Boonta Vista - EPISODE 162: BrainEx-Girlfriend

Episode Date: August 16, 2020

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Hello and welcome to Pornivester episode 162. I am Ben and I am here in a perfectly ordinary scientific laboratory. The lab is full of perfectly ordinary science laboratory type things. People in lab coats, bunsen burners, test tubes, spray bottles full of ethanol, printouts of XKCD comics, disembodied pig heads wired into a series of machines of inscrutable purpose. Just regular science lab stuff. Over here, doing regular science stuff, like trying to teach one of the disembodied pig heads to be Aramaic, it's Andrew. Hey, how you doing? I've just been sharing some correspondence with my good friend Dr. Herbert West. And he has some great suggestions for me, great ideas.

And, you know, he's respected and revered in the community so I can see absolutely no reason to not do what he suggests. He looks, he doesn't look well to me. That's passion that you've seen. He's very passionate scientist. I think what you've seen behind those eyes is drive. It's ambition, you know? The reasons for that drive and ambition don't want to get into it. No, and you know, as long as the results are good, which yet to be seen. No reason to think that they wouldn't. No reason to think that they wouldn't. What's his name's the the the the the the the the the the their. their. the reason. that's. that's. that's. that's. th. that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the. the the. the. the the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. that they wouldn't. No reason to think that they wouldn't. What's his name, the guy that plays that guy, uh, fucking Jeffrey Coombs? Jeffrey Coombs, he popped up in, I was watching the man with two brains the other night where

he plays a surgeon in that movie and I was like, oh, there's not a good omen? Probably. I mean, that's just a movie. This is a movie. This is real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real real. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. I. I. I. th. th. th. th. that that that that thr. thr. the. thr. the. th. th. the. th. th. side of the lab. Also doing regular science lab stuff, like struggling against his own hands, which is seemingly trying to strangle him at the psychic best of one of the pig heads. It's Theo. Hey, I'm good. I'm good. You're saying that. Yeah, I am kind of, I do have my hands full. They're trying to be. They're still my hands, I guess. And if we can keep them that way, that'd be nice.

I did also accidentally teach one of the pigs shame. They don't seem to be experiencing a lot of it at the moment in their actions. Has it stuck? Has not stuck? You're winning though, so far. like a full victory would be retaining entire autonomy over your own body. Yeah. But they haven't killed you yet. That's right. And I kind of didn't come into this scenario with autonomy of my body anyway, so it sort of swings in roundabout at this point. Sure. Now luckily this is a fanciful sort of scenario we've concocted here and with no bearing on real life whatsoever and there's certainly nothing ominous or portentous about it

whatsoever right Andrew? Yes I agree. You shall see hail fall from a clear sky and burn his fire upon the ground. You shall see darkness cover Egypt when the sun climbs high to noon. And you shall know that God is God, and bow down to his will. Oh, that doesn't sound very good. No, that sounds very bad. That is, of course, the theme song to our new segment, Omen's Importance, which you would not have heard if you are not a subscriber,

you cheap piece of shit. Just one more reason, one more reason to subscribe. You could have found out about a segment slightly earlier. It's all there. This is a story from the journal Nature. Not to be confused with Nature Corner. No, not at all. This is Nature with a Capital N corner.

Very different. A bit of an unassuming headline this one. Pig experiment challenges assumptions around brain damage in people. Hey, hmm, just a little experiment with some pigs. What could possibly be weird or terrifying about that? Let's have a look. In this week's nature, researchers describe restoring certain structural and functional properties to pigs' brains, even four hours after the animals had been killed. They used an artificial perfusion system called brain X. Now, brain X stylized here very similarly to Fed X.

I think personally for me this would be more exciting if it was brain space uppercase X or a little cheek little dash between them. It's a very like 1950s sci-fi movie. He's the inventor of brain X. Yeah, it's also absolutely something that someone would invent in a bad medical thriller and then name it that like the limitless drug NZT you know all kinds of fun drug names for movies and brain acts it's right up there apparently though perfusion is the process of like artificially running the fluids back through something that you want to pretend is still running and animals love that. Did you know that off the top you head or did you just look through something that you want to pretend is still running. And animals love that.

Did you know that off the top of your head or did you just look that up then? I looked up before the show. That's incredible. No one ever looks at the notes before the things. Perfusion is the passage of fluid through the circulatory system or lymphatic system to an organ or tissue, usually referring to the delivery the delivery the delivery the delivery the delivery the delivery the delivery the delivery the delivery the delivery the delivery, the delivery, the delivery, the delivery, the delivery, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to, to, to to to to to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, or, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the the the the the, the the the the the the the the the the they.. Sohue, theybue, theybue, theybue, theymea, theymeaq.shueaq-shuee.s, theybueaq-aq- in tissue. We're basically like a real podcast. People are learning stuff all over the place. So that's when, that's basically when you reanimate a corpse. Like some sort of reanimator?

Maybe. It continues, electrophysiological monitoring did not detect any kind of neural activity thought to signal consciousness, such as any evidence of signaling between brain regions. Nonetheless, the study challenges the long-held assumption that large mammalian brains are irreversibly damaged a few minutes after blood stopped circulating. Speak for your own large mammalian brain. Hey, not on my body, pal. It also raises the possibility that researchers could get better at salvaging a person's brain even after the heart and lungs have stopped working. I'm so psyched to be put into a Robocop.

Yeah, that's what it's going to be right. You just have a permanent little hydraulic pump installed in your Robocop armor, just keeping all your shit going. Have you watched the Robocop remake? No. Because, I forgot that existed. I think it's helmet too smooth. Won't watch it. I think it's fine as remakes go because they try to do a bit of different stuff with it. That's usually my qualifier

for at least having some enjoyment of a remake is when they go hey let's let's let's try a different idea with this thing like Like the new, um, Ghostbusters. Dread. Like the new child play. The new dread is fucking amazing. Rules, but it's also eight years old, so I don't know if that's that new. It's new. Shut up. Yep. That can't be true, but. Absolutely no way. Please don't tell us if that's correct. Like in the new, the new child's play the original plot which is that Serial killer Charles whatever played by Brad de Riff Gets shot by the police and uses a voodoo incantation to put himself into a doll before he dies Before his physical body dies instead it's just somebody getting fired from a factory that is making these AI driven

dolls and then he like takes off all of the violence inhibitors in one of them and then just kills himself. And no Brad Durif. No Brad Duriff, yeah, but the rest of the movie is then the doll going... It was a let down. Well I'm supposed to be looking after this kid and making him happy and he doesn't have any of the things that say, well, don't kill someone to accomplish thr-o................ the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, and then, thi, the, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and then, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, the, the, and, the, the, and, the, the, the, and, the, the, the, and, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th. I. th. thi. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. the, and, and, and, and, the, and, the, the, th't have any of the things that say, well, don't kill someone to accomplish that. So it's different to the original. Same with the robo cop. There's lots of like drone speculation and stuff in it, you know, much more about like automated artificial intelligence, the robot dogs that we all want to kick over and beat with a baseball bat.

