Weed and Vivid Dreams: The Science of REM Rebound and T-Breaks

Weed and Sleep: What Happens When You Smoke Before Bed

Ever wonder why your dreams get absolutely wild the moment you stop smoking? In this session of Thoughts Off The Stem, Justin Baroni breaks down the “REM Rebound” effect—the scientific reason why taking a tolerance break (T-Break) leads to vivid, Freddy Krueger-style dreamscapes. We’re diving into how THC interacts with your brain’s receptors, what “withdrawal” actually feels like, and why a tea break might be exactly what you need to find your giggle again. Plus, a full review of Tribal’s Galactic Runts Live Resin (76.8% THC).

Episode Chapters: Weed, Sleep, and Science

TimestampSegment TitleKey Takeaway
0:27The Mystery of Vivid DreamsWhy stopping “cold turkey” triggers intense dreamscapes.
2:14Tolerance Break (T-Break) BasicsResetting your baseline and managing withdrawal symptoms.
5:39The Science of REM ReboundHow THC blocks REM sleep and what happens when the floodgates open.
12:18Neurology of a Pot HighUnderstanding Anandamide, Dopamine, and Serotonin receptors.
24:30The Giggle Factor & BaselineHow a break restores the “fun” part of being a stoner.
27:43Sesh Review: Galactic RuntsLab stats: 76.8% THC Live Resin Indica by Tribal.

0:10

Welcome to Thoughts office, Dad.

Thank you for joining the sesh with me.

Justin Barone.

I hope you’re having a good day, a good week, a good month, a good year.

I hope that life is being good to you is what I’m saying.

Have you ever decided to take a tea break?

Have you ever wondered what happens when you stop smoking weed cold Turkey?

0:27 – Why Weed and Vivid Dreams are Connected

Well, I can tell you there’s a lot of different things that happen, but one of the most major things that happen is you start having vivid dreams and you want to know why you have those vivid dreams.

Well, Simply put, it’s because weed itself blocks your ability to get to REM sleep.

0:45

And REM sleep is where the dreams happen.

Baby.

This last week I’ve been having a hard time sleeping and like it hasn’t been too bad, but there’s been a few nights where I’ve had like you know a couple a couple nights throughout the week where I don’t sleep very well.

1:08

I’m up, I’m in and out of bed.

I’m not really getting that deep sleep.

I mean I feel fine and and rested for the most part the next day.

Like I don’t feel like I’m dragging my ass too bad.

But it just takes me a little while to get started.

Now about like 2 weeks ago I took a tea break because I went on vacation and you can’t really take weed to where I went on vacation nor do I travel with weed anyway because I just think it’s generally a bad idea.

1:38

But I took about 10 to 13 days off weed and I just stopped cold Turkey.

I took a few days off before I left just to be prepared and I came back and when I came back I started having some pretty crazy vivid dreams.

1:55

So I figured I should do a sesh because I’ve talked to a few people in my DMS about the stuff that they’ve learned from the podcast.

And I realized that the last few episodes have been like commentary on social stuff and I and maybe like a few goofy ones, but I just like to try and make people laugh.

2:14 – Taking a Tolerance Break (T-Break) to Reset Your Brain

Like the one about the dog and getting the dog.

But I thought this time what I should do is I should maybe try and help people understand what’s going to happen to them when they take a tea break.

Because ultimately you should take a tea break.

If you don’t know what a tea break is, it’s a tolerance break.

It’s taking some time off so that your body can find its baseline again and you’re not so dependent on weed basically, or pot, whatever you want to call it, right?

2:40

So I took a tea break because I knew I was going away.

I didn’t want to go through some of the symptoms while I was away that I that are typical with taking a break from weed.

So what I did was I started two days ahead of time.

Now, the problem with some of this is, is that you end up having these like crazy vivid dreams and they don’t they’re just nuts.

3:05

Like, you know, if you thought that if you were smoking weed because you thought you were crazy and you were using it to manage your crazy, well, if you stop and then you end up, you know, having a prolonged tea break, you’re going to rediscover you’re crazy because you’re going to end up in dreamscapes that rival like Freddy Krueger.

3:32

You know, they’re very, very vivid.

I forget what the name, what the, what the phrase is called when you have a dream where you can like manipulate what happens in it.

But that’s what I had after my bit of a tea break.

3:47

All of a sudden I started having these dreams, like 1 dream.

I was in this cabin with like college kids, but I’m my age now being mean now with a, with a group of that doesn’t make any sense, right?

And then I’m travelling through this, this this massive sprawling cottage to find these different rooms.

4:06

I finally do, and I find a room which seems to be a bunch of abducted kids.

Like what, you know, what is my brain trying to tell me there?

I don’t know, but it was crazy.

I’m arguing with people in there.

I like, I wake up before there’s any kind of resolve.

4:23

And then throughout the course of the next few days, those are the dreams I have.

They’re not really nightmares.

They’re just more confusing and they’re the like you.

I can instead of it being third person like most, most of my dreams this time it’s like first person full on.

4:41

I can decide what I’m going to say to the people in the dream.

I think that I’m living in the dream for a portion of the dream.

I believe that I’m there and I can control what I do.

So like, for example, when I was in this dream with the cabin, I was in an argument with one of these kids, like I’m 44 years old.

5:00

I’m not arguing with a 20 year old about what the most fun thing to do is that weekend, you know?

So in those dreams I was able to depict and change what I wanted to.

5:15

So all of a sudden I’d open the door and the room would look a certain way.

Then all of a sudden a flash to something different.

It’s very unnerving.

It it creates a very like rocky sleep.

But the reason that you start having these dreams is because when you go on a tea break, all of a sudden the floodgates for regular production of hormones and chemicals in the brain happens.

5:39 – Understanding REM Rebound and Dream Manipulation

And you get flooded with all of the stuff that your brain has been trying to do, but you’ve been preventing it from doing, right.

So, for example, right, the human body is designed to take on cannabis and react to cannabis.

6:03

It’s, it’s adaptable to cannabis, right?

But the one thing the cannabis does is it shuts off your brain’s ability to produce a regulated amount of dopamine and serotonin so that it can function properly.

6:22

And the whole process of dreaming is that it’s, it’s your brains way to file and sort all the events, thoughts and interactions that happened through the day.

6:39

It’s also a way for your subconscious to say, hey, dummy, let me tell you something.

