August 7, 2025 • 10 mins
#STRANGESCIENCE – A salty twist: Diabetes risk study says french fries are a culprit.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Anyway, let's move on to strange time for strange science.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
To follow up on our processed foods that we were
talking about, a new study published this week in the
journal BMJ.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I hate these studies because I know French fries aren't
good for me. I know French fries. I mean remember
Mondo put that story in front of me and said,
if you're, you know, a woman over forty, you can
only have eight French fries in a sitting or else
you're gonna get fat and die.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And it's essentially what it said.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
And it's like, listen, I don't eat French fries every day,
and I certainly don't eat them thinking I'm doing something
good for my body. But I love them, and I'm
not going to stop eating the French fries.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Easy, Nancy Pelosi. I'm not smacking them out of your hands.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Why my Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Ripped up that study right as I was getting into it.
Does she do that? She ripped up, I don't anything
other than this, Stop doing that, Never do that again.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
That was your mouth. That was really weird.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Don't you remember the sound of her yes when she spoke.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's why I don't want you to do that again, sane.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
This study suggests that swapping out your weekly dose of
French fries for boiled potatoes or baked potatoes, or even
mashed potatoes could lower your risk of type two diabetes.
They studied more than two hundred thousand adults in the
US responded to questionnaires about what they ate over nearly
four decades, and among those who consumed potatoes, the authors
(01:43):
looked at which of them developed type two diabetes. Eating
three weekly servings of French fries Lucky was associated with
the twenty percent increased risk of type two diabetes three
weekly Well, like.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I keep the aura Ida frozen ones in the freezer
because sometimes you just gotta, you know, spice up a
weekday dinner with some French fries. Sometimes you don't even
make dinner, you just make the French fries. But those
are baked, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
They're pre fried. Say they're pre fried and then you
bake them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Oh they're so good.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Wait you see you're getting them in out of the
freezer bag. Yeah, so even more processing goes into those
French fries than other French Do you watch your mouth?
I'm just saying, how is Nancy Pelosi. I don't want
you to think that you're eating healthy. You just just
want to remind you you don't need.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
A scold time. You're a garbage can. I mean the food.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Wow, I am gonna honk my horn in the tunnel
on the way home.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
So they should you should embrace the side of you
that's not a joyless ogre.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Speaking of studies, though team of researchers has found evidence
that shady organizations churn out fake or low quality scientific
studies on an industrial skill.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
This is the biggest no s of the day.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I mean, how many studies do we have that are
just bowl s? Because all you need to do if
you want to sell a product, or say we have
I've got this this tupperware, dirty piece of tupperware, and
I want to sell dirty tupperware. I called Joe at
Joe's Research Inc. I go, hey, Joe, I'm going to
slide you a check for forty grand. Can you hit
(03:34):
me up with a press release from your research team
that says dirty tupperware is actually the next health crise?
Joe blows can be like, sure, when that check clears,
I'll shoot it your way. The next day, I've got
a team of researchers telling me that eight out of
ten scientists say dirty tupperware is good for your gut biome.
(03:54):
I run with that. I sell more of this dirty tupperware.
It's all crap, it's all blowney. Ever, believe what you
read when it comes to these blowney studies.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
They said.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
By the twenty tens, journal editors science huge progress in
the last centuries because you could write down your scientific
discoveries and pass them on to the next generation, and
then they could build on your discoveries, et cetera. But
they said, by the twenty tens, journal editors and watchdog
organizations were warning that trust was under threat the trust
(04:25):
of other scientists. They flagged a growing number of papers
with fabricated information, doctored data and images, and the factors
driving the increase grew more intense, and it's only getting
worse with artificial intelligence.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I got a text from your wife, but I don't
know if I can share yet, so so.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
We'll just wait and see what's wrong. You're right, I'm
trying to think of what I said.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
You're saying to think of what you said. Hey, I've
got good news about the asteroid. It may be on
its way and it may take you out.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
What happened to the Neanderthals?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Oh, I gave that to John.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That was let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I saw a story about.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
A Neanderthal and how the UV rays may have hurt them.
And I said to John as I handed it to him,
stay out of the sunlight.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, get this, get this little piece of science. About
forty years ago, Neanderthals disappeared. Homo sapiens didn't. We know
who won that one, right scoreboard. But the question is why.
We still do not know why Neanderthals took off but
(05:38):
Homo sapiens did not. Some research now suggests and this
may be all like you said, You know, you can
get a study to tell you anything. This may be
from the copper tone people. Sunscreen and tailored clothing may
have saved Homo sapiens, because they're talking about.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Both things that you don't enjoy.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Both groups wore animal skins, but Neanderthals tended to wear
loose fitting cloaks of animal skins, whereas Homo sapiens would
tailor them a little bit, add a little bit of
shape to your body. Humans also coated themselves with mineral pigments,
which could function as sunscreen. They said it's unlikely that
(06:22):
those differences in behavior alone would have resulted in Neanderthals disappearing,
but they say the timing of this is interesting because
increased exposure can occur when the north and south magnetic
poles begin to wander from their traditional positions.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
That's a matter of all the way back to.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
The magnetic field anchored at the poles forces are more
concentrated there. A change in the core can cause poles
to wander, and during the twilight of the Neanderthals, they said,
there was something called the La Champs event la a wandering,
which caused the magnetic field to drop to about ten
percent of its average strength. And in that case, the
(07:07):
Earth's magnetic field would not have been able to stop
all of the radiation and the particles that come in.
