Latest / The You Project / #2186 Impulse Control - David Gillespie
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I'll get a team. It's bloody, Gillespo and Tiff. It's
- 0:03Speaker 1: a Wednesday night. We've just discovered after doing these at
- 0:07Speaker 1: five o'clock in the PM for the last two hundred
- 0:10Speaker 1: and nineteen years, that were all available of around lunchtime
- 0:13Speaker 1: on a Wednesday. So ah, we could be amazing next week.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Tune in next week. It could be fucking breathtaking. How
- 0:20Speaker 1: clever we all are. Our creativity will be through the roof.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Tiff won't be angry, which is always a blessing, Thank
- 0:27Speaker 1: you Jesus. It could be phenomenal next week. This week
- 0:32Speaker 1: probably shit, but it's already eight minutes past five and
- 0:36Speaker 1: David's given me three bloody reprimands and Tiff is looking
- 0:40Speaker 1: for praise because she ate a protein bar so she
- 0:42Speaker 1: wouldn't be angry on the podcast, Well don't cook, thank you.
- 0:47Speaker 1: I'm always thinking of others. Yeah, oh, aren't you though,
- 0:51Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, ah. You actually brought some food to
- 0:55Speaker 1: the gym for me, made by your boyfriend, who, among
- 0:58Speaker 1: other things, as a cook, can catch a tory. I'm
- 1:02Speaker 1: quite excited about that tonight. Do I eat that on
- 1:05Speaker 1: its own or do I put it with some BASMARTI
- 1:07Speaker 1: Rice and smush it around.
- 1:09Speaker 2: I reckon, you'll probably throw that with some bas Marti Rice.
- 1:13Speaker 1: All right, I'm very excited now. I could be angry
- 1:16Speaker 1: in the next fifteen minutes if Gillespo's not living up
- 1:19Speaker 1: to his huge brand and just delivering like the fucking postman.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Hi buddy, how are you good?
- 1:27Speaker 3: How are you?
- 1:29Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm good, I'm good. This is We'll get onto
- 1:32Speaker 1: our topic straight away, as I always do. How's that.
- 1:36Speaker 1: How's the Australian handball team going?
- 1:41Speaker 3: Well?
- 1:41Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I mean I'm the manager of the women's
- 1:44Speaker 4: team and so they're not not doing anything. They don't
- 1:48Speaker 4: have a comp until September, so starting to get ready
- 1:51Speaker 4: for that, so that should be good.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Yeah, they are they in the season at the moment
- 1:57Speaker 1: or when is the actual club season.
- 2:00Speaker 4: They don't really have a club season in Australia because
- 2:02Speaker 4: there's just not enough people to play. So if you
- 2:05Speaker 4: really want to get good handball experience in Australia pretty
- 2:07Speaker 4: much have to go to Europe. So and that's what
- 2:11Speaker 4: my twins are doing. In a couple of weeks, they're
- 2:14Speaker 4: both hopping on a plane. They've been offered contracts with
- 2:17Speaker 4: the Swedish club. They're going to play there for the
- 2:19Speaker 4: next year. So that's that's what HANDBA does.
- 2:24Speaker 3: You play handball see the world?
- 2:26Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that could be a poster, a terrible one,
- 2:30Speaker 1: but a poster. Nonetheless, How old are you girls?
- 2:34Speaker 3: Twenty two?
- 2:35Speaker 1: Oh wow, you didn't tell me you had twins, did you? Yeah,
- 2:39Speaker 1: they're the last ones. Yeah, so six kids. Last two
- 2:42Speaker 1: are twins. Like I said always, you know, a great
- 2:45Speaker 1: experimental pair because they're identical, but one's left handed, one's
- 2:48Speaker 1: right handed. So their mirror twins, which is a phenomenon
- 2:53Speaker 1: about a quarter of all identical twins are mirror twins.
- 2:56Speaker 4: Where they're half a half of in each. Really, I
- 3:01Speaker 4: guess in the sense that one's left handed, ones right handed.
- 3:04Speaker 4: They had left brained, right brain, et cetera, et cetera.
- 3:08Speaker 1: So is one more cerebral and intellectual I'm not saying
- 3:12Speaker 1: smarter and the other one more creative?
- 3:14Speaker 4: And yeah, definitely really scared. Yeah wow, one's a lawyer
- 3:20Speaker 4: just graduated and the other ce civic engineer had just
- 3:22Speaker 4: graduated and they've decided to take a gap year and
- 3:26Speaker 4: play handball.
- 3:28Speaker 1: Yeah amazing. How do you get a contract in Europe
- 3:32Speaker 1: when you live in a country where it's not even
- 3:34Speaker 1: there are not even teams or club sports the competition.
- 3:39Speaker 4: They were scouted by a coach because we sent a
- 3:43Speaker 4: younger team over there last year, and yeah, so a
- 3:49Speaker 4: relationship developed between the two clubs and he happened to
- 3:55Speaker 4: be out here a few months ago and saw them
- 3:58Speaker 4: playing and said, yeah, we're interested.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Well that's good. Now we'll leave it in a moment.
- 4:03Speaker 1: But I just feel like half our audience has gone,
- 4:06Speaker 1: I do not know what the fuck handball it is.
- 4:09Speaker 3: Well no they are.
- 4:10Speaker 4: No, they're saying I know exactly what it is, and
- 4:12Speaker 4: I don't know why anyone will be playing it in
- 4:14Speaker 4: Europe because they think it's the four square you're playing
- 4:17Speaker 4: the school yard. Yeah, yeah, So what it is handball,
- 4:21Speaker 4: for the uninitiated, is like water pollo but without the water,
- 4:25Speaker 4: or like footsal played with your hands instead.
- 4:27Speaker 3: Of your feet.
- 4:28Speaker 4: So it's an indoor sport played on a footsalal court
- 4:31Speaker 4: with a futsal goal and a goalkeeper, six field players
- 4:35Speaker 4: on each side. It is full contact, so you tackle
- 4:38Speaker 4: people to stop them throwing balls into goals. Very high scoring,
- 4:44Speaker 4: very fast, very very fast, so typical game you'll have
- 4:49Speaker 4: eighty goals scored.
