Sharing DNA, and Nothing Else
Death, Sex & Money
Slate Audio
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I don't think anything was an accident. Looking back, I think all the things over the years, I think they were all leading up to some subconscious truth that I didn't even know, something on a cellular level that was sort |
| 0:17.7 | of leading me to discover something that needed to get discovered. This is death, sex and money. |
| 0:27.0 | You're my lawyers, but I think you should know. |
| 0:29.0 | I've killed a lot of people. |
| 0:30.0 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:33.2 | Wow, you must be rich. |
| 0:36.2 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:38.0 | Not thinking about little afternoon sex or something? |
| 0:41.4 | I'm a sale. |
| 0:45.0 | The first thing that was strange to me was that it said I had no Jewish ancestry. |
| 0:53.4 | And so I thought, oh, that's weird. |
| 0:57.3 | About a year and a half ago, a woman named Amy |
| 1:00.0 | became one of the nearly 12 million people |
| 1:02.3 | who have taken a male in DNA |
| 1:03.9 | tests to learn more about their genealogy. Amy used ancestry.com. |
| 1:08.9 | I think I got influenced by the marketing efforts and I just decided to take the test. |
| 1:15.0 | Did that involve like spitting or what did that involve the DNA test? |
| 1:19.0 | Yes, it involves spitting a lot of saliva into a little container and sending it and it was about |
| 1:26.8 | a month of weight and I had sort of forgotten almost. |
| 1:31.3 | I wasn't really anxiously waiting for results because I just |
| 1:35.2 | took it on a whim. Amy is in her 40s now but she's been interested in her family |
| 1:41.4 | history since she was a kid. |
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