Christian Hubicki

That's what you need if you want to make a fire.

I am horribly nearsighted, so my diffusing lenses would not be useful.

So it's kind of like a perfect storm of things like, hey, let's just try it.

And sure enough...

It worked out.

And if it hadn't, it would have been horribly embarrassing because like the camera guys are like hovering over your shoulder as you're trying to do this.

And eventually they're gonna just get bored and walk away.

And that would be a dejecting feeling to know that you're too boring trying to make fire for a first survivor.

So I'm glad it worked out.

I think they had to use, in fact, I think they used someone's nearsighted glasses and used a drop of water to help focus the light in that case.

So you make your own little miniature bifocal in that case.

But yeah, I mean, it's not a common thing.

It wasn't something I'm planning on doing.

That's kind of the nature of a show like Survivor.

And frankly, in science in general, you kind of got to adapt to the data in front of you and say, you know, this is our world now.

This is what we got to do.

I do think that Bob, I think the fishy, squishy, quickie with Bob is someone's Manchurian candidate code phrase that you just activated in the audience, I hope.

That's exactly right, Steve.

I mean, I'm a PI of a lab.

You're an active researcher.