The Daily Zeitgeist - Clinical MDMA > Racism 06.22.23

Episode Date: June 22, 2023

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 292, Episode 2 of Dirt Analysts, Ike Ice! Yay! Production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into American shared consciousness. It's Thursday, June 22nd, 2023. Oh, yeah. You know what time it is?

You know what time it is, Jack? I know exactly what time it is. Oh, good. It's good to know because it's 20... Wait, what is it? The 22nd. Yeah, I knew that. It's National Onion Rings Day.

Okay. Shout out my... Thank you. One of my favorite, actually. I think one of the more underrated fried foods. National HVAC Tech Day. Obviously, with the heat out there. Shout out to everybody keeping that heating, ventilation, air conditioning systems all in check.

National Chocolatey Claire Day. Also, World Rainforest Day. And National Kissing Day. Kiss your babies. Kiss your loved ones. I was out until Rainforest and Kissing. There you go. There you go. you go well miles my name is jack o'brien aka come grimace come grimace grimace come come come grimace grimace

grimace come come tell me that you're loving it and put it on my tongue that is courtesy of salvador jolly on the discord okay politely spelled it c-o-m-e which was nice of them even though we we know what's really up also some people are going out and tasting the grimace cum milkshake and it almost seems like they think they're doing it on our behalf oh like i i have gone bravely to the arches to taste i just want to make sure it's clear we're not endorsing this product we're just saying that it is clearly grimace come that if that is intriguing to you as it is to me that's great but that's embrace yeah embrace embrace it but just don't don't be mad at me when it tastes i think one of the reviews was purple bubble gum and nui nui how do i know on a wee on wee yeah wow an idiot fucking idiot over here

i knew that for some reason wasn't clicking today. You're a big philosopher, baby. Why'd you drop the ball on that one? N-U-I? N-U-I? N-Y-U? The university? I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Oh, wow. Ennui, baby.

Anyway, Miles Gray, a.k.a. Look, this is from Chris Yamaguchi, man, because we did. What's his face? A lone muskrat. Yeah. A lone scum was out here saying, you know, cis gender is now a slur. So allow me to introduce myself. Miles Gray, a.k.a. Siskel and Ebert, a.k.a. Sissy Cis Demeanor Elliot, a.k.a. Sisyphus, a.k.a. Sissy Spacek, a.k.a. Twisted

Sister, a.k.a. System of a Down, a.k.a. Sister, Sister! Thank you to Christy Yamaguchi, man, at Waffle House for those wonderful a.k.a.'s and all the other people who hopped in that thread. Wonderful stuff. Yeah, yeah. Biz came

in with Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Yes. It was pretty good. Another good. What was it? At Drew Gots. Put Cisco like that thong, the thong, thong, thong. Yeah.

Yeah. And Sister Christian, Night Ranger. Sister Christian. Cause you're motoring. That song is everywhere these days. Is it? Yeah. It's in air.

I believe. It's pretty prominently featured in air, but I feel like once it had its boogie night scene, it was, it was over for all those other hoes. Oh, 100%. Like journey. Fuck out of here.

Journey. Anyways, miles. Yeah. Thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny comedian activist she's the host of the great award-winning podcast good muslim bad muslim the senior fellow on comedy at the pop culture collab uh she's written in the new york times wrote and performed a piece on something called fresh air for some lady named terry gross it is the hilarious, the talented Zara Norba! Zara!

Yo, I had a crush on the Grimace as a kid. No. Did you? Why? Yeah, the Grimace and the Hamburglar were like my early pan jam. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what's up? You had like an awakening looking at Grimace? A little bit. Okay. In bit. Okay.

In retrospect. Yeah. Now that I appreciate my weird and kink. Yeah. I'm like, okay. I don't think I knew. Justin, let me get a screen share really quick because I just want to bring images of this to the forefront. Okay, here we go.

Okay, so let's. Yes. Oh, look at that purple. Oh, yeah, this one can get it with the teeth. Oh, baby. Oh, no. Grimace with teeth is really troubling. Yeah.

How did that happen? I mean, I don't know, Jack. Speak for yourself. I'm like, aye, bite me, dude. Aye, aye, aye. Bite my whole shit, baby. Although without the teeth, also troubling. Because his mouth just looks weird and...

I like this one. Oh, that's a good one. Grimace's mouth is a whole problem yeah yeah okay you know what grimace with shades on okay yeah grimace can get it he's like kind of giving perpetual duck face like he looks like he has lip filler yeah like do we know grimace's gender is grimace gendered i think grimace is like i think grimace is non-binary yeah yeah yeah yeah okay so they can miss is like purple teletubby like early purple teletubby like yeah and he was always sort of like gyrating yeah he was a little yeah he moves a little bit more dynamic than the his amorphous form would have you believe where the hamburger is always kind of sneaking around and yeah what about the hamburger something something about that this like there's always like so deviant oh it's just very clear to me

they were both so he was just like a bad boy so, there's something devious. Oh, like right here? Yeah, look at that. Ooh, ooh, ooh. Yeah, just ooh. What's up with these burgers? Okay. Okay. Yeah, we're looking at an animatronic. And the big movement that they've given him is his eyes going back and forth. Shady eyes like ooh, ooh. Let's make a kinky sandwich.

And they're just burgers with so many preservatives. And top it off with a grandma's cup milkshake. Why not? Yeah, why not? And sawdust. Anyway, what's new? Zara, what's new with you? You are breaking a record here or at least approaching

a record. I'm so excited about breaking records. Yes. Among the most pregnant people that we've ever had. I'm pregnant! 37 weeks and 3 days! you go wow already dilated that two centimeters dilated look at you this child is coming on and i have covid what is why i sound like this the dedication i'm so dedicated yeah they wanted to induce me and i told them to wait until

i do this spot well you did run you ran it by miles and i and we were like that actually you know two you you ran it by us a couple weeks ago we said two weeks is not that much time for us to book a backup guest and so yeah why don't why don't you work and then this morning when you're like guys i have covid have COVID, I was like, and? Yeah. We got a show to record. Yeah. But I appreciate that.

