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"The Department of Education: I will either consolidate with another agency, or perhaps make it a heck of a lot smaller. I'm not going to get rid of it entirely," he said in Palm Beach, also commenting that he might nix the Departing of Housing and Urban Development. Not astonishing. In his 1994 Senate race, Romney proposed abolishing the Department of Education, a position which he later softened to merely shrinking the agency's role. "We need to get the federal government out of education," he said at a primary debate in Orlando earlier this year. He's also often said the feds shouldn't meddle in housing.
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All we need from you is a calendar age. It's okay if this is an estimation: it is just a starting point. We then factor in your dog's breed composition, information at certain genes that affect size, and their inbreeding coefficient to calculate genetic age. Like in humans, in dogs females tend to live longer than males (so an "80 year old" female dog = 80 year old woman). Exercise and diet also play a role in how long your dog will live. Nevertheless, genetic age is the primary risk factor for numerous diseases in dogs, including cancer, kidney disease, osteoarthritis, cataracts, cardiac disease and cognitive decline. It can help you and your vet know what you should feed your dog, what screenings to get, and other aspects of your dog's care.
Most dogs have wolfiness scores of 1% or less. We find populations and breeds with higher scores of 2-4% occasionally, and unique dogs with scores of 5% or above more rarely.
Your dog's Wolfiness Score is not a measure of recent dog-wolf hybridization and does not necessarily indicate that your dog has some recent wolf ancestors. (If your dog has recent wolf ancestors, you will see that in the breed mix report.) Instead, the Wolfiness Score is based on the number of ancient genetic variants your dog has in our unique Wolfiness marker panel. Wolfiness scores up to 10% are almost always due to ancient wolf genes that survived many generations, rather than any recent wolf ancestors. These ancient genes may be a few thousand years old, or may even date back to the original domestication event 15,000 years ago. They are bits of a wild past that survive in your dog!
Your dog's Wolfiness Score is based on hundreds of markers across the genome where dogs (or almost all of them) are the same, but wolves tend to be different. These markers are thought to be related to "domestication gene sweeps" where early dogs were selected for some trait. Scientists have known about "domestication gene sweeps" for years, but do not yet know why each sweep occurred. By finding rare dogs carrying an ancient variant at a certain marker, we can make associations with behavior, size, metabolism, and development that likely caused these unique signatures of "doggyness" in the genome.
For people with puppies, you probably want to know how big of a crate to buy or just how big to expect your dog to become. But genetic weight is also useful for people with fully grown dogs. Just like with people, overweight and obese dogs suffer reduced length and quality of life. They can develop chronic health conditions and suffer from limited mobility and other issues. While over half of American dogs are overweight or obese, fewer than 15% of their owners realize it. By comparing your dog's weight to their genetic predicted weight you have one more piece of information about their ideal weight. With this and other pieces of information like weight history and body condition, you and your veterinarian may want to discuss your dog's diet, exercise, and weight control plan to give your pup the longest, healthiest life possible.
Our test is the only dog DNA test that provides true genetic size not based just on breed ancestry but based on over a dozen genes known to influence a dog's weight. It uses the most advanced science to determine your dog's expected weight based on their sex, the combination of these genes, and breed-specific modifiers.
Unlike in people, healthy weight in dogs is controlled largely by only a few genes. Our algorithm explains over 85% of the variance in healthy adult weight. However, due to a few as-yet-undiscovered genes and genetic interactions that affect size, this algorithm sometimes misses. Occasionally it misses by a fairly large amount especially when a dog has a breed with an unknown size-influencing gene. If we have missed your dog's weight, your dog may be a scientific discovery waiting to happen! Please be sure to go to the Research tab and complete the Nutrition & Exercise assessment, where you can answer the question "Has your dog been weighed in the past 3 months, and if so how much does he or she weigh" by telling us your dog's actual weight. This information will inform our ongoing research into weight, nutrition and exercise in dogs.
Haplotypes are particular DNA sequences that are inherited entirely from a dog's mom (maternal) or dad (paternal).
Because they are inherited whole, your dog and his or her mom share the exact same maternal haplotype. If you have a male dog, your dog and his dad share the exact same paternal haplotype (female dogs don't inherit paternal haplotypes).
Because most breeds were started with only a few individual dogs, many breeds are dominated by only one or a few haplotypes.
Haplogroups are groups of similar DNA sequences (called haplotypes) that are inherited entirely from the mother (maternal) or father (paternal) and don't get shuffled up like other parts of your dog's genome.
These groups all originally descend from one male or female wolf, usually one that lived tens of thousands of years ago. Because they are inherited whole and not shuffled like other DNA, they can be used to trace the ancestral routes that dogs took around the globe en route to your home.
Only male dogs have paternal haplogroups because they are determined by the Y chromosome, which only male dogs have. Both males and females have maternal haplogroups, which come from a part of DNA called the mitochondrial DNA.
All dogs are related and share some DNA. Siblings share lots of their DNA (half of it in fact), cousins share a bit less (an eighth), and so on. Because dog breeds are made up of a closed group of dogs, all dogs in that breed share a lot of their DNA, typically about as much as second cousins, though it varies by breed. Different breeds that are closely related share somewhat less DNA, and dogs from very different breeds share even less DNA (but still much more DNA than either dog shares with a cat).
DNA is inherited in pieces, called chromosomes, that are passed along from parent to offspring. Each generation, these chromosomes are broken up and shuffled a bit in a process known as recombination. So, the length of the segments your dog shares with her ancestors decreases with each generation above her: she shares longer segments with her mom than her grandma, longer segments with her grandma than her great-grandma, and so on.
