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LC Li is a pretty unique
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guy you see that he's a botanist with
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his own tropical plant nursery the
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singing ball not only sound and a
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spiritual teacher things but also the
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but there's one pretty relatable thing
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about him he really loves his
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pet
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Mau AKA Jen Jen AKA Shae and Li are
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inseparable or at least they were until
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Mau died in
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2019 lie is a devout Buddhist something
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he believes that he and Mau had in
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common so I can do the meditate hours by
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hours by hours miraculously M will be
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just sitting next to me no barking no
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home asking food no she just be so quiet
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she know what she's
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doing When Mama's Health took a turn for
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the worst a couple years ago lie left
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his job for 2 months so they could spend
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the rest of her life together that's
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when he got a wild idea from Mau but in
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my
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dream she just open her mouth to tell
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me she will come back from strong
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career Li's dream made him Google up the
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words come to life and Korea and he
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found a South Korean company that's one
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of only a handful in the world that
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clones
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pets I know it clone is only represent
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the identical genome I don't want to
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have like a stff animal I just want to a
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dog just look like her no I don't want
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to do that yeah because from from my
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understanding of Buddhism is that if you
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and especially if Mama had such a
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wonderful fulfilled life there's no need
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to bring her back she she can move on
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absolutely yes after M passed away Li
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had her cremated Li says he found what
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he believed to be Sera colored crystals
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left by Buddhist Masters when they die
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he took that as a second sign from Mau
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that she wanted to come back is this all
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for her or for
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you for her def
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if I didn't have the dream if I didn't
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have the response from her Sera I don't
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think I will do that and by the way it
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is very
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expensive it is very expensive the
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company live found charges around
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$100,000 to clone one pet it's more than
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Li could afford but the head of the
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company offered him half off because of
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mau's story and the fact that lie would
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be their first client in Taiwan
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Li managed to pull together the funds
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with some help from his family probably
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people will think oh you're so crazy
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you're so bizarre but that that doesn't
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matter I'm Dexter I'm Claire nice to
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meet you good to meet you too welcome to
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biot we have a lot of puppies right now
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and then we also have the surrogate
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mothers that are kept with the puppies
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that until they are wind so all the moms
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are big dogs as you can see because big
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dogs can carry any breed small dogs can
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only carry small breeds the breed of the
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mom won't have any effect on how the
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baby will look like soam biotech which
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is now known as H Bion Incorporated has
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successfully cloned over 1,600 dogs
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since 2009 how excited it was founded by
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Dr hang
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Wok at one point Dr hang was known as
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the quote pride of Korea for his work in
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cloning human embryos and extracting
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stem cells from them the first step to
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cloning actual people but in 2006 his
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data was found to be fake and he was
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charged with embezzlement and bioethics
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law violations he apologized and avoided
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jail time but he was barred from doing
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stem cell research on humans something
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he says he's changed his opinion on
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anyway
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scientist
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many ethicists have major concerns with
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cloning pets too they're worried about
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cruelty to surrogates and birth defects
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in the
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Clones but Dr hang has been able to turn
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his past expertise into a successful
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business all right so they said they'd
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show me how the cloning process actually
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works but kind of like get dressed
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up
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[Laughter]
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inside the lab there's a room full of
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texts hard at work on something that
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wasn't immediately recognizable oh my
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god when I first walked in I thought
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they were eating lunch oh my God those
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are not meatballs those are
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ovaries oh
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man
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the extracted nucleus is replaced with
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DNA from the animal they want to clone
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the DNA becomes a nucleus of a new life
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which is then implanted into a surrogate
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mother so how many of these do you
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do no no kidding
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me okay I think I think I'm in you did
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it I did it yeah wa what do you think
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can I get a job here yeah you have
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talent
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Dr Wang let us watch two Clon puppies
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being delivered by
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C-section we may get two puppies the
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color will be a white and the breed is M
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piece the Sixx are is
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female
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oh
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man oh my God it smells like something
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that's cooking which is kind of
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disgusting one baby two baby
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wow how many times do you use a
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surrogate mother for these processes uh
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animal rights activists say the cloning
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process causes unnecessary suffering to
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surrogate dogs and to the clones too who
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were often miscarried aborted or born
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with defects Dr hang thinks that's
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missing the
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point
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a representative of H Bion said the
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cloning Mau was unusually difficult the
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first clone died of heart failure after
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2 2 days other nonviable clones were
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aborted but in September 2020 hope AKA
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Mau 2.0 was born via
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C-section the pandemic meant that lie
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could only see her on video chats it's
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very interesting uh because the color is
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not the same it doesn't look like U
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identical in my memory but it's still
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very
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cute hope was also born with a defect
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that kept her from walking properly the
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lab thought something might have gone
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wrong so they cloned Mau again and then
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again in the end all the dogs were
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healthy so when they finally made it to
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Taiwan Li had quite the
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surprise oh my
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gosh hello welcome
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back
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H we have three dogs we have three M now
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are you worried about the that you've
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spent all this money put all this hope
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in it and then you get three dogs who
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are I'm sure they'll be very cute dogs
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but they're not okay if they are just
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the another three dogs at least I got
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the answer at least I try my best at at
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least I respond her asking so there's no
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regretsy I I really want to cry because
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this is the the song that I always s for
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M for her to release pain so you know I
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cannot help the
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tears after meeting the Clones hope sun
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and moon lie began to feel that Moon
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reminded him most of Mau AKA Jen Jen
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she's just like a jingen and those two
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is super cute but she is just Mak me
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feel she's jingen
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back
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oh my
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God
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I feel moon is the Incarnation of
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ginger it was
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not really yeah okay oh my God made me
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want to cry I know that you want to cry
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you can feel feel we can stare at Dan
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whole day is amazing it's so
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amazing and and they are also very lucky
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that everybody they have everybody's
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love come on go
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hog thank you guys thank thank
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you
