2025.10.29: Join The Club

Speaker 1 Can I give you some advice? Hmm? You gotta get better at this part of the job. Hey! We're recording the podcast! Guys!

Speaker 2 Good!

Speaker 1 Morning to you, wherever you are, because it is morning somewhere! For October 29th, 2025, my name is Bernie Burns, sitting right over there.

Speaker 1 She got a special delivery. It's Ashley Burns.

Speaker 1 She's She's very happy today.

Speaker 2 I did. My stress levels are dropping a bit.

Speaker 2 So Halloween is Friday. And many weeks ago, I said to Finn, what do you want to be for Halloween? And he said, I want to be a Pikmin,

Speaker 2 which is from the Nintendo franchise, for anyone who's familiar. A red Pikmin.
And it was like, I was like, sweetie, baby, I don't think they sell Pikmin costumes in stores.

Speaker 2 And he was like, he really wanted to be a Pikmin. So

Speaker 2 we put in the work. I didn't like make anything, but I ordered stuff online.

Speaker 2 Is I ordered this custom crochet Pikmin hat from Etsy. This is like three or four weeks ago that I ordered this thing.
And I was like, that'll be great.

Speaker 2 And then I get a notification, it's coming from Spanish Fork, Utah. And I was like, oh, fuck.

Speaker 1 Spanish Fork. Spanish Fork, Utah.

Speaker 2 I know. I was like, I should have just sent my dad to pick it up.
What is somebody from Utah called?

Speaker 1 Utah? Uton. It's not true.
It is. A Uton?

Speaker 2 A Uton. Okay.
What are we? Utah

Speaker 2 I mean, come on. Like, what else would you be? Anyway, so it spent like,

Speaker 2 first of all,

Speaker 2 the Etsy creator had to make it. That took like a week.

Speaker 2 And then.

Speaker 1 No shit.

Speaker 2 Have you seen it? It's great. Anyway, spoilers.

Speaker 1 Well, no, I know somebody knitted it, but it's, I would have thought they would have sold it once they had it made. So they...
Do you ordered it? A lot of times.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, I suspect so because it was like, it was a week delay. It was on demand.
It was made to order. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then

Speaker 2 it spent the next like week and a half just pinging slowly around the west coast of the United States.

Speaker 2 Like someone would just like flag down a passing truck and be like, hey, can you take this on to the next town? Like old school style, right? So it spent a week and a half.

Speaker 2 I just got notification after notification about where it was going all around the west coast. And I was, and then

Speaker 2 I finally, I finally like, like maybe a week ago, got a notification that it's been handed off to the international cargo carrier that I'd never heard of before.

Speaker 1 No, and I was like, why would you have ever heard of an international cargo carrier?

Speaker 2 Well, it was like Ascendan or something like that, right? Like it was a company I'd never heard of. It wasn't like handed off to like FedEx or like UPS International, Global, or anything like that.

Speaker 2 It was like, I was like, oh, God, here we go.

Speaker 1 Good news, your parcel is now on board the Evergiven. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We'll be here soon.

Speaker 2 A hurricane's willing. But, and then I get the notification that everyone loves getting after this incredible period of silence, which is, hey, got delivered.
Nothing in between.

Speaker 2 It was like the international carrier has it. And I was like, oh, God, what's going to happen? It's on your front door.
It's going to happen. And then like, you've got it.

Speaker 1 So we're going to have, for Halloween, we're going to have a Pikmin.

Speaker 2 We've got our little red Pikmin.

Speaker 1 And we're going to have a butterfly. Those are our two Halloween costumes.

Speaker 2 And I got to level with you, this Pikmin hat is pretty fantastic.

Speaker 1 What we're going to have is we're going to have two winter jackets, and then underneath those will be a a Pikmin and a butterfly.

Speaker 2 I mean, I've got to get these kids like in like three layers of thermals if they don't want to be wearing coats because the temperature dropped. It dropped quick and it dropped hard.

Speaker 2 And it's like, it went from this lovely, like brisk, but very nice autumn to like, hey, winter is coming, bitches.

