 What if you designed in Asia a robotic CGI that you could put over the parents face so the parents could tell you to your face that they love you? Wow. So we're gonna be able to record your parents voice and then you'll be able to get your parents to say, Wow, we are so proud of you. It's gonna give you all the positive affirmations you want from your father. Would you use this device to kiss through the phone and why does it seem like inventions from Asia are always a little bit weird or are they just super logical? Yeah, this is going viral right now. We're talking about a $37 smartphone-mounted pair of prosthetic lips for 37 bucks on Taobao Android. It's a kissing machine. We gotta talk about it. So make sure you like, subscribe, turn on your notifications. You know, phone bros, hop-hop boys. We're talking about silly things, serious things. This probably more falls in the silly category. David, real quick, who would use this? I would say that anybody in a long-distance relationship, obviously this was developed in China. A lot of people are moving around a big country for school, for work, so they may need a way to stay in touch with their bae beyond video chatting. Yeah, and honestly, even back in the 20s and 30s, and maybe a little bit later, but this thing kind of died out, which was the kissing booths in America. They actually used to have booths that you could go in, walk up, and pay for a kiss. Yeah, see, that was my favorite way to get a kiss in the 1920s, the good old kissing booth. Say we could get kisses from real ladies back then, but now you gotta kiss a robot. Anyways, this is like V1. So I guess people are kind of extrapolating, like what does V2, V4 of this product look like? Do the lips get moist? Do they, can you squeeze something and they squeeze like some type of saliva type liquid out? Or are they gonna come with lipstick? And I think all the extrapolation in people's minds, especially the internet commenters' minds, is really what's sparking all the controversy around it. So we gotta get into some of the comments, Andrew. First one was like, I've seen this before. The Chinese don't get credit for it. I've seen it. The Kissinger device, I saw it on Big Bang Theory. I saw Soldier Boy said, kiss me through the phone. Yeah, you know, like in China, we noticed that people always came up with this device, but nobody could mass produce it at a low cost. And we are just able to do that. And this is the most advanced version. Yeah, I mean, as we all know, with like AI, 3D printing, prosthetics, like everything is way more advanced nowadays. You know, 37 bucks. That does look like a good deal for this device. Guys, let me tell you this, man, the Asians weren't the first ones or the only ones to try to recreate intimacy with a device, okay? We all know a popular one that was invented in America. Not only are you gonna talk about it, but you know what I'm talking about. Somebody said, technology is ruining our society, man. Has it lost its damn mind? Everything I see, it just violates my sense of what is moral, what is right, and especially what I think is normal. No, I mean, I think a lot of old people feel this way and you know, they've seen, especially I think people who are not super tech savvy have seen the technology change so fast within the past 20 years. Like it's been insane because technology, hardware, robotics, it can advance so much faster than even what our like brains can imagine, you know what I mean? They're like, I wouldn't even have thought of this thing, you know, but hey man, it's here. I think the one thing that this older generation that's like anti-technologists has to realize though is that like they might be using a lot of things keeping them alive that are involved with technology as well. So you kind of gotta take the good with the bad. Yeah, I mean, if they're coming out with like fake hearts that like help the blood to keep pumping, you know. I can regulate my heartbeat with my iPhone. Like dude, what would you think? Yeah, I mean like if you have all this technology and all these transplants and all these prosthetic limbs, you don't think you're gonna have prosthetic lips? I'd say, Cletus, just let them kiss. If that, you might not understand it, just let them kiss from miles and miles away. They just need some intimacy. These boys are lonely. Only Chinese would think of this, man. They are so strange over there. The inscrutable Chinese, I will never understand what runs through their minds. These bug people, these genius robot bug people remind me a lot of the Neimoides and the Star Wars. I mean, listen, I think we all know East Asian culture is not considered the most like lovable, warm, like PDA field. Like I don't think they need this invention in France and Italy because they wouldn't think of it because you're already kissing each other when you greet each other. Do you, are you saying they do not need this $37 Taobao thing in like Columbia? No, not Latin America. I mean, I would also say like, man, if you think this invention is weird, do not Google the Japanese inventions because they come up with an entire suit that'll do things for you. I will certainly say that when it comes to like matters of the heart or romanticism, at least over the last 150 years, I could see a lot of Western people perceiving Asians if they were a college to be like MIT or Caltech and they would be like a liberal arts school like Wesleyan or like, you know, Oberlin or something that's like very strong in the humanities to your point. Like the West would be like, we do not need these rubber lips because I've got version 10.0 right here. So let's get to the takeaways, man. I mean, like we said, the Eastern society views the weirdness of this item differently, right? I'm not saying it's like completely normal to everybody in the East, but maybe it's because the lack of religion or they're not as much Christian countries over there and they're not as much like humanistic or whatever like that, or at least their definition of that is different. Basically it's not as weird, right? Yeah, I mean, I think that my biggest thing is like the cultures, maybe in the West they'd be like, well, why don't you go meet somebody in person, go find a pair of lips to smooth Chong, you know? But maybe that's not the culture out there. Maybe there's not as many bars where you go and just meet people and people are like making out with each other. You can go to a bar in America and literally like make out with someone. Like that happens like all the time. Right, you're saying the local watering hole is a fixture in American society all the things that happen around the dark board. I think that these inventions are super logical to fit or fix a problem that people have. And I'm not saying there's a widespread problem. Like we said, I don't think every Chinese person needs this, of course, but there are Chinese people who only see their family once or twice a year. Maybe they want it or they're going to school there and you know, they're working hard. So they want to see each other. Like, this is just the next evolution of FaceTime. You probably thought FaceTime was weird or this thing people try to make like smell of vision on the internet, which is that's pretty weird. But like, I guess this is just like the next invention. Maybe there's next one is like a robot hologram that where it kind of has some pressure to it so that you can kind of make out with your literal like head. I could see in Asia them looking at an invention that's like going to be upcoming in the West for example, like civilian bulletproof vests. And they'll be like, why will we need civilian bulletproof vests in Asia? That's so weird to us. And then people in the West will be looking at like, yeah, they need robots to like digitally kiss each other. That's so weird. Yeah, you know, like in the West, we're like, hey, how do we make this mace spray look like a pistol in Asia? They're like, yeah, well, why would you want anything to look like a pistol? Like, we barely have those things here, you know? So I think the needs of society are different. And maybe the intimacy needs in East Asia are different than the West. And then the safety needs in the West are different than in Asia. What if you designed in Asia a robotic CGI that you could put over the parents face so the parents could tell you to your face that they love you. Wow. Oh, you know what's going to happen is there's these deep fakes where you're going to be able to record your parents' voice and then you'll be able to get your parents to say. Wow, we are so proud of you. Even though you got an 87 on the test, it is still okay. It's going to give you all the positive affirmations that you want from your father. Of course, guys, we then know it's changing in Asia slowly. Those are like older stereotypes if you have older parents. Anyway, guys, let us know what you think of this $37 towel bow kissing machine in the comments section below. Is it weird? Is it dope? Are you waiting for the 6.0 version? And until next time, we're the Hop Hop Boys. We out, peace.