guys pls see the case of Alexander Komin.... th-cam.com/video/1OOw9t9Jxdk/w-d-xo.html ....and request mr. whisler to do a ca. cr. on it pls support and send your own request.... its very intresting and barley any info on it
On my 30th (so two years ago) I decided to do the whole Ancestry DNA thing out of curiosity, as I have an Italian surname but we only know very little about that side of the family. Well, my test results came back with absolutely NO trace of Italian heritage. Amused, I discussed the results with my parents and then posted them to social media........Cue my dads side of the family bombarding my mum with thinly veiled questions as to who my real father is. (Hint: he is 100% my biological dad). Two weeks ago my Grandfather, who has dementia and is in a care home, suddenly had an extremely lucid moment in which he told my aunt the truth. Shortly after marrying my grandmother (who is no longer with us) he was deployed with the army, at which point she was not pregnant.......By the time he came home there was my dad, one year old and definitely not his. For 69 years this man looked after, raised and loved a child that wasn't his own without ever making it an issue. I've never really liked my grandfather (he's racist AF) but finding this out has seriously increased my respect for him.
Wow. I have a cousin who took one of the tests and discovered that she has no native American ancestry. Her father is straight up Cherokee and Choctaw Indian. She was an adult when she took the test and he had already passed away.
@@antoniovillanueva308 There has been an issue with a lack of Native American samples, leading to inconclusive, misleading or wrong results. At least one of the companies had been offering free tests to help build up their database, but for whatever reason was still having trouble collecting Native American samples. It was bizarre. People were turning down free DNA tests. th-cam.com/video/zRakAuHQguo/w-d-xo.html I don't know what the ultimate solution ended up being.
@@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou I rarely speak to my cousin who was involved in this, but I'm not curious as to whether or not she knows this? I'm going to talk to some of my closer family members and see how the whole thing worked out.
@@antoniovillanueva308 my family had the same issue. My mom knows for a fact, her grandmother was Cherokee, yet 2 of my siblings took a DNA test and showed no Native American ancestry at all. My brother is definitely NOT 100% Dutch, not with his skin color, haha! I told them there must be a low sampling of indigenous people to pull up anything conclusive, and sounds like other families have this issue.
The twin sister thing freaks me out!!! But only because I had a twin sister and then she disappeared around 20 weeks.... fast forward 30 years and a bunch of undiagnosed unexplainable weird af autoimmune diseases and a conversation with a dermatologist about why some of my skin is slightly a different color ........... now I'm casually contemplating sequencing different parts of my body because apparently the last 30 years could be explained with a simple "your sister really was born she's just part of you and you guys fight ALOT!" 😂😭🤣😭😂😭🤣💔❤
One of my favorite stories like this is the child sisters who got separated from one another at the tail end of the Vietnam war and found each other through an ancestry kit. They were both in their 40s, both grew up in America, and neither had any idea the other had made it out of Vietnam.
My mom had a story about how she yelled at nurses that my older sister couldn't be her baby, because the baby she gave birth to had black hair and a round face, but the baby they later handed to her was blond with a narrow face. Everyone in my family has black hair. She doesn't even have the same health problems, or even the same general personality as the rest of the family. (I don't even know if personality is hereditary or learned.) When my other siblings took DNA tests, she flat out refused. Personally, I don't care if she was switched, she's the one who picked me up from class, who helped me study, who I stole clothes from... she's my sister, like it or not. Still, it always was something Mom grumbled about whenever my sister acted high strung and aggressive, unlike the rest of our laid back, passive family. Oddly enough, I often got in trouble at school because people reported seeing me walking around during school hours, yet I was definitely in class. Many classmates swore to have met this doppelganger and described her as a "perfect twin," even the same voice and laid back way of speaking as me. I wonder if some switched sister could've been living near us the whole time, looking exactly like me. It'd be interesting to solve this mystery some day and see if we really are "perfect twins."
It's possible that she isn't biologically your sister, but it's also possible that your mother was suffering from a form of PPD. As for the doppleganger thing, I also have also had a couple of people I've been mistaken for and vice versa but I definitely wasn't related to any of them.
She. And I think she should be at least 1.5 years old now if I remember the time line from when he started mentioning her, correctly 😂. So sehe probably has hair.
I'm a genealogist and most of us include a "if I find something that doesn't line up with your beliefs about your family history, do you want me to tell you?" clause in our contracts. Because it's not something you can just sort of casually ask after you've realized that Great Grandad was not who you thought he was.
I love it when people who profess "blood is thicker then water" have NO CLUE who their family is. Most horrid people and IMMEDIATE flag everytime I've met one.
"So we did find a German background as you suspected that led back to Argentina. It seems that your family changed their name from Schicklgruber and arrived in Argentina around the mid 1940s. From there we are able to trace it back to Austria, so your family is Austrian not German. We are happy to inform you that you are a direct descendant pf Alois Schicklgruber! Isn't this exciting? Would you like us to contact your extended family in Austria?"
I hate having to have those conversations and avoid them at all costs. But I had my own recently. I have been looking for an Uncle that went missing in 1930. A man that thinks his father was my missing Uncle contacted me. The DNA does not match. Old records do which is really weird. I am struggling to try to figure out how the man would have the info if he was not the missing uncle. But in the end the DNA does not lie. There are some distant connects but his mother has a name that could make her a distant relative and she is from the same area. So either the man who called me is mistaken about his father's connect to our family or he is mistaken about his connection to his father... either way... we never did figure it out
I wound up orphaned in my teens. I know my dad was Irish and Swedish and my mom was Black and Native American. I've considered getting an ancestry panel, but I'm not quite sure I want to find the family that abandoned my mother or the one that ditched me. I can totally understand why some folks would rather not know certain things about their ancestry.
