E SE Você Fosse o ÚNICO Homem Capaz de Ter FILHOS? — Transcript

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1. 0:00Imagine you're that guy who never had
2. 0:02much luck with girls.
3. 0:05In school, while your friends were
4. 0:07dating, you were busy trying to figure
5. 0:09out how to talk to a girl without
6. 0:11looking like a complete idiot.
7. 0:14You've been rejected, called weird, and
8. 0:17probably spent the entire recess
9. 0:18pretending to be on your phone just to
10. 0:21avoid looking alone.
11. 0:23But all that was about to change.
12. 0:27Because a few years later, a mysterious
13. 0:29virus would begin to spread across the
14. 0:31planet.
15. 0:33And it had a very specific
16. 0:35characteristic: it was making all men
17. 0:37unable to have children.
18. 0:41At first, nobody paid much attention.
19. 0:43After all, it seemed like just another
20. 0:45strange disease.
21. 0:47But hospitals began receiving thousands
22. 0:49of patients with the same problem.
23. 0:52Tests confirmed that sperm production
24. 0:55was being completely interrupted.
25. 0:58And the worst part was that there was no
26. 1:00treatment.
27. 1:01In a few months, governments around the
28. 1:04world declared a state of emergency.
29. 1:07After all, if no man could have children
30. 1:09anymore, humanity would basically be
31. 1:11doomed to disappear in the next
32. 1:13generations.
33. 1:15But while the entire planet was in
34. 1:18despair, you were living your life
35. 1:20normally.
36. 1:22Until one day, out of curiosity, you
37. 1:24decided to get some tests done.
38. 1:26And that's when you received news that
39. 1:28would change absolutely everything.
40. 1:31You were fertile.
41. 1:34In fact, you were the only fertile man
42. 1:36still on the planet.
43. 1:40And my friend, if before you couldn't
44. 1:41even get a "good morning" from the girls
45. 1:43, you can be sure that now the situation
46. 1:45would be a little different.
47. 1:48Because suddenly, you had become the
48. 1:51most important man in the history of
49. 1:53humanity.
50. 1:54In the first few days, the news was
51. 1:56still kept secret.
52. 1:58But it didn't take long for the
53. 2:00governments to discover your identity.
54. 2:03And when that happened, your life turned
55. 2:05completely upside down.
56. 2:09You wake up one morning, open your cell
57. 2:11phone and find hundreds of missed calls
58. 2:13.
59. 2:15Your mother is crying, your father is
60. 2:17trying to understand what's happening,
61. 2:19and even that girl who rejected you in
62. 2:20high school decided to send a message.
63. 2:24And the message wasn't a simple "hi."
64. 2:27She wanted to know if you were single,
65. 2:29but the problem is that you were no
66. 2:31longer an ordinary person.
67. 2:34Now there were doctors, scientists, and
68. 2:36government agents monitoring practically
69. 2:38your every move.
70. 2:41You are taken to a laboratory where you
71. 2:43undergo a battery of tests.
72. 2:46Researchers want to understand why your
73. 2:48body was the only one unaffected by the
74. 2:50virus.
75. 2:52And after a few weeks, they reach a
76. 2:54frightening conclusion.
77. 2:57Your body possesses an extremely rare
78. 2:59genetic trait that prevents the virus
79. 3:02from attacking your reproductive cells.
80. 3:05Basically, you were born with a
81. 3:06protection that even scientists haven't
82. 3:09been able to reproduce.
83. 3:11And that means you're not just an
84. 3:13important person.
85. 3:15You're the only hope for the
86. 3:16continuation of the human species.
87. 3:19But there's a small detail.
88. 3:22The entire human race now depends on you
89. 3:25.
90. 3:26And that completely changes how people
91. 3:28start treating you.
92. 3:31The first thing that happens is that
93. 3:33governments create an international
94. 3:34program to guarantee your safety and
95. 3:36organize human reproduction.
96. 3:39You receive a mention, private security
97. 3:42, top-quality food, and access to the
98. 3:44best hospitals in the world.
99. 3:47That same guy who was ignored in school
100. 3:50now has an entire team working
101. 3:51exclusively for him.
102. 3:54And the proposals start pouring in.
103. 3:56Women from all over the world want to
104. 3:58meet you.
105. 4:00Celebrities, models, influencers, and
106. 4:02even some extremely famous people start
107. 4:05showing interest.
108. 4:07Your Instagram, which previously had
109. 4:09about 200 followers, simply explodes.
110. 4:12You post a photo drinking coffee and
111. 4:14receive millions of comments.
112. 4:17There are people offering marriage
113. 4:19proposals, people wanting to meet you,
114. 4:20and even countries offering citizenship
115. 4:22in exchange for an opportunity to
116. 4:24participate in their reproductive
117. 4:26program.
118. 4:27And it's at this moment that you begin
119. 4:29to realize something.
120. 4:30You no longer need to chase after anyone
121. 4:33.
122. 4:34In fact, now people are chasing after
123. 4:36you.
124. 4:38Imagine going out on the street and
125. 4:40realizing that practically everyone
126. 4:42knows who you are.
127. 4:44Restaurants offer free meals, stores
128. 4:46want to give you gifts, and even brands
129. 4:48start competing with you for
130. 4:49multi-million dollar contracts.
131. 4:52Those sneakers you used to buy in 12
132. 4:54installments now arrive at your mansion
133. 4:57for free.
134. 4:58But there's an even more interesting
135. 5:00situation.
136. 5:02You decide to meet a girl and, for the
137. 5:04first time in your life, you don't have
138. 5:06to think about what topic to bring up or
139. 5:09if she'll respond.