Speaker 1 I think we can all relate to your situation

Speaker 1 because I knew we'd be okay no matter what. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 It's like he would, the Pikmin hat would come and it could either be a Christmas gift or whatever, you know, but he did kind of have his heart set on being this.

Speaker 1 Once they get the first bit of candy in hand, everything else. Everything's fun.
Yeah. I'm also more concentrated on something else, which is our

Speaker 1 little P1, little first grader, won best dancer at the Halloween disco last year. So now he's got a dance.

Speaker 2 No, the pressure's on.

Speaker 1 Defend his title at the Halloween disco. And this actually leads into some housekeeping we want to do anyway.

Speaker 1 I think everyone can relate to like you're looking down the barrel of a deadline and it's just you're waiting on delivery updates and that's it.

Speaker 1 And you're like, oh shit i should have ordered this out of your hands yeah whatever it was i should have gotten it that's coming up for christmas so at the beginning of november early in november i'll just say that we're going to refresh the rooster teeth store and we're going to put some old designs in hits so now this would be your last chance if you want there's anything like everyone always says oh thank god they're doing my one of the eight bazillion designs um that former rooster teeth had in the store.

Speaker 1 Just if we can get something to upvote, usually there's like 7,000 suggestions and they all have about two upvotes. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 If something gets a significant amount of upvotes that people want back in the store, we will absolutely.

Speaker 2 We will do our best. We will go through all the archives and try to find that art.

Speaker 1 We will do our best to strongly consider that. How is that for qualifications?

Speaker 1 Also, another really brief housekeeping this weekend.

Speaker 1 Talked about it on the Patreon chat, I think. Sponsor chat.
I got to stop saying Patreon.

Speaker 1 We're doing a CF Thieves kind of play date this weekend, but it's not a time. We're just going to have a guild.
Everyone's going to join it in the honor of everything is in Xbox.

Speaker 1 This is one of those games that's everywhere now. So you can join the Early Risers Guild on Sea of Thieves if you play that game or if you want to start playing it.
And then you just join in.

Speaker 1 And if anyone in the guild is online and on a boat, you can just join in on the boat and that's it.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And if you if you are on the Patreon, you can also hop in the Discord there

Speaker 2 and find people to play with at any given time. There's a lot of Sea of Thieves players on there.

Speaker 1 Targeting Saturday. That's going to be the day that we're all kind of targeting.
It's a double XP weekend this weekend. So that's what we're doing.

Speaker 2 So it's a win-win-win.

Speaker 1 I'm glad you got your delivery. I'm having a week, and I think you've noticed this.
I noticed like when people start to avoid me, I'm having one of those weeks.

Speaker 2 We just, we just be quiet and we let you have your space.

Speaker 1 And I think everyone can relate. There's a lot of stuff going on, you know, both personally, professionally, across the board.
You get a lot of moving parts all the time.

Speaker 1 This is one of those weeks where I'm doing everything I should. I'm checking all the boxes and not making any progress, you know?

Speaker 1 Like I'll do stuff and it's like, great, that was done, done on Friday, that's fantastic. And then it gets completely undone on Monday, right?

Speaker 1 And then I've got, okay, the thing I was working on last week, I now have to work on again this week because it was just completely undone.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you get a lot of,

Speaker 2 it's almost more annoying when you have a box ticked and then you have to go back and untick it than it was to not have it ticked in the first place.

Speaker 1 Which it's good for me to go through this because after having like essentially come out of a five-year retirement, I found I was very quickly like, I didn't tolerate anything.

Speaker 1 There's the whole philosophy of don't give an inch, but that's no way to run a business at all, right? Cause people always want to compromise and things like that.

Speaker 1 But I was very much when I restarted stuff, I would, I would go to work on stuff.

Speaker 1 And the moment it gave me like a minute of trouble or stress, I was like, I don't want to deal with this and I'm not doing this anymore. Like, that's it.
Literally, I would just hit eject on stuff.

Speaker 2 I didn't get back into this for bullshit.

Speaker 1 Exactly. Exactly.
But then after, but after you do that for a little while, it seems great in the moment, but then it's like, what are you in this for?

