September Bonus: Wellness Tiktok Cooked Mike's Brain
Mike and Aubrey descend into madness while fact-checking wellness TikToks. It's probably because of the Large Hadron Collider.
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I love these kinds of episodes. Please feel free to put in as little effort as you want and don't think we need research-heavy episodes. We think y'all are hilarious no matter what you talk about.
i had a real tiktok addiction from like 22-28 y/o and i’d spend hours on tiktok, just angry and disgusted while whole days passed by. i’d try to find a video i watched through my watch history and id see i watched thousand of videos. it’s scary just how much your brain actually turns off. every time i felt an emotion i’d go on tiktok and turn it off. i got off it earlier this spring and it improved my life so much, but i still get pangs go on it
Felt myself jump to the timeline where I lost most of my braincells. Thank you Mike and Aubrey! 👍
I’d love to hear y’all discuss all of the dialogue around mold sickness👀
Can you guys do Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos?
Can you talk about the daily fiber requirement for post menopausal women? How is this achievable and does it matter?
I also didn’t have a period in July 2026 but I thought it was cause the air was poisonous and the heat was horrible 🤷♀️
I live in Australia and we know that we don’t leave sunscreen in the car because during summer, the car can get close to 100C, and it’ll destroy the sunscreen! It’s just common sense.
Oh my God the fucking Phantom Time theory! It's all because one moron couldn't do math.
Hello friends. The “dark nutrition” trend outlined in this NYT article seems ripe for a Mike/Aubrey take down. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/magazine/dark-nutrition-raw-meat-diet.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
most fucked up thing about this episode is that i totally internalized the “self touch” body language thing and i keep noticing myself doing it and trying not to. i’m a man
Love the shock at pelvis floor disfunction. Have you met people who have given birth? This is not an uncommon diagnosis, y'all 😆
Yeah, I had to have Pelvic Floor Therapy due to pain during sex and then again after giving birth.
This episode could have been 2 hours longer 🤭 so good
I’ve listened to this episode a few times and EVERY time at the part where they are talking about not drinking water too fast and how it relates to urinary urgency and Mike bewilderedly says, “I guess is like a problem when you have to pee?” I SHOUT “YES!! ALL THE DAMN TIME LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!” 🤣 I hate being a woman with a pelvic floor problem lol And, my pelvic floor therapist did tell me to sip rather than gulp, so I can vouch for that
The content in different languages might be from your neighbors or friends. I know I have a lot of Turkish neighbors and I sometimes get Turkish adds. I also sometimes get adds in other languages, just by standing next to people from that country
I deleted the Tiktok app from My phone because I can't trust myself with it (my screen time is scary). I have never seen ANY of these types of videos. I know it's because he came in with a blank slate but damn! Yeah I'd hate TT too if it showed me stuff like this. I get mostly dogs, comedy, and activism content.
as an intentional non tik tok user w a morbid curiosity about what’s going on there this really scratched an itch
CERN and the Harp thing for studying Northern lights etc... People legit believe they are 'creating climate change' intentionally. It's wiiiild. Side story: when I worked in gold exploration, we were drilling in a project near a town. There was a guy who called everyday telling us that our drills were ruining the health of him and his partner and they could feel the vibrations. They couldn't sleep, they were getting headaches every day, etc. The two diamond drills were on the other side of the lake from the town. Drilling little cores of rock just doesn't create that kind of vibration. We were always super nice to him, we're sorry you're not feeling well, thank you for calling, I'll pass on the message, the drills are moving further away. He believed it so fully, there was no point in arguing, so we just heard him out. I think a lot of people are looking for the big external thing to explain whatever they need explained.
Love love love this episode. Pls more like this! ♥️
Also just a reminder about the diet book deep dive on Paul Bragg’s “the miracle of fasting”!
