Back to episode — Episode 2929 CWSA 08/16/25
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nparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. So good. Well, it's Saturday and as tradition requires, there will be a Spaces event after this podcast. So a few minutes after I'm done here, Owen Gregorian will fire up a Spaces and you can have an afterparty if you've enjoyed talking to each other in…
← Previous segment →er with lots of positive things and it's mutually positive, that their relationship will last longer and be stronger. Is that a big surprise to anybody that if you bring positivity to a relationship it's more likely to be healthy? Huh?
Well, it's nice to know that that would work, but I have a feeling that it doesn't work if one of the people is male and one of them is female. Because it seems to me that the model that's been developed over time, you know, evolutionary time, is that women can maximize their gain by complaining because men will do anything they want to make it stop. So complaining and being negative has tremendous utility to women, but really not a lot of utility to men because then it just makes the woman hate you and that's about it. But if you act positive, if it were possible for both of you to act positive at the same time, it would be really good for you.
Well, Kristi Noem, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, says that she had to move into military housing because she got so many death threats. I guess her address was doxxed for the second time. And you know what I'm wondering? Every time I read a story about somebody being threatened or somebody being hurt or some kind of fight, it's almost never white supremacists. Have you noticed that? How long ago was it? Maybe three or four years ago, when the news was literally trying to tell us that the biggest risk in the entire country was white supremacists. Well, they're awfully boring and lazy and quiet. If they're dangerous, they're really not doing a good job of it because I'll bet it wasn't the white supremacists who were threatening Kristi Noem. Just guessing. I don't feel like there were a lot of white supremacists jacking cars in Washington DC. It feels like whenever we hear stories of violence and crime, there's almost never a white supremacist in the story. And I'm disappointed because we were all told that that was the biggest threat to the nation. I don't know where they went. Maybe they all got locked up.
Okay. Well, China is developing the creepiest product that you could ever imagine. It's a robot surrogate to carry a human child.
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It would be like, I guess based on the brief news report, it would be built like a regular robot with arms and legs and it would have sort of a womb. It would have an artificial womb and so the robot would walk around with your baby in it. So that's coming. If you could think of anything that would be creepier than raising a baby in a robot's womb, let me know because that's pretty darn creepy. To…
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