CLASSIC: The Rise of the Chimera

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

From ancient stories of shapeshifters to works of fiction like "The Island of Dr. Moreau", humanity has always been fascinating with the line between people and non-human animals -- but modern technology may finally allow us to create real-life chimeras. In fact, it already has. The only question here is how far scientists have actually gone in this regard (and whether that's something they don't want us to know).

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0:00.0	Welcome back, fellow conspiracy realist.
0:02.1	We return to you once again with a classic episode as we while through the holidays.
0:08.3	Remember the island of Dr. Moreau?
0:10.5	Did you guys ever read that?
0:11.5	Or did you see the awesome adaptation with my man?
0:15.9	Awesome.
0:17.2	Awful, depending on where you stand.
0:19.9	I'm trying to do his face,
0:21.3	I'm trying to do this voice, but I can't do it.
0:23.4	Awesome in the sense of,
0:24.8	awesome in the old sense of the word,
0:26.8	just extraordinary and somehow inspiring of all.
0:30.7	There is a documentary about that film,
0:33.3	the production, how it completely went off the rails,
0:35.9	and they fired the original director and how he just kind of lurked around, like sort of
0:40.0	peeking in.
0:40.6	Like an escaped monster on the island of Dr.
0:43.3	Blue.
0:43.8	And apparently Marlon Brando just decided to paint himself white with like sunscreen and wear the ice bucket on his head and have the little fellow on his shoulder whispering to him.
0:54.0	And he was getting all his lines fed to him through an earpiece.
0:56.4	Anyway, sorry.
0:57.0	Which was not uncommon for him.
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