There’s some stuff that’s wrong, right?

So normally dreams are somewhat reflective of what’s going on through the day and what your psyche is trying to organize.

6:59

OK.

These dreams were not like that.

Dude.

My dream had no point.

I found these kids.

I thought that they were trapped in this, this, you know, sprawling estate or this, this sprawling cabin.

And turns out the kids didn’t want to leave and there was a babysitter and the parents had rented out.

7:20

This was the first time they’d rented out the cabin.

And they’d, you know, they’d left for their vacation for a couple days.

And there was supposed to be this babysitter lady watching them, but the babysitter had left.

And all of a sudden it goes to the babysitter is telling me why the babysitter is not there.

And then I wake up.

Like, how am I supposed to interpret that?

7:38

Because I could tell you right now I didn’t have any interactions with a ghost.

I have not been around any college kids, you know, like, I definitely would never be in a, in a very expensive cabin, at least not at this point.

7:53

I’d like to have one.

I’m just saying.

And there’s always this like underlying Rob Zombie level of fear, like something crazy is about to happen.

Like a clown’s going to hop out of the closet and hack my head off, you know what I mean?

So that was one of the dreams that I had.

8:10

And that one was I think the first one, which actually ended up happening on like day 11.

And instead of having to resolve, because most dreams I find don’t really have a resolve, right?

You just kind of do the thing and then you do it.

8:25

And then you wake up and you’re like, whoa, that was that was messed up, dude.

Like what, what’s the problem here?

What’s going on?

You know, you just feel disoriented.

And then for the next three days, I ended up having like, weirder and progressively weirder dreams that literally made no sense.

8:42

So I started to get freaked out because I’m like, every time I close my freaking eyes, I think I’m going to end up in a Freddy Krueger state of mind.

Like I’m going to wake up dead with fingers stuck in me later, you know, I don’t want that to happen.

And then on top of that there I’m a big believer that in dreams you should pay attention to them because they’re trying to tell you something.

9:04

They’re trying to help you work something out right mentally that you’re not getting over.

I used to have a reoccurring zombie dream and it literally went on for like years.

For like 3 years it would reoccur, not all year, but like I’d get it a few times a month and it would progressively get longer and longer until events in my life changed and I made a very drastic life change.

9:30

All of a sudden it stopped because I learned from that dream.

What it was really trying to tell me was that I had to let go of control.

I was trying to control too much and there’s a lot of stuff that you can’t control.

Well, these dreams about being with like college kids and and in in on vacation with them makes no sense to me because like I’m not hanging out with I’m too old for that shit.

9:50

You know what happened?

If I approached a group of college kids and was like, hey, you want to hang out?

They would literally laugh at me and be like, OK, well, guy, get the fuck out of here.

Like, who are we kidding here?

So why is my brain being like, do I miss college?

Because I don’t think I do.

I don’t really miss it.

But yeah, the other problem with having these dreams is that you end up not realizing they’re a dream.

10:17

So there’s a certain point of time where shit starts to hit the fan and you’re panicking because you’re like, I don’t know what’s about to happen here.

And then all of a sudden, like I said, you wake up and you’re just like, what just happened?

You feel uneasy, all that stuff.

10:32

But how are you supposed to organize your dreams and pay attention to them and learn what it is that your subconscious is trying to tell you if there’s a whole bunch of events that don’t make any sense?

I had to go through online symbolism books, dream symbolism like re articles to figure out what each thing did.

10:55

I suggest you do it because if you have reoccurring dreams they might be trying to tell you something and you should probably try and learn something and then that way it takes away some of the anxiety from it too.

But my initial point was, if you’re going to take a tea break, you have to be aware that you are about to have some very vivid nightmares.

11:15

If you don’t like clowns, clowns are coming, baby.

They’re going to come get you.

OK?

If you don’t like dogs and animals or whatever, that’s coming to get you, if you have a fear of drowning or spiders, guess what’s coming to get you?

That’s right, the lake and the spider.

OK?

So don’t be surprised when you start having these outlandishly crazy dreams when you’re trying to understand why you’re having these crazy dreams.

11:40

It’s a little bit it’s actually more simple than trying to figure out the the dream itself.

So I looked up a bunch of articles on why this happens, like what happens in your brain when you quit weed cold Turkey and you start experiencing these like very surreal, very vivid dreams.

11:59

OK, well, based on what is this fhe health?

It’s a rehab, I believe, that basically studies withdrawal symptoms of different types of substances.

And they’ve done some study on how marijuana affects the brain.

12:18 – The Science: How THC Infiltrates Cannabinoid Receptors

So if you want to check out this article, I’m just going to read you how this affects the brain, but it’s at fherehab.com.

OK?

Or you could just look up how marijuana affects the brain.

But basically this is what they say.

They’re they’re, they’re substance abuse specialists, They’re doctors.

12:37

I believe that there’s neuroscientists involved as well with partnerships.

Anyway, the point is, this is what actually happens.

This is from fhehealth.com.

So the reason why the brain has has receptors designed specifically for marijuana chemicals is that the brain actually produces cannabinoid substances similar to pot psychoactive ingredients.

13:00

Cannabinoids are naturally made in the cortex, an area of the brain that guides movement, process thoughts and emotions, and interpret sensory information.

Anandamide is an important endogenous cannabinoid that functions as a neurotransmitter in the brain.

13:20

Anandamide facilitates chemical messaging among neurons and the central nervous system.

Sorry, let me do that one again.

Anandamide facilitates chemical messaging among neurons and the central nervous system nerve cells.

Because marijuana is primarily psychoactive chemical, THC is so comparable molecularly to anandamide and other cannabinoids.

13:44

THC is easily infiltrates and activate activates cannabinoid receptors.

OK, so disruption of the normal cannabinoid receptor activity causes the mental and physical effects of a pot high.

In addition, smoking pot increases the level of dopamine and serotonin, 2 neurotransmitters implicated in sleep, mood and pleasure.

14:09

The brains of daily marijuana smokers eventually develop a tolerance to excess excessive serotonin and dopamine levels, which forces the the Bourdain the brain to reduce its natural release of these two chemicals.

14:25

Consequently, having intense dreams after quitting weed could be due to a lack of serotonin and dopamine in the brain.

So you’re overdoing it.

That’s really what’s happening.

You’re cutting off these receptors or you’re flooding these receptors with an excessive amount that they stop production.

