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Episode 430: Gas Guzzler (Patreon)

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2025-01-16 14:38:31
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We’re joined by Ezra Marcus to talk about his new article on the nitrous oxide craze, Galaxy Gas, and why people would rather shit themselves doing Whip-Its than live in the real world.

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Noah

I’m the podcast guzzler. Gulp gulp gulp

Pelican Grief

Truly hate that whip its have broken jam band parking lot containment

seth

i gotta say i do enjoy a whippet from time to time...

Brent

Do we trust guys with two first names?

Shoe

Oh boy. Had an ex get addicted in a bad way after we broke up. And! A friend of my husband’s is REAL bad on it. Lost function in his legs for a while. Friggin crazy shit

Tim O'

That's pretty Good

Rodigan

Lost a good friend to nitrous. Found with the plastic bag he used to huff over his head.

Patrick Niepokoj

I swear if this shit makes it so spunions can’t do whip its on phish lot I will scream

Lewis

If this doesn’t mention William James or the actual benefits of nitrous when used properly I’m going to be pissed. Nitrous oxide when used properly can cure depression. Anyone interested in nitrous history check out the varieties of religious experience by William James

Zachary Poulsen

So much for my ceremonial whip it before every episode.

annie belle albers

my high school sweetheart overdosed on nitrous oxide in september… insane

——

Boo I thought the guest was Ezra miller.. gay

Nolan

Please find employment

Bill Clinton

First introduction to nos was doing balloons on the school field when I was about 13, before I even took my first pill (took teacher's about 2 months to figure out what we were doing lol). Means nos is really kid-coded in my mind, so it's fuckin crazy to me people are managing to get addicted to it like it's a real drug. The other day I was picking up weed and my plug was huffing on a canister as he was pulling up to me, I'm convinced some people have 0 instinct for self preservation

David Browm

We used the small canisters to make whip cream at Starbucks. Also someone maybe took a few home one time to do whip its that night

Mango Bolsonaro

I have gas that I wish was being guzzled rn IYKYK

Lewis

Please stop projecting

kris knudson

I would see Native Americans when I did a triple balloon

Lilian

😭

Lilian

jesus

Mark Owen

I miss insurance covering nitrous at the dentist.

Elliot Smith

Someone I know called coke "nooch". As in "neutralizer". I feel you Brace

Dick Waglin

No judgements, its all love, but Brace would be the most annoying person on meth. I imagine It'd be like listening to Boomhauer free associate.

Eric

Nitrous basically keeps the underground rave scene in Stockholm running by its profitability. Its guaranteed to be sold in balloons at any ug party. We threw a rave and sold gas, it paid for itself and everything else. 15L tank btw lol. One man spent like $2000, constantly with multiple balloons in his hands for hours! Very popular here but less common in other euro places afaik.

kris knudson

They would come up and reveal insight. I didn't see them every time but they were my equivalent of machine elves. The reason I like(d) nitrous so much is I would get these seemingly valuable insights into myself or the world around me, and then forget them once the oxygen came back lmao.

Sarah Beukelman

Robbie Williams is/was a superstar and I don't know if your not knowing is an age thing or an American thing. (Said as an American who heard Take That's "Back for Good" hundreds of times on the radio.)

Lilian

Not condoning at all but ck, (coke and ketamine together) was my fav party drug... to brace's point about not getting why ketamine is a party drug

Adam B

At 59:24 you can hear Liz do a big ass whippet in the background

TrueAnonPod

You wouldn’t be listening to a thing. You’d just wake up with all of your possessions rifled through and your lightbulbs gone

Heisenber3D

Absolutely read “ Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story” by Max Marshall. Almost every instance of Xanax could be replaced with ‘nitrous.’ and the stories of Xanax and alcohol parties are unbelievable

LPO Crane Jefferson

weirdest party I went to last year was a freud themed party thrown by a lacan reading group...lot of people doing balloons while watching the jake paul/tyson fight dressed as babies or in nightgowns

Abby

“Monkeybone is a fucking vibe” is one of the realest things Liz has ever said

Dick Waglin

Noooo not my precious incandescents!

Heisenber3D

someone I met on Tinder did this to me (the rifled possessions, lightbulbs) it was actually quite endearing

Matty C

"If they make an argument against my beliefs I'll be mad."

