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Back to episode — Episode 2957 CWSA 09/13/25

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at makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Go. All right, people. Well, apparently Tommy Robinson has a gazillion people protesting in central London, I think it is. And it turns out a lot of those people are carrying American flags and chanting about Charlie Kirk in London. Do you believe that the Brits maybe got a little bit more energy for protesting beca…

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of them American.

Well, after this show, as is our tradition for Saturday, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a spaces event. That's the audio-only event on X. So go to X after the show and just search for Owen Gregorian and you'll find the link.

I wonder if there's any science that didn't have to happen because they could have just asked me. Oh, here's some. According to The Conversation, that's a publication, cats give you oxytocin. So that's a brain chemistry that makes you feel good, makes you feel loved. So it's true. We don't get it just from being close to other humans. We also get oxytocin from animals. And I think they had already tested dogs and that gave you oxytocin, but cats do too.

I will tell you that that was the primary reason I got my two cats. I got them for oxytocin. Like literally, I said to myself, I'm at a certain age and a certain health situation where the odds of me even touching other people are going way down. I'm lucky if I can get a handshake once a week. It's just natural when you're not in a place where you could get into a relationship and you're not in one. There's really a shortage of oxytocin and I think that can make you crazy. I believe that if you have no oxytocin, that might be some of the problem with these shooters as well. If they don't have access to touch, they don't get calmed down and they don't find any sense of peace just being in their own body and in their own life, and they're looking for something big to give them a dopamine or some kind of thrill. So get yourself a cat and your oxytocin. Well, I don't know about dopamine, but oxytocin will be way better.

Hey, I wonder if I can find a cat. All right, I think I'll do the rest of the show with a cat on my cheek. Oxytocin. I'm getting all your oxytocin. Stealing it. I'm taking it. Yeah, give it up, Gary. All right. I'll need another hit later, so come on back later.

They didn't really need to study that. They could have just asked me, "Scott, do you think your cat will give you oxytocin?" And I would have said, "Hell yeah, you don't have to study that."

Scientists claim they reversed aging in monkeys. They found a way to reverse aging. And I'm going to tell you exactly how. But it was a certa

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in kind of monkey called a macaque. So I was interested in making macaque younger. So if you want to talk about macaque, this would be the place to do it. They're monkeys. Damn it. You're disgusting. Oh man, you can make anything sound dirty. They're monkeys, people. They're monkeys. Clean up your mind. You're probably wondering, how in the world do they reverse aging? But I'm going to explain it…

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