My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future.

But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show.

And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it.

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And why John Carpenter movies are so good.

You may just want to listen to a podcast about, I don't know, sports or whatever Joe Rogan talks about.

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Welcome back to the show ridiculous historians. Thank you as always so much for tuning in.

Let's give a shout out to our one and only demand the myth legend super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

And they call me Ben joined as always with Mr. Noel Brown.

Noel, we like like most people we like to think of ourselves as fairly distinct here in the in the mass of humanity, right?

Yeah, we're special boys.

We go, we go, we, uh, we like many other people throughout ancient history to the modern day have spent a lot of time wondering where we came from, wondering about our origins as individuals and like many people, you know, we, we know a little bit about our ancestry.

We don't know everything, however, and that's why we were interested to team up with 23 and me nowadays, you know, it's easier than ever to learn about your past through the power of genetic testing and no, I have to ask and Max, you as well.

Growing up, did you guys ever have a member of your family who is like obsessed with their genealogy?

I didn't really personally, and in fact, it wasn't until no spoilers yet, but that I took the 23 and me a test that I really had much sense of my heritage at all.

So this was super eye opening and fascinating process for me.

But no, I definitely am aware of folks that take that very seriously and kind of consider themselves like armchair, you know, genealogists or anthropologists or what have you.

But there was really nobody in my family that that much mentioned that when I was growing up, how about you guys?

Yeah, I actually have a pretty extensive story about this one. It's so my paternal grandfather, so my great grandfather, my dad's side of the family, he was adopted in the early 1900s, and they lost all his adoption papers.

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