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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

The Viagen Clone (GT Mini)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, History, True Crime, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Pet cloning is real.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This summer is time to get to know the players and your taste buds.

0:08.9

Stats don't lie, if 70% of the UK prefers to taste the Pepsi Max, you probs prefer Pepsi

0:14.7

Max.

0:15.7

First for more, visit PepsiMax.wispotify.com to enter our quiz to win gig tickets and

0:20.5

find your perfect playlist.

0:22.3

UK blind tastes test of over 34,000 people versus UK's biggest selling full sugar cola.

0:26.5

The verification goes to petty.co.uk forward slash FAQ.

0:30.4

Pet of the future, I'm Jason Horton.

0:32.8

I'm Rebecca Leib.

0:33.9

And this is Ghost Town.

0:40.6

Back in 2018, Barbara Strysanne disclosed the BBC that she had cloned puppies from her

0:54.6

co-tun to Tullier Dog, I'm sure I'm not saying that right.

0:58.6

The dog's name was Samantha and she passed away in 2017.

1:03.1

And who was the visionary behind this A-list cloning story?

1:06.7

A company named Viagin, a Texas-based biomedical corporation that can help your pets live forever.

1:12.5

Well, kind of.

1:14.5

Today we'll talk about the history of Viagin, the corporate cloning resource that feels

1:18.3

both deeply relatable and that of science fiction.

1:22.2

Let's get into it.

1:23.7

As Strysanne's case, she, quote, couldn't find another curly haired coton.

1:28.1

As the breed usually has straight hair, I guess.

1:30.7

So she decided to make another on her own, well not on her own, with Viagin.

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