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n understand with their tiny shiny human brains, all you need for that is a copper mug, a glass tanker, a chalice, a canteen, a joker 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 hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. Oh, that's g…

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ke it better. Mr. Trump, would you like a sip?

We are going to drain the swamp in Washington DC.

Go.

There he is, draining the swamp.

All right, so there's some fun science coming up. Oh, by the way, although today is Saturday, there will not be a spaces event after the show. That will be tomorrow. So tomorrow on Sunday, Owen Gregorian will have his spaces event after the show.

Well, according to an X account, uh, Crem, if I'm pronouncing that correctly, and I'm not, apparently there's a good chance that type 1 diabetes has been cured. I don't know, maybe type 1 diabetes. So apparently over the last year there was a test where 12 diabetics were injected with stem cell derived pancreatic islets. And I was going to say have they never tried injecting stem cell derived pancreatic islets before but they did now. They tried it and apparently people started producing insulin again. And 10 out of 12 participants after one year no longer needed to inject insulin.

Whoa. How about that? Imagine that. Imagine that you were alive, could be, maybe, not for sure, when type 1 diabetes was cured. Wouldn't that be awesome?

In other news, there's a what's being called a groundbreaking study that says eating one avocado a day could help you sleep better with all of the health benefits of extra sleep. Let's see who did the study. Oh, it's according to the Hass Avocado Board. So it's being reported by the Hass avocado people that eating one avocado a day can help you sleep better. Well, I eat one avocado a day and I do sleep pretty well. So I call that science. I don't know who funded that study, but I'm not sure the Hass avocado people are the ones to believe.

Here's another science thing. We'll talk about Iran, of course. Apparently according to the American Society for Metabolic

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and Bariatric Surgery, the people who have the weight loss surgery, I guess that's the one where they tie off your stomach, they have a self-esteem improvement of 131%. So is there any way they could have saved some money in that study? Hm. I wonder. Suppose they ask me, Scott, do you think that being in shape and eating right and going to the gym, will that help your mental and physical health an…

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