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Speaker 0 (0s): Okay. So being Friday, what, what are people a lot of people do on Fridays, they celebrate get ready for the weekend. Maybe they have a few beers. Maybe you start your day out with a cup of coffee in the spirit of caffeine and in the spirit of booze and in the spirit of changing your consciousness. I thought today we would talk a little bit. What about drugs? 

Right? We all do them. We all do them. Pick your poison. They say, what's your favorite poison? It's a good question. It's a good question. But I don't want to talk about just any kind of drug today. I thought we'd talk about a new type of drug that's been on the market for a while. And that type of drug, I guess, would be classified as no tropics in Oh, O tropics. 

No. Oh, tropics. And what this family of drugs claims to do is to make you smarter. Think about that kind of abstractive first you think of what there's a drug that makes me smarter. I know how that works. Well, let's start with some of the drugs we know that people use that may make them a little bit smarter. 

Yeah. And try and think about the mechanism of action that would make them smarter. First off you want to think about writers like Stephen King and Christopher Hitchens and all these, all these writers. At least when I was growing up, they were pretty big smokers. And what is the, what is the drug? And in of choice of smokers, usually nicotine, right. 

And nicotine is almost like a neurotransmitter. And if you listen to some, I think there was a, I think that there was a interview with Stephen King Ray talked about how much he smoked and how, when he was writing and he would smoke a lot. And if you've never been the smoker or you never had a seat, you're right. You're probably like, dude, that's just, that's just disgusting. And you're right. 

Cigarette smoking is pretty gross. However, it, it definitely does something to you. You know, at first it can give you like a bus. Like when you first start smoking cigarettes, you you'd get like a nicotine buzz. But then after a while it's more of like a common sensation. So it's definitely flooding part of your brain. The nicotine goes in action, like some sort of a neurotransmitter and stuff, simulates parts of the brain, which seems to lead to a more creative process. 

So you could say that nicotine while ultimately bad for your health. Well, I don't know if nicotine's bad for, you know, smoke is definitely bad for your health active ingredient that leads to creativity and cigarettes is nicotine. And while smoking is bad, nicotine may be an agent of creativity. So there's one caffeine, right? Again, people that tend to, well, how many people wake up and have a cup of coffee in the morning? 

I don't know if that makes you more creative, but it might make you more productive. And I think you could argue that that is a level of intelligence that that's kind of an abstract argument. However, you could say that being productive leads you to a better life, which would be a smarter way of, I know that's kind of reaching. So those are a couple of mainstream drugs people use to maybe make their life a little bit better. 

Not sure smarter. I'm not sure it's smarter. I would say the nicotine may lead to creativity. And then you start getting into today's writers. Like if you look at today's journalists, there's probably a pretty good chance. They're like on Adderall. Adderall is like legal meth. You take Mike, if you take Adderall, I think the, one of the best ways to describe it would be like kind of a clear headed, extremely focused high intensity coffee buzz. 

But