Chapter 1: What is the main theme of this podcast episode?
about time you got in here. Good to see you. I'm coming to you from my man cave slash garage. And while you're streaming in here, because we're going to have the best time you've ever had, we'll get ready for a show. We've done the pre-show already. So this is the real thing at the top of the hour. And how many of you want the simultaneous sip? You do, right? You do.
And if you want that, all you need is... I'm reading my cup. It's written on the cup. All you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's happening now. Go! Ah, tremendous. Now, for the nerds among you, and I know there are some nerds, I'm using my laptop, but I'm using the built-in microphone for the laptop. Apparently, using my iPhone as a remote microphone, which is an option, didn't give me quite the quality I was hoping for. That was the feedback I got.
and uh this is a little bit better it's not as good as the shure you know studio microphone but i don't have a convenient way to set that up i bought myself a uh a microphone stand that will allow me to put it on the floor and and then have the studio microphone in front of me but that's what's happening hey you want to talk about the news that's why you're here right have some fun hang out with each other
By the way, I am kind of happy about the fact that I seem to have accidentally pioneered a new form of entertainment. The new form of entertainment is, yeah, we're going to talk about the news and yeah, you might learn some things and maybe you get a reframe.
But it's more about hanging out because it seems that the biggest problem people have, certainly at a certain age, maybe at every age, but certainly beyond a certain age, people don't really have friends. Have you noticed that? They have family members, they have coworkers, they have neighbors, but people don't really, for the most part, have a lot of friends.
So what I do sort of accidentally is I created this, I don't know, kind of a, I don't even want to call it entertainment, although I hope to make it entertaining. But it just feels good to know that there will be a time of day, every day, including weekends and holidays, that I'll be here, and that I do it for you, and you do it for me. And that just feels good. So shall we begin? Sure.
So according to SciPost, Psychology News, Vladimir Hedrin is writing about this, that the spice saffron... might help with erectile dysfunction. So I'm reading this long article about how if you give people saffron pills that they will have much better sexual function. And then I get to the end of the story and it says, however, it should be noted that this was an open label study.
In other words, the people who had the saffron pills were completely aware that they were studying their sexual function and they were studying saffron. Now, do you think that sounds like a valid scientific study to you? There's a reason that they have the blind studies. This is not blind.
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Chapter 2: How does synesthesia influence creativity and perception?
Right? So if there's no downside, and who knows, it might make your sexual performance better, it might make your might make you heal better. So it goes like this. Some for the meal, some for Scott, some for the meal, some for Scott. Now, of course, nobody wants to eat dinner with you if you're covered with spice, but that's their problem. All right. Can you tell it's a slow news day?
Is there anything about the content of this podcast that tells you it's a slow news day? Oh, I think there is. I think there is. All right, what else is in the news? There's now, according to the Karolinska Instituta and Stockholm University, there's a new drug that looks like it might boost your muscles and curb your appetite and it might be better than these weight loss drugs.
So if you wanted something that would make you lose weight while preserving all your muscles, they might have something. But probably not. What are the odds there's something in the news that says this might work? It worked in a mouse. Do you know what are the odds it will work in a human if it works in a mouse? Not much. So it's fun to talk about.
But you wouldn't want to bet a lot that it's going to work out. Here's one that I thought was interesting. Again, we don't know if this is real. You'd have to have a lot more science before you could convince me. But there is some good evidence that the time of day that you give somebody a treatment, a medical treatment, might affect how effective it is.
So specifically, they found that if you give, I think it's an immunotherapy for cancer, it's a cancer treatment, that if you give it to people in the morning, you get a much better response than if you give it to them at night. Now, does that surprise you? Again, remember, the odds of this actually passing other scientific scrutiny And five years from now being true, it's not really that high.
There's probably a pretty good chance that this won't stand up. But it feels like it would. I think your body is different enough at different times of the day that I wouldn't be surprised if when you take your medicine makes a difference. I'll bet you this is the kind of thing that AI could discover, don't you think?
Once we get to the point that AI will monitor all the things you put in your body, and then it can compare it anonymously to all the other people putting things in their body. So some of it would be food. Some of it would be time of day. So in other words, it's just the AI is just measuring everything you put in your body and when.
Don't you think that that's going to have an immense impact on your health? if you knew, oh, this medicine works, but not if I eat a potato within an hour. Because there's a whole bunch of those things where there is a difference. So imagine when AI can actually wrap its little head around that. How many of you have ever heard of a thing called synesthesia? Synesthesia.
I've talked about this, but not in a long time. It's the... phenomenon that applies to some people but not many so it's you know maybe maybe fewer than 10% they can they have some kind of a crossover effect in their senses so for example some people if they're listening to music they can almost feel it whereas people like me I listen to music and I like it
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Chapter 3: What innovative strategies are being proposed for underground farming?
So according to this study at Flinders University, that sleep first, get enough sleep, then you'll get enough activity, and then you have the two things that are good for you, activity and sleep. But I don't believe that it doesn't work the other way. Let's see what you say in the comments. I believe that I can never get a good sleep
if i have not been active that day do you have the same same thing if i've not exercised that day now at the moment i'm on all kinds of you know drugs and stuff for my cancer so it's different now but in my normal healthy life if i don't get exercise i can't sleep don't you have that It can't just be me, right? All right, so I'm seeing in the comments that a lot of you are agreeing with me.
So I would say that exercise helps you sleep, and sleeping helps you exercise, and it definitely works both ways. So some schools are experimenting with drones to protect against school shootings. I'm going to give you a little quiz. How many school shootings do you think happened in one year, let's say, not one year, since 2008 in just Florida alone?
