What's With The Situationship? - August 11, 2025

David and foreign correspondent Tony Five riff about a man who – after consulting ChatGPT – chose to swap eating salt for sodium bromide and suffered psychosis. Aki Ito from Business Insider explains the quiet part that AT&T CEO said out loud: workplace loyalty is dead. Dr. Mickey Langlais goes into his research on why people stay in 'situationships'. On Conspiracy Corner, Nathan Radke reveals what Brazil's Varginha UFO incident can teach us about myth creation. (Nathan's podcast The Uncover Up Conspiracy Cast can be found here.) Writer Alli Kushner describes how everyone expects women to be the 'default' parent, despite men being just as capable at parenting. Street performer Alien Toronto (or Olga) crashes the show with an unusual tarot reading for David. Cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Nicole Rheinheimer explains that infants show lower stress when carried by mothers instead of being in a stroller.

Segments:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:52) Tony Five

(09:59) Aki Ito

(19:59) Dr. Mickey Langlais

(29:59) Nathan Radke pt. 1

(39:49) Nathan Radke pt. 2

(49:49) Alli Kushner

(59:49) Alien Toronto (Olga)

(1:09:49) Dr. Nicole Rheinheimer

(1:19:07) Sign-off

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