Speaker 1 It's like, there's got to be challenges and you have to be be able to meet them you know what i mean yeah i do yeah but i was i was very much like nah this sounds like a hassle fuck this

Speaker 1 get out of here yeah so it's it's kind of a kind of a challenging week as far as boxes getting ticked and then unticked again and then having to work extra hard to maybe re-tick that box and it's it's just kind of or just the feeling like you know it's it's just like you can be a grump and be you know cry baby and be like i already did this i shouldn't have to do it again you know kind of a thing nobody's supposed to be here it's hard to explain like i had something i had something fixed this week and it was like after the tradesmen came and they worked on it and they fixed it.

Speaker 1 Then it was completely unfixed in dramatic fashion.

Speaker 2 In dramatic fashion. Like the next day.
And it's like, oh, you've got to be kidding.

Speaker 1 It's like when you pull out of the garage, you know, the auto mechanic, and then every light on your dashboard lights up, which we actually saw somebody send us a photo recently.

Speaker 2 They go, can you tell what's wrong with my car? And I went, I don't know, everything?

Speaker 2 It looks like everything.

Speaker 1 Every light on the dashboard was lit up and blinking.

Speaker 2 They're like lit up and blinking. And it's like, I was like, I think you might need need to see a mechanic, is what I think.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think Thanos snapped his fingers while looking at your car. That's what it seemed like.

Speaker 1 Everything went wrong with it. So, yeah, so

Speaker 1 making progress. I'm glad.
I'm very happy for you. I could literally see the stress relief from you when that hat showed up.
I know you were very invested in it.

Speaker 2 I'm so happy.

Speaker 1 My whole part of it was easy. I ordered a red bodysuit.

Speaker 1 Showed up the next day.

Speaker 2 And we were worried about that one too, because it was like, we ordered like a red bodysuit off Amazon.

Speaker 1 and you when you see you're like it's been dispatched and you go coming from where and you're like oh fuck it's coming from shenzhen china and you're like this is coming international it's gonna go through all these things is it gonna get here in time and it showed up in like three days and i was like i thought the bodysuit was gonna be the hard part yeah no i gotta i gotta say i don't know i when you say that when i see something shipped from china i still have the reaction of like oh this is not this is not great like this is a thing that should i should we put our kid in a bodysuit that came directly from a factory in China and being worried about it, stuff like that?

Speaker 1 And then I see all the videos coming out of China. Everything seems like life in China is fantastic.

Speaker 2 Look, everything is coming from China. You got to get over that.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Everything that you use, China was probably involved somehow.

Speaker 1 Meanwhile, there was a San Francisco company. You can look up to make sure I got this right.
It's X1, I believe, is the name of the company. They officially now have on pre-order for you.

Speaker 2 You can order if you have a spare, well, $200 for the deposit today and twenty thousand dollars upon delivery you can order it's like uh pre-ordering uh one of those cyber trucks an autonomous robot the x the hold on the one x neo thank you one x neo one x one x neo is the neo is the name of the robot and it's like it almost looks like a like a bose speaker a little bit it's like covered in that cloth yeah it's like yeah it's like covered in fabric like a little like sweatery little guy yeah uh here we go this is uh this is a press release from yesterday 1x is proud to to announce the launch of Neo, the world's first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform life at home.

Speaker 2 Neo automates everyday chores and offers personalized assistance so people can spend more time on the things that matter, like calling tradesmen again.

Speaker 2 Let's see, what is it designed to do, though?

Speaker 1 So that's the it's interesting you asked that question.

Speaker 1 So the thing that people are skeptical now about it reading about this is that people have figured out that part of it is it will do simple tasks around your house or

Speaker 1 you basically hire someone within the company to run the robot remotely for a certain period of time to train it and then after that period it operates autonomously in your house that's an interesting approach to that because we have heard about like robots that are just basically proxies for people like folding towels and things this is a human remotely accesses the robot in your house trains the robot to do the tasks within your house and then the robot just goes to work after that and people are freaked out about that because they're like why would I want to allow someone access to a thing with a camera and a microphone and that can move around my house freely?

