Hello and welcome to a podcast called My Pleasure hosted by a human girl who is not made of

AI technology, unfortunately, although I wish I was. But then if I was AI, I would wish I was a human.

And the cycle continues. And I think that's part of what we'll talk about today.

Because I want to talk about, I want to talk about dopamine, which is such a ugly, it's not a hot word.

It's not a sexy word.

It's, there's no, like, there's nothing fun or cute or a fairy princess like about knowing what dopamine is.

It's so sad.

Like, if you have to think and talk and know about dopamine, things are not going well for you.

It's sad. We have to follow the science of the human experience

only when we are fucking it up and not feeling good. It would be so much better to just still be

in that childlike state where I don't know what brain chemicals are and I don't I don't know what

problems are I remember standing in Target with my best friend Christina we were probably in

like fourth grade and we were looking at underwear because we were like we want to buy thongs

but Target I don't think had thongs underwear because we were like, we want to buy thongs, but Target, I don't think, had thongs.

And we wanted, like, sexy stuff, which is so young, but, like, hey, it's American culture.

We love you.

Mean it.

But I remember we had this conversation where, like, look to each other like we both don't

really know what stress is like what is that and christina was like my mom talks about it like she has it

and i'm like i hear it talked about a lot too like in movies and stuff and we both just didn't know what

it was and we kind of got to revel in this little moment

of our lives where we didn't know what stress was and I'm so grateful for that core memory

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