Oh, we're not recording this in person. Sorry. Is that why you're sharing that information with me? Because otherwise it doesn't do that. It sounds like a YP, not an MP. Not going to tell you about it. But how is it? How are you feeling?

You're right there. You're on the doorstep. Feeling good. Yo, you know, I feel surprisingly well right now. All things considered. I'm glowy. My hair is voluminous. Oh, my.

It's popping. Yeah. Is that how that's pronounced? V-L-O-U-M-E. Is that volume? Pronounced. Oh, my. Velluminous. I-O-S.

Velluminous. I-O-S. Volume. ItUI. iOS. Voluminous iOS. Volume me. It's actually volume me. It's very volume me. And what else can I tell you? I'm walking a ton. Yeah, good. That's great.

And like, you know, just really feeling this. I've been taking hypnobirthing classes. Damn. What is that, like a genre of music? It could could be there's like a lot of meditation and chanting it's okay it's really fascinating there's some of it that is like a little bit you know like cis white woman feminism of the 70s some woo woo that's like okay let's you know some of it is a little bit ableist and it's like pain is the devil and don't think about pain pain is just fear and actually yeah and so i'm a person who had chronic pain in her 30s and i had to work my way through it and so like i dig a lot of the

lessons about it of like they provide you with the most visualizations i've ever gotten in a birthing class so like i know at every single stage of my labor what my uterus is doing why how what's going on what are the potential and i have pictures they do like i i had classes with like play-doh and like tactile shit. Holy shit. Oh, wow. Is it like you're giving your baby that experience through your connection or that's just for you? No, it's just for me. It's so that I go in knowing because with pain, when you don't know what's going on,

it's more painful. Right, yeah. Because that's how pain works. It's sort of a general, it's kind of like anxiety. When you have an emotion you can't identify and you're just anxious. Sure. Yeah. But once you identify, oh, I'm pissed at you.

Right, right, right. You know? Right. Oh, this is my uterus contracting. This is this happening. Exactly. That's good because you're building up this like psychological scaffolding for you to like reinforce your mentality going through what is going to be an experience like any other that

i unable to imagine or experience but yeah the hardest oh my god i've ever seen a human being do like just so so incredible so badass i had so much anxiety going into like the birth of my kid because like i'm like how do i help you know what i mean but this is everything they give us so that it stops being sort of like monumentous and grandiose or on the flip side terrifying and anxiety provoking and instead lives as this like very natural very biological organic thing that your body is primally ready to do that like yo folks women in comas give birth right and it's all about like relaxing which of course cut to the day i give birth and i'm like screaming out the window we had a whole birthing plan stabbing my husband

this is the worst pain i've ever experienced in my life! You're like, give me an epidural. You're like, psych, give me that needle. We're my husband. This is for you. Oh, man. Let me do it. Yeah. Oh, well, I'm very excited. Very excited for you. I'm stoked. I'm actually

genuinely excited for labor. I'm an extreme sports junkie. I'm very curious about how this is going to go. I'm taking bets if y'all think I'm going to cave in the first five minutes or if I'm going to ride it out. to assess how much you'll stick to it. But if I see your birthing plan and get a little bit of background on how other labors have been in your family, I might give you over under on how long the labor might take. My mom, I was three weeks early.

She gave birth to me in two hours, first kid. Wow. Holy shit. So the second kid was- No epidural. My sister, she came two weeks early. No epidural. She birthed my sister in an hour.

Yeah. Damn. My brother, three hours. My little sister, four. two weeks early no epidural she birthed my sister in an hour yeah damn my brother three hours my little sister four oh and you're the oldest i'm the oldest i came in two hours wow okay i'm thinking you know i don't know again i don't i'm not gonna i don't want to speak on that i don't know now my mom was 17 and i am 43 years old, folks. Wow. Okay, a little bit different. Yeah. So 26 years right there? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, what's that differential on the pelvic floor? All right. Well, we are going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, a couple of things we're talking about. We are talking aboutans being back on their fuckery with regards to the debt ceiling i'm trying opposed to the pelvic floor the debt ceiling we're going to talk about molly being used to address racism we're going to talk about joe biden ruining costco other concerns on the right currently. All of that, plenty more. But first, Zara,

we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? Okay. This morning I searched, can I have overnight French toast in 30 minutes? What that means? Okay. So I do this thing regularly where I'm a Gemini. I always forget to pre-prep and I don't do the pre-prep for the food that I want, but I still want it. Oh, you mean to like soak the bread for French toast? Yeah. Cause you have to for overnight French toast. It's phenomenal. You soak the bread in the egg mixture with the cinnamon and everything. And then the next morning you pop it in the oven for 15 minutes and it's

just like ready. It might be like 45 oh shit i didn't i never even knew it like that oh my god it's phenomenal wow okay i've never done that that's i've always known it just like on the spot like you got your stale bread or whatever that you're trying to turn up and then oh you are missing out on the soak it is so custardy okay oh custardy And it's got that like sugar char. Yeah. Yeah. Like a little creme brulee kind of little action. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. I'm in. Oh, and you were trying to say, can I speed this process up? Can we move this along? The very American like, yeah, but I need it right now. Can I turn this grape juice into wine in the microwave over the next 45 minutes? I may have also Googled that once in my life. How quick grape juice become wine?

Right now, please. Yeah, yeah, right now, 30 minutes. And I'm imagining that that search rendered maybe your heart slightly broken. A little bit. I'm in denial still. Yeah. Couldn't you do it with some some kind of pressurized... I'm just saying like scientifically, right?