Fun fact .... There used to be a large community from Rotherham living in New York City. All of the famous fires hydrants you see in the city where made in a foundry in Rotherham and shipped over to America, people from Rotherham would go to new York to help install them but once the work was done not many returned back to Rotherham. In fact the area in Rotherham where the hydrants where made was known as New York. Today the foundry no longer exists instead Rotherham fc built their new ground on the site of the foundry and it’s called The New York stadium
The Guest and Chrimes Foundry that made those fire hydrants in Rotherham was owned by an extremely-distant relative of mine. My side of my family moved from England to America waaaaaaaaay back before the foundry. So there are Rotherhammers (or whatever they were called) in America.
@@brainblaze6526 It actually is true! New York Stadium in Rotherham is named for the fire hydrants they made for New York City. Add it to a future "Top 10 facts about Danny's hometown" video, along with glass medicine bottles and child sex scandals.
My daughter gave me a DNA test kit last Christmas. It turned out to be quite interesting. One weird thing though. According to the results, my half sibling is also my cousin. A branch of my Mom's family is related to my Dad's family. And another two branches of Mom's family practiced quite a bit of intermarriage. So, technically, I guess that makes me my very own cousin.
This has happened in our family, my aunty had an ancestry DNA kit for Christmas a couple of years ago and we found out our nan (who died in 1996 ) had a different father to who she thought
My mom and her mom did a DNA test. It showed that the family story that Grandma was 3/4 Native American was untrue, as neither had a drop of Native American blood in them. Grandma was very upset and claimed that it was wrong somehow, as she had met her birth mother and birth family, who said that they were half Native American and that Grandma's mother was 100% Native. Now's she come to accept that the story she embraced for so long was just a story. Now we're waiting for the relatives of my mom's dad's father who we don't know anything about.
Regarding Simon saying "Let me just get some coke before we get started"..... Not only was it not cocaine, it was *DIET* Coke. Meaning, it wasn't even _proper_ Coke! So, that was a *DOUBLE* lie!! 😁😁
"You want YT channels without Simon Whistler? 😟 You want YT channels WITHOUT Simon Whistler?! 😡 You can't HANDLE YT channels without Simon Whistler!! 🤬"
Business Blaze DNA analysis: 33% Danny writes the amazing script 33% Simon reads it, stutters, gets confused, comments on what Danny is about to say, and tells you anecdotes then tries to figure out where he was 33% excellent meme action from Sam
so apparently, my father was really into franchising; he tended to get a woman knocked up and then ghosted her. if you've ever watched the movie Dazed and Confused, Woodhouse appears to be based on my father. with that little bit of backstory out of the way, imagine my total total lack of surprise when i took a 23andMe DNA test and found 3 half-siblings. 2 older brothers and an older sister.
My mother found out she has a sister from her father from before he met my grandmother thanks to the DNA test things. Imagine they never would have met if they both didn't do these dna things.
that Oprah meme was a mist opportunity. instead of: u get a kid u get a kid u get a kid u get a kid everybody gets a kid it should have been: u get my kid u get my kid u get my kid u get my kid everybody gets my kid
There use to be a rumor in my family that my father was part Native American. He did look quite like he might be too. Anyway, DNA testing proved that to be false, almost my entire ancestry appears to be the Midlands and Welsh.
As someone who found out she had a different bio parent, last year, right after my 30th birthday, all of you, go ask your parents. Advice I never knew I would give. Guys. Ask your parents whether y’all are related. Do it.
The problem with the dna test places is that in the fine print your giving them permission to use it for any purpose later thereby relinquishing your rights over it.
I've always been dubious about the idea of willingly giving my genetic material to a private company, though I would love to have my DNA analysed. If that's what's in the small print, I'm glad I'm paranoid!
In my opinion the biggest risk is that a future government could access all that DNA data and use it for whatever their agenda is. Rooting out opposition, taxing based on ethnic purity, whatever.
@@MetalheadAndNerd If it gets to that point they will have so much power that they will just take DNA samples forcibly anyway. Not much difference, really.
I remember for history class that people coming to America through Ellis Island often got different last names if their last name was complicated. Often they'd be given the last name of the person who was in line in front of them or Smith, Jones, Brown, White and many other bland names simply because the people doing in-take-forms couldn't spell the name given or couldn't understand what name was being given. There's always the possibility that an American's ancestor's name wasn't exactly what was written in the books if they came to America during a certain time. LOL. So yeah...loads of accidental name changes.
Whilst Chimerism is rare over all what I find most interesting is that both Lydia and Karen (the lady from Boston Lydia's lawyer found the article about) were Chimeras in the first place, as Simon says Chimerism only happen in a multiple child pregnancy when one child dies in utero and is absorbed by 'one of' their sibling(s). However it is far more common for either the absorber and absorbee to be male or for the mother to absorb the dead sibling
I didn't have any issue filling the vial, although it took like 4 rounds of spitting. In regards to the Ancestry digging, I say you go deeper Simon. I got a month free trial from them in conjunction with the AncestryDNA kit and despite being a nobody (in North Dakota coincidentally 🤣), I traced my lineage back to the 1600's and found some big shakers in the AncestryDNA StoryScout tab, like my 10th great grandmother being one of the last people executed as a witch in Salem. That never came up at reunions lol
It was probably MacDonald essentially the same as McDonald meaning son of donald. But Irish and Scottish write it differently enjoy that knowlege nugget.
Thanks guys! And Simon, you really are lucky to have Danny and Sam! Sam is indeed a master of fine vintage memes!!! And Danny....enough said! Priceless each and everyone of you!
I live in Dubois! And you settled on the right way they pronounce it. Good on you. Never hear about our tiny town. It may be lame but this made me happy. Also my money's on our hospital being terrible and making the mix up because it's the worst
Guess I am weird.. or a genealogist. I bought kits for my whole family... even a few cousins :) But then I have been researching genealogy since before it was cool. I started going with my dad to old musty libraries when I was just 8. I think at first it was just to get me out of my mother's hair but I really enjoyed it. Those are some really sweet memories I have of time with my dad.
I have a Gen-Z sibling who was very concerned that we might have participated in slavery, so I did my Ancestry and was just tracking along each branch to get out of the country. One specific branch, the Pattees, have been on this continent since the late 1500s. 11th great grandparents!
