Armchair Anonymous: DNA Testing
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Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Lily Padman.
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Fuck me, guys.
You gotta listen.
You're so lucky.
You gotta listen to this one.
This is dynamite. This is the most I've retold.
Really? Ever?
Oh, I've walked everyone I've seen since this episode through this episode.
Yeah. There's a...
few oh my god i mean really all of them are incredible but there's one that is it seems impossible and it's yes 12 people maybe this has happened too yes this is an incredible over-delivered episode please enjoy crazy dna testing stories hard times come and go good times take them slow
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Hello, April. Are you in a hotel room?
I am actually at a place called Deloitte University. I'm in learning and development, and I'm actually here all week delivering five different learning programs.
Which one do we need to know the most?
I just wrapped up one called Future Forward. It was so fun. Lots of very interesting activities. Lots of conversation about what the future of our workplace looks like and how to be agile and adaptable. All the buzzwords. Deloitte, the big accounting firm? That's right. We have our own hotel slash university. Wow, that's incredible.
When you're there for the week teaching, they give you a hotel room?
They give us a hotel room.
Is there room service?
Oh.
I will say they feed us well. There are break stations on every floor. There's a huge market, a place called the barn. Oh, that sounds nice.
They've won me back.
Do the hotel rooms have tissue boxes? There is in the bathroom. I should have thought ahead and brought it over close to me.
Old me would have needed that, not new me, because I don't blow my nose anymore and I don't cough anymore, no matter how bad I want to.
I noticed today you wanted to clear and you didn't.
Yeah, I don't think I have yet since I've sat down.
Much less editing for you, Mark. Exactly.
He's taken one.
Yeah, but we're going to lose something from it, probably. I bet the guest feels more comfortable that I'm so gross and disgusting. Like, oh, cool. It's laid back. This guy's a gross monster.
I think we're still giving off laid back vibes.
I'm a tank top, I suppose. Okay, so you have a 23andMe and or slash DNA story. April, let us have it.
Okay, so I am one of four girls, so three sisters. I know my poor dad. Your lucky dad.
Yeah, he's going to live six years longer because of that.
That's right. Girl dads are the best. And he really is the best. So I'm the second in line. And what first caught my attention as a child is that all of my sisters have blonde hair and blue eyes or green eyes. My dad has this bright blonde hair and these really bright blue eyes. My mom, red hair, green eyes. I came out dark, dark head of hair, really dark eyes. Second born, we can kind of chalk that up to like, okay, there's some genes in there that are going further back. Like it happens.
Although if we are led to believe what we learned about Mendelian... Punnett squares. Yes, the two greens and the blue should have all been recessive, and we shouldn't have been able to have brown eyes with that mix.
But there could be big R, little r, big R, little r, making two little r's. So then there could technically be a combination.
But since brown is dominant, you have to have two little bees to get blue. So the mom had two little bees and the dad had two little bees. No one had a big bee to give. Again, they might have oversimplified it for us.
I thought about all this growing up. There's also the fact that my sisters are all very rambunctious. They love to dance, very social. I was like the anti-social child. Monica, I love to read Harry Potter, kind of off in my corner, very introverted. So just felt very different. And then tack onto that throughout our childhood, we would go out to eat at restaurants or even in school, people would ask us how we were related. We had the same last name, obviously they knew we were. When we said sisters, everybody often asked, Are we full blood sisters? This is mid late 90s, early 2000s. So that sort of got me questioning. I do feel different. What's going on here?
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