Ooh, 2%,okay, france, france, france, I
(18:07):
love it.
2%, yay, awesome.
Ireland.
Oh, wait, a minute, I did notknow.
I told you I wasn't Irish.
I thought that wasn't on thelist.
I lied to you, everybody outthere.
I'm so sorry.
We did our St Patrick's Daythings.
I said there was no, I thoughtthat this had not listed Irish.
I thought I knew it saidScotland, ireland.
(18:28):
Oh man Killian, send scotland.
Kerry (18:38):
Ireland oh man killian send me a, drop me a line.
I'm like I'm actually kind ofexcited about that.
Look at you now all happy aboutthe dna results.
Well, it'll last a minute.
Chrisy (18:43):
What percent?
What that's?
Kerry (18:44):
two, two percent hey, two percent, that's good, that's
good.
Chrisy (18:48):
And then england and northwestern europe two percent,
okay.
And then there's something here, your community, with a 2%,
that's good.
And then England andNorthwestern Europe 2%, okay.
And then there's something here, your community, with a
connection to the ethnicityregion, the Midlands, england,
west, midlands, western, oh.
And then it gives you countiesfor like areas, western I can't
even pronounce this for theScotland and I apologize for
this pronunciation Rizzo County,western.
(19:10):
Wow, rizzo County.
Kerry (19:11):
Yours, I feel, county Western Wow, Rizzesau, county
Yours, I feel like I wonder ifyours is the same company as
mine.
Chrisy (19:15):
I don't know, and then for Italy it had Cosenza.
Okay, I don't know Okay.
Kerry (19:22):
Wow, yeah, I just think it's amazing these things, so
these insights that you canlearn Do you know how you get
emails?
Chrisy (19:30):
Yes, and that you can learn.
Do you know how you get emails?
Yes, and you're like God.
I just really don't want anymore emails from anybody that I
even know, and you're agitated.
And so now, when you do sign upfor this, as you know, I'm
guessing you're getting emailsin regards to people who you're
like.
I just don't want to deal withthis.
Kerry (19:47):
Yeah, Like I said, when they keep sending me, we have a
match, you know always with this.
Chrisy (19:51):
Yeah, like I said when, they keep sending me.
Kerry (19:53):
We have a match.
Chrisy (19:54):
You know, I'm always, it sounds like a dating app when
they tell you that we found youa match.
Wonderful somebody else.
I can go to their picnic and becompletely another get burnt by
more cigarettes.
Is there anybody on my list?
My match that will burn me.
Kerry (20:09):
Yeah, just give me more people to be abused by.
Chrisy (20:11):
There you go, great thanks yeah, so this is where
I'm at with the ancestry.
Kerry (20:16):
It's just, it's well, but there is good things too about
the ancestry.
But you know, we might have totake that into a part two
because, yeah, it's well, I'mfascinated to know about that
yeah but yeah, I mean, just whatdo we do about this company?
Chrisy (20:32):
we could talk about that too.
Maybe, uh, that went bankruptand is selling your information
now, oh, I don't know what theoutcome of that was.
Yeah, but they were tellingpeople on the news and stuff or
reporting that this one majorplayer in this market wow did go
bankrupt and and now maybethere was some understanding of
(20:53):
what they were able to do withyour personal information.
I don't know what the outcomeof that was.
That is true, but that's whatI'm saying.
You need to put yourself outthere like that and to what
level they'll be.
I mean, don't sit aroundnaively and say, well, this
really isn't useful to anybody,oh no, I think that, as history
has shown us, this kind of stuffcan become valuable if somebody
(21:13):
wants to use it.
And what their way of thinkingis.
Kerry (21:17):
I think that could be anywhere, though it could be
anything.
Chrisy (21:19):
Well, yeah, I'm just trying to get from point A to
point.
Kerry (21:22):
B.
Chrisy (21:22):
Birth to death.
Man, I really am.
I'm just terrified.
It's not a marathon you want tofinally cross the line for, but
Carrie's going to run an actualmarathon this is just my
marathon and I'm walking veryslowly to the end.
Kerry (21:40):
Hard to train for it.
Well, you've had a lot on yourplate and a lot of distractions,
but I'm getting to the pointwhere the window is closing,
like if I want to be alive bythe time I cross that finish
line, I need to get going well,if I was at a marathon, at just
(22:01):
everything going on in my liferight now, I would run as fast
as I could, which is not fast atall, and I probably would not
stop, like they'd be like oh,you finished.