On the flip side, though, these tests can also reunite people with family they didn't know for any number of reasons. Watching the news segments on some of those stories is quite potent.
My dad gifted me a dna kit, the main reason I haven’t taken it was bc they “can not guarantee the information will not be used or sold to insurance companies to raise my premiums in the future.”
They also are screwed up. My son did one and showed he isn’t Italian which is not possible. I watched them cut him out of my womb and put matching bracelets on us. And he looks exactly like me. The test is fucked up.
Biology is cool and complicated as hell. Gene expression is not the same over your entire body. A male has XY and due to these differences in expression some parts of the body will express X instead of Y. People think of male/female as a binary 0/1 type thing but in reality, it is EVERYTHING in between. Some parts of your body could be more male and some parts more female. You can even by XY female if early on your Y chromosome is silenced.
I always watch to the end because of the 1 second memes... They really make it worthwhile. Did. Did I just fall for Simon's dastardly plan to get me to watch to the end so he can get the watch time metrics!? CURSE YOU SIMON! CURSE YOU TO HELL!
I used to like watching to the end but now the post-credits clip is just a meme and not a clip of Simon, like it used to be. I can see memes everywhere on the internet -- I come here for Simon!
There have been some cases of people finding out they are on the missing persons list and a case where a person found out they were related to a murder who almost got away with it.
There were always rumors about my paternal heritage. My father adopted me because my mother was married to someone else when she conceived. Turns out the rumors were true. I am 75% British with Wales and my father's lineage was almost entirely German. I have virtually no German ancestry. One mystery solved but another one remains. Who was my father? I suspect one day someone will match with my DNA from his side and I can figure it out from there but he isn't likely to still be alive.
The hospital i was born in had a class action lawsuit for several years in which one i was born recently because something like over 200 births were swapped. So my parents have always wondered since that came out, me too. Im 3 inches taller than my dad. Lol
My mom and I are both into genealogy, so we got Ancestry done. So far, we've learned that my mom has at least two previously unknown cousins from her uncles (no surprise there), and last I heard (though it's been a while) she was having trouble finding relatives on her maternal grandfather's side, which led to theorizing that Grandma wasn't her father's daughter. My dad's family on the other hand? Not a single surprise so far. Which is on brand for his family. They're not ones for scandals. I think they're still recovering from the great-grandma who got a divorce and then remarried in the first decade of the 1900s. 🤣🤣
The fertility doctor was maximizing profits. He could tell women their getting sperm from a doctor without having to pay one to provide it nor pay for storage of said sperm. He could just check his schedule and use 15 minutes “preparing for the next patient.”
People after hearing your ancestors were Irish: Oh we could tell you were Irish because you have such pretty red hair! Red haired Irish lass: yeah, it's dyed, dufus. 🍀🍀🍀
Of note is the chimera statistic is only 100 *recorded* incidents. It could be higher. As you can imagine, it's very rarely tested. Why would you in most cases? Plenty of people live their whole lives not knowing that there's some weird DNA shenanigans with themselves.
Yep, turns out my Uncle Mark is actually my father's half-brother. There've been rumors in my family that my grandfather chased away at least one guy interested in my grandmother, but apparently at least one slipped past him. And this would have been back in the 1940s, post WWII, such a wholesome time when people had better moral values...or not!
There have always been degenerates and there always will be. What defines a society is how they handle said degenerates. Are they treated like what they are, or are they let to run rampant, unchallenged?
One of my great grandfathers was a truck driver back in the day before DNA tests. My grandma still has siblings coming out of the woodwork. At last check it was over 13 siblings all of them girls.
This wasfun and Simon's amazed confusion about Lydia's predicament was priceless! I've heard of this case before, so I was free to just enjoy Simon's confuzzlment fully. And then he mentioned the CSI Episode where there were twins who were also Chimera-DNA carriers. That was a mind-blown episode for me. Fun Fact. My cousin whomI live with [to share bills and her Hellbeast Thor, the Dog of Thunder] Has the Chimera stripes on her back! Look at someone's back under blacklight and some Chierae [plural of Chimera] have stripes across the back, stretching from the spine and often following the ribcage. Hers are faint but they are certainly there. So, 101 Chimera out there, tho she's never been tested for Chimerism, why bother, it's unlikely to matter much unless a health issue arises. And we'd both suggest checking this out if so. Love Brain Blaze, Simon letting himself off the chain like this is great fun while learning about new things!
I think the lack of much reason to test for it is probably a big reason why there are so few known, like you could easily live your whole life without knowing. Not to say it isn't rare at all, but it's probably a lot less rare than it seems from that statistic
I am literally an adoption search angel who uses dna to help people find their families most adopted peoples. (free of charge hence the angel part.) So mixing this with a good Blaze is Amazing. I have some great stories. Favorite name I have ever found in a family tree. Preserved Fish. born 1699 to Daniel and Jemima Fish. He grew up to be a lovely young man and married Grizzel Strange.. who then became Grizzel Strange Fish, they had many Preserved down the generation and one of their great grandsons Preserved married a nice girl from a Rhode Island Whaling company named Mary Sole.
I know a chimera! She found out due to a medical complication, but the crazy part is that years before hand her mom would swear she was supposed to be a twin, despite never being told by a doc she was having twins.
ahh fuck i thought the sperm donor one was gonna be about the one from the netherlands .. theres a podcast called The Immaculate Deception on it its wild i gotta say as well ive always been kinda weirded out by how the location aspect of these tests can go if the data is a bit skewed but i guess its because its cheaper to work a database by geographic area than study haplogroups - ALTHOUGH itd be wild to find out youre related to ancient bodies like Ötzi or Cheddar Man or Lindow Man (which does happen!)
They use comparative algorithms that check the unknown sample against known samples. It's geographic because most people were unlikely to move (or even travel) more than 10-20 miles from their birthplace until the 1900s.
