Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Alrighty. Alrighty, everybody. Welcome back to another week of the Human podcast. We are back and I'm your host as always, Alex. A truck. We got my wife, not the truck. And we got a Courtney from hella far away.
My wife would say too far away.
[00:00:18] Speaker B: No, it's hella. Yep.
[00:00:20] Speaker A: I mean, she's in California, so it's hella far.
But this week has been a good week. My mom has gotten married, so now she has, you know, to take, like another dude's last name. Now she can change her, you know, name.
[00:00:43] Speaker C: Like, is she changing it though?
[00:00:45] Speaker A: I have no idea. I, I, you know, honestly don't care. You know, I, I think it'd be even funnier if she didn't change her name.
[00:00:54] Speaker C: Did you really just change it to her maiden name?
[00:00:57] Speaker A: She did.
Oh, okay. But, you know, she, like, hyphenated. I don't know, you know, and hyphens
[00:01:06] Speaker B: are where it's at.
What?
[00:01:10] Speaker A: Oh, making sure that you're getting picked up.
[00:01:14] Speaker B: Am I not close enough to the mic?
[00:01:15] Speaker A: Oh, you're fine. I can just zap it.
[00:01:17] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:01:18] Speaker A: But yeah, I mean, like, Like, I had to, like, look it up. I had to, like, look up. You know, my father in law's like, we're not friends on Facebook at all. Like, it's fine. Like, I don't add nobody on Facebook ever. I did not know his last name.
Like, I had to, like, go to like, my mom. Isn't he your stepdad, father or September? I don't know.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: No, my dad's your father in law, unfortunately. He's your new stepdad.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: Okay, whatever. I don't understand how all of this dumb works. Doesn't matter. It's the dude that makes my mom happy. And I'm happy that she, you know, is happy, you know, and she's been with him for a minute. It's not like, oh, we met three months ago, let's get married.
You know, it's like, let's go get fucking married in, you know, Black history month.
Yeah, she's like, oh, black history month is about to expire. Let's go get married.
[00:02:20] Speaker C: Oh, wow.
[00:02:21] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know her motivations.
You know, the reason I say I got married is for, you know, health insurance and tax purposes.
[00:02:31] Speaker B: And I was owed a marriage.
[00:02:33] Speaker A: No, not really.
[00:02:34] Speaker B: It. Seven years. Yeah, seven years. I earned my marriage.
[00:02:39] Speaker A: I mean, like, at this point, like, we were like common law or something. I don't know.
[00:02:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I wasn't going to be a common law whore. I Deserved a real marriage.
[00:02:46] Speaker A: What do you think common law women are just like, yes, you know, whores. Yes, that's fucked up.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: No,
[00:02:57] Speaker A: But it's. It's fine. You know, my wife, you know, wanted this, and she was like, yeah, let's go to the DMV and. And let's go get married. And I'm like, all right, boom. You know, 35 bucks at the DMV, we were married. I'm like, there. It's, it's done. We're. We're, you know, husband and wife, I guess.
And then she's like, now I want a real ceremony that's going to cost more money. Yep.
Marriage is a trap. Boys stay away from women.
They, you know, they. They'll say that you want something cheap, and they want to do, like, a little shotgun wedding at the courthouse or the dmv. And it's like, oh, yeah, you know, we're. We're done. It's like, no, it's. It's never that simple. They're always going to want an actual ceremony like that. That's how my dad did it, too. Like, I. I'm pretty sure. Like, I don't know the story of how my dad got, you know, married, but we got married, and then, like, afterwards, we did a little ceremony at his house.
You know, I'm like, oh, that's pretty neat.
But, yeah, like, big ups to my mom, you know, she decided to take a chance on another guy. Like, like, if I ever get divorced, I'm never getting married again, ever. I don't care. It's like, oh, I've been with this chick for 20 years. Don't care.
You know, we. We. We'll just date.
Like, like, if I was to die, would you ever get remarried?
[00:04:31] Speaker B: God, no.
[00:04:32] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:04:33] Speaker B: Ah, maintaining a relationship is hard.
And I love you, babe, but I'm not doing this again for some other person.
[00:04:44] Speaker A: Yeah, how is that hard? I, I, I'm pretty chill.
[00:04:52] Speaker C: I would not be able to be married to you, Alex.
[00:04:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. No, Absolutely not. You know, you're a different person.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: We have.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: You know, I like being in a relationship, but I don't want to do this again.
I mean, once is enough.
[00:05:15] Speaker A: Like, I, I would just have, like, cats and, like, dogs. That's it.
I don't know. I might just go back to, like, you know, like, if you, like, die early, I be. I'll be homeless again. It's fine.
Just live in a truck. Just, like, live in a van.
[00:05:35] Speaker C: You're older now. You can't do that anymore.
[00:05:37] Speaker A: Why not?
Yeah, I see homeless old guys all the damn time.
[00:05:45] Speaker C: Yeah, but did they truly choose to be homeless?
[00:05:49] Speaker A: Yeah, of course.
[00:05:50] Speaker C: I really doubt that.
[00:05:52] Speaker A: But, like, you know, not throwing shade, but kind of being homeless is, you know, kind of dope, honestly.