- 4:49Speaker 3: In a game.
- 4:51Speaker 1: Wow, how Long's how long's a game?
- 4:55Speaker 3: An hour? It's an hour.
- 4:57Speaker 4: You get two thirty minute halves and a ten minute
- 4:59Speaker 4: half time, which you need.
- 5:02Speaker 1: Feel like you'd be good with the tackling and bumping,
- 5:05Speaker 1: but a little bit handicapped with all the skills.
- 5:09Speaker 2: What do you mean all the skills.
- 5:12Speaker 3: Trying the other skill? I can't kill.
- 5:15Speaker 2: I had to hone as a boxer.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool, but this is not boxing.
- 5:21Speaker 3: But reaction time is really important.
- 5:23Speaker 4: So one of our best male players is has just
- 5:26Speaker 4: come eighth in Asian Championships in fencing. Fencing is a
- 5:33Speaker 4: high reaction time thing. You have to have really really
- 5:36Speaker 4: fast reactions in fencing and that does him a lot
- 5:40Speaker 4: of good in handball, and you've got to remember this
- 5:43Speaker 4: is an Olympic sport and as host nation, we are
- 5:46Speaker 4: going to be automatic qualifiers in twenty thirty two for
- 5:49Speaker 4: this sport.
- 5:50Speaker 3: So yeah, put an ad out there.
- 5:52Speaker 4: If you've got kids, you know, twelve thirteen years old,
- 5:55Speaker 4: this is when they should be starting because the prime
- 5:57Speaker 4: age for handballers is early to mid twenty and it
- 6:03Speaker 4: is very very high speed, high fitness sport. Similar skill
- 6:06Speaker 4: sets to AFL less likely to do as an acl though.
- 6:11Speaker 1: Yeah, what is if we were going to build the
- 6:13Speaker 1: ideal let's say male. I think it's a bit less creepy,
- 6:18Speaker 1: but we were going to build the ideal male body
- 6:20Speaker 1: for handball, what would it look like, How tall would
- 6:24Speaker 1: it be, how much would it weigh, what physiological attributes
- 6:27Speaker 1: would it have? What would matter the.
- 6:29Speaker 4: Most depends on the position they want to play. There
- 6:32Speaker 4: are two primes, two big scoring positions called the left
- 6:36Speaker 4: and the right backs, and they tend to be very,
- 6:40Speaker 4: very tall, so you'll be wanting people if they're males,
- 6:43Speaker 4: you'll be wanting them over six two six three six
- 6:46Speaker 4: four feet and the taller the better. But also a
- 6:50Speaker 4: lot of muscle on them, so they've got to be
- 6:52Speaker 4: strong because they've got to be able to tackle, hit hard,
- 6:54Speaker 4: and stop someone a similar size to them from getting
- 6:57Speaker 4: to a scoring position. So you want muscular, tall and
- 7:03Speaker 4: very very cardiovascular high levels of cardiovascular fitness, because you're
- 7:08Speaker 4: running from one end of a forty meter court to
- 7:11Speaker 4: the other end of a forty meter court every time
- 7:13Speaker 4: a goal is scored and a lot of times when
- 7:15Speaker 4: it isn't, so you're basically every ten seconds or so
- 7:18Speaker 4: doing a sprint, a forty minute sprint, so you.
- 7:23Speaker 3: Run on average.
- 7:24Speaker 4: They've measured this somewhere between eight and ten kilometers in
- 7:27Speaker 4: a game, but in lots of forty meters.
- 7:31Speaker 1: That would be very hard to train for, like from
- 7:35Speaker 1: a conditioning point of view, because like holding on to
- 7:38Speaker 1: muscle in a sport where you're running all the time
- 7:41Speaker 1: is a real conundrum because the more you run, the
- 7:46Speaker 1: more muscle you lose. Generally speaking, like.
- 7:49Speaker 4: Well, they're they're not doing marathons, they're doing forty meters
- 7:52Speaker 4: at a time, So it's it's impulse running. It's forty
- 7:55Speaker 4: meters flat out tackle someone run forty meters back, so
- 8:01Speaker 4: it's you know, you're using all the muscles, not just
- 8:04Speaker 4: the running and the cardio. You're actually you're also tackling.
- 8:09Speaker 4: And then the shots themselves are jump shots, so you're
- 8:12Speaker 4: jumping as far as you can vertically to try and
- 8:15Speaker 4: shoot over the guy the same size as you who's
- 8:17Speaker 4: standing in.
- 8:17Speaker 3: Front of you.
- 8:19Speaker 4: How big is the goal, so it's two x three
- 8:22Speaker 4: late it's a football goal, so two meters high, three
- 8:26Speaker 4: meters wide right right, and there's a goalkeeper in front
- 8:29Speaker 4: of it. And usually they are pretty big units, right
- 8:32Speaker 4: they are usually one of some of the tallest people
- 8:35Speaker 4: on the team, have a great big arm span.
- 8:39Speaker 1: And how long has it been around?
- 8:43Speaker 4: Ah, in its current form probably first appear in the Olympics,
- 8:49Speaker 4: I think in the nineteen thirties or so. Massive sport
- 8:53Speaker 4: in Europe, so thirty million people play it in Europe.
- 8:58Speaker 4: It is a huge, huge sport there. It's the primary
- 9:01Speaker 4: indoor sport in Europe. So and then almost unknown everywhere else.
- 9:08Speaker 1: Yeah, And who's the best country? Ah?
- 9:12Speaker 4: Well, current world champions of France in both men's and women's.
- 9:18Speaker 4: But yeah's it moves around France, Germany, all the European countries.
