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Back to episode — Episode 2647 CWSA 11/02/24

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er. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen now. I'll bet you all voted for that. Am I right? All right. First we have some news, and we're going to get to all the fun political stuff. But did you know that according to IFL Science, Iceland could be the first nation to get solar power from space by 2030? They're going to put a big-ass satellite up there with solar cells, and t…

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ld talk about politics. Next thing you know, here I am.

Anyway, all right. Here's your next one. There was, according to The Hill, now I only read the headline on this one so I didn't read too much of the details, but I got the general idea. So Ozempic, the weight loss drug, seems to also have a correlation with helping people who have knee pain from osteoarthritis. So it turns out that unexpectedly, people who were on Ozempic not only did they lose weight, we knew about that, but they also had much less knee pain. So now they're thinking that Ozempic is good for your knee pain. Does that sound right to you?

All right. Let me ask you this. If nobody had ever done a study on this and I were to ask you, hey, I just want to save some money on a study. Do you think if I gave people a weight loss drug that absolutely totally works and they lost a bunch of weight, yes or no, their knee pain would be reduced? And you'd be like, I don't know, I don't know. How much weight do they lose? Oh, a lot. A lot. I mean people are losing 80 pounds, you know, some people losing 60, 100 pounds. Would that make your knee pain less? I'm going to go out on a limb and say yes. I'm going to say yes. And the answer is yes. Yes it does. So that's your science working for you.

According to a post, people who have higher narcissism are linked to better mental health. So the more narcissistic you are, the less depressed and anxious you are and the less stress you have. Apparently if you're a narcissist, you transfer all of your depression, anxiety, and stress to the people you're dealing with and it offloads it from you.

Now did we need to do a study on this? Did you need to do a study to find that the narcissists seem happier than you? No, no. The narcissists always look happier than you. Have you ever seen Trump look unhappy? He got shot in the head and he still looks happy. Of course narcissists seem happier than you. You didn't have to study that.

All right. Here's the funniest story of the day. There was a story that some whistleblower is saying that the United States has a UAP recovery program, that the government has a program where they've actually recovered UFOs. And the entire news cycle for that was 10 minutes. So the funny part is not the story. The funny part is that there could be a news story that we would all see that says our government is recovering advanced alien spacecrafts and we just look at it and go, ah. The trouble is it came too close to the election. It's too on the nose. You got to do that six months before the election and then we might believe it. You put it right on the week of the election, there's not a single person in the country that thought it was real. As soon as you juxtaposed it too close to the election, everybody looked at it and said, nah, I don't think so. So that was funny.

All right. Here's another one. Stanford University did a study on partisanship versus the truth. So they wanted to see

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if the public at large would put partisanship over truth when consuming news. In other words, would being on a team make you accept a partisan truth, in other words something that isn't true, over something that was true? What do you think? Do you think when people join a team that they value what the team says is true over what seems obviously true? Do you think they needed to do a study? Do you…

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