We can use the length of segments Nala Blue shares with our reference dogs to see how many generations it has been since they last shared an ancestor. Long segments of DNA that are identical to known purebred dogs tell Embark's scientists that Nala Blue has, without a doubt, a relative from that breed. By testing over 200,000 genetic markers, we build up her genes one DNA segment at a time, to learn the ancestry with great certainty. Other dog DNA tests look at many fewer genetic markers and have to take a guess at breed ancestry based on that.
Look closely and you'll probably find Nala Blue has some physical and/or behavioral resemblance with her ancestor's breeds. The exact similarity depends on which parts of DNA Nala Blue shares with each breed. Some traits associated with each breed are listed in the Breed & Ancestry section of our website. Embark will tell you even more about Nala Blue's traits soon!
P.S. In a small proportion of cases, we find dogs that don't share segments with other dogs we have tested, indicating the presence of a rare breed that is not part of our reference panel or possibly a true "village dog" without any purebred relatives at all. In these rare cases we contact the owner to find out more and let them know about their unique dog before they get their results. With this in-depth detective work, we are pushing science forward by identifying genetically unique groups of dogs.
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Yes! Some dogs descend from other dogs that were themselves mixed breed. These other dogs can give small contributions to the ancestry of your dog, so small that they are no longer recognizable as any one particular breed. We call this portion unresolved or "Supermutt" since it confers super powers! Just kidding. But we do think supermutts really are super!
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Good news! Nala Blue did not test positive for any of the genetic diseases that Embark screens for.
It is still important to let your veterinarian know these results because they could help guide Nala Blue's diagnosis and treatment if she gets sick in the future.
DNA sequences that are close together on a chromosome tend to be inherited together. Because of this, we can use genetic variation surrounding a mutation (i.e. "linked" to it) to infer the presence or absence of a mutation of interest.
Linkage tests do not directly assay a mutation of interest; therefore, they may not be perfectly predictive of your dog's true genotype.
A number of genes are known to affect coat color in dogs, and they all interact. In some cases, other genetic effects may also influence color and pattern.
Controls the characteristic melanistic mask seen in the German Shepherd and Pug as well as the grizzled "widow's peak" of the Afghan and Borzoi. Melanistic mask (Em) is dominant to grizzle (Eg) which is dominant to black (E) and red (e). Dogs that are EE or Ee are able to produce normal black pigment, but its distribution will be dependent on the genotypes at the K and A Loci. Dogs that are ee will be a shade of red or cream regardless of their genotype at K and A. The shade of red, which can range from a deep copper like the Irish Setter to the near-white of some Golden Retrievers, is dependent on other genetic factors including the Intensity (I) Locus, which has yet to be genetically mapped.
Want to help us map I Locus? If you haven't already, complete your ee pup's Embark profile with a photo! Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words!
Citations: Schmutz et al 2003 , Dreger and Schmutz 2010 , Ollivier et al 2017
More information: http://www.doggenetics.co.uk/masks.html
Causes a dominant black coat. Dogs with a dominant KB allele have black coats regardless of their genotype at the A locus; the coat color of dogs homozygous for the recessive ky allele are controlled by A locus. Alleles: KB > ky
Citations: Candille et al 2007
More information: http://www.doggenetics.co.uk/black.htm
Determines whether hair pigment is produced in a banded red and black pattern or solid black. Fawn or sable (ay) is dominant to wolf sable (aw) which is dominant to black-and-tan (at), which is in turn dominant to recessive black (a).
Citations: Berryere et al 2005 , Dreger and Schmutz 2011
More information: http://www.doggenetics.co.uk/tan.html
Lightens a black coat to blue and a red coat to buff. A dilute phenotype requires two copies of the recessive d allele.
Citations: Drogemuller et al 2007 , Bauer et al 2018
More information: http://www.doggenetics.co.uk/dilutes.html
Lightens a black coat to brown, chocolate or liver. The brown phenotype requires two copies of the recessive b allele. Red or cream dogs that carry two b alleles remain red or cream but have brown noses, eye rims, and footpads (sometimes referred to as "Dudley" in Labrador Retrievers).
Citations: Schmutz et al 2002
More information: http://www.doggenetics.co.uk/liver.html
Furnishings, shedding and curls are all genetic! And they all interact, too. In fact, the combination of these genes explains the coat phenotypes of 90% of AKC registered dog breeds.
Confers the distinguished moustache, beard, and eyebrows characteristic of breeds like the Schnauzer, Scottish Terrier, and Wire Haired Dachshund; only one copy of the dominant F allele is required for furnishings. The FI genotype is furnished but carries one allele for no furnishings, or improper coat. A dog with two I alleles has improper coat. The mutation is a 167-bp insertion which we measure indirectly using linked markers highly correlated with the insertion.
Citations: Cadieu et al 2010
The FGF5 gene is known to affect hair length in many different species, including cats, dogs, mice, and humans! The "T" allele confers a long, silky haircoat as observed in the Yorkshire Terrier and the Long Haired Whippet. The ancestral "G" allele causes a shorter coat as seen in the Boxer or the American Staffordshire Terrier.
Citations: Housley & Venta 2006 , Cadieu et al 2010
This mutation affects shedding propensity. Dogs with the ancestral C allele, like many Labradors and German Shepherd Dogs, are heavy or seasonal shedders, while those with one or more T allele, including many Boxers, Shih Tzus and Chihuahuas, tend to be low shedders. Note that dogs with furnished/wire-haired coats tend to be low shedders regardless of their genotype at this gene!
Citations: Hayward et al 2016
Causes the curly coat characteristic of Poodles and Bichon Frises. Dogs need at least one copy of the "T" allele to have a wavy or curly coat; the ancestral "C" allele is associated with a straight coat.