Wait, I thought the name MacDonald and red hair were both things that are stereotypically associated with the Irish but are actually more Scottish, right? Or is it I who really has the misconception?
@@Infinety68 Thanks! I'm relieved lol. I completely forgot to google it after commenting this and now my brain is full already from summer semester starting today, so I'll cheerfully take your word for it XD
Baby LoJack. Electronic tag on the baby that not only is an RFID, but automatically locks down the unit, and sounds an alarm in the nurses station if the tag passes a point in any hallway.
Those DNA tests are not even close to "fool proof" There is a case where Identical twins each sent in a kit and got completely different results... So flawed was the tests that they were not recognized as siblings...
@@Loralanthalas Why don't you try and look it up. It is an actual case. John Oliver even did a segment about it. Instead of being an ignorant fool that wants to troll so badly they fail at trolling do something intelligent and research something before making idiotic comments about it.
@@Loralanthalas Wow, you cannot even trust Fox News. "Identical twins, identical DNA, different ancestry results? We put three kits to the test" That is the title of the article from FOX10 I thought all you Reich-wingers loved Fox and did everything they told you to.
That last one plays like an over-the-top high-drauma romance. Imagine this impoverished single mother on her last legs, suddenly being told her children aren't her own and soldiering on with her tireless underdog-championing lawyer, and her ex slowly falling back in love with her amidst injustice so absurd he feels duty-bound to do what he can. If you made it up it'd be too darn contrived to print.
@@WanderingWriter generational gap, I'm only 37 y/o, I know who he is, but can't name any of his songs and had no idea he was into weed! I mean basil. nobody is smoking weed and watching Business Blaze! mmmmmmhm! nobody!
GET ON THAT MAGELLAN: try.magellantv.com/businessblaze
as good as Raid:Shadow Legends. Allegedly.
subtitles for the HoH/Deaf?
15:30 Simon's Kid looks like him, I assume no hair and intense beard.
you interrupt the story so much who knows whats going on
guys pls see the case of Alexander Komin.... th-cam.com/video/1OOw9t9Jxdk/w-d-xo.html ....and request mr. whisler to do a ca. cr. on it pls support and send your own request.... its very intresting and barley any info on it
Running that fertility clinic by hand for awhile I see. "I built this clinic with my own right hand!"
I'm right handed, but I've always done it lefty .
Apparently he took a very hands-on approach.
Now that's what I call customer service!
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Why does it matter?
The 'clients' are paying to reproduce with somebody they've never met. What difference does it make?
On my 30th (so two years ago) I decided to do the whole Ancestry DNA thing out of curiosity, as I have an Italian surname but we only know very little about that side of the family. Well, my test results came back with absolutely NO trace of Italian heritage. Amused, I discussed the results with my parents and then posted them to social media........Cue my dads side of the family bombarding my mum with thinly veiled questions as to who my real father is. (Hint: he is 100% my biological dad).
Two weeks ago my Grandfather, who has dementia and is in a care home, suddenly had an extremely lucid moment in which he told my aunt the truth. Shortly after marrying my grandmother (who is no longer with us) he was deployed with the army, at which point she was not pregnant.......By the time he came home there was my dad, one year old and definitely not his. For 69 years this man looked after, raised and loved a child that wasn't his own without ever making it an issue. I've never really liked my grandfather (he's racist AF) but finding this out has seriously increased my respect for him.
Cool stroy, I actually read through the entire thing. I guess those DNA thing can do some good.
Wow. I have a cousin who took one of the tests and discovered that she has no native American ancestry. Her father is straight up Cherokee and Choctaw Indian. She was an adult when she took the test and he had already passed away.
@@antoniovillanueva308
There has been an issue with a lack of Native American samples, leading to inconclusive, misleading or wrong results. At least one of the companies had been offering free tests to help build up their database, but for whatever reason was still having trouble collecting Native American samples. It was bizarre. People were turning down free DNA tests. th-cam.com/video/zRakAuHQguo/w-d-xo.html I don't know what the ultimate solution ended up being.
@@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou I rarely speak to my cousin who was involved in this, but I'm not curious as to whether or not she knows this? I'm going to talk to some of my closer family members and see how the whole thing worked out.
@@antoniovillanueva308 my family had the same issue. My mom knows for a fact, her grandmother was Cherokee, yet 2 of my siblings took a DNA test and showed no Native American ancestry at all. My brother is definitely NOT 100% Dutch, not with his skin color, haha! I told them there must be a low sampling of indigenous people to pull up anything conclusive, and sounds like other families have this issue.
Simon's kid looks like him. Simon's kid came out of the womb with a bald head, beard, and glasses.
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🤣 damn I laughed more than I should have at this
This is even more hilarious when you realise that his kid is a girl 😂
@No One's Innocent I do. Watch the Simon videos from four years ago. I've seen hostage videos where the subject was more relaxed.
@No One's Innocent And with a little Tegridy, we forget.
The twin sister thing freaks me out!!! But only because I had a twin sister and then she disappeared around 20 weeks.... fast forward 30 years and a bunch of undiagnosed unexplainable weird af autoimmune diseases and a conversation with a dermatologist about why some of my skin is slightly a different color ........... now I'm casually contemplating sequencing different parts of my body because apparently the last 30 years could be explained with a simple "your sister really was born she's just part of you and you guys fight ALOT!" 😂😭🤣😭😂😭🤣💔❤
That lawyer in the last story really deserved his money for showing up with the proper research.
One of my favorite stories like this is the child sisters who got separated from one another at the tail end of the Vietnam war and found each other through an ancestry kit. They were both in their 40s, both grew up in America, and neither had any idea the other had made it out of Vietnam.
My mom had a story about how she yelled at nurses that my older sister couldn't be her baby, because the baby she gave birth to had black hair and a round face, but the baby they later handed to her was blond with a narrow face. Everyone in my family has black hair. She doesn't even have the same health problems, or even the same general personality as the rest of the family. (I don't even know if personality is hereditary or learned.) When my other siblings took DNA tests, she flat out refused.