Elliot Smith

Let me get a link to Jasper Borange or Edgar the Gorilla

Cameron

Minneapolis mentioned

Steven Wilsher

10 years or so ago, nitrous always had the reputation for middle-class Home Counties Nappy Valley-type young parents as being ideal for sticking the kids with the babysitter, going round friends and getting wasted, and going back home to the darlings pretty sober. Pretty easy to fit into an evening admiring kitchen islands and complaining there's never enough cupboard space.

Lilian

I think it's an american thing...

Townes

did not expect that galaxy gas would be one of the blowbacks from dengism and the SEZ boom but lets go!! people getting upset about things manufactured in china and shipped here always makes me think of a guy saying “babe i cant believe she made me cheat on you!”

Lewis

What argument?

drewb

Kept holding out for a "Rock DJ" drop but was let down. A truly devastating omission

Elliot Smith

Richyfusions on tiktok. Thumper w the health foods

Heisenber3D

yeah they completely missed out on Robbie Williams I guess. Wētā FX Did the monkey… someone was definitely at the wheel of this thing…

james

I will say ketamine is still huge in queer communities, if you go to any party with a number of gay or trans people, someones got ket on them

ray hafez

It has been so gratifying to hear how much of a non-entity Robbie Williams is in America. I wish the same was true here.

Heisenber3D

I’m in America and I’m starting to feel Mandela effect. Def. Knew Robbie Williams back in the day. Late 90s - Robbie Williams and Moby. Great era

Philippe Duhart

Slop economy is a great term, and parallels nicely with Ed Zitron’s rot economy concept.

Mark Owen

Having the same name as the main guy from Take That! helps hide me in web searches...

Yousif Al-Adwani

Every New Orleans punk show is littered with whippet cartridges like shell casings after a firefight

Richard Cochnar

Perfect time to get into liberalism. It’s doing great globally right now.

snapplepeachtea

Rather than watch slop or do drugs I get my adrenaline rush from leaving insane comments online and never checking the response, the more notifications I get the better I feel

Enkinanna

Them talking about the hypnotic appeal of slop is really getting to me. It’s like a reverse uncanny valley effect, where because so many real humans feel inhuman these days, this creepy robotic nonhuman vibe becomes weirdly palatable by comparison. This episode hit me really hard honestly, so glad I never actually got into nitrous when I was younger and reading erowid to find accessible legal-ish drugs to try. Also the who-gives-a-shit paradigm is way older than the pandemic, but the pandemic really crystallized it and made it mainstream. Airport security theater is actually a great example of where it started imo, because it was such an obvious farce from the moment it started that it warped the entire social contract around it.

Knicks Fan 1000

Throat Frostbite is when you get head at the North Pole

Kate Derringer

I thought the whip it mafia was just a Detroit thing I didn’t realize it was nationwide

A Yee

honeypack hitler killed me

Curtis1

It's kind of crazy to me that someone could have the self control to use air duster to clean their keyboard and not get little high

Degrassi Knoll

MAYBE 10% of my meth dealers were straight. Best one was named John G which is awesome...he would do rails as long as the coffee table

Jack

RIP DAVID LYNCH

Xander

SORKIN IS CLINTON!!! Liz is right

Ellen Grace

And this is how I find out

Max

At 32:30 they say no balloon required and idk if that’s a joke but plz for the love of god use a balloon the gas comes out of the tank super cold which is how people get frostbite/lung damage

Degrassi Knoll

SWIM - peak Bluelight vocab for all the 40+ year olds (Someone Who Isn't Me)

LPO Crane Jefferson

only know about take that because of Derry girls episode

SF

Vocal fry

Brian Ward

Imagine how zooted the parents were

Aurelie

Tulane was absolutely littered with whip its♥️ and u didn’t even need to go to a smoke shop they were at circle k. But also theres a smoke shop basically on campus

james

Every now and then, it's pretty fun. I can't imagine doing enough to get addicted.

Isaac Andersen

It’s weird when my different interests intersect

Eric

Talk about kratom. I’m addicted

Mark Owen

Oh jeeze, now David Lynch died, and this ep is making me think of Blue Velvet.

MCL

Dawg how have I huffed Ether but Brace hasn’t? I’m going to NA

rosinconsumer

Bought a shit ton after I got my wisdom teeth out because I don’t fuck with opiates. Huge mistake. Makes your blood heavier. Brace is so right, truly the only drug that makes you feel so so so fucking dumb and slow once you’ve come out of it. Immediate loss of brain access, insane that you can still buy this anywhere in nyc. Praying for da yute

Blank

Rip david lynch ⛰️⛰️

NovalisGuy

Mix the Xanax with the lean, bitch, I'm the face of zombie land, goddamn

Ant koz

Poor boys oh

Zzz

The GOAT

——

We used to get full sized tanks that fell off the back of trucks in college, and have these wildly degenerate $25 all you can huff parties. Made bank but would also hallucinate the party was still going on hours after everyone left. I’d also get really paranoid after doing a lot and think everyone was making fun of me. Thinking back they prolly were..

