The Misery Machine - (Yergy + Drewby Episode) Feces: The Internet's Hip New Drug To Get High On

Episode Date: September 12, 2025

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Long before kids were ingesting tidepods, people were looking for ways to get high. Much of this came from psychoactive plants that are now legal in most parts of America and are still popular today. But others turn to more creative methods to get their fix. However, Yamava Resort and Casino at San Manuel is California's number one entertainment destination for today's superstars. Catch the Jonas Brothers return to the Yamava Theater stage on April 30th, the powerful vocals of Demi Lovato on May 17th, and the signature Southern Country Rock of Eric Church on July 19th.

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Pictures show young people who appear to be breathing in Jankham. Or the human waste drug, but parents need to be aware that kids are calling it by the more popular slang term, butt hash. According to reports, the police base their internal bulletin on a public. made by user Pickwick to the Temple of the Screaming Electron Forum that included photos of people making and using Jencom. However, no one questioned why a sheriff's department was taking the word of an anonymous user on a message board that was the equivalent to an early 4chan. I have a copy of that internal bulletin, and it reads as follows. Information Bulletin, new drug, Jankum. On 919, 2007, Corporal DeSarro received an email,

from a concerned parent regarding a new drug called Jankham. The parent advised that their child learned about this drug through various conversations with several students at Pallmetto Ridge High. Jankham originated in Africa and other third world countries by fermenting raw sewage to create a gas which is inhaled to achieve a high. Jankum is now a popular drug in American schools. Jankum is a homemade substance which consists of fecal matter and urine. The fecal matter and urine are placed in a bottle or jar and covered most commonly with a balloon.

The container is then placed in a sunny area for several hours or days until fermented. The contents of the container will separate and release a gas, which is captured in the balloon. Inhaling the gas is said to have a euphoric high, similar to ingesting cocaine, but with strong hallucinations of times past. Once ingested, the onset of the high takes approximately 10 seconds for the most severe hallucination, happen in approximately 20 minutes. Several articles indicate that the subject immediately passes out after a chest... Folks knew the Colonel approved of his new Honeychilly Crisp and Halapeno Ranch sauces the moment he tasted them and said...

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and talking to dead people. The feeling of being out of it may last for several hours or days. All subjects who use the Jencom dislike the taste of sewage in their mouth and the fact that the taste continued for several. days. Slang terms, Winnie, shirrunners, fruit from crackpipe, Leroy Jenkins, might, butt hash, and waste. Now, according to Palmetto Ridge Principal Roy Terry, other than the one memo I received from

that parent, I haven't heard the name of it mentioned. I'm sure that something like this can be done, but I have not heard of anyone doing it nor anyone at our school doing it at all. Use of the drug gained national attention when news stations out of California, Iowa, Illinois, and Flo Rida picked up the story. According to the Washington Post columnist Emil Steiner, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration insists that there are people in America trying Jankum. According to Mr. Steiner, the DEA agent called the usage dangerous, bad, and stupid. In addition, DA spokesman Garrison Courtney weighed in on the situation stating that we wouldn't classify it as a drug so much because it's feces and urine. He added that, it is in Africa.

We know that. We've heard rumors and speculation about it here, but part of looking for trends is listening first for speculation. It is something we want to keep on top of. Now, spokesman Courtney wasn't entirely wrong here, and alleged usage goes back as far as the 1990s. The name Jankham is derived from a glue brand of a similar name out of South Africa and becomes a blanket term for all glues inhaled by children to get high. It then extended further into the more common usage we're discussing today. According to reports from the 90s, Jankham usage in Africa seemed to be centered around the country of Zambia, though, you know, we can't

really confirm that. According to Emma Guest, who is the author of Children of AIDS, Africa's orphan crisis, Jencom is made from, and I quote, fermented human sewage, scraped from pipes, and stored in plastic bags for a week or so until it gives off numbing, intoxicating fumes. The Interpress Service, which is a news agency headquartered in Rome, Italy, described Jencom in a 1995 article as, and I quote, people used to wonder why a gang of scruffy pre-team boys hung around the sewer ponds of the Garden Township here in Lusaka.

The stench is so overpowering that people literally speed through that stretch of the slum area wondering how those who live close by ever got used to it. The answer has finally dawned on Zambians, and it has left them pondering the desperation of its street children. The boys at the Garden Township have discovered Jankham, a new way of getting high. The process is simple. Human excretia is scooped up from the edges of the sewer ponds and old... Ryan Reynolds here from Intmobile, The message for everyone paying big wireless way too much.