Personally, I don't care if she was switched, she's the one who picked me up from class, who helped me study, who I stole clothes from... she's my sister, like it or not. Still, it always was something Mom grumbled about whenever my sister acted high strung and aggressive, unlike the rest of our laid back, passive family.
Oddly enough, I often got in trouble at school because people reported seeing me walking around during school hours, yet I was definitely in class. Many classmates swore to have met this doppelganger and described her as a "perfect twin," even the same voice and laid back way of speaking as me. I wonder if some switched sister could've been living near us the whole time, looking exactly like me. It'd be interesting to solve this mystery some day and see if we really are "perfect twins."
It's possible that she isn't biologically your sister, but it's also possible that your mother was suffering from a form of PPD. As for the doppleganger thing, I also have also had a couple of people I've been mistaken for and vice versa but I definitely wasn't related to any of them.
Simon’s Baby- *is bald*
Simon-“He looks just like me!”
She. And I think she should be at least 1.5 years old now if I remember the time line from when he started mentioning her, correctly 😂. So sehe probably has hair.
@@stephjovi my bad on the gender, and I meant when she was born
Exactly what I thought 😂
Bald? Check.
Czech? Check.
Check, Simon! ...He's not mine.
I'm a genealogist and most of us include a "if I find something that doesn't line up with your beliefs about your family history, do you want me to tell you?" clause in our contracts. Because it's not something you can just sort of casually ask after you've realized that Great Grandad was not who you thought he was.
I love it when people who profess "blood is thicker then water" have NO CLUE who their family is. Most horrid people and IMMEDIATE flag everytime I've met one.
"So we did find a German background as you suspected that led back to Argentina. It seems that your family changed their name from Schicklgruber and arrived in Argentina around the mid 1940s. From there we are able to trace it back to Austria, so your family is Austrian not German. We are happy to inform you that you are a direct descendant pf Alois Schicklgruber! Isn't this exciting? Would you like us to contact your extended family in Austria?"
I hate having to have those conversations and avoid them at all costs. But I had my own recently. I have been looking for an Uncle that went missing in 1930. A man that thinks his father was my missing Uncle contacted me. The DNA does not match. Old records do which is really weird. I am struggling to try to figure out how the man would have the info if he was not the missing uncle. But in the end the DNA does not lie. There are some distant connects but his mother has a name that could make her a distant relative and she is from the same area. So either the man who called me is mistaken about his father's connect to our family or he is mistaken about his connection to his father... either way... we never did figure it out
I wound up orphaned in my teens. I know my dad was Irish and Swedish and my mom was Black and Native American. I've considered getting an ancestry panel, but I'm not quite sure I want to find the family that abandoned my mother or the one that ditched me. I can totally understand why some folks would rather not know certain things about their ancestry.
@@julienelson6506how distant of a cousin? Second cousins generally bear little to no genetic link.
Fun fact .... There used to be a large community from Rotherham living in New York City. All of the famous fires hydrants you see in the city where made in a foundry in Rotherham and shipped over to America, people from Rotherham would go to new York to help install them but once the work was done not many returned back to Rotherham. In fact the area in Rotherham where the hydrants where made was known as New York. Today the foundry no longer exists instead Rotherham fc built their new ground on the site of the foundry and it’s called The New York stadium
The Guest and Chrimes Foundry that made those fire hydrants in Rotherham was owned by an extremely-distant relative of mine. My side of my family moved from England to America waaaaaaaaay back before the foundry. So there are Rotherhammers (or whatever they were called) in America.
I can't tell if this is made up or not. But if it isn't, that's actually amazing.
@@brainblaze6526 It actually is true! New York Stadium in Rotherham is named for the fire hydrants they made for New York City. Add it to a future "Top 10 facts about Danny's hometown" video, along with glass medicine bottles and child sex scandals.
Amazing
@@brainblaze6526 google new York stadium Rotherham and whys it’s called new York stadium
"Indiana Clones and the Temple of Womb"
DANNY YOU SAVAGE!!!
Danny, I saw what you did there, you Legend!
@No One's Innocent Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom
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Fucking Indiana moment smh
My daughter gave me a DNA test kit last Christmas. It turned out to be quite interesting. One weird thing though. According to the results, my half sibling is also my cousin. A branch of my Mom's family is related to my Dad's family. And another two branches of Mom's family practiced quite a bit of intermarriage.
So, technically, I guess that makes me my very own cousin.
Roll Tide
When the family tree is more like the family telephone pole
@@havokvladimirovichstalinov With kudzu growing on it.
*Banjo noises*
It used to be incredibly common, even in the Bible age people would be married to thier paternal cousins, the Vitorian age also had alot of that too
This has happened in our family, my aunty had an ancestry DNA kit for Christmas a couple of years ago and we found out our nan (who died in 1996 ) had a different father to who she thought
The McLaren F1 over Simon's laugh in the intro! Had me dying! 🤣
Well done Sam!
3 years from now Simon will still be explaining this channel at the start of every episode and I still won't know what's going on.
My mom and her mom did a DNA test. It showed that the family story that Grandma was 3/4 Native American was untrue, as neither had a drop of Native American blood in them. Grandma was very upset and claimed that it was wrong somehow, as she had met her birth mother and birth family, who said that they were half Native American and that Grandma's mother was 100% Native. Now's she come to accept that the story she embraced for so long was just a story.
Now we're waiting for the relatives of my mom's dad's father who we don't know anything about.
Regarding Simon saying "Let me just get some coke before we get started"..... Not only was it not cocaine, it was *DIET* Coke. Meaning, it wasn't even _proper_ Coke! So, that was a *DOUBLE* lie!! 😁😁
The only true Coke is from Mexico where it is made with real sugar, not that high fructose corn syrup crap.
How do you know what was in that can? Maybe it was filled with cocaine.
It's weak coke not the pure stuff
I used to text my coke dealer to make sure and pick up some diet coke for the party. I know, so slick of me to think of that.