So imagine if today we spent most of our day
outside and ninety percent of the radiation that is usually
stopped by our atmosphere by the magnetic poles, ninety percent
(07:30):
of the radiation just came blaring through Us dor us
us of the fair skinned side of the planet, we
would be fried.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Do you remember in the nineties when we had that
sun block that was like a stick and it was
made to look like we were the Homo sapiens, like
we were like living off the land in caves.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Like the planet of the cave.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
There's like neon sunscreen, and it was very in to
just do like stripes on your face.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
What was that called?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Zinc?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Zinc?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, zinc. Your wife has corrected you.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I am you made it sound like this was a
girlfriend in college.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Why did you were a part where the quilt was
given before I was engaged to her.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
You were engaged to this person and kept the effing
quilt into your real marriage.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Holy Jesus, Marry and Joseph done one of those in
a while? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I take it back too.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You are more likely to die from an asteroid strike
than rabies.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And you're more likely to die from going home if
you're Gary.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Uh not just no, not just how likely it is
that an asteroid will hit the Earth during an average
human lifespan, but how likely that impact is to cause
human deaths when compared to a selection of other rare,
preventable ways to die.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You know, rabies I think was also up there with
quicksand and the Bermuda tree triangle and aids like Raby
seemed like you could get those from like any neighborhood dog.
And I kind of blamed Stephen King and Kujo for
that because that was like a mid eighties kind of
a thing.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Did Kujo have rabies? I don't know. Oh yeah, Oh,
I didn't realize this.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I don't know. I assume he had rabies.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
It was just an evil dog. Maybe Raby's was his
weapon of choice.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Right, But don't you remember being afraid of rabies? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
All that stuff?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, and you don't hear about it anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Thank goodness. I think we've done away with rabies.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I think so, except but tuberculosis is making a comeback,
so don't shut the door on rabies.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, he got Raby's.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Kujo, the large Saint Bernard, contracts rabies after being bitten
by a rabid bat and that's when he had the
dramatic transformation. He was a nice, family friendly dog and
became crazy and which is attack and kill people.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
That was a good time.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I couldn't it have been a cat. I guess he
had pet cemetery that was was that like.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
A dots in They hid from him. Men I don't
okay anyway.
Anyway, let's move on to strange time for strange science.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
To follow up on our processed foods that we were
talking about, a new study published this week in the
journal BMJ.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I hate these studies because I know French fries aren't
good for me. I know French fries. I mean remember
Mondo put that story in front of me and said,
if you're, you know, a woman over forty, you can
only have eight French fries in a sitting or else
you're gonna get fat and die.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And it's essentially what it said.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
And it's like, listen, I don't eat French fries every day,
and I certainly don't eat them thinking I'm doing something
good for my body. But I love them, and I'm
not going to stop eating the French fries.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Easy, Nancy Pelosi. I'm not smacking them out of your hands.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Why my Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Ripped up that study right as I was getting into it.
Does she do that? She ripped up, I don't anything
other than this, Stop doing that, Never do that again.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
That was your mouth. That was really weird.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Don't you remember the sound of her yes when she spoke.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's why I don't want you to do that again, sane.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
This study suggests that swapping out your weekly dose of
French fries for boiled potatoes or baked potatoes, or even
mashed potatoes could lower your risk of type two diabetes.
They studied more than two hundred thousand adults in the
US responded to questionnaires about what they ate over nearly
four decades, and among those who consumed potatoes, the authors
(01:43):
looked at which of them developed type two diabetes. Eating
three weekly servings of French fries Lucky was associated with
the twenty percent increased risk of type two diabetes three
weekly Well, like.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I keep the aura Ida frozen ones in the freezer
because sometimes you just gotta, you know, spice up a
weekday dinner with some French fries. Sometimes you don't even
make dinner, you just make the French fries. But those
are baked, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
They're pre fried. Say they're pre fried and then you
bake them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Oh they're so good.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Wait you see you're getting them in out of the
freezer bag. Yeah, so even more processing goes into those
French fries than other French Do you watch your mouth?
I'm just saying, how is Nancy Pelosi. I don't want
you to think that you're eating healthy. You just just
want to remind you you don't need.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
A scold time. You're a garbage can. I mean the food.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Wow, I am gonna honk my horn in the tunnel
on the way home.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
So they should you should embrace the side of you
that's not a joyless ogre.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Speaking of studies, though team of researchers has found evidence
that shady organizations churn out fake or low quality scientific
studies on an industrial skill.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
This is the biggest no s of the day.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I mean, how many studies do we have that are
just bowl s? Because all you need to do if
you want to sell a product, or say we have
I've got this this tupperware, dirty piece of tupperware, and
I want to sell dirty tupperware. I called Joe at
Joe's Research Inc. I go, hey, Joe, I'm going to
slide you a check for forty grand. Can you hit
(03:34):
me up with a press release from your research team
that says dirty tupperware is actually the next health crise?