Citations: Cadieu et al 2010
This mutation in the FOXI3 gene causes hairlessness over most of the body as well as changes in tooth shape and number. This mutation occurs in Peruvian Inca Orchid, Xoloitzcuintli (Mexican Hairless), and Chinese Crested (other hairless breeds have different mutations). Dogs with the "N/Dup" genotype are likely to be hairless while dogs with the "N/N" genotype are likely to have a normal coat.
Please note that this is a linkage test, so it may not be as predictive as direct tests of the mutation in some lines.
Citations: Drogemuller et al 2008
Dogs with two copies (D/D) of this 4 kilobase deletion in the SLC45A2 gene have oculocutaneous albinism type 2 (OCA2), a recessive condition characterized by severely reduced or absent pigment in the eyes, skin, and hair. Affected dogs sometimes suffer from vision problems due to lack of eye pigment (which helps direct and absorb ambient light) and are prone to sunburn. Dogs with a single copy of the deletion (N/D) will not be affected but can pass the mutation on to their offspring. This particular mutation can be traced back to a single white Doberman Pinscher born in 1976, and it has only been observed in dogs descended from this individual. Please note that this is a linkage test, so it may not be as predictive as direct tests of the mutation in some lines.
Citations: Winkler et al 2014
More information on coat type genetics: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2897713/figure/F3/
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Affects skull size and shape. Many brachycephalic or "smushed face" breeds such as the English Bulldog, Pug, and Pekingese have two copies of the derived A allele. Mesocephalic (Staffordshire Terrier, Labrador) and dolichocephalic (Whippet, Collie) dogs have one, or more commonly two, copies of the ancestral C allele. At least five different genes affect snout length in dogs, with BMP3 being the only one with a known causal mutation. For example, the skull shape of some breeds, including the dolichocephalic Scottish Terrier or the brachycephalic Japanese Chin, appear to be caused by other genes.
Citations: Schoenbeck et al 2012
Whereas most dogs have two C alleles and a long tail, dogs with one G allele are likely to have a bobtail, which is an unusually short or absent tail. This mutation causes natural bobtail in many breeds including the Pembroke Welsh Corgi, the Australian Shepherd, and the Brittany Spaniel. Dogs with GG genotypes have not been observed, suggesting that the GG genotype results in embryonic lethality.
Please note that this mutation does not explain every natural bobtail! While certain lineages of Boston Terrier, English Bulldog, Rottweiler, Miniature Schnauzer, Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and Parson Russell Terrier, and Dobermans are born with a natural bobtail, these breeds do not have this mutation. This suggests that other unknown genetic mutations can also lead to a natural bobtail. If your dog does not have a CG genotype but was born with a bobtail, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com!
Citations: Haworth et al 2001 , Hytonen et al 2009
Common in certain breeds, hind dewclaws are extra, nonfunctional digits located midway between your dog's paw and hock. Dogs with at least one copy of the T allele have about a 50% of chance of having hind dewclaws.
Citations: Park et al 2008
This mutation has been associated by Embark researchers with blue eyes in Arctic breeds like Siberian Husky as well as tri-colored (non-merle) Australian Shepherds. Dogs with at least one copy of a duplication (Dup) are more likely to have at least one blue eye. Some dogs with the duplication may have only one blue eye (complete heterochromia) or may not have blue eyes at all; nevertheless, they can still pass the duplication and the trait to their offspring. N/N dogs do not carry this duplication, but may have blue eyes due to other factors.
Please note that this is a linkage test, so it may not be as predictive as direct tests of the mutation in some lines.
Want to help us better understand eye color genetics? If you haven't already, complete your pup's Embark profile with a photo clearly showing their eyes and be sure to fill out the "Doggie Parts" survey in the research section of their results!
Citations: Deane-Coe et al 2018
Body size is a complex trait that is affected by both genetic and environmental variation. Our genetic analysis includes genes that, together, explain over 80% of the variation in dog body size. It does not account for runting or stunting; nor does it account for the interactions between various genes both known and unknown.
The "I" allele drives smaller body size.
Citations: Sutter et al 2007
The "A" allele drives smaller body size.
Citations: Hoopes et al 2012
The "A" allele drives smaller body size.
Citations: Rimbault et al 2013
The "A" allele drives smaller body size.
Citations: Rimbault et al 2013
The "T" allele drives smaller body size.
Citations: Rimbault et al 2013
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This mutation causes dogs to be especially tolerant of low oxygen environments (hypoxia). Dogs with at least one A allele are less susceptible to "altitude sickness." This mutation was originally identified in breeds from high altitude areas such as the Tibetan Mastiff.
Citations: Gou et al 2014
Through Nala Blue's mitochondrial DNA we can trace her mother's ancestry back to where dogs and people first became friends. This map helps you visualize the routes that her ancestors took to your home. Their story is described below the map.
Congratulations, C1 is a very exotic female lineage! It is more closely associated with maternal lineages found in wolves, foxes and jackals than with other dog lineages. So it seems dogs in this group have a common male dog ancestor who, many thousands of years ago, mated with a female wolf! This is not a common lineage in any breed, though a good number of German Shepherds and Doberman Pinchers are C1. It is also found in breeds as diverse as Peruvian Inca Orchids and Pekingese; it is rarely found amongst Labrador Retrievers, Border Collies, Siberian Huskies, or Cocker Spaniels. Despite its fascinating origins, it is widely distributed around the globe, and even shows up frequently among Peruvian village dogs. It almost certainly survived at low frequency in Europe for millennia and then was dispersed outside of Europe by colonialism, though not as successfully as some other lineages.
Part of the C1 haplogroup, this haplotype occurs most commonly in German Shepherd Dogs, Labrador Retrievers, Siberian Huskies, and village dogs from Peru and Croatia.
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This 'Paternal Haplotype' tab is for deep ancestral lineage going back thousands of years.
For recent ancestry—"What breeds did my dog inherit from her mom and dad?"—please refer to the Breed, Family Tree, or Summary tab.