- 9:23Speaker 4: The Nordic countries are very strong Denmark, Sweden, Norway, but
- 9:28Speaker 4: also southern European countries are every now and then have
- 9:32Speaker 4: very very strong teams. One of the strongest female teams
- 9:35Speaker 4: at the moments the one of the Hungarian teams.
- 9:38Speaker 1: Wow. And the same goes with the girls in terms
- 9:42Speaker 1: of physiques.
- 9:43Speaker 4: Like similar requirements. Obviously you're not going to get too
- 9:47Speaker 4: many six foot five girls. But for those positions, yeah,
- 9:52Speaker 4: there are other positions. So the center back is the
- 9:57Speaker 4: is sort of the playmaker on the field. They're generally
- 9:59Speaker 4: not particularly tall. They're sort of normal height and normal physique,
- 10:03Speaker 4: just very very fit. They're often the fastest person on
- 10:06Speaker 4: the court. Then you've got wings, who are specialists who
- 10:09Speaker 4: stand most of the game when an attack is on,
- 10:14Speaker 4: waiting for a pass to come to them. It only
- 10:16Speaker 4: happens every now and then because it only comes to
- 10:18Speaker 4: them if there's a gap open up in front of them,
- 10:21Speaker 4: and then they just have to be the first one
- 10:24Speaker 4: down the other end of the court. So they usually
- 10:25Speaker 4: extremely fit, extremely fast, but quite small often compared to
- 10:29Speaker 4: the backs.
- 10:31Speaker 1: What about a forty year old xboxer with impulse control
- 10:34Speaker 1: issues and issues, but really good lack of skills she
- 10:39Speaker 1: wasn't aware of well at handble at handble, Yeah, have you.
- 10:47Speaker 3: Ever played AFL?
- 10:49Speaker 2: Well? Actually, as I was sitting there getting offended in
- 10:52Speaker 2: my own thoughts about this, I remembered the one training
- 10:56Speaker 2: session I went for an AFL women's session and I
- 11:01Speaker 2: dissip hated two joints on my ring finger. And I've
- 11:03Speaker 2: never been helped restrain and it'll been since, So there
- 11:07Speaker 2: could be some truth in the accusation.
- 11:12Speaker 4: All right, Well, yeah, if you've if you've got a
- 11:15Speaker 4: strong throwing, I've got a strong shot speed like a
- 11:19Speaker 4: professional women's player will be throwing a ball it's about
- 11:24Speaker 4: half the size of a soccer ball, throwing that at
- 11:26Speaker 4: around one hundred kilometers an hour. Professional men's player be
- 11:29Speaker 4: doing it one hundred and forty kilometers an hour.
- 11:32Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, Well you don't want to dislocate those big
- 11:36Speaker 1: bloody shoulders of yours TIFFs, So maybe maybe put that
- 11:39Speaker 1: on the back burner for now.
- 11:42Speaker 4: I reckon you should have it to go. If you're
- 11:44Speaker 4: ever in Brisbane, tip give me a yell. I'll get
- 11:47Speaker 4: you alonger a session. We'll get video for you.
- 11:50Speaker 1: Craig, could you speaking of angry and impulse control issues
- 12:02Speaker 1: and the like wor segue in the world. But you
- 12:06Speaker 1: did write an article recently about in pulse control? What
- 12:11Speaker 1: did you Why did you write that? Where did that
- 12:14Speaker 1: idea come from? Did something precipitate that it did?
- 12:18Speaker 4: So we see a lot of stories, and particularly lately
- 12:21Speaker 4: about crime spikes, violent crime spikes.
- 12:26Speaker 3: Know we're being.
- 12:27Speaker 4: Overwhelmed by violent crime, and it's not nonsense. We are
- 12:31Speaker 4: the statistics are showing that there are significant increases in
- 12:38Speaker 4: what the data, well the ABS data describes as acts
- 12:42Speaker 4: intended to cause injury. So you know this is the
- 12:46Speaker 4: whole spectrum of assault basically, but you know things where
- 12:50Speaker 4: you're trying to hurt somebody, And if you break it
- 12:54Speaker 4: all down, like the numbers are there, it was up
- 12:57Speaker 4: ten percent in Victoria last year, twenty percent in South
- 12:59Speaker 4: of Australia, and it's about thirty percent of all crime
- 13:06Speaker 4: is under this definition of acts intended to cause injury,
- 13:09Speaker 4: which is about one hundred thousand Australians. So there's one
- 13:12Speaker 4: hundred thousand people out there trying to hurt people, or
- 13:16Speaker 4: at least trying to hurt them to the extent that
- 13:17Speaker 4: it makes it into a crime statistic, which means the
- 13:20Speaker 4: coppers have to be involved.
- 13:22Speaker 3: So this is real.
- 13:25Speaker 4: There is, in fact significant increases in violent crime. People
- 13:31Speaker 4: aren't making that up or beating it up for headlines.
- 13:33Speaker 4: I mean some people like to put a racial overtone
- 13:35Speaker 4: on it and blame this or that group for it,
- 13:38Speaker 4: but the reality is it probably has almost nothing to
- 13:41Speaker 4: do with the race or origin of the person and
- 13:45Speaker 4: a lot to do with what's going on between their ears.
- 13:49Speaker 4: And that's what I want to talk about today, which
- 13:51Speaker 4: is what is the link between that and the other
- 13:55Speaker 4: thing we've talked about recently, which is the massive increase
- 13:59Speaker 4: in meth illegal myth in the community. You know, how
- 14:04Speaker 4: we talked about all drugs are increasing like off the
- 14:07Speaker 4: scale twenty twenty four percent in the last year alone
- 14:10Speaker 4: for illegal drugs, and we talked about how my theory
- 14:15Speaker 4: that that is really just a continuation of the legal
- 14:19Speaker 4: amphetamine pipeline, which is the massive increase in ADHD prescriptions,
- 14:24Speaker 4: which translates into a massive, even more massive increase.
- 14:28Speaker 3: In illegal myth.