Okay, well, not all of us. There is a scene, there is a scene in it where, where they show Robocop, the cop inside the robo cop, what is left of his own body and they take away all of the artificial parts. And it's just like mechanized lungs, a chunk of one of his arms and his head and brain. And it's, um, it's's pretty horrifying so I'm looking forward to that for me I love that for me I keep that brain going you know I love that for you as well yeah they never explained if they gave me any kind of

dick well he probably doesn't need one I guess says you still got a wife you know it's so true there are other things you can do to be intimate that aren't sexual Andrew I guess. Says you. Still got a wife, you know? It's so true. There are other things you can do to be intimate that aren't sexual, Andrew. News to me. Advances following on from the brain-eck study could exacerbate tensions between efforts to save the lives of individuals and attempts to obtain organs to donate to others. Is that weird?

That seems real weird to me that that's the first place they've gone with this is like, we could save this guy's life, but we really need his kidneys. I also enjoy the concept that this is at all possible for anyone except like four people on the planet of, like, we just, we're kind of getting to the point where we're almost going like, ah, health care, tha, tha, thu, thu, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, th. th. to, th. to, to, th. the, the, the, the, the, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the, the, the, the, th. th. th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, te, te, te, te, te, te, te, te, te, te, te, tean, tean, tean, tean, tean, tean, tean, tean, te. te. And, te, kind of getting to the point where we're almost going like, ah, health care, you know, really? Do we need it? Do we need it? I feel like the jury's still out on it, right? Like, and so them to

occasionally like blink out Morse code for Kilby. You don't really hate about this? You don't really hate about this? You just want something to do the tool around with. This is very bad to me because, like, as you say, this is probably not going to be available to everyone if it turns out to be thing. What this means is that Elon Musk is going to live forever. Yes. Bezos is going to fucking live forever.

Hell, even Bill Gates. Gonna have another couple of thousand years of flying around between different pedophile islands while siphony fidefied around between the trials from the tha......cocococococococococ-sooes, to to to to to thsoe, thso, thso, talking about the brain jars from the brain jars from the man with two brains. Or the brain jars from the movie Blood Diner. Or the brain jar from the movie Donovan's Brain or the brain jar from the thing that wouldn't die? No fuck what's it called? It's the one way the guy puts his wife's head in a jar and she becomes an evil psychic headlady. Ah, it's a great movie. Check that movie out.

I can't remember its title, but it's good. Hmm. Brain and a jar, classic. In our view, as the science of brain resuscitation progates, some efforts to save or restore people's brains, and some decisions to forego such attempts in favor of procuring organs for transplantation might seem less so. Oh God, that's so good. Imagine having that as a negotiation.

You've put the head in the jar and you're like, hey, we could maybe reattach you to get your shit going again. Or would you like to give you a heart to this child? I mean, you're not really using it. I still had some like like like like tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tho tho tho tho tho tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, to be a to be a to be a to be a to be a little, to bea, to bea, to bea, to bea, to bea, to be, to be, to be, to be, to be, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thr. Soo, to, toge, toge, toge, thau. Wea, thau. Wea, thau. Soo. Soo. Soo. Soo, tho, tho, tthis child. I mean you're not really using it. I still had some shit I wanted to do. I also feel like it's too early perhaps for nature to be wading in and being like heads in jars. Good to us. It seems like they really have just taken this to like its logical conclusion at the furthest head possible. Instead of like most journal articles where you're like we have demonstrated it sort of in one animal kind of in 50 years time

this might be useful they're like we must make a decision now right now still have organ donation yeah and like that there's a choice between the two like like seriously guys the organ stuff we can just put an end to that now we are done we are we are done we are we are done just hook that brain up to some electrodes and we're good to go this to me is all all like like a the the the the the the th the th for like like like like like like like like like like like like like like a th a th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to th. to thi thi. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th. to th. to th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. We the. the. the. We the. the. the. We the. We the. the. We the. We're to to to to to the. We to that brain up to some electrodes and we're good to go. This to me is all like a natural extension of the whole increasing life expectancy thing, right? We're like, you know how you see those things where it's like, wow, people are living for longer than ever before and having a better quality of life. Just take a look at this 108-year-old Navy veteran, and it's just like this peanut shell sitting in a wheelchair completely immobile like I do I do

occasionally look at people and think and hey you know your body your choice whatever you would like to do with your time etc that's a rather of you to say thank there are some people that I have seen where I think to myself if if that were me, maybe I would be happy to cut it off like 10 or 20 years before there. Jesus Christ. Yeah. Theo agrees.

Does he? Does he? But yeah, once you get to that point of like, hey, we could preserve you in a jar forever. You could have a consciousness and not be able to do anything. Maybe if they can, maybe if Elon can get it plugged into the internet. What about if we just have like, we really, really focus in on our like brain reading technology. So you can have a little binary switch,

like a little light on the outside of the jar. If you've got a green light, you're still happy with being alive if you got a red light you've decided to call it and that's all we can tell from your thought pattern. Like, oh, you tip over, time to tip the water out. Yeah, if you, if you, if you come in to the, to the ward, which is just shelves racks and racks and racks of, it's the brain juggles and you just check for the red lights and you walk down and you switch off the aquarium pump next to that one. And then you go on with you shift, you know? Oh God, that's so depressing. Very cool. The guy who comes in at the end of the day looking for red lights to just be like, oh, all right.

Oh, he's just wearing a boiler suit whistling as he walked. Oh, boy. Marilyn Manson's sick of being alive. time to toss him out, go. You see I talk all this shit, but the Queen's still riding a horse around, you know? Is she? Yeah, she was, they had a picture of her on a horse recently and I was like, get her down from there. Surely, wrap that woman in bubble wrap and don't let her go anywhere. Oh boy. That's my theory about the president being given access to the super drugs that make them

super healthy and alive at all times that we don't have access to. I assume this extends to the queen as well. Like if she was a regular ass lady, she would almost certainly be dead by now. I think she's on something. Well if you listen to every day from a new person. If you listen to like anti-Vaxa COVID truthers like some of the sovereign citizens that we were talking about a couple weeks ago. She's a clone. She's CGI. Oh of course. Oh yeah, there was that guy, the fucking, I was going to call him the

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I'm looking at her, the headlines on her blog. We've got, nothing was ever good enough for ungrateful Megan. Oh my god. Oh my god. Why do people give a shit about any of this? Fuck off. They hate her so much! It's so weird to me that Miranda Divine just gets paid by somebody to write columns

in both Australia and America, just with a range of things like, Donald Trump is great, Greta Thunberg is a spoiled brat, and Megan Markle is a piece of shit. She's a home wrecker. It's like it makes, no, it doesn't make sense to me, but it's slightly more understandable that like the UK tabloids fucking hate her because she is not white and shouldn't be in the royal family. But like, why did Australians give a shit about this? That is the most baffling shit to me. Like, fucking, so many of the shitty digital news outlets here love doing stories about,

which are all entirely made up because they're copying the UK tabloids, which just makes it up where they're like, princess, no, Dutch, I don't know, whatever the fuck she is, Camilla, sent a secret letter to Megan Markle, tell her, told, told, told, told, told, to me me me me me me, told, told, told, told me, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their all, and their all, which, which is all, which, which is all, which their, which, which, which their, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, which, is all, is all, is all, is all, is their, is their, is all, is all, is all, is all, is all, is all, is all, is their, is all, is all, is all, is all, is all, their. their. their, their, t. their their the the together, their their the the the the the the the the the the the the telling her to kill herself or whatever and you're like, okay, it's not real but also who gives a shit? They're just some fucking rich people doing rich people shit. Baffling. So, so she had written this article about an Australian scientist who has come up with what he believes to be an effective treatment for COVID-19 after contracting it. And it was like, oh, you know, he's worked in the field of like antibacterial stuff, so he reckons that if you take this drug that is made for something else entirely,