So only the state of Florida, and we're talking about shootings in the school since 2008. Give me a number. How many do you think there's been? Well, while you're guessing how many there's been, the answer is, at least according to this one One article from the Center Square, Merrilee Gasser is writing, that there have been 33 school shootings since 2008.
So that just feels like a lot, doesn't it? Remember, it's since 2008, so it's not one year. Yeah, your guesses are closer to a one-year guess. Well, that's a lot, but I assume that also includes just one person getting shot.
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Chapter 4: How is AI impacting the film industry with AI actresses?
So it's not necessarily mass shootings. But what they want to do is they're testing non-lethal drones. So if there's a shooter in the school, the drone will come and distract them. So the drone will not be deadly. It won't have a gun, but it might have...
You might have sirens or pepper sprays or other distraction devices because if you are a school shooter and a drone comes after you, you're going to have to pay attention to the drone because that's the thing you don't know exactly what it can do and it's going to be in your space really fast. I like this idea. It seems pretty good.
You know, it could even be better if you got rid of the humans, right? If you equip the school with listening devices and then it heard a gunshot, don't you think it would be useful if the drone immediately went wherever the gunshot was?
Chapter 5: What are the implications of Trump's approach to AI regulation?
Now, that doesn't mean it should intervene. You probably want a human to decide whether it should intervene, but it should definitely go there. As soon as it hears the gunshot, it should pull into that room or as close as it can get. I think this is definitely worth testing. I wouldn't go so far as to say I know it'll work. Definitely worth testing.
Well, Trump is apparently going to announce a $12 billion farm aid program, the Washington Examiner is reporting. And it kind of made me wonder, because I'm a farm nerd. I worked on a farm, my uncle's farm. He had a dairy farm. So I've spent a lot of time on farms and working on farms when I was a kid and a teenager. I guess that's still a kid. But here's what I wonder.
How do you make farms unprofitable? What is it about a farm that would take it from, well, we've been making money until now, but now we're losing money? Well, some of it's obvious. Some of it would be oversupply. So there might be a year when everybody grows too much of one thing and then the price goes down. It might be drought or a flood. So it could be bad weather in a variety of ways.
It could be the rising cost of seeds and the rising cost of fuel. And I said to myself, are those all solvable problems? And let me give you my prediction slash suggestion, I guess. I feel like we should have an ongoing, maybe government-sponsored, but it doesn't need to be. I guess it can be private. Something like an Elon Musk farming, what would you call it, experiment?
I know that Elon's brother... has been working on indoor farming, so I think they understand the potential here. But I'd love to see it go to the next level. Here's what I think it's going to look like. If I were trying to solve all the problems of farming being too expensive, so I could bring down the cost of food, I would build it underground.
So first I'd have the boring company that can do underground tunnels really inexpensively. So once you have a way to inexpensively build a tunnel, then you could also redirect the sunlight from above into it so you get all the free sunlight. You could just do it by mirrors. I'm pretty sure you get all the goodness of the sun even if you redirect it through mirrors.
So you'd have all the free sun, but you wouldn't have... any weather-related problems. In theory, you could create your own seeds, wouldn't you? Why is it so hard to create your own seeds? I feel like that wouldn't be the hardest thing, but I don't know about that domain. So maybe seeds would be a different problem. But if you could get, oh, and you'd also have essentially free land.
So if you're doing your farming below ground, It's basically free on top of owning the above ground. So the other thing I would do is do the food processing directly above the underground farm so it doesn't have to go very far. And then along the same lines, I'd make sure that your underground farm is really close to the store that's going to sell the food or close to the consumer.
So you want to get rid of almost all the transportation You want to get rid of all the risk of weather. And then, correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're underground and you have a controlled environment, you're not going to need fertilizer because you just keep the bugs out in the first place. And you're not going to need too much extra water because isn't it true that you can recycle your water?
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Chapter 6: How do sleep and activity levels relate to overall health?
So is it possible that you could introduce a light with an endoscope, somebody's saying? Could you introduce a light to the lungs? And the answer is, I think so. Here's another one. Have you ever heard of... I think this is an existing process where somebody can... This is probably a non-medical bad analogy, but I'm going to make it anyway.
So you know if you were doing, let's say, getting your kidneys, what's the word for that when you run your blood through an external device because your kidneys are not working? What's that called? Anyway, so we know that we can take people's blood, run it through some kind of process, some kind of medical process, and then reintroduce it into their body. Could you dialysis? Yes.
So dialysis, if I understand it correctly, is taking your active blood out of your body, cleaning it, and then reintroducing it to your body. Is that accurate? What would stop you from taking the blood out of the body, running it through a light, and then reintroducing it to the body? Because it would come back to the body without cancer. Now, I'm not suggesting that would work.
I'm just saying it's not crazy that you could, in fact, introduce light to at least some specific kinds of cancers, blood cancer, and maybe something else. Anyway, I'm mostly bringing this up to Moxie and Adam for being such a bad reporting element or entity that they... that they turned that into drinking bleach. At least when Trump said it, they turned it into drinking bleach.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I got for you today. You may have noticed that it's a slow news week. Oh, my God, it's a slow news week. But we had fun anyway, didn't we? It's better than nothing. All right. I'm going to... talk privately to my beloved members of the Locals platform. So, Locals, I'll be coming at you in 30 seconds privately. The rest of you, thanks for joining.
And I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place, for more of this.
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