Episode of My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.
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Kind: captions Language: en have you heard of this thing called ged match no what was that oh have you heard of the golden state killer no okay so in the 1970s there was that’s what they call you yeah that was my nickname in high school golden state killer uh in the in the 1960s 70s and i think 80s there was this guy who basically like raped like 50 women and then he murdered eventually like 20 of like he was a serial killer and uh he got away with it for years no one knew who it was and patton oswalt’s wife pat oswald the comedian his wife who recently died right before she died published her like master work or life’s work and it was about the golden state killer and how he’s never got been caught and it renewed interest and then the fbi got all into it because all the press and they eventually use this website called ge it’s public it’s like anyone can use it it’s like an open source website and it analyzes all of the uh information from 23andme ancestry and like all that stuff all the database stuff and they found they put his dna the golden state killer’s dna which they had into this ged match thing and they realized that the daughter of the killer or like they’re like well this is so aligned it must be like the daughter or the granddaughter of the killer recently signed up for 23 and me and so they stake out this guy’s house they dig through his garbage they find they go boom got him and that’s how they arrest him and they arrested him when he was like and if you google golden state killer you’ll see like these pictures of this old man and they got him because he got away with it for so long but eventually they brought him to justice and now they’ve caught many dozens maybe even hundreds of killers or rapists this way which is good but it’s kind of scary and so you could so i was gonna say so you’re you’re worried about this why why is this working because it’s being used for grandpa and trouble it’s being used for good now like you could see like do i want to be in the state do i want to be in this database and so this is one thing i’m a bit worried about so you can go to ged match and you can upload your results and it can tell you all types of stuff about your results you can see a lot of interesting stuff and you could like if you can somehow get the dna from an fbi case which i believe in some cases you can you can like upload it and there’s thousands of like these internet detectives using this database to solve crimes it’s kind of fascinating it’s kind of interesting and it’s definitely a little scary wow is there like a subreddit for these uh you know like sort of like public crime solvers yes there is and it’s very very interesting and most of the time they’re wrong so like if you remember when the boston like the boston uh marathon bombing they like named like these like three guys and they they kind of [ ] with these guys lives they they didn’t end up doing it but everyone was certain on that subreddit and they’re uploading pictures and they go this guy works at this place it wasn’t them they were wrong no one guessed it that it was the two actual guys but this is a little bit different because it’s dna but dna isn’t perfect so it’s like there’s a it’ll say like there’s a um this person is five percent related to this person so it’s like all right let’s see what that is that could be like a distant cousin until you like track your way down to that and you build these family trees to figure out oh you know it’s kind of weird that like this matches this person and they’re they also lived in the same area and so it’s not perfect but it’s like pretty good so anyway i thought that’s why i may not get 23 in me [Laughter] yeah i also know people who have gotten it and realized like their dad is not their real dad um and i think that that happened to a family member i think that’s a you know uh you know side effect to be aware of sometimes ignorance is a family member of mine a family member of mine found out that their parent had a base their parent cheated on the spouse and had a a a kid and so they logged on and they go oh man i’ve got a second brother around you know like a stepbrother or a half brother and uh it changes [ ] i was gonna say without getting too personal that that uh that has like that they went public with it or they just kind of kept that information to themselves no no no they did not go public with it but it like was very it was i don’t know they haven’t talked about it with me too much but it was it seems like it was like somewhat earth shattering yeah there’s a there’s a thing that i’ve heard that goes on which is um people who uh people who use sperm banks so like a sperm donor will take the t sorry people who didn’t realize that their parent had used a sperm donor or whatever they will get the sequencing done or whatever and they’ll find out like oh my god i have 42 like half brothers or sisters out there it’s like oh yeah this was a person who um you know this is a person who donated a bunch and then so yeah you actually do genetically share with all these different people um like wow that’s really crazy so there’s all kinds of like interesting stuff and i think 23andme their business model is to sell your data right like i think that is the core business model as they sell pharmaceutical companies for um you know like the research or whatever like i don’t know if it’s [ __ ] up or if it’s like this is for the good of science but i don’t think you really know or opt it’s not clear that hey like it’s not clear yeah it’s probably it’s definitely the terms you know but nobody’s reading the terms and so that’s the problem it’s like it’s like a benevolent dictator it’s like it’s cool when they’re making the trains run on time it’s not cool when they start killing people you know what i mean yeah it’s like it’s good when it’s good and then but it could go bad really easy