- 14:31Speaker 4: Simply because the medical system has to stop at a
- 14:35Speaker 4: certain point and can't keep helping the dose. Why do
- 14:39Speaker 4: we all suddenly need all this myth? And what does
- 14:41Speaker 4: it have to do with crime? Is what this articles about?
- 14:47Speaker 1: So and so is part of that. Sorry, I'm just
- 14:53Speaker 1: trying to get my head around the increase in use
- 14:55Speaker 1: of meth. So some of the people coming into that
- 14:59Speaker 1: kind of pop line of meth us maybe for one
- 15:04Speaker 1: of a better term, kind of regular mister and missus
- 15:07Speaker 1: Suburbia who got diagnosed with ADHD and kind of got
- 15:11Speaker 1: to the end of the you know, the prescription pipeline
- 15:15Speaker 1: in terms of what's accessible or available or prescribable, and
- 15:20Speaker 1: they because they'd built up that threshold, so they kind
- 15:24Speaker 1: of needed more and so that's where they go.
- 15:27Speaker 4: Yeah, they're or cocaine, both of which are increasing. I mean,
- 15:30Speaker 4: math is faster a rate of increase than cocaine, but
- 15:33Speaker 4: cocaine's pretty big too. I don't know if you saw
- 15:34Speaker 4: the news this week the huge amount of cocaine that
- 15:39Speaker 4: was taken in that drug bust several tons. I think
- 15:42Speaker 4: it's three tons of cocaine buried under a container on
- 15:46Speaker 4: property and the biggest drug bust ever in Australian history.
- 15:52Speaker 3: And quite by chance.
- 15:55Speaker 4: Larni discovered it because they're investigating a truck fire and noticed,
- 16:00Speaker 4: you know, several kilos of cocaine floating in the water
- 16:04Speaker 4: near where the truck was. So so, you know, and
- 16:10Speaker 4: that goes Australia is now. I think it's the second
- 16:13Speaker 4: largest per capita market for cocaine in the world. So
- 16:18Speaker 4: we are significant users of these drugs. And part of
- 16:21Speaker 4: the reason for that is that Australian cocaine is amongst
- 16:25Speaker 4: the most expensive in the world. I mean, it costs
- 16:27Speaker 4: the same to get it here as it does to
- 16:29Speaker 4: anywhere else, but Australians pay.
- 16:31Speaker 3: More for it.
- 16:32Speaker 4: So it's a it's a very lucrative market. The why
- 16:37Speaker 4: do we even have the market, why are we desiring
- 16:41Speaker 4: these things? I trace it all back to that little
- 16:44Speaker 4: dopamine generator that we've all decided to put in our pockets.
- 16:48Speaker 4: And we've talked about this over and over again. But
- 16:52Speaker 4: it creates a cycle in the brain where you have
- 16:56Speaker 4: a brain that is needing the next dopamine hit. It
- 17:00Speaker 4: hardwires the brain to increase its tolerance for dopamine to
- 17:05Speaker 4: the point where there is not a strong enough hit
- 17:08Speaker 4: available where you have to keep increasing, increasing, increasing increasing
- 17:12Speaker 4: the stimulation.
- 17:13Speaker 3: And that is.
- 17:14Speaker 4: A physical change in the human brain that has significant consequences.
- 17:20Speaker 4: And when we talked about meth before, I highlighted that
- 17:24Speaker 4: the big consequence is the massive increase in psychosis. So
- 17:27Speaker 4: there are people walking around in society today who firmly
- 17:31Speaker 4: believe that you work for the CIA, and you're probably
- 17:34Speaker 4: going to kill them if you're given half a chance.
- 17:37Speaker 4: The psychosis is becoming a significant problem. And that's one outcome.
- 17:45Speaker 4: But another outcome is this one, which is this same
- 17:50Speaker 4: change in the human brain significantly reduces our impulse control.
- 17:56Speaker 4: Now you might regard it as irritability. You know, are
- 18:01Speaker 4: you more irritable today than you were five years ago.
- 18:05Speaker 1: Are you more likely are you listening TIV.
- 18:09Speaker 2: Because I'm hungry?
- 18:12Speaker 4: You know?
- 18:14Speaker 3: Are you more likely to blow your top? You know?
- 18:17Speaker 4: Is the fraun who's parked the tes or across three
- 18:20Speaker 4: parking spaces at Willies more likely to infuriate you now
- 18:24Speaker 4: than it would have before? Do you have less control
- 18:29Speaker 4: over your anger, your reactions, your emotions.
- 18:34Speaker 3: In general? Yes, as a society we are.
- 18:38Speaker 4: The more of these dopamine stimulating things we put into
- 18:42Speaker 4: our world, the less impulse control we have. The crime
- 18:46Speaker 4: statistics speak for themselves, those one hundred thousand people. Most
- 18:49Speaker 4: of the crimes are not premeditated, you know, elaborate plots
- 18:53Speaker 4: to hurt somebody. There's someone blowing up and taking a hit.
- 19:00Speaker 4: You know, we are in general becoming less tolerant, more irritable,
- 19:05Speaker 4: and more likely to commit a violent act because there's
- 19:10Speaker 4: a fight on in every human brain between what's called
- 19:13Speaker 4: the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex. Now, the limbic
- 19:17Speaker 4: system is our reptilian brain, our raw emotions, our this
- 19:22Speaker 4: thing happens, react instantly, no thought involved. And because we're humans,
- 19:26Speaker 4: we have the prefrontal cortex, which we evolved it's our
- 19:29Speaker 4: most recently evolved part of the brain, the front bit,
- 19:33Speaker 4: and it takes that signal from the limbic system and says, wow,
- 19:37Speaker 4: hang on, hang on, hang on the second hang on,
- 19:39Speaker 4: hang on, do we need to punch this guy? You know,
- 19:43Speaker 4: there are consequences. Let's think this through. Let's see if
- 19:47Speaker 4: there's an alternative view. The trouble is that when you
- 19:51Speaker 4: amp the human brain up on dopamine, that control mechanism
- 19:56Speaker 4: vanishes or significantly decreases. Yes, so the same signal goes,
- 20:03Speaker 4: but the prefrontal cortex is having a nap. It just
- 20:07Speaker 4: never gets involved in the question and you just get
- 20:11Speaker 4: raw reaction.