The Paternal Haplotype refers to a dog's deep ancestral lineage stretching back thousands of years, before there were any distinct breeds of dog. We determine the Paternal Haplotype by looking at a dog's Y-chromosome—but not all dogs have Y-chromosomes!
Why can't we show Paternal Haplotype results for female dogs?
All dogs have two sex chromosomes. Female dogs have two X-chromosomes (XX) and male dogs have one X-chromosome and one Y-chromosome (XY). When having offspring, female (XX) dogs always pass an X-chromosome to their puppy. Male (XY) dogs can pass either an X or a Y-chromosome—if the puppy receives an X-chromosome from its father then it will be a female (XX) puppy and if it receives a Y-chromosome then it will be a male (XY) puppy. As you can see, Y-chromosomes are passed down from a male dog only to its male offspring.
Since Nala Blue is a female (XX) dog, she has no Y-chromosome for us to analyze and determine a paternal haplotype.


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Now Lucas has taken his pro-Israeli advocacy to a new level. He has stepped out of his presumed X-rated comfort zone into documentary filmmaking. In its 46-minute running time, "Understanding Israel: Gay Men in the Promised Land" includes interviews with a gay member member of the Knesset, Israel's parliament; an openly gay member of the Israeli Defense Forces, Israel's formidable army; an Arab-Israeli journalist; and a gay pair of dads.
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In This Is the End, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride and Jay Baruchel — all playing themselves — are at a party at Franco's L.A. home when an earthquake hits.
At least, they think it's an earthquake. Turns out it's the Rapture — the End of Days, as foretold in the Book of Revelation, has arrived.
The script for This is the End is chock-a-block with references to various end-of-the-world epics and disaster films, iconic and less than, and the provisions the guys have at hand for survival include 12 bottles of water, 56 beers, two vodkas, four whiskeys and six bottles of wine, plus some tequila, Nutella, cheese, steaks, and a Milky Way.
Rogen and his longtime collaborator Evan Goldberg wrote the script together. The two met as adolescents on the Vancouver bar mitzvah circuit and began writing Superbad when they were just 13. (It was released in 2006.)
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Seth Rogen on the earthquake that happened while he was doing a Fresh Air interview in 2008
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Rogen on the shadow of The Exorcist in the scene in This Is The End where Jonah Hill is playing a demon
"What happened is, we wrote what we thought was crazy stuff for Jonah to be saying, and then we watched the original Exorcist, and what she says in that movie is like the craziest stuff you could ever possibly say, and it's coming out of a 10-year-old girl. So it was so much edgier than what we had written. ...
"I remember [Jonah] said, 'We have to go the other way. What they say in the actual Exorcist is so dirty and disgusting that the joke won't even be funny. ... The more normal I'm talking, the funnier it will be."
Evan Goldberg on writing Superbad together when they were 13 years old
"Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town. I remember they filmed a Lou Diamond Phillips TV movie at our high school, and we watched them doing it. And they filmed a movie called Mastermind with Patrick Stewart at our high school, and we'd see it happening. And we would see television shows — The X-Files — shooting, so to us, it wasn't this impossible goal. We thought, 'Worse-case scenario, Seth will make money with his standup, I'll make money teaching aquatic fitness' (which is what I did), 'and we'll buy a video camera and we'll film it ourselves.' That was our goal initially."
Rogen on whether fans ask him to do the 'Seth Rogen laugh' in real life
"Oh my God, are you kidding me? I honestly do it naturally because I think it's funny that people are actually asking me to do that. It does satisfy the fans. I just think it's so funny for someone to walk up to me and say, 'Laugh for me! Do the laugh!'
"Oftentimes what happens actually is people say to me, 'I didn't know if it was you or not, and then I heard you laugh, and then obviously I could tell it was you.' Or they say, 'You actually laugh like that,!' or, 'You laugh like that in real life!' Like it's some brilliant character that I've created, this ridiculous donkey laugh."
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. This holiday week is listeners' choice week on FRESH AIR, featuring favorite interviews from 2013 we're sure you would have chosen had we asked. I certainly enjoyed this interview with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. They're writing and directing partners and have been friends since adolescence. They co-wrote the screenplay for the 2007 hit "Superbad," which they started writing when they were 13.
They also co-wrote "Pineapple Express" and "The Green Hornet," which each starred Rogen. Rogen also starred in "Knocked Up" and "50/50" and was in the cast of the TV comedy "Freaks and Geeks." I spoke with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg in June, after the release of their end-of-the-world comedy "This Is the End," which they co-wrote and co-directed.
Rogen starred with several of his friends, including James Franco, Jonah Hill and Craig Robinson, all playing themselves. At the beginning of the film, Rogen and his friends have been at a party at James Franco's house when the ground shakes, and the earth opens up. They assume it's a terrible earthquake, but it turns out to be the Rapture, the end of days, the apocalypse.
Several of their friends fall into the pits of hell. The few friends who survive take shelter in James Franco's home. "This Is the End" is filled with references to end-of-the-world films, disaster films and zombie movies. One standard scene in end-of-the-world films is the survivors taking stock of their remaining provisions, arguing over how to divide them fairly.
In "This Is the End," the provisions they have left are 12 bottles of water, 56 beers, two vodkas, four whiskeys, six bottles of wine, tequila, Nutella, cheese, steaks, and a Milky Way, which is where this clip picks up.
SETH ROGEN: (as himself) How are we going to deal with this?
JONAH HILL: (as himself) Um, can I have that Milky Way?
JAMES FRANCO: (as himself) No, you can't have the Milky Way. That's my Milky Way. I went out this morning, specifically bought this Milky Way to eat after my party.
HILL: That's weird.
FRANCO: It's not weird. It's my special food. I like it. Back me up on that, Seth.
