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00:00Especially different is their relationship with the human body.

00:06Their religious mythology makes extensive use of creative variations on the human form.

00:14In public ceremonies, they put their bodies through trials unthinkable in the West.

00:23Frequently they subject themselves to physical treatment that many of us would find shocking

00:29and even abusive.

00:32There are reasons for these lurid rituals and practices, though none of them may be

00:37quite convincing enough to justify such traditions to us.

00:45But it's clear that the body and all its possibilities is a great source of fascination to the people

00:51of Thailand.

00:55This leads us to a remote section of Bangkok where there is a medical museum that dramatically

01:03illustrates this contrasting attitude toward flesh and bone.

01:09Wander down these corridors and you will come upon some of the world's strangest and most

01:15ghastly exhibits.

01:18Assembled in two rooms are collections of glass jars and cases, each containing strange

01:25mutations and graphic examples of physiological accidents and disease.

01:32Cross sections of human bodies are a usual sight in such medical museums, and students

01:39come to get a rare glimpse inside man's intricate anatomy.

01:45Skeletal remains stand sentinel as among the more traditional medical displays, but nearby

01:54human limbs and organs are propped up on shelves like so many spare parts.

02:01A grotesque array of maimed figures which highlights the Kongdon Museum, also known

02:10as the Thai Museum of Horrors.

02:13Dr. Sang Vichien is a medical doctor at the Seriraj Hospital in Bangkok and is director

02:21of this unusual museum.

02:29The purpose of the museum is educational.

02:32It is for the public.

02:34A lot of artists come and elementary and high school students on field trips.

02:40Originally, it was made for medical students to aid them in learning.

02:44The museum serves as a visual library of anatomical parts, and with more knowledge of our unusual

02:51displays, there is more understanding and appreciation.

02:56Recently, the number of tourists from Europe, America, and Japan has been increasing.

03:04Not exactly your dream getaway, you say?

03:09Perhaps you don't see the beauty and precision in these dissections of human cadavers.

03:16Perhaps you find it to be a revolting parade of death which robs the deceased of their

03:22dignity.

03:23But this is where cultural bias may distract you.

03:27These displays are valuable learning tools which students find fascinating and even rewarding.

03:35Examining this female specimen, for instance, gives students an intimate view of the immaculate

03:43workings of internal systems.

03:48Information gained in Western medicine through books and lectures is experienced here firsthand

03:56through these unique displays.

03:58That is, of course, if you can stomach this extraordinary show-and-tell.

04:06There are two displays of world-class specimens.

04:10There are displays of the peripheral nervous system and artery system.

04:14Dr. Pei-Thai Siri Karun, who had extraordinary hands as well as a great knowledge of anatomy,

04:21completed them.

04:23Doctors and professors who come in to view these displays are awed by them.

04:29What you are seeing is not a model.

04:33This actual dissection of a human nervous system is one of the few exhibits of its kind

04:38in the world.

04:40It stands alongside similar dissections of the human musculature and skeletal systems.

04:48You may find yourself wondering how these people became a spectacle for thousands of

04:55curious eyes.

04:57The majority of the specimens are donated.

05:00Most people are generous and sign their waiver forms and donate them.

05:05Many of us might find it difficult to understand why anyone would wish to view such misshapen

05:11forms.

05:12But in many Eastern societies, death is not a forbidden subject.

05:19It is embraced as a part of life's ongoing cycle.

05:25Some families are even reputed to have their loved ones on display in their homes.

05:32It is an altogether different relationship with mortality and medicine than most of us

05:38have known.

05:41Perhaps it takes a special intestinal fortitude to bluntly face the workings of the human

05:47machine.

05:48But the museum continues to attract viewers from all over the globe, and if it continues

05:55to thrive, perhaps Dr. Sang Vichen himself will instruct future generations when he passes

06:04on and finds a special place beside the other post-mortem professors in a medical museum

06:12that is beyond bizarre.

06:17In today's computerized world, we often find ourselves to be victims of technology, servants

06:26of the very machines created to serve us.

06:31Every computer owner knows the frustration of inscrutable, uncooperative machines.

06:40As bizarre as it may be to believe, in the city of San Francisco, an unusual artist has

06:47taken this dilemma to new heights, expressing himself through music as a slave to the machines.

06:57Is it art?

07:04Is it science?

07:08Or is it just sad?

07:12J-Bot, as this eclectic performer is called, was once a respected musician who toured the

07:19country in jazz and ska bands.

07:23But unable to adjust to his bandmates' personalities, he went on to literally assemble his own band,

07:31Captured by Robots, a mechanized musical group that, according to J-Bot, took on a life of

07:39its own.

07:46Unfortunately, something happened one night, their programming got screwed up somehow,

07:50and they captured me.

07:51I put a chip in my head, and then they started forcing me to do their bidding for their little

07:56robotic resistance or whatever.

07:59Then now they forced me to tour around the country, humiliating myself in front of my

08:02human peers, and they just treat me like crap, I can't help it.

08:06I would like to quit this outfit, but I don't know, maybe one day.

08:10This Orwellian ensemble features a host of distinct and rather tyrannical personalities.

08:18Hello, everybody in TV, and how are you?

08:23I started off with GuitarBot666, I always start with him.

