Hey, I'm Flor Lichten, and this is Science Friday.

So I just got back from Columbia, Missouri, where we were doing a live stage show with radio station KBIA.

So today in the pod, we are bringing you a conversation from Missou's Jesse Auditorium

about a guy with a Mary Poppins bag full of fake body parts. I kid you not.

Some smells may arise too, so we have what we refer to as liquid butt.

If you, like the entire staff of Science Friday, have been binging the pit, you may have noticed that medical dramas are looking really real these days, like you're watching in your PJs on your couch, but those intubations and surgeries look so real. It's like you're in the emergency room. But it's not just TV doctors that are using hyper-realistic body parts

to simulate medical procedures.

Real doctors and training, physician assistants, and nurses

are using prosthetics to learn how to sew stitches

and draw blood and practice other procedures, which means it is someone's job

to sculpt these hyper-realistic body parts, these silicone stand-ins for arms and eyes and

other appendages. And that is what my next guest does for a living.

Damon Coyle is a medical sculptor and innovation specialist at the University of Missouri right here in Columbia.

Welcome to Science Friday.

Thank you.

Damon, I see you have props.

Are you, is this for me?

That's yours.

Damon just gave me an ear that feels a lot like an ear.

Can I take it home?

That's yours.

It's my business card.

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