So, Burdo, I don't know if you know this, but at the end of 2021, I spent a number of

weeks answering every single email in the archive, every single email that was left to be

addressed on the podcast. I went through hours and hours and hours of it to answer every single,

but there were some questions that I left for you and me to answer, so that's what I was

thinking about today. What do you say, Burdo? Let's do it. This is the psychology and

Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor.

My name is Alberto Castellan. I'm a local lawn polisher. Listener Diana from Germany says,

what are your thoughts on the so-called reborn dolls? People seem to get them for,

do you know what reborn dolls are, Burdo? I'm imagining it has to do something with reborn

Christians. It's a doll. It's a baby that looks extremely real. And adults will have them

and feed them and talk to them and hang out with them. Why are they called reborn?

I think because, yeah, that's a good question. I don't know why they're calling that,

but if you like Google reborn dolls and just take a look, they're extremely,

it's like the uncanny valley in a sense, but they're like real dolls, but reborn dolls.

Yeah, if you look at them, you can tell that they're not real, but they're really realistically,

like you could see these movies. Oh, wow. I'm seeing the pictures. You could see them being used

in like a movie or something. Yeah, it's scary how realistic that looks. Yeah. And that would be

a little, and they're different, they're different, you know, races and genders and looks on their

faces. Yeah, it's very, and some of the reborn dolls are like five-year-olds, you know.

Their genitalia will be there. Anyway, this is weird. Yeah, so listen to Diana says,

what are your thoughts on so-called reborn dolls? People seem to get them for all kinds of reasons,

as a collector's item, as a form of artistic expression, but sometimes also as some kind of

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