Chrisy (22:11):
And they'd be like what happened?
DJ Nick (22:12):
she's gone.
Chrisy (22:12):
She never came back it wouldn't be hard to catch me
though, because I'm not going.
Kerry (22:18):
Yeah, I'm gonna be slow what you got over there next,
next pacing.
DJ Nick (22:21):
So the company does maintain that's going through
fun, that's trying to sell, doesmaintain that your data will be
safe.
So well, that's good, and I Imight just I just be fair, yes
and I I believe that that is theright thing to do.
Chrisy (22:34):
Yeah, because this is I mean, yeah, that's not a high,
you know, housing embryos andstuff like that.
Kerry (22:41):
I mean this is fairly serious.
Yeah, because I'm sure somedaythey'll be able to clone things,
so they could, you know, I meanlike really clone, like you
know yeah, more than we'vedabbled in it already.
I mean, I you know.
So yeah, that's.
That's.
All we need is another Carriearound the world, or what are
you looking at over here?
Chrisy (23:01):
I mean, yeah, you know, need more people who are
damaging people's fingersExactly Smacking them in the
head with golf clubs andknocking them out.
DJ Nick (23:12):
People will live longer too.
The technology yes, there werepeople you know, living in, you
know beyond 100 years won't be.
Kerry (23:18):
Right.
DJ Nick (23:19):
A big celebration anymore.
Kerry (23:20):
Yes, right, because of this.
The technology, no justtechnology, technology in
general.
DJ Nick (23:25):
I think they're predicting that you know, living
to 100 won't be like such a bigevent anymore.
Kerry (23:30):
Well, I mean already.
Chrisy (23:31):
You look at the oldest people and they're like 110 or
whatever Do they even still dothat thing on the One Morning
Show.
DJ Nick (23:37):
I know the guy who used to do it.
Willard Scott used to do it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, where?
He'd sell oh it was the JellyPeople, yeah, smuckers, yeah,
which is?
Chrisy (23:45):
actually in my neighborhood over here.
Kerry (23:52):
Yes, over here, yes, uh, shout out to smugglers, I guess.
Uh, not a, not a sponsor, notyet.
Chrisy (23:55):
Yet we're coming for your jelly, but uh, yeah, that
was like a big deal.
I don't even know if they dothat on that morning show
anymore, where they celebratepeople who reach 100.
I guess it would be a very longsegment.
Now it used to just be likefive minutes or so, but you know
, yeah, so ancestry.
Kerry (24:13):
Yeah, all right, I think we need to go on to round two,
so let's stop here and tune innext week, for we're going to
continue on this veryfascinating, dysfunctional
subject.
Chrisy (24:22):
Yes, Thank you.
Kerry (24:23):
All right, see you next week.
Bye, bye.
Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast.
We may not have seen it all,but we've seen enough.
And now here are your hosts,Chrisy and Kerry.
Kerry (00:19):
Hello Junkie family.
I'm Kerry
Chrisy (00:22):
and I'm Chrissy,
Kerry (00:23):
so this is a subject that Chrisy's been really wanting to
do for a while, so we are goingto tackle it today.
Chrisy (00:31):
Yes.
Kerry (00:32):
We're going to be talking about the genetics.
Send your DNA off to whateveroh I don't know company of your
choice, without saying the namesof.
Let's see who you are, whereyou're from, who you related to
Chrissy go.
Chrisy (00:47):
Well, this has become a very big deal in the last decade
two decades maybe.
Yes, and it sounds fascinating.
Yes, that back when it firststarted, I thought, well, this
might be interesting, but I havean issue sending anything in
the mail, let alone my DNA.
(01:09):
I have a hard enough time,because if you know anything
about me and how crazy I am, Igenerally don't even like to
lick an envelope and send itsomewhere.
I'm serious.
I generally will take my finger, stick it under the faucet, rub
my finger along the envelopeand seal it that way.
I'm that paranoid.
Yes, people, I am that paranoid, I am.
Kerry (01:29):
So always been this way, or is this something that has
evolved over the years?
Chrisy (01:33):
Oh, it probably has evolved.
Yeah, I mean, it's somethingthis at this is and that's that,
but I admire your bravery fordoing this and I understand the
appeal of it.
(01:54):
I really do, because it isinteresting to find out things
about you yourself, I guess.