along with these two other drugs, which are also made for completely other purposes, completely different other purposes, that you know, you can reduce the harmful effects of COVID post-infection. Why is the Australian government not issuing all of these drugs to everybody? And so part of this guy's theory, this is the scientist that she was saying everybody should be listening to. Part of his theory was that one of the one of the drugs Shares an active ingredient with a type of skin cream that Donald Trump uses as per his White House health records As a treatment for a skin issue and so he's probably absorbed a bunch of that into his system by now and that is why he seems to be impervious to coronavirus despite all the people around him getting it And then the comments is just like 600? the comments is just like 600, th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th the th the the thi the thi thi thi the the thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi ti ti tip tipe tipe the tipe tipe thi thi thi thi th is why he seems to be impervious to coronavirus despite all the people around him getting it.

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absolutely the conversation that Herbert West has with his latest intern over like a fucking gurney with a body on it, you know. The researchers largely of the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. My God. Not a good sign. At fucking Miskatonic University, am I right? You are right. They used around 300 pigheads from a US Department of Agricultural Abitoire. That's so many pigheads. Are they just sending someone down in a van to be like, hey, I'll get a, uh, have you guys got a, uh, have you guys got, uh, 300 pig heads?

I think it's a I'm picturing a small dump truck and then they just pull up and loose pig heads probably yeah they just they just open up the I've got a fork with a pallet of them in there they were just knocking about I think they just I think they just you know pour them all off the truck like a load of watermelons you know. Where do you want them? Oh just anywhere waiting for the thing things to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to lift to to the the to lift to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi their their the want them? Ah, just anywhere. Waiting for the thing to lift up one slowly slides out, the rest just go, fomph. Oh boy. After optimizing the technology, the team connected 32 pig brains to the brain-ex system. Four hours after the pigs had been killed and after removing the brains from the skull.

I hate that. I hate the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their skull. Oh, I hate that. I hate that so much. Is there just like a team of people using those like little rotary bone saw things? 300... Oh, sorry, no, it's only 32 that they're removing. Yeah, but they had to do with the other fucking 268 big heads? I'm assuming those were all test runs in the course of optimizing the technology. Nope. All right, throw that one away. Nope. I'm also enjoying like, hey, do you want to start off with one at a time?

No. How many should we get like two or three hundred? Maybe we start with 32. That's a nice round number. Hmm. This computerized network of pumps, heaters, and filters controlled the flow, temperature, and constituents of a proprietary perfuse-it solution for six hours. I like this. That's proprietary.

I love that. I was done off the shelf. He didn't get that from a good... Yeah, yeah, we're putting in a bit of saline, iodine to keep things fresh, four liters of liquid X, and some fragrance to freshen the thing up. What's this thing you got here called the baffermet serum that you're putting in there? That's weird. This is how they get you, right?

Because once your brain has been hooked up to the Brain-Ex system, you think, I'm going to live forever, but that's when you realize that you are on a subscription model for their proprietor. It's how they get you. $79.95 a month. That's right. And there's massive cost to you sign up to the trial period of brainets. Even though it's free.

There'll be no charge, they say, but then you always forget to cancel it before the first payment goes through. And you're going to need that credit card for other things, I assume. Now that you're dead. Yeah, imagine if your light would not turn red until you had like... Well, you're hosting on AWS, so... Until you've opted out of the contract and then the month has expired, you know? Bleak stuff. There was no evidence of the kind of neural activity that is thought to signal consciousness or the ability to perceive the environment and experience sensations such as pain or distress.

I wonder if that's because the brain had been completely removed from the body. Also, like, do you think if it still the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th th th th th th th th th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi's thi's thi's thi's the, threate. thease the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the month the month the month the month the month the month the month the month the month the month the m. the m. the m. the m. the m. the m. the m. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. theatea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the the. completely removed from the body. Also, like, do you think if it still had eyes, it would maybe be more likely to perceive something? And how do they, is it like, you know, if you're feeling distress, please blink your light twice? Because I'm gonna let you on a little secret. Pigs don't understand that when the brain's in the body. Well, you gotta train them. How are they monitoring the neural activity? You reckon they're like, is they're putting electrodes directly onto a pig brain or

they've got a pig brain in a little MRI machine? So many questions. It's fucking terrified to me. Also this is another classic questions answered by my shirt situation. I did not assume that the pigs were feeling pain until they're like, oh they definitely didn't look like they're experiencing pain. We had to check though. The next thing is clearly to try and reanimate a whole pig, right? And teach that pig to speak English so it can articulate its experience. I did just re-watch the classic Joel Schuma can film flatliners. So I am concerned about what the pigs will bring their they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they the they the they they they the they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they they they they're they they're they're they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're they're the classic Joel Schumanner can film Flatliners.

So I am concerned about what the pigs will bring back with them. You reckon maybe they've seen some shit? Yeah. I'm concerned that the pig's sins may follow them back from the afterlife, you know? That's weird. That's weird. That's weird. Very strange. Wonder what counts as a sin to a pig. What counts as a sin to a pig? What's a sin to a pig? Hey, you had way more slop than everybody else, four days in a row.

It's a 16th century poetry. Just a community of Catholic pigs. Hey, I will say just looping back around, the remake of Flatliners, absolute dog shit. There's a remake? God damn. It's got Ellen Page in it, that fucking suck shit. So bad. Absolutely terrible.

One of those ones where the whole way through you just like, nobody needed this. Nobody needed this. Incredibly, Brain X did restore and sustain circulation to major arteries, small blood vessels, and compilaries, cellular responsiveness to drugs and cerebral metabolism. We gave the pig some cocaine. And that brain started pulsing like you fucking would not believe. That's insane to me. That's so insane! There was no sign of the ability to perceive sensations such as pain or distress, but there were definitely signs of the ability to really enjoy a fore on the floor beat. Mm-hmm.

You know. A driving, driving side-chained baseline by a French touch artist. We're truly loving that. A drug that increases blood flow in people's brains for instance, dilated pig blood vessels and increase the rate of flow of the perfuset, perfusate. Oh no. No good. Some large scale. And some large scale and a small. the rate of flow of the perfuset, perfusate. Oh no. No good. Some large-scale anatomical and small-scale morphological features were restored and preserved thanks to a reduction in swelling and other changes that would have otherwise

led to cell damage and cell death. This is really going to lead to them like bringing people back after they've been dead for two hours, you know, sitting with a completely gray body at the kitchen table. How do you feel? Fine. Ear just falls off in your custard. It's absolutely, like it's all, it's all incredibly some pet cemetery type bullshit.

He hasn't been the same since his brain exodus. Yeah? He hasn't been the same since his brain ex-subsidial... Yeah he hasn't been the same since he died and we brought him back to life using science. Yeah weird. Electrodes inserted into slices of brain tissue cultured in standard medium. God. Nothing exciting. No. Electrodes detected electrical activity in individual neurons. Neurons fired action potentials in response to an electrical stimulus and even displayed spontaneous synaptic activity.