Like, you know, people like, oh, the homeless people. It's like no one expects anything of you.
And, like, if you up someone's car, you know, and you go crazy and, like, throw a brick through their windshield, what are they gonna do, sue you? You don't got no fucking money. They're gonna waste money on a lawyer to fucking sue you, only to find out that you're fucking, you know, severely in debt, and you're like, oh, I don't have anything, and I haven't filed for bankruptcy, and I'm, you know, negative a thousand million dollars, you know, suck my dick.
Get in line.
You're never gonna get your money. Yeah, that little. You know, you're a liability for everything.
It's my favorite thing to be, is a liability.
But, you know, back to my mom, you know, I'm very happy. And, you know, now that she's married, I'm going to, you know, call my.
Was it step. Stepfather?
[00:07:03] Speaker B: Stepdad?
[00:07:04] Speaker A: Stepdad, Stepfather, Stepfather.
[00:07:07] Speaker C: Same.
[00:07:07] Speaker A: Yeah, father. Sounds like way more, like, official. It's like. It's my stepfather.
It's like, British. We're American. Stepdaddy. I'm gonna call him, you know, Papa Joe.
That. That's his new name now. Papa Joe.
Next time I see him, which is probably gonna be in, like, 20 years, you know, because I don't go home very often, I'm gonna make. Hey, Papa Joe. What's up, Papa Joe? And it's like.
Like, I've been your, you know, stepdad for 20 years now.
It's like, you know, th. This dude, you know, came out and he's like. I don't think he understood what he signed up for, honestly.
Like. Like, he. He got my mom. Yeah, sure. But then he also has to deal with me.
[00:07:57] Speaker B: Oh, and how many interactions has he had with you?
[00:07:59] Speaker A: Not very many, because I don't. I don't live in California no more, but if I did. And every time I go down, you know, it's like, I. I might. I might go down and visit more just to be, like, you know, have more interactions with them.
I mean, I'm, like, nice to, like, my dad's wife.
[00:08:22] Speaker B: Oh, I love Heather.
[00:08:23] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, like, I. I'm nice to her, but it's like, I. I don't know, you know, Papa Joe enough And I need to, like, know more. I need to, like, know what's in his head.
Need to, like, hang out, you know, see if he can, you know, drink a shot of tequila without making a face. Like, I, I need to, you know, see who this man is.
Now it hangs out with my mom. So I'm sure, like, you can, like, take a shot of whiskey without making a face, but, you know, gonna get him, like, some Malort and see if he can, you know, take some Malort. Gave my wife Malort, and she just handles it and she's like, yeah, this is fine.
[00:09:09] Speaker B: I told you, I, I like when you started describing it, I was pretty confident, you know what? I'm gonna like it. And then I did.
[00:09:16] Speaker A: Yeah, something disgusting. And she's like, yeah, I love it. Bitter. Yeah.
[00:09:20] Speaker B: And she's like, the best flavor a
[00:09:23] Speaker A: bitter old, you know, the worst thing in the world. You know, just like her husband. She's like, I love it.
[00:09:29] Speaker B: I love bitter. It's the best flavor.
But, like, we have the most, you have the most bitter receptors on your tongue, so you taste way more bitter flavors than you do any other type of flavor.
[00:09:45] Speaker C: Wait, what?
[00:09:45] Speaker B: Yeah, we have more bitter receptors on our tongue than any other flavor receptor because our bodies are designed to program to taste poison. So we don't eat bad out in the woods.
[00:09:55] Speaker C: Oh, wow.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: So you can taste more. You can taste different types of bitter. You can taste more bitter than you can taste sugars.
[00:10:03] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:10:07] Speaker A: I mean, like, I don't, you know, usually eat a whole bunch of bitter bullshit. Now.
[00:10:12] Speaker B: I don't like sour, which is a subset of bitter. I can't stand sour. But I love bitter.
[00:10:18] Speaker A: Like, I don't like lemons, but I like artificial sour.
[00:10:25] Speaker B: You like citric acid?
[00:10:27] Speaker A: I don't know what that is. Sour, I mean, if it comes from a lemon. No, no.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: Citric acid. It's what they put in to make stuff taste bitter.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: Then. No, probably not. I, I, I, I don't know.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: Like, like, actually, I don't know how it works either. I just know what it's called.
[00:10:47] Speaker A: I mean, I, I feel like, you know, it's just like they, they like, squeeze a lemon and then dry it out and then like, put, like, that paste or like that powder in it.
[00:10:57] Speaker B: I like lemon, but I hate limes. Limes always taste dusty to me for some reason. You know how, like, mangoes taste dusty?
[00:11:04] Speaker A: No.
What? Mangoes don't taste dusty.
[00:11:07] Speaker B: They taste dusty.
Courtney, you know what I'm talking about?
Yeah.
[00:11:13] Speaker C: When water gets, stays the same.
Yeah. It Tastes weird and stale.
[00:11:20] Speaker B: Yeah. No, I hate food that tastes dusty.
[00:11:25] Speaker A: You're just making stuff up now.
