Ronny Chieng

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.