I truely adore Aubrey’s melodic “hello-oo, hello-oo”
I propose that Michael and Aubrey start their own conspiracy theory: your timeline should only have Diet Coke OR Coke Zero. If you have both beverages on your timeline, something has gone horribly wrong
Can we talk about how Pretty Privilege—or simply outright privilege—allows people to get paid for spouting this nonsense? If a rando on public transit said aloud, unsolicited “they turned off the Hadron Collider and my door healed itself—have you had the normal amount of periods and pregnancies since June 29th?” it would spawn insensitive 1000 TikToks with captions like “loud mouth psycho ruins commute”.
YES
I hate the fake claims about real things. Like the magical honey yellow piss colored drink is a nice anti inflammatory when you use good ingredients but you're not going to NEVER BE SICK again lol
God PLEASE make this one free after a bit. I know soooooo many people who need to hear it and y’all are so good at explaining/demonstrating how problematic it is while also being hilarious and without being condescending
I get dog and cat videos and recipes. I never get fun stuff like this
Two things: 1. I saw a girl on tiktok the other day talking about how everyone has worms and needs to be deworming using her herbal cleanse and I thought of yall and the worm wars episode 2. I have found myself in the wonderful position of the algorithm giving me lots of people making beans in various different ways and I just feel like Aubrey might enjoy that part of tiktok
Leaving raw garlic in oil can cause botulism… so that’s fun. 😒
Can the whole show just be Mike cross-referencing tik tok health claims with the FDA while Aubrey cracks wise? MP Perfection 🤌🏼
shouldn’t they like be thinking it’s GOOD that the LHC shut down?? i thought they didnt like it!
OK, I actually love storing my bread in the freezer. Specifically because it becomes a little dehydrated. You can pull out one slice by itself, then you butter that piece of bread easily without it, ripping regardless of how hard your butter is, and then slap it down on a cast-iron and make the PERFECT TOAST
Have never heard of anyone pouncing FAQ as a whole word 😭🤣
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/02/natural-wellness-coach-banned-australia-uk-lectures
when valisure was mentioned i said OOOHHHH HERE WE GOOO!!!! GET INTO IT MIKE!!!
Supps.
Fun side thing: I did some research at the end of my undergrad in 2020 on tiktok and the literal conclusion we came to was “it is new TV,” so that’s cool and coincidental. Research paper if you’re interested: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231194576
(Also noticing for the first time that my name is spelt wrong on the publication so that’s fun for me)
Somehow managed to listen to this on the same day I reviewed BPO testing at work 🤣🎉 High fives to all the other chemists here
I feel like the Takeaway is uncrushables are even cooler than we all thought they were!!!
Mike— looking up clip marketing will explain a lot about how the podcast clip economy on TikTok works
While I can understand and really appreciate the fun being had here by the podcast hosts and by its listeners (including me), I want to point out that it is a tiny bit jarring to hear a journalist dismiss a huge media platform so wholeheartedly. Yes, Tiktok is full of slop and brainrot, but it is also one of the only sources of news and information for many many people. I wouldn't bet on the reading crowd to grow exponentially in the near future, so if your job is to share truth with as many people as possible, it's a bit of a strange attitude to have.
Living in Texas, if I leave ANY skincare product in my car for more than an hour in the summer it becomes unusable. Sunscreen, lip balm, moisturizer all disintegrate before they have a chance to give me cancer
Omg I was not expecting a “Passions” reference! Incredible 👏🏻
Thank you for so many laugh out loud moments in this podcast. Super entertaining.
As a lifelong resident of North Carolina, I can confirm that we don’t leave our belongings in the car in the summer or they will melt, and that has happened to me on multiple occasions 😂
Fun fact, the CERN time traveler plays a major role in the plot of the visual novel/anime Steins;Gate!
Every time Michael says diary of a ceo it sounds like he’s saying diahrea of a CEO and I love it 😂🫶🏼
To-may-to, to-mah-to
33 minutes with the voice tone thing is giving Elizabeth Holmes. I have no idea what the hell these people are talking about
Maligned woman, Cera Ve
were we asked in advance to give them the capability to shift us into another timeline? I certainly wasn’t.
slice, then freeze if I bought it for toast
This ep had be cackling in the car. I love you guys!
