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. Something from, I believe, Canada. Winnipeg. Winnipeg. Is there somebody in Winnipeg who has a birthday today? Ellie. Ellie, are you 12 years old today in Winnipeg? I'm getting some kind of weird ESP message. Well, happy birthday, Ellie. This one's to you. That's just in case you were not aware that my show is mostly magic. It's mostly magic. Well, did you know there's a study according to Mass…

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rising anti-aging potential? So if you eat cocoa, your inflammation markers will drop and you'll be happy. And if you're smart enough to combine your cocoa with your coffee, you can live forever. I think that's what science says. You will live forever.

All right. Science. Well, I wonder if there's any science that they didn't need to do. They could have just asked me.

Oh, in PsyPost, Eric Nolan. You must recognize his name by now. I wonder if he knows that I talk about him almost every other show. Eric Nolan is writing, the scientists have discovered what they call a surprising link between your gut and your brain. So if your gut is right, it makes you less depressed and more happy and stuff.

Now, who could have told you that the state of your gut would influence how you feel mentally? Well, they could have just asked Scott because I've been saying this twice a week in public for years. Your body is your brain. Your body is your brain. They're not different. To imagine that, hey, the gut is influencing the brain. No, it's not. No, the gut is not influencing the brain. The gut is part of your brain. It just is distributed. Right? So once you realize that, everything makes sense. Your body is your brain.

Well, the movie studio Lionsgate, you know, one of the big ones, looks like they've decided that they can't use AI to make a feature-length movie after all, according to an article in Futurism. So I guess they've been trying for a year, and they were working with the AI startup Runway. And you probably have seen all kinds of examples of a 10-second or a 30-second clip where it looks like they made a movie-like thing and you said to yourself, hey, if they can make a 30-second perfect movie, well, all they have to do is just keep doing that until you've added en

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ough 30 seconds together to, hey, got a two-hour movie. But it turns out that nobody's been able to do that. The technology just sort of doesn't look like it will. Honestly, it doesn't look like it'll ever be there. So maybe it will, you know, you hate to bet against technology, but maybe. So but they have problems with copyrights and all kinds of things. And then they're trying to overlay the AI…

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