Mary Roach

half of the 1900s that just, well, even probably into the 60s and 70s, those flesh tone, stiff kind of mannequin parts that people were using.

You know, the whole idea was to pass, you know, that somebody couldn't tell.

And now people go around wearing shorts with a blade, you know, just a tech thing that works.

The functionality is what matters.

So it doesn't matter what materials.

And now it's kind of, I think, developed its own

cool to look a little bit bionic.

I think it's a much better time to have a prosthetic leg.

It's pretty hard to freak me out, Ali.

That's really, like the freakier it is, the more I'm just, wow, this is so cool.

I guess what was a little, a little freaky to me was this idea, okay, you mentioned the pigs, you know, xenotransplantation, you know, that's been a project ongoing for 30 years now, the effort to genetically tweak a pig so that its organs are

Don't create a reaction, like an immune reaction, a hyperimmune.

There's this hyperimmune response where if you were just to take an organ from a pig, put it into a person, the body just goes on the attack, like shuts it down.

It turns black.

It's gone.

And so they've taken that away.

So now there's still longer-term issues, but the place that we're at is you can buy a couple months' time.

There is one man who has got a – I think it's a kidney, and it was like five months as of June, and he's still going.

So if that would buy you enough time to –

be eligible for a human organ.