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You're two thirds adopted. No.

This is we have concerns. Hi Jeff canada. Hi Anthony Carbony. Hello concerned citizens.

Anthony, I am continually amazed slash horrified by me. Thank you.

Yes, but my goal is to amaze and horrify an equal measure.

Well, it's more the latter than the former. Well, I'll take that as well.

But I am I am we need a new word. Flabberg terrified guest.

I believe you might be saying in awe you might be using the exact definition of in awe.

Like this thing I'm about to say is awesome. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure that won't be confusing.

No. By data data the ability to do data is awesome.

It's terrible. It's amazing, but it also I don't think we've reckoned with our ability to deal with it at this point.

I don't know if I genuinely feel like data is awesome in rules.

You got I got I got swept up in the moment. Well, let me tell you you may end up feeling that by the end of this story

because this is a story about how we have used what they're calling by the way very cool.

Cool term citizen science. Yeah, to have you not heard that before. I love that term. It's great turn.

I love it to compile the world's largest family tree. This is data that has been collected because of

average people uploading their genealogy to genealogy websites doing the research. Like an ancestry

or like a 23 and me. There's a lot of these sites given up your personal data to a strange web

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