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But the best thing in the world was to be sick or someone in your family is sick. Everyone's looking after you. You don't have to participate. Oh, God, this is like producing Munchausen.

It's the late 90s. The apocalypse is kind of around the corner. We're big into Y2K. We needed like our best soldiers on the ground, but people are coming down with Fullerton disease. So enter this amazing device that's going to solve what doctors and diet can't. Suddenly we're all zapping around the late 90s.

It's the late 90s. The apocalypse is kind of around the corner. We're big into Y2K. We needed like our best soldiers on the ground, but people are coming down with Fullerton disease. So enter this amazing device that's going to solve what doctors and diet can't. Suddenly we're all zapping around the late 90s.

It's the late 90s. The apocalypse is kind of around the corner. We're big into Y2K. We needed like our best soldiers on the ground, but people are coming down with Fullerton disease. So enter this amazing device that's going to solve what doctors and diet can't. Suddenly we're all zapping around the late 90s.

Imagine a black plastic box, maybe around the size of your face or smaller, with a little light on the top. Inside it's got batteries and wires and stuff, and it's got an on-off switch. Wires are coming out of it. The wires kind of lead to these two copper handles, and you're meant to hold onto the handles and just turn on the thing and get an electric shock. It'll work up to 20 minutes.

Imagine a black plastic box, maybe around the size of your face or smaller, with a little light on the top. Inside it's got batteries and wires and stuff, and it's got an on-off switch. Wires are coming out of it. The wires kind of lead to these two copper handles, and you're meant to hold onto the handles and just turn on the thing and get an electric shock. It'll work up to 20 minutes.

Imagine a black plastic box, maybe around the size of your face or smaller, with a little light on the top. Inside it's got batteries and wires and stuff, and it's got an on-off switch. Wires are coming out of it. The wires kind of lead to these two copper handles, and you're meant to hold onto the handles and just turn on the thing and get an electric shock. It'll work up to 20 minutes.

If it wasn't working, you could get a paper towel wet and put that over and get like a little more of a shock.

If it wasn't working, you could get a paper towel wet and put that over and get like a little more of a shock.

If it wasn't working, you could get a paper towel wet and put that over and get like a little more of a shock.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Our thing did even less than what you're describing. They didn't even, like, produce any kind of results or anything. Well, this didn't either. They tell you a result.

Our thing did even less than what you're describing. They didn't even, like, produce any kind of results or anything. Well, this didn't either. They tell you a result.

Our thing did even less than what you're describing. They didn't even, like, produce any kind of results or anything. Well, this didn't either. They tell you a result.

Yeah, we were zapping a lot. You know, if you felt like you were coming down with something, you might zap or just kind of proactively you could zap. In my head, I associated it with, like, a punishment. I remember my parents being like, go zap. Your parasite was acting up. Yeah, I would think it was, like, the parasites were out of control. My mom, she likes to be active.

Yeah, we were zapping a lot. You know, if you felt like you were coming down with something, you might zap or just kind of proactively you could zap. In my head, I associated it with, like, a punishment. I remember my parents being like, go zap. Your parasite was acting up. Yeah, I would think it was, like, the parasites were out of control. My mom, she likes to be active.

Yeah, we were zapping a lot. You know, if you felt like you were coming down with something, you might zap or just kind of proactively you could zap. In my head, I associated it with, like, a punishment. I remember my parents being like, go zap. Your parasite was acting up. Yeah, I would think it was, like, the parasites were out of control. My mom, she likes to be active.

She can't just sit and hold something for 20 minutes. That's torture to her. She was a seamstress, so she wanted to be like working at her sewing table. I remember that my mom used to take the copper rods and just like put them down the back of her pants. Oh. They needed to make skin contact, but it didn't matter what kind of skin. Sure.