But are you really finding outanything that's really that
great?
And then you, I myunderstanding somewhat.
I understand a little bit aboutthis, hearing other people talk
about it, and do you reallywant to be contacted by these
people who now you share someconnection with?
Kerry (02:16):
You're inviting more family into more yes.
Hi, I have my immediatedysfunctional family.
Chrisy (02:23):
And now I'm interested in knowing about my extended
dysfunctional heritage.
I mean, do you really thinkthat you're out there and you're
going to locate somebody whoyou are somehow related to?
That's life is completelynormal.
I mean, I hate to be insulting,but you're doing this and you
found somebody else who waswilling to do this.
Yes, double, double trouble.
(02:45):
I guess I really want to knowwhy you're so interested.
Yes, I mean, okay, you want toknow.
Like I had a sibling that didthis.
So now, just by association,somehow I've your DNA is out
there.
Except maybe I can say, say,maybe we're not really related.
(03:06):
I'm gonna have to do mine too.
So now I'm just gonna say no, II don't think we're related.
That's gonna be a hard one toargue, unfortunately, but you
know it is fascinating becauseyou, like you had mentioned, you
always thought that you wereItalian, right, right, and then
you found out, not that.
So I'm confused now because I'mtrying to remember back to our
(03:26):
conversation, because I kind oflike, totally like, didn't think
about your Italian heritage,because you family was sort of
like.
So, like you know, we're gonnaeat, you know Italian on Sundays
(03:49):
.
So what was the outcome of that?
Again, please.
Kerry (03:51):
Okay, that's what I was actually.
As you were talking, I wasopening up the app to my oh, and
it comes with the app and thespreadsheets red sheets.
Okay, so according to the sendoff DNA place that I sent mine
to, I am 64% dramatic Europe 13%.
England and Northwestern Europe9%.
(04:14):
Wales, 6% Ireland 3%.
Cornwall Where's Cornwall?
Chrisy (04:20):
In the United Kingdom.
Kerry (04:22):
I don't know, and 2% Northern Italy.
And then there's 2% Netherlandsand 1% Sweden.
Yes, okay, when I was growingup, my let me think so my mom's
mom's mom.
So my mom, grandma, my greatgrandmother, was from Italy and
she was Italian and she spokeItalian and everything, and so
(04:44):
we knew we had this, thislineage, and I think somewhere
on my dad's side there mighthave been someone too and we
knew they were from NorthernItaly, which is again the where
we get the blonde hair, blueeyes.
So it just was always like, oh,we're Italian and that's how I
always that's what I thought Iwas.
But then, after doing thislittle send off DNA, you know so
(05:05):
much.
Chrisy (05:06):
So what was the?
Kerry (05:07):
majority of your ethnicity.
Germanic Europe.
So I think, like I think,that's where you're.
Let's see Dutch and German.
Okay, yes, the regions risefrom Dutch and German lowlands
along the North Sea, austria,alps yeah, so, and that does
make sense.
My other great grandmother was,I do know she had German in her
(05:28):
.
So yeah, but yeah.
So I lived a life of delusionuntil I was, I don't know, five
years ago.
DJ Nick (05:37):
Cornwall is a section of England.
Chrisy (05:39):
United Kingdom.
Oh okay.
DJ Nick (05:41):
United.
Kerry (05:42):
Kingdom.
Yeah, all right.
DJ Nick (05:43):
But yeah, but that also explains the Durganunders.
Kerry (05:46):
The Durganunders.
That's right, it does so.
Going back to our food episode,then, and honestly, the reason
why I did this was a little bitbecause of the ancestry, like
looking at the where am I reallyfrom?
And then there was also alittle just curious, just making
(06:06):
sure I, my parents, are who myparents are supposed to be.
Chrisy (06:09):
I guess you can say how does that prove that though?
Kerry (06:13):
because when you do this it matches you with people and
so it kind of proved that likebecause, like some of my nieces
are on there and it showed thatso that would mean me and my
sisters are actually me and myfull sisters.
Chrisy (06:26):
Oh, oh, yeah, OK, so great, yeah.
How does that make you feelbetter?
Kerry (06:38):
That sounds like curiosity killed the cat.
There's a little bit ofcuriosity, but I will tell you
that every time, every time theemails come from this company
and it says we have a new match,I am always waiting for oh, did
my dad maybe have?