This next sentence you're about to say is not like it's so innocuous that it sounds incredibly ominous to me. Hey, all of this was detected at normal body temperature. Very normal. Because that sort of, that implies that that is non-standard, right? That usually they should be, I don't know, refrigerated stuff, something? I don't like it. I think it's implying that this is not a universal soldier type situation, where the bodies have to be kept very cold to stop cellular decaying. We're really discovering a lot of situations that this is or isn't.

Yeah, so this is not a Jean-Claude Van Dam having to get into a big hotel bath full of ice in order to cool himself down before his body starts to rot while being pursued by a manic Dolph Lungram. So I guess in a, in the same way, it's not the situation from the X-Files episode where that guy perfects cryogenic regeneration, but where the body immediately has to be super cooled for it to work. They haven't really told us the temperature of the liquid in the jars. It is not known how long uninterrupted perfusion could sustain these functions. The team stopped the experiment after six hours mainly because they were bored. I mean, that's, yeah, keep going. Mainly because of the limited availability of fresh perfusates and the difficulties of having someone continually

monitor and adjust the brain-ex system. Someone sit there being like, oh, for fucks. They've gone through, gone through the effort of like forklifting in 300 pig heads, setting this all up, and then like after six hours, checking their watching going, ah, the obstacle is close enough, attention span, not any of the scientific difficulties with reanimating a pig. It's just like, oh, look at him, he's looking at his phone, he keeps forgetting to top up the brain X serum. Brain's running dry. Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't bode well for what happens if you can't get your brain X prescription

refilled in time or the fact that you're gonna have to spend most of your time living in your undead existence just kind of tinkering with it. Oh, bit high. Oh, no. Oh my perfpucate levels. Shit. Oh no. What color that liquid is.

I haven't as bright, fucking purple. Hmm. Or a reanimator style, fluorogreen. That means science is happening, but the dangerous kind. It's true. The study was designed to investigate whether any physiological and cellular functions can be restored in a large, intact mammalian brain several hours after death.

Such work could in principle, the road was paved with good intentions. Such work could in principle help investigators to develop therapies for brain injuries resulting from a lack of oxygen and even enable the study of intact human brain. Nope! Nope. Nope! Nope. Oh no. When I tick the little organ donor box, this is not. I am opting out to that.

You know this is going to be a thing where like, uh, yeah, the government will wind up saying, oh, highest bidder can have the pieces they like. Yeah. Anything that you have to go on records saying, no, no, thi. No, no, thi. No, thi. No, thi. No, thi. No, thi, no thi, thi, no signs, thi, no signs, thi, thi, no signs, thi, no signs, thi, no signs, no ss, no, no, no, no, no, thi, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, th. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No, thi. No, thi. No, thi. No, thi. No, thi. No, thi. No, thi. No, thi, thi, thi, thi. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no bidder can have the pieces they like. Yeah, anything that you have to go on records saying no signs of consciousness, pain or distress were recorded. Even that, I'm just gonna opt out now. Untick the box. Yep, otherwise, next thing you know, not for me. Omnicorp has my body, and they're inserting my brain into a brain-ex branded

robo-cop suit to break up a BLM protest. And I don't want that. Jesus fucking Christ. I don't want it. Do you guys see that awfully stupid viral video that's going around of some thioub. to be a random guy trying to a random-aulter, posting a year old video where he's like, ah, it's the fucking Sultan of Bahrain or some shit with his robo bodyguard equipped with 360 degree video cameras and pistols. And it's very clearly a man in like a low-grade, fucking mascot suit, just like exaggeratedly doing

a robot walk behind him. It's like the thing, the thing that they would have had at one of the Transformer movie premieres. A hundred percent. Exactly the samething that they would have had at one of the Transformer movie premier is about eight years ago. Exactly the same chassis it's built up. Yeah, it's got all the sounds and everything. It would be like, it would be like posting the same thing and going, unbelievably, Dr. Hammond has managed to produce a real, and it's one of those inflatable ti-racea suits. Incredible!

Can you believe we're seeing dinosaurs live again? Thank you to the brain-ex system. Like the last sentence of it was like wow technology is moving so fast. Somebody replied seemingly an adult man with a job, who was like, wow, this is simultaneously the coolest and scariest thing I've seen. That guy's going to do a very exaggerated robot walk towards me and I will shit my pants. The suit even had like, it made sound effects. It made like little, little hydraulic sound effects. It's like covered in neon lights and shit as well.

Like I was looking at some other videos of it. It's called like Titan the Robot or something. There's videos of it like dancing at conferences and stuff. It's so silly. It's so far away from even looking like a real robot, let alone not a Halloween costume. And like the actual robots we have are more menacing, because they're the robot dogs with guns built into them that don't have faces.

That is way more terrifying than like a goofy guy and like a ripoff of the fucking dread movie robots. The ABC robot fucking ruled though. It looks fucking boss. but also it's shockingly similar to tighten the robot like same sort of exaggerated skull head thing. Yeah but I think I think they actually like at least built a big built and operated a big puppet kind of thing instead of literally like bolting a bunch of stuff onto a guy. Then fucking putting what's his name?

He's the one guy that does all the moat cap performances that isn't anti-circuit, Doug Jones. Doug Jones. They put Doug Jones inside there and like, you are a scary robot and he lived that. You're a scary robot, protecting a prince of the United Arab Emirates. Oh yeah, Bah love that he had like a fucking Emirates flag on his fucking thing as well.

They're like, yeah Bahrain, definitely. He was like wearing a little cape covering up lots of his joints. Oh my god, he was wearing a vest! It's fucking... Oh, so stupid. So silly. So silly. Oh, that's what you get for all that money, you know?

Hey, who else has a lot of money? It's casinos, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, tha, tha, tha, tha, thu thu thu thu thu- thu- thu- thu- thu- thu- thu-a' tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. tha, tha, tha, th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. tha. thi. thi you know? Hey, who else has a lot of money? It's casinos. Thanks. Sure. Thanks. Wow, you really are. We do have a casino story this week in. This is the one thing we didn't want to happen. Oh no.

Now, Ben, you've put a, you've put a... This is for us. There is absolutely no reason for you to say this out loud. Well, okay, so Ben's prepared the notes for the episode. And he has, as he likes to rant and rave at us about. He has formatted things properly, using, you know, a heading to for segments. So that, you know, you can use the little thing on Google Docs and see, you can see, you can go down the chapters and everything.

So for this one, Ben, can you just, can't just read this out for me? No. Because I'm, I'm not going to. You can't make me. Can I have a crack at it, because I didn't write it so it's I'm interpreting. If you could make this work I'm going to be thrilled. Casino Chayald? Yep, that's I think that's basically how I'd say that. So I believe it's kind of supposed to run with the Casino Royale. Maybe. Good Bond movie. Great Bond movie. I would say top five Bond movie. Yeah, I think so. Not to be confused with Casino Royal.

Which is what? It is also a James Bond movie, but it's not part of the official Canyon. Uh, Canon, it was fucking Peter Sellers, I'm pretty sure. It's a comedy Bond movie. What? Yeah, it's real. Look it up. From the Guardian, Sydney Star Casino fined $90,000 after a 12-year-old girl caught gambling. Mmm. Fuck. I mean, look, it could happen to any of us. I mean, none of us are 12 years old, so it kind of couldn't happen to us.

