John Tothill

You know what I'm talking about?

Are you all on the same page as me?

I heard games and I thought, the rat who orgasmed to death, yeah?

The rat who, okay, this will take as long as it takes.

So the rat who orgasmed to death was like a mad science experiment from the 1950s, yeah?

The golden age of mad science, you know?

You know, one of those experiments you read about on Reddit where it's like, finally, after all these years, we've taught a butterfly to hate.

So these two mad scientists called James Olds and Peter Milner gave a rat an ability to give itself an orgasm, right, by a kind of lever and electrodes that were then placed into the rat's brain.

And what resulted was probably the most interesting experiment in the history of neuroscience.

Until tonight.

LAUGHTER Because what they discovered is that the rats would press the lever as many as 7,000 times per hour.

And self-stimulating male rats, right, we've got to stop blocking eyes now, James.

Self-stimulating male rats would ignore a female in heat.

And self-stimulating female rats would cross over electric shock-delivering floor grids to press the lever again and again and again.

And in the end, the experiment had to be abandoned because the rats kept dying from exhaustion.

Now, that is what we call, in the comedy industry, relatable content.

Have you ever felt more akin to anything in your life than a rat that walked... If I had a lever that gave me 7,000 organ... Well, I wouldn't be here for a start.

LAUGHTER

Are we starting to draw the dots about where we're going here, about how that reminds you of James?

Do you know what I mean?