ROGEN: I don't think you should get the whole Milky Way. I want some of the Milky Way.
CRAIG ROBINSON: (as himself) I'll be pretty bummed if I don't at least a bite of the Milky Way.
FRANCO: Oh, now Craig wants a bite of the Milky Way.
ROBINSON: Yeah, I want a bite of the Milky Way.
ROGEN: Everyone gets a fifth of everything.
FRANCO: I want one-fifth of your T-shirt. I want the bottom part, the belly.
ROGEN: I'm not sporting a crop-top in your house.
FRANCO: I'll cut that off and make a headband.
ROGEN: You couldn't handle my midriff.
HILL: Guys, the only issue is I kind of need the Milky Way. No, for real, I have low blood sugar, and if my endorphins drop too low, I'm going to be a nightmare to be around.
ROBINSON: What?
FRANCO: Your LBS starts acting up, you can have a finger scoop of Nutella, OK?
ROGEN: One finger scoop of Nutella.
HILL: Fair.
GROSS: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, welcome to FRESH AIR. So you've decided in your new movie that the world would end with the Rapture, as loosely based on the Book of Revelation from the New Testament. So in your version, like the good people are raptured to heaven, and the bad people kind of drop into deep pits into hell or are forced to face catastrophes on Earth similar to - similar to what happens in zombie movies.
ROGEN: Yeah, yeah, we're kind of holed up in a house, yeah.
GROSS: Right, that you board up like in the zombie films, and...
ROGEN: Exactly, yeah.
GROSS: So why did you decide to choose that as your end of the world, to choose the Rapture and the Book of Revelation as the jumping-off point?
EVAN GOLDBERG: Well, as two young Jewish gentlemen...
GROSS: Exactly.
GOLDBERG: We always thought it was really funny that...
ROGEN: Evan, I try to hide that I'm Jewish. Please, don't bring that up on NPR.
GOLDBERG: We always found it funny that people genuinely think we're going to hell.
ROGEN: Yeah, we had a friend in high school, actually, who was, like, really into the Christian stuff, and like he was a good friend of ours, and he went to, like, Christian, like, day camp and stuff and got, like, kind of more into these, like, Christian kind of youth groups.
GOLDBERG: Yeah, and he never treated us poorly; he was never unkind to us.
ROGEN: No, he was super-cool to us, but one day it came up conversationally, kind of we were talking about heaven and hell and all that stuff, and then we were like: Do you think we're going to hell? He was like: Yeah, I do, unfortunately.
GOLDBERG: Yeah, he was like: I'm super bummed about it, but you're going to hell.
ROGEN: Yeah, he's like, it sucks, but you guys are probably going to go to hell. And it was kind of just always like a funny concept to us that, like, I mean, not every Christian believes it, obviously, that literally, I think. But a lot of people, I'd say like a vast majority of people in this country at least, are taught that, like, you know, if you're good, you go to heaven, and if you're bad, you don't, you know?
ROGEN: And as...
GROSS: And if you're Jewish, you need to convert.
ROGEN: And if you're Jewish, you're definitely going to hell.
GOLDBERG: And even then.
ROGEN: Exactly, if you convert, you've still got a rough road ahead. So it was to us - I mean that was actually one of the most entertaining concepts of it, and that is really why we gravitated towards it because it's such like a popular thought, you know, so many people have that notion.
GROSS: So in the movie, at first people think, well, you and Jay Baruchel, who you're with, think it's an earthquake, and the deep pits are being formed by the earthquake, although there's all kinds of other inexplicable phenomenon happening. But the earth is opening up and swallowing people.
And watching that scene, I was reminded that Seth, when you and I recorded our first interview back in 2008, you were at NPR West, in L.A., as you are right now, and I was in Philadelphia, in our studio as I am now. And there was an earthquake in the middle of the interview.
ROGEN: Yeah.
GROSS: And we never broadcast the part where you realized that the earth is shaking, but...
ROGEN: Really?
GROSS: But we still have that as an outtake, and I want you to hear it, and I want our listeners to hear it.
ROGEN: Oh, that, I always wondered what happened.
GOLDBERG: Yeah, I was just going to say, you better play it for us right now.
GROSS: We're going to. So you and I had been talking about how a lot of, like, young comic actors got their start on "Saturday Night Live" and then ended up in movies, but you are not one of them, you never did the "Saturday Night Live" thing. So we'll pick up right there.
ROGEN: It's true, you know, that never - whoa, there's an earthquake happening right now in L.A.
GROSS: Seriously?
ROGEN: Yeah, I think so.
GROSS: Is the studio shaking?
ROGEN: Yeah.
GROSS: Do you need to evacuate?
ROGEN: No, I don't think so.
GROSS: Well, if you do, just say the word.
ROGEN: Either that or I'm completely losing my mind.
GROSS: It's not that the interview is shaking you up.
ROGEN: Yeah, exactly.
GROSS: Yeah, hang on one sec.
ROGEN: I could be completely wrong. Maybe my chair's just messed up.
GROSS: Is it still shaking?
ROGEN: No, not at all.
GROSS: OK, OK, so can I ask you...
ROGEN: Yeah, keep going.
GROSS: So we resumed...
ROGEN: That's crazy.
GROSS: Isn't that crazy? So we resumed the interview, and then...
ROGEN: I remember thinking I assume someone would have come in and got me if there was an earthquake.
GOLDBERG: I like how you did nothing you're supposed to during an earthquake.
ROGEN: I just sat there.
GOLDBERG: I was hoping it was going to be like, oh God, we're all going to die, oh no.
ROGEN: I dealt with it in a pretty mellow way, it seems like.
GROSS: Very mellow, very mellow.
GOLDBERG: That's how you might die one day: Is this an earthquake? No, crush.
ROGEN: I think there's an earthquake happening: boom, the ceiling collapses on me.