[00:11:27] Speaker B: No, stuff tastes dusty, but I wish I liked mangoes, but I can't.
[00:11:36] Speaker A: Like. Like one of the weird things is I, I used to love prunes.
Prunes were amazing until I ate too many and then threw up. And now I'm like, I don't like prunes anymore.
[00:11:47] Speaker B: They're disgusting.
[00:11:51] Speaker A: Like I, I remember I was like hanging out with my mom and like, I just like, it's a down in prunes. Like a madman. Like, oh, these are so good. And then I threw up and I'm just like, what the.
My body's like, you don't like these?
I'm like, I'll still eat them.
[00:12:08] Speaker B: Prunes are disgusting.
[00:12:11] Speaker A: I, I think I, I don't like the, you know the, the name of it.
[00:12:15] Speaker B: Prunes hurt my stomach.
[00:12:17] Speaker A: Well, like, I feel like if you gave it like a different name.
[00:12:21] Speaker B: Like what?
[00:12:21] Speaker A: Like, like a, like a Peruvian pear or something like that, I, I would love it again.
Nothing makes any sense. Nothing does. You know, a name is just a sound you make to get someone's attention.
That's it. It's a sound you make, you know, blah, blah, you know. You know, like I look at my cat and say, mochi. It's like that, that's just a sound. And it's like she's like, that's my sound.
And she comes running.
[00:12:53] Speaker B: It is her sound.
And yeah, she agreed to go by it.
[00:12:59] Speaker A: No, we like forced it upon her.
[00:13:02] Speaker B: Cats have three names. They have the names that they are called by their humans. They have names that are called by other cats and they have their own name that they known, they know only to themselves and do not share.
[00:13:15] Speaker A: I don't think cats are that complex.
[00:13:17] Speaker B: I think I misquoted it very badly. But I love that quote.
[00:13:24] Speaker A: Yeah, but so big ups to my mom, you know, Good, good, good job, you know, getting married and all that.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: Cool.
[00:13:36] Speaker A: So we got a bunch of good news, I guess this week. Like I, I had to like look for it and honestly stop putting like, you know, you know, news about the president and how he's awful and how pedophiles are ruining. I don't care.
But Ireland launches its permanent income for the art scheme, becoming the first government committed to paying artists.
[00:14:00] Speaker B: Cuz it worked.
[00:14:03] Speaker A: You know, there are certain things where it's like, yeah, you know, pay for good art if like they know what they're doing, you know. But I would say there's probably like, you know, a Thousand, you know, top artists. And it's like under that, it's like don't pay them, you know, that much, you know. But I do have, you know, one of my favorite artists.
It's like Daniel Ryan, I think.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: Is this the dude with the fact.
[00:14:33] Speaker A: Daniel Ryan.
Daniel Ryan.
God damn it. Now I have to like look it up.
Etsy.
Yeah, he's a, you know, Etsy shop dude.
[00:14:57] Speaker B: I love Etsy.
It is the best place to window shop.
[00:15:16] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. Let me see the art of Daniel Ryan on Etsy.
One of my.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: I've seen that one before.
[00:15:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:26] Speaker B: Is that mozzarella?
[00:15:27] Speaker A: Yeah. He makes new stuff all the time.
[00:15:29] Speaker B: I love that one.
[00:15:31] Speaker A: Yeah, he's. He's consistently making new stuff.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: That one's really cute. I like that one a lot.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: Yeah, he like, you know, paints them and like does it all fucking, you know, and it's like $20 for the fucking print.
And you can see like, it's actually like a fucking pretty decent big ass print.
Yeah. The art of Daniel Ryan, one of my favorite fucking artists.
You know, not realistic, but fucking. Yeah, my, my favorite shit doesn't need to be realistic.
So. Yeah, like it like anytime, like I, I check him out and like, see what he fucking does. He does cats, guns ranch and Taco Bell and hot dogs, you know, and just.
Yeah, he's awesome.
Yeah. So pay this guy. But you know, the people in Ireland, it's like, like the example that they give is amazing. Like it's a wall mural that looks 3D and, and it's like made with like stones and. Hell yeah.
But what's, what's gonna happen when, like everyone wants to become an artist and it's like, I feel like you'd need to like, you know, create something.
[00:16:54] Speaker B: People should be able to make a living doing what they love.
I don't see anything wrong with it.
[00:17:00] Speaker A: What if I, you know, like, do you think everyone should make a living playing video games?
You know, like streaming on Twitch?
[00:17:12] Speaker B: I don't think.
Not everybody's going to do the exact same single thing. But if you're doing what you love, if you're able to do what you want and you're able to sustain yourself on it, that's how society.
[00:17:27] Speaker C: That's the goal.
[00:17:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
Like, I am a soldier so my sons can be merchants, so their sons can be philosophers.
[00:17:36] Speaker A: It's like I, like, I am half decent at comedy.
I do not think that anyone should ever fucking pay me to do comedy ever, for any reason. Like you, you shouldn't pay me to get up on a stage and fucking tell jokes about my dick and how I have a small little dick and, you know, it's the smallest dick, you know, but it tries, you know, it's like, oh, cool. It's another guy fucking telling jokes about his dick.