Kade

Lynch:(

Degrassi Knoll

I mean, technically Liz is right but goddamn Brace drop a quick lung safety PSA there. Shits bad enough as it is!

Ant koz

Sick quick SOAD drop YC

Heisenber3D

I heard about Ether in a rap

mexicanhalloween .

I don't ever want to meet any machine elves, as far as they're concerned I'm Pelinal Whitestrake

earthlandingfake

I'm a baker and the nicer places I've worked all use the nitrous whipped cream dispensers that are exactly like the ones a dude will hand you at 3am at a rave with the little levers except for all the skate brand stickers. Sometimes my eyes will just suddenly register the box at work like "why are there whippets here?"

Ben

same. better than fentanyl which is what I was using a year ago

kelan

Sippin that sweet sweet swamp juice

Jacobo

Love when I hear the balloon man outside of a venue after a show

earthlandingfake

But nobody I've heard of has ever used the flavored nitrous for making anything culinary in almost a decade of baking and pastry full time. Maybe there's a hyper specific use case but it seems to me that it's literally just for kids. Also yeah use a balloon don't shoot pressurized freezing gas into your lungs.

Intothavortex

Post bored ape fried sneakerhead zeitgeist

Heisenber3D

Came on here to get the links in show notes and found out about Lynch. real sad. had just evacuated due to the fires.

Eric

Are you me, Ben? Been off for 5 years now but same lol

Eric

I call it “soup”

Tristan Abbott

A quick note since you guys keep ragging on large "rig style" vapes. The two big companies that vapes that use cartridges, Juul and Vuse, are owned by legacy tobacco companies and--at least hypothetically--are held to fairly strict standards regarding safety and purity. They are also taxed at astronomical rates. Here in Maryland, it's 60% of the retail price. The cheap, unregulated, single-use Chinese vapes, however, are only subject to regular sales tax. So you can buy a KrazyBar or whatever for 20 bucks whereas a 4 pack of Juul pods will run you more than 40.

PineBat Jo

I’m sticking to weed. I may have a dependency but at least it’s not giving me throat frostbite

Richard Cochnar

I did whippets once in college like 15 years ago. It was fun for like 30 seconds but not something I was interested in experiencing again.

Louise

Executive functioning includes attention, working memory, inhibition--capacities everyone seems to be losing these days. These are located in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which is the last structure to fully develop (when you suddenly stop being attractive to, e.g. Leonardo Dicaprio) and the first structure to get damaged (dementia). We are brain damaged. We have been becoming more and more brain damaged since covid because covid accelerates neurodegeneration.

Brian Ward

Did not think it was banned in the UK, the streets of London are covered in 1.5l tanks of this shit

Smalls

Brace has really ramped up the amount of gay jokes lately. Should we expect a coming out in 2025?

Zzz

Think of the CHILDREN

Gordon Schmidt

Nitrous can be fun like once a year when you're a teen or in your early 20s. Anything beyond that is too much

Kelby

Stake episode incoming?

Alex “WORLDWIDE” Kellar

Listening right now while working in a smoke shop that sells nitrous tanx lol Only a few minutes in but I’ll say that doing a shitload by yourself all the time is kinda sad (and where do you get the fucking money?) but when done with friends? Kind of like a kinder, gentler cocaine (I’ve heard snorts as loud as the nozzle, that’s for sure). Also: USE BALLOONS. DON’T GO STRAIGHT FROM THE TAP AND FREEZE YOUR GODDAMN LUNGS (the balloon warms it a bit) Anywho, back to listening and pausing it whenever a customer walks in lol

MCL

Gravediggaz I hope

ploob

Fuck, Brace is single!?!?

Adub

Yeah in 2020 walking around my city I saw so many whippet canisters.

Braedon

Brace never did ether? Ethers great, super addictive and no side effects I think.

Braedon

Also they called ether parties back in the day ‘frolics’

bugtank

Why is e-smoke mentioned? I didn’t realize it was a known smoke shop in this giant city.

