Jordan, Jesse, GO! - MaxFunDrive 2025 - Niche Subreddits Day One: r/Ambien

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

Jesse and Jordan read you comforting subreddits chosen by you! Every day during MaxFunDrive 2025 9:30am PST, March 17th - March 28th (except weekends). Our kickoff livestream is reading entries from r/Ambien.It's MaxFunDrive 2025, become a new or upgrading member today! Live Jordan, Jesse, Go! in Chicago at Sleeping Village on April 11th!  MaxFunDrive ends on March 28, 2025! Support our show now and get access to bonus content by becoming a member at maximumfun.org/join.

Give a little time for the child within you. Don't be afraid to be young and free. Undo the locks and throw away the keys and take off your shoes and socks and run you. Hi everybody. Welcome to Jordan Jesse Goh's Max Fun Drive Livestream, our first of 2025. Jordan, I'm ready to debut our brand new live stream only program. It's called The Subdoms. That's right.

The Subdoms, we're gonna be eating sub sandwiches while having our balls flicked. Jordan, we're gonna be dominating sub sandwiches. Actually what we're going to be doing on the subdoms is checking out some of the subreddits that you suggested to us. Live on air, hi everyone who's watching. Hi everyone. Hi everyone who is listening via podcast. We love you too.

And hi everyone who's already a member of Maximum Fund, everyone who's gone to maximumfund.org slash join. Jordan, you are going to be leading our sub-investigation today. What subreddit is the subject of our first episode? Yeah, this was actually suggested by a listener. I don't have their name handy. Stephen Ray Morris, producing on the other end. If for some reason you happen to know the name of the listener that's suggested,

r slash Ambien, please let us know. I guess we should say, something we've been very into on Jordan Jessi Go! in the past year or so like incredibly niche subreddits where no one mentions politics or the real world, where they just talk about one subject obsessively and the vibes are pretty good. What are our favorites, Jesse? R slash root beer we love, R slash marbles, R slash Archie comics. Yeah, I'm a big R slash, R slash dogs on roofs. Dogs on roofs.

So these are the fun places. Dogs on roofs. So these are the fun places. It just occurred to me, Jordan, that there's almost certainly R slash capybaras, right? There's gotta be, right? 144,000 members join. Wow, that's an active subreddit. Steven Raymores here with us on the stream. Hi. I just wanted to pop in and say that Anthony M sent us

the delightful Ambien page to us. Thank you, Anthony. Thank you, Stephen. Thank you, Anthony. Thank you, Anthony. So r slash Ambien was really fun. Ambien, of course, the medication for insomnia. But apparently, if you take Ambien and try and stay up, you go insane.

I'm going to read the kind of mission statement here for r slash Ambien. First of all, it starts with this all caps declaration, chop off all your hair. hair and Then it goes on to explain It goes on to explain that this is a purely informational subreddit You know with for ambient questions and you shouldn't just post crazy ambient thoughts you're having People ignore this all the time. It is some yeah some practical information on. People just like, oh, does it interact with other medications? What dosage should I take? And then it is, so that's about 75% of the sub. And then the other 25%, the most insane shit you've ever read in your life. is the the the like pinned post on r slash ambient just says the subject line is hi lord meme 42 here with a psa so first of all shout out to lord meme 42 shout out to lord meme we have no choice but to bow before this meme legend yes Yes. LordMeme42 made a flow chart for whether you

should post on r slash Ambien. It says, a handy flow chart for people who can't read rules. It starts with the question, are you currently on the sleep medication Ambien? If the answer to that is yes, you get to post. If the answer to that is no, you ask the question, have you formerly taken Ambien and want to share a story or experience? Again, that's a yes.

If you get a yes, you can post to that. Then there's a side one which says, do you think this is a meme subreddit. And if some, one of them is yes, and that leads you to you are wrong, go to r slash bingus. And then, and then if you choose no, it says you are correct. If you don't know what it is, this is a subreddit about the sleep medication Ambien and the weird posts are a mix of high slash tired Ambien users and people who don't know what this sub is. Something fun that I learned is that people who take Ambiet call it, when you take an Ambiet you boofed it. So they boof Ambien. One of the posts is bo boofed two 20 milligrams up my bum.

It's hitting slowly and now I'm bored. I don't want to fall asleep. What do skim do? So that's the guy. Boofing is putting things up your butt, right? Isn't boofing putting anything up your butt? You know, you might be right about that. When I was reading this, I assumed boofing was just any kind of ambient ingestion, but

maybe it is specifically up the butt. You could be right, Jesse. Yeah, I think when you're in prison and you need a cell phone, somebody boofs it for you. Right. Oh, okay. Well, that makes sense. So yeah, I guess there's a lot of people ingesting it rectally. I didn't know that. Now, should you assume that us talking about that means it's safe for you to do?

