Drugs & the creative process

<p>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? </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>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