My favourite CERN fact is a bird once dropped piece of baguette into the outside part of it so they had to shut it down. Was the bird trying to save us all???
Bit delicate isn’t it?
The AI aside is one of the reasons I'll probably never use it for anything I don't plan to immediately throw away. There's the thing I'm best at, that's my livelihood, that I love doing more than anything else in the world. You want to take that away from me, give it to a plagiarism robot, and expect me to fix its work instead, which I don't understand as well because didn't get to write it. Or worse you don't want me to fix it, and you're ok with just putting shit out into the world.
I can’t wait to ask my OBGYN if CERN could be the reason for my super heavy periods at my next visit!
If you've had Covid recently, that can mess up your periods. I BLED heavily for 10-12 days every month for 7 months straight after my first covid infection, it actually overrode the pill! https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/16/long-covid-linked-heavier-periods-risk-iron-deficiency
Yeah, I'm gonna need an episode like this every week. I'm living for this mood today. I had to listen in little installments throughout the day and it just filled it with joy. Thank you guys for always coming through for me when I need some laughs undercut with anger ❤️❤️❤️
Michael: nobody is eating a slice of white bread on its own Me *gnawing on a piece of plain white bread right out the fridge*: woooooow, rude
Omg. When I was like 10, my soccer coach told us to sip, not gulp, so that our bodies would absorb the water better. I’ve believed it ever since. I guess he fell for this too
fav episode! so fun!
Patreon's algorithm clocked Mike by suggesting that I read "Why Men Love Bike Lanes" because it is popular with members of Maintenance Phase.
I wish I could watch with youuuu
i could easily listen to 4 more hours of this, very funny
HUGE day for MP listeners who work at the large hadron collider 😌🤓
CERN as global birth control is crazyyyy
LHC as global bc?
All this time I thought my lack of periods was due to menopause. Turns out it was CERN!
Give us this day our daily sups 🙏
Making your own garlic oil at home can also be dangerous due to the risk of fucking BOTULISM, so it's both bullshit wellness content and also potentially unsafe.
Mike pees the most
Scrolled so far to see if anyone else thought of this during the hydration discussion 😂
Am I the only person who finds that second good morning hella unfriendly. How dare you be chirpy!!
Didn't think I could love Aubrey more but then she made the comment about really being AG doll Felicity 😂
“Sweet bugs” killed me.
The fact that these two haven't and don't use chat gtp makes me so heartened. The encouragement to use ai in health administration is killing me. Quitting the profession shortly yay!
I would never make an ai slop account but if I did, it would be about how farts smell better since the LHC shut down.
CERN and the LHC are getting so much love in the comments that I simply must share one of the best science-ed/science-communication videos ever created. The Large Hadron Rap: https://youtu.be/j50ZssEojtM?si=_Aj7StwcbSwjTsI7 You're welcome for the song that will be stuck in your head all day. And the real actual knowledge of what the different parts of the LHC are and what they do. :P
"My mother did witchcraft, that's how I know God is real" sent me 😂
I appreciate this episode because it confirms my suspicions that Tik tok is just an avalanche of unending garbage. It was entertaining as hell though!
Whew, that was a WILD ride 😅😅😅 also I live in Tucson and def would not leave my CeraVe in the car for 18 days bc I'd be afraid the bottle would melt
I am also in southern AZ! I left a can of diet coke in the car for like an hour once in June, and both the top and the bottom of the can had bulged outward. I threw it out immediately and would not in *any* CERN-generated multiverse have considered drinking it.
Aubrey's laugh at the end is one of the best sounds 🤣🤣🤣
I am convinced that her laugh cures my depression 🤣
I want so many more episodes of this format. Who knew that listening to Aubrey watch Michael scroll through TikTok is incredibly engaging and hilarious content?
