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nd then I get to the end of the story and it says, "However, it should be noted that this was an open label study." In other words, the people who had the saffron were completely aware that they were studying their sexual function and they were studying saffron. Now, do you think that sounds like a valid scientific study to you? There's a reason that they have the blind studies. This is not blind…

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dy and when.

Don't you think that that's going to have an immense impact on your health? If you knew, oh, this medicine works, but not if I eat a potato within an hour, because there's a whole bunch of those things where there is a difference. So imagine when AI can actually wrap its little head around that.

How many of you have ever heard of a thing called synesthesia? Synesthesia. I've talked about this but not in a long time. It's the phenomenon that applies to some people but not many. So maybe fewer than 10%. They have some kind of a crossover effect in their senses. So for example some people if they're listening to music they can almost feel it whereas people like me I listen to music and I like it but I don't feel it the same way like a real musician would. So that probably prevents me from being a great musician because I feel like you'd have to feel it in order to be really good at it. Probably the Beatles were all—they probably all could feel it.

But what I would have to add to this is that there's a writer version of this. So not just musicians. And I definitely have the synesthesia for writers, meaning that I feel words. I just feel them. So it's probably not an accident that without any special training on how to be a writer, I managed to have a professional career as a writer. I think that might be synesthesia because I just feel things when I write them.

Now, is that a humble brag or is that just telling you what works and what doesn't?

All right. How many times have you been told that it's good to get enough sleep? Well, believe it or not, there's another study that says it's good to get enough sleep, but they go further and they say that if you get enough sleep, you're far more likely to be as active as you want to be for good health. But they say it doesn't work the other way. So according to this study at Flinders University that sleep first, get enough sleep, then you'll get enough activity and then you have the two things that are good for you, activity and sleep.

But I don't believe that it doesn't work the other way. Let's see what you say in the comments. I believe that I can never get a good sleep if I have not been active that day. Do you have the same thing if I've not exercised that day? Now, at the moment, I'm on all kinds of drugs and stuff for my cancer. So it's different now, but in my normal healthy life, if I don't get exercise, I can't sleep. Don't you have that? It can't just be me, right?

All right. So we're gonna—I'm seeing in the comments that a lot of you are agreeing with me. So I would say that exercise helps you sleep and sleeping helps you exercise and it definitely works both ways.

So some schools are experimenting with drones to protect against school shootings. I'm going to give you a little quiz. How many school shootings do you think happened in one year? Let's see. Not one year since 2008 in just Florida alone. So only the state of Florida and we're talking about shootings in the school since 2008. Give me a number. How many do you think there's been?

Well, while you're guessing how many there's been, the answer is, at least according to this one article from The Center Square, there have been 33 school shootings since 2008. So that just feels like a lot, doesn't it? Remember, it's since 2008, so it's not one year. Yeah, your guesses are closer to a one-year guess. Well, that's a lot, but I assume that also includes just one person getting shot. So it's not necessarily mass shootings.

But what they want to do is they're testing non-lethal drones. So if there's a shooter in the school, the drone will come and distract them. So the drone will not be deadly. It won't have a gun, but it might have sirens or pepper spray or other distraction devices because if you are a school shooter and a drone comes after you, you're going to have to pay attention to the drone because that's the thing. You don't know exactly what it can do and it's going to be in your space really fast.

I like this idea. Seems pretty good. You know, it could even be better if you got rid of the humans. You know, if you equipped the school with listening devices and then it heard a gunshot, don't you think it would be useful if the drone immediately went wherever the gunshot was? Now, that doesn't mean it should intervene. You probably want a human to decide whether it should intervene, but it should definitely go there. Like it should just as soon as it hears the gunshot, it should pull into that room or as close as it can get. I think this is definitely worth testing. I wouldn't go so far as to say I know it'll work. Definitely worth testing.

Well, Trump is apparently going to announce a 12 billion dollar farm aid program. The Washington Examiner is reporting. And it kind of made me wonder because I'm a farm nerd. You know, I worked on a farm, my uncle's farm. He had a dairy farm. So I've spent a lot of time on farms and working on farms when I was a kid and a teenager. I guess I was still a kid.

But here's what I wonder. How do you make farms unprofitable? Like, what is it about a farm that would take it from, well, we've been making money until now, but now we're losing money. Well, some of it's obvious. Some of it would be over supply. So there might be a year when everybody grows too much of one thing and then the price goes down. It might be drought or flood. So it could be bad weather in a variety of ways. It could be the rising cost of seeds and the rising cost of fuel.

And I said to myself, are those all solvable problems? And let me give you my prediction slash suggestion. I guess I feel like we should have an ongoing maybe government sponsored, but it doesn't need to be. I guess it could be private. Someth

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ing like an Elon Musk farming—what would you call it—experiment. I know that Elon's brother has been working on indoor farming, so I think they understand the potential here, but I'd love to see it go to the next level. Here's what I think it's going to look like. If I were trying to solve all the problems of farming being too expensive so I could bring down the cost of food, I would build it und…

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