Because that that was somethingthat wondered about growing up,
(06:59):
was that?
Did dad have, maybe?
extra I understand that extrakids somewhere, you know right
and so there is a little part ofme that every time that comes
up I always wonder like oh, Iwonder if this is a long lost
half sibling, and you know.
But no, so far it hasn'thappened.
Good job dad, good job dad.
So yay, dad absolutely seeagain my just very dysfunctional
(07:25):
brain, the things I thinkyou're not the only one that
thinks that.
Chrisy (07:28):
I know I mean that is, and it's generally coming from
the father.
Yeah, because harder to hidefrom them yeah, because they
seem to remember when they'vehad kids.
It's just a different animal.
But yeah, I mean, my list isnot as short as yours.
Yes, well, it's not mine, it'syour sibling, the sibling that
(07:49):
did this Right.
But it's crazy to what levelthe different areas and
ethnicities that have beenfiltered down.
Kerry (07:59):
Yes, so what are you?
98%?
Chrisy (08:01):
I probably have the list somewhere.
I don't have it handy, but well, my majority is Italian.
Yes, my mother is legitimatelyItalian.
Yes, I mean, there might besome Greek heritage there.
Kerry (08:16):
Again, relative to the area.
Chrisy (08:18):
Fairly common for that area, I guess.
I guess my father was more ofthe diverse background, but
nothing of a surprise.
Yeah, really at all.
Kerry (08:28):
I guess I'm thinking about it for mine, because it is
northern Italy where it bordersa lot of these other countries.
Yes, I guess it shouldn'tsurprise me that there is an
infiltration of others whereyour family is definitely more
down.
Like you said before, in theboot, yeah Bottom of the boot.
So you don't yeah bottom of theboot Right so you don't got any
real borders, except for oceansRight, or seas, or whatever
(08:51):
they call it.
Yeah.
Chrisy (08:53):
To that level.
I think it's interesting andit's fun.
I love that.
I and I'm just guessing herethat people go into this because
they think they might be ableto find out that they're related
to somebody.
Great yeah, and it's terrifyingto think who you're gonna find
(09:13):
out you related to.
It's generally not gonna beroyalty or someone famous.
I mean, those are far and fewbetween stories.
Yeah, my husband watches thisone show.
Who are you?
Who do you think you are?
Kerry (09:25):
Is that the name of it?
Something like that, yeah.
DJ Nick (09:28):
It's on PBS Finding your Roots.
Kerry (09:32):
Oh, Finding your Roots.
Chrisy (09:33):
That historian, Dr Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates, yeah
and it is an interesting show,but generally they're featuring
people who are famous, yes, andthen you find out who they're
related to.
That's famous and that's fun, Iguess.
Yeah, but yeah, I just ingeneral.
Kerry (09:53):
I just don't know that you want to be on this list
Because nowadays they're solvingcrimes by looking up these, by
finding people's DNA matches onthese things.
Chrisy (10:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, Again there's my.
Don't commit a crime and youwon't have to live, I know, but
again then they screw things upwith DNA.
You know this is where I'm.
Somebody put it in the wrongbucket, yeah, and now I'm
completely implicated insomething I didn't do.
So just don't give it out there.
Yeah, I'm sorry, eh.
Kerry (10:28):
I figured I've never been much of a conspiracy person,
theory person or whatever, andso I totally get and respect
people's opinion on this, onthings like that.
But for me I'm just like ifthey're going to find it,
they're going to find it.
You know it's, you know sowhatever.
Chrisy (10:43):
Know so whatever I'm gonna go somewhere dark with
this go dark, because I don'twant to give you my dna, but I
wonder because they're sort ofnot doing anything anyhow, these
people that we put in theground, oh, yeah maybe we could
retrieve their dna and testsomebody out there.
Kerry (11:03):
So part of the prerequisite to when someone
passes away, you know you havethe whole burial process or the
you know death process that wehave to extricate their DNA.
Is that what you're saying?
Put it in the data bank.
Chrisy (11:14):
Well, I was just going to start digging people up, but
actually your idea is betterbecause Well, at least we'd
start from this point on, andthen you can start you know what
?
I'm really starting to getfrustrated with you, everyone
out there in these industries.
I'm giving you ideas to be ableto, you know, bulk up your
bottom line, and maybe you needto offer this.
(11:36):
I mean, my understanding is thefuneral industry is in trouble
as far as that, it's not one ofthose professions that's going
to be able to stand the test oftime.