Yes, absolutely. We're doctors. I'm a double doctor. I have a PhD and an MD, Jordan. Whoa, a double D? Yeah, exactly. Oh, hell yeah. Jordan. Whoa, a double D? Hell yeah. Yes. No, you know, I we've died. Have you ever taken Ambien, Jesse? I've never taken Ambien. I've taken Xanax, which makes me very sleepy. Similarly, very sleepy. But I think Ambien enters you into a weird dreamless dream state, right? Isn't that the nature of Ambien?

Yeah, I think there's a lot of, you know, basically just, I'm going off what this, the time I've spent on this subreddit, but yeah, I think there's like hallucinations, I think there's like kind of trippy, you know, psychedelic stuff that happens. Yeah, and I, you know, let's just say that the medical condition that Ambien treats, sleeplessness, it can be monumentally difficult to deal with. At the same time, if a doctor gives you medication, don't boof it unless they tell you to boof it, right? Like a doctor will tell you whether you should boof your medication. Right. You know what I mean?

And the pharmacist, you know, like they'll ask if you want the consultation, just ask, should I be boofing? Yeah. I've boofed medication before. Like, I want to be clear, when I was younger, the migraine medication that I take, the class of migraine medications, the tryptans, was only available as a suppository, which was my worst nightmare as a 14-year-old or whatever. The idea that you have to put medication into your butthole is just a horrifying nightmare. I think now I'm an adult man. I have control over my body in a way that I didn't when I was 14. Congratulations.

I could just do it. You know, I could just do it. You know, I could just do it. You know what I mean? I just do it. I just put it in my butt, right? It would be fine. It would be fine. I could do it. But when I was 14, it was like this battle between this raging pain in my head and me needing to try and figure out how to get something up my butt. And it was really the worst. It was the absolute worst. So people who are boofing recreationally, I do not relate to this activity.

It is a real baffler to me. Are there any particularly excellent posts on r slash Ambien that you found, Jordan? Yeah, I wanted to read one that I thought really just kind of taught me a lot about what it is like to be on AMBN. This is from user hidden hidden evidence perhaps because you boofed it. Perhaps that's where the evidence went. This is a post titled... Can I ask you a question Jordan sure before we get into this post? I have one last booth question so you you may remember the discussion of former San Francisco Giants and

Minnesota Twins pitcher booth bonds are on this program 10 15 years ago, right great name Do you think he got that nickname by putting things up his butt as a child? You know great question. I assume that maybe Booth was short for something. But Booth-Follum you. Yeah. Booftifer. Yeah. Boofson. Great question. Yes. I mean, well, hopefully he'll he'll come out with that autobiography soon Call me before the professional comedy that we do on this program Why is the most amusing part to me the idea of someone named Booth defer? I?

Don't know Listen, we've ingested too much comedy and our brains are melted. So only Only the world should have moved all those episodes of mr the slap. We shouldn't have boofed all those episodes of Mr. Show. We shouldn't have boofed. Shouldn't have stayed up late to boof Kids in the Hall after boofing Saturday Night Live. By the way, thank you to everyone who is commenting in our chat saying hello. I was grateful to, Stephen put a great comment up on the screen a minute ago. Of course,

I forgot what it was. Yeah, it's probably good though. But I want to thank everybody who's watching who's already a member of Maximum Fun. If you're not a member, go to MaximumFun.org slash join. And I want to show off before we get to this post, my Alex Inc mug on the live stream. Oh, yeah. Alex Inc, back in the zeitgeistist thanks to us, we should mention that if you become a Max Fund member, you get access to hundreds and hundreds of hours of bonus content including our new show, podcast movie movie podcast, parenthesis, sometimes we also talk about

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Listen, if for some reason we don't end up just watching the entirety of Alex Inc., which I hope we don't, I mean, I hope we get the amount of new members required. That would be very cool. But as far as watching it for fun, I don't want to do that. Anyway, so yeah. R slash Ambien, sorry. R slash Ambien. I got distracted. That would be very cool. But as far as watching it for fun, I don't want to do that Anyway, so yeah, our ambient. Sorry our slash and distracted Oh, hey, and also we should we should call it out if people have a favorite piece of media featuring podcasting We'd love to hear those suggestions too. Yeah, please So this is on our slash ambient. This is from

hidden evidence And and the title of their post is just found these notes from the one time I took Ambien and stayed awake. So this is just like a to-do list, you know, the phone app where you can make a to-do list. Right. It's good that people are using this as a productivity tool. Yeah, so this is just a list of things that this person is thinking while on ambient and it goes from it goes from goofy to nightmare. So it kind of starts out, it starts out like this. Interesting visuals, crazy feeling.