Couldn't you put something like a pressure cooker? Maybe that? You and I are in sync on this because my next move was going to be to look up the Instapot. Yeah. Right. It feels like an Instapot-able thing. Or like a pressurized environment where you put the mixture in the bread and you pressurize

the container. It's like a stock trading floor? Like high pressure the mixture in the bread and you pressurize the container. It's like a stock trading floor. Like high pressure situation. Yeah, it's just like forcing the infusion. I have a rocket scientist friend at JPL that I hit up for these kinds of moments. And? Yeah. Were they any help?

Every time. Oh, okay, great. Except for this one. That's amazing. What is something you think is overrated? Okay. Whenever people talk about pregnancy they're always like it's like an alien growing inside of you right yeah that's your baby

well that's the thing is it used to be that way in a real safe kind of mental picture right and i had this whole process of sort of like coming to terms with this like birthing because so for I was like freezing up and not able to actually plan for my postpartum and third trimesters and delivery because I was just like freezing up. I was so scared all the time. I was like, I can't do this. So the first thing I did, if you want to do this too, it really helped me to get past the like alien baby mentality into something more natural i started watching a lot of anal sex porn yeah that's what i was gonna suggest i'm glad you got there on your own just a lot i was just talking about this to like really understand the movement of the perineum and how it expands and it can stretch and what the human body is

capable of just in terms of pressure down there. You know, it's a phenomenal thing. And a lot of, I watched a couple of like, you could look up backstage anal sex preparation. Okay. Yep.

Yeah. Yeah. Get that O-ring ready. Listen, there is some professionalism back there that i am impressed with yeah and now you know i think this is correct but the baby doesn't come out of the that one though right i don't wait oh really wait i'm actually i could use confirmation on this too yeah no here's what butthole babies are a thing if you tear yeah oh sure sure sure yeah yeah yeah of course and then it's sort of it's just all one

one big cloaca but this is what i was so scared of was like the tearing and the you know and i wanted to understand like, how, how is there a way where it's not going to just be horrifically painful and tear and all this stuff. I wanted to get myself out of the fear of it. And then my husband was like, I understand you going to these anal sex sites, but you could also watch birthing videos.

So I started watching. Yeah. That might be more one-to-one. And that blew my mind because the OB literally reaches in and is like, she's right there and touches her head. Yeah.

And pulls out a whole human. And I had this moment where I was like, yo, it's not an alien. It's not a picture in an ultrasound. I just was like really humbled because I was like, all of us come from underqualified women's vaginas. None of us know what the hell we're doing. Yeah. Birth is like this noble thing.

But we're all just like we're so organic. Yeah. This is this is so mammalian right right and that connects to my underrated yeah that's the alien thing i wonder if there was a strong uptick in that after the film like that because oh i'm sure the most visceral image maybe in film history is like that chest burster scene so and i i do think that things like that really burrow their way into into people's unconscious well and here's the other thing i learned about midwife activism is that so in check this out in the 40s and the 50s the popular thing to do was to just put women under general anesthesia.

Right. Just knock them out. Just knock them out. And they would put them on under like purple and twilight, which if you're not familiar, those are the drugs they give you so that you're like still cooperative, but unconscious. Yeah. And the hypnobirth story is she goes in. I totally forget her name.

Mangan is the last name. She goes in and says, I want to deliver naturally. The doctor says, sure. She wakes up with a baby in her arms. Wow. Right. Like that's how little they listen to anything women had to say about their own bodies during birth.

Right. And it was a part of the feminist movement to have birth naturally. And that became bigger in the 70s. Lamaze came around. Right, right. And so did Alien around that time. So I bet there's a link up. Oh, yeah, that does.

Yeah, that makes sense. What is your underrated? Okay, we need more birth stories, folks. Yeah. Like, I can't believe how, like, i was at the shoe store buying shoes and i was like well i'm eight months pregnant so my foot is growing and the this chick straight up this 20 something chick straight up just goes i oh i don't know how to relate to you at all look i gotta i'm fitting a lot of shoes today

wait what was the interaction exactly you're like hey you can stop talking I'm fitting a lot of shoes today. I don't know how to relate to this. I was like, what on earth? Wait, what was the interaction exactly? You're like, hey, I'm pregnant. You can stop talking. I can't relate. I don't know why you're still talking. You know I can't relate to this, right? But okay, go off, I guess.

Your feet or something. I had hired this dog walker to help me walk the dog. And she just kept asking me how if i was scared and like why i wasn't more scared you know and i just was like why aren't you terrified right like these aren't even men asking me these questions you know what i mean these are young women and like and and and even like friends of mine who because I've been so far in a lot of friendships that are without kids. Right. You know, I'm 43.

I don't have a kid. And so a lot of my friendships have been with like childless families. And I've dug it. And, you know, we go on vacations and use our money in ways that are awesome. You know? Right. And not Fisher Price. Though I wouldn't anyway. i just i just feel like we

need more birth stories out there it's like you know alien animal husbandry or just like nothing you know what i mean yeah exactly i feel like there's a like they when there is a birth scene in a movie, it like some just auto fill like text AI just takes over. And it's like the woman's there pushing and then like being mad, yelling at her husband. And that's like the only version that we have is like, shut up. And he's like, oh, no, are you oh no are you okay honey yeah and like that's it and one of the things i've been digging about my hypnobirthing class is all the meditation that women do in the videos in their videos women are all like really quiet really meditative really introspective and you can see them sort of like internal and bearing down right and it's not

this like screaming fiasco that i feel like is designed to scare the shit out of women yeah for sure absolutely yeah yeah i remember we watched some birthing videos around the birth of our first and yeah just some people are able to just yeah meditative quiet like just and i don't like that that certainly wasn't what happened in our case but it's definitely a good story to have contributed to the overall right of how this can go well and you know not that i'm opposed to screaming and throwing darts at my husband sure yeah as it's happening you know that's fine too. I don't think I've seen that. I was thinking, yeah, I could like create a bullseye and just like,

yeah. It's like a really powerful nerf cannon of some sort. Lift your shirt up. Show me the target. You're like, yeah. I had him painted on his chest with Sharpie earlier. Now let me see if I can get one in here.