GROSS: Wait, but we're not done yet, we're not done yet. So you and I, we continued doing the interview, and then at the end of the interview one of our producers walks into the studio and talks to me, and I'm going to pick up with my reaction.
GROSS: Oh my God, wow. Seth?
ROGEN: Yeah?
GROSS: You just survived a 5.8 magnitude earthquake. Our producer just said they heard it on CNN.
ROGEN: I told you.
I'm so glad that there was an earthquake and I'm not (bleep) losing my mind. Honestly for the last 10 minutes, I'm like I just, I lost my (bleep). There was no earthquake.
GROSS: Wow. Well - well, gee, I hope you're nowhere near the epicenter of that. I guess you would have felt it a little more strongly.
ROGEN: I hope my toy collection at home is OK.
ROGEN: I've got to call my girlfriend.
GROSS: Yeah, well let me let you go. Thank you so much.
ROGEN: Thank you.
GROSS: OK, be well. OK.
ROGEN: OK, bye-bye.
GROSS: Bye-bye.
OK, so...
ROGEN: My toys were OK, for the record.
GROSS: Thank goodness, thank goodness.
ROGEN: But a tree fell over outside my house, actually.
GOLDBERG: And none of your toys fell?
ROGEN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: Do you stick them to the shelf?
ROGEN: No, no, it was shocking. But it fell the next day, the tree, is what was weird. Like that day it was fine. I remember because it was during "The Pineapple Express" premiere, all our friends were here for "Pineapple Express."
GROSS: Exactly, exactly.
ROGEN: And yeah, that was crazy. I remember I was a little hungover, I think, because the premiere was the night before, and I probably didn't want to say so, but I'm like: Am I just, like, really messed up?
ROGEN: Is that what I'm experiencing right now? But thank God. I remember being so relieved when I heard there was an earthquake.
GROSS: So one of the scenes is a satire of "The Exorcist" or one of the exorcism sequels, one of "The Exorcist" sequels. So Jonah Hill is possessed by the devil in this scene, and he's in bed, you know, tied down but possessed by the devil. And then Jay Baruchel walks in with a cross made out of kitchen utensils, a spatula and something else because they don't have crosses in James Franco's home, where they're holed up.
ROGEN: No, he's not - he's half-Jewish.
GOLDBERG: He's half-Jewish.
GROSS: Yes, so here's an excerpt of that scene - again, Jonah Hill is tied onto the bed possessed by the devil, and Jay Baruchel is approaching him with a cross made out of kitchen utensils.
JAY BARUCHEL: (as himself) Jonah Hill? Jonah? Jonah Hill?
HILL: (as Demon) Jonah Hill is no more.
BARUCHEL: Demon?
HILL: Yes.
ROGEN: That's not good. That's not good.
HILL: Jay, you fool.
BARUCHEL: I say unto thee: The power of Christ compels you.
HILL: Oh, does it? Does it compel me?
BARUCHEL: The power of Christ compels you.
HILL: Does it, Jay?
BARUCHEL: The power of Christ compels you.
HILL: Is the power of Christ compelling me? Is that what's happening?
BARUCHEL: The power of Christ compels you.
HILL: Guess what? It's not that compelling.
GOLDBERG: That's a good radio choice.
ROGEN: Yeah, it plays well over the radio.
GROSS: I like the way, you know, it's like the demon's making, like, really cheap jokes.
ROGEN: Exactly. It's still Jonah.
GROSS: So when you were watching all the exorcism movies and deciding like what do we want out of it, what were you thinking?
ROGEN: At first, actually, we had it be - we kind of had it be more traditionally like what - like from "The Exorcist," Jonah was kind of spewing this, like, biblical you'll go to hell and do all this stuff, I literally can't repeat the stuff they say in "The Exorcist." But actually, well, then what happened is we wrote what we thought was, like, crazy stuff for Jonah to be saying, and then we watched the original "Exorcist."
And what she says in that movie is like the craziest stuff you could ever possibly say. And it's coming out of like a 10-year-old girl. So it was like so much edgier than what we had written that we realized with Jonah, actually, kind of in the moment, he was like, we have to go the other way. We're not going to top - like what they say in the actual "Exorcist" is so dirty and disgusting that, like, that joke won't be funny.
What's funny is I'm just talking exactly how a jerk would be talking to Jay in that situation, basically, and because you'll affect my voice, it's almost like the more normal I'm talking, the kind of funnier it'll be. And...
GOLDBERG: And it sets up, well, the first two - you know, like Jonah Hill is no more. You think that the normal stuff is going to come your way, that he's going to say the biblical torture stuff. And then it just goes a hard turn in the other direction.
ROGEN: Later on, like when it starts working, he's like, seriously, stop. Like seriously, seriously, stop. Like that was just cracking us up because it's like, it's exactly what just a regular guy would say in that situation.
GROSS: Seth Rogen, your character - you play yourself in the movie and in the opening of the movie...
ROGEN: Yeah.
GROSS: ...you're at an airport and there's a fan following you around with a video camera and the fan says to you: You always play the same part in movies. When are you going to start actually acting?
ROGEN: Yeah.
GROSS: And then he says, come on, give us the Seth Rogen laugh.
ROGEN: Yeah.
GROSS: Do you get those things a lot from fans?
ROGEN: I do. I get those things, both those things...
GOLDBERG: You've had that? People have actually said give me the laugh? Do the laugh?
ROGEN: Oh, my god. Are you kidding me?
GOLDBERG: And do you do it?
ROGEN: I honestly just do naturally because I think it's funny that people are actually asking me to do that. So...
GOLDBERG: So it's satisfying for the fans.
