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🗓️ 30 March 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. |
0:04.7 | Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. |
0:09.2 | The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. |
0:15.1 | By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon. |
0:21.3 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
0:23.5 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
0:26.4 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
0:32.7 | When I got Shayla Love on the line, I wanted her to describe in detail how ketamine can make you feel. |
0:42.2 | And this comes from interviewing lots and lots of people who have taken it both for trying to treat depression symptoms and also for fun and taking it at raves and dance parties. |
0:52.2 | Shaila's a science journalist, and she's done a lot of reporting on ketamine. |
0:56.2 | She wrote a great story in the Atlantic about ketamine's effects on the human brain. |
1:01.3 | It's called it dissociative, and the reason it's called that is it can make you feel sort |
1:05.6 | of detached from your body. |
1:08.2 | So sometimes that means your limbs feel really big. |
1:10.4 | Sometimes it means your body sort of floats away from you. You float away from your body. So sometimes that means your limbs feel really big. Sometimes it means your body sort of |
1:12.4 | floats away from you. You float away from your body can also lead to feelings of like euphoria. |
1:17.7 | Your thoughts can feel really special and magical. And at lower doses, it can be a little bit like |
1:23.9 | being tipsy or being drunk. |
1:34.5 | It's a really effective anesthetic. A few years ago, I was in the emergency room and a teenage kid next to me had dislocated his thumb playing basketball. He got a ketamine dose before the |
1:40.4 | doctors maneuvered his thumb back into its socket. The reason that people take it in the hospital is that it's FDA approved as an anesthetic. |
1:48.4 | So if you take it a really high dose, you will lose consciousness. |
1:50.9 | It's a very good anesthetic because you can be asleep and it won't affect your breathing. |
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