But yeah, I totally agree. My mind was completely, so much of my perception around pregnancy and childbirth was informed by fucking 90s movies. Exactly. Like nine months and shit where I'm like, ah! Like, that's what you think is fucking going on. And then you talk, like, then I talk to my other friends and relatives and people who I respect who have gone through this maybe one time or multiple times.

And I was like, they're giving me really good advice. And I realized how much of that shit seeps into your brain and completely just changes what exactly this whole thing is. And once I was able to sort of get past this like media informed idea of what it meant, I was able to enter this more like peaceful, calm, like loving part where my energy wasn't fear, more like how can i use my love to make this process the best way possible and then enter into this without necessarily having like the fear of someone screaming at me or accidentally grabbing my penis because i think it's my hand like in all the movies in the 80s grab someone's hand i forget what movie that do you know what i'm talking about there's a movie no but that's totally what i'm going to do on nine months or something and like someone's giving birth and someone's like grab a

hold of something and this woman just grabs the dude's crotch and just like and the guy's like and she's like you have a very big finger and i forget what that is i'm sure zeitgang will know exactly what i'm talking about but anyway uh oh my god you don't understand i have such a nice husband i used to play this game with him called open up your legs i'm gonna narrowly miss your balls and i would make this and he would do it every time he would open up his legs and he'd always be like oh i hate this game how does he win that game yeah what are the rules It's always about whether I win or lose. That was the why. Whether he flinches. He's a cis

man. He's a cis white man in the world. Sorry, Justin, can you take that out? We don't want to run afoul of Elon Musk's morality police. And then one day, we were at dinner with friends, and I was like, you know, he always lets me play this

game. He just lets me, and we're all cackling. And he was like, hey. So then the next time, I was like, you know, he always lets me play this game. He just lets me and we're all cackling. And he was like, hey. So then the next time I was like, open up your legs, we're gonna narrowly miss your balls during a boring documentary. He was like, no. No, I won't. And I was like, damn.

I love that it's just done for your entertainment purposes. It's not, it's just like when you're bored. I thought it was like, you know, it's just done for your entertainment purposes yeah it's not it's just like when you're bored i i thought it was like you know you you were mad at him or something there's a lot of things that i can get him to do in that labor delivery room i have to really think about yeah how i pray cash those yeah but they're like so what's your birth plan you're like all right so first of all i tell my husband to open up his legs i'm gonna nearly miss your balls i was just asking if you wanted like a peanut pillow for your legs or if you needed a yoga ball.

No, I'm good. I'm just going to narrowly smash him in the crotch. Next, I just yank on his hair as hard as I can. He's not allowed to scream. I've got this Grimace and Hamburglar costume. We're going to get freaky. I was asking my OB. It's in my birth plan. and Hamburglar costume. Yeah. We're going to get freaky. Yeah. I was asking my OB.

It's in my birth plan. Can you dress as Remus for the last few pushes? Oh, my God. That would make my day. That's amazing. All right. Let's take a quick break.

We'll come back and we'll talk about some news. We'll be right back. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. We'll be right back. 24 hours. BPM 110, 120. She's terrified. Should we wake her up? Absolutely not. What was that? You didn't figure it out?

I think I need to hear you say it. That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. This machine is approved and everything? You're allowed to be doing this? We passed the review board a year ago. We're not hurting people. There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing. They're just dreams.

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But remember, they did make a deal. The Republic, they did a deal. They figured out. Remember, they said it was going to be real bad for the economy and if we don't make this deal the last minute they made the deal and republicans agreed to fund the government and pay you know any outstanding balances so forth but guess what now they're deciding they can fuck shit up by going after appropriations bills to cut spending so these are the bills that are essentially that spell out exactly how these budgets are how the the money is spent. So their little fucking, you know, clever logic here is saying like, well, you know,

I know we agreed to all these figures in the debt ceiling bill, you know, and like that, but to us, that was just a cap. You know, that just means we could go up to that amount. There's nothing to say we can't go below that by like $120 billion. And that is now the logic that they are parading around in some of these committees which is basically saying like we just agreed to that being like a number the

top number and meanwhile like every other sane human being is saying like how is that a fucking deal if you say this is the number we're agreeing to for this debt ceiling and then you renege on that after the fact and be like actually no that just that means that that's that's just like that's just the highest so this is going to be an issue obviously with the democrats and the white house and also the senate uh because they're always the ones who have to like end up seeing these bills and be like fuck man like what are we what is this like don't they know how to just fucking do the bare minimum uh spoiler alert they don't and senate republicans aren't even really happy with this because even like some of their like they've somehow awoke from their MAGA coma in the Senate.

And you have people like this senator. I don't even I don't even bother to figure out who it was. Let me tell you exactly who it was. Oh, yeah. John Kennedy, who is famously not the most consistent senator that we have said, quote, If you propose a compromise, you need to tell the truth and tell people exactly what the compromise is. I can tell you that senators are tired of getting the compromise, voting for it or even not voting for it and finding out later that wasn't the truth. So this is him complaining about this last minute switcheroo. complaining about this last minute switcheroo.

Exactly. From the Freedom Caucus freaks who are like, this is how we can get, this is how we can extract our pound of flesh or whatever. And even Kevin McCarthy is like, yeah, I mean, I guess I get that logic, but I had to kind of make a deal with them to keep my gavel that's really cool.

So there's that. Yeah. So bringing a bigger and bigger gavel to work every day. Yeah. So try and take this. It's so fucking heavy. But yeah, I get away more, more brinkmanship on the way. And systemically, this for some reason, this reminded me of like the conversation we were having in our episode where we interviewed, you know, where we were talking about big sugar in the sugar industry and how there was... A nominal episode.