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It may be a terrible health hazard, but it is completely legal, as are glue or petrol sniffing, previously the most common way street kids numb their senses. In 1999, Jencombe made its way to the BBC. In their article, they discussed manufacturing Jencom and I quote, At the Lusaka sewage ponds, two teenage boys plunged their hands into the dark brown sludge, gathering up fistfuls and stuffing it into small plastic bottles. They tap the bottles on the ground, taking care to leave enough room for methane to form at the top.

A sour smell rises in the hot sun, but the boys seem oblivious to the stench and the foul nature of their task, or in essence, the making of fart bottles. According to John C. Zulu, who is the director of the Ministry of Sport, Youth, and Child Development in the country of Zambia, initially they used to get it from the sewer, but they make it anywhere. They say it keeps them warm and makes them fearless.

Allegedly, very allegedly, Jencom was the fourth most popular drug among street children behind weed, glue, uncured tobacco, and gasoline. Now, for me, I just need to know how all of this started. We're a little more progressive and ahead of the curve here in San Francisco. Did someone get Dutch ovened and decided that they liked the fumes a little too much? Supposedly, the effects of Jenkker,

Yenkem use last about an hour and can include auditory and visual hallucinations. One alleged Jenkim user told a reporter that, with glue, I just hear voices in my head. But with Jankham, I see visions. I see my mother who was dead and I forget about the problems in my life. I mean, that's kind of cool, I guess. But there's a more scientific explanation for all of this. In the 90s, an anesthesiologist from Boston conducted a study on mice, which included exposing them to sewer gases. He told reporters with salon.com that, and I quote, holding one's breath, choking, or the inhalation of gases like those produced from Jencom, could result in hypoxia, a lack of oxygen flow to the body that could be alternately euphoric and physically dangerous. Huh, you don't

say. Someone might want to let Wim Hof know about this. Now, back in 2007 in Collier, Florida, the Jencombe hysteria came to a head when websites such as Snopes and about dot com classified the story as falsehood. The smoking gun came out blazing, claiming that Collier County may be full of shit. The Arrowwood Center, which is a non-profit educational organization that provides information about psychoactive plants and their chemicals, added their two cents,

claiming that the Jencom stories that have been circulating in the U.S. media are almost certainly the strange result of a hoax. And like most good shit talk, the story had spread all over the country. at this point. WSBT TV out of South Bend, Indiana, advised their parents to wait up for their children at night and not let their kids go to bed until they have seen them and smelled their breath. They also advised parents to look for any bottles with dark contents in their rooms and to check their toilets. I'm not kidding. According to KXAN TV out of Austin, Texas, once it becomes

okay with a certain group of adolescents, it becomes okay with a lot more. We just want to know who this certain group of adolescents is that they're referring to exactly. In 2009, the city of Bededorf, Iowa added organic substances to its city ordinance regarding illegal inhalants out of fear of Jankham use. And finally, in 2009, an apartment building in Fort Pierce, Florida, was condemned out of concern that police had finally busted up a Jankham den. After leaking containers of human waste were found in the unit, police shut the whole place down. I just need to understand this thought process for a moment because by that logic, aren't we all just a bunch of walking, talking, Jencombe trap houses wandering around God's Green Earth?

Now, here in 2025, you would think that with the advent of internet and the fact that we have phones strapped to our bodies 24-7 that people wouldn't be so gullible. But you'd be wrong in thinking that. In fact, Banyan Treatment Center still mentioned Jencom online as an actual drug. They go on to discuss possible side effects such as mood swings, euphoria, lightheadedness, dizziness, confusion, headache, hallucinations, delusions, and pleasure. And I swear to God, this is still up to this day. You can go find it. I'll have it in the show notes. They note that many Jankham addicts have reported intense delusions such as seeing dead relatives as well as feelings of empowerment.

But again, we have to ask who are these Jankham addicts that they're talking to? You would think if this were real, at least one person would have shown up on soft white underbelly by now talking about how butt hash is the new hip thing or I lost everything due to a butt hash addiction. But then again, I shouldn't be surprised by any of this because several months back, a 14-year-old Brazilian boy died after injecting butterfly guts because the internet told him to. I feel like I'm old or something because I can never find these viral challenges online when they're current. This happened to be one of those alleged challenges. According to reports, Davy Nunes-Morea of Bahia mixed a dead butterfly with water and then used a syringe to inject the lethal mixture into his leg.