Kevin Price

The bitter shit is called Bitrex, we also use it in respiratory protection fitting

Colin Helpio

I'll stick to a nice dark roast thanks 😅

Christian Bendillo

I used to live in Denver and I legit started to be against having tank parties because it makes even the most reasonable people act like crackheads. Tanks ran out early at this one red rocks after party and bitches were begging on their knees when some dudes walked in with smoke shop tanks, shit was straight humiliating to witness. Also, one of my friends is currently a huge gas addict. She legit has a trust fund and spends so much money on nitrous she be asking people to “borrow” money on Venmo, crackhead ass behavior 🤦‍♂️

Marcus

Realizing I've made myself dumber from drug abuse was a very sad moment. It's like turning on a light, in a pitch black room in your house, and seeing half your furniture is gone.

Isaac

pissing myself in the car mainlining slopcasts

Waleed

It wasn’t Grateful Dead Steve-O followed it was motley clue

Tea for the Tillerman

Pig-faced Atlanta dandies have been huffing ether since before the civil war

G

Whip its are for Asian girls with blonde hair

b2b saas purveyor

when i last saw them he was wearing the same stupid fake crass shirt as me 🥰

Inmybirkin

Lots of asphyxiation x masturbation themes in this one

Charlotte Ring

Even on the most normie level, the asocial withdrawal from society is readily apparent in the move from alcohol to weed, and the obsession with weightlifting even more so

Jared Bauer

Yeah man I live here in Colorado too. I got caught up in the dead scene since 2016 at 18 years old and have done whippets a few times a shows or after parties before moving here but could not believe how prevalent it is here. Never again for me. I almost died doing that shit after a concert. Passed out and broke my nose with a concussion. It’s scary how prevalent it is becoming in non music scenes.

Neil Evans

That’s a fair description of minneapolis from someone who lives there

Christian Bendillo

I know exactly what you mean bro, that and ketamine ripped through my friend group (plus xans in my case) during and after covid, I literally moved in with my dad because 3 of my friends died all in 2024 and I had to leave to get away from it. Thankfully I never got addicted to gas because I was already financially ruining myself with ket lol.

MATT TRIANO

One of the worst vibes yes

MATT TRIANO

No idea who he is at all and it seems for the best

RiotingPacifist

I'd love the extended cut just 3 hours of Brace listing what he thinks women's bodies are full of. I was allegedly the nos guy for festivals (strictly free and only friends/anyone not being annoying) then would finish off whatever was left at home. I do wonder if not having many festivals where you camp (and do excessive amounts of drugs), in your misspent youth is part of why the US is no #1 for drug addiction. Getting majorly fucked up for 3-5 days then going back to work is how I've tried most of the drugs I've tried while not ending up in rehab (pretty much anything but opioids & meth).

MATT TRIANO

Maybe the alcohol connections they were making weren't very real or healthy or both

LPO Crane Jefferson

"freudian slip" dress and whatever he was on about with babies

Mark Murphy

Pig people in a pig country on a slop planet

Robert

We are surrounded

Zak K

Slop ass world

Djake

Listen to this at .5 playback speed to get the full nitrous experience

Tim O'

I was just wondering when I was gonna hear Brace say "RAMASWAMYYYYYYYYY" again

Lara Sea

HIPPIE CRACK 💥 I will never forget the night in 2013 where I watched two wooks fist fight over a tank.

gocka

Dont crack nangs straight into your mouth that shit fuuucks you

Regular guy who loves Starsiege

By 2029 the goatee will have come back in fashion. By 2034 there will be soulful gen alpha white boys with soulpatches

Thomas Silva

I'm not trying to say your theory is flat out wrong, but anecdotally, almost all my weed smoking has been extremely social and led to me making more friends than I would have otherwise.

Marcus

I think the amphetamines did most of the damage.

Shiv

“Chapo owns Sorkin” makes sense to many of us pod-pilled hogs

Horse Badorties

I distrust Hunter S Thompson 's taste in drugs

wailing ken jennings

that was the smoothest slide into a roland joffe movie reference i have ever heard.

Nolanolan

Ezra is a great guest

b2b saas purveyor

some parallels with the Mr. Nice Guy spice brand in west palm beach circa ~2011. dude's warehouse spice lab 'sploded & packets were strewn across the surrounding neighborhood

Pranjal Dwivedi

As someone who liked Bojack Horseman I fully agree with Brace

Pug_luvr

The robbie williams movie has a monkey because robbie didn't wanna be on set all day playing himself, and they didn't wanna pay a known actor to play him.