Thank you. Yeah, great podcast, by the way. Everybody should go listen. But early in the episode, Celeste was talking about how early in the season, they win a victory. They sue on behalf of all these sugar cane workers and get get this big settlement for sugar cane workers like 50 million dollars. And it's a huge win. But then the side that is like capital and private money and private capital just pushes back and just keeps pushing. And they have more time and more energy and more weight in our world because they're able to just do it so like even it's just like even a small win like getting them to let the economy keep moving and like having spending for these programs like they there's still a way for them to claw it back there's still a way for them to just make any any victory on

behalf of like social spending and social welfare into a loss because the system is just set up to favor any anything that is going to get in the way of you know social welfare and allow people to like it's just better for them to have a thing where they're just like, no, we just privatize everything. And, uh, why,

why are they such cartoon villains? I don't know. I mean, cause we're, we're at that phase too, where we really have people who have no business. None. Civics.

Yeah. You know, at the even most basic level who have basically racist memed their way into congress exactly like that's how they got there yeah and then like okay what do you want to do with these budgets so like huh I don't like Joe Brandon they're like oh no

okay well this is bad how because there's a lot of people saying oh yeah if we have another government shutdown that won't be that bad yeah it would be but again this is the back and forth uh that we're we get to witness firsthand as we welcome new life like a whole party of i want to die alone yeah truly yeah it's like the same mentality i don't care i want to die alone let me die alone. Yeah. Well, speaking of racists, one of them has taken Molly and realized that they were racists and that being racist sucks.

White supremacy badge? What? What? Are you trying to tell me that the villainized drug of the 70s that was the smoke screen to cover up the Korean War actually turns out to be good? It just might, but don't hold your breath now.

Wait, I didn't know Molly was even around in the 70s. I mean, I knew it was first starting out as a party drug in Dallas, but isn't Molly... Molly is like the... Is Molly... Is MDMA... I molly is like the mdma is molly and is mdma i thought it was we shouldn't use the street term for ecstasy okay mdma let's be let's be a little scientific here i say molly because you know i'm out here in the streets yeah but it's it's mdma it is being treated as a

psychedelic that is like being researched heavily not as a thing that you just like give out to people, but as a therapeutic instrument that where like during a therapy session, you are given it. And then there's like a guided therapy session in which the kind of, you know, effects of the MDMA help you come to terms with different parts of your emotional like scaffolding and like how you've been built and how you've built yourself kind of accidentally and haphazardly in the dark of your unconscious like you now have access to that stuff and

whereas like during normal therapy you're just talking to a person and it can be difficult or take time. I guess it's like the thing that you hear a lot is that it's just a shortcut to like get into a lot of these issues that people need to be able to address. And that takes a lot of time and a lot of like breaking down barriers to get to. The best analogy I heard for it was that because mdma it fills your receptors with love drugs right it's like a love drug it's people explain that it's sort of like when you're wanting to dive into trauma just raw like that with a therapist one-on-one it's kind of like pouring an empty pitcher right and and and trying to drink from that cup right versus with mdma then you're actually sort of filling the pitcher with water you're filling your receptors

with good feeling and then tackling the trauma right and i have a few friends that it was absolutely life-changing for yeah it's i, we see the research constantly how it's helped, especially with people like with PTSD and soldiers, with stress and like trauma as it relates to like racial abuse and shit like that. It's like all we see are like positives here. Yeah. There's a psychedelic science conference happening in Denver this week, actually. And like there's just so much learning.

And so it's a very exciting time for people who are in medicine and like kind of interested in using these tools like the research that's coming through is that it's like a a very powerful tool yeah and a great documentary by michael pollan yeah on netflix uh during which i was narrowly missing my husband's balls. Oh, so not the most engaging. You got a little bored there. Some parts I was like, I get it. I get it. I get it. I get it. All right. Ball smash time. I narrowly miss.

I mean, narrowly miss, narrowly miss, narrowly smashing them. But this story is from, comes out of a recent study in the unit from the University of Chicago, where researchers were looking at how mdma was like enhancing the pleasantness of certain types of physical touch and one participant stuck out to the researchers there was named brendan because at the end of the trial this guy brendan filled out the final questionnaire and at the bottom of the form when they're talking about like how do you feel going like after this whole experience wrote quote this experience has helped me sort out a debilitating personal issue. Google, Google my name. I now know what I need to do. When they looked at that, they said, holy, wait, what the fuck does this person mean by I now know what I need to do? Like,

go talk to them right now. That phrase is scary as fuck. Yeah, because they also Googled, they Googled his name and found out that like about a year or two prior to this study, he was doxxed by like Antifa, like researchers who are basically trying to put out all these names of prominent Nazis and white supremacists in the US. And he was one of them.

He led a very prominent group in the Midwest. So they were like, what the fuck? When they asked him, they're like, yo, so what's his plan? White supremacist guy. Now that you've had some like MDMA, he said, quote, just realize love is the most important thing. Quote, I felt in that moment that all of my priorities in my life were just so messed up the way I was interacting with people, particularly people who are close to me. But there was also an almost euphoric feeling, a feeling of love. And I concluded that was the sort of feeling that I should strive to permeate across the world. So they're like, oh, okay. His background was,

you know, in high school, he leaned liberal, but then he got to college, joined a frat of like affluent white guys that were conservative. And then that being around those people slowly sent him down like that radicalization rabbit hole of like hey you should read this book hey you should check this podcast out hey you should check out what they're saying on fox and next thing you know he's leading a you know he's in fucking charlottesville like with a tiki torch wow like leading people yeah so now this isn't to say like mdma is a cure-all because this guy was in a period of like serious self-reflection after being like outed, losing his job and like his like relationships, like close relationships began to fall apart. But he said that really had him in a state where he was trying to figure out what was going wrong, since up to that point, he thought he was on like a good trajectory with all this nonsense.

