Ariana Grande & Bowen Yang, Weather Manipulation Conspiracies, and more
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For today's episode on the docket we have:
0:00 Intro and thoughts/musings on overstimulation raising and our social batteries lowering since Covid
11:45 Ariana Grande and Bowen Yang
27:35 Weather and hurricane conspiracy theories
50:41 Salt theories and woo woo beliefs
55:00 BJ Novak, John Mayer and Kiernan Shipka
I feel like I rambled a bit in this one haha so sorry for that, but curious about your thoughts on these topics!
Comments
I'm all for an overstimulation channel so you/anybody else can share their experiences/experiments. I've been wondering to myself if it was an age/pandemic thing or what, but my social capacity is wildly smaller.
Janelle
2024-10-17 19:02:34 +0000 UTCJust to add to the Ethan/ari thought experiment: I’m a las Culturistas listener and when Bowen said the thing about how nobody has got it right about Ethan and Ari I fully assumed that meant that he and his (ex)wife were open or maybe Ari was a hall pass but immediately after he was like, “well it’s not like I’m gonna pull any better than this” so left his wife. 🤣
Tor
2024-10-17 04:23:00 +0000 UTCOmg, hello from Madison, WI!! Haha it’s not really a destination so I’m always shook when I hear someone mention it lol
Jen
2024-10-16 17:45:02 +0000 UTCHere for the overstimulation chat!! (Tho as an autistic floozie, I’m a little nervous about ableism creeping into the convo and don’t want to lose this safe space 😭)
Rebecca
2024-10-15 05:00:11 +0000 UTCyes!!! I used to be such an extrovert and I feel like i’ve just been more and more exhausted… I drink ensure every day and sleep well but still have no clue why
Mia Partridge
2024-10-14 18:54:00 +0000 UTCWhere I live in Canada we can get baseball size hail so the insurance companies will pay and do cloud seeding to try and minimize damage.
Alana Wagar
2024-10-14 07:07:29 +0000 UTCI just had mineral testing- through a hair sample- and I can’t tell you how much better I’m starting to feel (more even and settled) now that they have customized my vitamins and are also helping me flush out what isn’t in balance!
Erin
2024-10-13 16:22:48 +0000 UTCYesss for social over stimulation! I use to (and still do) find the smokers. I was always envious that they could ‘duck out’ for a quick few mins and chill out in smaller groups outside, recharge the social batteries and then re-enter the room and it’s so normal.
TMay
2024-10-13 11:04:57 +0000 UTCMy ex boyfriend’s sister lives in LA and works in marketing for some big brands. She went to a party with her ex husband, who’s also in the industry, and they saw BJ Novak talking to a very young woman, who looked 18-19, and he wouldn’t leave her alone.
Jessie
2024-10-12 18:09:48 +0000 UTCIm so easily overstimulated it makes me super nervous and uncomfortable! Please let us know if you find something 👀
Giuliette
2024-10-12 11:00:50 +0000 UTCCan’t access episodes now
hannah morris
2024-10-12 07:46:32 +0000 UTCInteresting! So the medicine is like our blessing and our curse…? 😆
Kooky Creative
2024-10-12 03:49:37 +0000 UTCThe overstimulation, I didn’t experience until after I got an adderall prescription. The meds bring us so into focus that we’re much more aware of the rest of the neurodivergent experience! I didn’t get diagnosed til around COVID times
Not Your Beane
2024-10-12 03:15:17 +0000 UTCI feel like Bowen is funny but so one-note similar to Kate McKinnon. I haven’t missed an episode of SNL in 20 years and have so many favs, but right now it’s Marcello Hernandez!
Kate Hofschield
2024-10-12 01:29:06 +0000 UTCDude sameee with overstimulation. I also often find myself taking little pieces of adderal just to do like normal social interactions- even just with family! Like wtf is wrong with us hahah
Kooky Creative
2024-10-11 22:06:36 +0000 UTCYou should do a birth rate conspiracy theory ep with Jenny from Red Room!
