The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - It’s All in the Spit with Bob Guiney and Trista Sutter

Episode Date: August 25, 2022

Ben and Ashley are hanging out with Bachelor Nation OGs Bob Guiney and Trista Sutter and revealing some MAJOR Bachelor secrets you won’t hear anywhere else! We hear about life before “The Bachelor”, Ben’s secret life as a zookeeper, and who has out of control back hair! It’s wild what we can find from our spit, thanks to 23AndMe!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yes, yes. Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you. Open your... free iHeartRadio app search emergency intercom and listen now this is the ben and ashley i almost famous podcast with iheart 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 ever hung out in person in person And with podcastable stuff, but we were all the Janner wedding.

Yeah, but that was a long time ago. That was six years ago we decided today. Yeah, it was probably the last time we were together. The first time we're together. And now's the second. We're in Tahoe. This is a big kind of I-heart podcast celebration. A lot of different podcasts are here.

We're lucky enough today to sit down and chat together about 23 and me. This is something really fun that everybody participates. participated in. 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 going to start with Bob and Trista. Trista, let's start with you. 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 my gosh. That's a big question. 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 what a Hoosier is? Oh, yes. You know the story behind it real quick. Tell it. Okay, so one guy, so a Hoosier is what the mascot is for Indiana University. Exactly. The story goes, there's many different stories to this, but the story that I hear the most often is one guy was standing on one side of the Ohio River. Okay.

Another man was standing on the Indiana side of the higher river. Okay. And the person on the Ohio side kept yelling, who's there? No, he did. I have never heard this story. Yeah. For real. Yeah.

And that's how they got Hoosier because it sounded like Hoosier. And the guy would respond to Hoosier. No, the guy on the Indiana side was yelling to Ohio guy. Hoosier. Hoosier. Hoosier. The guy would say, who's there? And he goes, Hoosier.

Who's there? Oh, wow. It's not just if you went to Indiana University. It's if you were from Indiana. So I've always been a Hoosier because I was born in Indy. And that made me a Hoosier before I was an, IU, Hoosier. That's right.

Now we're official. So that's a good start here. You grew up in Indiana. I was born in Indiana, lived there for four years, moved to St. Louis with my mom and dad. I was raised in St. Louis until 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 while Same. Ashley coming in high. All he said is come in fly. Bam. Did not happen. While I was living in Miami working 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 a follow-up then. 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 Miami. And I had gotten off work at Miami Children's Hospital and was watching Extra. And they had Lacey 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 this new reality show. And I thought, well, that could be fun. I could travel, I could 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 applied. And now you're here with your husband and your son in Tahoe. Yeah. It's great to see you all together. Okay, Bob, on to you now.

What was your life like right before the show? Oh, it was interesting. So I actually never applied to be on the show. So I had a really weird thing. So I was a musician. Classic man story. Men never signed themselves up, or so they say. My brother-in-law had the best story about it.

So, so I had, I had written some songs for a movie called The Truth About Cats and Dogs, which was Janine Garofalo 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 almost 30. And I'm not journey. So am I ever going to be journey? I don't know. So I decided I was going to start this mortgage company, and I was going to make a difference

in the world. So I did, and I partnered with 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 without me knowing. And I had just had reconstructive knee surgery, so I had this big leg cast on, and I had gained like 20 pounds. So all of a sudden I get a call from Lacey Pemberton. Oh, that's funny.

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 voice was kind of like, hi, it's Lacey. I don't know, maybe she had a cold. But it sounded like a guy trying to be a girl. And I told Lacey this story before, so I don't feel bad saying it. And I was like, oh, I'm sure your name is Lacey.

And I'm sure you work for a show called The Bachel. Yeah, that sounds, that would happen every day in Detroit. So, you know, no, thanks. I appreciate it. And they're like, well, no, we really, you know, we really want to meet you. Would you do a demo tape for us? And I'm like, so what? You want me to be like the fat guy in your blooper real getting 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 going to send in the tape? I'm like, no, I'm okay. Thank you. So then they, I had an old school fax machine right next to my desk, like the kind that makes the weird noise with the thermal paper.