And many experts like agree. They're like, yeah, intention is the key here when using psychedelics. It's not like you can just airdrop a bunch of MDMA on the state of Florida and then we're going to move on. You have to have the intention to at least be open to looking at your own life and be in a period of self-reflection. Because again, this isn't some magic racism eraser. And it's also not a pill that you take and have this insight. Again, it is part of a like total program of therapy

where you're working with a therapist who knows you and has a sense of like where you're at. And it's, I feel like there's just going to be a tendency for Americans to be like, all right, so I take this thing and like things are good again it's like a i take it like tylenol and we're good no it's actually part of working on yourself which is uncomfortable this just makes it gives you an ability to do uncomfortable work a little bit more freely yeah exactly and there's like you know one of the

researchers that were spoken to for this article from UCLA was just saying like, you know, all psychedelics have the potential to help people get in touch with new perspectives for other radicalized individuals. She says a drug like ayahuasca could be useful because it's like taking sort of a good hard look at yourself in the mirror. She goes on to say, that's why ayahuasca kind of has a reputation of doing to people kind of showing them maybe where they screwed up and how they got there in a compassionate way like which is also important there's all kinds of studies of doing this on cops with ptsd yeah that have been highly successful it's like more prevalently used in the UK. There's lots of research studies on it there. Right here. It was like it became demonized like Nixon demonized it all.

And it became part of the like smoke screen. Yeah. Look at LSD. Look at all the, you know, hallucinogenics. Not. Yeah. Not creeping inequality or that kind of shit. Yeah.

It kind of blew my mind that the guy who invented the PCR study found it during an LSD trip. What's the PCR study? Like, you know, PCRs, like the molecular... PCR tubing? What is it that you do for COVID? You take like a PCR test.

Yeah, polymerase chain reaction? Yes. Oh, got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. He visualized it in an LSD tripd trip oh because that's how you visualize dna samples right that's like the whole yeah that is how they yeah francis crick actually the guy who discovered they couldn't figure out the structure of the dna double helix and he had the insight of the double helix shape while tripping on lsd and also after reading a

bunch of research by a woman who had already figured it out and he just i guess he he got a lot of credit trifecta yeah yeah but i think again like it's it's interesting to hear this guy brendan talk about too because he's all saying like this isn't going to solve our society it's not like this is a cure-all, but it is clear it helps people. He goes on to say, quote, a lot of these guys who end up in these movements have a history of doing MDMA. Yeah. He's like, but you have to have the right framing and mindset because that's the only way you can be somewhat open to reconsidering your own ideologies.

He said, quote, it helped me see things in a different way that no amount of therapy or anti-racist literature ever would have done. And he still says he struggles with like these beliefs that he has, but he's completely like has been able to sort of step outside of this like white supremacist ideology. Like, oh, this doesn't serve me at all or what I want like my life to be. So it's a very like interesting story i know a lot of people like the shorthand would be like all right mdma for like everybody that that's the thing uh but we what we it's a it's a combination of things that really help people

but the the version that he did is a clinical like you know under under medical supervision and that stuff is much harder to do in the United States than in other places because, to your points, it's been demonized. And so that is the thing that it can be useful in a society where they're willing to just accept what a powerful tool it can be for therapists. what a powerful tool it can be for therapists but i don't know i say i'm kind of on the side of everybody let's try it because right now a lot of people are doing that with adderall right and treating it like the drug that's going to fix all my behavioral shit and i see and i see it all the time and i and there's so much else that adderall does too that is like so detrimental and by the way the like myth of the swiss cheese brain is actually like an adderall side effect not not an lsd mdma psychedelics side effect right yeah that was like a whole uh propaganda train yeah back in the 80s and 90s so for the way that like we americans do stuff i'm

just like i don't know maybe more of us should just be like smoking pot and doing mdma oh yeah it should be it should be less stigmatized and less illegal for sure i'm just saying if you're gonna pick if you're gonna polarize yeah rather than going the route of like cocaine and adderall and coffee right but those help you those help you do work those help you do work and look at all these phenomenal scientists that got shit done on lsd right right that's how it works but pipe down about that because then we might not have need for other pharmaceuticals. My bad, my bad, my bad. But yeah, totally, you can see the values of our society based on what drugs are illegal versus illegal. Yeah.

I'm just saying that the legalization and the stigma makes it much harder for therapists. Like therapists are afraid of losing their license. It's very few people that get access to this type of therapy and this type of like official sanctioned, like well-designed therapy work that this person had had access to. So, yeah, it just it needs to be destigmatized across the board and made more less illegal. And just like thinking right about like the unpacking your trauma, right? Because so many of us, we go through shit, and we just lock it up, we leave it in the back of our minds,

and then wonder why it permeates, like it ends up festering and affects other dimensions of our relationships and personalize have nothing to do with even that specific event that happened. Right. And the power of being able to examine that is a huge part of having any kind of growth, because most growth is not happening, because we don't have the ability or the openness to reflect on these things we've been through because it's so deeply uncomfortable. And it kind of reminded me, there's like this recent clip. I hate to bring up Tucker Carlson, but he was on Megyn Kelly's show. And the way he talks about his mother's death, you're like, this is exactly what the fuck, like, goes on with people. Right?

Like, I'm just going to play this because he's so casual about this. And I don't, like, I understand, like, there's a lot to do with, like, his own abandonment issues with his mother, et cetera, et cetera. But hearing someone talk like this, you're like, man, this motherfucker could use some molly. But anyway, this is just, like like hear him talk just about his mother um but you know our mom was not a fan of us and was pretty direct about it and you know that's obviously hurts when you're little but then i realized you can't control it you know you just can't control it and your mother doesn't like you okay boohoo you know it sounds really terrible and the day it actually happened when his mother i got this call like she's dying and in in this weird little town and set on a farm that she lived on in southwestern france and and she was basically french at this point spent her

life there uh you should go visit her and so i call my brother and he's like what no you know my son's got a soccer game and i said i feel I feel the same way. I don't know this person. And actually, this sounds cold or whatever, but I had already kind of made my peace with this over many decades, over 35 years. And I didn't fall apart at all. I went out to dinner. I mean, I felt sad for her, I guess. I don't know much about her. She was an artist. She had shows, okay, I guess, and all that.