@@cuttwice3905 Mexican Coke is the best. It's rare to find it in the USA, but some stores sell it.
Catching the Golden State Killer is the best thing to happen with DNA & Me (or whatever) so far!
"You want YT channels without Simon Whistler? 😟 You want YT channels WITHOUT Simon Whistler?! 😡 You can't HANDLE YT channels without Simon Whistler!! 🤬"
Epic rant!
OMG Danny one of your best scripts ever, that Chimera twist had me on the edge of my seat
Business Blaze DNA analysis:
33% Danny writes the amazing script
33% Simon reads it, stutters, gets confused, comments on what Danny is about to say, and tells you anecdotes then tries to figure out where he was
33% excellent meme action from Sam
so apparently, my father was really into franchising; he tended to get a woman knocked up and then ghosted her. if you've ever watched the movie Dazed and Confused, Woodhouse appears to be based on my father.
with that little bit of backstory out of the way, imagine my total total lack of surprise when i took a 23andMe DNA test and found 3 half-siblings. 2 older brothers and an older sister.
“Beat off uhh beat off the other men” -Simon “Fact Boy” Whistler 2021
My sister asked my mom if she thought it was a cute idea to get everyone DNA tests for Christmas last year, and she freaked out. 😂
Awkward!
lol😳😛
oh nooo
Meme Accountant here... "Family Fried eh?" Simon... Keep it in the pants. Ok?
long time no see.
What happened to you Brian? No more meme counting going on, it's been sad with you gone and Simon not hearting your comments
He’s on strike until the SW sign is fixed
@@TitanicTom1912 .OK That checks out.
My mother found out she has a sister from her father from before he met my grandmother thanks to the DNA test things. Imagine they never would have met if they both didn't do these dna things.
Imagine they never met, never known about the other and nothing would be different for both of them. Unimaginable
that Oprah meme was a mist opportunity.
instead of:
u get a kid
u get a kid
u get a kid
u get a kid
everybody gets a kid
it should have been:
u get my kid
u get my kid
u get my kid
u get my kid
everybody gets my kid
The boondocks memes are fucking awesome
Its ok Danny, we've all experienced that drymouth from BLAZING so hard
🤣 nice
Me. Right now.
There use to be a rumor in my family that my father was part Native American. He did look quite like he might be too. Anyway, DNA testing proved that to be false, almost my entire ancestry appears to be the Midlands and Welsh.
As someone who found out she had a different bio parent, last year, right after my 30th birthday, all of you, go ask your parents. Advice I never knew I would give. Guys. Ask your parents whether y’all are related. Do it.
I miss the good old days when the long intros weren't half ads.
Mr. Whistler "the past was the worst"
I would most definitely buy the just blaze it shirt.
Me too! That is an awesome design. 👍🏻👕
The problem with the dna test places is that in the fine print your giving them permission to use it for any purpose later thereby relinquishing your rights over it.
I've always been dubious about the idea of willingly giving my genetic material to a private company, though I would love to have my DNA analysed. If that's what's in the small print, I'm glad I'm paranoid!
@@DrT0705 At least one of the companies is controlled by Jehovah's Witnesses, which may or may not be worse.
@@andiward7068 that seems weird, don't they forbid certain medical procedures as part of their religion? I'll keep my DNA to myself, thanks!
In my opinion the biggest risk is that a future government could access all that DNA data and use it for whatever their agenda is. Rooting out opposition, taxing based on ethnic purity, whatever.
@@MetalheadAndNerd If it gets to that point they will have so much power that they will just take DNA samples forcibly anyway. Not much difference, really.
I remember for history class that people coming to America through Ellis Island often got different last names if their last name was complicated. Often they'd be given the last name of the person who was in line in front of them or Smith, Jones, Brown, White and many other bland names simply because the people doing in-take-forms couldn't spell the name given or couldn't understand what name was being given. There's always the possibility that an American's ancestor's name wasn't exactly what was written in the books if they came to America during a certain time. LOL. So yeah...loads of accidental name changes.
Tip for Danny: Pot gives you cottonmouth, always have liquids when smoking to prevent this.
Smoking anything gives you cottonmouth. Or is that just me and my 3 packs a day
Whilst Chimerism is rare over all what I find most interesting is that both Lydia and Karen (the lady from Boston Lydia's lawyer found the article about) were Chimeras in the first place, as Simon says Chimerism only happen in a multiple child pregnancy when one child dies in utero and is absorbed by 'one of' their sibling(s). However it is far more common for either the absorber and absorbee to be male or for the mother to absorb the dead sibling
"Blazing it is more fun." Fact Boy droppin truths again.
I didn't have any issue filling the vial, although it took like 4 rounds of spitting. In regards to the Ancestry digging, I say you go deeper Simon. I got a month free trial from them in conjunction with the AncestryDNA kit and despite being a nobody (in North Dakota coincidentally 🤣), I traced my lineage back to the 1600's and found some big shakers in the AncestryDNA StoryScout tab, like my 10th great grandmother being one of the last people executed as a witch in Salem. That never came up at reunions lol
Glad her progeny can laugh about straight up murder.
DNA test said I wasn't Irish, but the sun said I was.
'McDonald, thats pretty Irish' - the whole of Scotland cringes
It was probably MacDonald essentially the same as McDonald meaning son of donald. But Irish and Scottish write it differently enjoy that knowlege nugget.
@@splaty691 Fair, would still need to be of Scots extraction (poss the plantations) to use Mac at all, given the irish version is O
Without the Mac-/Mc- prefix...Scottish are Pictish.
Thanks guys! And Simon, you really are lucky to have Danny and Sam! Sam is indeed a master of fine vintage memes!!! And Danny....enough said! Priceless each and everyone of you!
I live in Dubois! And you settled on the right way they pronounce it. Good on you. Never hear about our tiny town. It may be lame but this made me happy. Also my money's on our hospital being terrible and making the mix up because it's the worst
Callum: *writes script*
Simon: Cullum we need longer scripts!!!