I am a pharmacologist and I know a lot about GMP analytical testing and have experience with Valisure. I have some serious questions about their ethical standards but I'll leave it at that.
validated every reason i stay off that app. dystopian as fuck
Regarding the benzoyl peroxide/valisure story I highly highly recommend taking a look at Michelle Wongs content (labmuffin blog and Instagram). She is a cosmetic chemist and did a deep dive on not only the methodology of that report but valisure's track record.
I always assumed content creators used their car as a quiet place and to change things up. Recently a friend claimed its so they can claim their car as a business expense. Would be interested if anyone can confirm one way or another.
That certainly sounds like the kind of TikTokTax advice that goes around. But I’ll note it’s not *accurate* tax advice - the amount of business use you can claim is determined by mileage, not time spent in the car.
“Performing authenticity” I haven’t heard that 😭
This was so fun! All the masculine motivation slop like the lions is so funny to me. If you like this format benaminute on YouTube does a bunch more of these “I started my algorithm from zero” type videos. He even does different personas for the social media accounts he makes.
Absolutely loved this episode but I would pay way more money to watch a video of Mike and Aubrey live reacting to these tictoks... And as someone who sometimes goes to CERN often and collaborates on research there, I totally enjoy all the conspiracy
I almost wish Mike had used chatgpt to fact check the AI videos.
Thank you for such a fun episode 🤗 I'm a little out of whack not living in the US but got most of the references I think. Plz make a cameo Peter Aubrey Michael episode soon 🙏
Yay! I love the “chill, hang” episodes!
Damn, I gotta start grifting conservatives...
I AM FELICITY FROM THE AMERICAN GIRL DOLLS!!! I am sobbing I’m laughing so hard.
The amount of wheezing in this episode was just 👌🏻
My algorithm interests me. I’ll notice it all drifting to one kind of content and I’ll try to get out of it (the other day it became ONLY tik toks about Buffy and DCC and I love those things but cmon) and sometimes I’m successful but not always. I think it also throws in like…test toks occasionally that are obviously not something I’d like but they are just checking? Like I got one from the white house account the other day. Or teenagers doing or saying…anything. Or Christian stuff. And it tends to get weirder as it gets later. I’m not sure that’s me—I think it may be something the algorithm intentionally does? Like all the ads start being AI slop at 2am. Though I’m not sure why.
This is why I prefer youtube shorts.
Unfortunately I have coworkers who clearly watch similar tiktoks and then try to talk to me about health conspiracies and I have to slowly walk away.
Mike: you don’t eat bread by itself Me, an autist: *sets down the slice of nice, fancy white bread I was about to eat plain*
A well-made loaf of bread, with nice complex flavors, is a *delight* to eat plain! :)
Thoughts: 1. Mike’s likes are very chaotic. 2. If this is really a large portion of the population that is falling for this stuff, we are truly doomed. 3. I should probably delete my tiktok.
Who is the person narrating the tiktok video about CERN? I don't have tiktok and had never heard of this conspiracy theory whatsoever but istg I know that voice. It's driving me nuts that I can't place it. Does that person do some other totally different content? Also, they said the same stuff about the covid vax (changing people's periods)!
Make of it what you will but 20+ years ago in my physiology class we did an experiment with sipping vs gulping water. We had 4 students with same amount of water each but they drank it over differing amounts of time - I can't remember what we actually did but let's say one person drank it over an hour, one 45 mins, 30 mins and then 15 mins. It made an impression on me because it was significant the difference in urine output. I mean, sure, there are probably a lot of variables not being taken into account but I think he did ask only students that have had no caffeine that morning so there's one. Maybe there is some other explanation but that was the physiology lesson he was teaching that your body will absorb more water when sipped rather than gulped. Love your podcast!!
I tried TikTok one time and it made my adhd brain insanely unhappy. It feels like when I have a counter that’s full of crap piled up on it. My brain can’t process the mess. TikTok feels like this endless mess of talking and visuals. Also, the constant asmr makes me want to puke. My kid loves asmr videos and they make me feel so ill. Last night he showed me a YouTube short of someone cutting up endless kinetic sand things while talking about something completely differnt and I wanted to chuck the iPad out the window 😆
My favourite part is about CERN. I learned so much. Including that the Denver airport is Satanic.
