Nolan Arbaugh
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265 appearances
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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Like, hopefully it works out. And so it was something that gave me pause. Like I said, how smoothly everything went. I never expected for a second that anything would go wrong. Plus the more people I met on the borrows side and on the knurling side, they're just the most impressive people in the world. Like I can't,
speak enough to how much I trust these people with my life and how impressed I am with all of them and to see the excitement on their faces to like walk into a room and roll into a room and see all of these people looking at me like we're just we're so excited like we've been working so hard on this and it's finally happening it's super infectious and
and it just makes me want to do it even more, and to help them achieve their dreams. Like, I don't know, it's so rewarding, and I'm so happy for all of them, honestly.
Yeah.
No, I thought I was going to, but the surgery approach the night before the morning of, I was just excited. Like, I was like, let's make this happen. I think I said that something like that to Elon on the phone beforehand, we were like FaceTiming and I was like, let's rock and roll. And he's like, let's do it. Uh, I don't know. I just, I wasn't scared.
So we woke up, I think we had to be at the hospital at like 5 30 AM. I think surgery was at like 7 AM. So we woke up pretty early. I'm not sure much of us slept that night. Um, um, yeah. Got to the hospital at 5.30, went through all the pre-op stuff. Everyone was super nice. Elon was supposed to be there in the morning, but something went wrong with his plane, so we ended up FaceTiming.
That was cool. Had one of the greatest one-liners of my life. After that phone call, hung up with him. There were like 20 people around me, and I was like, I just hope he wasn't too starstruck talking to me. Nice. Well done.
Did you write that ahead of time? No, no, it just came to me. I was like, this seems right, you know? Went into surgery. I asked if I could pray right beforehand, so I prayed over the room. I asked God if he would be with my mom in case anything happened to me, and just to calm her nerves out there. Woke up. Played a bit of a prank on my mom. I don't know if you've heard about it.
Yeah, she was not happy.
No, not one bit. It was something I had talked about ahead of time with my buddy Bane. I was like, I would really like to play a prank on my mom. Very specifically, my mom. She's very gullible. I think she had knee surgery once even. And after she came out of knee surgery, she was super groggy. She's like, I can't feel my legs. And my dad looked at her. He was like... You don't have any legs.
They had to amputate both your legs. And we just do very mean things to her all the time. I'm so surprised that she still loves us. But right after surgery, I was really worried that I was going to be too groggy, not all there. I've had anesthesia once before and it messed me up.
I could not function for a while afterwards and I said a lot of things that I was really worried that I was going to start, I don't know, dropping some bombs and I wouldn't even know, I wouldn't remember. So I was like, please God, don't let that happen. and please let me be there enough to do this to my mom. And so she walked in after surgery.
It was like the first time they had been able to see me after surgery. And she just looked at me. She said, hi, how are you? How are you doing? How do you feel? And I looked at her and This very I think the anesthesia helped very like groggy sort of confused look on my face.
It's like who are you and She just started looking around the room like at the surgeons of the doctors like what did you do to my son? Like you need to fix this right now tears started streaming. I saw how much she was freaking out I was like, I can't let this go on and so I was like mom mom. I'm fine like It's alright and Still she was not happy about it. She
uh still says she's gonna get me back someday but i mean i don't i don't know i don't know what that's gonna look like it's a lifelong battle yeah yeah but it was good in some sense it was a demonstration that you still got that's that's all i wanted to be humor that's all i wanted it to be and i knew that doing something super mean to her like that would show her yeah yeah
Yeah, exactly.
The first little taste I got of it was actually not too long after surgery. Some of the Neuralink team had brought in a little iPad, a little tablet screen, and they had put up eight different channels that were recording some of my neuron spikes. And they put it in front of me and they're like, this is like real time, your brain firing. I was like, that's super cool.
My first thought was, I mean, if they're firing now, let's see if I can affect them in some way. So I started trying to like wiggle my fingers. and I just started like scanning through the channels and one of the things I was doing was like moving my index finger up and down and I just saw this yellow spike on like top row, like third box over or something.
I saw this yellow spike every time I did it and I was like, oh, that's cool. And everyone around me was just like, what are you seeing? I was like, look, look at this one. Look at like this top row, third box over this yellow spike. Like that's me right there, there, there. And everyone was freaking out. They started like clapping. I was like, that's super unnecessary.
Like this is what's supposed to happen, right?
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