Danny: *exists*
Simon: MAKE IT SHORTER DANNY!!!
Sam: lol memez
Guess I am weird.. or a genealogist. I bought kits for my whole family... even a few cousins :) But then I have been researching genealogy since before it was cool. I started going with my dad to old musty libraries when I was just 8. I think at first it was just to get me out of my mother's hair but I really enjoyed it. Those are some really sweet memories I have of time with my dad.
That chimera story is the best one I've ever heard on Brain Blaze. Amazing!
I have a Gen-Z sibling who was very concerned that we might have participated in slavery, so I did my Ancestry and was just tracking along each branch to get out of the country. One specific branch, the Pattees, have been on this continent since the late 1500s. 11th great grandparents!
On the flip side, though, these tests can also reunite people with family they didn't know for any number of reasons. Watching the news segments on some of those stories is quite potent.
One of my kids has Chimera. To top it off, she's had bone marrow transplant. To check genetics on her they do a skin biopsy.
Upload the entire Business Blaze library to Magellan TV!! Come on Simon.
You can do every topic you have ever covered, just the blaze way, and I will watch it.
My dad gifted me a dna kit, the main reason I haven’t taken it was bc they “can not guarantee the information will not be used or sold to insurance companies to raise my premiums in the future.”
This sounds very American to me. I would hate to have insurance that works in such ways
This is *exactly* the reason nobody should have one of these tests done.
@@beauregardslim1914 not to mention that they provide the government with the data as well.
They also are screwed up. My son did one and showed he isn’t Italian which is not possible. I watched them cut him out of my womb and put matching bracelets on us. And he looks exactly like me. The test is fucked up.
@@debshaw680 maybe if you take one you'll find you're not Italian either
Biology is cool and complicated as hell. Gene expression is not the same over your entire body. A male has XY and due to these differences in expression some parts of the body will express X instead of Y. People think of male/female as a binary 0/1 type thing but in reality, it is EVERYTHING in between. Some parts of your body could be more male and some parts more female. You can even by XY female if early on your Y chromosome is silenced.
I always watch to the end because of the 1 second memes... They really make it worthwhile.
Did. Did I just fall for Simon's dastardly plan to get me to watch to the end so he can get the watch time metrics!? CURSE YOU SIMON! CURSE YOU TO HELL!
Fucking right?
I used to like watching to the end but now the post-credits clip is just a meme and not a clip of Simon, like it used to be. I can see memes everywhere on the internet -- I come here for Simon!
Me: getting the joke about the shipping of the dirt from ireland. feeling like an OG Blazer.
Simon: thats not really even OG. we did that last week
There have been some cases of people finding out they are on the missing persons list and a case where a person found out they were related to a murder who almost got away with it.
Finding out that you were adopted wouldn't be that bad. You would then know that your parents loved you even more because they literally picked you.
My parents gave me up. Twice. No clue what it wiid be like to have a parent actually want and choose their kids to be around.
Being adopted doesn't mean you're loved.
There's also the fact that your birth parents gave you up. It would give you the feeling of not being wanted.
An adopted girl, picked on by her older, natural, siblings popped off with “Mom and dad picked me, the hospital MADE them bring YOU home!”
Blazer--- the folks that watch this channel, saw your other channels, thus why we are here....but, happy to be here!!!
There were always rumors about my paternal heritage. My father adopted me because my mother was married to someone else when she conceived. Turns out the rumors were true. I am 75% British with Wales and my father's lineage was almost entirely German. I have virtually no German ancestry. One mystery solved but another one remains. Who was my father? I suspect one day someone will match with my DNA from his side and I can figure it out from there but he isn't likely to still be alive.
I NEEDED this laugh today. Thank you Simon 🫶
The hospital i was born in had a class action lawsuit for several years in which one i was born recently because something like over 200 births were swapped. So my parents have always wondered since that came out, me too. Im 3 inches taller than my dad. Lol
200 births!!!??? That's CRIMINAL!
What a nightmare.
My mom and I are both into genealogy, so we got Ancestry done. So far, we've learned that my mom has at least two previously unknown cousins from her uncles (no surprise there), and last I heard (though it's been a while) she was having trouble finding relatives on her maternal grandfather's side, which led to theorizing that Grandma wasn't her father's daughter.
My dad's family on the other hand? Not a single surprise so far. Which is on brand for his family. They're not ones for scandals. I think they're still recovering from the great-grandma who got a divorce and then remarried in the first decade of the 1900s. 🤣🤣
That was a great episode. Here is my donation to the gods of the algorithm.
"Business Blaze is a bit weird"... yes, that's why we're here!
The fertility doctor was maximizing profits. He could tell women their getting sperm from a doctor without having to pay one to provide it nor pay for storage of said sperm. He could just check his schedule and use 15 minutes “preparing for the next patient.”
People after hearing your ancestors were Irish: Oh we could tell you were Irish because you have such pretty red hair!
Red haired Irish lass: yeah, it's dyed, dufus.
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Great video, always entertaining, thank you.
Of note is the chimera statistic is only 100 *recorded* incidents. It could be higher. As you can imagine, it's very rarely tested. Why would you in most cases? Plenty of people live their whole lives not knowing that there's some weird DNA shenanigans with themselves.
Yep, turns out my Uncle Mark is actually my father's half-brother. There've been rumors in my family that my grandfather chased away at least one guy interested in my grandmother, but apparently at least one slipped past him. And this would have been back in the 1940s, post WWII, such a wholesome time when people had better moral values...or not!
Lol you think....
Yeah. Anyone saying 50s were the best us SERIOUSLY fucked up. Not in any good way.
There have always been degenerates and there always will be. What defines a society is how they handle said degenerates. Are they treated like what they are, or are they let to run rampant, unchallenged?
Keep up the fine work Blaze boy!
One of my great grandfathers was a truck driver back in the day before DNA tests. My grandma still has siblings coming out of the woodwork. At last check it was over 13 siblings all of them girls.
My day just got better!!!
