- Zombies may actually be real, soon.
- Let's talk about that.
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- Gooooood Mythical Morning.
- Now as you know, this is Halloweek.
We are halfway through Halloweek
and things have already gotten a little spooky.
- Neck deep in Halloweek.
- But things are going to get even more sensitive,
I'm giving a little warning to those of you out there
who may be a little bit more sensitive
because we gonna be talking about-
- And his being serious.
- I'm being serious because we're gonna be talking
about experiments to bring people back from the dead,
both people and animals.
- Real-life zombies?
- And we're gonna be showing and talking
about some of those experiments including showing
some videos of animals being experimented on.
Now if your sensitive to that, A, I don't blame you,
and B, you may want to skip this episode.
But if you want to embrace your inner Halloweenie then,
that came out wrong but just hang on.
- Welcome to my world.
- Because that's where we going today, brother.
Scientists, Link, are getting closer and closer.
- To making zombies.
- Yeah, to making zombies a real thing,
to bringing people back from the deads.
And we're gonna be talking about what they did in the past
and what they're doing right now.
Let's go back to the late 1700s
with a gentleman named Giovanni Aldini.
- Okay.
- This is the guy who was actually the basis
for Dr. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
- Yeah and we mentioned this guy in an episode
of "Ear Biscuits". - "Ear Biscuits".
- When we talked about weird experiments.
- We did.
- Link in the description if you want to listen to that.
- So this guy basically started applying electricity
to dead animals.
Starting with dead frogs.
- Basically sounds like a middle school boy
who's very bored.
- Yeah.
But in the 1700s, I mean, this is advanced stuff.
And he started electrifying frog legs.
Here's an example of what that would've looked like.
This obviously is not from the 1700s, this is from recently.
- Why they gotta skin the frog before they make it move?
- So you can see it, man.
- It would look more alive if it still had the skin.
- Makes me a little hungry.
Not really.
- Yeah, I'm not hungry.
- So, okay, he did this-
- So it moved but the leg wasn't alive?
- He did not understand the life force
and didn't understand how electricity was involved.
So he was like, "I'm doing this and it's starting to move,
maybe I should just move from frog legs to actual humans."
So one of his most famous experiments is,
he actually has a recently executed criminal
named George Forster.
And he brings George out for a public demonstration.
Hocks him up to some electrodes.
- His a dead criminal, we can do anything to him,
in public.
- Applies the electricity to George
and George's jaw begins to move, one of his eyes ones
and he clenches his fist and begins to move his legs
and thighs around.
- Really?
- This is impressive stuff.
- I pictured him doing Gangnam Style, I don't know why.
- Well, that was before this time, that didn't exist.
- No, that's when it was invented.
- But I do have an idea or just something to propose to you,
if I die first or you die first,
can we make an agreement right now
that we will let electricity be applied to our bodies,
I mean, I could see having one eye open.
That could just be my thing.
- And get your fists going.
Let me see.
This is a full audition now.
And can you speak or am I going to have to pay pantomime?
- No I'm just there for the.
- I'm with this.
Yes, you're hired.
- You're gonna have to do it too.
There you go.
That's good.
- You do all the talking, I do all the gesturing.
- That's just a slightly marginally worst
then you are right now.
- [Both] Aw.
- Bounces off me sticks to you, rubber glue,
sticks, and stones.
- Okay.
I don't want you here if you're dead man.
Rubber glue, sticks, and stones.
Okay.
You ain't see nothing yet, Link,
this is where it's going to get,
okay, if you have-
- Demented.
- Yeah, this is where you might want to tune,
really if you didn't tune out this first time,
if you didn't grab hold of your,
I mean embrace your inner Halloweenie.
- Yes.
- This is the time to do it or to just back out completely.
Sergey Bryukhonenkon, Russian,
was very into experimenting on dogs back in the 1940s.
Now, the Soviets were doing lots of weird stuff back then.
- Weren't we all?
- And they did this thing.
- Doing weird stuff I mean.
- You may have seen this video
because it's been on the internet for a while.
- Yeah.