But, yeah, it's like, yes, fucking, you know, pay to fucking, you know, make stuff nice. Like, if you go over to Europe, like Rome, like, you're gonna see a whole bunch of, like, the street signs, you know, have, you know, art on them.
You know, like, they're like customized.
Like, the no entry signs will have, you know, little pizzazz to it, you know, and it makes it interesting. You know, it's like, oh, I want to go see, you know, what's around.
But if you make everything, it's like, oh, we're, you know, gonna artify everything.
[00:18:44] Speaker B: I was like, what's wrong with that?
[00:18:49] Speaker A: Imagine, like, you know, you pay like, would you give up your entire tax refund to have the street side, like, to have stop every stop sign in America, you know, a little bit different, and have, like, art on it?
[00:19:05] Speaker C: Well, your tax refund isn't really like a refund. It's what, you've overpaid the government at the end.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: You know, like, if they up their budget and they're like, okay, we're gonna pay all these artists, you won't have that tax refund. And actually, you'll have to paying more.
And it's like, would you, you know, give up, you know, your tax refund to, you know, have murals?
[00:19:33] Speaker B: Art is a very important part of culture.
[00:19:35] Speaker A: You know, would you give up your tax refund? You know, put a mural in Denver, you know, it's a big ass.
[00:19:45] Speaker B: Would it?
I can't say I wouldn't.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: Okay, so people like you should, you know, pay artists to go do it.
You know, like, I. I pay the artists that I like, and I'm like, okay, cool. You know, you can make a living off of, you know, me,
[00:20:03] Speaker B: like, cities are so ugly.
[00:20:06] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:20:07] Speaker B: I'm more than happy with them to be more decorative, ideally with more plant life as well. But, like, why should stuff be ugly when it can be pretty?
[00:20:15] Speaker A: Absolutely. Add more flowers. Flowers are free.
[00:20:19] Speaker B: I'm more thinking about trees than flowers.
[00:20:21] Speaker A: But, yeah, add trees, you can plant trees. Trees are free.
[00:20:29] Speaker B: Well, they've already done it as a pilot and it's proven its work, which is why they're making it permanent, so.
[00:20:35] Speaker A: Oh, look. Artists who submitted empty campuses to Danish museum must repay $70,000. Hilarious.
[00:20:42] Speaker B: There you go.
[00:20:42] Speaker A: Immediately Right after.
So, I mean, like, yes, if you do come up with nothing, or what you come up with is awful. Yes, you're probably going to have to, like, repay the money,
[00:20:59] Speaker B: which I feel is fair.
[00:21:09] Speaker A: But yeah, I mean, like, if you're going to, you know, be doing something, like any actor has also, you know, had to wait tables.
You know, any, you know, artist has, you know, had to do something on the side, you know, most parents will have to, you know, parent and then, you know, go to college on the side. It's like that. Yeah. You know, suffer and then, you know, once you made it, then cool, you've made it.
[00:21:34] Speaker B: What do people have to suffer for you to respect them?
[00:21:38] Speaker A: And that's just how it goes. You have to, you know, suffer for with the rest of us.
Like, I don't feel like my tax dollars should just go to fucking, you know, making sure you have a easy road.
You know, I feel like suffering is part of the art and, you know, the best artists suffer.
[00:21:56] Speaker B: That makes no sense.
[00:21:58] Speaker A: Does to me.
[00:21:59] Speaker B: No, if that was true, I'd be a fantastic artist and I cannot make art.
[00:22:04] Speaker A: Yeah, but did you, you know, give up everything to, you know, you know, start drawing?
[00:22:10] Speaker B: I gave up everything to pursue my career, and yet I can't make enough to live by myself.
[00:22:17] Speaker A: But, you know, you don't have to live by yourself. You're married to me.
[00:22:20] Speaker B: I know, but that just literally proves the point.
[00:22:23] Speaker A: And I'm taking care of her.
Yep.
So hopefully it all goes good, you know, hopefully that doesn't, you know, backfire on them, you know, but like, I. I feel like, you know, artists that make millions of dollars that have like a 30 million dollar mansion, they should have to kick down to, you know, other artists.
I feel like they should have to, you know, kick in more on this.
[00:22:58] Speaker B: I just feel like we shouldn't have billionaires.
[00:23:02] Speaker A: What if someone earned it? What if someone cured cancer?
[00:23:04] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
Pick a side, babe.
[00:23:10] Speaker A: I am. I'm on like one side. One solid side. You don't have, like, you know, I cure cancer.
[00:23:16] Speaker B: Shouldn't be designed to make money.
[00:23:19] Speaker A: Well, it's like if, you know, you charge like $1 per treatment and it's like, boom, you cure cancer and you cure a billion people of cancer.
You know, should you not be a billionaire?
[00:23:30] Speaker B: I wish I could treat animals for free. That'd be the best thing ever.
[00:23:34] Speaker A: Wow.
That's like, I feel like, you know, once you, you know, do something like that, you should, you know, make. Yep. Okay, cool. You know, you've Earned your billion.
Yeah.
[00:23:45] Speaker B: My clinic has to make money in order to stay open. It's not fair.