A 12-year-old girl is among three minors caught gambling or drinking at Sydney Star Casino costing the venue $90,000 in fines. The girl's mother snuck her in through the exit doors. Oh, come on now. Took her to the main gaming floor and watched as the child placed 21 bets on poker machines over 17 minutes. The girl and her parents visiting Australia on tourist visas were only picked up by security when trying to leave the venue in what the New South Wales Independent Liquor and Gaming

Authority says was a serious breach of standards. I think they were right. It's quite staggering that the young girls' parents facilitated her entry in such a deceptive manner, let alone allow their daughter to gamble, the authorities chairman Philip Crawford said, the ILGA Director of Investigations and Intervention, David Byrne, said underage patrons trying to sneak in through the exit doors was an obvious risk the stars should have been prepared for. Yep, you're going to have 12 year olds coming in through your fire exits. They also... Check the vents too. Yeah. They... I want to bang them with a broom. I'm sure that as part of the remedy for this they're going to have to develop a serious action plan for dealing with 12-year-old sneaking and through the exit doors and a very tall

young looking person at the front counter wearing a trench coat and a hat. Hello, my name is Mr. Gambling and I'm here to use your casino please. However, David Bone continues, not only did the star fail to manage the risk, once the child was on the gaming floor, there were a number of opportunities where staff should have noticed a very young person playing the poker machines, well before they actually did, which was when the family was leaving. Why? Hey, you guys got to go? Oh, you're going? Oh, well. Problem solved I guess. I don't understand at like what's the fucking point of waiting until somebody's leaving and they're being like, hey, you weren't meant to do that. We're aware of it because we saw it happening, but now we're letting you know. I'm assuming this is the classic casino move of waiting until somebody has spent the absolute maximum of money they're going to spend at the venue and then saying, it's irresponsible for you

to be here. Yeah, they made the, uh, how many times she put 21 bets, they made the 21 cents off her and they're like, all right, now it's time. Got them. Well, I mean, you know, Australian casinos are the ones that have been caught doing things like having somebody doing a marathon game of slots shit themselves at the machine and then they take them out the back, give them some clean pants and put them back in front of the machine. This is a real thing that has happened in an Australian casino.

Do you have like a wardrobe full of like shitless pants in every size? Big Lost and found kind of thing. Come on, let's get you clean up. Short straw like, ah, now you got to give the the the guy the the the guy the guy the guy the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their the short straw like, ah, now you've got to give the guy your pants. You look like a 32 regular to me. Yeah, I had those over. You just walk around the casino getting them to stand back to back with other customers until... Perfect. Perfect. We kind of need you to stand there with one of those automatic deodorizer things strapped your back to tell what. That's right.

Well, what else were we supposed to do? Get them to stop gambling? Uh, yeah, I think, I think this is very in keeping with the character of Australian casinos to wait until the second somebody's leaving and go, oh, by the way, kids aren't allowed to gamble. Please come back again with your daughter. In another incident, a 17-year-old boy was served to alcohol and played 42 rounds of roulette and 22 hands of poker before being thrown out by security. I don't like, I am 30 years old and I would feel intimidated going into a casino and playing poker

because I don't really understand the whole how everything works. He's fucking 17 and he's just like rocking up to a table. Put it all on black, baby. Oh boy. The boy entered the casino with his own driver's license. So really, who are you supposed to blame in this scenario? I think it's the casino. When the guy came up and said, here is my identification proving beyond a shadow of a doubt

that I am not 18. So I get you, you got to read them. So they carded in and then failed to look at the card. I had to card some people on Wednesday last week. And it took me like five minutes to find the date the date the date the the the very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very to to the to to the the to to the to the to to to to to to to to to to to the to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to card some people on Wednesday last week and it took me like five minutes to find the date on there and then I just became very, very dumb in the time it took me to be like, all right, if the year is and then you take and there and it's before, is that, no, after, yeah, it was hard. The boy into the casino with his own driver's license and interacted with staff at least

15 times across three and a half hours before he was noticed to be underage. Oh, God. Oh, fucking hell. Casino, come on. A 16-year-old girl was also able to enter the venue through a VIP checkpoint without being asked for ID. Amazing. When she was finally asked for ID on the main gaming floor, a fake driver's license was

accepted and the teen was then served alcohol. What are today's teens doing? It's so cool. We have like teens brewed in a lab now to be extra whatever this is. I was doing a 16 fucking land parties. I wasn't doing any of this shit. God damn. I was just stealing my parents alcohol at home.

Smart. You know, it's free too. How am I going to get to a casino? It's bottomless. That's the best thing about it. But like, how? Just, has anybody else seen that thing of like, some, some, some tick-tock challenge where teens are like doing, because, you know, teens are also all extremely good at doing makeup now? Sure.

And... You took, like, the old lady challenge? Yeah, yeah, when they're like doing themselves up as old ladies with like, wigs and, and a bunch of makeup, and thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi-a thi-a thi, like thi, like thi, like thi, like thi, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, thi thi thi thi thi thi thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi.s, thia.a.a.a.s, thia.s, thia. thia. thia. thia. thia. thia, thi. thi? Yeah, yeah, when they're like doing themselves up as old ladies with like wigs and a bunch of makeup and then putting on a mask and going in with like a Zimmer frame and walking out with a bunch of alcohol and I'm like, you earned it. Yeah, you fucking, you won that interaction by far. It's fine. It's fine. And being America, you know, there might be 20, you know, there might be 20, so... It might be a 20-year-old teenager. America, the only country with 20-year-old teens. Good Lord.

Oh, boy. Quote, both children's forays lasted long enough that they had interacted with several staff members by the time that were discovered, Burns said. Four rays. Amazing. The staff self-reported all three incidents which occurred between March and July 2019 but were still hit with a $60,000 fine for the incident involving the 12-year-old girl and $15,000 each for the teenagers. The star reported a total of 32 instances of minors gaining access to restricted areas at the casino in 2019 and 2018 reported 35 instances.

It's pretty good. Yep. You're doing great. It's good that like casinos have can do to actually get punished in any kind of significant. No, like when, you know, all of the, uh, fucking Sydney nightlife closure stuff was happening where they had all these like draconian laws about when you could be open until whatever and like everyone's like, great, you just killed all of Sydney's night life because pubs have to close it 8.30 p.m. on a Friday now. And the casinos were just like, like, like, like, like, like, th. the casinos, th. th. their th. th. their their th. their their th. their their their their their their their their their they. they. they. they. they. We. We're, they. they. Oh, the. I. I. I, the. I. I, the, the. Oh, the. Oh, the. Oh, the. Oh, the. Oh, the. Oh, the. Oh, the. Oh, the. Oh, th. Oh, th. Oh, th. Oh, th. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, th. Oh. Oh. Oh, th. Oh, th. Oh, they. Oh, they. S. S. S. the. S. S. the. the. S. the. the. S. the. S. the. the. S. the. S. the. the. the. the. the. the..m. on a Friday now and the casinos were just like we can do whatever we want 24 hours a day whooo so are you just

talking about the lockdown sorry the the the... that is what they called it didn't they? What did they call them? Lock out? Lockout laws. Yeah so you're just talking about the lockout laws right? Yeah. Because then when they had they had their their their they had they had they had their they had they had they had their they had they had their their they had their their their their their their their their their their just their just their just to to to to the lock out the lock out to to to to to to to to the lock out lock out lock out lock out lock out lock out lock out lock out lock out the lock out lock out the lock out the lock out the lock out the lock out the lock out the lock out the lock out their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their they. they. they. they. they. they. their their to their to too. toe. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the lock. their their the actual pandemic restrictions and said, hey, we're going to make it so that nobody can be open and then we'll very slowly introduce things where like, you know, a huge venue can have like 10 customers in it. And they all have to be sitting 20 feet apart and stuff like that. But the casino has an exemption and they can just kind of keep going. Yeah, it was pretty wild. And they were like when everyone else is having those not allowed to stand in venues,