- Where they hooked a dog up to something
called the Autojector, which is basically
an artificial heart and lungs machine.
- It circulates your blood and air?
- And they hooked...
Yeah, it was artificial heart and lung machine.
- Yes.
- So they hooked a dogs head up.
I'm just gonna let you watch it.
Again, look away if you don't wanna see this.
- This is just the head of the dog?
- Just a head of a dog hooked up to a machine.
- Oh my word.
- There's the two pumps.
Now, that's a cartoon but this is the actual footage.
- Oh, oh.
No, no.
- Now you may think, now as you can see that dog's head.
- Is biking a brush.
- Is responding to the stimulus.
- It's blinking it's eyes.
- Oh.
- It's licking it's lips.
That is just a dog's head.
It's responding to light.
- It's like a sleeping dog head that's licking peanut butter
off a Q-tip.
It's responding to hammers?
- They're hitting the hammer next to it and make it move.
Now, this is a very difficult thing for many people,
including me and Link to watch.
- Oh my gosh.
Now that I have a dog, last time I watched this
it didn't phase me.
- Now, there's a controversy around this video
'cause some people just can't believe
that it actually happened, they can't believe
that it's true.
They think it's some sort of propaganda video
but it's actually not that farfetched to think
that at least for a period of time,
if you were to get a clean cut on a dog's head
and you would hook it up to this machine
that's providing blood flow and oxygen,
that it could actually continue to function.
So, I personally think that it's real.
- They put peanut butter on the dog's mouth,
where'd the peanut butter go?
Did it just slide out the back?
- I think it did.
I think it just dropped on the table.
- It just slide out the back.
It's recycle it.
- But here's the question for us.
Here's the question for us.
- Poor dude.
- Now, this Autojector technology is not something
that's in use today
but if you had to make a choice between no Jade,
or just Jade head, what would you do?
I've thought about this in terms of Barbra already.
- That's not my favorite part of Jade.
- What's your favorite part?
- The body.
I mean, I pet the body.
- You want?
- I'mma do the inverse.
- You just want the dog's body?
- I just wanna pet the headless body.
- But it's gonna be hooked up to a machine.
- Yeah.
It'll have a robot head.
- Okay, I didn't know that was part of it.
- That's actually cooler.
My dog, Jade now has a robot head, it wouldn't be...
I mean, just a head just there is gross.
- You don't like the face?
You don't like the face?
- I love her face and her ears.
- But if you had to make a choice,
just the body?
- I'm going for the body 'cause there's more to pet.
- Barbra does bark a lot but I think I'd go for the head.
I love the licks.
I like the face licks.
I put the head up and.
- She licks the butt, she licks the face.
I could do with less of that.
- She wouldn't have a butt.
- Good point.
That's great.
Oh, I take it back then.
Jade could not lick the butt and still lick my face.
- This is only the beginning of the Autojector,
they actually also took blood out of a dog,
let it die for 10 mins, and then brought it back to life.
- A full dog?
- A whole dog, head and all.
That's also on the video,
you can watch that on your own time.
- And then the dog lived a life?
- Yes, let's move on from dogs to hamsters and to the 1950s
and America, James Lovelock began to take hamsters
and freeze them in a negative five degrees Celsius bath
for 90 minutes until-
- Hamstersicles.
- Yes, until he had Hamstersicles
and then he would take a hot spoon
and apply it to their chest to get their heart
to start beating again.
And he succeeded in doing this.
Frozen hamster, hot spoon, brings the hamster back to life.
This man.
- And this is his picture now?
This is him now, just grandpa'ing it up?
- Yeah, yeah.
- I mean look at that smile.
He doesn't look like the guy who would freeze
and fry hamsters with a spoon.
- Well, he was, he did in his younger days.
And he also started to realize
that he was hurting the hamsters,
as if he wasn't already hurting the hamsters,
he was hurting the hamsters with the hot spoons
and so he modified a radio transmitter to emit microwaves
and began to microwave the hamsters back to life.
And he actually claims to be an integral part
in the invention of the microwave.
So every time you have a freakin' hot pocket,
think about those little hamsters.
- There's the moral dilemma.