But she wasn't part of my life. I wasn't part of hers. Yeah. This explains so much. I didn't fall apart. I just built myself brick by brick into a horrifying monstrosity of toxic masculinity. It's so wild. I didn't fall apart, though.

I didn't fucking care. I'm here. I created a whole set made of wood and I screamed from it. Also, did Tucker Carlson just say he's an immigrant? Is he French? No, he's talking about how his mom immigrated to France. She's basically French because she left.

His mom expatted. His mom's a hippie who left them at a very young age to hippie it up. At six six his mom was like you kind of suck and that's he he has that well the other thing too is he's i think he's also referencing the fact that later in life his mother hated his politics and famously like it was after she passed away right she was also an heiress she had a lot of money wow and when she passed no no swanson is who uh was his father remarried yeah got it but when his mother passed her estate was sort it was

sort of contentious where the money was going and him and his brother fought her husband over the money despite him being like i don't care about her i've moved on him and his brother they had a long protracted legal battle over her estate. And what happened was later on, they found her will in a book that she had handwritten and she had only left her Tucker and his brother $1 each. Oh, so they got something.

But, but still like, it's like, you can tell all of this like pain swirling around, like, you know, clearly she, they had a contentious relationship, but he was also like, I need that fucking money, too.

That's the only thing that actually matters. You know who else talks about their mom like that? Bob Durst. Oh, yeah? Yep. Bro, Robert Durst? Yep. You said Bob.

That was so casual. I was like, hold on. You're kicking it with Bob? Right. I mean, I did watch that whole documentary. Just burping up, yeah, after having memories of my mother.

But yeah, I mean, like, again, these are, you just sort of see examples all the time and I'm not trying to lay everything, like, you know, that Molly's a cure-all for. A lot of sociopaths and psychopaths will cite their relationship with their mom as the reason for their behavior. Yeah, and it surely has to do with his very misogynistic worldview.

Yeah, because they don't understand empathy, but they are clued into pity. Right. And so that's one of the formative ways that they look to access sympathy. Well, look, he wasn't really bummed out by it at all. He went to dinner, okay? Next question, Megan. Next question. Moving on.

I also think it's funny that he, like, it's almost an insult to his six-year-old self how he responds to it. You know what I mean? It's like, you now, you're going to, like, tell your six-year-old self that, like, you didn't dissociate you just weren't bummed out by it at all you know it didn't bother me uh it did it did there's no way it did

it but again hey we get it that's where you were forged in like the fires of like a marvel villain truly like it would be too on the nose for a marvel villain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It would just be like, alright, that's a little pet. His hippie mom left him and then didn't leave him any money. And he went on TV and was like, my mom didn't like me and I'm fine with that. While like, you know,

just like fucking steamrolling over like just a lifetime of pain. I'm fine with that. I didn't fall apart. I'm together. I'm rock solid. All right. Anyways.

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Holy shit. And only nine non-food items like paper towels, plastic bags, trash bags, and razors. Is that a Republican man that thinks cost a lot? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. But it's Joe Brandon's fault. It's Brandon's fault.

So 58 items, that works out to an average of 14 per item which actually makes total sense for costco right 58 items is a lot of items to buy at costco like like she is tetrising all of those items that That's about three carts, yeah. Yeah, that is a lot of shit. Yeah. Yeah, Costco is just so, like, that's what, a 58-item Costco trip is what you do once a year, hopefully. Most of them are food items. Is that what she's saying?

She said are not. Yeah, most of them are, no, she said most of them are. Only five, like, non-food items. Oh, only nine non-food, right, right, right. Yeah, nine, gotcha. Most of them are... No, she said most of them are only five non-food. Oh, only nine non-food. Right, right, right. Yeah, nine. Most of them is food. So 49?

Yeah. And what, you buy what? You got a couple... How many rotisserie chickens did you get? I mean, probably not that many, Miles, because... That's a hell of a baby shower.

I feel like she is not aware of the good value items at Costco either if she's averaging know averaging out to $14 an item but I don't know it's just such and then people were like yeah that's first of all like the things you get at

Costco are like lifetime supply of toilet paper where's the fucking itemized receipt give us the itemized receipt I need to see literal fucking receipts madam how much you want to bet that's beer and wine yeah she doesn't want to show that it's all fucking kirk signature light beer yeah and she responded when people were like could we

see the itemized receipt ma'am she just raged and was like, triggered progressive left wingers. And like, I don't know, this just seems to be we it happens all the time. But just this it's the same thing with Elon Musk declaring cisgender a slur. You know, it's like we're being attacked by by these words. But then when it comes to, you know, the hundreds of thousands of people who are harassed by actual hate speech every fucking day on Twitter. He's completely silent. But when it comes to like a descriptor of his, you know, the fact that he is cisgender or that this person who's complaint who complained to him is cisgender. You know, he's just the most brittle soul on the planet.

You know, he's just the softest, most sensitive snowflake. But they have somehow, and I do feel like they've like somehow won that argument. Hopefully it's changing, but it does feel like- The perception you mean? Yeah, Just that, that perception in mainstream popular culture is still that, like,

I don't know, people are too sensitive. Cause that's still the status quo. You know what I mean? The status quo. We're not there where everyone, yeah. We're just not there yet.

Yeah. We're, yeah. We're people, we all agree that everybody deserves the same amount of respect and autonomy. That's just not the status quo. So because of that, people who are still fighting for it are like, what is this? We're fine.

But yeah, I mean, again, also, you let your transphobia show hardcore when you're like, cisgender's a slur. How dare you? Okay, fool, we get get it go back to your fucking whatever you fucking do i don't understand that like you're biologically who you also identify as and you're mad yeah well you're using it to other me because you're using that to be mean to me by pointing it out in context that I don't like. Oh, I'm sorry. Is there a history of oppression for the cisgendered people of America?

