there are so many ayahuasca churches you know, or other. groups that are forming forming, uh, types of churches, i guess is what you would call it, just to, to try to be protected from that. like, can you talk about how you have been sort of running into them and what what, what their experience has been like? yeah, i mean there's a really interesting history on the case law at the intersection of, um, drug use or substance use and religious freedom protection starting in the 80. so like kind of a decade into prohibition, the government recognized that native americans had been using peyote for centuries as a sacrament and that it was a very valuable spiritual tool, and they carved out a protection for them to be able to do that safely without running afoul of the controlled substances act. and then, you know, years later, there was law enforcement interest in a couple of small ayahuasca churches, you know, imported a belief system and traditions from brazil and started dabbling somewhat openly in oregon and in new mexico. and that set in m

then suggesting that the spirit of ayahuasca, her lab studies for her.nd so, of course, this this can really alienate other researchers. and so she's been sort of cast out a little bit in the field and yet her research is really compelling. she is one of the first researchers to suggest found associative learning plants, which is a hallmark of intelligence in animals. she has p learning studies that are quite fascinating. she she is someone who if you've heard the idea that plants can hear running water in sealed pipes which is a phenomenon that plenty of people who deal with infrastructure know about because route intrusion you have a sealed water pipe and then a tree route plows right through it and then they have to up the whole pipe statistic. in the book, it was like something like 50% of of pipe damage or changes are from from intrusion. yeah, they're a huge nuisance. it's of amazing. and she did the study showing that just the plant would grow towards the recording of running water, suggesting they weren't sensing moisture is something plants are

there are so many ayahuasca churches you know, or other. groups that are forming forming, uh, types of churches, i guess is what you would call it, just to, to try to be protected from that. like, can you talk about how you have been sort of running into them and what what, what their experience has been like? yeah, i mean there's a really interesting history on the case law at the intersection of, um, drug use or substance use and religious freedom protection starting in the 80. so like kind of a decade into prohibition, the government recognized that native americans had been using peyote for centuries as a sacrament and that it was a very valuable spiritual tool, and they carved out a protection for them to be able to do that safely without running afoul of the controlled substances act. and then, you know, years later, there was law enforcement interest in a couple of small ayahuasca churches, you know, imported a belief system and traditions from brazil and started dabbling somewhat openly in oregon and in new mexico. and that set in m

the ayahuasca hit him pretty hard. [ laughter ] spirit airlines today filed for bankruptcy. [ laughter turns out, their strategy of being the worst airline in american history didn't pay off. as well as they hoped. how could they have just filed for bankruptcy? i've flown spirit airlines. i assumed they were always bankrupt. spirit stock has dropped more than 93% of its value this year, which is sad. but i believe that if you invested money in spirit airlines, you probably don't deserve to have money. so now we are faced with a relatively new philosophical question. which is when a spirit airlines goes bankrupt, does it become a spirit halloween store? i guess we'll find out. as i mentioned earlier, tonight was texas night on monday night football. and to celebrate that, we crashed a tailgate party at sofi stadium. we sent our man on the scene to embed himself with nfl fans for a new football-themed edition of "breaking the news." >> breaking the news! football edition. >> tonight, 40 beer bongs? this young lady shares her tips on how you can turn a morning kickoff into the reason why

i packed a buck knife, turkey jerky, and some of that ayahuasca.ur body turns into stars. the universe flows through you like an eternal river, andyou're flying on a spaceship that runs on love. okay, now i'm off, i gotta teach these spider monkeys how to play cribbage. come on, jumanji!" [cheers and applause] i'm gonna miss that guy. we're saying goodbye to so many things these days. we just learned that, due to rebranding, we'll soon see the end of beloved midwestern gas station chain kum & go. goodbye, sweet kum & go. we hate to see you go, but we loved to see you kum. kum & go gained national fame for the immature snickers its name often receives. true, but before you start your immature giggling, louis, you should know that the founder of kum & go, bill krause, said that the "k" stood for his name and the "g" stood for gentle. makes perfect sense. kum & go stood for krause and gentle. what part of that don't you understand? it's just like how the "o" at the end of costco stands for "orgasm." driving through the midwest just won't be the same w

. >> he was wandered off got mixed up with some monkeys, and that was that the ayahuasca hit him pretty hard but donald trump's inauguration looming. >> president biden in a race against time in his last two months in office. in a major move over the weekend, biden authorized ukraine's use of u.s. supplied long range weapons for strikes inside russia. the president's decision, representing an effort to cement his foreign policy legacy a legacy that some in his party say has been tarnished by his late withdrawal from the 2024 race and kamala harris election loss. our next guest was one of the first sitting democratic members of congress to signal an openness to replacing biden as the party's nominee back in july, after his debate performance against trump. >> we have to be honest with ourselves that it wasn't just a horrible night, but it's his decision. i just want him to appreciate at this time just how much it impacts not just his race, but all the other races coming in november and joining us now is democratic congressman mike quigley of illinois. >> he's the co-chair of the congress