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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I'm Julie Douglas.

And we were picking up with where we left off in the last episode. This is Surgical Wings Part 2. Highly recommend that you go back and listen to Surgical Wings Part 1 before you continue with this one. Sometimes we'll have a Part 1 and a part 2 where you can really take them in any order. But this is definitely a case where you want to go part one and then part two.

So you'll know exactly why we're talking about taking a human arm, doing a whole bunch of plastic surgery on it, and turning it into a bird queen.

Indeed.

Okay, so we've discussed in the past about how we have augmented ourselves before.

I believe there was someone who had an ear grafted onto his skin, or rather the tissue was grown for it.

Yeah, that was in our performance art episode.

Yeah, and, you know, we've talked about people who've taken out ribs before to have, like, you know, 12-inch waist. Yeah. And, you know, we've talked about people who've taken out ribs before to have like,

you know, 12-inch waist.

We have certainly manipulated and bodily modified ourselves to the extent where it's a little bit shocking.

But you get to surgical wings or the idea of it, and is it that shocking?

Yeah. That is the question we're going to talk about in the second half. First of all, I do

want to say just a quick thing about plastic surgery again. I know when I was growing up,

and I would hear the term plastic surgery, almost exclusively in reference to people who had new

noses and or new chest augmentations, I kind of had it in my mind that it was plastic. Like it was actual literally plastic. Like, oh, they have a plastic nose. It's like Humpty Hump or something, you know, where it's just, you know, set that right up there in their face. Or that obviously breast implants, I was kind of like, well, it's kind of like kind of like plastic i guess you see them i would see them in like newsweek magazine that my grandparents

had and so like oh well that's plastic surgery it's putting plastic in or on the body and making

things new you thought there were water balloons in there yeah i thought they were water balloons but um

but just for a quick primer plastic in plastic surgery means plasticity.

So essentially what we're talking about is flesh sculpting.

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