Speaker 2 Hey, Alexa, is that a privacy concern?

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 See, exactly right. Or the other side of that too is not even the technology side, too.
It's like you hear about that and you're like, ooh, that sounds horrible.

Speaker 1 But then if you look at the flip side of that in like the human analog world, it's like. You're going to hire somebody.

Speaker 1 If you're going to hire, for instance, someone to a housekeeper to come and clean your house, you're going to hire someone you don't know to come into your home, probably completely unsupervised, because that would be weird for you to stand there and watch them work, right?

Speaker 1 Right. And move about your house independently, probably with one or two other people.

Speaker 1 If you hire a cleaning service, you don't know these people and they're just going to have access to your valuables and your private information and everything all around your house.

Speaker 1 Anyway, you do that all the time. You're like, your question there is, how much do they charge, right? It's not like...

Speaker 1 What are they going to do with the data or anything like that? When something is new, I find that we have a level of scrutiny with it that we don't have for things that are already well established.

Speaker 2 Yeah, this is weird. The marketing is like, ooh, look at this.

Speaker 2 With the click of a button or a simple verbal command, Neo transforms into a personal housekeeper, tackling tasks like folding laundry, organizing shelves, and tidying spaces.

Speaker 1 Well, people have already started the memes, too, of like in bed with your wife.

Speaker 1 People are weird.

Speaker 1 People are weird. But it's out there.
Also, do you have the price there? Because it was $20,000

Speaker 1 if you go into the early access program and you can get it. And then you pricing and availability.

Speaker 2 Neo is now available via OneX's online store. It comes in three distinct colors.

Speaker 2 They can be purchased early access for $20,000, which includes priority delivery 2026. There's also a subscription model offering

Speaker 2 at $500 per month, which will be shipped at a later date.

Speaker 1 Is that $500 a month or is it $599? I looked, I went all the way through.

Speaker 2 I'm sorry. It's actually a better bargain than that.
It's $499.

Speaker 1 $499. It says practically a steal at that point.
A month. That's a lot.
$500 a month. But if you have something you can do all your tasks in your house, that's $6,000 a year.

Speaker 1 You'd never be able to hire a person for $6,000.

Speaker 2 Well, here's the thing, though, is there's also like, there's doing the thing and then there's doing the thing well. That's true.
Right. Like, am I really going to trust this to iron sheets?

Speaker 2 I don't know. Or something like without getting like, you know, without like getting creases in stuff.
I don't know about that.

Speaker 1 We've done, though, too, where we've hired a cleaning service and everyone I've heard that has hired a cleaning service at some point in their life has said the same thing that we did, which is we spent all of our week beforehand cleaning the house for the cleaning service.

Speaker 1 I don't think you would clean it for the robot.

Speaker 2 It's like we can't let them see how we live.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm not like sweeping the floor before the Roomba goes to work. I'm not saying, oh my God, I don't want to be embarrassed by the Roomba.

Speaker 2 No, but you are having to like

Speaker 2 dig under the couch to rescue the Roomba. So who knows what you're going to have to rescue this robot from?

Speaker 1 You're not wrong. I do, like, when we had a Roomba in the kitchen when we lived in Austin, I would turn the chairs up on top of the table like I was closing a restaurant for the night.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't normally do that, right?

Speaker 2 Right. And it's like, well, like, what's the warranty like on this robot when it falls down the stairs? Because it probably is, right?

Speaker 2 Especially like the early versions of this thing, they're going to get into all kinds of trouble. Oh, you're going to find it like it accidentally closed itself in like the cupboard.

Speaker 1 I've heard of a lot of problems with Roombas, though. I've never heard of a Roomba going down a set of stairs.
Have you? Like, I feel like I'd see a lot of videos about that.

Speaker 1 Oh, my, my TV was taken out because my Roomba tumbled down the stairs.

Speaker 2 No, you're right. I haven't actually heard that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's not a common thing that I hear about, but it is when I see a walking around humanoid robot, I think that thing's definitely going to fall down the stairs at some point.

