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, female lobbyists are more likely to gain access to meetings with policy makers. Did they really have to study that to find out that female lobbyists can get meetings with policy makers more easily? Apparently even with female policy makers. But I would have known that too.

Let me tell you about my career day when I was a senior in college. In my little college in upstate New York, when I was a senior, a bunch of local companies would come in and they would interview the seniors to maybe make job offers. And one of the big employers was a pharmaceutical company looking for sales reps. And I knew a lot of people in the college. It was a very small college. And I saw that the people I was competing against, because we were sort of lining up to do our little interviews, weren't nearly as accomplished as me academically. So I'm thinking to myself, this is going to be easy. I am so going to get this job offer to be a pharmaceutical representative.

And the other people who were in line were really hot girls who were not that good at academics. And every single one of the hot girls got an offer to be a pharmaceutical sales rep. And none of the guys, not a single male, was offered anything. And that's where I learned that you don't need to do a study to find out that women can get more access to meetings. Yes, women can definitely get more access to meetings. You could have just asked me.

All right, let's see if science has any more surprises. Oh yeah, here we go. According to Eric Dolan, who's writing in PsyPost, there's new evidence, new research in the Journal of Affective Disorders that suggests that people who engage in sexual activity at least once a week are less likely to experience symptoms of depression. Somebody actually took time and money to study that. Yes, people who are getting laid are happier than people who are not getting laid. Period.

Now, sometimes the cause and effect can go either way in that particular case. But yes, people who are having more sex, I can almost guarantee you on average are happier than people who are not having sex. So next time just ask me. You don't need to do that study. Just ask me.

In other news of hilarious science, do you remember the claims that were all over social media that some group had used some wild technology that was looking under the pyramids and they found these vast columns suggesting an entire different civilization was at work for years before the pyramids? And as soon as I saw that, I said, "No, that's not real." Well, apparently today, according to the AFP, the scientists are saying it's a rubbish claim and there's no giant structures beneath the Egyptian pyramids. But apparently all the experts who are aware of the technology that they use to image under the ground, pretty much all of them say that technology can't do that. Even if there were giant columns under the pyramids, you couldn't see them with that technology. That definitely wouldn't work.

So I could be wrong. Maybe there are giant pillars under the pyramids, but I'm going to claim at least temporarily, I'm going to claim success in debunking that without doing any research at all. As soon as I saw that one, I thought probably not. Probably not.

Here's another one. The science is all so stupid today. According to the Daily Mail, the Vatican has in its documents, you know, secret archives, it has secret links to UFOs. And some researchers now believe that the Holy See could be sitting on the biggest secret of all, proof of extraterrestrial life. Do you think the Vatican has proof of extraterrestrial life and they've been keeping it from us? I'm going to say nope. Nope. Not unless that alien life is under those pyramids. I'm going to say no on that.

All right. Here's one that is real. According to Elon Musk, your Tesla will soon be a robo taxi if you want. Now, what I think that means is you can just park your Tesla outside your garage and then if somebody has an app, now this isn't functional yet, but it's all developed and looks like it'll roll out pretty soon, you could just call up a self-driving Tesla and it will just pull out of your driveway and go pick somebody up and make some money while you're sleeping.

How many of you would let strangers use your car? I feel like it would be creepy to know that other people were in your car doing god knows what because there's no driver there. But it would be like Uber but without the driver. What's the worst thing about an Uber? It's the driver. The worst thing about an Uber is the driver. Because if you're young or you're female, you have to worry about the driver being dangerous. If you're male, you have to worry about the driver playing the radio or making a phone call or being really annoying and trying to talk to you the whole time. So there's nothing worse about Uber than the driver. There's also the thing where the driver will start to come to you and then for reasons you don't understand they cancel or they change their mind. That's not the technology doing that. That's the driver.

So if you can get rid of the driver and Tesla could be like Uber in all the other ways, yeah, that'd be pretty good.

Speaking of Tesla, I saw this in a summary. I guess the source is Tesla, but did you know that every Model

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3 and Model Y that's delivered in the United States uses batteries that are 100% made in America? Did you think we could even do that? I didn't even know that America could make that many batteries. But apparently Tesla has been able to make all of its batteries completely in America for some time now. So that's interesting to know. And according to a post I saw on X by Nick Cruz Patain, he says…

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