[00:23:49] Speaker A: Now I don't think there's any billionaires that have earned it. I will admit that there's not a single billionaire that has been like, oh yeah, that person earned all their money.
That's a billionaire.
Even Elon Musk, even, you know, the guy on my side, you know, the didn't earn it. His daddy gave him a bunch of money.
You know, Jeff Bezos, you know, like the one guy that's like close to it. It's like, dude, you stepped on a bunch of necks to get that.
So whatever. But onto a really good story that I liked. Abandoned Las Vegas airport dog finds a forever home with the officer who saved him.
[00:24:28] Speaker B: What kind of dog?
[00:24:31] Speaker A: It's a like fluffy.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: Oh my God, it's a doodle. Okay, gross.
[00:24:36] Speaker A: Golden doodle.
[00:24:37] Speaker B: Doodles are just.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: Earlier this month, a two year old mini golden doodle named JetBlue was found tied to a metal to carry on baggage sizer near the JetBlue airline ticket counter just after 11:30 at, you know, February 2nd.
According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, a woman left the dog stranded after she was denied a boarding pass when the documentation to travel with the pup as a service animal was not completed. That's up. You're a bad human being.
[00:25:12] Speaker B: You are.
[00:25:14] Speaker A: Yeah,
[00:25:17] Speaker B: that's deplorable.
[00:25:19] Speaker A: So you're like, I, I don't it.
[00:25:20] Speaker B: Was it a service animal or emotional support animal?
[00:25:23] Speaker A: It was neither.
I'm sure she just like, you know, got a dog, you know, it's like, okay, cool. And it's like, well, I can't go where I need to go. And I guarantee you, like after she gets back from her trip, she's like, can I have my dog back? Give it to me.
According to the. You know that woman identified in court records. Oh good, she's in the court.
German Bryson allegedly walked away from the dog after the airline would not allow them to board, authorities reported. Bryson, 26. Jesus Christ. 26 year old, was later seen in body cam footage telling officers she went to the gate to rebook my flight.
Police said she told him that the dog had a tracking device, implying it was acceptable to leave the animal behind and would return to her.
Jesus.
[00:26:21] Speaker B: There's no such thing as tracking devices for animals.
[00:26:23] Speaker A: There is no.
[00:26:25] Speaker B: You have to pay a service for it.
[00:26:26] Speaker A: Oh yeah, no, uh huh.
You can also put like a fucking apple airtag on a cat. But yeah, we have inside cats purposely. Court records now show she faces misdemeanor counts of animal abandonment, resisting a public officer, providing false statements to obstruct a public officer, and animal abuse. Good. Her.
[00:26:49] Speaker B: Excellent.
[00:26:50] Speaker A: Good.
You know, and the officer that helped the dog, JetBlue, got to keep the dog.
You know. Hell yeah. I like that.
You know, Doodles are great dogs.
[00:27:04] Speaker B: No, they're not.
[00:27:05] Speaker A: What are you talking.
[00:27:06] Speaker B: They're cancer machines.
[00:27:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:08] Speaker B: No one ever takes them to puppy school.
They're so misbehaved.
[00:27:13] Speaker A: I. I like every dog. No, there's. There's no such thing as bad dogs.
[00:27:19] Speaker B: I don't. Okay, you know what? I don't even like dogs, so I probably have no legs to stand on.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: I mean, like, I. I liked my
[00:27:26] Speaker B: dog, but I don't like other people's dogs. And I'm never gonna have a dog again, so what? If I wanted a dog, it would be your responsibility, and I would not walk the fucker.
[00:27:37] Speaker A: Yeah, we have a backyard.
[00:27:38] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh, Alex, you're so sad.
[00:27:43] Speaker B: I am honest.
[00:27:46] Speaker A: We had Marshall here for a minute.
[00:27:47] Speaker B: Yeah. Marshall wasn't my dog, and I didn't have to walk him.
And Tron let him shit all over the backyard and never picked it up.
[00:27:54] Speaker A: Yep. And now it's all gone.
It's fine.
But. Yep. You know, that. That's a good ending to that story. Woman goes to jail. Probably.
But up to the next story from the Guardian. Ayahuasca psychedelic DMT shows promise as depression therapy.
Study finds participants saw a reduction in depressive symptoms. As researchers welcome promising results.
A phase 2 clinical trial has found that DMT, which is a crazy goddamn name like Di Triple Mind, one of the psychoactive compounds traditionally used in the Amazonian psychedelic ritual. Ritual ayahuasca might be a promising therapy for depression.
The psychedelic pharmaceutical company for small Pharma Now, Cybin UK, sponsored and designed the trial, which was led by Dr.
David Israel, so, a psychologist and neuroscientist at the Imperial College London. The results were published in Nature this month. Seventeen participants rejected and received an injection. Oh, that. Never mind. I'll be depressed. That's fine.
[00:29:21] Speaker B: Medications always start off as injectable. Eventually they're turned into orals.
[00:29:25] Speaker A: Yeah, that's how you're supposed to do an ayahuasca. You know, ritual is you drink it and then you're probably gonna yourself. So you wear a diaper.