Speaker 2 Robot. I actually saw,

Speaker 2 there was a video of a Roomba-like robot that had ways to climb the stairs on its own.

Speaker 2 Like it has like a little arm that could like lift itself up onto a stairs and just like stair-step its way up to like another level to keep working.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, it's true, too, because I think like when I I see these robots walking, I think, you know, it looks like it's very light when it's under its own power with its servos and everything like that.

Speaker 1 But when it falls down, this thing is going to be enormously heavy for someone to pick it up.

Speaker 1 I thought that's going to be a pitfall for humanoid robots because the moment they fall over, like some little old lady who's hired this thing to do her chores, she can't lift the thing back up to its feet.

Speaker 1 And then I saw the function it has to get back to its own feet.

Speaker 1 Almost like a...

Speaker 2 That's a thing where like all the limbs twist in the wrong directions because it's not actually a human human and doesn't have to play by our rules.

Speaker 1 Right, exactly right. It's like if a Transformer was in the Exorcist is what it looks like.

Speaker 1 And I see it get up in this weird, like completely disgusting way and I'm like, I'd rather pick the fucking thing up.

Speaker 1 Jesus. I don't want whatever that is in my house.
Because it looks so friendly, but then you realize, oh, this thing can contort in a way that a human can't possibly contort.

Speaker 1 And it looks just, it looks mortifying is what it looks like.

Speaker 2 Yeah, a little bit scary. Speaking of scary things, Fernie.

Speaker 2 Did you hear about the escaped monkeys?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, the Mississippi.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so there was a truck and it was hauling monkeys that were being used for scientific testing for hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID. The truck overturned in Mississippi and the monkeys got loose.

Speaker 2 Yikes. And so

Speaker 2 apparently what happened was a game of telephone. These are like aggressive, diseased monkeys, right? And so the police shot the monkeys.

Speaker 2 As I understand it, the last update that I had was that there might still be like one monkey on the loose, but they ended up

Speaker 2 basically like shooting to destroy the monkeys.

Speaker 1 Well, that makes sense to me if they have like COVID and herpes and hepatitis C, and they're aggressive monkeys. That makes sense.
I mean, no, it's sad, but it does.

Speaker 2 But it turns out it might also have been like a game of like really shitty telephone where basically when the when the driver took on the cargo, it was like, yeah, these are scientific, you know, testing monkeys for hepatitis, herpes, COVID.

Speaker 2 And be careful because they can be dangerous. Because you would say that to anyone handling monkeys, monkeys can be a lot scarier than you think.
You think like, oh, cute little monkeys.

Speaker 2 No, they aren't necessarily nice monkeys.

Speaker 1 They can be until they fall down and get back up and they really come down.

Speaker 2 And they can be like astonishingly strong and nimble, like way more than you expect. Be careful.
They can be dangerous.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but these have diseases, though.

Speaker 2 They weren't necessarily diseased. They were being transported for scientific experiment.
And the university said they were not diseased.

Speaker 1 Oh, they could have COVID and they could have herpes.

Speaker 2 Or they were going to be used for testing.

Speaker 1 So possibly infected with COVID, possibly infected with herpes. They basically sound like a busload of humans, basically.
It's the same thing.

Speaker 1 They're basically humans without the crippling credit card debt. That's what they are.
That's what got on the loose in Mississippi.

Speaker 1 That's sad. And so then, but monkeys, you know, monkeys loose in just a general population.
That's a dangerous situation.

Speaker 2 It is. It is.
And I understand based on like the situation and what, like what the police thought the situation was, which is a bunch of aggressive, diseased monkeys that you would absolutely

Speaker 2 destroy them, right?

Speaker 2 As opposed to like, what, luring them in with peanut butter. But it is interesting.
Come on. It is interesting the different,

Speaker 2 I guess, initial gut reaction I had to this. Do you remember we thought the monkey that escaped in the Scottish Highlands was hilarious?

Speaker 1 We thought the monkey was hilarious because it was called a macaque. That's why.