I'm fairly sure the tiktok mentioned resistant starch because it's a prebiotic, which means it feeds "good" gut bacteria. However going from 120 to 132 I don't know why you would go to the trouble if you didn't plan to store the bread anyway.
Landed at DIA just as Aubrey mentioned it, I cannot even begin to count the amount of random strangers (usually uber drivers) who want to tell me alllll about it and when I say "yep I've heard" they still just HAVE to tell me.
MIKE you missed the best CERN conspiracy theory! Apparently in 2015 a small animal (think mouse/squirrel) got into the collider and caused a short. The theory is that the short catapulted us into an alternative (much worse) timeline which explains Trump, Covid, and everything else that's gone wrong since 2015. Do I believe it? No! This is my pet conspiracy theory that I keep around like a rock with googly eyes that you painted in kindergarten and look fondly on occasionally? Absolutely yes.
Is it weird that the idea of that is kind of soothing? I'd be relieved if it was true.
There was a comment after the excerpt from Mel Robbins' podcast questioning whether or not it was legal to post something you don't have the rights to, since the clip came from a TikTok account not affiliated with Robbins. Isn't this how Andrew Tate got so popular? He had legions of fans "clipping" his podcast into brief segments and posting them on TikTok. It would be interesting to know if anyone has ever been sued over this.
“Flash your palms” oh, so jazz hands?
God, this was my immediate thought too. I just couldn't picture wtf she meant if it wasn't "waving" because if she meant "wave hello to people" why didn't she just say that?
The Harvard continuing education stuff isn’t true. For guest seminars, yes. But the actual courses are taught by Harvard professors and you get a Harvard degree at the end. They’re two different things. It suck’s that the names are so close because it muddles the whole thing.
As a chemist, I want to add that benzene doesn't absorb particularly well through the skin, so while you certainly don't want any exposure, rubbing some on your skin is very different than hotboxing it in a car. Additionally, some higher ups at Valisure applied for a patent for a stabilizing benzoyl peroxide. They seemingly did this report for the purpose of manufacturing demand for their product.
WHAAAAAAAT??? Good gravy, anything for a buck, I swear.
It made me queasy just listening to this I can’t imagine what it’s like to actually have TikTok
"I am Felicity from the American Girl dolls" 😂
God, that was bleak.
Mike you needed to be on incognito mode on your browser to start at zero
Sooo relieved when mike said that freezing bread/starches actually does alter how your body absorbs it As a type one diabetic this is something that crosses my mind and I was worried for a sec I got tricked 😂 here’s to fact checking! Lol
Also fuck glucose goddess
I was triggered by all the AI content. Also by how I find myself getting sucked into slop even on Facebook
I thought part of the whole point of drinking lots of water was to flush out waste when you pee, shows what I know. And apparently the LHC was keeping me from menopause all this time?
I try to question my patterns and avoid confirmation bias as much as possible, but I'm always happy to be reaffirmed in my decision to never use TikTok.
This was fascinating! I installed TikTok once to see what all the fuss was about and mostly got videos of people's pet parrots, which was fine I guess. The general atmosphere and user experience of TikTok was very unappealing to me though - I do enjoy short form videos sometimes, but TikTok made it all feel so... Ungrounded? Also, I'm offended at that lady's slander of wasps at the end lol
What I heard was “wear bangles all the time and get subtle revenge on men.” Also I have noticed many people on Bravo reality shows will claim to have studied at Harvard by going to these seminars and retreats.
It’s true, we do live differently in very hot places. I live in Palm Springs and often donate canned food to both animals and people. I make sure to never leave any of the canned foods in my car, because of how hot cars get here. In fact, I leave nothing in my car. At the temperatures we see, it’s just easier to avoid the risks of it. Melting, exploding, spoiling, etc. are just too likely of outcomes.