I. I would. You want to go to an ayahuasca, like, retreat with me?
[00:29:39] Speaker B: Not if I'm going to shit myself.
[00:29:41] Speaker A: You might shit yourself then.
[00:29:42] Speaker B: No, I already have another Problem with my bowels. I don't need that aggravated.
[00:29:51] Speaker C: A trip to Alaska would aggravate your mouth, Courtney.
[00:29:56] Speaker B: What?
[00:29:57] Speaker C: I don't get it.
[00:29:58] Speaker A: Amazon, Alaska. It's not the Amazon.
South America. Well, let's just say that South America.
[00:30:08] Speaker C: So you wouldn't want to go to South America because of the water quality and stuff.
[00:30:12] Speaker B: Okay, I'm not going to go on a fucking acid trip if I'm going to shit myself, I'm sorry.
[00:30:19] Speaker A: Oh, it's not an acid trip. It's much more intense.
[00:30:22] Speaker B: Okay? I don't want to shit myself.
I just don't. It's already happened enough. I don't need it to be triggered.
[00:30:30] Speaker A: It's not triggered. It's just that you kind of, you know, from what I hear, lose all control and.
[00:30:38] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I'm not about that. Life
[00:30:42] Speaker A: in traditional Iowa.
[00:30:43] Speaker B: I will support you through it, but I'm not going to do it with you.
[00:30:46] Speaker A: Participants will drink. I mean, like, it's a whole thing. Like it's, you know, you go there, you pay a bunch of money and then you met it. So you meditate and, you know, you do like, you know, sauna treatments and, you know, stuff like that. And you like, you know, eat well, you know, and healthy and clean, you know, and pretty much, you know, do all the, like, I've, I've actually looked into it, but I'm like, I got like the payment and it's like, oh, never mind, that's fine.
But in traditional ayahuasca, participants will drink tea made of plants with psychedelic components as well as enzymes that slow down the body's processing of the psychedelic components and often induce nausea and vomiting. The synthetic DMT formulation used in trials rather produces a short but intense 30 minute psychedelic experience that does not induce vomiting.
[00:31:44] Speaker B: That part's key.
Hate being sick to my stomach.
[00:31:48] Speaker A: Yeah, like you, you like, expel all like the bad things.
Dr. Daniel Perkins, a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne's Psychedelics Research and Therapeutics Unit, said that the vomiting element of ayahuasca can have value on its own.
Although not everyone vomits when they have traditional ayahuasca compounds.
In our research, people do report that vomiting can have quite a psychologically emotional cathartic effects, Perkins explained, noting that some patients vomit at the peak moment, however, when they are processing and releasing trauma.
However, in terms of overall benefit, we couldn't really see and it didn't really make that much difference of people that reported vomiting versus people that hadn't.
The U.S. you know, FDA approved.
Soprava dough. A ketamine based nasal trait nasal spray for treatment resistant depression in 2019.
[00:32:59] Speaker B: Ketamine's good shit.
[00:33:01] Speaker A: Yeah, Falling into a K hole is
[00:33:03] Speaker B: not now we use it all the time in cats. Ketamine's the best in cats. Nothing beats ketamine.
[00:33:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, now they're looking into magic mushrooms and mdma.
[00:33:14] Speaker B: We literally call it kitty magic.
[00:33:18] Speaker C: Oh, my God.
[00:33:22] Speaker A: So, yeah, I mean, like, maybe there might be, you know, some help for the future here, you know, in the United States.
[00:33:30] Speaker B: And, you know, I have more options besides SSRIs.
[00:33:34] Speaker A: Yeah. How cool would it be? It's like, you know, boom.
You know, magic mushrooms, you know, now can, you know, heal your depression, you know, go microdose that, you know, don't do it in, you know, crazy amounts, but do it in, like, small amounts. And boom, you're. You're great.
So, I mean, that. Yeah, that's like. Like, DMT is like, one of the things I want to try, but I'm like, I have to, like, be, like, ready for it, you know? And like, like, I.
It's like one of those things where people are like, I'm afraid of acid. I'm like, yeah, you know, DMT from, like, what I hear from trip reports.
I'm like, oh, okay. Like, it takes you to a different world and you communicate with beings from that other world, you know? And I go hard. When I do drugs,
[00:34:40] Speaker C: I just get high.
Like, weed high.
The time, I think the time I tried acid, it didn't go very well.
[00:34:49] Speaker A: I hated it. You have to do, like, more of it.
[00:34:53] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I was like. I was like, I should have done the whole.
[00:34:56] Speaker A: But like, yeah, like, you know, if you only do like a little bit, you only get, like, the body high and you don't get, like, the rest of it. It's like, that sucks. But if you do, like, more, it's like, then you're like, oh, wow. And, like, everything, you know, makes sense. Like, like, probably, like when, you know, my wife goes to see you for a couple weeks, I might, like, you know, just do, like, a bunch of mushrooms because, like, I'll have a couple weeks off. And I'm like, okay, cool. I can just, you know, do like, a load of mushrooms.
Well, you know, I don't have work.
I don't know, figure it out.