ROGEN: It does satisfy them because I just think it's so funny for someone to walk up: Laugh for me. Do the laugh. Often what happens, actually, is people say to me, I didn't know it was you or not, and then I heard you laugh. And then obviously I could tell it was you. And they go: you actually laugh like that. I actually get that a lot too.
GOLDBERG: What I always find funny is...
ROGEN: You laugh like that in real life. Like it's some brilliant character that I've created with this ridiculous donkey laugh.
GOLDBERG: The funny thing to me is that his father has a laugh that is, like, 10 times funnier than his, which I'm going to try to impersonate for you right now.
ROGEN: I was - it's going to be incredibly loud.
ROGEN: Yeah. That's exactly what my dad's laugh sounds like. We both have ridiculous laughs. But, yeah. People ask me. And it's just - people actually don't ask me, like, why you play the same character all the time. That's ...
GOLDBERG: They know why.
ROGEN: They know why. But it's more something I read - you just read in press a lot and stuff like that. Like, it's just something that - that's just more of a thought, you know, a sentiment that's out there in the world.
GOLDBERG: You've got to play a president to get out of this.
ROGEN: Exactly.
GROSS: My guests are Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. They wrote and directed this year's end-of-the-world comedy "This is the End," which stars Rogen. We'll hear more of the interview after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: Let's get back to our interview with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. They co-wrote "Superbad" and co-wrote and co-directed the end-of-the-world comedy "This is the End," which starred Rogen.
You both met when you were young, like 13.
GOLDBERG: Bar mitzvah class.
GROSS: Bar mitzvah class.
ROGEN: Bar mitzvah class. We were 12 years old, I think.
GROSS: Uh-huh. What were bar mitzvah classes like?
GOLDBERG: Well, Seth went to a Jewish day school and I went to a public school, but I had to go to after-school Hebrew school, and so we would cross paths every day...
ROGEN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: ...because my synagogue, where I went to the after-school, was beside him.
ROGEN: He got dropped off at the parking lot I got picked up in.
GOLDBERG: So we always had like 30-second interactions...
ROGEN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: ...but then both our schools merge in grade seven, so you can learn your Haftorah portion for your bar mitzvah.
ROGEN: Yeah. Tallits and Tefillin it was called, T and T.
GOLDBERG: And the real reason you went is because they gave you chocolate milk and delicious bagels.
ROGEN: They did give you chocolate milk and bagels. It was fantastic.
GOLDBERG: And Seth was the very loud guy from the day school. And I was the very loud guy from the after-school.
ROGEN: But really what it is - and I was thinking about this - because we were in the bar mitzvah class, you have to invite all the people in your bar mitzvah class to your bar mitzvah. So suddenly, me and Evan went to like dozens of bar mitzvahs together all the time. Basically, like every weekend of grade seven, me and Evan were at a bar or bat mitzvah together, and that's I think when we really started becoming friends.
GOLDBERG: And the other big thing is Sammy Fogle, who the character McLovin is farsely(ph) based upon...
GROSS: In "Superbad."
GOLDBERG: From "Superbad"...
ROGEN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: Yeah. He was...
ROGEN: Was our third friend.
GOLDBERG: Yeah. He was our third friend, and he was my good friend and he was Seth's good friend, and we didn't really know each other as well, so he kind of merged us together.
ROGEN: He was like the common - and we all knew we were going to the same high school together, so...
GOLDBERG: And we all knew we were going to be nerds there.
ROGEN: Yeah, we all knew we'd probably be losers, so we should stick together.
GROSS: So describe your bar mitzvahs.
ROGEN: My bar mitzvah - both of our bar mitzvah parties were at the same place. It was in...
GOLDBERG: Yours was - I don't remember yours.
ROGEN: Richmond Country Club.
GOLDBERG: All I remember about mine is my mother, the cantor at the synagogue retired. The cantor, if you don't know, like kind of sings the - he's the best singer.
ROGEN: (Singing) Ya da dee...
GOLDBERG: So he retired, so mine was musically themed because my...
GROSS: He's the singer at the religious ceremonies in...
ROGEN: Yeah. He sings the prayers.
GOLDBERG: Yeah. And my mother bought the decorations from his retirement party, so I also had a musically themed bar mitzvah, even though I'm not musical.
ROGEN: That's really funny. I remember my mom got like a square-dancing teacher or something to come to my bar mitzvah...
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
ROGEN: ...which was very lame.
GOLDBERG: I was the - my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first like temporary tattoo guy.
ROGEN: Oh, yeah, I remember that, actually.
GOLDBERG: It was big stuff back in that time and day.
ROGEN: That was big stuff.
GROSS: So in "Superbad," which is based on your friendship in high school, and the characters are named Evan and Seth.
ROGEN: Yeah.
GROSS: Evan is played by Michael Cera and Seth by Jonah Hill. When you were actually in high school, were you as obsessed with sex as the character Evan and the character Seth in the movie?
GOLDBERG: I think I speak for every young boy on Earth when I say yes.
ROGEN: Yeah.
ROGEN: Yeah, definitely, and it really seemed like it was maybe never going to happen. Like that was really like the overwhelming thought that we talked about.
GOLDBERG: Yeah. The general consensus amongst the dudes was, if this doesn't happen by like 18, I'm going to kill myself.
ROGEN: Yeah. And it just...
GOLDBERG: And thank goodness we all got there at 18.
ROGEN: I might have been 19. I don't even know. But still, in that vicinity.
GOLDBERG: But you're just, you're ready to rock when you're 14 and it's not happening.
ROGEN: Yeah. And some people you know, you hear, oh, that guy had this happen and this guy and this girl did this to that guy, and you're just like, oh my god. It's just like yeah, it was all we thought about. It was crazy.
GROSS: Were you insecure about your looks, like your characters in the film?
GOLDBERG: I would say I don't think...
ROGEN: We were pretty goofy looking. We had every right to be insecure.
