LSD

don't ask me how, but I was led to believe this episode was about bicycles. like- the title REALLY should have given me a clue, but i kind of thought it was a bait and switch? don't get me wrong, I hung around, had a great time, learned SO much, got some GREAT insight to why my tattoo artist is the way he is. but I was just deeply confused when this was obviously NOT about bicycles.

Forgive me for being ignorant, but what does LSD have to do with Brutalist architecture in WMATA?

Me coming back to this episode after completing my CPHT: Oh yeah that's closer to the strength of things you find in topical ointments like triamcinolone 0.01%

The meaning of life is 42

The whole Doc Ellis thing kinda reminds me of that scene in Flight when they call in John Goodman to give Denzel anything to make him ready to testify

Also the Last Podcast of the Left did a series on MK Ultra which was great

The image at 7:03 is definitely used on the cover of a Tool album

see you wanna be careful cuz at like 2 tabs you go from he -> she but at 10+ tabs you just end of with It/its pronouns and wont be happy unless you look like the protagonist of Ebb Software's Scorn

In Ontario, Canada, we totally use intramuscular injections of artificial ergonovine to stop postpartum bleeding. It has to be refrigerated, so for home births we send it in advance to put in peoples fridges. I have seen it used once, and it is an incredibly potent vasoconstrictor (used as a backup after oxytocin appears ineffective). The lady's entire leg started violently shaking for like 30 seconds but then stopped, and it worked just fine to get the bleeding down. It can't be given through an IV because it will cause the veins of the entire arm to constrict and prevent the medication from getting to the uterus where it is needed. It is useful to have different kinds of medicines available because different people will have different numbers of receptors in their bodies, so if oxytocin isn't doing the job then you try a drug that uses a different pathway. All of them cause calcium release in muscle cells, which causes muscle to contract tightly (which is what the uterus needs to do to stem the bleeding from the dinner-plate sized field of exposed blood vessels that suddenly appears when the placenta is shed). Are there better drugs for stopping postpartum bleeding? Ergonovine is more powerful than most of the others, but it also has strong side effects. The benefits of using the drug must exceed the risks, and most postpartum bleeding can be controlled by weaker drugs with fewer side effects. Still, there is a time and place to bring out the big guns!

My first - and worst - trip was 25i. It was a convluence of suboptimal factors. I was homeless, couchsurfing at the time so the environment was off, I was alone, listening to music, and I took entirely too much. I was young and knew nothing, really. I had school the next day and ended up going to school still tripping and EVERYONE knew, somebody I didn't even know came up to me and told me they were disappointed in me. I had to have an ex girlfriend exfiltrate me from the campus. She brought me back to her place and punished me by making me watch The Aristocats until the come down, which was suitably rough. I was passed out for twelve hours afterwards. The rest of my explorations were gravy, even the time some folks tried to rob me in a Howard Johnsons and after I had to flee from a perceived police dragnet - one of the times I had the pleasure of taking legitimate LSD and I felt like Fry after drinking 100 cups of coffee, I handled that situation gracefully when otherwise sober I'd have probably botched it. Fun times, glad I survived.

there was a lot of 'cid at my high school in the late '90s early '00s. It was so cheap and awesome. especially when we went to the ren. fair and peaked in the hay maze.

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Wook comes from Wookie, the kind of creature that Chewbacca is in Star Wars. It's a play on the fact that wooks usually have white person dreads that remind one of the full-body hair of Wookies.

Refreshing. I hadn't learned a new thing about acid in maybe 10 years. It was really nice to hear something I thought was true, not be. I'd say 3 or 4 of my favorite, on-my-death-bed-memories were times on paper or gelatin.

Thank you so much! I'm pretty much a lifelong teetotaler, as much from lack of opportunity and AHDH new thing hard as anything else, so it was super interesting to get both the history of the drug (what a short history comparatively!) and use notes! I don't think psychedelics are for me, if nothing else for the body horror potential, but if I run across someone in the library high on this stuff now I know for sure they're basically harmless.

RUNESCAPE MENTIONED Are any of you interested in a leftist OSRS clan?

i got hit with the "LSD will make your baby deformed" shit in catholic school in the late 70's :(

So is this one of their poison pill episodes? I seem to remember "Episodes that will get us cancelled or will end the podcast" being a bit a long time ago. LSD seems like something that'd get Youtube to freak out if nothing else. IDK acid was fun, please make sure you do things in the right set and setting (and not the day after cross country travel, like I did in my younger days).