And they faxed me over a thing to fill out for a plane ticket. And I flew out to L.A. I know. I flew out to L. L.A. with my leg cast on. And your beeper. So they paged me. They paged me and I respond.

No, so I got there 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 Sallian Salasano came out at the time she was one of the co-opies of the show. And she came out and basically like they filmed me in the hot tub and she yelled at me from the balcony. Hey, jackass. And I of course was like, yes? she goes get up here and so i actually did my uh my on-camera interview in board shorts and a t-shirt

of course you got gas so they're like and i and i and i we were just laughing and i heard the like they had like camera lines going through to the adjoining suite and i would say something stupid i'd hear people just cracking up in there and i'm like who's over there yeah 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 flice all those guys. I'm like, you need to be on this show. I'm like, okay. And then I'm looking at the board, like the pictures of guys up on the board. I see Ryan, you know, the eventual champion. And I see him. He's like, he's standing there, like just yoked. Yeah, former NFL player. I got like a cheeseburger and a Guinness. So anyway, yeah, that was how I ended up on the show. And then

Ashley, your life. Yeah, we're going to tell the story again. I feel like this is told at least yearly. You're going to tell it. Really? Okay. Wait, do we start with where I was born? Like, Trissa started where I was born? He asked pre-show. So I was talking about what happened. Okay.

And so Tris and I are both like born in Indiana. Yeah. So we have that together. So that's why that was brought in. Okay, I'll bring mine in just because everybody's confused by the fact that on the show, it said Ashley's from Jersey. Yeah. Okay. So I was living in New Jersey for like a year before the show.

but I was very clear. I was like, I want you to put my hometown Great Falls, Virginia, because that's where I've lived for 20 years. Like, that's my hometown. That's where my parents still live, you know, whatever. That'll always be like, home. And they did not want to listen because they were like,

this girl is a Jersey girl. And I was born there. Two very Jersey parents love Jersey, love considering that part of like my home as well. But I was born there, two years there. then we moved to Boston for a couple years when my dad was in his residency up there and then we live in Virginia forever and then I bounced around but then but like but like Trista I also applied while in grad school because I thought I don't know what the next step in my life is

right it's gonna be fun you know I was in broadcast journalism so wrong reasons and it all works out right now I have this podcast yeah Look at you using your major. I'm so proud of you. Thank you. Somehow life comes full circle. For me, I was, I was in college at any university. Go Hoosiers.

Go Hoosiers. I had a girlfriend at the time that I was very serious about. 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 job. I was at a college. Let's just move to South America and teach and just hang out for as long as we want. So we moved to Peru. And I was living in Kusko, Peru.

Oh, my favorite. You've been. It's a beautiful place, a wonderful place to be. Love it. And so we were down there for a few months. I got really homesick. So I stopped teaching, which as a result canceled my place to live because I was living with the teachers. And so I went into the 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 zookeeper quit. And I said, my grandpa had two horses. And they go, that's good enough. I'm not kidding. This is a true story. I was the zookeeper at the Kusko Rescue Zoo for a full month of my life. I fed bears. I have pictures to prove this. We had bears.

We had, we had eagle, we had hawks, we had monkeys. I'm so jealous. We had a Puma, an ostrich, and this zoo, you had to actually walk into their, like, habitats to feed them. So you'd have one person stand and block with like a stick. You could 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. Oh my gosh. I get back to you. Have you never shared this story? I don't think I've ever shared this story. I never knew he was a zookeeper. He lived out of the country in South America and Central America for a while. What does a Puma eat? How does someone who's not a zookeeper even

know what a Puma eat? So, is this just instinctual? Are you just like, I'm going to give them some tuna fish? No, we get the, so every morning the grocery store would have a shipment of all food that got outdated, come in like a day old, like me. That was still good enough for animals to eat, but like humans couldn't consume it due to whatever regulations. And so we would get that and we would chop it up in the sizes 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 eaters because they would stand on over the top of you. Commodores would stand over the top of you. And they're like nine foot wingspans and just squeal. Ra, rah, rah, rah. And they'd be like right above you on the tree branches trying to take the food. It's wild. There's a thousand stories from that month. that I could choose. I'll just lead into The Bachelor. I'll tell you. I'll tell you.