Wow. Everything is human related. I always hear music being played around me. I hear them talking and they say words most of the time. Heater sound gets turned into complex music. So I think like this user is just like, they're just enjoying the music that the world provides. Yeah, the music of the spheres. The music of the spheres.

Another show is playing on my screen. I heard a dog licking under my blanket and then confirmed it as Aunt ANLT movement, so I lifted the blanket like a dumbass. Jesse, what does that mean? What happened? Jordan, you're probably one of these dumbass blanket lifters. I heard a dog, not my dog, I heard a dog. Do they not have a dog?

I heard a dog licking under my blanket and then confirmed it as an ANLT, what do you think that was supposed to be? Movement. So I lifted the blanket. Animal movement? Yeah, so I confirmed it as an animal movement, so I lifted the blanket like a dumbass. Yeah, turned out as a fucking badger. My blanket decompressed air and I saw it and heard it too.

Well, we can check that one off the to-do list, Jordan. And then, hallucination keeps peeking over my shoulder while I type. They then go on to write, huh, mom talking to me again. I like this person's mom is in the room or in the house while this is all happening. Did you see the post that's a picture of a saucepan inside a microwave with no door and then the subject line is just microwave cook No, I didn't Yeah, just microwave cook. Good. It must have who knows how this thing worked

It must have, who knows how this thing worked. Yeah, I bet, I really hope that that person's house didn't immediately burn down after that post was made. Yeah, there's another photograph post and I'm just gonna describe it for the people at home. It's a picture of, from the back of a bus looking forward toward the front of a bus. I'm gonna be honest, this is back of a bus looking forward toward the front of a bus. I'm going to be honest, this is a pretty nice bus. This looks like maybe a European bus or one of those

nice buses that takes you and your luggage around at the airport and it has like a little carpet in it. I'm just saying it's carpeted. What kind of bus is carpeted? You know what I mean? Especially given what's happening in this picture, which is a man wearing giant 1970s style headphones and drinking from what appears to be a glass half gallon jug of milk. And the subject line just says, this guy on the bus going absolutely milk style. I don't know what it has to do with Ambien, but it has 1659 upvotes in r slash Ambien. Going absolutely milk style. That does sound like just the r slash Ambien version of a Jordan Jesse Goh momentous occasion. Like Saw Guy on carpeted bus drinking milk out of a glass jar. That is like, I mean, that's a

classic Jordan Jessi Goat Woman's occasion, isn't it? Yeah, absolutely. Stephen, did you get the text message that I sent you with a post from the subreddit? Because this is something that has to be seen to be believed. Yes, yes. Let me share this in a second. But yeah, this is, I don't know what this is. It looks insane. Let me go post it. This is a post from user one sad bean. And this is only five days ago. Like we're really only focusing on posts from the last week or so. We haven't gone deep into the archives to find the bonkers is our slash ambient posts. But this post, which Steven

is going to show to everyone on the stream is what I would describe as a tasteful upper middle class kitchen area, you know, dark wood cabinets, stainless steel, my stainless steel fridge there. The fridge has blue lines radiating from it in one direction that have been drawn onto the screen. Then red lines radiating from its front corner backwards. So one is from its front edge sideways one from its front corner backwards. So one is from its front edge sideways, one from its front corner backwards. It looks like someone imagining what a refrigerator would do if it could move and not be stopped like Colossus from the X-Men. Yes. Colossus from the X-Men.

Yes. And user one sad bean has posted this with the title, is the? Yes, this it. Somebody wrote yes, somebody wrote really gives you some perspective. Open and watch for a moment. That seems kind of threatening. I would honestly kind of agree. Can I finish up the last few entries into this Notes app thing?

Yeah, please. So I think the last, when we left this post, Mom is in my room bitching at me, are him. So that's happening, Mom's bitching again, fucking Mom. I keep hearing conversations. Part two, iHeater fills itself with scoop, I. I And then and then here's the final posts and You know, this is like the ending to the Blair Witch project

I'm just trying to survive this notes app dude to it scaring me. Every blanket, pillow and shirt on my became alive. Seems scary at first, but they're chill. You know what? I find that- Every blanket, pillow and shirt on my became alive. I find that very comforting. And you know what else is comforting to me? This post that's called What I Bought on Ambien. Yes. It's a photograph of three items.

An optical gaming keyboard. An optical gaming mouse. Mouse is called Basilisk and the keyboard is called Huntsman Mini. Okay, these are the brands. And a copy of the Communist Manifesto by Marks and Engels. That's gonna be a fun night. That's gonna be a fun night. I thought we were gonna flip the table on this shit. Hell yeah. USA number one.

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