[00:35:40] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:35:42] Speaker A: But we're gonna do a quick Am I the. And a quick relationship advice and go ahead and end this episode.
Am I the. From existing court 6526Am I the for sending my mom fake pictures of my son to because she refused to stop sharing them on social media.
[00:36:01] Speaker B: Nope.
[00:36:02] Speaker A: I have a six year old son. When he was born, I shared his pictures with a group of people I trusted. This included my mother. The entire group knew that my husband and I did not want these shared publicly. Publicly, my mom shared them on her Facebook to everyone.
I stopped sharing with her at all.
We live on different continents so that's the only way she would have gotten to see him. Except when we visited back and forth.
We recently had our second child. My mom begged for pictures. I made her promise not to share them and that I was only sending them to her and I would know if she shared them. Then I generated a bunch of pictures and I sent them to her. Within a a week I found them on my aunt's Facebook.
I called my mom and asked what the she said it wasn't her fault because she didn't post them. I asked my aunt how.
I asked her how my aunt got them and she shut up.
Problem came up though. One of my cousins pointed out that all the pictures were generated like AI generated. My mom got mad and said that I sent her fake pictures and demanded real ones.
I declined since obviously she can't be trusted. This is causing stress in my family and my friends back home. I Some think I'm wrong for being so anal about my children's images online.
Some think I was being a jerk for sending fake pics.
Most understand why I did what I did. But some of them think I am being cruel to my mom.
Am I the asshole?
[00:37:46] Speaker B: There is no such thing as privacy on the Internet anymore. And trying to keep your privacy is super important to some people. And if this is a land, if this is a line where OP needs to draw on the sand, then she's more than within her right to want that line.
I don't think he's done anything wrong.
Yep, I understand why OP's mom is upset and why people are saying OP's being mean to their mom.
But this is OP's decision as a parent trying to protect their child's privacy.
[00:38:21] Speaker A: I mean, all babies look the same, so it's like you could have just sent a picture of a different baby that kind of looks similar.
[00:38:26] Speaker B: She did.
[00:38:27] Speaker A: Well, no, she AI generated them, which
[00:38:31] Speaker B: is much better than sharing some other person's baby's picture like this was the right way to go about it.
And if OP's mom could have been trusted, she wouldn't be in this situation.
But she proved herself untrustworthy what you
[00:38:49] Speaker A: do is you just like, you know, FaceTime your mom and like, this is my baby and like, that's it, you know, and like, there you go. You get a FaceTime with the child.
Like, it can talk.
Let's see what the comments say. Absolute power move, not the. That's hilarious. She needs to respect your boundaries regarding your children's privacy.
Too bad your cousin spoiled the fun. Yeah, yeah, it would have been fun.
[00:39:20] Speaker B: Yeah, the cousin's a real.
[00:39:25] Speaker A: Yeah, whatever.
I mean, you. You can like take a bunch of pictures of your children and then like keep them privately, you know, so that way you're not like losing, you know, memories of your children. You can still take those pictures and just, you know, not share them online.
You don't need to.
But yeah, no, you know, op. You're not. You're not.
Yeah, I mean, don't. Don't share, you know, pictures of, you know, children with everybody. Share them with like a select few.
I get that.
But you know, on Facebook, that that's not the greatest place to be. Like.
[00:40:12] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah.
[00:40:15] Speaker A: I mean, nowadays too. But yeah, whatever.
Now for relationship advice by throwaway girlfriend. Female, 29, brought home a puppy after male, 32, said no.
Last month my girlfriend and I moved into a one bedroom apartment together. We have been together for about a year. For context, I pay a majority of the rent expenses. Since moving in together, she has mentioned her desire for a puppy. I like dogs. However, I am not ready for a puppy right now as I am well aware the workload required to raise one properly.
I told her that I'm open to the idea of an older dog in the future, but definitely not right now. Part of the reason is I work from home and I do not have the time to let the dog outside every 45 minutes.
I could not have made it clearer how I felt on this issue.
When I came home a week ago, there was an eight week old yellow lab in my apartment. She works from an office so I had to spend the entire week to taking care of the dog. It's a great puppy and I take amazing care of it. However, it is starting to kill me. My partner is taking accountability for messing up. I promise to, you know, promise to take care of all puppy responsibilities and promise never to do anything like this again.
She said she will not re home the dog.
A few weeks ago, I thought this was the woman I was going to marry. She had so many great qualities and is a wonderful person. Now I can't even stand being in my own home. I found Any excuse to leave. I'm afraid that I'm going to. I'm starting to resent her.
Is it crazy to throw away an otherwise great relationship because of this? To be honest, I'm shocked. I feel this. This disrespected and hurt. I don't know if I'm being unreasonable or not.
[00:42:20] Speaker B: Whoopi's feelings. Feelings are perfectly valid, especially considering he's the one working from home and the girlfriend is not, which means he's the primary caretaker, which is not fair.
[00:42:32] Speaker A: Now I'm calling it right now.
You're gonna fall in love with this dog. And, you know, here in like a month, you're like, I can never get rid of this dog. I love this.
You know, it's been like a week.
[00:42:46] Speaker B: Yeah. It's too soon to bond, you know.