I live in Southern AZ. A friend of mine genuinely baked chocolate chip cookies in his car one day in the summer. (Soft-baked, but it still proved the theory!)
Oh no, I fell for the Cerave one (not that exact video, but same gist) I hate when this happens😭
Ugh, now I'm extra stressed out for my friend who is perpetually on tiktok.
I love how they introduced this as a laid-back easy time episode and yet Michael is still doing research
I KNEW TOAST WAS GOOD FOR ME
Not the We’moon calendar 😆
I bought remaindered We'moon calendars cheap for collage supplies. Great art, good paper. (Do not ask if I made any collages. It was an ADHD craft impulse. Shut up.)
BTW CERN conspiracy theories are addressed in QAA Podcast's premium episodes 158 and 349
Seriously, though, how is it that "everyone is saying" that if you want an audience on political / social matters you HAVE to become a Tiktoker (Ticker? Tocker? Fuck it, anyway) and that all the other platforms are irrelevant now, when it seems implausible that anyone can use Tiktok for anything serious? What do you think of "Dead TikTok theory, which is that at least 90% of the "engagement" on TikTok is generated by a swarm of Tiktok listening bots?
NOTICE: in the future the Tiktok creators shall be known as "Tickers" and the viewers shall be known as "Tockers"
If garlic and olive oil is a super food them im immortal
I'm in the thick of early first trimester nausea right now and keep getting reels and tiktoks for remedies and one was the woody lady who no joke, recommended eating the most disgusting things for morning sickness. Like ox bile, straight vinegar, kefir, various stinky things that are the worst when you're pregnant and can smell everything. I felt sick just watching it, wondered if she was trolling.
"I AM Felicity from American Girl Dolls!!" was hilarious and needs more recognition 🤣
When was this? 😅 I must have missed it
It lifts my spirits when Aubrey references IBCK
when you mentioned valisure my blood ran cold. thank GOODNESS you debunked them! dr. michelle wong aka lab muffin has done some incredible work about valisure’s benzene testing (and beyond): https://labmuffin.com/bad-science-valisure-keeps-finding-cancer-chemicals-in-your-products/ https://labmuffin.com/benzene-in-your-products-part-2-the-story-of-valisure/
Freakanomics! I love it when there is a little Easter egg crossover! Also, I love it that Aubrey and Peter clearly both listen to Michael’s others shows 😍
Coming here as an elder millennial who loves TikTok. It really doesn’t feel like flipping channels-it feels like an algorithm that truly starts to understand my niche interests. Needlepoint, speaking Irish, bravo. Thank you!
My theory is that TikTok works great for SOME kind of neurodivergence—just not my kind 😅 I haaaate the sounds, the speed, the way people are staring into the camera and talking…
Uuuuugh, just listening to all the little clips flying by made me so edgy and cranky. Sometimes my daughter will watch a bunch of promos on PBS Kids - they’re all promos for PBS Kids shows, so the content itself isn’t terrible, but listening to a reel of commercials enrages me in a similar way. (That said, the “my phone is in my hand, I’m an adult and I like you” guy is totally correct)
Mike, I have been a long-time listener of both MP and IBCK. I am genuinely a huge fan. I have never commented on your pronunciations, and I always think it’s silly when people get mad at you. I have hit my limit. Did you just say an FAQ section is “FACK”???
Yeah, Mike, the Q is an Arabic glottal stop
My sisters boyfriend is Chinese and he put me onto freezing starches. Apparently a lot of Asian families know this so they don’t get the rice Sleepies
This is a little thing from the first CERN tik tok, but I can't stand the "have you noticed any symptoms" tactic. Does anyone else remember a few years ago where everyone and their dog suddenly had DID, even though it's an incredibly rare disorder that's largely linked to extreme trauma? That engagement technique is the reason why. It's the same thing as "webmd says I have cancer." Almost anyone can have one symptom of almost anything
Just now learning that i shouldn't self-touch in interviews and that drinking water with my butt is wrong.
