PETER SAGAL, HOST:
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Right now, panel, time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Alonzo, according to a book out this week, men will be healthier, live longer and even be more attractive to women if they're what?
ALONZO BODDEN: Rich.
SAGAL: No.
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ROXANNE ROBERTS: This is very good news. It's very good news for men...
SAGAL: It's very good news for most middle-aged men.
ROBERTS: Yeah.
BODDEN: If they're bald?
SAGAL: No, I only wish.
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BODDEN: Fat?
SAGAL: Yeah, I'll give it to you, flabby.
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SAGAL: Flabby and out of shape. Good news for literally everyone.
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SAGAL: It's called, and I mean this, the pudgy dad hypothesis.
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SAGAL: And the idea is that a decline in testosterone as you age extends a man's lifespan. And exercise increases testosterone. So do not exercise.
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SAGAL: Lying around the couch and ending up looking like Kevin James will let you outlive those guys with great abs. Although, those guys do look really good at their open casket funeral.
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PETER GROSZ: Was this in the New England journal of middle-aged men?
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GROSZ: Like, produce this study.
SAGAL: No, but...
GROSZ: Everything we're doing is great. And models should be in fact dating us.
SAGAL: Yeah.
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SAGAL: What's really interesting is that...
GROSZ: It's brought to you by the nacho association of America.
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BODDEN: Brought to you by Doritos.
SAGAL: But what's interesting is that evolutionary biologists do not know what purpose middle-aged men serve.
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SAGAL: This is true. It's - which every woman in the world said, yeah, we were wondering the same thing.
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GROSZ: Ferrari dealerships are like, hey, let's let them live, please.
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GROSZ: They're doing us a very good service.
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