So I have an obsession in life, especially when I was younger, to create stories because my grandfather was a storyteller. And then 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 stories for like six months of my life. and the chief marketing officer at my company came up and she said let's get you like out of here

like let's we gotta find out something and so her and I I will sit 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 yeah

you had the title speaking of like you know I have my jersey title you had the title of software salesman but then in your book you reveal that you actually just wrote the booklet 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 for I mean obviously like you go on national television they put you in sales yeah they upgraded yeah so for some they downgrade for me they upgraded oh my gosh they would wait a second wait a second explain what you were doing before I was a writing the instructional book I was a user manual write You must have wanted to die. Oh, it was terrible for me.

Think about me. I get paid now to talk. Back then, I got paid to do test scripts and like case studies on our software and run, yeah, run bugs and then write a user manual on how to process through the bug. It was really hard on me. Yeah. So then I want to show and the rest is history. So that's how we all got on the show. Now, I want to talk about all this because this podcast is a 23 and me podcast.

And a lot of it is about our origin. stories or about even our ancestral stories of where we come from, who we are, what makes us us. And that's what I'm going to talk to all of you about today. So everybody in the room has taken the test. I'm going to start back. I think we have a good flow with Trista. What made you decide to take this test? What made you excited about it? I feel like I've always been just really curious and I guess curiosity is just part of my nature you know and I so I'll share a little story in that when I grew up I always knew that on my dad's side of the family I had uh they call it in the in the 23 in 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? 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 in my world. Don't worry. An empty nest is not empty. I know. I know. But still, So anyway, so we're talking, I mean, college is still a ways away, but talking about college and it kind of brought back memories about me in college. And I'm thinking, oh, gosh, like, you know, scholarships, whatever. So when I was applying for scholarships or whatever, and I didn't get any for college, I just, you know, paid for it. 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 23 and me I can actually figure out how much my sister-in-law did this did she yeah because they have they have some native a little bit right and I honestly think it's like any percentage you can apply if you are you didn't have enough I yeah exactly well I'm pretty sure that I was curious. Yeah. That's why I did it because I wanted to see, I was curious. And I think, honestly, these results are so freaking comprehensive in terms of your health.

And it's not like a diagnosis by any means, but I really feel like 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, 23 and me, especially for those that are parents. Yeah, right. You can help your kids, tell your kids kind of what your health history is within your

family. It's a big benefit. Yeah. So for you, Bob, again, same question to you. When this was offered to you, what made you excited about taking it? Yeah, I was curious, too. And I, too, was under the impression that I had Indigenous American Indian in my bloodline as well, because I haven't told that my whole life, until this report pops up and tells me that I

don't. So that's kind of interesting. I feel robbed. I feel, I feel, I feel, I feel, I feel, victimized right now. I think that I, I'm challenging my test results. I'm going to call the 23ME folks. We're going to do it again. But, no, I was curious because, you know, my, my, I've always heard that I was American, Indian, Irish. And 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 balkin i love greek food yeah um sardinian i don't really like sardines

i know that's not the same thing so uh yeah 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 indigenous American Indian. So I'm a little surprised by that. Well, and it could be, I mean, it is one of the benefits of 23 of me is, you know, for, you got to think, like our grandparents were told stories, but they didn't have the technology and the ability to actually prove that those stories were true or false or kind of how they worked out. And now we do. And then now you get a better picture and a clearer picture of where you come from. from who you are, Ashley, for you, why did you say yes to this? Well, now I'm regretting not giving my kit to Jared because he's definitely more of the mutt. He doesn't really know as much about his background as I do. My sister had taken a 23 of me test a couple years ago. Everything is not only what she got a couple years ago, but also pretty much exactly what we have been told our entire lives we are.