[00:42:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:42:50] Speaker C: And to really even get into, like, a routine of something.
[00:42:55] Speaker A: Well, I mean, if you. If you're home all day with a dog, you're like, I love this dog. God.
[00:43:00] Speaker B: Yeah. But if you work from home, you don't want, like. You don't want, like, the dog, like, barking in the background all the kind. All the time and that kind of stuff.
[00:43:06] Speaker A: I mean, what if he just, like, works on, like, worksheets and it's not on the phone all the time?
[00:43:10] Speaker B: But if he doesn't want a dog in his.
If he doesn't want a dog around 24 7, he shouldn't have to have a dog around him.
Like, Opie's girlfriend went behind his back. And I also find that incredibly disrespectful, especially considering they moved in together. Like, joint decisions like this need to be agreed on both ends.
[00:43:27] Speaker A: Yep. I mean, like, that's like, the first, you know, comment here. Not unreasonable at all. Animals need to be agreed upon, especially when they, you know, live for eight plus years.
Unfortunately, your relationship may be over anyway.
You know, either keep the dog and resent her or make her give away the dog and she resents you.
[00:43:44] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:43:45] Speaker A: However, this may be a good thing since she showed you that she has zero respect for your feelings and is financially irresponsible.
[00:43:51] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:43:54] Speaker A: I'm reading this as I take the puppy for a long walk. Lol.
This is pretty much how exactly how I feel about the situation. There will be resentment either way, and we all know where this will lead.
I feel very reassured reading everyone's comments here. This is a completely 180 from what our mutual friends have said to me.
Yeah, I mean, like, you know, yeah, you're gonna fall in love with this Dog, you know that, that, that's, you know, vet tech here. Dogs are not fun toys you cannot just bring home on a whim. They're living beings and 15 year plus commitments. Something you obviously realized but don't didn't care to acknowledge. Puppies are ridiculous amount of work and the majority of the work falls on you since you're home and she's not.
A fact that she was well aware of. This is blatant disrespect to you and a complete disregard of the animal. And she knew you didn't want the dog, yet she leaves it up to you to bear near full responsibility of raising and socializing with him. Slasher.
Not even touching on the fact that a Labrador is a terrible apartment dog.
Not fair to you or the puppy.
[00:45:07] Speaker B: Oh, I forgot what type of dog it was. It's a big dog.
[00:45:10] Speaker A: I've seen way too many poorly socialized dogs coming from similar situations where the family is not on the same page about getting the dog and the dog suffers because of it.
[00:45:20] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:45:21] Speaker A: It is not crazy to consider breaking up over this. She didn't respect your opinions or, or your job, frankly. You're working from home. That doesn't mean you're able to care for a puppy just because you're in the same location. Plus, a puppy is extremely disruptive to the work environment.
She doesn't care that she's bringing a living being somewhere that isn't wanted. Makes me concerned that she'll ignore your opinions on family planning if she decides on a whim she wants to get pregnant. Get out while you still can.
[00:45:53] Speaker B: Oh, that's a good point.
You can keep a plant, you can keep a puppy. You can keep a puppy, you can keep a child.
That's what she's doing.
[00:46:03] Speaker A: I mean, it's like, you know, getting a cat because it's cute and you don't think about like all the other stuff that comes with that cat.
And it's like it's more than just, you know, giving it, you know, pets and treats, you know, you actually have to like, take care of it.
[00:46:24] Speaker C: Yep.
[00:46:26] Speaker A: Speaking. My cat, I don't even know where she's at.
She's somewhere.
[00:46:29] Speaker B: But she hasn't jumped down from her hidey hole.
[00:46:32] Speaker A: She loves a little hidey hole. I made it for her.
Keep. Keeps the other cats away.
But yeah, that, that's going to be it for this week. You know, again, big ups to my mom getting married. That's a big step, you know.
And to Papa Joe, you know, we'll have to like you know, smoke cigars sometime and, you know, hang out. I guess now that you're like, you know, my Papa Joe know, I. I know. Like, my mom was like, we're gonna have a ceremony later. And I'm like, okay, I have to go to that.
[00:47:18] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:47:21] Speaker A: And I'm like, okay, that's gonna.
You know, I mean, flights to California don't cost that much, so I'm not too worried about it, honestly. And I get, you know, corporate, you know, rates on rental cars, so I'm not too worried about that either.
Go stay with my. You know, and I get free hotels. So, yeah, it all works out. Everything works out.
So I'm worried about none of it.
Yeah. As long as it's not on a fucking day that I'm already, like, out of the state.
You know, I have a bunch of fucking shit coming up this year, but, you know, I'll call my mom and talk to her and, you know, see where that's set up or if she's gonna, you know, do it next year.
My mom's a planner. She likes to plan well in advance, so it'll be extravagant.
And I might have to, like, get up and, like, give a speech.
You know, the. You know, when she's like, does anyone want to say anything?
Now? She's not going to allow that. She's like, nope, my son cannot say anything.
You know, you sit down, shut up.
Does anybody else want to say something?
But other than that, we'll see you all next week. Bye.
[00:48:48] Speaker B: Bye. Bye.