That also explains why there's a hamster thaw button
on my microwave.
- And you always wondered what that was?
Yeah, now you know what the hamster button's for.
- Well, I knew it was for tharwing hamsters
but I didn't know why.
- But seriously, this does raise
an interest ethical question,
we can't gloss over that point.
- Let's not.
- Because this dude and other people like him
did these experiments on innocent little animals
but not you have endless Hot Pockets
and little pies that you can warm up.
- Right.
- And you even got some breakfast sausage,
you get breakfast sausage and you get it real quick
because of some little hamsters,
how does that make you feel?
- I mean, there were years that I cooked exclusively
in a microwave.
I would be dead if it weren't for these hamsters' sacrifice.
- Okay, well, I'm about to make it even more personal, Link,
and more current because right now as we speak
there are companies, Revita Life Sciences and BioCork,
who are collaborating to bring humans back to life
from the dead.
- Yes.
- Now, there are people out there
who are completely brain dead.
The definition of being dead in a hospital setting
is when there's no brain activity.
- Brain don't work.
- Now you can, of course, continue through a respirator,
ventilator, and some other machines,
continue to keep people alive but they're brain dead.
So what they have done is they have 20,
I'm not gonna call them volunteers
because these people cannot volunteer at this point,
but they have selected 20 people.
And they've just recently in May of this year
have got medical approval to begin experimenting
with these people with injecting stem cells
into their brains and then stimulating them with lasers
and some other things to get them to begin to grow
and regenerate the parts of their brain that are dead.
In the same way that a salamander regenerates limbs
or its tail, they want to try
to do that inside people's brains.
And it's happening right now.
Now I don't know how these people-
- Right here, under the table.
- [Both] No.
- I don't exactly know how these people were chosen for this
because they basically said they had to find people
who were organ donors.
- Prisoners?
- No.
- So just a heart on your drivers' license?
- You got one of those, I've seen it.
I got one of those, I've seen it.
Now, but it's a little more complicated,
they just said they went to the families
and was there any religious or moral or ethical reason
that they didn't think that these people
should be subjected to this?
But it's very controversial.
- So they got some permission from families?
- But they don't have permission from these people
who may have their brains regenerated.
- And then come back.
- May come back to live or some sort of half-life,
zombie state, and then they're like,
"I didn't want this.
Look at who I am now with my crazy zombie brain."
This is happening right now.
- Well, I'll tell you, I've lived a lot of life,
well I've lived the life that I've lived.
- I've lived a lot of life man.
- And all the life that I've lived, I've liked it.
I've liked living it.
- Really?
All of it?
- And I think that when I die, I'm gonna be like,
"I'd like to keep doing the life thing."
- Oh, so you want me to inject the brain
and do the lasers.
- But only if I knew that I was gonna come all the way back.
I want it to be like just an outpatient procedure.
- Okay.
- And then I'm in but I don't wanna be
in the experimental phase, I'm gonna white out my license.
That's not what it's for, that's organ donning.
Organ donning.
Donating.
- You need that part of your brain stimulated.
The donning brain, the donning part.
- Maybe somebodies gotta be magnanimous enough to volunteer
for this experimental phase
but when it's outpatient, I'm in.
- Okay, what do you think?
What do you think about those hamsters and those dogs?
And what do you think about those people
that may be coming back to some sort of zombie state?
Are you in or are you out?
- Don't keep mentioning the dog, that kind of stuck with me.
- Just pick one part and say are you in or are you out.
- Are you in or you out?
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- You know what time it is.
- Hey, I'm Yuksam.
And I'm Katie.
- [Both] We're from Hungary and it's time
to spin the Wheel of Mythicality.
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Go check that out.
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- I don't think that's how it works but probably, maybe.
- I don't know.
Link through the Good Mythical More,
we're gonna do experiments on a chase head.
- Beatboxing wolves.
(both howling and beatboxing)
- Push him a little bit further.
- Push him towards me.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Push him, push him, push him, push him, push him,
push him, push him, push him, push him, push him,
push him, push him, push him, push him, push him.
- There we go. - Yes.