MirrorOooMirror

RIP Indeed, maybe in this pig world of accelerate(ing) slop we can take solace in David Lynch’s idea of “keeping your eye on the donut and not the hole.”

Pug_luvr

1:18:30 is 🔥. Liz making connections "Galaxy Gas is the narcotic manifestation of the short form video mindset and the crypto coin bonanza. A quick hit; get in, get out." 🔥🔥🔥

Shiv

Brace: Liz—Friendship Quiz: YC: (soft chuckle)

Shiv

penned in

rolfesam

This is some quality podcasting

Shiv

ye olde balloones

Shiv

hard launching w the Gay Guy ✅ shirt

mexicanhalloween .

uncritical support for the Chinese selling the drugs that the imperialists are killing themselves with

Shiv

omg

Shiv

Brace the venue you were trying to remember: Bill MF Graham Auditorium. My first memory of watching balloon use was as a kid at the Free Concert in GGP Bc Bill Graham Died and it scared me straight apparently

Alvaro del Campo

I know it’s far from either of y’all’s favorite subject but considering Liz’s understanding of finance I think an episode on pump.fun and meme coins would be sick 🙌

Alec Gutteridge

In Australia we huff it in balloons, we also call them nangs, three nangs plus like 2 minutes of oxygen deprivation goes off, in a horrible depressing way. Talk about brain damage

old hobgoblin

Not Liz doing poppers. What a queen.

thebestasbestos

why do people hate ezra klein? vampire weekend is kinda nice with it

SH

This is a true all timer. Well done from all on this one. Something for everyone. We even have Better Man content. Please do a movie episode.

Taffy

nangs by moonlight

Taffy

Is it true that people down under say “no wockaz”instead of “no worries” or did someone make that up?

Arid

Counterpoint, my weed use was coping with pandemic-era social collapse, and since giving it up I'm drinking and doing karaoke in my town making friends

Malcolm

I have never heard you guys talk about a movie you like. Is there a movie you actually have enjoyed?

Taffy

Richard Jewell

ploob

Liz is Richard Jewell pilled

Richard Jonestown

Shout out to George Crampton BKF. From a BKF guy. I wish you guys would do more SF lore stuff, but I get it.

Tranche Devereaux

Omg I’m on K right now and this ep is blowing my mind. Is everyone on drugs all the time? Gonna delete this in the morning

Degrassi Knoll

NO, Thats just subconscious stuff coming from 1/2 brain shutoff and activation of deeper levels. had dsame, kicked my friend in tge ribs once while he was still laying out and i was in twilight mode

Brian Ward

I really felt the point about the cops and anti social behaviour I think the lockdowns really enforced this because everyone saw how there just wasn't enough police to even give the impression of control through presence

Natalie

Water misty colored memories....of the way we were

boss

monkeys are so in

Nathan Wijnja

Never thought i'd hear the phrase 'the taint of the lion'

David Smith

What is a wonk, but a knowledge snob?

Reece Coren

The Seinfeld Seven clip was so good. Thank you Yung Chomsky

Corndog

I really appreciate hearing a serious discussion about nitrous and its long-term effects from other former nitrous enjoyers. I can’t express how frustrating it is hearing this type of conversation entirely as speculation from some nerd who has never used it before. Also this episode made me feel extremely lucky to be alive, and have missed out on the giant tanks of recreational gas by a few years, because holy shit I’m not sure I’d have made it through my insane nitrous junkie phase.

Quinten Monson

A dude I went to high school with just recently shot up a smoke shop and killed two people in South Carolina after having bought some psychedelic from the smoke shop earlier that day. Something needs to be done about smoke shop drugs

Malcolm

hell yeah

Cwandy

Great Ep

Gus

Brace Belden cowardice/antisemitism on full display with the mere mention of the machine elves

CJ

The kitchen bullshit is exactly like Brace said - I've worked in kitchens for decades now and we just use a countertop standing mixer, I've ever seen or heard of anyone using gas to whip cream...

w

I used to work in a psych unit and had a patient who did nitrous chronically, had colitis, couldn’t control his bowels. On top of developing schizoaffective disorder and basically going on disability after repeated long hospitalizations. Working with that family was heart breaking

J

Such a masterful play on China’s part, creating it, not getting addicted to it, then pushing it on the western world to ruin them. It’s a truly excellent strategy.

