0:00 [Music] everybody's familiar with stephen hawking yes steven hawkins yes yes we are yes and how did he communicate in his later part like a robot through one of the t-pains used a peter but we're we're also convinced that maybe he got taken over by ai did he blow into it no he had a speaking spell yeah that's what it was remember that red thing the speak eye my name which was actually something that was connected to one of his working and active cheek muscles that were able to uh choose different characters and put it together and you only had like two fingers that you could use right dude so productive by the way we're not nearly that productive yeah none of us ████ none of us did he like make that this really isn't about him i just brought him up and he has a reference oh okay so because a paralyzed man communicates his first words in months
0:52 using a brain implant similar gangster and one of the first things he says is quote i want a beer yeah that would be my first trip wow my kind of guy this is a locked in als patient okay completely paralyzed man who was left unable to communicate for months after losing the ability to even move his eyes jeez ████ als dude is it worth it to spend the extra time to just clarify that you don't want a natty ice or do you just say ████ it i want i just don't i would i would just be down for anything because because when you've been that long without a beer bro everything's gonna ████ just go okay here let me give you a little bit of ta on it let me give you a little technical analysis and then from there everybody can make their judgment on what you would say first after a few months okay composing sentences at a rate of just one character per minute so i want a beer i w-a-n-t-a-b
1:45 that would at least take 10 minutes if you add spaces 12. one character a minute yeah wow did they have to teach them how to do it or they just like i would assume if it's a brain injury wait it's one character a minute so wait so can this cat like actually pick up a bear and drink it or is is it like coming through an iv or some ████ uh i honestly don't know i would assume it's coming through and i've done it over here no it's not gonna be a beard well dude so one of the i've talked about this before i think but one of the most perplexing things in my life was christopher reeve like in a vegetative state relatively like he's like incapacitated and then his wife is sitting next to him and they're doing like an interview with barbara walters or some ████ and then he and then um bart walsh was like does everything work and then his wife is like oh yeah everything works so i'm like okay but how's that work like yeah did
2:36 you go into detail does your dick get hard like can you see you missed it we were just here just here two weeks ago with ryan's friend tj who he had shared the story about with the uh the whole car accident that left him paralyzed with only a 13 chance of like coming back with physical movement stuff but he he ended up recovering mostly however when he was sitting in the hot seat two weeks ago nick made me ask i don't have a dirty mind like that so nick was nudging him like please ask him anthony lee please come on he's like i had to ask him about his penis function but the thing is in his paralyzation he described it as the first things that you begin feeling when things coming back or first numbness and then right it was numbness right first numbness as if it was like a sensation like it exists however you almost like a phantom feeling i believe and then pain or or temperature was it temperature and
3:26 pain temperature and pain and then from there because he like without his thought or control it was kind of it involuntarily just gets he's a legend bro he got jacked off in the hospital bro no but who yeah a good friend his friend a good friend took care of him a home girl that stopped by a chick i hope yeah she was like so he's not gay after that right he wasn't the hand jobber even if it was gay with a guy it's like involuntary because you can't feel it so it's like not gay it's like kind of like the you know i i really didn't ask that what i wanted to know was the cold question in on hot seat what was bart's question ████ what was his favorite kind of paint color for our house yeah it was like what's yeah it was like do you like leather seats hey do you like nachos or no even that one's a little too spicy by
4:17 the way hot seat the best three best first three minutes of any video ever when it's really cold and people can click away you're trying to grab attention so smart so like i said this guy was composing sentences at a rate of just one character per minute the man also asked to listen to the band tool laos he requested a head massage from his mother and ordered a curry all through the thought is this in the uk i like this dude i i know not where it is beer and curry sounds like some uk's head rub dude what's the first thing you guys asked for while composing one character a minute and you're paralyzed kill me yeah that's not bad not bad you got to ask for it kill me i thought about it wait so this person can chew and eat you guys if he's asking for curry or else he's
5:07 sticking a straw and drinking it like a gay dude you're going to the curry restaurant you're just like all right which one of you ████ got straws in here what the ████ also terrible way to eat curry but probably the worst way to eat curry spice first is better than that it's too thick for a strawberry i wouldn't be mad that they're getting mad they're ████ drinking curry through a straw you're like a boba strawberry i'd be mad at both i was all standing here with the ████ curry like this ████ tikka masala is off the ████ hook just use the cardboard tube from like toilet paper like in first kid where sinbad blows the ████ spitball hey that's good though it took out secret service oh my god secret service didn't train for that