14:42

They get fat and lazy.

It’s like, it’s kind of like feeding, you know, a fat guy cake.

As soon as he gets an excessive amount of cake, he’s not getting off the couch, right?

Well, that’s what’s happening to these receptors in your brain.

You’re feeding it on a daily, whatever amount of marijuana you feed it.

14:59

So they’re over satisfied and they’ve got like, you know, the Turkey sleeps.

What’s it called?

I forget, but you basically, you know, after you eat Turkey, you get a little nap in.

Well, that’s what’s happening with this.

And so those receptors have become super lazy and they don’t do anything anymore.

15:16

And when they’re and then it takes roughly I don’t know for me, I found that it took within well, it took ten days to have the dreams, but I think that’s because I was away.

So I was mentally stimulated in other, you know, forms.

So it made it a little easier to not smoke weed because let’s be honest, a lot of people will go through withdrawal symptoms from weed, right.

15:40

Well, that makes trying to take a tea break that much harder because a lot of people get very irritable.

Some people are using it for sleep, like specifically to go to sleep.

Now with the, if you’re using it for sleep, the reason that you’re not having any dreams is because again, you’re overloading those receptors.

16:01

So you never actually hit that R.E.M. state cycle.

So you don’t actually have those dreams.

You might actually, that’s a lie.

You might end up having dreams, but you won’t remember them, and you also may feel like you get a better rested sleep and you may get a little more sleep when you smoke weed, but there are some lingering effects that you don’t notice over time.

16:20

So the next day, sure you’re not hungover and you’re not freaking out or you’re not hungover and you’re not, you’re not noticeably dragging ass, but inside you sort of feel like a little to the left.

16:36

Think about when you first used to smoke weed, right?

You smoked weed and the next day you were kind of off a little for the next day or two because you were your body was just getting introduced to it.

Now 20-30 years later, you’re smoking weed and your body’s just gotten used to it.

16:52

So you don’t actually feel what the difference is the next day.

So even though you don’t have a hangover, you’re a little more rest rested.

Your brain is definitely a little more sluggish because all these receptors are, are like, it’s like they got home from a rave, you know?

17:09

And they’re just like, OK, make it stop for a bit.

And then you get like 9 hours in the day where you’re like, OK, I’m good.

And the receptors have time to rejuvenate.

And then the next thing you know, it’s not one O clock at night and they’re all like, OK, but I slept all day, we’re good.

Let’s now hit me up because I can’t get my dopamine fixed.

17:26

That’s basically what I think kind of happens or that’s the way that I would depict it as I’m explaining it because that seems to, you have to visualize it sometimes I do.

So a lot of a lot of users when they stop cold Turkey, they’re going to go, they’re going to have some what they call withdrawal symptoms.

17:45 – Managing Cannabis Withdrawal Symptoms vs. Everyday Life

Now, I have a little disagreement with calling this stuff withdrawal symptoms because like, listen to this.

This is what withdrawal symptoms are OK?

Irritability and anger, aggression, lack of appetite, anxiety and nervousness, depression, insomnia and disturbing dreams, vivid dreams, nightmares that make you feel like you’re actually going to die there, you know?

18:11

But other than the disturbing dreams, insomnia and depression, OK, the irritability and anger, aggression, lack of appetite, anxiety and nervousness, isn’t that just like everyday life?

Like, like, don’t, don’t most people just go through life trying to manage that anyway, sober?

18:31

So like, as potheads, does that make us a little weaker?

Because those aren’t really symptoms.

Those are just momentary emotions you know, that you have to relearn to manage because you’ve been managing it with the ganja for way too long.

18:47

And now your brain’s all, I don’t know what to do, man.

And now your brain’s got to sort itself out.

And that takes a few days.

I noticed that within about 3 days I kind of hit back to my baseline where not having weed I stopped.

19:05

I gradually slowly stopped worrying about having weed.

Now at first I was a little panicked because I did like I did smoke it before bed because I felt like I got a better rest.

Here’s the thing when I was on vacation, yes we were doing more too.

So I was more tired at the end of the day and we were in the sun a lot.

19:21

But one of the things was I didn’t have a problem sleeping and it wasn’t like I switched weed for booze.

I just, I just didn’t have weed and then some nights I had like 4 cappuccinos a day or espressos, cappuccinos, cappuccinos.

19:39

I had four cappuccinos a day.

Dude.

I was like wired.

I don’t have a cappuccino at 3:00 in the afternoon.

Still go to bed at like 10.

OK, so don’t tell me you can’t sleep because quite honestly, you can’t sleep.

You just, I think that a lot of people when they get into the tea break mode, right, they are just very worried about not having weed.

20:02

I think that you have a mental connection to that weed and your your your mental connection is making you think that you need it.

Some people get a physical dependency.

I understand that.

I’m not trying to diminish it.

I’m just saying that I think most of that part of it is mental because think about it this way.

20:22

Weed is legal in Canada.

If you take a break, there’s going to be more.

There used to be a time when it wasn’t going to be that way.

Like there was no chance in hell that you were going to get, you know, more weed if you took a tea break because who knows?

People could crack down on it.

Your dealer could go bust.

20:38

Like he could take off and be like, I’m not selling weight anymore and you’re out.

You know, that’s not the case.

You can literally go to any, almost any corner store in Canada and pick up some weed.

Like there’s an abundance, dude.

You can always find some.

So you just have to kind of tell yourself that like, hey, it’s OK, the weed’s not going anywhere.

20:57

So if I take a 10 day break, I’ll just go get weed later, you know?

But too many people, too many people get caught up in in the worry of having weed or not having weed, sorry, or running out of weed or whatever.

21:14

So I think that that plays into it.

But I think that’s a mental thing.

I don’t think that’s a physical addiction thing.

I think that some people want to use say that it’s a mental or sorry, a physical addiction thing when realistically it’s not.

You just kind of got to find other things that occupy your time and your focus, you know?

21:31

But yeah, if you were wondering what was going to happen if you quit weed cold Turkey and you were trying to prepare for like a 10 day excursion on the on the Tea Break express and try to reset your reset your baseline, which I think is a good idea.

21:48

As a guy who smoked, who has smoked weed consistently every day for like fuck over 20 years, no, 20 years, about 20 years, I would say that one of the best things I could rediscover is taking a tea break, even though it was inadvertent.