Kerry (11:47):
I don't understand.
Death is always going to bethere.
I think it's people, becausewe're not burying people as much
.
Chrisy (11:51):
We're not doing the funerals like we used to.
Kerry (11:54):
Oh, I see.
Chrisy (11:55):
So that whole industry is changing.
Kerry (11:59):
I believe.
Yes, it is.
Chrisy (12:01):
Not that it's something I want to sit around and think
about, but it usually makes alist of, like, what industries
aren't going to be aroundanymore.
I mean, we already know aboutcashiers and secretaries and
morticians.
I don't know how they made thatthey're in that group, I guess
I don't know.
You'd have to look that up.
(12:21):
I'm not creating a list here,this is just something I saw.
I'm not giving it anylegitimacy, except that it's
just a list that's been floatingaround out there.
It could have no great backup.
Kerry (12:34):
It is amazing the dysfunctional things we think
about.
Chrisy (12:37):
Well, we do create more.
Kerry (12:40):
We do as if we aren't already dealing with enough.
Chrisy (12:43):
I know I mean that you're seeking out more.
Kerry (12:48):
Here's the other part of the DNA testing that I just find
fabulous.
Just intriguing is not onlydoes it tell you like okay, this
is where your heritage is fromand you know so.
Here's why you have frecklyskin, or here's why you have
this, or whatever, but it alsotells you about traits that you
have so like.
For instance, did you know thattaking naps is actually
(13:13):
genetically related to if you'rea nap person or not?
So like for me, yeah, so for me,on my testing, it says that I
am more likely to be a nap takerperson.
So my DNA from my paternal sidehas a strong influence that I
like to take naps, and so and ifyou're trying to get them in
(13:36):
before 3pm, just goes on.
This thing about napping is isgenetically, it's like it's in
my DNA to want to take a nap.
Chrisy (13:45):
I just think that's amazing.
I did not know to what levelthis gives you lists.
Kerry (13:50):
Yes, so the other thing is heart rate recovery.
Heart rate recovery how quickyour heart rate returns to its
resting pace, whatever it saysthat.
You know, I have a very strongDNA likelihood that my heart
rate recovers very quick.
And that is very true, Becausewhen I'm at the gym and I'm
working out or whatever, myheart rate, yes, it goes up, but
(14:11):
, man, it comes right back down.
Chrisy (14:13):
So did you pay extra for this?
Kerry (14:15):
No, it's all part of it.
Chrisy (14:17):
I had no idea that this was part of this.
This is we have not curedcancer yet.
Not cured cancer yet I know.
How is it that you can do allof this from somebody
swashbuckling the inside oftheir mouth with a crazy Q-tip
or spitting in a tube?
The other reason I won't dothis is it's just gross.
(14:40):
I don't want to sit there andspit till I'm dry in a tube and
then ship it somewhere.
Yeah, my goodness, hey, god,love you.
People out there doing that.
Good for you.
I'm sorry and I try to notoffend.
It's hard for me.
I am not into this on any level.
Kerry (15:02):
It's just so.
Here are some other of traitsthat you can find out if you're
more or less likely to getcavities If you have alcohol
flush.
You know like some people whenthey drink they get that like
rosacea flush.
Chrisy (15:15):
Isn't that just where you're from?
If you're of lighter skin, wellagain but this is what I'm
saying.
Kerry (15:22):
This is part of that.
Chrisy (15:23):
No, I could figure that out without you spitting in a
tube.
Kerry (15:26):
Okay, but did you know that asparagus odor?
Oh geez Going back to.
Chrisy (15:31):
Let's eat asparagus till .
Our pee smells funny.
Kerry (15:34):
Yes, that is why some people can't smell that or think
that they are right, because itis a genetic thing.
If you're able to, your DNAsuggests you smell a distinctive
odor in your urine after eatingasparagus.
Chrisy (15:47):
I am shocked that this is even something that we can
discuss right now, that this isimportant, that somebody's
sitting there analyzing this ohhey, your pee's going to smell
stronger than this muchpercentage of the other
population.
Kerry (16:11):
Ear wiggling if you can easily focus.
If you're a goal setter.
If I'm trying to find thingshangriness, if you're likely or
more likely or unlikely to behangry.
Chrisy (16:21):
All right, I need to lock some people up in a room
randomly and not feed them andsee who.