Speaker 2 Well, yeah, that's true. But also, we like, if someone had shot that

Speaker 2 macaque, we'd have been really sad. No, it is true.
Whereas this were like, oh, yeah, I totally get it. But there's like this weird, like, I guess it's like this.

Speaker 2 a weird built-in difference where I'm like, yes, a bunch of scientific testing monkeys escaped in Mississippi or

Speaker 2 the macaque escaped from the wildlife sanctuary in the Scottish Highlands. Like, I feel like those just hit me a little bit different.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 But it might be as well because when I hear that a bunch of monkeys escaped in Mississippi, my mind immediately goes to Summer of the Monkeys. Did you ever read that book in school?

Speaker 1 No. What's Summer of the Monkeys?

Speaker 2 Summer of the Monkeys. Do you remember where the Red Fern Grows?

Speaker 1 I think about the

Speaker 1 parrots that got loose in Austin generations ago. Yeah, I read Where the Red Fern Grows, and then we had to watch Old Yeller, like back to back.
Dude, it was like torture porn.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I don't know what was going on in our schools that we read Where the Red Fern Grows in school. I was in like third grade.
Okay.

Speaker 2 And just for anyone who's not familiar with it, it's this story about like basically involves dogs in peril. And it's like, it's this really incredibly

Speaker 2 sad story that I don't think we should be throwing at third graders. All right.
Yeah. And this is a, this was a story by the same guy

Speaker 2 about

Speaker 2 a boy in, I think he's in like Kentucky or something, who

Speaker 2 finds a tree full of like escaped monkeys. And it becomes his whole story about trying to like catch these monkeys.
And that's the Summer of the Monkeys. And so I immediately go to that.

Speaker 2 But because of where the red fern grows,

Speaker 2 I have like this,

Speaker 2 I don't know, this really like. I cringe in, like I collapse in on myself thinking about summer of the monkeys.

Speaker 2 And therefore, I also collapse in on myself thinking about escaped monkeys in Mississippi. Is that a weird mental line to draw?

Speaker 1 You know, it's just the reality of like, we kind of ignore, you know, that animals are there for testing.

Speaker 1 And I thought we were beyond using monkeys for things like that, but I guess disease, you know, it's not cosmetics. It is for disease research.
I was just reading about this thing. Was it

Speaker 1 Taiwan? They have now said they've cured baldness in mice.

Speaker 1 And I just think if aliens found our civilization, they would say like, man, these scientists are working really fucking hard to make the life of mice better all the time.

Speaker 2 Do they work? Do they worship the mice?

Speaker 1 Like, we thought cockroaches were gonna outlive us. It's gonna be the mice because we've made them immortal.

Speaker 2 We're solving everything in the world for mice.

Speaker 1 They're gonna be immortal. They're never gonna get cancer.
They're gonna have a beautiful head of hair.

Speaker 2 Well, slow your roll on the hair thing because there's yes, the study has come out, and the headlines of being like, Oh, they were able to cure baldness in these mice is like, okay, it sounds really promising, but it's not, it's not quite there yet.

Speaker 2 So basically they're saying they were using like these fatty acids to restore hair on mice. And they found that it was very promising, that they saw hair growth within like 20 days.

Speaker 2 It was great stuff.

Speaker 2 But first of all, a couple things. It was in mice.
Second of all, this wasn't like male pattern baldness in mice. They shaved the mice and it helped them regrow their hair.
So it's not like.

Speaker 2 What? Yeah, it's a different type of baldness.

Speaker 1 It's not male pattern baldness.

Speaker 2 Let me see if I get this straight.

Speaker 1 They shave the mice and then they put this ointment or whatever on them and the hair regrew within 20 days. If I shave my head, hairs growing in like 12 hours.

Speaker 1 I know. What do you mean they just shave the mice?

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, because they're just testing, I guess, the speed that they can get hair to regrow. So it's headed in a promising direction.

Speaker 2 And yes, the hair regrew faster than expected, but it's not replacing hair that had stopped growing on its own.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.
Great for solving that problem. Yes.

Speaker 2 So it says, there's an article on on NDTV.

Speaker 2 I'll put it in the linked up because it does go over like why these are promising, but also why you don't get too excited about it.