Over the last little while, I’ve slowly been smoking less and less in terms of every day.

22:10

So now I’ll go a couple days between smoke sessions, right?

And then if I do this podcast, I’ll smoke a little more while I’m on there.

But overall, I’ve kind of mitigated the amount of weed that I’m smoking on an overtly regular basis just because I’m old and it’s probably time to settle it down a bit, you know?

22:42

But I highly recommend it because I feel like as weed smokers, we just get so norm with the whole being high and thinking that the high is helping us with all our mental ailments and all that fun stuff.

I think that we forget that we at one point in life didn’t always need this to to, to, you know, maintain.

23:01

And as a recreational user, I’ll say that as a recreational user, yeah, we didn’t.

We don’t really, we put too much emphasis on trying to use weed to maintain.

So I think it’s a good idea that sometimes we take a tea break maybe every, you know, couple months or so for a couple weeks just to kind of get back to basics, get back to the baseline of, of what it was like.

23:24

Because don’t you notice now that you like, you don’t giggle?

There’s really no giggle factor anymore unless you find some like really crazy strain.

Back in the day when you first started smoking it, it was almost like every time you hit the joint, you couldn’t stop giggling.

When you take a tea break for two weeks or longer, you start to hit that baseline again where if you smoke a couple things, you say some dumb shit and you giggle a lot.

23:45

OK, so if you’re looking for the giggle, take a tea break.

If you find that you’re basically living in the haze and you’re and you just you kind of feel off, maybe take a tea break.

That might be time.

But because of the receptors in your brain regarding dopamine and serotonin, if you take that tea break and you have an angry brain, your angry brain is going to scare the shit out of you.

24:10

OK, So be aware of that.

If you have like a, a brain like mine that’s a little off to the left, sometime one night you might get scared.

The next night you might be chasing, chased by a giant gummy bear.

You might be getting, you know, eaten by like a a sloth.

24:26

I don’t know.

But I do know that when you’re in that dreamscape, it’s going to be very vivid.

You’re going to feel like you can interact with it.

You’re going to feel like you can’t get away.

OK?

Don’t be terrified.

It’s not the end of the world.

It will be all right.

24:42

You will wake up.

That’s all I have to say about that.

OK, So, yeah, just take a tea break every now and then.

Get yourself back to baseline.

Because then once you get to baseline, let me tell you, it takes a it takes a few days, but you don’t need to smoke as much.

So like, you can actually conserve weed.

24:59

And if you don’t overdo it, like when I got back from my vacation, I had a bong hit and I filled the bowl wasn’t it’s one of those small little, you know, like funnel style bowls.

So I put a little in there, I lit it, I made sure it was all burning.

I took the hit.

25:14

It’s not a big bong, it’s a little bong.

So it’s just like A1 little one hitter.

I took that hit.

I was like, oh, that’s delicious.

I really like that.

So I hit it again.

I didn’t even pack repack the bowl.

I just smoked a red like a bit more of the bowl and after I took that hit, maybe about 45 minutes later, I was staring off into space like I was floating through the cosmos.

25:36

Dude, my brain was out there.

It was gone.

Like I had no thoughts.

OK, so like if you to and that’s not even probably a gram.

It was probably like half gram and I was just boom gone.

And the weed was not overly strong.

It was sort of middle of the road weed.

25:52

So a tea break can do a lot of things for you.

It can reset your baseline.

It helps your brain and your mind allow the filing and and organization of the memories from the day and the things that your subconscious is worrying is worrying about or, or thinking about and trying to resolve in your life.

26:26

So let that happen because weed, as we all know, just keeps asking questions about why this is this and why do we feel like this and why do I like that?

You know, there’s no end result with weed.

You might go back, go down a thought path and be like, oh, that’s crazy.

26:41

But the weed is always asking why, Why do I get along with it?

Why do I accept it?

Why there’s no real definitive.

Like, I do this now because as soon as you think that when you’re smoking, the weed goes, yeah, but what about this?

So I think you need the shut off of the weed sometimes so that your brain can then reorganize all of its conscious and subconscious thoughts so that it can, you know, make you a relatively regular member of society.

27:09

Because you don’t necessarily realize how far off the path you are until you get off the path.

And then you’re like, whoa, what happened there?

Dude, You went way left.

So take a tea break.

Expect crazy visions and dreams.

Enjoy them.

27:26

Like, I mean, realistically, it’s a new experience, right?

So just enjoy them because it’s your, your it’s your psyche coming back to you like a like a kid and be like, hey, come here and look at me, you know?

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Product Profile: Galactic Runts (Tribal)

FeatureDetails
Product TypeLive Resin Vape Cartridge
Strain TypeIndica
THC Potency76.8%
Terpene %8.5%
Top TerpenesLimonene, Caryophyllene, Linalool
Flavor ProfileMixed Berry, Pine, “Gummy Bears”
EffectThoughtful, Body Buzz, Giggles, Sleep Aid

27:43 – Sesh Review: Tribal Galactic Runts Live Resin Vape

So do that.

Yeah.

So I just wanted to let you know that was the case.

And for this sesh, I’ve been smoking Tribal’s Galactic Runts vape cart.

It’s an indica, it’s 76%, it’s a live resin.

It’s really tasty.

28:02

If you’re looking for something that’ll make you thoughtful and something that will make you feel like you’re, you know, floating in space, this is a good one.

28:19

It’s a good body buzz.

It gives you.

If this one actually gives you a bit of the giggles you feel a little in your eyes, it’s not overwhelming.

You’re not going to pass out.

You’re not going to fall over.

It will help you go to sleep.

28:35

So if you’re taking a tea break, obviously don’t smoke this.

It’s tasty.

What does it taste like?

It’s hard to say.

Like a mixed Berry pack of like Motts, gummy bears that kids take to school and the little yellow packages, you know what I’m saying?

28:53

Tastes kind of like that.

Tastes a little fruity, like a Berry, you know, kind of like a little Piney flavor in there.

So let’s see, Does it tell me what the terps are?

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t.

29:14

OK, so the terp profile is 8 point.

Five.

No, Yeah. 8.5% You got limonene, carophylline and linalool as the top three terps.

It’s 76.8%.

THC so one.

29:31

Of the things about live resin is that live resin is always a little bit.

It’s lower in percentage, but it is it’s a little stronger in the high because it’s more natural.