I got off TikTok once they said it was shutting down and I think I made a wise choice… though I do still follow some of my favorites from there on Instagram and YouTube
Wellness Weasels Ripped Mike's Flesh
Thanks for the birthday present!
Talk. Like. A. Gay. Woman! LOL Aubrey, I adore you
CeraVae segment: My brain immediately went to the IDLH of benzene and tried to determine how benzoyl peroxide broke down into benzene while sitting in your bathroom. I am a long time listener of this show and really should know better. Just wait for the mic drop! The grift is always around the corner.
And here my first thought was maybe CeraVe will offer some coupons to boost sales. 😆
Me, listening to the CERN/weird period stuff: I bet these are mostly women in their late 30s/early 40s and they're starting to hit perimenopause.
Yup. Just like the ladies who report how messed up their bodies are after going off BC pills. No, girl, that is your body OFF drugs. The drugs are what have being keeping you somewhat sane for 20 years.
I used to know someone who obsessively froze or cooled and reheated all carbohydrates. I thought they were mad and had a very niche eating disorder but now it seems like a mainstream idea!
I mean, porque no los dos?
Amazing way to start my week. ❤️
Would Scammed by Spam be a good band name?
People are finished ruining society believing in X-File style conspiracy theories, we have moved on to Fringe style conspiracy theories.
"Nobody just eats plain bread with nothing on it" Me, hoovering fresh baked sourdough: 👀
I think I'll mix it with the olive oil and garlic tip!
When listening to the tiktoks, I knew that one was set to a picture of a lion without Aubrey saying it. For sure black and white too 😂
oh man I'm gonna blame the hadron collider for anything and everything now
I deleted TikTok last year after shenanigans from this administration. I did love some accounts like Under the Desk News, Chasing Oz, Rosie O’Donnell and North Omaha Cat Lady, but was fortunate my feed never gave me wellness content. Maybe because I was following the accounts I just mentioned.
Wasn't expecting Vanessa catching strays here, lol.
For the love of god I NEED Aubrey and Mike’s take on the lesbian Covid conscious bar drama!!!
October bonus!
It is weird, but freezing bread makes it easier to digest when you're sensitive to gluten! I found that out because I'm broke so I rely on toogoodtogo a lot for food, which means I freeze a ton of bread, pastries and sandwiches. After freezing and 5 min in the oven, they never hurt my stomach. Huge win!
Guys I think that the garlic and olive oil left for a month carries a high risk of giving you botulism.. which can kill you. So if someone doesn't check this and just does it to try it this AI slop could be super dangerous.
It is definitely one of the higher-risk foods for botulism! Which luckily isn’t super common, but still. The bacteria that ultimately causes botulism creates spores, which are ubiquitous in soil and can survive dormant through all kinds of weather extremes. The don’t thrive until they’re in an anaerobic (no oxygen) environment. Hence why certain kinds of preserved foods like garlic in oil or improperly prepared canned goods are high risk.
This is such a treat! I love the hang out episodes so much. More AI lions in future episodes pls
Omg I did not expect the Voynich cameo. Idk if anybody else has been trapped in the same hell, but there's a group of pink-pilled witches claiming they've solved Voynich.
Literally cntrl + F'd to see if anyone else was gonna mention it. I yearn to hear Michael lose his mind going down this rabbit hole.
I don't have TT but I am horrified at how I got sucked into those posts just with the audio. I wanted more! Part of me was like maybe I am gulping water. Is my period cycle different? It was so easy to just follow the suggestion to think about it and want more. Absolutely terrifying.
That’s so fascinating, because it had the opposite effect on me 😂😭 almost turned the episode off. I can’t stand the way they sound, wild to me that it works on so many people. Different strokes!
Over here grinning in public at the intro already. I'm PUMPED.
Diary of a CEO... you really should dig into Steven Bartlett and his propensity for investing in and promoting crank wellness bullshit.
Mel Robbins too for that matter
Release. The. Video!