Speaker 1 But who is this product for? Like the girls on TikTok who cut their bangs too short?

Speaker 2 Like

Speaker 1 that's who this is for?

Speaker 1 Maybe.

Speaker 2 They're like, and they go, oh no.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 I love those moments. Yeah, you had that.

Speaker 2 Oh, God. Those moments are always.
And you know what I have a lot of respect for? It's like they got that. And it's like, this is a disaster.
And then they went, I'm going to post.

Speaker 1 I'm going to post it anyway.

Speaker 2 I'm going to post it anyway. Like the girl, it's an old video, but it's one of the first videos like that I remember of the girl with her hair and a curling iron.
Oh, okay. And then just like, she

Speaker 2 pulls it away and like all the hair comes away with it. Like just her whole, that whole lock of hair came away.

Speaker 1 I was thinking about the girl who put a corn on the cob on a, like a drill. Oh, God.
And first of all, that's horrible for your teeth. to begin with.

Speaker 1 Could have been a lot worse, but some of her hair got caught in the drill as it's spinning rapidly and she tears out a hunk of her hair.

Speaker 2 And she's lucky that that's all that happens.

Speaker 1 Well, now they have the ointment. She can put on 20 days.

Speaker 2 So 20 days, and she'll be good as new.

Speaker 1 She could have some stubble.

Speaker 2 Here we go. Why these findings prompting?

Speaker 2 The research identifies a novel biological pathway linking fat metabolism to hair follicle activity, something scientists have long suspected but never proven in detail.

Speaker 2 Current hair regrowth treatments like minoxidil and finasteride target blood flow or hormone regulation, not metabolic signaling.

Speaker 2 If validated in humans, humans, the fatty acid-based method could represent a safer, more natural approach to hair regeneration.

Speaker 2 The fatty acids used, oleic and palmitoleic acid, are already present in human sebum and dietary sources such as olive oil and nuts.

Speaker 2 So it's like this could lead in a nice direction for new solutions for hair regrowth, but don't get carried away by the headline just yet. Yeah.

Speaker 2 The mice still have a ways to go before they're immortal.

Speaker 1 This company's going to move on. They're going to make wigs for robots.
That'll be the next thing. Solving problems that nobody had.

Speaker 1 Although I have to say, too, it's like I've never had to deal with hair loss, really.

Speaker 1 And so people who deal with it, it's an important issue. I do feel like also, though, hair transplants have reached a point where they're amazing, right?

Speaker 1 Like you see people's hairlines get completely reshaped.

Speaker 2 I have, and I always wonder, because it comes from somewhere else on the head, right? Do they just thin out other parts of the head to fill in hairline elsewhere?

Speaker 1 Okay. They take it from the back of the head, which doesn't seem to bald ever for whatever reason, and then they just move it to the front.

Speaker 2 So if they take it from the back and then move it to the front, does it fill itself back in in the back?

Speaker 2 There's a lot of things about that that like I find really fascinating because they it does completely change the way people look like with the hairline and like how you know their their their face fits with their head and everything.

Speaker 2 But I never know if like does it regrow itself in the back?

Speaker 1 I have no comment on this. I don't ever read about this stuff because I have a ridiculous amount of hair.
You do. It's insane how much hair I have.

Speaker 2 We have to like try and get in there and get airflow to your scalp sometimes.

Speaker 1 Yep. Yeah.
Because my scalp, it's like that planet in Star Wars Coruscant where like parts of my scalp haven't seen the sun for like

Speaker 1 20 years.

Speaker 2 You just can't get down to it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 My main concern is like I need some of this Taiwanese ointment so that I can get my five o'clock shadow by one o'clock.

Speaker 1 I think that's an important advancement for everybody.

Speaker 2 Well, I want to thank today's scientists, Joseph Bowman and John Roberts. Thank you both so much for sponsoring this episode of our show at patreon.com morning somewhere and roosterteeth.com.

Speaker 1 All right, that does it for us today, October 29th, 2025. We will be back to talk to you tomorrow.
We hope you will be here as well.

Speaker 2 Bye, everybody.