Joe blows can be like, sure, when that check clears,
I'll shoot it your way. The next day, I've got
a team of researchers telling me that eight out of
ten scientists say dirty tupperware is good for your gut biome.
(03:54):
I run with that. I sell more of this dirty tupperware.
It's all crap, it's all blowney. Ever, believe what you
read when it comes to these blowney studies.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
They said.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
By the twenty tens, journal editors science huge progress in
the last centuries because you could write down your scientific
discoveries and pass them on to the next generation, and
then they could build on your discoveries, et cetera. But
they said, by the twenty tens, journal editors and watchdog
organizations were warning that trust was under threat the trust
(04:25):
of other scientists. They flagged a growing number of papers
with fabricated information, doctored data and images, and the factors
driving the increase grew more intense, and it's only getting
worse with artificial intelligence.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I got a text from your wife, but I don't
know if I can share yet, so so.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
We'll just wait and see what's wrong. You're right, I'm
trying to think of what I said.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
You're saying to think of what you said. Hey, I've
got good news about the asteroid. It may be on
its way and it may take you out.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
What happened to the Neanderthals?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Oh, I gave that to John.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That was let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I saw a story about.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
A Neanderthal and how the UV rays may have hurt them.
And I said to John as I handed it to him,
stay out of the sunlight.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, get this, get this little piece of science. About
forty years ago, Neanderthals disappeared. Homo sapiens didn't. We know
who won that one, right scoreboard. But the question is why.
We still do not know why Neanderthals took off but
(05:38):
Homo sapiens did not. Some research now suggests and this
may be all like you said, You know, you can
get a study to tell you anything. This may be
from the copper tone people. Sunscreen and tailored clothing may
have saved Homo sapiens, because they're talking about.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Both things that you don't enjoy.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Both groups wore animal skins, but Neanderthals tended to wear
loose fitting cloaks of animal skins, whereas Homo sapiens would
tailor them a little bit, add a little bit of
shape to your body. Humans also coated themselves with mineral pigments,
which could function as sunscreen. They said it's unlikely that
(06:22):
those differences in behavior alone would have resulted in Neanderthals disappearing,
but they say the timing of this is interesting because
increased exposure can occur when the north and south magnetic
poles begin to wander from their traditional positions.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
That's a matter of all the way back to.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
The magnetic field anchored at the poles forces are more
concentrated there. A change in the core can cause poles
to wander, and during the twilight of the Neanderthals, they said,
there was something called the La Champs event la a wandering,
which caused the magnetic field to drop to about ten
percent of its average strength. And in that case, the
(07:07):
Earth's magnetic field would not have been able to stop
all of the radiation and the particles that come in.
So imagine if today we spent most of our day
outside and ninety percent of the radiation that is usually
stopped by our atmosphere by the magnetic poles, ninety percent
(07:30):
of the radiation just came blaring through Us dor us
us of the fair skinned side of the planet, we
would be fried.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Do you remember in the nineties when we had that
sun block that was like a stick and it was
made to look like we were the Homo sapiens, like
we were like living off the land in caves.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Like the planet of the cave.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
There's like neon sunscreen, and it was very in to
just do like stripes on your face.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
What was that called?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Zinc?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Zinc?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, zinc. Your wife has corrected you.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I am you made it sound like this was a
girlfriend in college.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Why did you were a part where the quilt was
given before I was engaged to her.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
You were engaged to this person and kept the effing
quilt into your real marriage.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Holy Jesus, Marry and Joseph done one of those in
a while? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I take it back too.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You are more likely to die from an asteroid strike
than rabies.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And you're more likely to die from going home if
you're Gary.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Uh not just no, not just how likely it is
that an asteroid will hit the Earth during an average
human lifespan, but how likely that impact is to cause
human deaths when compared to a selection of other rare,
preventable ways to die.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You know, rabies I think was also up there with
quicksand and the Bermuda tree triangle and aids like Raby
seemed like you could get those from like any neighborhood dog.
And I kind of blamed Stephen King and Kujo for
that because that was like a mid eighties kind of
a thing.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Did Kujo have rabies? I don't know. Oh yeah, Oh,
I didn't realize this.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I don't know. I assume he had rabies.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
It was just an evil dog. Maybe Raby's was his
weapon of choice.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Right, But don't you remember being afraid of rabies? Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
All that stuff?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, and you don't hear about it anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Thank goodness. I think we've done away with rabies.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I think so, except but tuberculosis is making a comeback,
so don't shut the door on rabies.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, he got Raby's.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Kujo, the large Saint Bernard, contracts rabies after being bitten
by a rabid bat and that's when he had the
dramatic transformation. He was a nice, family friendly dog and
became crazy and which is attack and kill people.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
That was a good time.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I couldn't it have been a cat. I guess he
had pet cemetery that was was that like.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
A dots in They hid from him. Men I don't
okay anyway.
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