- 20:13Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And so also like judgment, ability to judge
- 20:21Speaker 1: and be rational, and like a level of awareness, all
- 20:26Speaker 1: that kind of vanishes a little bit, right because you
- 20:29Speaker 1: behavior gets hijacked by reptilian brain or amygdala or whatever.
- 20:34Speaker 4: It is well that you have less impulse control. You're disinhibited,
- 20:38Speaker 4: so you're essentially drunk. And you know, alcoholis has at
- 20:44Speaker 4: least in the early stages of drinking. Alcohol has the
- 20:47Speaker 4: same effect in the latter stages it puts you to sleep,
- 20:49Speaker 4: but in the in the early stages, it disinhibits you
- 20:53Speaker 4: and it uses a similar mechanism. So the result is
- 20:58Speaker 4: that you've got a lot of people fall out there
- 21:01Speaker 4: who might look normal, but who are just as likely
- 21:07Speaker 4: to blow up and punch you if they're irritated.
- 21:13Speaker 3: So it's not just Utif there's.
- 21:17Speaker 1: You're not a line tip, there's help. We want you
- 21:19Speaker 1: to call one eight hundred Impulse control and what of
- 21:23Speaker 1: our team will talk to you invalidated. That's good, like
- 21:28Speaker 1: a parking ticket.
- 21:33Speaker 4: Yeah, so, but we've got to boil it all back
- 21:37Speaker 4: to why is this happening and what can we do
- 21:41Speaker 4: about it? If we're going to make everybody in society
- 21:46Speaker 4: use a dopamine generator twenty four hours a day, which
- 21:51Speaker 4: is what we're doing and have been doing since the
- 21:53Speaker 4: invention of the iPad in twenty ten, we are undertaking
- 21:58Speaker 4: a massive experiment that has.
- 22:00Speaker 3: Never ever been done before.
- 22:03Speaker 4: Yes, Australia has had times in its history where we
- 22:05Speaker 4: have topped the charts in drug taking. Straight after World
- 22:09Speaker 4: War One we were the highest cocaine users in the
- 22:12Speaker 4: world as a sort of a self medicated treatment for
- 22:18Speaker 4: what they called combat fatigue, but what we'd call today PTSD.
- 22:22Speaker 4: It's but We've never done this, No one has ever
- 22:27Speaker 4: done this where we take every single person in society
- 22:32Speaker 4: and pump them their dopamine receptors relentlessly and see what happens.
- 22:37Speaker 4: And we're starting to see the consequences. We're starting to
- 22:41Speaker 4: see the rates of ADHD rise, the rates of psychosis rise,
- 22:45Speaker 4: the rates of depression and suicide rise, the rates of
- 22:48Speaker 4: anxiety rise quite sharply, and also violent crime, which is
- 22:54Speaker 4: affected by impulse control.
- 22:55Speaker 1: Yeah, what is or what have I know, you don't
- 23:01Speaker 1: love talking about law because you do it all day,
- 23:03Speaker 1: But what has been like the legal or the court
- 23:09Speaker 1: response or you know, in terms of this extra one
- 23:14Speaker 1: hundred thousand people and the meteoric rise of you know,
- 23:21Speaker 1: people being out of control and incapable of managing their impulses,
- 23:26Speaker 1: Like what's happening practically because the court can't put everyone
- 23:29Speaker 1: in jail?
- 23:30Speaker 4: Right, Well, I think the courts are doing what they've
- 23:33Speaker 4: always done. They don't change the law. But politicians have
- 23:37Speaker 4: a different reaction. And you see this quite a lot
- 23:40Speaker 4: in the current state government in Queensland was elected on
- 23:46Speaker 4: adult time for adult crime platform, and you see that happening,
- 23:51Speaker 4: and that's really a political response to these increased crime rates.
- 23:55Speaker 4: They say youth crime is out of control because, by
- 23:58Speaker 4: the way, lot of this concentrates in young people, because
- 24:02Speaker 4: young people have even less impulse control than adults. Because
- 24:07Speaker 4: at that particular point of growing a human brain, that
- 24:10Speaker 4: is between the startup puberty and ten years later, you
- 24:13Speaker 4: lose one of the built in control systems that is
- 24:15Speaker 4: already there in the human brain called the gabba gaba,
- 24:20Speaker 4: which is in itself a breaking system on impulses, but
- 24:25Speaker 4: it's dialed down to allow puberty to grow that part
- 24:28Speaker 4: of the brain. So almost all the negative effects of
- 24:33Speaker 4: addiction focus most severely in that timeframe that is between
- 24:39Speaker 4: the startup puberty and early twenties.
- 24:43Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's interesting to see even friends of mine
- 24:51Speaker 1: who've got kids, I mean anywhere between three and twenty
- 24:56Speaker 1: three when I say kids, But the amount of the
- 25:00Speaker 1: that have been diagnosed with ADHD or that have got medicated,
- 25:06Speaker 1: you know, with multiple medications, the number is not small
- 25:11Speaker 1: and it doesn't seem you know, the impact good or
- 25:16Speaker 1: bad varies. But yeah, there are a lot of people
- 25:19Speaker 1: who are taking lots of stuff and really in something
- 25:24Speaker 1: of our physiological holding pattern with no real kind of
- 25:29Speaker 1: well once that happens, then you'll come off, and then
- 25:32Speaker 1: you'll it's really just managing symptoms as opposed to solving
- 25:37Speaker 1: medical problems. Do you know what I mean?
- 25:39Speaker 4: Well, yeah, exactly. I mean it's a miracle drug in
- 25:43Speaker 4: that way. There's very few drugs you can take where
- 25:47Speaker 4: you take a drug and then within half an hour
- 25:51Speaker 4: all your symptoms have gone.
