Episode 275 – The One Where We’re Just Look’n To Survive!

In This Week’s Show, episode 275, we dwell on all the fun options nature has to deal with its human infestation problem.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Covid-19 (Coronavirus) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying its patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that you can turn your ordinary sofa into a sofa bed by simply forgetting Valentine's day...

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

(cough, cough, cough)

But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!

This Week’s Beer

Red Sunshine by Lucky Bucket Brewing Co. LaVista, NE

Donated By: Brendon

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/19241/350137/

* BA Rating: 3.63

* Style: American India Pale Ale

* ABV: 6%

* Aaron: 6

* Shea: 9

* Steve: 2

This Week’s Show

Round Table

Jenn is still fighting off the wee beasties in her system which are trying to sap her of her precious bodily fluids.

I visited her this week and I have to say, “Girl, you take care of yourself. You ain’t well, Coughy McCougherson.”

Dustin Williams wrote to us this week regarding the Even More Jesus beer which Aaron and Steve had nothing good to say about.

Stories

What was that again?

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Remember the old brain on drugs commercial where the father figure cracks an egg into an overhot skillet which ruined it for eating? He also said some bullshit, but all I really remember is him destroying that perfectly good egg. You’ve got to be careful about the amount of heat you use or you completely scorch the bottom making it rubbery and/or crunchy. Gross… What were we talking about again?

Oh right, I was going to talk about how being high on the devil’s lettuce can make you overly susceptible to “false memories”. According to the study author Johannes Ramaekers, professor of psychopharmacology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, as little as one hit of weed doubled study participants number of false memories from a VR scenario. Defining our terms, a false memory a recollection of something that didn’t occur or different that what did occur.

Study co-author, Elizabeth Loftus, said that it’s actually quite easy to distort memories for the details of an event. In many studies over the decades it’s been shown that when witnesses are given misinformation about something they saw, they will remember things that were only suggested not witnessed. She also studied implanting false memories in the 1990s such as making people believe that they had been lost in a mall when they were young and had to be rescued and reunited with family. She said also, that it takes much more effort to plant this type of memory vs distorting details of an actual event.

The current study also found evidence that smoking the good shit can increase the number of false memories of several different types (recalling false details of a scene, being in a VR scenario where they become a poor student who steals a purse, and being asked to recall words they had never been given). Not sure why this happens, the researchers suspect that cannabis activates receptors in the hippocampus (memory center of brain) which produce “fragmentation of thought, loosening of associations and heightened distractibility. (side note: no shit. It’s like these researchers never actually got high on their own supply to learn the normal effects of consuming the green).

The takeaway for now is that it’s probably a good idea for investigative interviewers (ie the fuzz) to minimize questioning of high witnesses and wait for them to come down.