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Would you like to talk about some new things in science and the new studies? Yes, let's, before we talk about the politics. According to a publication called The Conversation, did you know that taking a short daily walk might reverse your cognitive aging by four years? Yes, it turns out that exercise is good for your health in almost every way that you can imagine. Almost every way.

So yes, it can make you a little bit faster in your cognitive processing. They found, here's the way I use this in my job. Since my job is creative and writing, and I have to be pretty sharp to do it, if I work several hours in the morning, which I typically do, you're watching it right now, I can't just sort of after this go right into another three or four hours of work. So often I will take a walk to reactivate my brain.

So I actually use a walk, specifically walking, as something that adds, it feels like it adds 10 to 20 points to my IQ within an hour. I mean, I can really, really feel the difference in concentration and brain activity. So take a walk. It's good for you in every possible way.

But you won't believe this. I mean this will be unbelievable. Science is finally, well sometimes I make fun of science, but then it comes up with a great finding like this. It's completely out of left field. You'll never see this one coming. But can you believe this? There's a new study that suggests that you'll be happier if your partner is happy.

Okay, I didn't see that coming. So you're saying if I'm in a loving relationship with somebody, the most important person in my life, that if they're unhappy I'll have more trouble being happy? Huh. I don't know. Maybe that whole "happy wife, happy life" thing is real.

But they're talking specifically about cortisol, and they measured your chemistry to find out how happy you are. And sure enough, if your partner's in a good mood, you're more likely to be in a good mood. Do you know how they could have saved a little money on that study? Yeah, you do. You could have just asked me.

And maybe you could have just asked me, is taking a walk good for your brain? I would have said yes. You don't have to study that. Here's another one you'll never see this one coming again. This is science just shocking us. According to a new study, there are two new studies that show that if you work in a toxic workplace, you're more likely to have depression.

Huh. Let's see. Didn't see this coming. So if the thing that you spend 60 hours a week doing, your primary focus in life that's not your family life, if it's toxic it will make you unhappy. Okay, okay. Didn't see it coming. Didn't see that coming. No, I did see it coming.

That's three for three. Three scientific studies you didn't need to do. Walking makes you healthy. Unhappy spouse makes you unhappy. Toxic workplace makes you depressed.

But according to Popular Science, Tokyo has a new idea for increasing their population. As you might know, Japan, like other developed countries, they've got a big demographic problem. They've got 10% of their country over the age of 80, and they're not producing enough kids to drive their economy in the future. So they're moving to, according to Popular Science, they're moving to a four-day work week so that you have an extra day for, I'm not making that up.

Japan, this is a real story from the real news. Japan is moving to a four-day work week primarily for the purpose to have an extra day so that you can make more kids. Now that's the kind of politics I like to see. I would like to see a debate, policy debate on what our country can do to give us more time for. So we'll see how that works out.

Let me see if I can predict without doing a study. Let's see if they're paid the same. And I think they're going to be paid the same. They're paid the same but they work way less so that they'll have more time for. Will that make them happier or less happy? I'm going to go with I think that's going to make them happier. What do you