- 25:54Speaker 3: There's there's almost.
- 25:55Speaker 4: Nothing in that category except perhaps maybe a headache. But
- 26:02Speaker 4: these things, so these amphetamines that they're giving to people
- 26:07Speaker 4: who have what is being diagnosed as ADHD, but which
- 26:10Speaker 4: I would say is usually an inability to focus caused
- 26:16Speaker 4: by dopamine stimulating behavior like addictive gameplaying, social media, or
- 26:23Speaker 4: in worse cases, and drugs themselves. But that the that
- 26:28Speaker 4: you give someone one of these things, when they aren't
- 26:32Speaker 4: able to focus for more than a few seconds and
- 26:34Speaker 4: their brains going ping, ping, ping, ping ping all over
- 26:36Speaker 4: the place, you give them one of these things, they
- 26:40Speaker 4: can focus brilliantly straight away, straight like miraculously straight away.
- 26:47Speaker 4: And that's because what's going on, and it seems counterintuitive.
- 26:51Speaker 4: Hold on, I've got a kid bouncing off the walls here,
- 26:53Speaker 4: and the cure is to give him a stimulant. It
- 26:59Speaker 4: seems counterintuitive, but it works, and the reason it works
- 27:04Speaker 4: is because it gives a massive dopamine hit. And dopamine's
- 27:07Speaker 4: other function, besides one of its many other functions, is
- 27:12Speaker 4: to get you to focus. Its purpose in real life
- 27:16Speaker 4: is to sharpen up your senses so that you can
- 27:19Speaker 4: pay attention to rewarding behavior and pay attention to dangerous
- 27:24Speaker 4: behavior so that you react more quickly. So dopamine is
- 27:29Speaker 4: the focused juice of our brain, and the way to
- 27:32Speaker 4: get our brain to get more dopamine is to give
- 27:36Speaker 4: it a stimulant drug. And once you do that, it
- 27:39Speaker 4: does provide an immediate short term fix for it. The
- 27:43Speaker 4: problem is that the brain says, oh, okay, well, this
- 27:46Speaker 4: is the new level of dopamine that I need and
- 27:50Speaker 4: resets its expectations. You become tolerant of it, and then
- 27:53Speaker 4: when the drug wears off about four hours later, you
- 27:57Speaker 4: are back to the same place you were, or in fact,
- 28:00Speaker 4: probably worse because you've moved the ratchet up another notch.
- 28:04Speaker 1: Is it true that some people are born with genetically
- 28:09Speaker 1: a compared to the normal A dopamine kind of deficit,
- 28:14Speaker 1: like they sit below the kind of definitely whatever is
- 28:19Speaker 1: the normal line, and so therefore they're more predisposed to addiction.
- 28:25Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, it is, as was any condition in humans.
- 28:29Speaker 4: No two of us are the same. It's a normal
- 28:32Speaker 4: distribution for everything. So yes, what I just described is
- 28:37Speaker 4: most people. But there will be people who are born
- 28:40Speaker 4: that way whose dopamine levels are artificially too high. Well,
- 28:45Speaker 4: the requirement is artificially too high, and therefore the amount
- 28:48Speaker 4: they have is artificially too low, which means they can't
- 28:51Speaker 4: focus no matter what. It's got nothing to do with
- 28:53Speaker 4: whether they're gaming or on social media or gambling or whatever,
- 28:57Speaker 4: nothing to do with any of that. It's just the
- 28:59Speaker 4: way are wired. And that is what I would say
- 29:03Speaker 4: is the classic ADHD that it should be diagnosed as.
- 29:08Speaker 4: This is nothing to do with what this person has
- 29:11Speaker 4: or has not been doing. It is just the way
- 29:13Speaker 4: they are. The vast majority of the new diagnoses that
- 29:17Speaker 4: we are now facing, the tidal wave of them that
- 29:19Speaker 4: we are now facing, are not that those are the
- 29:23Speaker 4: same as they've always ever been. The new ones are
- 29:27Speaker 4: the ones where it's been induced by significant exposure to
- 29:31Speaker 4: dopamine production.
- 29:33Speaker 3: A addiction.
- 29:35Speaker 1: We have a guy who comes on here semi regularly,
- 29:38Speaker 1: probably three or four times a year. His name is Mikol.
- 29:41Speaker 1: He owns an addiction treatment centered down here in Melbourne.
- 29:45Speaker 1: And he's spoken about the first time he ever had booze.
- 29:49Speaker 1: And he talks about being a lonely kid, not a
- 29:53Speaker 1: very popular kid, not a very confident kid, scared of everything,
- 29:58Speaker 1: and just you know, socially somewhat functional. And he a guy,
- 30:04Speaker 1: not even a friend, but a guy he knew at school.
- 30:08Speaker 1: He and that guy ended up down the back of
- 30:10Speaker 1: the school with a think it was a flag, which
- 30:14Speaker 1: sounds disgusting. I think it was sherry or something, but
- 30:17Speaker 1: it was it was booze, nonetheless, And he said the
- 30:22Speaker 1: first time that he drank alcohol, he said, firstly it
- 30:25Speaker 1: tasted horrible, but he felt amazing. And he said, I
- 30:30Speaker 1: felt like i'd come home. And he goes, I knew
- 30:34Speaker 1: that I would. Well, obviously he's clean and sober. Now,
- 30:37Speaker 1: well done, Mick. But he's like, I knew this was
- 30:40Speaker 1: my thing now, Like that was it was the only
- 30:43Speaker 1: time I felt normal, Like I'd never felt normal, and
- 30:47Speaker 1: I add this thing into my system. Like when that's
- 30:50Speaker 1: your experience, it's pretty bloody hard to not become an addict.
- 30:53Speaker 4: Right exactly, and almost all addicts will say the same thing.
- 30:58Speaker 4: You know, they'll say, yes, you know, the thinking brain
- 31:01Speaker 4: of mind, my pre for in frontal cortex tells me
- 31:04Speaker 4: smoking is really really bad for me, you know, really
- 31:06Speaker 4: really bad for me, and I shouldn't do it.
