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I felt really creepy looking at your data.
-Did you really? -It's so personal.
Like I was rifling through your drawers.
I should be able to drink like a champion.
Uh-huh.
Let's put it to test. You're drinking for two.
What do you miss most about Canada?
I miss Taco Bell,
Caesar's-- It's this drink--
Dill pickle chips,
Canadian food,
Canadian showers, Canadian plumbing,
and that's all I miss.
Is your family in the U.K. as well?
Uh, nope. My family is in Canada.
I miss them.
I know that my family history is--
the origin is predominantly Irish,
and then my mom is a little bit of a mutt.
I look like my mom, but I also look so Irish,
and I have my dad's, like, giant head.
We all know we came from one woman--
"Eve," they call her, the Mitochondrial Eve.
How could they go back 125,000 years?
They always do that.
Going back, we all came from like one woman...
Oh, of course. I mean--
...who lived in Africa.
Well, unless the Scientologists were right,
and we are children of aliens.
I think it's quite interesting.
The mitochondrial DNA is quite stable.
It's like a molecular clock.
It ticks along at a regular rate, and you can sort of follow it back,
and it's a nice little measure of where you came from.
And actually, you are Haplogroup H16.
-How will I deal with that? -Haplogroup H16.
You are of European/Scandinavian stock.
I'd like some more Scandinavian.
They're hot.
Like tanned and blond and...
...liberal.
So, all this happened quite a long time ago.
It was about 35,000 years ago that your haplogroup
started migrating away from the other....
Haplogroups-- and the haplogroup is the...?
It's basically Europe, Scandinavia, or the western coast of the continent.
You are maternal H16.
So, I'm H16. Does that mean our kids are gonna be like playing banjos?
H16 is a massive group.
It's, I mean, it's all of Europe, basically.
Oh, okay.
And you know how much variation there is in Europe.
I mean, it's massive.
So you don't have to worry about being too inbred or being--
I think you are a mutt.
I do think that a lot of who I am, personality and everything,
is programmed by my genes.
I think I'd sit there and be like, "Oh, I don't know whether to do it.
Oh, I don't know if it's right, if it's wrong,
if...what it's gonna mean for me."
I don't think she's too bogged down by consequences.
I think she's like, "No! Right! Why not? Let's do it!"
I think where you get nervous is when you look at things like,
wow, it's the next issue that I'd like to bring up with you.
It is things like personality, intelligence, and disease.
These are the things that scare people.
I mean, do you want to know that you're a ticking time bomb?
Do you want to know that on paper you're not meant to be that smart?
I love the idea of being a dad.
I love imparting wisdom,
and I love the fact that, you know,
they're such vessels that you can put so much into them
and give them such potential and possibility
that then they reward you
and like just outshine all of your expectations.
So many things are influenced not just by genes,
but by your environment, by the way you were brought up.
Genetics is not black and white.
These test results are not black and white,
and people are still fighting over whether they are really valid.
What's the smartest gene that you could have?
It's gonna be different genes,
and it's gonna be combinations of genes,
and there's dozens of genes, probably, that are involved.
Do you want to know if you are smart or not?
I would love to know. Yeah.
-Were you breast-fed? -I wasn't breast-fed.
-You weren't breast-fed? -No. I'm so angry.
And you're gonna be even angrier in a second when you hear--
But carry on. Tell me the story.
Ah! I already know
that you can be smarter if you were breast-fed.
Maybe, possibly.
My mom and her theories.
Um, back in the day,
she was told by her mother that it was barbaric to breast-feed,
and she did it for a little while.
Um, I'll be a really good mom,
um, because I'm really good with my niece.
We were playing together the other day,
and I painted her nails, and I told her they were pretty.
She put on a little dress, and I told her it was pretty.
And then her lesbosexual mom comes into the room....
Ruins it all.
She's like, "Uh, Katherine, we don't like to tell her she's pretty.
We like to tell her she's smart."
I'm like, "She's 3!"
She spent the afternoon following the dog around,
then asked me why he has eyes.
She's pretty!
But you got a little bit of breast milk, it sounds like.
I got a little bit.
Hmm, maybe it was just enough
to rescue you from the drastic four to five I.Q. points
you may have lost out as a result.
-No way! -So according to this study,
if you are a particular gene type, which you are--
you're AA, they call it--
if you're breast-fed, you could be a little bit smarter.
I thought that was every baby, though.
-I didn't know... -Nope.
...that only special babies....
Only special babies. Babies with your genotype, AA.
And I've got that one.
And you blew it-- I mean.... No, no, like I said....
On paper now, more reasons to resent your mother.
What's the most amazing thing you've ever eaten?
Yeah, well, if I thought fake boobs were going to sit,
I'd talk about fake boobs all the time!