A new study says that poor sleep can make you believe in conspiracy theories. Plus, the Tesla Diner in Santa Monica is open for reservations, and it's going to be a good one. Guests: Dr. Daniel J. Jolly and Ewan Dinnick of the University of Toronto, and The Conversation's Daniel Jolly. Thanks to caller Sarah.
00:02:25.240So, here's the problem with that kind of research.
00:02:30.560It really kind of requires that the researchers either use a conspiracy theory test that nobody
00:02:38.020really believes as a real conspiracy theory, that's just sort of a made-up one.
00:02:42.280But as soon as they test anything that's real, as in people really believe it, like vaccine hesitancy or climate change, then they need to be the judges of what's true and what's a conspiracy.
00:03:26.700I think if you don't get enough sleep, your brain will still want to give you an answer to anything that's confusing.
00:03:36.800So, the less sleep you get, the more likely you might glom onto some simple conspiracy theory.
00:03:44.560But the real conspiracy theories, you know, the ones that have lots of detail, and you'd have to really understand how all the moving parts work.
00:03:54.640Like later, I'm going to tell you about the Biden administration completely ending free speech in America, or attempting to.
00:04:03.100And it has a whole bunch of moving parts.
00:04:07.120You would have to be really unsleepy to even understand the whole conspiracy before you could even have an opinion on it.
00:04:15.220So, I've got a feeling that the two things that make you believe in conspiracies are being sleepy, but also being very awake.
00:04:29.320The place where you're probably, you know, not believing in the conspiracies is, oh, you had a pretty good sleep, but you're not really keyed into all the details of what's going on in the real world.
00:04:42.080Anyway, the so-called Tesla Diner in Santa Monica is almost open, and it's going to be kind of cool.
00:04:53.940So, you'll be able to go there and buy food, and the staff will allegedly, we don't have confirmation of this, be on skates.
00:05:03.500So, it's like a diner with skates that shows two big screens that have 30-minute movies that are designed to be the right length for how long your car charges.
00:05:17.000And I guess anybody can go there to eat.
00:05:20.080You don't have to be charging your car, and it doesn't need to be a Tesla.
00:05:28.160I love the fact that they made something where you could take the kids, and you could turn it into an event.
00:05:36.040How many people are sitting around on the weekend and thinking, ah, I need to take my car to get it charged, but, you know, I also got to watch the kids, and they're bored.
00:05:47.060And so, you can just put them in the car and say, hey, family, we're going to lunch.
00:05:52.480And you would go to this cool diner, and you would watch a cool movie, and the staff would be skating around, so it would be more interesting than not, and get your car charged.
00:06:05.580So, it's sort of experimental in the sense that nobody knows how it's going to work out, but I love it as an idea.
00:06:13.040As a concept, it feels like it understands everything about human interaction, right?
00:06:44.180And who knows, maybe the food is amazing.
00:06:46.320But it seems like a tremendous thing to test.
00:06:52.200Well, there's a little update on the Daily Mail about the Area 51 linked Navy sailor, this is the title, who saw the latest tic-tac UFOs rising from the Pacific.
00:07:49.520However, it does make me wonder about the following.
00:07:53.680You know how every time there's some mystery, you always end up finding out that somebody's making money off it?
00:07:59.580So, is it possible, and I'm just going to put this out here, it's not a belief, but it's a question.
00:08:08.900Is it possible that the PR and marketing people that make tic-tacs like to insert this story a little bit more often than it might happen naturally?
00:08:20.440If you were the PR people for the actual candy or the, I don't know what they call it, but the breath freshener called the tic-tac, wouldn't it be good for a business to every two months, three months, insert an update onto the story about the tic-tacs, even if nothing's happened?
00:08:41.640So, this is one of those, literally nothing new has happened, so it's just regurgitating an old tic-tac story, and I'm thinking, hmm, who would have a financial motive to continually recycle a tic-tac-related UFO story?
00:09:00.980Tic-tac, because once it gets in your mind, you're thinking, oh, I could use a tic-tac, I'll pick one up.
00:09:07.800I'm just saying, it's not an accusation, I'm just saying that if the tic-tac company had figured out to do this as a marketing scheme, I would be so impressed, because I think it would work, just to keep it in people's minds, because it's not like a negative interaction.
00:09:28.120You know, we don't hate the aliens, we think they're maybe interesting, so maybe it's a reason to get some tic-tacs, you never know.
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