A distillate is, is more manufactured.

29:48

It’s it’s a different form of extraction, whereas I feel like live resin is a little bit more natural.

It stays to.

It’s like original.

It stays more true to its original product.

But this one is.

30:04

Really good.

I enjoy it because it’s a it’s an indica that gives you a little fun before it makes you have a little nap.

You know what I’m saying?

It’s a good time.

It’s a good one to smoke as a treat after you’ve created after you’ve completed your tea break.

30:25

Yeah.

So if you’re.

Going to get something for tribal.

They’re a little more expensive because they’re live resin, but they’re totally worth it.

They last a little longer.

The high itself lasts a little longer.

The example is if you are smoking a distillate, let’s say you get high for like 45 minutes to an hour.

30:42

This high, you could potentially feel the effects for like an hour and a half, two hours kind of thing.

If it’s really good, it’ll last longer than that.

But generally that’s where you know, if you’re, if you’re still feeling it a little bit two hours later, that’s a good solid cart.

It’s kind of like diamonds.

30:58

Diamonds are a rush of high and then they sort of like teeter out after a bit.

Live resin like these ones, I feel like what they do is they just continue the high and ride it right out.

It’s kind of a nice little, it’s like a blanket of high that just stays, keeps you all cozy and happy, you know, And you don’t have to re up your dopamine and serotonin levels as often as you do with some of the other stuff.

31:28

So if you’re going.

To get a new cart or you’re looking for something that’s got some flavor and a really wicked high, Definitely go for the tribal galactic runts if you can find it.

Again, it’s an indica, so if you don’t like indicas, don’t get it because you will be more relaxed, your brains a little more clear, but your body’s definitely more.

31:45

Oh, I could take a nap right now.

Yeah, those are my thoughts off the stem for this week.

I hope you enjoyed the sesh.

Thank you for joining me, Justin Barone, your friendly neighborhood pothead on Thoughts off the stem on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, iTunes Anchor, YouTube Anchors Gone YouTube Pod Chaser, Good pods, Pandora, pod bean, wherever you get a podcast, it’s out there, baby.

32:16

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32:36

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Wherever you’re watching this subscribe, follow it man.

Let me know what you think.

I really want some feedback here.

Also, we can get more of a dialogue going on if you tell me what you want to hear, because then I can do a better job of making things that you might want to know about, even if it’s ridiculous.

32:54

You’ve seen if you are a lot, if you’re a follower that I do ridiculous shit doesn’t matter.

There’s no topic off off the table.

Whatever you have on your mind, let me know, yeah.

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33:15

Weed facts, some crazy other just.

Daily People facts.

That’s pretty much it, yeah.

So I hope you had a good time, hope you enjoyed the sesh.

And until next time.

Keep.

33:36

Your lids low baby.

At the end of the day, understanding the connection between weed and vivid dreams is the best way to handle the intensity of a tolerance break. While the ‘REM Rebound’ might feel like a trip through a Freddy Krueger movie, it’s actually a sign that your brain is resetting and finding its baseline again. Whether you’re chasing the ‘giggle factor’ or just clearing out the mental haze, taking a tea break is a powerful tool for any enthusiast. Don’t let the wild dreams keep you from the reset you need—just keep your lids low, stay thoughtful, and I’ll see you in the next sesh.

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Has Political Polarization Reached a Breaking Point?

Charlie Kirk Hypocrisy: The Contradictions You Can’t Ignore

Welcome to Thoughts Off The Stem. In this sesh, I’m digging into the Charlie Kirk debate that’s been taking over social media lately. I didn’t know much about the guy until recently, but the implications of the Charlie Kirk debate for free speech and political polarization are something we need to talk about.

TimestampSegment TitleKey Discussion Points
0:06The Evolution of the DebateMoving from sports talk (Jordan vs. LeBron) to political machinery.
1:49Emotional InvestmentWhy politics and religion create deep identity-based polarization.
2:49Free Speech vs. TacticsAnalyzing “Prove Me Wrong” culture and the risk of public speaking.
5:45Ethics of “Clip Farming”How rage-bait and selective editing fuel social media conflict.
15:06The Future of DiscourseIs freedom of speech at risk? The danger of celebrating a person’s demise.
24:10Red Bulls Strain ReviewLab stats: 26.4% THC, Terpene profile, and body-high effects.
29:46Final Sesh ThoughtsFinding the “Middle Spot” and achieving social unity.

0:06 – The Evolution of the Charlie Kirk Debate

Welcome the thoughts off the stem.

Thank you for joining me Justin Baroni on this session.

That’s great We’re going to have a nice little session.

We’re going to have a discussion.

We’re going to talk about the Charlie Kirk situation because I didn’t know very much about this guy.

The only instance that I’d had that I I’d actively engaged in watching before the events of last week was him debating college students on the merit of Michael Jordan being the GOAT versus LeBron James being the GOAT.

0:34

All of a sudden now he’s this political dude.

Now I get he’s been doing this for a while.

I don’t know how he made the jump from discussing Michael Jordan into all of a sudden this like ginormous political machine, essentially the Michael Jordan versus LeBron, LeBron debate.

0:50

Like there’s no real right and wrong.

There’s also no real consequence to that.

Like you’ll have fans that’ll come up to you and talk shit or tell you this or that or whatever they think.

But on the political landscape, all of a sudden you have like an emotion, a real viable emotion that’s attached to potentially somebody’s life.

1:10

I’m not attached to the fact that I think Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.

And you tell me that LeBron is.

I’m not emotionally invested or nor do I like identify my life isn’t the I don’t identify my personality as being that.

1:26

Whereas I think that with politics and religion, you have a lot of people that emotionally invest themselves and identify as being that thing.

It’s seated in a moral belief of conduct and you start applying that moral belief of conduct into whatever your political leaning is.

1:49From Basketball Debates to the Political Charlie Kirk Debate

And then on, once you’re invested in the politics of that, you end up turning around and trying to get your voice heard.

And as you start to find that it’s harder and harder to get your voice heard, you start to maybe spin some facts and spin some things that are more in your favor that that get attention, right.

2:12

So what I, what I mean by that, what I’m trying to say by that is that a big, a big portion of Charlie Kirk’s debates we’re fueled by the understanding that he wanted somebody to prove him wrong.

