Leader, follower, grinder, carnivore, BAURNER,lover of bourbon, ceegars, and JRE. Cheers to all you bad mutha fuckas getting after it. Follow at your own risk.
THEO VON: “Was there anybody who was immune to COVID-19?”
DR. MCCULLOUGH: “There’s one adult group. You’re going to laugh.”
[Theo Von listens closely for the reveal]
DR. MCCULLOUGH: “Smokers… They got very mild cases. And they don’t get long COVID.”
THEO VON: “Why?”
MCCULLOUGH: “Because smokers maintain a level of nicotine in the bloodstream… Smoking blocks the spike protein. It’s amazing. I thought smokers were going to go down.”
THEO VON: “Do you think that’s a good idea [to use nicotine patches] on a regular basis?”
DR. MCCULLOUGH: “I think [it’s a good idea] if they have long COVID... Nicotine, don’t forget, is a nootropic. A nootropic is a drug that makes the brain function more effectively... It’s addictive, but it’s not harmful to the human body... Nicotine patches are perfectly safe.”
Eric Weinstein: "This is why I changed my mind about UFO's" 👽🛸
He told Joe Rogan: "I realized very quickly at a minimum, there is a massive denied program, like usually called a special access program. Mhm. One or more."
"There is something going on. I don't know what that is but it's real"
"The anomalous activity at Skinwalker Ranch is also real"
"There are real injuries at Skinwalker Ranch - Dr Garry Nolan is a respected scientist"
Eric Weinstein is now a believer in the UFO Phenomena.
A lot of people called Eddie Bravo crazy, but his take on alien invasions and WW3 is looking a little too accurate right now:
"I think everything that's going on right now in the world is linked to Jeffrey Epstein."
"The people that are on the list would rather... like if they had a choice, you want to go to jail for this sh*t or would you rather have WW3, would you rather have civil war, a fake alien invasion, where the world changes right away?"
"WW3 would save them, alien invasion would save them, civil war would save them. So they want all that sh*t."
BREAKING: Four-Star OT Layton von Brandt has Committed to Auburn, he tells me for @Rivals
The 6’6 290 OT from Middletown, DE chose the Tigers over Notre Dame, Florida, and Penn State
He’s ranked as a Top 5 OT in the 2027 Rivals Industry Rankings 🦅
https://t.co/nahnWxww3a
Life is amazing:
-coffee exists
-gyms exist
-hot girls outnumber even moderately put-together dudes 2000 to 1
-you and your wife can drink 4 bottles of wine then smash all night without a condom
-you and your friends can hit the gym then smoke a joint at a Coldplay concert
-every food item in the world has been hunted/gathered for you (grocery stores)
-you could be working 16 hour days in a coal mine in a third world country
There are people who live in wheelchairs. There are kids born with disabilities. No 4th of July weekends, no sleepovers with their best friends staying up until 2AM watching Interstellar.
And you’re not SMASHING the gym like a grateful SAVAGE!? Eating healthy 90% of the time, calling your friends for no reason, CRUSHING it in your career, asking for the promotion, asking out your crush making her your girlfriend then your wife!?
You are spinning on a sphere in an infinite universe and the fact you’re alive is a 1 in 500 trillion miracle - you’re so lucky it’s absurd and you have nothing to lose :)
Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.
He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.
Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.
Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.
Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.
Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.
Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.
The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.