Eating garlic stored in olive oil or the oil itself - great recipe to maybe get botulism.
However, if you put oil on garlic, cover it in foil and bake it, that’s a recipe for deliciousness 😊
Tell me more about Denver having a Satanic Airport! That one is news to me and I’m here for it.
Former 10 year Denver resident: There is a massive blue bronco statue with giant balls and red glowing eyes out by the airport. When it was being assembled, a piece fell and crushed its creator killing him.
Entertaining episode! Thanks for the new view in Vanessa van Edwards. She really gives the impression that she is something.
I heard "Diarrhea of a CEO" and I can't think about it any other way now
The best part of the CERN conspiracy theory is the following: Even when the LHC is not being upgraded of rebuilt, it regularly shuts down every year because it needs so much electricity that it can only afford to run when the energy prices in France are low (which happens on a regular, seasonal cycle). So all this "CERN shut off" nonsense they claim is happening now should have occurred every single year.
Most terrifying episode ever, I’m not on ticktock so totally unprepared for the horror! So much worse than I imagined.
Just learning that my habit of freezing bread and toasting it to heat it up wasn't because I lived on my own and didn't own a microwave. I was hacking my gut biome or something. Yet I remain fat 🤔
Hm, I blame CERN.
Ok, and sorry, but "If you don't know what a CERN is, it's the world's largest LHC" just gave me near-terminal psychic damage. How can anyone be so clueless about a thing they're talking about to an audience of 1000s. 😭 (I spent two weeks working at CERN during my PhD, but in the theoretical physics section. It's like a very nerdy (complimentary) industrial site with an honestly great cafeteria.)
i freeze my bread but it’s bc it will go bad before i finish the loaf otherwise lol
Same.
Love a podcast on The Glucose Goddess!
Good idea!! I would love this.
The description of tiktok of being just like flipping through channels and never finding anything to watch reads so true to me. (I have never installed TikTok, I just sometimes watch specific clips people send to me. There is fun, good stuff on TikTok, too, but the app itself seems like hell to me.)
Same! (Only have it on my phone to access videos other people send me because my gut just says 'don't go there')
when will the video of Michaels reactions be published
I want that so bad!
I’ve been off social media for coming up on 12 months and I was never on TikTok but even just listening to the audio without the video made me SO ANXIOUS. It’s such a hamster wheel and it’s awful how normalised it is. Urgh 😫
I've never used tiktok and yeah, it sounds so stressful.
I live an hour from the Swiss border. A friend of a friend actually worked at CERN for a bit. I’ll check in with them about weird periods and timeline shifts. I may even be able to fact check the weasel story!
For some reason Aubrey's comment of "Otherwise I wouldn't know what happens when you pour Red Bull onto ice" is absolutely sending me
The pained sound I made as soon as I heard the name Valisure. Love when a familiar villain from cosmetics/skincare misinformation world has a little crossover cameo on MP.
I just commented the same!! I dare to dream of a MP x lab muffin crossover
There *might* be something to not holding your breath before speaking: holding your breath creates pressure on your vocal folds and then when you speak, there's is a high probability that more air than necessary goes through through and this creates a breathy voice which we associate with vulnerable, anxious, low confidence etc. This breathy voice could affect your listeners but it also affects yourself: so hearing yourself you might think that you're anxious because you hear a breathy voice and possibly feel a little breathless.
I've not got to the research section but I'm already suspicious of Mike's claims of "vague research". I don't think he's capable of what most people would define as shallow research.
Ok but speaking of CERN, this is my favourite conspiracy theory: apparently a weasel got stuck in the LHC in 2016 (this part might very well be true, I refuse to Google it), accidentally shifted us to a different timeline, and that's why everything's been extra fucked since. This episode is also a great demonstration of why I will watch tiktoks people send me but never actually scroll on there myself.
The Hadron Collider is my favorite conspiracy theory!!! Probably because no one is out to get you, life just got weird 😂
Yay evil bedtime bonus !
YAYYY NEW EP!!