Meghan O'Sullivan
2024-10-11 21:12:57 +0000 UTCI’ve been diagnosed with agoraphobia post covid. It’s a struggle and a lonely one
Gracee
2024-10-11 18:34:32 +0000 UTCI went to high school with Bowen, and I know firsthand it wasn’t easy for either of us. I can’t say I’m totally objective here, but I’m just chuffed that he’s even in the same conversation as Ariana Grande.
Boldest
2024-10-11 14:35:50 +0000 UTCI had a weird salt experience.. I was diagnosed with POT syndrome and while I was at the cardiologist’s office he told me he avoids salt at all costs because it’s so bad for your heart and later at the same appointment tells me to up my salt intake to alleviate my MILD symptoms 🤔
Ciara
2024-10-11 13:25:09 +0000 UTCCrazy how weather manipulation is more feasible for people to believe than literal Global Warming, which has been known about since the 1800s. They are constantly drilling and looking for oil in the Gulf like savages. Also the war Israel has been waging against the Middle East, dropping bombs mercilessly everyday, is not good for climate change. The facts are basic but the fossil fuel industry has everyone hooked and delusional-like coal, oil and natural gas are not good for human health let alone nature’s health.
Bri
2024-10-11 13:24:54 +0000 UTCI recently got the Loop Engage 2 earplugs and they’re FANTASTIC!! They’ve really helped at work and in crowded restaurants. I feel so much less stressed and overstimulated after!
Victoria MK
2024-10-11 12:53:31 +0000 UTCFeel exactly the same way about overstimulation
Angelyca Violet
2024-10-11 12:31:00 +0000 UTCI think post-Covid, so many cultural norms were challenged and put under such stress that the broken-ness of our society is exposed. We’re so trapped by the inequality, the corporate growth efficiency (LEAN) model etc that we can’t/aren’t having mass strikes, or protest or whatever. In our limited power, from exhaustion and disillusion, we rebel against it. From the apathy from low-paid service workers, to unruly Karen’s, and the newer drinking aged adults were already awkward teens but lockdown kept them from being socialized into proper nightlife etiquette. Little rebellions like theft at the self checkout because we HAVE to use them now. Or saying “fuck it”to running the drink out to DoorDash guy who forgot it because it’s not like anyone who cares will deal with it, and DD will blame the restaurant and the restaurant will blame DD and the customer will get their refund credit and that’s enough for us all I guess. Anyway, my opinion is things are overstimulating because things have gotten harder. Things have gotten harder because we have rampantly deeply stratified society and we’re all tired and we’re all just trying to make it. unless you have made in which case it’s better to tune it out and just pay for as much service and convenience as your money can buy to cope with the exhaustion and victimize yourself when-ope, no matter how much service you buy you cannot make people want to help you when there’s not enough to go around. And then people start lording over their own hordes and act more selfish and individualistic. I miss when it was normal to offer help and interact with one another and I like older people bc they still operate like that- but ppl could watch and old lady fall and leave her there bc there’s no trust anymore- could she be armed? Could she say she didn’t consent? Could she be a maga grandma threatening to film you for a local Facebook Neighborhood watch group? Does she find my sometimes obvious queerness offensive or will she think my trans wife is a creep? People just hesitate with each other so much now, and it’s hard because things that used to just be religion or politics now feel like survival and death for either side.
Caitlyn Gondolf
2024-10-11 12:04:21 +0000 UTCwas anyone else following the caroline calloway saga for the hurricane lol
Alex
2024-10-11 02:04:13 +0000 UTCThe Ethan Slater thought experiment is hysterical 😂 such a fun idea!
Meaghan Sullivan
2024-10-11 01:54:47 +0000 UTCI feel my social battery is SO MUCH smaller lately, idk if it’s from aging, now that I’m 30 haha OR if it’s from the pandemic….? But I related 100% to what you said. 🤷🏻♀️
Taylor
2024-10-11 01:54:39 +0000 UTC!!!!!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
Laura
2024-10-10 22:29:29 +0000 UTC