5:57 they weren't ready for that the man who is now 36 had two square electrode arrays surgically implanted into his brain to facilitate gay communication march 2019 after being left in a locked-in state as a result of uh amyotrophic lateral sclerosis did you guys really just let me slide with the gay communication part i heard it but i let it slide um only because it's trying to back him up and stay in the conversation theme make sure he's not out there on a limb i'm with hasagawa i would just be like kill me bro why i don't want to be a i will person i just have a personality of like i don't want to be a ████ burden well i don't want to be stuck in there i can't do anything but like also i'm not in that situation so when i get there maybe i'm like wait no don't pull the plug you said you always wanted this record and i'm like oh my god my kids are going to ████ me up that i'm in this
6:47 position i can't no i can't type fast enough yeah it's like i'm just kidding j k he's like we know you worked for that company for a long time i like the bravery of what ryan said because he's like hey look you know if i'm part of the disabled community just pull the plug i don't want to be a bird into society no my birth i thought that everyone was disabled to burden but my personality applied to that i would feel too guilty especially if this hospital bed could be used for someone and should be alive and i'm also predicting that i'm i'm in that condition because of some ████ i did well you think als is something he did i will find a ████ way to cause it to myself honestly and you know what not karmically speaking but maybe it's because he didn't cry by 9 11 that year he credited about final fantasy [Music] and we have so many guys guilt we can't hold that guilt about it that
7:37 was on the ps2 the graphics were way better than any videos of the plane hitting the buildings yeah true too guilty man can you imagine if i compared it to this first thing i'd say i'm all like look at these videos fake let me get back to this final fantasy ████ this is real in the title final cloud is real to me how long has it been since i got my dick touched what eight years oh that's to be the first thing yeah someone touched my dick well you're paralyzed you might not feel it so his friend really did hook him up huh yeah i was like wait are you guys together he goes no he goes i just had a conversation i said like you know i think i could get feeling in it like can you hook me up and then she's like yeah and i think they were kind of talking badass man yeah gangster it's a sweet move that's a homie move though he said that it hurt can they teach my ████ wife how to do that or um i think you just gotta pull the
8:28 hole my penis doesn't work we're just talking about just dropping random 500 sephora gift cards does that not work no can we teach my ████ wife how to do this i think i was pretty clear so people suffering from the progressive neurodegenerative disease have an average life expectancy after diagnosis of two to five years though they can live much longer the late physicist stephen hawking lived another 55 years after his diagnosis but the cool thing or the most interesting thing about this particular situation is that this person was locked in also he didn't have voluntary muscular control so being able to do a brain implant and have them communicate it's actually kind of scientific and health breakthrough for for that that's tight yeah so you could theoretically like implant this like earlier and so that they could like get accustomed to it and by the time
9:18 they get like locked in oh hey that's a good okay that okay i take it back don't pull the plug on me run every ████ test you want to try to advance the cure on my use me as a guinea pig that's cool yeah no i want to be a miracle dude i'll be like they said he only had half a percent chance of ████ making it but he ████ made it and then i ████ lift to tell the tale you're still typing kill me and you die when you're 41 [Laughter] from a car accident or something this was the thing that was oh they put a comb in him that was implanted into the motor cortex looks like a ████ hair clipper inside of a condom dude it looks like a nouveau ring my ████ wife would have inside of her are body on this ████ hey don't do it one more time
10:08 i'm glad he brought up my favorite thing the new ring dude he actually leaned over whispered he's like you gotta do it one more time i like his modern danger field ████ perspective on your wife's hands i get no respect it took three months of unsuccessful attempts before a configuration was achieved that allowed the patient to use brain signals to produce a binary response to a speller program answering yes or no when presented with letters oh that's why it takes so ████ long yeah so probably in the minute that it takes something to go through all or something like that no this is like when texting first came out we had to do the ████ goddamn tv yeah t9 was like ah three times to get to g it's probably before that when you're using like a rotary phone and you're
10:58 just like yeah exactly damn 9-1-1 back in the days died it took nine times one one oh ████ i died no but the one was close right it was like nine and then you're like one one one back in the day wouldn't you just go operator connect me to a local emergency while you're getting attacked someone's breaking into my house after that it took another three weeks to produce the first sentences and over the next year the patient produced dozens of sentences so like it's actually quite he's talking too much this guy won't shut up this guy isn't dozens bad in the year holy ████ dozens when i think about how much my ████ wife talks and three for the win that was that was four i broke the rule carmody
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