The boy's father later found the device hidden under his son's pillow. Davy quickly noticed that he wasn't getting high, but rather that he was getting really sick, and then sicker. And soon, he was vomiting and lost the ability to walk. After spending time at a hospital in Planoldo and then being moved to a hospital in Victoria de Conquista, Davy died. Still, doctors don't know what could have caused his death. Although butterflies are harmless to humans, it's said that monarch butterflies can be toxic due to their diet of milkweed. According to Marcelo Duarte, a butterfly specialist and director of Sao Paulo University's zoology museum, Butterflies have a complex biology, and the fluids present in their bodies have not been studied in depth in terms of their toxicity to humans.

But then again, this is all conjecture as up until this unfortunate incident, no one was studying the effects of mainlining the creatures into one's bloodstream. Doctors also tossed around the possibility of an allergic reaction, septic shock, and also an embolism. We mentioned the Tidepod challenge at the beginning of the episode. I'm sure that you probably know what that's about, but In case you manage to forget about it during the pandemic, we'll give you a quick little recap. Back before Tiger King and among us, the kids were entertaining themselves on social media by consuming Tide pods. Yes, this is obviously very stupid, but apparently there was some sort of weird science behind it. Allegedly, Tide's laundry detergent pods follow a trend of food-imitating products in which makers of consumer products design their cleaners and personal hygiene products to exhibit food or drink attributes. I think this might be a fancy way of saying that the product Russell's one's jimmies in such a way that we want to bite it.

This ended up spawning a viral video trend, and yes, for you youngsters out there, those existed before TikTok, and the trend involves people filming themselves eating tidepods. It was certainly a step up from previously lighthearted video trends like Flash Mob challenges or the Harlem Shake. Anyway, according to Indiana University anthropologist John Allen, Tidepods are sort of like a cross between candy and a chicken nugget. This is an anthropologist saying this, not us. He further acknowledged them as bite-sized, processed, colorful, with a non-threatening texture. This is a scientific document. In September of 2012, Senator Chuck Schumer, who is a dinosaur and has been in the Senate for longer than I've probably been alive, commented on the appeal of pods. These pods were supposed to make household chores easier, not tempt our children to swallow harmful chemicals.

I saw one on my staffer's desk and I wanted to eat it. I'm sure you did, Chuck. The thing is, John Allen and Chuck Schumer weren't exactly wrong, however. Between 2012 and 2013, an average of one child was admitted to the hospital every day as a result of eating tide pods. And individuals suffering from dementia were also at risk for accidental concerns. In fact, between 2012 and 2017, eight people died as a result. Two of the eight deaths were children, while the other six were adults with dementia. Now, fast forward to January of 2018 in the era of the Tidepod Challenge,

in addition to teen exposure, the American Association of Poison Control Centers recorded 606 exposures in children less than five years old. In the face of this, YouTube and Facebook understandably banned all Tidepod Challenge videos. In response to their newfound memehood, Proctor and Gamble, the makers of tiepods as well as other household products, released the following statement to BuzzFeed News. Nothing is more important to us than the safety of the people who use our products. Our laundry packs are a highly concentrated detergent

meant to clean clothes and they're used safely in millions of households every day. They should only be used to clean clothes and kept up, closed, and away from children. We have been consistently proactive in providing consumers with the right usage guidance and tools to enable them to use the product safely. They, the Tidepods, should not be played with whatever the circumstances, even if it is meant as a joke. Now, to be clear, most calls to poison control over Tidepot consumption involved toddlers who got into them not knowing what they were. So obviously, the media overhyped this a little bit. But unlike Jankham, the craze was definitely real.

My, how the internet has changed in seven to eight years where you could fire up YouTube and come across someone poisoning themselves for the lulls. Now, just imagine what the internet was like when I was a teenager in the mid-2000s where you could accidentally stumble upon an execution video. Now, per usual, I'm sure I'm showing my age here, but I miss the simplicity of stealing our parents' vodka bottles and refilling them with water or chugging cough syrup in order to go robo-tripping. Oh, looks like somebody else is doing a little partying tonight. Oh, Jesus Christ. No, but seriously, please don't do this either. Or what about the cinnamon challenge from 2010? I think I'd rather gamble with the idea of getting pneumonia or a collapsed lung from holding

cinnamon in my mouth for 60 seconds than any possible outcome involving booting up a butterfly or butt hash. Now speaking of butt hash, Pickwick later came forward and debunk the use of Jencom, later claiming that the substance in the pictures were nothing more than flour, water, beer, and Nutella. He shared that, I never inhaled any poop gas and got high off it. I've deleted the pictures. Hopefully no weirdos save them to his computer. I just don't want people to ever recognize me as the kid who huffed poop.

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