Chapter 1: How are smartphones and social media reshaping our connections?
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Chapter 2: What role does morning sunlight play in our health?
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Once again, that's clubrandom.com. doing that kind of work. What are we going to get out of it? Okay, well, you're asking me to justify something for which I'm aware.
No, no, I'm not asking you to justify it.
Thanks for coming by. Yeah, thanks for having me. Beautiful place you have here.
It is. Well, it's not serious. Let's be real about it. And to me, that's what's great about it. I mean, this place was like a mess when I bought the house. And I was like, everybody said, tear it down.
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Chapter 3: How do biohacking and peptides challenge traditional medicine?
I was like, no, there's something about this place. Just the crooked door. Look at the, you know. How could you tear that down?
Right, and I don't know, are we allowed to say that there's a body in the bathtub?
That is not a body, Mr. Hoberman. That is Whitney Cummings. That's right. I recognize her. She's got quite a body. But yeah, that's very expensive. She gifted that to me. I'm very grateful. It's a couple hundred thousand dollars to make that. She did it for a special. a like audit electronic, what's the word, version of her.
I remember going to the World's Fair and they had the, you know, back in the day, Lincoln, hello, you know, it was kind of like that, but this is much more realistic.
It's very realistic. I'm friends with Whitney and I've walked in and there was Whitney in the This Whitney, the Whitney 2.0.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of mRNA technology for cancer treatment?
Yeah, we put her in the bathtub. We had her sitting over there, but every time I walked in the room, I was like, oh, fuck, there's a person here.
It is a little shocking because it's so accurate.
It's so accurate. Minus the hair. There's no hair on it. Well, I mean, we're close to having sex robots, aren't we? I mean, I'm not making that... There's a movie I just saw, it's pretty good, called Companion. Okay. Have you seen it? No, I haven't seen it. It's interesting. It's, you know, and Megan Fox did one about sex robots.
There's going to be a lot of sex... Trust me, Sidney Sweeney is going to be playing a sex robot at some point. I just think that's inevitable. But, you know, and in the movies, this is, of course, a little bit in the future at least... You know, the robot is indistinguishable physically from a real human, and it's just someone who is programmed to adore the person who bought her.
I know she said her, so this assumes that no one will have a male sex robot. I think it's different in the woman's brain. I think that's why men want...
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Chapter 5: How is CRISPR gene editing changing the future of health?
And the male fragile ego and everything probably wants someone who adores them. Who doesn't really want to be adored?
I'm sure there are going to be guys out there that are going to be paid for the robot that insults them and all sorts of things. But that seems like an entirely different domain.
Yeah, those are the guys who now are having to pay someone to dig their high heel into them.
Isn't that bizarre how some of, like when those cases have been unearthed, I don't know, something about ultra-powerful people, maybe they have never been told no and they crave that? Odd. I don't know.
I don't know.
We're speculating here.
Well, on that score of people who, men who like it in, shall we say, the reverse, somebody once told me a story, it probably was a stripper in a club, about...
this guy who had a really small dick so he like his way to deal with it was he wanted the women to humiliate him and apparently that's like a thing sometimes whoa you know well it's like making a virtue out of it like at least it's getting attention
Yeah, the AI relationship thing maybe is not as edgy as what we're talking about now, but it does seem like it's already happening. People are having relationships with AI.
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Chapter 6: What unsettling connections exist between science and Jeffrey Epstein?
I mean, they've been doing this in Japan, and the movie Her was almost 15 years ago.
It was like a crystal ball.
Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah, I mean, that's where it was going. But there was no, remember in the movie, he hires a surrogate. like an actual woman while he's on the phone with the thing so we can feel like he's really having sex with the phone that he's in love with.
It's like taking all the functions of the human brain and compartmentalizing them into different actions and trying to interleave them. It's so bizarre.
I used to ask this in my act. Doesn't anybody just fuck anymore? I mean, is it really, are we that jaded that this, you know, it just seems like people do, everybody has some crazy kink. I feel like I'm the last member of the land that time forgot. I don't do anything, never, I don't even fantasize about kinky shit.
I don't, you know, it's not like, ooh, I'm not fucking anybody in the ass, but I'm thinking about it. I'm not thinking about it.
What used to be vanilla is now, you know, is not even on the page for, it seems, you know, one thing it seems like with these different generations, you know, we hear like, I'm Gen X, right? I'm 50. So we hear like Gen X, Gen Z, millennials, and this sort of thing.
But it does seem that there was an entire generation that was raised so deeply in these short video social media landscapes that they're almost like an experimental group, right? I mean, inadvertently, they're the experimental group and nobody knows how this is going to work out.
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Chapter 7: Why are attention spans shrinking in the digital age?
I did hear that there are data that, you know, people won't hire kids of certain generations because their inability to have, you know, generate eye contact, have a conversation, because they're just so used to staring in a little box all the time. It's wild.
And yeah, and I mean, we know how much this affects their sex life. They don't relate on a one-to-one basis. You see video of people, or you could go to a bar, and they're all looking at their phone in the bar, even though the person is sitting right across from them. Even people out on dates. Yes. It's wild. That's common sense. Now, Could it in the future turn out?
I mean, anything's possible that that isn't so deleterious. I don't think so. But what we do know is it's different. You can't deny that, that this is a difference not just in degree, but in kind of something that we never saw before, where we're not relating directly, where we're putting some filter between everything. Look at a concert.
You know, I watched as much as I could of the Taylor Swift concert because Nikki Glaser made me. And she did. Well, she's a giant Taylor Swift fan. And like everybody throughout the whole concert, anytime they cut to the crowd, they're all watching through their phones.
Chapter 8: What is the future of human interaction in a tech-driven world?
I mean, everybody is like this.
What is that about? Because I mean, that image can be, you know, They could get that image after the show. Exactly. I don't know what that is. I guess it's to project oneself into the onstage experience somehow. What do you mean?
You're here as the expert. What are you asking me for? I don't know. You tell me. This is what I want to know from you.
Well, there are some interesting studies. I think the one that's probably most relevant to everyone is this study that looked at people's ability to focus when their phone is off and turned over in front of them. versus in their bag turned off underneath or behind their chair versus in another room, separate room.
And the interesting thing is that the ability to focus was the same essentially across those groups, but it took a lot of extra cognitive resource to work and to focus when the phone is on the table or even in a bag underneath or behind your chair.
How do they measure that?
They can measure how much, essentially how much energy people devote to focusing versus to generating new sort of creative thoughts into flexible use of the information. And so it takes a lot more work to focus when your phone is in the room. That's just the simple takeaway. So when the phone's out of the room, you see what looks like a boost in cognitive performance.
It's actually just getting people to baseline. And this is something, it reminds me of David Goggins, the guy who's a former Navy SEAL. He's always running around and shouting and this kind of thing, and super high performer in the physical domain, who's now actually studying to become a paramedic. And he said it perfectly. He said, it's never been easier nowadays to outperform your peers.
But it's mostly a function now of what you don't do. Just putting your phone away gives you what looks like a cognitive boost, but it just puts you on par with all the generations before you that didn't have phones in the room. So to succeed now as a young person, it's much harder unless you're able to abstain from interactions with short form video mostly and the phone generally.
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