2:30

So he wanted to have an open discourse about the state of America and why the conservative side of things is a stronger belief or an, a stronger identity for the country than the liberal belief, right.

2:49 – Freedom of Speech and Tactics in the Charlie Kirk Debate

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that’s it.

And then that fuels this concept that I’m standing up for freedom of speech, right?

But the undertones of your freedom of speech are based in religion where a lot of people get invested to the point where it’s black and white.

3:08

There’s no, there’s no Gray area of understanding.

There’s I believe it’s this way and This is why it should be this way.

And that’s it.

But his basis was proved me wrong and I didn’t see a lot of instances where it seemed that the people that he debated were were actually like when, when and if they proved him wrong.

3:30

It didn’t seem to resonate that that was the case.

The only, the only real videos that I saw of him, I saw of him admitting a defeat in the debate was when he was talking to a deaf gentleman about the fact about some things that he had said about deaf people.

3:51

And in that case, at the end, he, he basically said, you know what?

You’re, you’re right.

I was wrong.

I shouldn’t have done that.

But that’s about a, a personal choice of words and A and a mis education on what a certain section of society is expecting, right, In terms of in terms of being integrated into the regular function of society.

4:16

So with him, if he offended somebody, he would apologize.

I don’t think that he was a racist.

I don’t really think that he was a Nazi.

I don’t think any of that craziness.

I think that that’s a narrative that people just want to blanket to people when they say something that they don’t necessarily agree with.

4:35

I do think that he posed some things that really make him look bad, but everybody does.

If you’re in the public that often, you’re eventually going to say something that not gets taken out of context, but you’re going to say something that you believe that isn’t well received, right.

4:54

So there’s a few snippets of things that he said where you’re like, well, saying it like that, I can see why people would get this impression.

But again, he’s battling an argument that is that started off as being being bred out of like a pushy kind of accept me for me attitude.

5:15

And he was trying to bring back essentially a way to be heard or an ideology that was being squashed by the louder side of things.

So he just amplified and got louder and louder and louder to the point where I think that in his attempt at trying to debate this and change an opinion, he ended up taking on the tactics that that he complained about the other side taking.

5:45 – Ethics and Tactics Within the Charlie Kirk Debate

So for example, he there was a there was a lot of complaint about how his opposition would fear monger.

They would rage bait and they would create, they would clip farm from events and rallies that they had to show their perspective only.

6:05

But I but the problem is, is that anything that I saw with him, like I had to hunt down clips that were neutral that showed both sides of the point and then allowed both sides of the point to be heard and then showed what the actual outcome was.

6:25

And I think that he started to do what his opponents do and he started to do the same thing.

He started to upload clips that were literally designed to spark emotion to polarize people.

And he would like, I think that the setting of going to a university or college campus to bait to debate college kids is is the like definition of click far or yeah, click farming or clip farming.

6:55

Sorry.

Because as an older person that has more life experience going into an environment like that, you can 1 you put yourself in a position to control the environment.

You put yourself in a position to control the discussion and you put yourself in a position to be able to use tools like verbal traps and, and, and set up directions for the way that you want to take the discussion, right.

7:22

Because when you’re going into something like that, people aren’t necessarily prepared, at least not in the beginning.

They weren’t necessarily prepared to debate them because they hadn’t sat there thinking about it.

But that was his whole purpose for being there.

So he was already coming in with this kind of like, I’m higher, I’m more prepared than you, right?

7:41

And I don’t think that the argument that he didn’t go to college has any weight because he seemed like a relatively thoughtful and intelligent person, at least he seemed to.

He seemed to really think about and understand the concepts that he was talking about.

But he definitely did from time to time cherry pick information to get his point across because there were a few instances where fact checkers and online poll systems, they basically debunked some of the things that he said.

8:13

And within his own clips, you could see that the way that his clips were pointed were definitely to show him in the majority of the time winning the debate, which would obviously gain attention for the ’cause that he’s speaking about, which would all which would ultimately, you know, take that rhetoric and try to get the younger generation to come to his side.

8:36

Which to be honest, like that’s the goal of, of any belief system is to try and get the majority of the population and the younger generation to follow that system so that it becomes prevalent and predominant as you get older.

Right.

And then the, then the people that work in that, that, that work and function in society adopt those rules, morals and mannerisms or whatever.

8:57

And they, that becomes the normal way of life, right?

So I don’t really fault him for doing anything like that.

What I fault him for is putting himself in an environment where he’s more likely than not to be debating somebody that’s less equipped to deal with the conversation that you’re having.

9:22

You can’t have limited life experience and talk about all these political, religious and moral concepts and expect an educated, thoughtful, well understood reception to it, right?

9:43

Or take on it with somebody that’s even four years into college.

You have to get out of college and get into the real world and start operating within the real world to really understand what and how, like how things and what things work well, right?

9:59

And I’m not saying 1 ideology is better than another because there’s some things that I agreed with them on and there’s other things that I definitely didn’t agree with them on.

So I really had this conflict when I was thinking about it because like, I don’t think that when you have, when you have a scenario like this, the hate and the, and the response to the situation that happened with him was disgusting at first.

10:27 – The Consequences of Polarization in the Charlie Kirk Debate

You should never celebrate somebody’s demise based on their words.

There’s no, there’s no, there’s no room in life for having someone’s demise, like having someone’s demise be the result of you disagreeing with their opinion, right?

10:46

Like, I, I feel like we should all be able to agree on that.

So whether you agreed with the guy’s concepts, morals, ideas, ideology, whatever, there’s no reason that this should have happened.

The only reason that this happens is that you’re that potentially the person is so emotionally invested in a different way of thinking that they just can’t take it anymore and they snap.

11:07

That’s what I think.

And as far as something like this happening, I feel like anytime you’re a public speaker, if you are polarizing a whole society and and, and, and like intentionally trying to do so because I intentionally that’s what he’s doing.

11:27

He’s he’s maybe not trying to not really trying to start a fight about it, but he has to recognize at some point that what he’s doing is, and I’m not talking to Charlie Kirk, I’m talking to anybody that takes a stance on one side or the other.

That person, he or she has to understand that if they’re polarizing a large society, the level of danger attached to that and being in public and discussing your views in publics in public becomes a, a big problem, like a, a predominant issue.

12:07

It’s something that you need to be prepared for, right?

Because you, you can’t expect everybody just to be like, OK, because everybody’s not like that, Pete.