Kerry (16:28):
Let's see Mosquito bites.
If you're you know one, thatone that gets you know more
likely less to be.
I mean all, see, to me this isthe fascinating stuff about this
is like, you know, spicy foods.
You know, some people can'thandle spicy foods, other people
can, it's all related to ourdna.
Chrisy (16:47):
Your dna says you're a wuss.
What percentage is thelikelihood that I'm a big wuss
and I can't eat the spicy food,so get out of my face.
So my husband worked very hard.
DJ Nick (17:06):
Yes, he was and took my phone and I was like thinking
something happened.
Yes, you're right.
Chrisy (17:10):
He located this.
Oh, your DNA results.
This happened, yes, you'reright.
He located this.
Oh your DNA results.
This list, yes, okay, do I evengo out and tell you what this
is?
DJ Nick (17:18):
Okay.
Chrisy (17:19):
I will.
43% Southern Italy.
Wow, yeah, I knew that.
And then it says two possibleancestors story stories.
You mean, I can read a story.
This isn't mine, I can't accessthis.
But I wonder what those storiesare.
That's interesting.
Eastern Europe and Russia.
DJ Nick (17:39):
Okay 26%.
That's probably your dad.
Chrisy (17:42):
That would be my father.
Yeah, scotland, that's your dad.
11%.
Germanic Europe oh, we'rerelated, chrissy.
Oh, yay, 6% for me.
Aegean Islands, which I thinkare sort of like Greek.
Greek, yeah, that was 6%.
That could be your mom.
Yeah, european Jewish Ooh, 2%,okay, france, france, france, I
(18:07):
love it.
2%, yay, awesome.
Ireland.
Oh, wait, a minute, I did notknow.
I told you I wasn't Irish.
I thought that wasn't on thelist.
I lied to you, everybody outthere.
I'm so sorry.
We did our St Patrick's Daythings.
I said there was no, I thoughtthat this had not listed Irish.
I thought I knew it saidScotland, ireland.
(18:28):
Oh man Killian, send scotland.
Kerry (18:38):
Ireland oh man killian send me a, drop me a line.
I'm like I'm actually kind ofexcited about that.
Look at you now all happy aboutthe dna results.
Well, it'll last a minute.
Chrisy (18:43):
What percent?
What that's?
Kerry (18:44):
two, two percent hey, two percent, that's good, that's
good.
Chrisy (18:48):
And then england and northwestern europe two percent,
okay.
And then there's something here, your community, with a 2%,
that's good.
And then England andNorthwestern Europe 2%, okay.
And then there's something here, your community, with a
connection to the ethnicityregion, the Midlands, england,
west, midlands, western, oh.
And then it gives you countiesfor like areas, western I can't
even pronounce this for theScotland and I apologize for
this pronunciation Rizzo County,western.
(19:10):
Wow, rizzo County.
Kerry (19:11):
Yours, I feel, county Western Wow, Rizzesau, county
Yours, I feel like I wonder ifyours is the same company as
mine.
Chrisy (19:15):
I don't know, and then for Italy it had Cosenza.
Okay, I don't know Okay.
Kerry (19:22):
Wow, yeah, I just think it's amazing these things, so
these insights that you canlearn Do you know how you get
emails?
Chrisy (19:30):
Yes, and that you can learn.
Do you know how you get emails?
Yes, and you're like God.
I just really don't want anymore emails from anybody that I
even know, and you're agitated.
And so now, when you do sign upfor this, as you know, I'm
guessing you're getting emailsin regards to people who you're
like.
I just don't want to deal withthis.
Kerry (19:47):
Yeah, Like I said, when they keep sending me, we have a
match, you know always with this.
Chrisy (19:51):
Yeah, like I said when, they keep sending me.
Kerry (19:53):
We have a match.
Chrisy (19:54):
You know, I'm always, it sounds like a dating app when
they tell you that we found youa match.
Wonderful somebody else.
I can go to their picnic and becompletely another get burnt by
more cigarettes.
Is there anybody on my list?
My match that will burn me.
Kerry (20:09):
Yeah, just give me more people to be abused by.
Chrisy (20:11):
There you go, great thanks yeah, so this is where
I'm at with the ancestry.
Kerry (20:16):
It's just, it's well, but there is good things too about
the ancestry.
But you know, we might have totake that into a part two
because, yeah, it's well, I'mfascinated to know about that
yeah but yeah, I mean, just whatdo we do about this company?