Tom

Now I wanna sniff some glue Now I wanna have something to do All the kids wanna sniff some glue All the kids want something to do

Ian H

I mean I've done it in an iSi machine before but they use tiny canisters, I've never even seen something set to tap into a tank

Tim Lunning

I accept your criticism of the Minneapolis airport. This is the future our boy Mayor wants for us.

CJ

Oh yeah, that's fair!

Natalie

I've used nitrous to make whipped cream at my kitchen job and it honestly sucks. You put the little bullet in the top of a canister with some heavy whipping cream inside, and it's supposed to come out whipped when you push down the lil lever. Always got clogged & funny and then exploded. I prefer just using the canned whipped cream which also uses pressurized air but idk what's goin on there

Tranche Devereaux

11 likes? Guess I’ll leave the comment up. K Hole slay

Snake pliskin

LA has had the big boy industrial size tanks forever. Fill up my balloon again fool stop playing

eduard karpoev

I'm from Atlanta and use to see C9 all the time, but I sobered up around when this stuff took off. Also was a DXM (OTCA cough suppressiont) addict, another dissociative/psychedelic for a while and it ended up fucking me up bad have had angina and shit for the past 2 years since last time I used it had it set in.

A. Karl

Liz loves Bad Lieutenant, and that is the only movie u need

tay schneid

not rly related, but you guys should collab w/ jack from otherworld again 👀

Callum

Your [sic] faded, who’s cooking mentioned!

SHANOV23

Robbie Williams was massive everywhere except the US. America is not the world guys!

Sacklunch420

Love that young Chomsky has been on the mic more. He has a voice for radio and some great jokes

Reece Coren

Adam Friedland bumped his head huffing galaxy gas?

Torque LaSoftball

There was a massive vape shop warehouse explosion in Michigan last year partially involving improperly stored canisters of nitrous oxide. I think the primary cause was butane canisters but I believe those set off the nitrous containers to exploding, as well. Also, explosions (plural) is probably more accurate. They went off for hours. There were residual explosions from canisters going off the next morning (the explosions began at probably 8pm the night prior). Even from about six miles away, I could see the night sky lighting up and hear what sounded like a distant, unceasing thunderstorm. Someone a decent distance away was even killed by shrapnel flying away from the warehouse. If I remember correctly, people living a mile or so from the site were finding bits of exploded butane and nitrous canisters in their yards. Driving through the area afterward felt like driving through the remains of an exploded ammo depot or something. If you google “15 & Groesbeck explosion” you can find more. It’s been a wild story. The vape shop owner recently tried to flee to Hong Kong via New York - JFK specifically. Without his wife and kid. He got picked up by the cops, though. Anyway, I’m not sure of the timing on the Michigan nitrous crackdown but I do wonder if the explosion instigated it on some level. It was a huge story in Michigan after it happened.

Jolene

Whippets make everything sound and feel like “weeeewoooooweeeeewooooweeeewooo” it’s pulsating

ethan

does everyone in new york have a weird vocal affectation?

Jolene

Oh wait I just got to the part of the ep where they say the exact same thing but better

Lulu

Irish here - Take That was the biggest British Boy band of the 90s. Robbie Williams is extremely famous on the other side of the pond. It's wild to me that Americans don't know him - I guess it predated the interwebs.

Chungo Bungo

Morrowindiswamy is running for governor of Ohio!!

PP Cool P

The pre-made stuff also uses nitrous, but the cream part is made of weird chemicals instead of cream and sugar

PP Cool P

Bring back good drugs!

adam22

You guys should do a whole episode on Adam22. Truly fascinating character. even tho talking about him for more than 2 minutes might be an arduous task

adam22

There is a ton to talk abt w his family, his dad got pardoned by Clinton and his uncle was one of Clinton’s campaign advisors

The Steel Harvest

things became less ipa. fruited slush bullshit in heady goblets was the ultimate snobbery.

Heisenber3D

Can confirm big in late 90s did informal survey at work. Great stuff.

Heisenber3D

Richard jewell is one of my favorites too, good taste

Ligma

We should be manufacturing our OWN gas! #bringbackourjobs

SephIsLeft

Nitrous is fine, i dont appreciate fear mongering a very safe recreational drug. For a ton of us, it's an extremely social drug. Especially in the rave scene.

Trevor Wookfield

The last forty minutes of slop lecturing was cooking, but who's faded?

