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00:00Gemma, your story is pretty wild. I'm just going to put it out there.
00:04It's about a man who's been bitten by snakes 200 times. I don't know.
00:10As his job, though, he encourages it. He seeks it out.
00:14So this is an American man called Tim Freed.
00:16Yes.
00:17And he has been bitten over 200 times over the past 20 years, all in the name of research.
00:23Not only has he been bitten over 200 times by mumbas, cobras, crates, some of the most deadliest snakes in the world,
00:31he's also been injected 700 times with venom from poisonous snakes.
00:38Now, it began when he wanted to build up his immunity.
00:41He had a YouTube channel. Obviously, this is kind of classic YouTube.
00:45Classic for the likes.
00:46Yes, for the likes. Subscribe and like.
00:50And he was documenting his exploits on YouTube.
00:53And he was getting, he wanted to better immunize himself against being bitten by snakes.
01:00And he started to realize, he actually went into a coma.
01:04He got bitten twice, very in quick succession.
01:06And when he came out of it, he sort of had a bit of an epiphany that this is what he wanted to do with his life.
01:10So over the past 18 years, he has been bitten 200 times.
01:14And he is now producing antibodies that are being used around the world against venom for snake bites.
01:23And this is a message, which has beenplants at the der Integration of God.
01:26I'm going to get that message to him and let or trail.
01:26And sometimes he has his Facebook to enable theunning of the body,
01:28in the light of the world against the people that he has forbidden with it.
01:28And then with these people don't appear to be checked.
01:29And when he began toç¶è·fully, you can talk through like a patient.