GOLDBERG: Yeah. Insecure is the wrong word. We were realistic.
ROGEN: We were aware of our looks.
GOLDBERG: There were some like really handsome dudes and there were track dudes.
ROGEN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: And then there was us.
ROGEN: Not to say we could not have gotten more girls than we did and I suppose...
GOLDBERG: Oh, we definitely could have.
ROGEN: We definitely could've, looking back, but we just didn't. But like yeah, we were insecure. But we were not great-looking guys. I had dreadlocks for some of high school. I had colored hair.
GOLDBERG: I mean there's not like calendars of hot Jews.
ROGEN: It's almost like I made a list of like what can I do...
GOLDBERG: Yeah, James Franco the exception.
ROGEN: Exactly.
GOLDBERG: Usually the Jew gene brings you down a notch.
ROGEN: Not a lot of hot Jews. Is Ewan McGregor Jewish? I don't think so.
GOLDBERG: Of course...
GROSS: This is a fairly personal question, or a very personal question. How worried were you the first time that it wouldn't...
ROGEN: I was pretty worried. I think the first time I was so nervous that I definitely, it was not like the most graceful experience.
GOLDBERG: No, mine was like the - mine was like, like I felt the miracle of Hanukkah was happening to me.
GOLDBERG: Like someone up there was looking down saying, you know what, Evan deserves this.
ROGEN: Here you go, pal.
GOLDBERG: Let's give him a good first go.
GROSS: There's a scene in "Superbad" where the Evan character is at a party, and the girl who he has a crush on - who has a crush on him too - is at the party, and she gets really drunk. And when she's drunk, her personality kind of changes, you know, she becomes, she becomes the girl she thinks she should be in order to be pleasing and seductive because she's seen a lot of movies, and she knows, according to the movies, this is how it's supposed to be.
So, you know, they go up to a bedroom, and then she starts like dancing and stripping...
GROSS: ...because that's what you see in the movies. And the Evan character is looking kind of baffled and thinking, why is she doing this? That's like not like her. What's going on? I like that scene, and I think it's an interesting scene for you guys to have written for a teenage girl. And I'm interested in hearing how you wrote that scene.
GOLDBERG: Well, it's largely based on some, on two disastrous hookup sessions I had that...
ROGEN: I think it's based on the general idea that, like, you think alcohol is going to make things better and it generally doesn't. That's like the...
GOLDBERG: Yeah. Yeah.
ROGEN: That's like the general seed of the idea, I think. They spend their whole, the whole movie trying to get alcohol and it's what essentially ruins the experience for them, you know?
GOLDBERG: Because that was our thought as kids - like we get a girl drunk, we're drunk appropriately, everything's cool, and that's when it happens.
ROGEN: So I think that's where like the kernel of the idea came from...
GOLDBERG: But I would also say, like, you just looked into it deeper than I think we ever did. And I think the actress, Martha MacIsaac, who played that role, kind of got it at a level we didn't.
ROGEN: Yeah because like we were, I mean we were around that age when we wrote that, so I think it was a little less, in a way, self-aware than it seems. I don't think at the time we wrote it, honestly, we could've contextualized it the way that you just did.
GOLDBERG: No. We just were thinking like hey, let's write it like those disastrous scenarios we went through.
ROGEN: Yeah. And we thought like well, this whole movie, this guy, it's such a sexualized movie, it's this sexualized world clearly that we're existing in, and it would be funny if what happens when this girl gets drunk is she kind of over-sexualizes herself, and it ultimately is the last thing that this guy would want. And the reason he likes her is she's not like that, you know?
GOLDBERG: And it was fun to just flip it. Normally you'd think the guy would be the girl character that we had and the girl would be the guy. But to see Michael Cera say, you know, this isn't how I pictured it.
ROGEN: Exactly. We always just thought that was funny also...
GOLDBERG: Because girls picture it, and guys are like I'll take anything.
ROGEN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: I'm not picturing anything. I'm picturing everything or anything, just let it happen.
ROGEN: Exactly.
GROSS: So we have just enough time for you each to say what your favorite movie of all time is.
ROGEN: Oh, that's a tough one.
GOLDBERG: Whew. I'm leaning towards "Spaceballs" right now. I'm going "Spaceballs."
GROSS: "Spaceballs" is the Mel Brooks movie?
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
ROGEN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: I love that movie.
ROGEN: It's a generational thing.
GROSS: And...
GOLDBERG: And we generally find anyone under the age of, like, 35 is like "Spaceballs"?
ROGEN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: Anyone under 35, everyone agrees. Over 35 everyone says what?
ROGEN: Yeah, exactly.
GROSS: And Seth, your favorite?
ROGEN: I think maybe "Ghostbusters" is probably one of my favorite movies.
GOLDBERG: But I think we can both agree "Big Lebowski" encroaches on both of those.
ROGEN: Yeah. "The Big Lebowski" might be the all-time favorite, though.
GROSS: That's great.
GOLDBERG: And "Schindler's List."
ROGEN: Well, we are Jews.
GROSS: I want to thank you both so much for talking with us. It's really been fun. Thank you.
ROGEN: Thank you for having us.
GOLDBERG: Thanks a lot. It was fun.
GROSS: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, recorded in June, when their movie "This Is the End" was released. I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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On offense, I expect a good dose of jump balls to Sidney against their undersized secondary, along with a steady diet of beastmode.
If our secondary has one weakness, it seems that quick receivers like Amendola have been getting open on underneath routes, particularly with formations where we can't jam their receivers. I'd expect the Patriots to do a lot of no huddle to keep our base defense on the field. This is going to be a great test for our young linebackers, who I expect to be forced into coverage situations.
Against Brady it is going to take TD's in the red zone instead of field goals. Looking forward to seeing RW take another big step on Sunday!