Shiv

i hate this but i believe it

Lilian

I feel u Marcus, but it can be restored... I like to tell myself LOL

Jes

Fwiw there's no fent left in Philly. They do tranq now. It's sad as fuck in kenzo

CJ

Fellow Irish person! I thought the same but in fairness I also feel like we didn't need a whole film in the pictures about him, at this stage, and with him as a monkey? I still don't get the appeal of it at all...

Lulu

Yew! Lol Oh yeah the movie is absolutely cursed!

Nothingburger Burgerreich

It’s my world and even then, I don’t of anything that goes on outside the rust belt

Nothingburger Burgerreich

Can’t convince me this Robbie Williams guy is real. It’s Robin Williams doing a bit

Mitch

5 mins in and no drop from dusters catalog? What’s up YC?

calvin d

it ain’t that safe buddy

Natalie

Listen to the ep bro

George's wife Martha

Great episode, thank you for acknowledging horrible airport vibes and slop culture. It makes me feel saner to hear other people talk about this stuff.

Leyland

neighbours is big in the uk too and we shouldn’t know anything about that either

Marcus

I tell myself the same thing every day.

Ian H

Yeah iSi machines are a pain in the dick, I've had to hot-hold sabayon and hollandaise in them and it's a nightmare if the emulsion breaks, gotta empty it out, open it up, clean it, remake or fix the sauce and then refill/charge. All on the line with tickets hanging. Sucks.

Lu

As Someone who was doing K at clubs in 2012, little bit at a time like Coke and you j feel loose like ur drunk

K H

The war on air. Stop trying to blame China for people blowing their brains out.

drewby

Can’t believe you guys managed to score an interview with a real life ninja turtle

Seeking Treatment

Great time to have just finished reading the three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Heather Mendick

Has anyone got a link to that Labour party video?

Gator lord

Thank you for taking chefs down a notch lol

K H

Oxygen starvation can cause a delayed reaction. There doesn't need to be anything else in it. If you choke someone they can have a reaction that causes heart problems or loss of consciousness much later. It's kind of annoying to see dipshit druggies dissolving their brains through simple oxygen starvation be entertained in their schizo delusions that some secret bad thing is being added to the thing which is killing them. I draw the line at entertaining the speculation of paranoid schizo drug addicts. The impurities would just be actually breathable air with O2 in it.

Payton M

Jesus Christ this was a tough episode to listen to. Makes me feel gross. We need a Mao type figure to clean this country up

Mar

Brace I need you to talk at a consistent volume 🙏 I can’t hear half of what you are saying when I’m blasting the pod in my 2011 Toyota Prius

D.Jay Oakes-Munro

The restaurant portion of the show gives massive Margaret Atwood Secretburger/Rarity vibes.

Natalie

Bro I can't imagine using it for an actual crucial non replaceable ingredient I would kms...and then if you open the canister all the nitrous comes out at once and huwts

Simon

Good episode. This is a very vague idea for an episode but I would really like to know how opioid safe-supply advocates feel about how galaxy gas is sold and whether a liberalized opioid market can avoid a lot of the problems you go over in this episode. There is a quasi-libertarian viewpoint adopted by people who want to legalize drugs from a harm reduction perspective and I'm curious where that's coming from.

gibbypatrol

You need to watch girls for the Obama era liberalism. Dunham really got it

Tooffixer

In dentistry, the highest you can turn the nitrous up on the machine is 70% nitrous 30% oxygen. For reference the air around you is about 22% oxygen so even when turned all the way up it’s basically impossible for you to become hypoxic. I can imagine how 99% could pose a problem! On another note if anyone wants some professional feedback on if someone has had dental work done and if it looks fucked up or not feel free to reach out

Gulb

Did whipits once while tripping on acid. Pretty crazy.

Gulb

Nat, I think you're not making the whipped cream right. Maybe you're not shaking it enough?

ktcat

i went to tulane over a decade ago and the streets around campus were flooded with canisters i can’t imagine how bad it must be now for the school to actually comment on it

Natalie

Thankfully it was phased out a long time ago and I'm now on mornings anyways but this is a less-than-zero possibility lol. Also I don't think it was the highest quality device necessarily

Sam

Guest intros have been amazing last few episodes. Also brace been listening to a little blowback??? Topical

Jay-Z Pants

Cats the Musical was truly the first slopworld movie, I distinctly remember being stoned out of my mind in the theatre and thinking I was watching an AI film from the future.

Barnabas

On the fried phenomenon: I once met two gentlemen at a wedding who fit this description perfectly. Guy 1 was trying to convince me that Jacksonville Florida was the greatest city in the country. His friend/guy 2 was watching Family Guy on his phone, subway surfers style, in the middle of conversation

BeanCurd

Who's cooking? Liz in this episode.