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Love you. My goodness. So that's the one thing we didn't want to happen. But what did we want to happen? From Yahoo News Australia, Australian sex doll sales booming during coronavirus pandemic. Then, why did you want this to happen? Are they sales in Australia? Or are they sales of Australian sex dolls? They kind of berate you with a horrible accent. Fuckin, go on, have sex with me, cunt. I'm glad I paid $15,000 for this. Oh, put it in me kiker.

Buy a charger, G. Um, yeah. Let's have a look at this. The coronavirus pandemic has rattled the global economy, disrupting supply chains and forcing businesses to close down, either temporarily or for good. Those are the two ways that you can close down, that's right. But there are some sections of the economy that have seen a boon, sorry, seen a boon from the lockdowns and social distancing mandates imposed by the government around the world, and one of them seems to be the the the the the the the to be to be their to be to be their to be to be their to be their to be to be their their their to be their the lockdowns and social distancing mandates imposed by the government around the world and one of them seems to be the adult toy industry

But they have the sense to not brag about it like Jerry Harvey, you know That's true. Well, maybe let's find out Sydney man Ryan James runs a side business supplying adult toys and sex dolls or as he calls them. Don't call them that dude. Well, that's he sells them. He'd know. I mean? the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. toy. toy. toy. toy. toy. toy. S. S. S. I. S. I's. I's. I's. S. I's. I's. I's. S. I's. S. I's. toy. toy. S. toy. toy. S. toy. S. toy. S.'t call them that dude. Well, that's... He sells them, he'd know. No, I mean, don't. It's not love. It's not love. It's not love and I would venture one further and say I'm almost sure it's not companionship. Jesus. We've definitely seen a jump in sales in recent months of our dolls, he told Yahoo News Australia. After starting the online business about two years ago, he says the company has seen a

roughly 35% increase in traffic to its website during the pandemic. What we've seen in recent months is definitely an increase in our website clicks, Mr. Ryan said, and also inquiries, there's been tons of emails to look at. The past eight weeks tracking, we've seen a 35, their, thii, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, thi, thi, thi, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi. thi, thi, thi, thi. We've thi. We've thi, thi. We've thi. thi, thr-s, thr-s, thr-s, thr-s''a'a'i. thr-s'i. thr-s'a'i. thr-s. thi. thi. th eight weeks tracking, we've seen a 35% increase in web volume. While customers often correspond through email before making a purchase, Mr. Ryan said it is translating it to sales for the dolls, which cost around $3,000 to $4,000 each. I believe it's because people have less opportunity to socialize at the moment with restrictions in place, and it's kind of causing a bit of frustration with people, he said. Well it's not the same thing to earn a doll, those that are single or might be having trouble with relationships or obtaining a partner, it's just something to provide a bit of

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Oh boy. He began by selling, quote, bits and pieces on eBay before moving into the importation of sex dolls. Did you want a bit or a piece? Which? Both maybe. The company is essentially a drop shipping business, which acts as a local distributor and relies on international manufacturers who build the customizable dolls.

So he's just a middle man. They're not Australian sex dolls, They're sex dolls being sold in Australia. Yes. Uh, we did have problems with shipping delays, that was earlier on, but now we're starting to see it come back, which is great, Mr Ryan said of shipping disruptions during the coronavirus pandemic. In order to get the dolls to customers more quickly, the business now keeping more dolls on hand to satisfy demand. Wait, does that mean he does have some so he's not drop shipping them?

Hmm. Maybe he's getting well, no, no, no, well you've got here. I think I think the person who's written this has kind of conflated him with a drop shipper when really he's importing things. Sure. He's just a sex-doll importer. Well, when they say essentially a drop shipping business which acts as a local distributor and relies on international manufacturers, that's not what drop shipping is though. Dropships are the distributors themselves. It's just other people are doing sales and directing orders to them. Whereas in this case, he is actually importing the sextiles and I'm assuming that he has them all like sat around the dining table on various pieces of furniture they're all simulating a house party at his place until he gets an order in then he says everybody we got to say goodbye

to Debbie and then he does all the voices all the different girls waves their hands a little bit each one slightly different voices goodbye each one fitting in with the complex backstory that he's established for them. I think that this is, it's gonna be a real game changer when brain X gets into the sexton. Real game changer. Um, real game changer. Sitting next to my sex doll,

hey, your lights red, what's wrong? Oh, Christ. It's no any way I can cheer you up? Hey, let's get that green. Data about the size of Australia's sex doll market is hard to come by, but judging by what Australian customs officials tell Mr Ryan it might be bigger than what most people think. Imagine the shipping. It's like, how much the shipping would cost. He's just getting on the blower,

talking to the guy at customs about some holdup and he's like, yeah, you see any other fuck dolls come through here? Oh, millions of companion fuck dolls. Funny, we got fuck dolls coming out the wazoo here? Oh boy, I assume that like everybody has seen the... Like, like there are many layers of complexity within the sex doll market. I'm assuming it's like anything else where the amount of money you want to spend is probably, you know, hugely variable. Yeah, you're getting the, from the sex dolls that you get from Wish that can't be articulated any way, and we'll just yell random phrases at you in languages you don't recognize, through to like the high-end ones that can also do woodworking.

Has, um, have either of you seen the TV show Dave? No. Which is a, it says a TV show, uh, starring, Little, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, uh, the, uh, uh, uh, the, the, the, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th, the, th, th, th, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the the, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, thi, the, the, the, the, the the, the the, the the the thi.s, the the thi. thi, thi, thi show Dave? No. No. Which is a TV show starring Little Dickey, the rapper. And it's basically a TV series type 8 mile about the coming up of a rapper. So it's like, you know, mostly autobiographical. And there's an episode in this thing where little Dickie is getting up at night and sneaking out of the bed he shares with his girlfriend to use his sex doll thing. And it's just like a disembodied silicone ass with legs attached. Oh, no! And he has to like pick it up and sling it the legs over his shoulder so they can like drag it through to another room and I've never seen anything like it and I wonder

if they made it solely for the show. It really does a good job at capturing just the kind of abject horror of of those different types of sex toy things which are like, this thing is just a disembodied silicone vagina or butt. Have you ever seen the, it's like a, it's essentially a fleshlight in that it has a fuckable vagin, but it is built into a rubber foot? So there's this type of thing, right? If you're not willing to take out a big, big loan to buy yourself one. You just get the bits and pieces that you need. Yeah, a bit here, a piece there. And then once you get up to like the high-end market, you're real doll kind of things. These are the ones that that just cause existential horror horror horror horror horror horror horror horror horror horror horror horror horror horror horror horror thia horror thi horror thi horror thi horror thi horror thi-a thi-a thi-a thi-a thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thus thus thus thus thus thi thus thi thi thus thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. So thi. So thi. So thi. So thi. So th. So th. So th. So th. So th. So th. So th. So th. So th. So th. So th. So th. So th. So th. So th. So has has has has th. So thi thi thi has has thi has thi has thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi th up to like the high-end market, you're real doll kind of things.

