👶 Stressed-Out Adults Are Now Turning To ADULT PACIFIERS!

Thousands of young adults in China are turning to pacifiers to deal with their stress, so we gave it a try!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts, hear more Gold one on one point
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app and Amanda jam Nation. As adults, we are turning
to all kinds of childish ways, I guess always from
our childhood to self soothe. I know people turned to alcohol, drugs,

(00:30):
all the rest of it.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, that's my go to. Which of those yes, which
just yes? Which one? I said? Alcohol and drugs? That's
my go to. That's my go to. All right. What
you do on your weekends is your own business.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
But adults are buying Teddy Bears at the sale of
soft toys for adults is going up.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
All this laboo boo craze. That's weird, well is it?
And does it matter? I have no judgment towards that.
By the way, if you want to buy, if you're
going to surround yourself with the boo boos, that's that's all. Well.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
And I have a one of those heat packs. It's
like a bean bag thing. It's only small and I
don't heat it up. But I can't sleep at night
unless I'm cuddling that. I just find that more and
more people you talk to are buying those flat bears
that have got.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
You know, it's almost like a.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Hot water bottle, but it's a bear, and like it's
like a stuffed toying.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
You have that in your bed? What about this?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
This is an interesting thing that men are doing in
a stressful human world. This article says mermaiding is gaining
popularity with men. It's cosplay where men are dressing as mermaids.
But they're saying it's great exercise. Merman, exercise, a deep
sense of community, something to take them out of their

(01:44):
everyday human lives. Would you try something like that a
good exercise? When do you see a mermaid or merman
with a gut? That's hard work keeping that towel going?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
As I saw it? Said?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Someone saw someone say the other day with the littless Mermaid,
which are her friends and which ones us who choose.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
As a bra? There's many questions.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Obviously she's taken them out of their home to use
the shells as a bra.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
The other ones are her friends?

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Well, she's got shell bro I was thinking of the
one that's in Copenhagen, the seventh.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
The statue, the seven ton Mermaid.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah she wasn't. Yeah, they don't make shells that big.
But here's another thing from Japan or China. Adult pacifiers
are trending. People are buying dummies for adults. I'm going
to give you one, and I'm.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Ready to catch this. What's the desk? What about the pacifier?
There you go.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Adult pacifiers are a popular trend. Well, it's the same
thing to cope with stress and anxiety. People are buying these.
They're being marketed to provide psychological comfort, help with habits
like smoking. I've started to chew chewing them in my car,
and I don't like doing it, but I find.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
That my life is so sped up that I.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Can't even relax in the car. So let's put these
in and see what we think.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
So is there some sort of okay? Try it? I
like it. I can see you. I can see you've
become some sort of weirder. I don't know what's happened
to you. Were don't have to have any intervention. You know,
it's better chewing them. This is for your only medical professions.

(03:27):
I'm not going to wear a nappy. You're not going
to know what's going to happen. Now, it's not that's
how it starts. It's our body.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Blue started come on and next minute. Medical professionals are
saying that there are potential health risks, exchanges in your
jaw shaped speech difficulties because if you've noticed with you choking,
has it?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Has it? But you know what, I'm going to do
it Okay, it can and.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Look they say here, psychologists say it may be a
form of avoidance rather than a healthy way.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
To address the root causes of stress. Who's going to
address the root causes of stress? Look out the window.
Life can be hard. It's too exhausting to address why
you're stressed. We know what you're stressed. As you say,
you turn to drugs and alcohol. I'm going to have
an adult pacified alright now, we'll just film that and
put it on only fans. Don't make this weird.