Chrisy (20:32):
we could talk about that too.
Maybe, uh, that went bankruptand is selling your information
now, oh, I don't know what theoutcome of that was.
Yeah, but they were tellingpeople on the news and stuff or
reporting that this one majorplayer in this market wow did go
bankrupt and and now maybethere was some understanding of
(20:53):
what they were able to do withyour personal information.
I don't know what the outcomeof that was.
That is true, but that's whatI'm saying.
You need to put yourself outthere like that and to what
level they'll be.
I mean, don't sit aroundnaively and say, well, this
really isn't useful to anybody,oh no, I think that, as history
has shown us, this kind of stuffcan become valuable if somebody
(21:13):
wants to use it.
And what their way of thinkingis.
Kerry (21:17):
I think that could be anywhere, though it could be
anything.
Chrisy (21:19):
Well, yeah, I'm just trying to get from point A to
point.
Kerry (21:22):
B.
Chrisy (21:22):
Birth to death.
Man, I really am.
I'm just terrified.
It's not a marathon you want tofinally cross the line for, but
Carrie's going to run an actualmarathon this is just my
marathon and I'm walking veryslowly to the end.
Kerry (21:40):
Hard to train for it.
Well, you've had a lot on yourplate and a lot of distractions,
but I'm getting to the pointwhere the window is closing,
like if I want to be alive bythe time I cross that finish
line, I need to get going well,if I was at a marathon, at just
(22:01):
everything going on in my liferight now, I would run as fast
as I could, which is not fast atall, and I probably would not
stop, like they'd be like oh,you finished.
Chrisy (22:11):
And they'd be like what happened?
DJ Nick (22:12):
she's gone.
Chrisy (22:12):
She never came back it wouldn't be hard to catch me
though, because I'm not going.
Kerry (22:18):
Yeah, I'm gonna be slow what you got over there next,
next pacing.
DJ Nick (22:21):
So the company does maintain that's going through
fun, that's trying to sell, doesmaintain that your data will be
safe.
So well, that's good, and I Imight just I just be fair, yes
and I I believe that that is theright thing to do.
Chrisy (22:34):
Yeah, because this is I mean, yeah, that's not a high,
you know, housing embryos andstuff like that.
Kerry (22:41):
I mean this is fairly serious.
Yeah, because I'm sure somedaythey'll be able to clone things,
so they could, you know, I meanlike really clone, like you
know yeah, more than we'vedabbled in it already.
I mean, I you know.
So yeah, that's.
That's.
All we need is another Carriearound the world, or what are
you looking at over here?
Chrisy (23:01):
I mean, yeah, you know, need more people who are
damaging people's fingersExactly Smacking them in the
head with golf clubs andknocking them out.
DJ Nick (23:12):
People will live longer too.
The technology yes, there werepeople you know, living in, you
know beyond 100 years won't be.
Kerry (23:18):
Right.
DJ Nick (23:19):
A big celebration anymore.
Kerry (23:20):
Yes, right, because of this.
The technology, no justtechnology, technology in
general.
DJ Nick (23:25):
I think they're predicting that you know, living
to 100 won't be like such a bigevent anymore.
Kerry (23:30):
Well, I mean already.
Chrisy (23:31):
You look at the oldest people and they're like 110 or
whatever Do they even still dothat thing on the One Morning
Show.
DJ Nick (23:37):
I know the guy who used to do it.
Willard Scott used to do it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, where?
He'd sell oh it was the JellyPeople, yeah, smuckers, yeah,
which is?
Chrisy (23:45):
actually in my neighborhood over here.
Kerry (23:52):
Yes, over here, yes, uh, shout out to smugglers, I guess.
Uh, not a, not a sponsor, notyet.
Chrisy (23:55):
Yet we're coming for your jelly, but uh, yeah, that
was like a big deal.
I don't even know if they dothat on that morning show
anymore, where they celebratepeople who reach 100.
I guess it would be a very longsegment.
Now it used to just be likefive minutes or so, but you know
, yeah, so ancestry.
Kerry (24:13):
Yeah, all right, I think we need to go on to round two,
so let's stop here and tune innext week, for we're going to
continue on this veryfascinating, dysfunctional
subject.
Chrisy (24:22):
Yes, Thank you.
Kerry (24:23):
All right, see you next week.
Bye, bye.
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