Joe Rogan - The Problem with 23andMe

Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1204:

[soonerbred]

Joe " I'm dat nigga " Rogan

[eseguerito]

Thsi guy looks like Eminem and Tony Hawk had a baby somehow.

[benjaminfortune]

"But I'm like as hairy as like a 13 year old, like, Norwegian girl..."

Listen.. I'm not going to ask how you settled on that particular assessment.

[GearGasms]

I was going to join 23andMe then I found it wasn't a dating site. But then I found it could help me with my family tree, so again it was kind of a dating site.

[jakemitchell]

"It's an incomplete picture."
"How so?"
"It's an incomplete picture."
"oh. ok."

[vissitorsteve]

The real issue is that any DNA testing depends almost entirely on how many people are in their base. With something like 23 and Me, it keeps expanding the more people who participate, thus enlarging their base. The good thing is that they keep updating their base and inform people who took the test a long time ago. They send you updated results.

[wvusmc]

I did the 23andMe test and I'm 99.6% European and 0.4% Native American. I'm more oppressed than Elizabeth Warren.

[erichvonmanstein]

Significant genetic difference between North African and sub Saharan African. Italians will often have North African in them.

[Emsworth]

When you inherit genes, you get half from your mother and half from your father. Each time this split is made you randomly get a selection of half your father's genes and half your mother's. It's a bit like shuffling cards and dealing out a certain number. Yes you might have ancestors from a certain place, but you didn't get dealt those particular cards, even if your sibling did. Over time with continuous shuffling of genes over generations it is possible for one ancestors genes to be completely removed.

[Kommandant]

"Let's talk about shit we haven't the slightest clue about."
Classic Joe.

[Yourztrulydaboy]

Jokes on you guys, now the government has your genetic code

[WelcomeToTheMadness]

What was the point of the horse and carriage story? I thought that he was about to say that his grandfather was semi black or something...

[jerrisgilbert]

I love when Joe is baffled by something that could be easily explained to him by anyone other than the guest 😂

[chad]

It always astounds me when people get their DNA back and it’s a life changing event. It totally changes the way they act. Do you guys remember the DNA commercial that “traded in his kelt for lederhosen”? As if somehow he was now able to tap into some kind of ancestral zen and (select) become a new identity. I think this says a lot about the psychology of identity, but even more about mass marketing manipulating that psychology.
...all I know is that culture is taught not genetically passed.

[diogallardo]

rogan is 1.6% african👶🏿 and 98.4% steroids💉

[kouyasakurada]

“The problem with 23 & Me is too much sugar and refined carbs”

[marvininthemiddle]

“My dad was raised on the south side of Chicago”

Ahh so your dad was Leroy Brown.

[CheeseBae]

What people don't understand is that 23andMe genetic ancestry is with "50% confidence." The only thing they can tell you with "90% confidence" is that your ancestors are probably European. So if it says you're 1% this or that take it with a grain of salt. It's more entertainment than anything else.

[frankjamesbonarrigo]

My great grandfather was from Sicily. He made his own wine in Baltimore in his basement. He was a Barber. Grew his own wine grapes, he lived to 97

[tra]

I know what he was trying to say. I read a similar article explaining how the testing works. It is quite complicated. Let's say you and your full biological sibling both take the test, but your results are quite different. How does that happen if you have the same parents? We get 50% DNA from each parent. Your 50% might have contained a lot of your mom's Irish heritage, while the 50% that your sibling got may only contain a small bit of her Irish genes. And when you consider that the same process has happened for generations before you, it makes sense that there is genetic lineage in your family tree that does not show up in your DNA. So, you could have an ancestor that was full blood Cherokee, for example, but you just didn't get any of those particular genes, or only 1 or 2% of them trickled down to you.