There’s all kinds of different people out there that are taking on this information.

And unfortunately, in a lot of in a lot of those environments, you’re not necessarily getting, you know, the cream of the crop of society.

12:29

You’re getting people that want to argue, that want to fight, that are emotionally invested in the fight.

So their emotion rises as their opinion rises.

As your answers come up there, there’s there’s a triggering effect that that puts you in a greater sense or a greater likelihood of danger and direct danger and ultimate imminent danger.

12:53

I think so.

I think that a part of what happened was when he first started doing his debates, he, he, he was kind of easy about it.

But I think that as he rose in the political landscape, he contributed to the potential for more and more danger because he started to adapt a lot of the tactics that he was complaining about from the other side, which ultimately, in my opinion, just fires off an emotional response, right?

13:27

And as we’ve seen time and time again, the more emotional people are and the more emotionally invested in these things people are, the more they become willing to go to extremes to define or win their point, right?

13:51

So I think it’s horrible that a person of his stature could have this happen.

I think that it’s deplorable that people would think that it’s acceptable to celebrate something like that.

I think that it’s disgusting that that people are still trading clips on, oh, he was this.

14:10

They’re still trying to prove it online.

All this is going to do ultimately is create potentially create a larger divide between the two sides.

And I think that this could really have a like a profound effect on how things happen going forward.

14:35

Like there’s a, there’s a good chance that a lot of civil unrest over time is going to come from this because people on both sides aren’t just going to go, oh, well, this happened.

I mean, maybe, maybe we’ll luck out and people will see the, the major issue with having something like this happen and the, the major concerns of, of what this, what the implications mean when something like this happens.

15:06 – Freedom of Speech and the Charlie Kirk Debate Outcome

Because it’s not just about the people involved or the, or the sides that, you know, brought us to this point.

It’s also about the understanding of free speech.

And as much as I don’t think that anybody should ever be, like I said, being in danger for giving their opinion right now in the landscape of life that is act is a is a serious concern.

15:38

Like you should be worried now that you can’t say what you think or what you want because something bad could happen to you.

And on one side, I think this makes people more willing to do certain things because they start seeing, they start seeing actions like this happen and maybe they start thinking, well, yeah, I’m going to change something too.

16:04

But then on the other side, there’s the other part of what we have to get back at these guys, which could cause more a more of an uproar and more of a more of a potentially violent engagement back and forth, right, And an escalation of violence and engagement.

16:23

So I think that really everybody should just kind of take a step back, OK, and think about what the implications of this are and forget about what side you’re on, but understand that this has a real huge, like, stamp on it.

16:44 – Is Freedom of Speech at Risk?

That is freedom of speech is at risk right now because if this is how it goes, people could clam up, stop talking, and then the then the conversation dies.

But I think that we should also highlight the fact that what led to the to these events and these kinds of things happening is the over amplifying of emotion through social media, through all, any type of media really.

17:12

Because think about it.

The thing that gets you to pay attention to something is generally some kind of adverse event.

Something bad happens, then something good happens or something good happens, then something bad.

Like there’s, there’s controversy in everything that we watch now, right?

17:27

So really the only way to get eyes on anything or or ears on anything that you want to bring to the forefront of discussion is it has to be done in a way that is almost guaranteed to cause or manipulate some kind of frustration, right.

17:47

And then the next thing you know, instead of being able to have a debate about it and actually talk civilly and go back and forth on merits and ideas and have a have an open dialogue about it.

You have this very black and white my points better than your point like forum of focus to just go back and forth, right?

18:06

And then within that, because you’re emotionally attached to these ideas, the emotion grows, grows and grows and grows until boom, it just explodes.

And I think that’s what we should be more aware about now.

18:22

I think that our awareness needs to start needs to focus on the on the concept of communication and how we communicate, what we communicate and the way that we construct our delivery of information on both sides.

18:44

Because all this is doing is creating a boiling point of violence.

And that’s it.

That’s my opinion.

That’s what I think.

I know you’re thinking like, Oh yeah, pothead could really tell me about told me, told me about Charlie Kirk.

18:59

Listen dude, we are some of the most political minded or at least aware people on the planet because a lot of stoners, potheads, weed smokers are advocates for change and they always want to find a way to make things more inclusive, more peaceful, more unified.

19:25

So when you say to when, if you have the impression that somebody that smokes pot shouldn’t have an opinion on the political landscape of today, you’re ridiculous because see, there, I just did it.

I just did the same thing.

I just kind of like rage baited you a bit.

You, you’re not ridiculous.

19:42

OK, but but have but thinking like that is is a bad way to think.

Because if you haven’t smoked weed and you don’t understand what weed does, you don’t know that weed will help you think about different angles of all the different situations that you have in life.

20:04

You’ll reflect on it if you get interested, it motivates you to read and learn about it because one thing about pot is that it will make you feel insecure about the things that you don’t know, right?

And if you try to try to start having discussions about things that you don’t know, then the weed itself is going to be like, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

20:22

Shut up.

That’s why it’s taking me like 3, three tries to do this podcast because I’m not trying to talk about Charlie Kirk, the man, because it’s unfortunate what happened to him and it’s never should have happened.

And and it’s actually no matter what his beliefs are, that should never happen to somebody.

20:39

So we can’t condemn a person.

We can’t condemn people for thinking differently than us.

We have to think, we have to allow the the concept of change to take hold in our lives.

20:57

And potheads are really good at doing that because a lot of us are not just the oh, I’m student on the coach Stoner dude that everybody thinks we are.

We’re highly motivated individuals that want to learn about life and how to make life a peaceful coexistence.

21:13

OK.

And we’re very aware what we’re watching, what we’re looking at, and we’re very good at, like I said, reflecting on the values, the morals, the conversation that happens in front of us.

21:32

Because I think that the majority of potheads or stoners don’t think I know everything about everything.

They think I want to learn more about everything.

That’s what I think gives potheads the right to be able to or stoners, whatever you prefer to be called.

21:49

Weed guy.

OK, enthusiasts.

I think that’s what gives us the right to be able to have an opinion on the discussion, because I think the discussion is not about the individuals.

I think the discussion is more about the actions of the individuals.

22:06

And the actions of the individuals are the really telling part of what the disruptor is that’s happening right now.

Does that make sense?