- 31:08Speaker 3: It's deadly.
- 31:09Speaker 4: But when I do it, I feel normal. And what
- 31:13Speaker 4: they mean by that is it raises their dopamine level
- 31:18Speaker 4: to a level where they feel focused and in control
- 31:22Speaker 4: and can deal with problems. But before they do it,
- 31:27Speaker 4: their attentions all over the place. They can't focus on anything,
- 31:30Speaker 4: they can't have a constant stream of thought, they feel
- 31:33Speaker 4: overwhelmed by everything. And then they have the substance that
- 31:38Speaker 4: produces the dopamine, and they say it makes me feel normal,
- 31:44Speaker 4: and over and over and over again, you will feel
- 31:46Speaker 4: you'll hear that story from addicts. And the problem is
- 31:50Speaker 4: we're turning everybody into addicts. So the only way anybody
- 31:55Speaker 4: can feel normal is if they're doing something addictive.
- 32:00Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of Hunter S. Thompson? Oh yes, yes, yeah,
- 32:04Speaker 1: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Yes, it was an
- 32:08Speaker 1: addict to multiple things, as I understand, but yeah, he was.
- 32:13Speaker 1: I think he spoke about numerous times he like he
- 32:16Speaker 1: was a creative Well, I guess it's a subjective interpretation,
- 32:19Speaker 1: but a lot of people think he was a creative genius,
- 32:22Speaker 1: but he couldn't create anything unless he was high or drunk.
- 32:26Speaker 4: It's a common theme in a lot of really significantly
- 32:31Speaker 4: famous producers of art, in particular Dostoevsky, for example, in
- 32:38Speaker 4: The Gambler. You know, he wrote a book about himself
- 32:41Speaker 4: as a gambler, one of the most famous pieces of
- 32:44Speaker 4: literature ever written. But he was just describing his own experience,
- 32:48Speaker 4: and he was a chronic gambler, And in fact, the
- 32:51Speaker 4: only way was able to read the book was to
- 32:54Speaker 4: imprison himself in his room and not let himself out
- 32:58Speaker 4: until the book was written, because otherwise he would have
- 33:01Speaker 4: been at the casino. Now imagine if he'd had access
- 33:05Speaker 4: to a phone, it wouldn't have been written.
- 33:10Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Tiff, can you look up. I feel like
- 33:14Speaker 1: somebody told me that Stephen King wrote one of his
- 33:19Speaker 1: books and consciously it was high all the time, Like
- 33:27Speaker 1: maybe it was coke, maybe it was something else. Can
- 33:30Speaker 1: you just see if you can find that.
- 33:32Speaker 4: I've seen that story over, not necessarily Stephen King, but
- 33:36Speaker 4: over and over again. A lot of artistic types attribute
- 33:40Speaker 4: their creativity to stimulants of some one or or another,
- 33:47Speaker 4: whether it's alcohol or anything else. And sometimes it's just
- 33:51Speaker 4: a result of being rich and famous on the rock
- 33:54Speaker 4: and roll lifestyle, but sometimes it's quite genuinely the only
- 33:58Speaker 4: way they can produce anything.
- 34:00Speaker 2: Yep.
- 34:01Speaker 1: Psychedelics are a big thing now. There are. Yeah, even
- 34:05Speaker 1: at not far from me, at Monash, a couple of
- 34:09Speaker 1: hundred meters away, they're doing psilocybin research and it's yeah,
- 34:13Speaker 1: it's really And also that time which we've spoken about
- 34:16Speaker 1: for ten seconds, eiber gain, which is that drug they're
- 34:20Speaker 1: trying to get pushed through in Texas that that apparently
- 34:26Speaker 1: cures ninety percent of people ninety plus percent of people
- 34:29Speaker 1: from PTSD, mainly veterans, in one dose.
- 34:36Speaker 3: Wow, okay, but it's like.
- 34:38Speaker 1: A it's like a twelve hour experience. That's like how
- 34:43Speaker 1: excuse me? Like, hell, yeah, I've listened to countless people
- 34:47Speaker 1: in countless that's not true ten And they all say
- 34:52Speaker 1: the same thing.
- 34:53Speaker 4: If it was eleven, it would If it was eleven,
- 34:55Speaker 4: it would have been countless, wouldn't it, Because that you
- 34:57Speaker 4: get more than more than the number of fingers you got, so.
- 35:00Speaker 1: That's very hurtful, David. I think somebody with your wisdom
- 35:04Speaker 1: and insight and giant fucking brain would know not to insult,
- 35:10Speaker 1: not to insult you the fat, lonely kid. Hey, Tiff,
- 35:14Speaker 1: what did you find?
- 35:15Speaker 2: Yes. Stephen King has spoken very openly about struggling with
- 35:18Speaker 2: alcoholism and cocaine addiction during much of the late nineteen
- 35:22Speaker 2: seventies and eighties. His most famous example was Kujo, where
- 35:28Speaker 2: he said he was impaired by addiction at the time
- 35:30Speaker 2: and barely remembers writing it.
- 35:33Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, there's there's quite a few in that. So, yeah, time,
- 35:39Speaker 1: do we have three or four minutes to talk about
- 35:41Speaker 1: moving towards any kind of solution or is that another show?
- 35:45Speaker 3: Or no?
- 35:46Speaker 4: We can No, we can talk about. The solution is
- 35:48Speaker 4: unfortunately very obvious and also very very hard to do,
- 35:52Speaker 4: which is stop doing addictive things.
- 35:57Speaker 1: And I don't know that that's a salt. I think, yeah, theoretically,
- 36:02Speaker 1: but yeah, I feel like you're saying, yeah, Well.
- 36:06Speaker 4: By definition, if it was easy, it wouldn't be addictive.
- 36:10Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I could stop eating broccoli tomorrow
- 36:14Speaker 4: and I'd be fine.
