THE BUZZ: Tech & Science News About Being a Human Being
Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps
Josh Szeps
4.5 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Josh is joined by fan favourite Professor Joel Pearson, neuroscientist and psychologist, to discuss the biggest stories in technology... and how they'll affect your life.
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| 0:00.0 | Gide, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. This is The Buzz, Tech and Science News, with the one and only Professor Joel Pearson. But really, Joel, talking about all things, human, what it means to be human on the basis of news. Everything's human. |
| 0:17.7 | Good to see us. |
| 0:19.0 | Good to see you. So Taylor Swift is obviously a forefront of your mind. Yeah. You're Swifty? I admire her. She's, who wouldn't like it? Did you go to one of the concepts? Have you been? No, I haven't been. Not going to every single one. Not liking her as not liking kittens. I would say something bad. It would say something bad about me if I didn't like Taylor Swift. |
| 0:38.6 | Why are you a scientist, neuroscientist, psychologist bringing me Taylor Swift, though? |
| 0:45.3 | On a platter. I mean, I saw the media like probably a lot of people that this conspiracy |
| 0:51.2 | theory thing had kicked off around the Super Bowl. She was there. |
| 0:55.2 | And then I saw a survey saying that just under one in five Americans believe that her being at the Super Bowl, |
| 1:03.0 | her boyfriend slash partner, whatever, that them winning was all this psychological ops program |
| 1:09.7 | as part of the CIA to infiltrate, to get Biden reelected to nominate. |
| 1:15.4 | This whole thing started as building momentum. |
| 1:17.7 | Right. |
| 1:18.3 | And yeah, the idea is that 20% of people. |
| 1:20.7 | Because she's not conservative that she's going to win over people who are watching the Super Bowl |
| 1:26.1 | to vote for Biden because she's dating some? Yeah people who are watching the Super Bowl to vote for Biden? |
| 1:28.9 | Because she's dating some. |
| 1:30.3 | Yeah, she hasn't even come out this time for Biden. |
| 1:33.3 | I think she did last election. |
| 1:35.5 | But yeah, my understanding is people, this started sort of resonating and bouncing around from Fox News, surprise, surprise, first up. |
| 1:41.6 | And then people started believing it, right, talking about it. And it just |
| 1:47.0 | and does that baffle you as a neuroscientist or do you go, well, obviously, or a psychologist? |
| 1:51.9 | Well, conspiracies are an amazing thing, right? And we saw during COVID that they jumped. |
| 1:58.0 | And we know that when people are anxious, stressed, being bombarded with uncertainty, |
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