We really are. I will say that I am only 21% Italian, which makes me sad because I thought I was a full quarter. You didn't swipe your mouth on the Italian side. Yeah. No, Lauren's also said it was 21%. Isn't that wild, though? I mean, how accurate it is.

Yeah. It's a great way to test it. So, yeah, it's so crazy that. It's the exact same as my sister. And we did it years apart. We have different spit and all that. Did you pull up your relatives? Like I pulled up all my relatives.

Yes. I did. Yes. My cousin's there. My dad's there. I've got a lot of people in my dad. And then some and then. And then it's like all the sudden they're like third cousin and like far off cousins. I'm like, wow, I'm surprised.

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. And seeing the third cousins, second cousins, we'll just open it up here. There's no direct question to anybody. Was that interesting for you all to see your relatives? I thought that was one of the coolest parts.

Yeah, I think so too. It's really interesting. I have to say, so this is on the heels, like us taking this test is on the heels of Ali Fedatowski sharing how she did you hear about the, have you guys talked about it? So Ali took 23, I think it was 23 and me. And she found out that she has a. sister that her father didn't even know what he had given

like he had before he ever got for I'm still looking at the names give me time before he ever got with Ali's mom he had a child and never even knew that she was conceived right oh my god so she didn't know she had a sister and so 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 thank god but so interesting still like so interesting so interesting yes and she connected with this sister yeah just crazy just crazy anyway so that's kind of like a scary situation where it could it could really truthfully happen to so many men who if you're actually if you were sexually active with anyone prior to the person that you ended up marrying,

it could be something that happens and pops up in your 23 and me. Yeah. Hi, my name is Enya Yumanzoor. And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast

called Emergency Intercom. If you're a crime junkie and you love crimes, we're not the podcast for you. But If you have unmedicated ADHD... Oh my God, perfect. And want to hear people with mental illness, psychobabble.

Yes, yes. Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you. Open your free IHeartRadio app. Search Emergency Intercom and listen now. Okay, so one of the cool parts about 23 and me, we've now discussed why we did it, kind of what we found out, you know, the really exciting parts about maybe getting up

and some relatives that have taken it as well and matched 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 and some of the things that you should look out for in your family. I know my mom took it in arthritis and heart disease kind of pops up in there. So for you all that are now parents, all three of you are parents, was this something that you looked at? Did you do any, I guess the second follow-up question would be, did you do anything with this information after you saw kind of what you're more susceptible to. There is 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. It says you, your genetics predict you are 86% chance that you have little or no back hair. And I don't have it. Really? Yes. 14% chance you have at least some back hair. Then the same numbers for bald spots, which I don't have that issue either. gray hair. Thanks, pal. Yeah. 87% chance I do not have a bald spot.

Wow. This thing is ACEs. Well, I was saying about bunions. Exactly. It says, I have a high likelihood for bunions. My grandfather, I said I'll need a test for that because it's right there in front of my face. But yeah, my grandfather had it. My mom had them and now I have them.

See? And then it told me how many steps I walked this last few days. Amazing. Which I don't really know exactly why that has that, how it gets that. But I apparently am, uh, I'm clock. about 7,000 steps a day. Wait a second. You lying about that?

No, swear. 7,101 steps per day. I mean, it's pretty accurate. Okay, so Trista. How does it know that from me spinning in a vial of things? But I think it's fantastic and I love you, 23 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 23 of me and not because they're sponsoring the podcast. For real. But because, and this is going to sound like an infomercial, I don't know how to not make it sound like one. It's so easy to take. Yeah. Like I think all of us are giggling and laughing because the ease at which you take this test.

Yeah. And the information that comes back and the accuracy of this information. Right. Like it would be different if we're looking at this being like, that's not true. Like Bob's covered him back here and he is as bald as a cucumber. Like, no. That is. Yeah.

