Podbit · 2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
Tom Segura's DMT experience lasted about 15 minutes, but not in a chill way. His entire visual field turned into a black-and-white sketchbook drawing and he was terrified it was permanent. Then the visuals shifted to surfacing unresolved thoughts — grief, death, purpose — which he found genuinely rewarding.
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Bert discloses that Tom came up in his therapy session when Bert was discussing mushrooms as a possible transition tool before returning to drinking. He told his therapist Tom does DMT and the therapist's eyes lit up — particularly when Bert mentioned Tom had done it 'in a hotel room,' prompting Leanne to ask what DMT even is. Tom takes over to describe the experience in remarkable detail: the first phase was his entire visual field converting to a black-and-white sketchbook rendering of reality, which he genuinely feared was permanent. He closed his eyes, reopened them, and everything was still sketched — terrifying. The second phase was more rewarding: shelved thoughts surfaced for examination, including grief about his father, death, and purpose. [1] — Tom Segura "Tom Segura's DMT experience lasted about 15 minutes, but not in a chill way. His entire visual field turned into a black-and-white sketchbo…" 18:27 Tom's assessment is that DMT forces you to look at things you'd normally avoid, which is its core value. He notes the entire experience lasted roughly 15 minutes. Bert confesses he hasn't done it in a while, and the conversation drifts briefly through kratom and ecstasy before the Ultra Pouches ad read.
Tom Segura's DMT experience lasted only approximately 15 minutes, during which his entire visual field appeared as a black-and-white sketch.
Bert Kreischer has become noticeably nastier and quicker to enforce boundaries since getting sober, including refusing camera tests on show day and leaving parties early.
Sobriety didn't make Bert kinder — it made him meaner. He's started refusing unreasonable work requests flat-out, leaving events when he wants, and pushing back on anyone who talks to him sideways. He thinks it's pent-up years of being the guy everyone assumed would just go along.
Self-help fails because people are sold one universal cure by the hyper-responders who had a transformative result from it. The real problem is context: every method works for the right person at the right time, which is almost never you just because the author says so.
Spencer Greenberg was once so socially anxious his heart pounded just approaching a stranger. His therapist gave him homework: go to a bar alone, talk to 5 strangers. Starting with asking for the time, he worked up to asking men for hugs — and his anxiety fell dramatically in 6 months.
A person who flies regularly but obsessively checks weather forecasts before every flight is not doing exposure therapy — they're teaching their brain that flying is only safe with the ritual. Safety behaviors prevent the brain from ever learning that the feared thing is actually fine.
The worry-time technique assigns all worries to one scheduled slot (e.g. 5 PM). Every time a worry surfaces, you write it down and ban yourself from engaging with it until that time. When 5 PM arrives, most worries feel trivial and the act of batch-worrying exposes how little it actually accomplishes.
In a randomized study of 20 habit techniques, 'habit reflection' stood out: recall a past habit you successfully built, write down what helped you succeed, then apply those same strategies to your new habit. It works because it's self-adapting — it uses whatever worked for YOU.
The tiny habits technique — always having a minimal version of your habit you can do when life gets in the way — keeps the mental machinery of habit formation from breaking. Paradoxically, people given a tiny-habit fallback option were MORE successful at the full habit, not less.
Fears and worries act like playground bullies — they want to ambush you. But when you deliberately seek them out and choose the time of engagement, they lose their power. The volitional act of starting the fight on your own terms is one of CBT's most underappreciated insights.
Most downtime defaults are things you regret immediately after — phone scrolling, binge TV. 'Glad you did it' activities meet the same need for rest but leave you feeling like you spent your time well. The switch from a bad screen to a documentary, a book, or a walk costs almost no extra effort but compounds into identity over time.
You rarely control your first reactive thought. But you can train your second thought — the response to the trigger — by asking whether your initial reaction is the most helpful one and replacing it with something equally true but more constructive. Over time, that second thought becomes automatic.
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