Ronny Chieng
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Desi, Melania was a terrible movie.
It was nothing but pure bribery.
I was disgusted by this naked attempt by Jeff Bezos to curry favor with the president.
I give it thumbs down.
Absolutely not.
There's somewhere between two and five million people a year that are bit by snakes.
Of them, 140,000 die, another 300 to 400,000 are permanently disabled.
I am unaware of the statistics on how many happen on airplanes.
Historically, what people have done is taken snake venom, inject it into a horse.
The horse's immune system then makes antibodies that go and block the toxins in the venom.
Do horse girls know about this?
I don't know what a horse girl is.
I imagine some of them do.
The problem with that approach is it only works against one snake and there's a whole bunch of side effects.
So what we were looking for was the living person who survived snake venom so that those antibodies I knew were protecting that person and we could turn into a medicine to protect others.
I shouldn't say that, I did it.
It was crazy.
Well, Tim spent 18 years developing the immunity, but in order to unlock it, he was searching, as I was, to synapse with a research group that had advanced biotechnology capabilities to mine through his immunity.
In terms of our timelines, we're looking at commercialization five to six years from now.
Again, I would really discourage you from deliberately getting bit by a snake.