That is very accurate. Uh, and also with Ashley and her bunyan. like I don't think anybody on the I mean anybody knows Ashley knows that she has some very aggressive bunions thank you for being honest yeah and like the fact that

this test I mean I find it amazing could actually pick up on the fact that you have bunions in the spirit this tells you this I don't know I don't even like the word spit like that's pretty gross right is that even better

I'm not really sure our collection yeah but this makes me appreciate spit right No, I will say there are things on here. So there's all these traits. I'm just going to go through the list.

Ability to match musical pitch. Asparagus odor detection, bitter taste, bunions, cheek dimples, cilantro taste aversion, cleft chin, dandruff, earlobe type, ear wax type, eye color, fear of heights, fear of public speaking, finger length ratio, flat feet, freckles. Like the list goes on, it is so detailed. Where did you find that? It's under traits. So it's under the health.

And I will say because I am a parent, yes, it is important to me to know this stuff. But not necessarily to pass on to my kids just yet. For me, I want to know, like my grandfather had macular degeneration. And I show up as having a slightly increased risk for that. 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 20 years or something like that. But knowing that I have an increased risk for that.

And celiac disease shows up as having a slightly increased risk. Type 2 diabetes, which I knew because my dad has it and my grandmother had it. Like I know that stuff, but having it in this form as a report, like a black and white report that says this is an increased risk, it's something that I can, you know, I would was really concerned about breast cancer. Not that I have it in my family, but that shows up the BRCA 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 actually start a discussion, start a conversation. That is so wild. And I just have to say one more time, just got to bring it up.

You guys, we spit into a vial. Yeah. And somehow. from that. I mean, what? I'm mind-boggled. This is like thinking about space. For real. That's a really interesting connecting the dots.

I don't disagree with you. I think it's crazy. I think it's wild. And I mean, this is how, like, unknowledgible I am. I'm thinking, like, what if I, like, had something weird to eat right before I did it, right?

I know you can, I know. But, like, people obviously are getting accurate results even through, like, whatever they're doing throughout the day. Yeah. There's a great way to take the test, right? You follow the directions. You know, your mouth is clean. Everything's good.

But you're right. The details of this are incredible. Okay. So final question for you all. Now that you have the details and you have the information, what are you going to do with it? Or what is it done for you personally? We'll start with Trista again because that's kind of our flow.

Even if it's just enjoying it and reading it. what are you going to take from taking the 23Mee test? So it's hard for me to not bring Ryan into this. I wish I had it up like that I could actually read it and read it to you. I want to know everybody. So his ancestry. But he has, I think it's like, it's like a very small percentage, but he has like 0.2% Neanderthal.

There you go. That's awesome. I have a little of that in myself as well. there you go hold on i do well he's i know so mind you this is my house for the past two weeks point two or point like that i have to i i'll have to go back and look at it but it's very minimal he is yeah he's yoked because he's a caveman yeah captain caveman yeah so you guys like my house the last two weeks three weeks whatever it's been He's like walking out eating raw meat.

He's like, you know, we have to procreate. There you go. And so, oh, yeah, there's a lot of, sorry to my children and my, and my in-laws, but there's a lot of getting naked lately. See, that's a great thing. That's a nice. Jokes from the 23 and me. Yeah.

Life is good. I just said our household. Anyway, that's my life lately. That's funny. Say, so Bob, for you, what do you? you're going to take from this? You know, I like, I'm going to continue filling out a lot of the questions that I didn't do yet. So there's like some stuff because I, I want my kids to know if there's chance for genetic stuff, you know, things like that. I am also going to use the,

the procreate Neanderthal thing when I get home. And I'm not sorry to my in-laws about that. 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 going to go through and really start to answer some more of these things on the next reports and share that stuff with my family because I think it's important. And I've never known half of this stuff that I'm reading about myself right now. Yeah, 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 your story of your origin changed from this test. Yeah, true. You know, and so that's a big deal for many people taking the test as they find out that yes, what I've 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 Ryan's title. Is that that where you see? I too am a caveman. He's jealous. Ashley. For you.