Rooti Tooti Giuliani

So Liz speaks that way because of galaxy gas? I just thought she was drunk this whole time.

c8ln

we sure do mate

Jennifer Fischler

Liz, your voice is amazing. Fuck Brace for president it should be you!! (I’m actually being serious, she’s way smarter).

Isaac

The amount of people that do it recreationally every once in a while vs the amount of people who become addicted vs the amount of people who sustain damage shows that nitrous has an insanely low abuse potential. Disappointed in the pearl clutching tbh.

greg

I relate strongly to this (2013 Prius)

Jonah Stocks ladd

I got real bummed once doing whippits and thinking about funkadelic and the fact that i didnt get to live in the funkadelic universe. piercingly bummed

Jeremy

Seems like I have to be the bearer of bad news: unfortunately, the Robbie Williams monkey movie is actually really good. And no, I had no idea who he was either. But it’s good. I was devastated to realize this. Highly recommend it.

Alex Jimenez

Restaurants facing off is vaguely close to the plot of the fighting game series Variable Geo. Art is by the same guy who did Code Geass. If you know, you know

Hady Jaber

The one time I went to visit Denver, I stayed one night at a downtown Marriot. My ex and I were on the elevator when these guys got on and asked us if we were there for the cardiologist convention happening in the hall. We said no, and they were like thank God and pulled out a bunch of whippets and asked if we wanted a hit

Jake Torrey

Whippets are so mid. When you're on acid or shrooms tho they become way better. So if you're gonna do whippets take acid first.

Jake Torrey

The pre-made stuff still has nitrous. We couldn't buy whipped cream in my fraternity since whenever there was a can in the fridge people would immediately suck out the nitrous and it was just a can of unwhipped cream left.

Christopher Price

my ex's best friend is a Chinese national named Seven, so my jaw dropped

someguy

I am a state park employee. I will find park trashcans full of 20+ pounds of used whippets from transient addicts living in their RVs. It is absolutely an epidemic (coming from a recreational user).

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Stef

Dudes those AI animal videos are so bizarre

nina

would like an ep about this topic too! but from my perspective as a person living in vancouver where there’s a big conversation abt this (check out DULF if u haven’t heard of them) i think the harm reduction component is super key. coming at legalization from a safer use/harm reduction/education focus is essentially the opposite of smoke shop culture where people are getting addicted to gas/kratom/etc with no sense of how serious they can be??

Simon

I also live in Vancouver and what sparked my interest was the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users use of libertarian/anti-government rhetoric (e.g., drug users know how to protect themselves without state interference). I'm curious where that attitude came from and if it's a current with other harm reduction activists. And to be clear, I'm not against harm reduction.

Carp

It had a weird arc in the UK, going from the drug of choice for 18 year old UniLad freshers to predominantly edgy techno weeb-for-Berlin queers.

Carp

A friend of mine was offered a balloon on the streets of Benidorm, only to huff it and find it was just the hot stinky breath of the disheveled man who gave it to her.

Suntreader

this is a great guest, keep having him on

Anon Ibid

Not one single blue velvet joke 😟

Daniel Chamberlain

Used to be able to do the hold-your-breath-until-passing-out thing as a kid, and I did that shit just for fun. I got that weird wowowowowowow, strange noise when I did that, so that part is probably from the oxygen deprivation. Probably why I'm so retireded today.

Kristin Kirkley

This episode was so sad I couldn’t finish it. Good info but felt darker than usual.

Barnaby

Sorry Brace, Bojack Horseman is king

Occhio

this is the most alarming and insightful eighty mins of dialogue I have heard in quite some time.

Chris Evans

I used to be really good at poker but only when the other players were on whip-its.

Molly McCahan

Not the tongue split surgery! Absolutely taken out by the cosmetic procedure discussion at the end.

Mark Owen

Carbona not glue

syd

I so deeply appreciate kate this show's position on chefs I have always been annoyed by them in a way that no one in my real life understands

Gordon Schmidt

Applied to work at a smoke shop, so I might be slinging this stuff soon. Bleak! On a happier note, I finally bothered to look up Dan Rincon and he's the drummer for the Oh Sees lmao

pd

marnie stronger

pd

so true bestie

Dirt McGurt

I thought it was Xander Crews

GermsEnjoyer

I love blueberry vape and I hate menthol vape