- 36:15Speaker 3: I wouldn't struggle with that at all.
- 36:17Speaker 4: But you know, if there was something that I was
- 36:20Speaker 4: addicted to, you know, if I was a chocolate addict
- 36:23Speaker 4: or something, then I might find it more of a struggle.
- 36:25Speaker 4: The definition of addiction is that you can't stop doing it.
- 36:29Speaker 4: So but there are ways to construct your environment in
- 36:34Speaker 4: such a way and your mindset in such a way
- 36:37Speaker 4: that it is easier to stop doing it. And I
- 36:41Speaker 4: believe it or not, there are methods where about a
- 36:43Speaker 4: third of people who do try to break an addiction
- 36:46Speaker 4: do succeed. But it requires you to do a bunch
- 36:50Speaker 4: of stuff that most people are not prepared to do.
- 36:53Speaker 4: One of them is admit that you've got an addiction,
- 36:56Speaker 4: which that's the biggest hurdle right at the start. And
- 37:01Speaker 4: a lot of people say to me, oh, look this
- 37:03Speaker 4: is all well and good, but I'm not addicted to gaming.
- 37:06Speaker 4: And they'll say that, but if you say, okay, good,
- 37:09Speaker 4: throw that in the swimming pool, that gaming box or
- 37:13Speaker 4: that computer or whatever and see how you go. And
- 37:17Speaker 4: they're not prepared to do that, and they're not prepared
- 37:20Speaker 4: to make that. They'd rather sit back and say, look,
- 37:24Speaker 4: I can stop anytime I want. And you hear that
- 37:27Speaker 4: from any addict. But the reality is you have to
- 37:30Speaker 4: actually stop, and then the really hard bit is stay stopped.
- 37:36Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's very common as like,
- 37:41Speaker 1: especially when their addicts who see themselves as being you know,
- 37:46Speaker 1: somewhat intellectual or clever or you know, superior or something.
- 37:51Speaker 1: You know. What springs to mind for me is business men.
- 37:55Speaker 1: That's very judgmental of it. But quite a few blokes
- 37:58Speaker 1: I've spoken to where I've realized, you know, some way
- 38:04Speaker 1: into the conversation, they are one hundred per addicted. Like
- 38:07Speaker 1: this is not occasional over use or abuse. This is like,
- 38:12Speaker 1: this is something that's inherent and something that's Yeah, but
- 38:17Speaker 1: they're you know, oh now, and then I overdo it.
- 38:20Speaker 1: But I'm not addicted. I could. I'm like, you could
- 38:22Speaker 1: stop any time. I could stop any time. I'm like, no,
- 38:25Speaker 1: you can't. So there's that, Yeah, you can't acknowledge God.
- 38:29Speaker 4: What you've got to do is avoid any kind of
- 38:33Speaker 4: a moral judgment here. And this is the hard bit
- 38:36Speaker 4: is the reason people won't admit to having an addiction
- 38:40Speaker 4: is because they know how they feel about people who
- 38:44Speaker 4: admit to having an addiction, which is it's a weakness.
- 38:47Speaker 4: These people are weak, and it's not a weakness. It's biochemistry.
- 38:53Speaker 4: It's it's just a chemical reaction that's happening. It does
- 38:57Speaker 4: says nothing about your moral character. It says nothing about
- 39:01Speaker 4: whether you're going to heaven or hell. It says nothing
- 39:04Speaker 4: about you at all, other than that you've been exposed
- 39:06Speaker 4: to something that produces dopamine hits.
- 39:09Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's a topic for another day. Tiff, Heaven
- 39:13Speaker 1: and hell, Heaven and hell colon Where are you going?
- 39:18Speaker 1: Hashtag eternal Lake of Fire? Yeah? Wow, wow, well mate,
- 39:25Speaker 1: it's always good to chat. I hope you girls go great, yeah,
- 39:30Speaker 1: and hopefully for the next year and have some fun.
- 39:33Speaker 1: So do they get put up? Like do they what's
- 39:38Speaker 1: it called where you go and live in someone else's house?
- 39:40Speaker 1: What's that called?
- 39:41Speaker 3: Tiff? Like cheah?
- 39:43Speaker 1: Like know when people in skills billets? Yeah, do they
- 39:47Speaker 1: get billeted to a family.
- 39:49Speaker 4: No, But the club's helping them with with some accommodation,
- 39:53Speaker 4: so it's yeah, it's it'll be an interesting experience for them.
- 39:57Speaker 4: It'll they'll either find out that they're they're good, well
- 40:00Speaker 4: they're rubbish, and they'll be home early.
- 40:02Speaker 1: Is it an English speaking country Sweden?
- 40:05Speaker 3: No?
- 40:06Speaker 1: No, oh, I've been to Sweden.
- 40:10Speaker 4: They go, well, more people, more people speak Kling than Swedish.
- 40:17Speaker 1: No, that's not I don't think that's true. I think
- 40:19Speaker 1: more than half speaks English. Not amazing. Yeah, by the way,
- 40:24Speaker 1: when I went to Sweden, I was the ugliest person
- 40:28Speaker 1: in the whole country. Oh my god. Even the men
- 40:31Speaker 1: are fucking beautiful. I'm like, yeah, I could be gay
- 40:35Speaker 1: in a day. Just it's like, oh yeah, it's just
- 40:43Speaker 1: a stunning population. All right. On that a moment.
- 40:47Speaker 3: Of interesting interesting in the show.
- 40:52Speaker 4: They just you've got to have that as a cliffhanger
- 40:55Speaker 4: at the start, you know, say, wait for Cranks, really
- 41:00Speaker 4: important self reflection.
- 41:02Speaker 1: At the end, Tiff, can you take that and him
- 41:05Speaker 1: all of it out?
- 41:06Speaker 3: All of it?
- 41:07Speaker 1: All right, mate, We'll see you next week. We'll say goodbye.
- 41:10Speaker 1: Thanks Tiff.
- 41:12Speaker 2: Thanks