Okay. For me, I think it's kind of like a storytelling like origin thing. Oh God. I am becoming my husband. It's an origin story. It's the origin story of Superman, our son, Dawson. I think it's like the ancestry part for me that I just 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. They'd be like, part of you from here. This is where like this great grandparent from. This is where this great grandparent was from. And you can actually find, like, pinpoint the location. Yeah, like I'm looking at this map right now. I'm like, this is, like, we could travel here.

And that's where, you know, 50% of me came from there. Yeah. That's crazy. So I think for me, it has to do with just kind of like knowing where your roots are. Yeah. Yeah. It's all so great. Before we end today's podcast, we do have a very special guest.

It's late. But Ryan did step in because he cares to talk about his 23 and me results. 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. What did you learn, Ryan, and your results? Well, the biggest thing, really the only thing I learned that I sort of stopped. I stopped after I saw was that I have some pretty unique Neanderthal roots, which is... Does that make you extra manly?

I feel like it definitely does. Yeah, I mean, I think my ancestors were actually around before homeosabians. Right? Yeah. Yeah. I think that's how it works, right? The Neanderthals, like they got together with... Yeah, can I ask you a question that you might know because I'm sure you've researched it?

And it might make me sound totally, totally unknowledgeable. And that's fine. 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 homeosapian... crossed over side of things came from but they entered the picture after the neanderthals so my family your family came onto the planet earth after my family so you're an origin you're yeah you've been

around since the very beginning that answers a lot of questions i've always had about ryan is how does he have such big muscles yeah we had to yeah we were wrestling like woolly mammoths and yeah oh okay right it wasn't easy i'm looking up the devil definition. Okay. Neanderthals, by definition, are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans that lived in Eurasia about 40,000 years ago. While the cause of their extinction remains highly contested, demographic factors like small population size inbreeding in random fluctuations are considered to be likely factors.

And this is a photo. It doesn't look at all like Ryan. Yeah, I can see the resemblance. Yeah. Brows and such. Ryan, how did you feel when you read your results? Was any, I mean, this is obviously 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 kind of stood out?

Health history, not really. I think some of the interesting things were that I have a tendency or I guess I'm less likely to be able. to sneeze with a full stomach. Pardon this. This is one of the things that they talk about on 23 and me. And it's crazy. Some people can't sneeze when too full. And I apparently have a good chance of being one of them.

So although like in full disclosure, the other night I had a bowl of cereal and shortly after sneezed. So I'm wondering if maybe that I admit that skipped me. Yeah. You're going to remember every time now that you've sneezed on a full. stomach i wouldn't say a bowl of cereal is a full stomach though that's true yeah it wasn't a very big bowl of cereal yeah yeah you eat i'm used to like eating yeah yeah like i'm used to eating large amounts of meat so cereal was not that big of deal so i think i'm still i'm still in

the running for not sneezing with a full stomach but 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 Nandafel since we focus a lot on that? Of course. Yeah. None of it's really as important. I was northwestern European, so German, French area. And then also there was a British component, which was more of an Irish side, which seems to go correlate with what my parents have said over the years. And then there was some, oh gosh, what's the term? I can't think of it. It's like Iceland and Greenland and that are... Icelandic?

No, but that would be a good guess. Scandinavian. Yeah, I had some Scandinavian in there. And then the rest of it, I think, was just full Neanderthal. But other than that, it was mostly... But it was interesting just to see kind of where that came from. Now, Ryan, I would love to say, like, Trista's sitting over there like, this is ridiculous right now. But right before you came in, she did seem very intrigued by your reason. results. And in fact, kind of alluded that the 23 of me has helped your intimacy as a couple.

Yeah. Well, it explains a lot. It really explains a lot. I'm able to use that as an excuse for like, listen. Yeah. I mean, I can't help it. I can't help it. I'm ready. 40,000 years of biology. Like, you can't stop that. No. And she did. She mentioned it. And so I just want to say kudos to you and kudos to 23 and me for supporting you and I, Yeah, thank you. Life changing, really. Place for the last week or so. Until next time, follow our lead.

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