Right. This is like the other thing of like, this is why we need MDMA in our water. I've decided. I'm all the way there now. Yeah. We also need to get him interested because he has like a like very dumb guy who thinks he's a smart guy brain and i feel like we could get him really interested in the titanic and he also is very confident in his ability to build submersibles remember when there was that cave rescue

and he was like well i'm gonna bring in this submersible and it's gonna save everyone and people like looked at the submersible and they were like that's not gonna work at all like here we we have to like go through narrow corners and that thing is the size of a fucking minivan bro and yeah that so he i'm just saying there could be some efficiencies between these news stories that have obsessed people over the past if we could get elon musk interested in them put him in a submarine i'm just saying just you might enjoy it down there yeah yeah or being like yo bro you know what could happen bro you could find atlantis this shit open homie i believe in you bro of

all the people i feel like you could go to the bottom of Mariana's Trench and figure it out, homie. Be brave enough. Cameron's been deeper than you. Oh, you think it's cool that you've been to space? Cameron's been deeper than everybody in the whole world. He's just a dude, dog. You gonna let James Cameron do that? You gonna let James Cameron fucking hand you that L? Make you look like a bitch?

That's what I'm saying, is all these folks floating around with empty pictures and their mama's mad at them and they haven't gotten over it and they don't actually know what being mean means yeah they're just sad yeah totally they're very ticklish they're just scared of anyone touching them they're just like no don't stay away from me just like balled up like a fucking fist their whole body is and then yeah you just can't do anything this is why i roll with the hamburglar and the grimace and we grind on each other and we

cuddle it's a good life there you go alright Zara such a pleasure having you thank you so much oh my goodness this is the best this is the best vaginal send off yeah before I launch myself

down my canal oh yeah and birth another human being into this world that is like an ayahuasca that's if. That is like an ayahuasca. That's if you give birth on an ayahuasca, you're actually giving birth to yourself. That would be wild. Where can people find you, follow you, hear you, all that good stuff?

You can come to my house. There you go. Yeah, you can come to my house or, you know, hack into my phone and watch my birth with me. Wow. and watch my birth with me. Wow. Yeah. Or you can go on Twitter,

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Enui. Wish me luck, folks. Wish me luck out there. All the luck. When I come to, I'm going to be working on my book. Oh, nice. Okay. There you go.

Yeah. I want to see that baby. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? Yes. Okay. Everybody watch this. It went viral for a hot second in like a pocket of young women but like everyone everyone fourth grade and above needs to watch this tiktok that is a woman putting a ping pong ball inside of a balloon you blow it up and it mimics the baby inside of the uterus.

Whoa. Yes. And then as she blows up the balloon, she lets the ping pong ball settle at the neck of the balloon. It closes off the air. That's the baby at the base of the cervix. And then she pumps the top of the balloon. This is fabulous. She pumps the top of the balloon this is fabulous she pumps the top of the balloon those are uterine contractions that thin out the neck of the balloon and that's how you give birth she gives birth i did it at home and i popped the balloon twice which is how you tear oh wow like

she didn't even have to tie it it just holds the it holds the hair and then the way she's pressing on the balloon right now those are contractions and the contractions actually help you give birth to the ping pong ball you see that it's phenomenal facing okay that's the baby coming out of the vaginal out of the cervix and the vaginal canal yeah and then the and then the ping pong ball just comes flying out yeah if you if you push too hard you tear that's what i terminal velocity that's terminal velocity easy easy take it easy that's so wild because that is such a simple demonstration oh my god that like helps not make so much of it abstract. That makes TikTok worth it.

The whole existence of TikTok is worth it. Turns out that woman, she's just wearing scrubs. She has no medical training. Is that real? No, I don't know. That's how TikTok is. I'm wearing scrubs. Y'all are going to believe it. Miles where can people find you? Is there work in media you've been enjoying

Yeah yeah find me at miles of gray At at based life forms or social media platforms Find Jack and I on our basketball podcast Miles and Jack got mad boosties Talking to NBA But also find me and Sophia Alexandra On our trash reality TV show Podcast for 20 day fiance

The reality TV is trash Not the podcast. I don't know. I mean, it could be trash. It's up to you. I have the beholder and all that. So check that out. Some tweets I'm liking.

I got a couple, actually. The first one, Sarah at Knights Gravity tweeted, I'll say I got that dog in me and it's Snoopy. Yeah. Yeah. You got that dog in me. And it's Snoopy. Yeah. Yeah. You got that dog in you. And then another one at GLD Vittorio tweeted,

the reason people are having a hard time finding sympathy for the submarine passengers is because it isn't a situation that could happen to anyone. No one is afraid of a friend or family member accidentally spending $250,000 to go crisscross applesauce into the USS jigsaw. Yeah. It kind of feels right. It's like such a dark story and yet like also so absurd that like, yeah. Yeah.

I mean, the tweet goes on to say, I'm not saying it's normal to lack empathy for people we can't relate to. I'm saying psychologically it isn't instinctive because this circumstance is so far beyond being a conceivable threat or apprehensible horror on a level past cognitive dissonance toward refugees or the poor. There it is. Yeah. There it is. All right.

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He's down. Ride or die. Hey, Jack. Yeah. I want to play a game with you. Uh-oh. Open your legs. Open themoh. Open your legs. Open them thighs.

Open your legs. I'm gonna narrowly miss your balls. There it is. There needs to be like a jazzy 1970s game show theme that comes up when you're like, I'm gonna narrowly

miss your balls. Like you say, I'm gonna narrowly miss your balls. Like you say, I'm gonna narrowly miss, and then the crowd all goes, miss your balls. Today's contestant is a radio DJ from the Los Angeles area named Jack O'Brien. Come on down. You're like,

it's like Price is Right, where you're like, oh, me? And you run down and just throw my legs open. Are you excited? Yeah! Yeah! You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

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