These are the ones that just cause existential horror in me because this is the point at which they're like, hey, this thing has a fully articulated skeleton and like weighs as much as a real person and... Follows you around the room with its eyes. The I think I think the thing that gets me whenever I think about it is that my understanding of that type of sex doll is that before use you need to like lie it in a warm bath for a while so that it's not really kind you know because otherwise it's just a dead weight same size and feel as a normal human but it's not really kind, you know? Because otherwise it's just a deadweight, same size, and feel as a normal human, but is cold on the outside and inside body kind of thing?

Jesus Christ. And I don't care for that at all. I did say a little while ago, Thea, that I had been, I started watching the TV show review, review, yeah, yes. And there is an episode of review, uh, having a sex tapepepepe. And, and tapepepepepepepe. And tap. And tap. And tap. And tap. And tap. And thape. And thape an episode of review where he is asked to review having a sex tape. And so he tries to make his own sex tape, but with one of these types of sex dolls. And so there's an extended sequence of him trying to like drag this thing up onto the bed and get it into various positions. And it looks about as pleasant as I imagine the real deal would be, you know. So it's wild to me to say yes I will drop $5,000 on one of these and get it through Australian

customs. Where do you put it? I mean I think a lot of the people that own these have like leaned into it pretty hard and become quite shameless about them just the shameless about them or do you think do you think for? And like like like, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, thi, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi's thi''' thi, thi, thi Just like shameless about them or do you think, do you think for, and like, you know, I guess I feel like I should say if you're somebody who I guess has spent a long time not being able to find any companionship with anyone, this is the road you've gone down. Yeah, it's not a bad person or whatever, I guess. There are perfectly legitimate reasons why someone might end up with one of these and that is fine. Yeah, although like, go and see a sex worker. Like, give you money to a real person.

You forgot to say that with the clap emoes between every syllable, but yeah. But yes, like, surely that would be a much better use of $5,000 than this. And it would be like actual companionship. This person could talk to you. You know, nice firm handshake at the end. That's how I understand it works. But yeah, this I just, I wonder if by the time you have said to yourself, I am now going to invest $5,000 Australian dollars in a high-tech fuck doll with a skeleton. I wonder if by that point you have just told yourself, this is it. No one is ever going to have sex with me.

So it's fine that I have a house full of disembodied arses and corpse-sized things shoved in my cupboard or whatever. Because like what happens if you're in someone else's house and you find one of these? What happens? I think you just sort of move past it? Yep. Never mention it. You just close the cupboard and walk back out to the barbecue. I mean like, say that this was like a close friend of mine that I had an existing relationship of like, trust and honesty, say I opened the wrong door in Theo's house and there's a fuck doll in there, my first question is going to be, hey what's up with the fuck doll in there? Does it work? Does it do what you want? When are you going to introduce me to your friend? It's definitely a whole thing.

It's definitely a whole thing. Um... Oh no. A similar uptick in demand has been reported in overseas markets with Adam and Eve a company with franchise locations acres in online sales. Meanwhile, one sex doll maker, sex doll genie, hmm. They all just have Robin Williams's voice from Aladdin. and on it goes, 10,000 years! Sex doll genie told Forbes that experienced a near 50% jump in demand during the US lockdown. The question is, are $5,000 sex dolls a scam? Or does everyone who gets one be like, worth every penny?

If you have bought a $5,000 sex doll, please write into mailbag at Buntavista.com and let us know. Even if you bought a $3,000 one of the $3,000, I would love to know. Yeah, kind of like the Audi of sex dolls. Going out, one of those wire crates just full of sex dolls, people lining up out the door. If you've got a hundred dollars... They're just as good as the brand name ones. They're just as good. If you got a hundred dollar sex doll I'm assuming it is a...

They're European so the holes on the wrong side. Oh boy. Dear oh dear. Sorry, do we ruin your segue in there Andrew? No, I just want to say that the European sex dolls also have an um-lout over the whole. Um... Um... Um... Sorry about this podcast.

Before we get out of here, let's have ourselves a little update on that classic segment, Scam Watch. This is of course a long-running evolution of the original and greatest boat watch. The scam by which you receive an illegal boat. One of the classic scams. Yeah, one of the great cons. Yeah, where you give me a boat. You give me a boat, and then when I get asked about it, I say that I did not receive

a boat. Full proof. I possibly couldn't deny the charge because I don't know what the charge is. I'm not going to listen to you tell it to me. God, so good. This is from a, from page six, the very reputable page six, top Hollywood psychic, Tammy Adams, refutes accusations of million dollar scam. Top, top Hollywood psychics. I'm wonderful about that. Very competitive field, you're Hollywood psychics.

Oh, boy. A top psychic. Not one of your run-of-the-mill psychics. A shit psychic is a degrade psychic. She's fighting back after being accused of a despicable crime. Tammy Adams is considered a go-to seer in Malibu, California, we are told, with several A-list clients. Anybody imagining anyone in particular?

Oh, fucking, Gwinneth Paltrow is a hundred percent giving this woman $25,000 an hour to tell her, yes, Goop will be successful. I feel like Goop and that type of stuff is just the new age of this sort of thing. It's the like, hey, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there's there's there, there, there's there's there's, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, th. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. I there, I there, I there, I there, I there, I there, I there, I there, I there, I th is, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. is is just the new age of this sort of thing. It's the like, hey, there's no silly mysticism. It's just a jade egg that you put in your pussy. It's science. Yeah, you just get your biocharger NG and recharge your molecules. That's science, you know.

She's been accused in court papers of scamming a 73-year-old kindergarten teacher out of her home and savings. That's a bummer. Yeah, that's a not so good. Are you going to, Andrew, are you sticking to your guns on this one? That it is morally correct for the 73-year-old kindergarten teacher to have been scammed because she fell for a scam? Let's get a little further into the details.

I have to make my judgments on an individual basis. The alleged victim, Victoria Nelson, claims in court documents that Adams and the psychic's daughter-in-law took advantage of her fears about managing her finances after the death of her husband, who'd taken care of their money, and exploited her faith in psychic powers to talk her into giving Adams the deed to to to to her $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $1111.000000000000000000000000000000, toeaeauia, toea, toea-a-a, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, their, their, to, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, th, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thiiia, thea, thea.ea.eau.eau.eau.eau.eau.eau.eau.eau.ea, toea, toe, toe of their money, and exploited her faith in psychic powers to talk her into giving Adams the deed to her $1.5 million home leaving her homeless and ruined. I think this one kind of sucks, I'm going to be real with you. Yeah, she should stick to scamming Hollywood stars, which I think is actually a net gain. Yes. To be perfectly honest. Yeah. And normally, like a lot of the time when I'm seeing like an older person get scammed

and laughing, it's because the person clearly just had like too much money and they were like, how can I turn this into even more money? I know. Do you think they're motivated by greed? Yes, that's true. Whereas this lady, she was worried. Now Adam says responded exclusively telling page 6 that Nelson that that that that that that that that that that that that's true. Whereas this lady, she was worried. Now Adams has responded exclusively telling page six that Nelson wanted her help in turning part of her home into a facility for cancer patients? This was supposed to be a sanctuary for kids and families receiving cancer treatment at local Bay Area hospitals.

