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Chris calls this 'boom scrolling' — the antidote to doom scrolling. He describes being on the treadmill, Share Believe playing on loop, spinning around, having a 'fucking great time' just sending links to people. Chris notes this is how social media 'is supposed to be consumed' — at high heart rate, you just 'forget about all the like new stuff' and fall into productive discovery holes. Chris observes that in this flow state, the 'frame rate of reality completely slows down' similar to meditation, which is when he noticed his own embarrassing engagement-metric-checking behavior.

The tradition was discovered by Chris via a viral tweet quoting a Haruki Murakami essay about the practice being popular in America. Murakami wrote: 'What the hell is this? It's ridiculously delicious. No kidding. It's at a level where I don't want to drink cola any other way anymore.' The group conducts a live taste test. Reactions are mixed: Chris enjoys chewing while drinking Coke and finds it pleasant, though notes it 'tastes quite a lot like Coke' with peanuts. George suggests letting it sit longer for more flavor integration. The group notes it's more of 'an art piece' — the experience and aesthetic matter as much as the taste. Chris finds it 'good, sweet and salty.'

George describes having seborrheic dermatitis for 10 years, sometimes so bad he wouldn't want to go outside. The first doctor blamed stress and prescribed a steroid cream. George then eliminated sugar for two years and it calmed down somewhat, leading him to believe it was sugar-related. A second doctor also blamed stress and prescribed another steroid cream. Frustrated, George uploaded his entire tracking document to Gemini AI, which immediately identified the condition as fungal and recommended ketoconazole (Nizoral), available as an over-the-counter shampoo. The condition has never returned. Chris notes these kind of AI health success stories don't get the same attention as the AI horror stories, creating an unbalanced narrative about AI's impact.

Chris used it extensively during his Australia, New Zealand, and Bali tour. Key features: it knows gate changes before the boards update, tracks where your inbound plane is coming from, pre-downloads maps for offline use during flights, shows connection times gate-to-gate, identifies baggage carousel numbers, and allows sharing flight tracking with friends so you can monitor when people are arriving. Chris recounts a flight diverted from Austin to Houston due to gale force winds — Flighty updated him before the pilot even came over the tannoy that they were now landing in Houston. He also appreciates the friend-tracking feature: if your partner or friend is flying in, you don't need to ask for updates.

George explains he's been drinking Club 13 150 MIT extract (two bottles daily) for a month for his documentary, and only realized how high he was after the fact — describing it as 'sneaky' in a way heroin isn't. He experienced thought loops, pacing, and irritability, culminating in him quitting the documentary and snapping at his producer over $10 worth of Kratom. The distinction between whole leaf powder and the 70 (7-hydroxy) pills is crucial: whole leaf can cause addiction, but the 70 pills are 'what's fucking people up.' George plans to interview a chemist and travel to Thailand to trace the supply chain. Chris confirms he's seen it everywhere in Austin since arriving, including friends with addiction genes who ranked Kratom as harder to quit than any other drug, waiting outside mini-marts at 6am for their fix and immediately detecting when the formula was diluted.

Chris shares specific personal genetic findings: he's in the bottom 10% for magnesium absorption, meaning he needs far more than standard recommendations. He has a gene variant that makes morphine potentially lethal at regular doses — a life-saving discovery. His COMT gene means he clears dopamine slowly, predisposing him to obsessive focus once started on a task but poor stress tolerance. When he fed his full genetic profile into ChatGPT with the prompt 'imagine you know nothing about me, based only on my DNA what sort of person am I?', it returned 'high baseline dopamine and adrenal tone, faster mental processing, strong pattern recognition, but low margin for stress before overload... this is not a calm, content temperament. It is a perform or perish nervous system.' Chris argues this validation gave him permission to embrace his natural tendencies rather than fighting them. George found his two most likely causes of death were glaucoma and stroke — exactly what killed his grandfather. The counterpoint both acknowledge: once you have a label, you might 'live by it' and it becomes destiny.