It's wookie you dork lol. Like the spirituality and the hair.

Interesting testimonies about LSD. Never gonna touch that stuff. I think my brain is weird enough on its own.

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i misread the (preview) thumbnail as featuring special guest James Girlboss i do not know how my brain does this.

Aww. Nova’s riffing on MK-ULTRA for this episode would have been hilarious. This is obviously why Milkshake tried to disrupt the recording. (on a non psychedelic note: I gently urge small venues, shops and individuals who are having indoor gatherings to make a Corsi-Rosenthal box: https://encycla.com/@philipn/Corsi-Rosenthal_Cube)

aminita muscara besides helping mario or luigi was what the vikings took before battle they would also drink their pee the day after for the half high

Listen I haven't had the time to listen to this yet but if it ISN'T done "method" like the beer episode then I'm unsubbing

I did 25-i NBOMe one time knowingly. Would not recommend. Just take more acid if you wanna trip that hard.

I’m stone cold sober but James’ comment about being allowed to enjoy being alive did just hit me like a truck

Ok so one time me and 10 people on acid destroyed a home I can't go into detail but it was a mock construction for something and the entire time you would just hear a crash and someone yell "that's not up to code". We smashed the bay window and then destroyed the frame it was hilarious.

this guest has a really amazing narrator voice

No November? *immediately closes tab*

Playing the library while on psychedelics is legitmately the bravest thing I have heard in my entire life

Mikeshake 💪

As a water treatment operator, please don’t dose the reservoir

"I'm sorry your cat died. Anyway, mescaline."

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Hi guys! Tell Millshake I said pspspspspss

‘These substances are illegal because they have no medical use and high abuse potential. No, you can’t do studies to see if these assertions are correct, the substance is illegal.’

Turbo Lesbians On Acid is definitely a ‘60s hippie porno. Also there was a Marine Corps proposal in the last few years to let intelligence people drop acid, which was…interesting.

Nyan Genesis Feline-gelion

I had a good early acid mirror experience seeing the woman I could be. Just to weigh in on Devon's side there.

Is this Operation Bongo IV?

If you do a thalidomide episode, be sure to look into the more recent uses for it. My mother took it in ~2000 as part of a clinical trial for cancer treatment.

"I think I found the meaning of life, which sounds arrogant as fuck, but it's also really underwhelming." Never before have I related so strongly to a statement in my entire life. Succinct and perfect. Thank you. ^____^

LSD + lithium is potentially deadly. LSD + MAOI can be dangerous and should not be combined.

"Conformed Insent"

Doing drugs is bad. But doing a shitton of drugs before going for a bike ride at 3:00 AM in southern france alongside the sea and oil refineries in august is nice.

I will not eat the bugs, I will not lick the toad!

My god I miss this stuff

Is that fly agaric image AI generated? The scales on the cap are perfectly round, and the gills are wide and fantastical. Not like anyone is using this (extremely cool and fun) podcast for identification, but definitely distressing to note that the third result in Google for the poisonous "Amanita muscaria" is not a real image!

This comes full circle for me. I put on old episodes when a trip is winding down to go to sleep.

YAY DRUGS

I will happily use the video version without once looking at it thank you

I lost my headphone case today (thankfully not the headphones so this episode is massively appreciated!!!)

you madlads, you crazy bois, doing drugs? only criminals do drugs, and I'm paying you, now I'm a criminal too, time to do drugs

Chicagan a little disappointed it's not our coastline freeway

more like lsd boaner lmao

One time I made the choice to eat 25 hits rather than goto jail and I rly don't know if I've fully recovered emotionally from that

Whoa, it’s like the slides are like, moving.

Alrighty then... Picture this if you will. *Please get it please get it*

Are we supposed to be on LSD while listening for the authentic podcast experience?

Also, my kids think this podcast is called “Well there’s your Pogrom”. So, there’s that.

Wow... Look at all the pretty colors! Also, wtyp just released an episode.

let's goooooo

I thought that this might be about Lake Shore Drive for a hot second.

"We're not talking about nukes today" . . . and so NCD wept.

We stan Milkshake.