08:26He's very maniacal, he likes to treat me horribly all the time.

08:30Shut up, shut up, shut up!

08:33I'm not gonna shut up!

08:35Any sort of ridiculing he can do, or any sort of inhumane treatment he can do to me, he

08:40does.

08:41Pain is his game.

08:43Anytime you want Pain, he's your bot.

08:47But he is a rocker, you know, and he's just like a guitar player.

08:51He's a little moody sometimes, you know, he won't play what you want a lot of times, you

08:55know, he has to have solos.

09:04Along with GuitarBot is DrumBot0110, the mastermind, according to J-Bot, who made him a genuine

09:16prisoner of his art.

09:18She's the strong, silent type.

09:20She likes to kick fat beats out.

09:23Her main thing for her is she really likes to stay sort of on the side, doing what she

09:28has to do, but she would rather not even be in this band at all.

09:31And then the ape which hath no name.

09:33I love you, J-Bot.

09:35I know.

09:36You are so special, so special.

09:38The problem is that when I made him, I thought he would just love me and hate the other two

09:43bots, but basically he loves everybody and even the bots that have captured me.

09:48And I love you, GuitarBot.

09:50And he plays tambourine with his head.

09:55The robots don't care what kind of music I play, by the way, they really, they don't

09:59care at all, they'll play whatever I want, really, which is my only real source of freedom

10:03in a way, you know, I mean, I can play exactly what I want, whenever I want, but the content

10:09of the song has to be my humiliation.

10:11And that's the part which sort of stinks about it.

10:14Okay, well, this song here, it's about, uh, I was a bedwetter when I was a child, and

10:19well, that's what this song is about.

10:22Everybody thinks it's so great and so, oh, ha, ha, funny, funny, but this ain't funny.

10:27I mean, I'm dealing with like, with constant abuse.

10:30No, please, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

10:35Okay, I'm sorry.

10:36When's someone going to treat me good?

10:38When's someone going to give me the respect that maybe I deserve, you know?

10:41Never, that's the answer, never.

10:43All the babes party.

10:46Jaybot recalls the fateful day his brave new band turned against him and welcomed him to

10:54the machine.

10:55I woke up one morning and the whole half of my head was shaved, it looked like I was going

11:00for some punk rock hairdo or something, but, um, and I looked at it and I was amazed, I

11:04was like, you know, what the heck is this in my head, you know?

11:07But, um, they, then they sort of woke me up with this jolt of pain.

11:16When they get mad at me, they activate this chip.

11:18With this chip, what they do is they manage to control me, that's, that's why I'm here

11:22today, that's why they, they make me show my guts to everybody and humiliate myself

11:26in front of a crowd.

11:27I'll use the brink, I couldn't let you understand.

11:34The brink, I couldn't let you all know.

11:39So what are the inspirational origins of Jaybot's Robo-Rock?

11:45No one in my family played music, really, except for my sister, and she would play

11:48Ice Castles on the piano over and over and over and over, so maybe that drove me,

11:52you know, over the brink a little bit, but, um, the main thing, I think, was that my,

11:57my grandfather was an electronics technician, he, he sold neon supplies, and so I would

12:02always go there and watch the, you know, um, just the supply house of Transformers and

12:07all this different stuff and always enjoyed it, but started playing, uh, playing trombone

12:11when I was younger and, and eventually moved up to playing bass and, and, and kept going

12:15with that, and for a long time it, I, I, I just would buy instruments to take them apart

12:19and see how they worked and, and rip them apart, and so maybe this is sort of like my,

12:24uh, uh, my judgment day from those, you know, the retribution from those instruments that

12:29I took apart, you know, that now I've got instruments taking me apart.

12:33As with any mechanism, there is some assembly required.

12:38Jaybot must go through the meticulous process of breaking down, moving, and rebuilding

12:45the very robots that have tyrannized his artistic life.

12:50Appearing at underground venues such as San Francisco's Mission Records,

12:55this robot roadie has a following of eccentric fans who enjoy the construction process

13:02as much as the music itself.

13:06They, too, are caught up in the gears of Jaybot's creations.

13:12Choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo!

13:14Wow!

13:20Boom!

13:23Perhaps out of bitterness over his own android imprisonment,

13:28Jaybot sees a bleak future for our technological society,

13:33one in which all of us may become prisoners of the bots.

13:39100 years from now computers are going to be running everything and we're going to you know the human race is going to come

13:45Stupid extra stupid because they're going to depend on machines for everything and if they're as smart as we are and if they I mean

13:51If they manage to get the greed and inhumanity that we as humans have then we don't have a chance

13:56I

14:07Could be you know looking at a life of freedom, but or you know humanity could look at you know life enslaved by robots

14:13So I don't it's a toss of the dice

14:17All I can hope is that possibly these guys both of them

14:20They're just gonna shut down and everything is gonna screw up, and I'm gonna quit

14:24a

14:26Fate that may await us all it is truly beyond bizarre

14:42Among our happiest school memories out of those occasions when the class word on the field trip

14:49the exciting sights and sounds of these excursions

14:54But a delightful break from the routine of the schoolyard

14:58the memories of those

15:01Experiences are fondly recalled years later

15:06But there is a school in Tennessee

15:09Stepping out of the classroom means putting one foot in the grave

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