Because right now the disruptor is the fact that neither side can have a debate without emotionally being vested to the point where at at some point you’re going to scream and yell at the person and it’s going to result in name calling versus actually defining what any kind of statistic is or really trying to understand what it is that we’re talking about.

22:41

Sometimes we just get caught up in wanting to explain the point and wanting to be right.

And I think that on both sides, that’s what happened here.

Everyone wants to be right, but instead I think that everybody needs to take a fucking breath and take a set us, take a, take a seat for a minute and just reflect on what this really means for freedom of speech and for communication in general.

23:12 – Why the Charlie Kirk Debate Highlights Social Polarization

We can’t get to the point that we’re shooting people because they don’t believe the things that you believe.

That’s not right.

No matter who it is and what they’re saying.

If they’re not physically harming people or preventing someone else living the way of the way of life that they choose to live, then that person should be allowed to speak and, and, and say their piece without having to worry about what their fate’s going to be.

23:49

That’s my take on the Charlie Kirk thing.

I think it’s very unfortunate.

It really sucks.

And because that was going to be such a heavy episode session, so I decided that I was going to smoke a bit of an indica to keep myself calm and relaxed and try to be as thoughtful as possible.

24:09

So hopefully I was and hopefully you see what you see my point.

You can also tell me if you think I’m wrong, let me know leave a comment.

But to do to do this podcast to keep my energy level at a certain comfort, I decided I was going to smoke and did smoke.

FeatureDetails
Strain NameRed Bulls (by Ripe Flowers)
Genetics / TypeHeavy Indica
THC Potency26.4%
Primary TerpenesBeta-Caryophyllene, Limonene, Linalool
Flavor ProfileEarthy, Peppery, Heavy Mouth-feel
Best Used ForPost-workout, Social Anxiety, Deep Relaxation

24:30 – Sesh Review: Ripe Flowers Red Bulls Strain

That’s right, this sesh I smoked.

What’s it called?

Ripe flowers, Red Bulls.

Now, I thought this was going to be a sativa.

It’s not.

It’s an indica.

That’s why I decided to smoke it because I wanted to stay calm for this.

And so this is what it is.

24:46

It’s 1g joint or sorry, it was 1g of dried herb.

I put in a joint and it’s 25 point.

No, yeah, 2026.4% THC.

It’s got, it’s got, it doesn’t say what the percentage of terps it it, it is, but it’s top five terpenes are beta carophylline, alpha humaline, D limonene, linaluol, beta miercin.

25:19

Yeah, those are the five.

It’s good.

It’s kind of tasty.

It’s got like an earthier flavor.

It has like a hint of pepper.

It’s a good Hardy smoke.

25:35

It feels, it’s got good mouth feel.

It tastes a little more smoke like than flavorful.

So that’s why I say it tastes earthy ’cause you know how sometimes you get like an earthy smoke and it and it, it’s got like this underlying body where it feels like heavy in your mouth.

This feels heavy.

25:52

But oh, you know what it’s like.

It’s like a a light cigar where you get a little flavor.

But the no, Yeah, yeah.

About a light cigar.

The smoke’s a little heavier than a light cigar, but the flavour is like a light cigar.

That’s what I’m trying to say.

26:12

The effects are very calming.

I just feel relaxed all over.

I feel like if you did some sort of physical exercise and then came home and you just wanted to sit on the couch and zone out and watch TVI feel like I could flat back it and lay down on the couch and just zone out.

26:29

You know what I’m saying, after smoking this, it’s not really a head high.

It doesn’t really hit you in the head at all.

It’s all, it’s pretty much all body, which I think is why I was able to explain myself in this one because I, like I said, I tried this like four or five times and it didn’t work out as well as I thought it was.

26:50

It burns nice and slow.

The ash is Gray, so that’s nice.

It doesn’t really, I mean, I did cough, but it doesn’t really give you a bad cough.

It tastes like it should kind of OK.

But yeah, I would recommend it.

27:06

I’d recommend it if, because I don’t know what it cost, it was donated to the show.

So if it’s not an expensive half quarter, like if it costs you 25 to 30 bucks, then it’s a good pick.

27:24

If it costs you any more than that, I wouldn’t bother.

You could get better stuff, but for just having a laid back high, I don’t know how long it’ll last.

Hopefully a bit.

This one’s really nice.

It’d be good After workout high, after workout smoke.

Make sure that you don’t get any muscle cramps the next day.

27:44

Yeah, it’s got point O 7% CBD now about what, 3/4 of the way through this gram joint that I rolled of it and I feel like the taste is getting to me.

28:01

So I’d say if you’re going to smoke this, do like a half 1/2 gram.

You probably don’t need the whole gram.

It seems strong enough.

You feel a bit in your eyes, mostly in your eyes, your cheeks, and then your whole body’s just like, oh, I’m good, I’m just going to lay back here.

But your mind is you could be social on it.

28:20

It’s a good social relaxer.

So if you have social anxiety, this might be good for you, especially if you’re a little bit high, like tightly wound, this might bring you down a bit.

Could be good.

So I recommend it.

Yeah, that’s what I say.

I say check that out.

I say what happened to Charlie Kirk is it didn’t need to happen.

28:44

It’s very disappointing act that shows you the state of society right now.

And I think that it should be a it should be a, it should be a turning point in history to adjust how we’re doing some things because violence and and aggression are becoming too familiar.

29:13

I think we need more unity and I think that that’s what this incident should show us is that that’s what we need.

We need to unify.

We need to we got to find the common ground, the middle spot, the sweet spot, and we got to start, you know, interacting on that level because the way that we’re going right now is just dude, it’s it’s leaning to chaos.

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But those are my thoughts off the stem for this week.

Hope you enjoyed the sesh.

Hope you come back next week.

Thank you for joining me, Justin Baroni, your friendly neighborhood pothead.

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Anywhere you get a podcast, really, it’s out there.

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Oh, you know what I’m going to do so on tops420.com, I’m going to put up the I had a chat with ChatGPT about what I was trying to find out about Charlie Kirk.

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So I’ll put that whole conversation up so you can read it because I think it was a fair discussion.

And I think that, well, you look at it and and you decide.

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And yeah, until next time, keep your lids low, baby.

The Charlie Kirk debate is about more than just one person; it’s a reflection of how we communicate as a society. While I explored the Charlie Kirk debate during this sesh, I hope we can move toward more unified, civil discourse.

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