I'll have to remind myself to look for the red solo cups in the background now. Just wondering if Simon switches them up.
Of course. He's a legend
Hey Simon. Hey Simon. Do this but with the big name serial killers. Take the ones you covered in biographies and do them on casual criminalist
Chimeras are super weird, but also fascinating.
This wasfun and Simon's amazed confusion about Lydia's predicament was priceless! I've heard of this case before, so I was free to just enjoy Simon's confuzzlment fully. And then he mentioned the CSI Episode where there were twins who were also Chimera-DNA carriers. That was a mind-blown episode for me.
Fun Fact. My cousin whomI live with [to share bills and her Hellbeast Thor, the Dog of Thunder] Has the Chimera stripes on her back! Look at someone's back under blacklight and some Chierae [plural of Chimera] have stripes across the back, stretching from the spine and often following the ribcage. Hers are faint but they are certainly there. So, 101 Chimera out there, tho she's never been tested for Chimerism, why bother, it's unlikely to matter much unless a health issue arises. And we'd both suggest checking this out if so.
Love Brain Blaze, Simon letting himself off the chain like this is great fun while learning about new things!
I think the lack of much reason to test for it is probably a big reason why there are so few known, like you could easily live your whole life without knowing. Not to say it isn't rare at all, but it's probably a lot less rare than it seems from that statistic
I am literally an adoption search angel who uses dna to help people find their families most adopted peoples. (free of charge hence the angel part.) So mixing this with a good Blaze is Amazing. I have some great stories. Favorite name I have ever found in a family tree. Preserved Fish. born 1699 to Daniel and Jemima Fish. He grew up to be a lovely young man and married Grizzel Strange.. who then became Grizzel Strange Fish, they had many Preserved down the generation and one of their great grandsons Preserved married a nice girl from a Rhode Island Whaling company named Mary Sole.
This needs a part two.
I know a chimera! She found out due to a medical complication, but the crazy part is that years before hand her mom would swear she was supposed to be a twin, despite never being told by a doc she was having twins.
There is a disturbing lack of incest in this episode.
Simon said "beat off all the other men" and I got an add for the Hilton as soon as he finished his sentence
ahh fuck i thought the sperm donor one was gonna be about the one from the netherlands .. theres a podcast called The Immaculate Deception on it its wild
i gotta say as well ive always been kinda weirded out by how the location aspect of these tests can go if the data is a bit skewed but i guess its because its cheaper to work a database by geographic area than study haplogroups - ALTHOUGH itd be wild to find out youre related to ancient bodies like Ötzi or Cheddar Man or Lindow Man (which does happen!)
All of us are related...if your human👽🤔
@@themeanestkitten .... the truth is out there 👽👀
They use comparative algorithms that check the unknown sample against known samples. It's geographic because most people were unlikely to move (or even travel) more than 10-20 miles from their birthplace until the 1900s.
Have not even listened yet but 23&me recently gave me the name of my birth father! I’m 62 so my half sister was mighty surprised!
My god I am amazed..........
Simon remembered to put the sponsor in the description!
Wait, I thought the name MacDonald and red hair were both things that are stereotypically associated with the Irish but are actually more Scottish, right? Or is it I who really has the misconception?
You are correct
@@Infinety68 Thanks! I'm relieved lol. I completely forgot to google it after commenting this and now my brain is full already from summer semester starting today, so I'll cheerfully take your word for it XD
I think there are a lot more chimeras out there, we just only know about the cases like Lydia's
I tried one of those DNA companies. Instead of me, I sent in a sample from my dog. Hilarious results.
I need to know more.
You can't leave that story unfinished!
Oh please do share 😋
How did you get that sample...?
Wow the chimera story was crazy!
I just watched an old video before simon had the beard. Keep the beard forever my friend
I dunno. Unless you're a naturally anxious person, more knowledge about your ancestry is not gonna hurt.
Baby LoJack. Electronic tag on the baby that not only is an RFID, but automatically locks down the unit, and sounds an alarm in the nurses station if the tag passes a point in any hallway.
Those DNA tests are not even close to "fool proof"
There is a case where Identical twins each sent in a kit and got completely different results...
So flawed was the tests that they were not recognized as siblings...
Well there's about a less then 10% chance of it being misleading or wrong so maybe they just had bad luck on that test
My cousins sister uncles brother totally had this happen to them too!
@@Loralanthalas Why don't you try and look it up.
It is an actual case.
John Oliver even did a segment about it.
Instead of being an ignorant fool that wants to troll so badly they fail at trolling do something intelligent and research something before making idiotic comments about it.
@@Loralanthalas Wow, you cannot even trust Fox News.
"Identical twins, identical DNA, different ancestry results? We put three kits to the test"
That is the title of the article from FOX10
I thought all you Reich-wingers loved Fox and did everything they told you to.
Did you Enron logo a Business Blaze shirt? Yes you did
Thanks Sam, now I have the image ov Simons daughter with a bald head, a beard, and wearing a suit & glasses.
Bring this back!!
25:46.
I laughed extremely too hard at the two distinct Genes there!
Simon: "Beat off all the other men "
My gay arse: "I'm listening...."
That last one plays like an over-the-top high-drauma romance. Imagine this impoverished single mother on her last legs, suddenly being told her children aren't her own and soldiering on with her tireless underdog-championing lawyer, and her ex slowly falling back in love with her amidst injustice so absurd he feels duty-bound to do what he can. If you made it up it'd be too darn contrived to print.
1:01 - "It would be more fun to blaze it!" - you heard it here first! Depending on the age, we're all picturing Bob Marley or Snoop Dogg!
Nah, Willie Nelson
@@WanderingWriter generational gap, I'm only 37 y/o, I know who he is, but can't name any of his songs and had no idea he was into weed! I mean basil. nobody is smoking weed and watching Business Blaze! mmmmmmhm! nobody!
@@SergiuD. I'm 28 and I don't know his music either, I just know he has out smoked Snoop. Willie is weed boss in expert mode
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