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Back to episode — Episode 2841 CWSA 05/16/25

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ever had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny shiny human brains, all you need for that is a copper mug or a glass or a tankard or a gel or a stainless steel canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. Well, I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the do

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pamine hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Go.

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Well, let's see if there's any science that they could have skipped just by asking me. Oh, here we go. My favorite writer lately, Eric Dolan in the New York Post, is reporting that women with ADHD have less consistent orgasms during partnered sex. I'm glad they said partnered. Now, do you think they needed to do that study? I don't know the answer to this because of my personal exploits. I know the answer to this because I know what ADHD is and I know what an orgasm is. And I'm pretty sure that if you're thinking about something else while you're having sex, your orgasm will not be so powerful or likely to happen. So yeah, next time you need to know if ADHD is going to interfere with anything, including sex or anything else, just ask me. I think their minds would wander a little bit.

Here's another one. Also Eric Dolan in the New York Post. Apparently psychedelic experiences are linked to long-term improvements in psychological flexibility. You know who else they could have asked that question of? One hundred percent of people who have ever had a psychedelic experience. That's the main thing it does. The main thing it does is make you see the world as sort of subjective and then you get flexible because if the world is subjective, you don't have to be locked into any one way of thinking or one way of perceiving. So yes, next time you want to study something about psychedelics, just ask me. I got the answers.

Well, because I have to know this, I'm going to make all of you know it too. If you were trying to avoid the Diddy trial because you'd hear something that would destroy your brain forever, you might not want to listen to this next thing. Okay. It's not funny. It's not funny. Stop it. It's not funny because there was a serious crime alleged here. But now there's a new lawsuit. According to Breitbart News, there's a new lawsuit of a woman who says that Sean "Diddy" Combs tried to rape her but that she was not that afraid once he whipped out his manhood because she described it as Tootsie Roll sized. Now, are you ever going to be able to imagine him in any context again without imagining the Tootsie Roll? No. That's the most devastating thing you could do to him is do the Tootsie Roll thing. Oh my goodness.

But in related news, the New York Post is reporting that Justin Bieber's rep, his rep, not him, his rep said that he was not a victim of Sean Combs. So if you're worried about Bieber being a victim of Sean Combs, his rep says it didn't happen. Now, if you can't trust a celebrity rep, who can you trust? Yeah. So we're not going to believe the rep. I hope it's true that he was not victimized, but you're going to need to do better than the rep.

According to Brendan Carr at the FCC, Verizon has now agreed to end its DEI policies. And that's good news. Now, you might know that I was a victim of DEI back in my phone company working days. I never worked for Verizon or any of the companies they absorbed, but I did experience the DEI effect. So this one makes me a little extra happy because it feels personal. So, Verizon, we'll see if you actually really get rid of your DEI policies or are you just going to change the names? They might just change the names. We'll check in with them later.

All right, here's the big story everybody wants to talk about today. So apparently James Comey, ex-head of the FBI, has arranged some seashells on the beach and then took a picture of them and the shells were arranged in four digits: 8647. Now, 47 we assume refers to Trump. He's the 47th president. 86 is a food services reference to getting rid of something. So Secretary Kristi Noem posted on X: disgraced former FBI director James Comey just called for the assassination of Trump. And she says that the Department of Homeland Security and Secret Service are going to investigate this threat and will respond appropriately. Likewise, FBI Director Kash Patel is all over it. He says, "We are aware of the recent social media post by Comey and directly at Trump." He says, "And we're in communication with the Secret Service and director. Current primary jurisdiction is with the Secret Service, but the FBI will provide necessary support."

Now, if you were not aware that 86 has a meaning beyond being a number, you might not have worked in a food services kind of job as I have. I spent years working in kitchens and I was a dishwasher and I was a line cook and I was a salad cutting guy. And then I owned a couple of restaurants. So 86 was a common phrase. And so if my boss told me to 86 the lettuce, I knew that that meant get rid of the lettuce. We never thought of it as assassinating the food. So I don't think he's in trouble. But of course the news will be all over it today and you're going to hear that story so many times and people will act terribly shocked and offended and it's the worst thing in the world. They use that term 86.

Joe Rogan had a Harvard persuasion mind control expert and I saw a good summary of that on X by the Vigilant Fox, who's a good account to follow. You should follow the Vigilant Fox. And the expert, her name is Lemoine. She talked about how back in 2012 there was an experiment done on Facebook where they achieved mass emotional contagion at scale. So what they did was they gave one group of people, without them knowing it, by the way this experiment was done on users of Facebook without the users knowing they were

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part of an experiment, some of them were given all these negative words and the others were fed a stream of positive words. And then they found out that the group that was exposed to more positive news feed also had a measurably statistically significant effect of more positive emotional response and the control group was unaltered by this. Now did they really need to run that experiment? Was the…

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