If they're suing me for trying to help cancer patients, I want the world to know this. This isn't about Tammy Adams, this is about saving those children that are very real. So, damn. So, damn. to refer to yourself in the third person as part of a refuting a scam where you're turning... What would this be? A sanctuary for kids and families receiving cancer treat. So it's sort of like Ronald McDonald's house,

but it's inside your house. Ronald McDonald room. Yeah, because like even that doesn't really answer the question, then why did you need the deed to her home to help her achieve this? It sounds a lot like this whole... Wait, no, sorry, it's... Yeah. Oh, so it's not part of Tammy Adams it's home.

It's... Right, okay, that's so fucking weird. Yeah, couldn't you just like... like you could still be in her name. I don't really understand that. And she can leave later, I would think, like once you know she's passed away or whatever, instead of now leaving her homeless. Very odd. The tone of this article to me screams we originally printed the accusation and now have been threatened with litigation. But because it's like quite apologetic. You know, like that first sentence, she's been accused of a despicable crime,

sort of as if the accusation itself, I don't know. It feels very, very weird to me. But also page six, fucking sucks, and they don't really care about anything, so that might be it. This very much to me reads as running defense for Tammy Adams. Yes. Which is a strange thing to do. But I suppose if you are page 6 or TMZ or whatever, if any celebrity in the world contacts you and says, I would like to say something directly to you, you go, we will print that.

Absolutely fantastic. Also, maybe Tammy Adams threatened to them tell tell the tell the the the time the time thel the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to tell them the time and manner of their death, meaning that they would live their entire life with a foregone sense of everything has already happened and there's no use trying. I hate going and paying half of my paycheck to Tammy Adams only to find out that I'm going to spend the infinite future inside a jar. Being powered by the proprietary BrainEx system. It's not what I wanted for myself. Gotta remember to untick the organ donor card.

Don't actually do that, by the way. That's true. We need those. Do you know, like, so there's been a very long time since I've done it. Because right, you do it when you get your driver's license, right? You like... Are we talking about the organ donor list thing? Long time since you've done it. You normally do it for the first time when you get a driver's license.

Yeah, that does the whole true actually, yeah. But that's how it works, right? You get your L's and you tick like a list a little sticker on the back of your license. Isn't that... Is that your recollection as well? Because we obviously got our license in the same state, Theo. Yeah, I don't know. My card is sort of like all fucked up and falling apart at this point.

I don't even know if it's actually printed on the card anymore. I think it's a like, they look that shit up. Yeah. But I just, I can't remember. I remember it being relatively modular. You can be like, oh yeah, take my heart, take my whatever, but don't take these parts. And I'm pretty sure I was talking to a friend at the time we did it, who was the same age. I was like, yeah, don't want to be in there when I'm dead. I'm like, alright, that's weird. Like you'll be dead.

So like, that seems fine. I'm, I'll donate my organs, but I do need some stuff like the eyes, right? Just in case. No, no, because, like, you can take the stuff out because they're gonna have to remove that anyway as part of fulfilling the wishes in my will, which is that if I die before my wife that my body be taxidermied and placed in a threatening pose somewhere in the house to ward off future suitors. Just like a wagging finger.

Yeah. I'm thinking like, you know the, you know like the taxidermied bears that have both of their four legs up reared back as if they're about to attack to attack to attack to attack to attack to attack the attack the attack the attack the attack the their their their their their their their their their their their their four legs up, reared back as if they're about to attack. Like that in the front walkway kind of thing. Completely nude and fully erect. And they've also padded a little bit. Yeah, it was my husband. 14 inch penis, God bless him. So I think that's a scenario where you know, you could take the heart, the lungs, you know, all that jazz, but I kind of

need the eyes. You can't stare menacingly with no eyes. Yeah, but you could just chuck a couple of, a couple of brown glasses in there. A couple of brown glass eyes in there. Make sure that point in the same direction. And I'm, I would not. Might be even scarier. It just seems like he's got an an the eye the eye the eye the eye the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. thi. thi. You. You. You's, you thi, you thi, you thi, you's, you's, you's, you can't, you to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to me their. too. ta. ta. ta. ta. ta. ta. ta. ta. ta. ta. tea. tea. te he's got an eye on every quarter of the room. That's right.

Blum. This is just a terrible taxidermy all around. Eyes pointing different directions. Huge dick. The dick follows you around the room. I was going to say, I think really you do need to hook the eyes up to a raspberry pie and have them track any potential suitors as they come in. It's fine if it makes a noise because that's even more disconcerting.

Look, as long as, however it works, as long as Elida never finds happiness after you're dead. Yeah, mission accomplished. So I take it all back. I'm signing the organ donor thing. That's fine. You can take it all out as long as you leave the main structure there with which you do the taxidomy. Maybe on your body. I am going to print out my own label though, which makes clear that there is an exception

for proprietary brain-ex technology and also being placed in a sex doll. I don't want either of those. Okay, and that's fair. And this podcast also counts as a will. This is legally binding. Yeah, it's true. Just imagine that just going through the living will of, all right, so I've got about 400 episodes of podcast to listen to.

Yeah, in the episode, uh, fart comers, he said that. You're gonna have to call this episode right now. Oh no. Well, I think that's it for us for the week. Thank you for stopping by. Thank you for listening. Um, make sure to tell your loved ones that you don't want anything to do with having your brain put in a jar, unless you do, in which case tell them that, you know...... th. th. th. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. that's that's that's that's that's to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the. the a jar unless you do, in which case tell them that. You know? Just communicate with your loved ones. I think that's the point we're trying to make here. Yep. If you got a question or a comment for the show, some kind of issue you need help with right into mail bag at Buntavista.com. Australian listeners, if you would like to leave a message which we can respond to, possibly even play on the show, you can call 1,800 317-5-15, the Punta Vista Hotline. I wonder what the American phone number is.

That's a great question, Andrew. You want to rattle that off of the top of your head there, man? Yeah, absolutely. That is 888, 842, 2357. Stop doing that. Okay. It is 732-876-3446. That's 732876346 for our American listeners. You can call up, leave a message. All that will play on the show.

We'll really get into it, you know. And if you are in the UK, you should just feel bad about where you live, what you've done, what you're participating in, how many turfs there are on a per capita basis. And you will not be leaving a message for the show. And if you live anywhere else, sorry. Wish we could help. It was hard enough to set these ones up. I don't, you know, I don't need to get back to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to to get to to to to to to get to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their their their their their their tha. the. thea. tooooooooooof. tea. teck. to. to. to. to. to. thea. thea. the the thea set these ones up. I don't, you know, I don't need to get back into it. That's it folks. See you next time. Bye. you