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ATTACHMENT #61- TED Talk with Borf Mayer.
Host: And now to discuss about the virtues of emotional support, Please welcome from the Stanmire institute of cognition, Borf Mayer.
Audio Tag: Applause
Video Tag: A large white dog in a cardigan shuffles onto stage.  He is slouched to make himself appear smaller, and he is hyperventilating.
Borf Mayer: uhm. hello. my name is [indistinct] and i'm [indistinct] uhm but [indistinct]
Audience member: SPEAK. UP.
Video Tag: A technician quickly walks up on stage and tries to find his lavaliere. By the time he actually finds it, the technician is arm deep into Borf's neck fluff. He pulls it out and clips it to his sweater.
Borf: is that [indistinct]?
Technician: sighs Hang on.
Video tag: The technician simply pulls out the lavaliere and puts it in Borf's hands. He holds the tiny microphone with both hands in a death grip.
Borf: uhm. thank you. hello my name is borf and I am. uhm. glad to be here today to talk to you about being a good boy. PUP. good pup.
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Audio tag: the audience clamors quietly.
Borf: emotional uh. emotional support animals are a relatively new concept historically in the purview of government recognition. we've seen seeing eye dogs.. uhm observe seeing eye dogs. as far back as the 1750s in french hospitals. th- though they weren't... poodles.
Audio tag: Borf holds for audience, no one laughs.
Borf: it-it wasn't until the american disabilities act of 1990 that we started acknowledging dogs and other animals could provide various levels of positive feedback to... to uh... to mental health. people like dogs. they're soft, friendly, eager to please.
Video Tag: The screen behind borf shows a patent blueprint of what appears to be a Puphood with a glass visor along the front shaped like a bone.
Borf: so we uh... as my publicist suggested i say, took this to the next level. the second level. which is... more than the first. GOODPUPS are a... uh... revolutionary experiment that we took for people in need of a workforce that can provide emotional support and empathic intelligence that could be deployed for a number of departments. addiction recovery, cognitive behavioral therapy, suicide prevention, and treatment for ptsd. i have based the GOODPUPS behavior engrams around a brain scan of a good boy. something idealized from someone that takes great joy in seeing others happy to encourage maximum care.
Video Tag: the next slide plays and it shows a picture of Borf wearing a complicated helmet attached to a computer. Borf blushes and pokes his tongue out a little.
Borf: is me.
Audio tag: a few scattered laughs from the audience
Video Tag:  Borf's tail begins to wag before he clears his throat.
Borf: GOODPUPS can be implemented as your entire workforce or with a select few to increase morale, and assist in therapeutic care. i will be training them myself in a program as we roll out a trial simulation in an expensive.... uh training... thing. now in terms of the technical specifications...
Video Tag: several members of the audience have fallen asleep as he slips into the technical specifications.

Borf helped a little with some of the training aspects of the orca drones in the past. he wasn't too keen on the identity loss aspect but he never let me know. he just kind of stood there and tapped his fingers with a worried expression. He's the kind of person who waits patiently to speak his mind so as not to interrupt you despite the fact you haven't said anything for the last fifteen minutes. I have NO idea why Kai Tyde would think he'd make a good mastermind but the subs under his training seem to really enjoy his method of hypnotic reinforcement.

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