140. 5:11After all, she already knows exactly who
141. 5:13you are.
142. 5:15You start talking, go out to dinner, and
143. 5:17apparently, everything is going very
144. 5:19well.
145. 5:21Until, during the date, she asks how
146. 5:23many children you plan to have.
147. 5:27And you realize that maybe that
148. 5:29conversation isn't going exactly where
149. 5:31you imagined.
150. 5:33Because now even a romantic date feels
151. 5:35like a job interview.
152. 5:38But while you're trying to enjoy this
153. 5:40new reality, scientists are beginning to
154. 5:43realize a gigantic problem.
155. 5:46You're just a man. Even if you're
156. 5:49fertile, there's a limit to how many
157. 5:51children you could naturally father.
158. 5:55And considering that billions of people
159. 5:57still need to ensure the continuity of
160. 5:58humanity, this would be a gigantic
161. 6:00problem.
162. 6:02So, researchers present a solution.
163. 6:06They want to collect and preserve your
164. 6:08genetic material in laboratories, using
165. 6:10artificial insemination to drastically
166. 6:12increase the number of people who could
167. 6:15be born.
168. 6:16This would allow thousands of women to
169. 6:19have children without you having to
170. 6:21personally participate in each pregnancy
171. 6:23.
172. 6:24And for the first time since the
173. 6:26beginning of the crisis, it seems that
174. 6:28humanity has finally found a way out.
175. 6:31But then another problem arises.
176. 6:33Who would have the right to use your
177. 6:35genetic material?
178. 6:37Because now we're not just talking about
179. 6:39women wanting to date you.
180. 6:42We're talking about governments,
181. 6:43companies, and organizations trying to
182. 6:45control the only genetic resource
183. 6:47capable of guaranteeing the future of
184. 6:48humanity.
185. 6:51Some countries want free access, others
186. 6:53want to turn it into a national program
187. 6:55.
188. 6:56And there are even groups arguing that
189. 6:59you should be obliged to collaborate.
190. 7:02After all, in their view, your fertility
191. 7:04has ceased to be a personal matter and
192. 7:06has become a global necessity.
193. 7:09And this is where your life starts to
194. 7:11get really complicated.
195. 7:14You realize you can no longer go out
196. 7:16alone, you can't simply meet someone on
197. 7:18the street, and you can't even decide
198. 7:19what to do with your own future without
199. 7:21someone trying to interfere.
200. 7:24Even your family starts receiving absurd
201. 7:27offers.
202. 7:29People offering money, mansions, and
203. 7:31contracts to get close to you.
204. 7:35And imagine the number of scams that
205. 7:37would start to appear.
206. 7:39There would probably be thousands of
207. 7:42fake profiles claiming to be your
208. 7:44relatives, people trying to sell
209. 7:46supposed products made with your DNA,
210. 7:48and even women inventing stories to get
211. 7:50into your social circle.
212. 7:53You've practically become a global
213. 7:55celebrity.
214. 7:56Except for one small detail: your fame
215. 7:59doesn't depend on what you do, but on
216. 8:01something your body is capable of
217. 8:03producing.
218. 8:04But relationships also start to get
219. 8:07strange.
220. 8:08Imagine meeting a girl and wondering if
221. 8:11she really likes you or if she's only
222. 8:13interested in the possibility of having
223. 8:15a child with the last fertile man on the
224. 8:17planet.
225. 8:19And this starts to affect your mind.
226. 8:22After all, you spent your entire
227. 8:23adolescence wanting to be desired.
228. 8:26Now that you finally have the attention
229. 8:28of practically every woman in the world
230. 8:31, you can't figure out who really likes
231. 8:33you.
232. 8:35But the situation gets even worse,
233. 8:37because after a few months a group of
234. 8:39scientists makes a discovery that
235. 8:41completely changes the course of the
236. 8:42story.
237. 8:45The virus isn't just causing male
238. 8:48infertility, it's also mutating.
239. 8:52And researchers discover that, if they
240. 8:54can't develop a cure in the next few
241. 8:56years, there's a possibility that
242. 8:58infertility will also start affecting
243. 9:00the descendants of infected men.
244. 9:05This means that simply producing
245. 9:06thousands of children wouldn't
246. 9:07necessarily solve the problem.
247. 9:11Humanity would need to discover how your
248. 9:13body managed to resist the virus and use
249. 9:16that information to develop a definitive
250. 9:18treatment.
251. 9:20And guess who's the only person capable
252. 9:22of providing that answer? Exactly, you.
253. 9:28Now scientists want to study your DNA,
254. 9:30reproduce your cells, and find out if
255. 9:32there's any way to transmit this
256. 9:34resistance to other people.
257. 9:38But, for the first time, you start to
258. 9:40think that maybe you don't want to spend
259. 9:41the rest of your life being treated like
260. 9:43an experiment.
261. 9:46You want to go out, meet people, have a
262. 9:48family, and simply live.
263. 9:52And perhaps that's the most ironic part
264. 9:53of this whole story.
265. 9:56The boy who spent his whole life being
266. 9:58rejected finally got the attention he
267. 10:00always wanted.
268. 10:02But now he needs to find out if anyone
269. 10:05is truly interested in him.
270. 10:07Because, in the end, you can be the most
271. 10:10important man on the planet, have
272. 10:12thousands of women wanting to meet you,
273. 10:15and carry the future of humanity on your
274. 10:17shoulders, but you're still the same guy
275. 10:20who just wanted to find someone who
276. 10:22liked him.