THEY SOAKED TAMPONS IN ALCOHOL??? | Brain Leak Ep. 3 

This podcast is like a study into how many unrelated topics two people with ADHD can talk about within the hour.

as someone with severe adhd, it's so nice to finally have a podcast that moves at the same pace as my brain. usually, i cant stay focused long enough to listen to podcasts, but this is just 2 mf's with adhd jumping from topic to topic like parkour masters. i love it

my last two brain cells at 3am: "hello everybody welcome back" "TWOOOO NIPPLESSSS" i love that they're fully embracing their adhd during this podcast. as someone with adhd and being constantly treated like it's a scar i need to hide, this podcast makes me feel so reassured and valid!!

the differences between american and international school experiences is so entertaining to compare lol

The American public school experience of all the English teachers being pregnant for some reason is so real

I like the part where they said it's leaking time then brain'ed all over the place

I love that somehow Sean didn't know about the tampon thing or butt chugging after being on the internet for so long and Ethan got to explain it. His reaction was priceless.

34:44 it might not be sexual harassment but it’s still wildly inappropriate for a teacher to do that to a student. She knew she didn’t have to demonstrate that. You were in high school, high schoolers are old enough to figure that type of stuff out on their own. And if a student was confused the teacher should never demonstrate on a student.

Sean and Ethan joking about venomous rocks made me shudder with the memory of constant paranoia whenever I'd enter the ocean. Australia has a very fun thing called Stone Fish which are literally venomous rocks.

"Therapy's great, and then you realize you have trauma, and you go 'oh!'" Yeah, that accurately sums it up. As someone who is also in therapy, and has been for awhile, can confirm! "Oh shit, that was a trauma event!" Yes. Yes it was. And the really fun thing is that the central nervous system doesn't differentiate levels of trauma. So whether you were screamed at as a child, or went through literal battle as an adult, the brain reacts the same way to both.

The Butt chug part came up and Jack being all "Wait what?" and I'm now leaning back like "OH BOY THIS GONNA BE GOOD"

"Don't call a plumber, keep leaking." Truly, words to live by.

I had such a good time with the bois that It took me exactly 3 episodes of Brain Leak to think- "Wait a minute, _that's_ how ADHD looks like? But I'm like that all the time!" ...I have scheduled the doctor appointment for Monday.

I absolutely adore when jack says some outrageous shit and Ethan just glazes right over it

Gonna answer this common question that they discussed about therapists. I'm a psych major and it's something we've learned about in our courses and I mean all this with kindness, even though it may come off a bit blunt. Basically, the reason therapists won't divulge anything to you about themselves is because their job requires them not to be a friend, you have to maintain a very clinical relationship and that can be hard when a patient begins to see you as a comrade or a friend. It can also become harder on the therapist to do their job because by sharing things to one another, that is naturally how friendships form and that can lead to the therapist struggling to maintain the distance they need to not get wrapped up in their patients and their lives and struggles to a point of worsening their own mental health trying to help others. It can also lead to danger for the therapist if unhealthy attachments form that complicate the professional relationship at best or turn into an active endangerment to the therapist or something that actively worsens the patient's mental health (think anywhere from crushes developing to stalking). So yeah, therapists might seem a bit unfriendly but they keep that sense of distance for both their own safety and for yours so that you see them as someone neutral that is there to help you rather than a friend because if they're a friend, well you probably have friends you can vent to, but therapists are there to teach you and walk you through things in a professional, clinical sense like a doctor instead.

The good ol 3 am podcast lmao

46:59 probably the coolest thing I ever did is school was this. I was about 12 or 13 and I was walking down the hallway in school coming back from the bathroom and from like 7 doors down the hallway some kid threw a fist sized ball of molding clay that had dried and hardened right at my back and without even looking I put my hand behind my back and caught it. I turned around to see the dickhead that threw it and he said “did you just catch that?” I just nodded quietly and slowly with a glare and he ran. This was really empowering as I got bullied a lot.

God, I keep fantasizing that they’re just my friends I’m having a conversation with and I feel like I had so many stories that my brain wanted to jump in and tell. Then I would promptly realize I’m watching a podcast with no one in the house but my father 😂

"Oh wait that's trauma. I have trauma, and so much of it" Goddamn Sean did you have to be so relatable

this podcast is perfect for those, ”i need to get work done let’s put some background noise on” moments. they just don’t stop talking and distract my stream of thought with their’s lol

This podcast is so nice to listen to but at the same time it makes my ADHD go BRRR. I start the episode on my couch with a snack and I end it with every cupboard open and I'm scrubbing my shower.

I love how this episode comes out at 2:30 am for me as a night shit worker it’s great

0:02 "I'm flicking my nipples" So this is what it took for Jack to finally talk about his nipples again (he used to talk about "twisty fresh" nipples, but that was a hot minute ago) 😂 31:00 Butt-chugging is also called an alcohol enema, so since the function of your intestines is absorbing nutrients and water, you will absorb it if it stays there long enough. The main differences from normal alcohol ingestion (all negative) are higher blood alcohol concentration (because it wasn't broken down in your stomach), getting drunk faster (because it's going directly to the part of your body that absorbs it), and being unable to reject excess alcohol by throwing up (in short: don't do it). 50:38 "We also got to go to Germany for a school trip" Wow, that leaves every single school I've gone to in the dust (school trips were really rare - maybe once a year if were lucky -, and it was never anything that lasted more than a day).

Realizing that stuff that happened in the past is actually trauma has to be one of the most relatable conversations on this podcast. Like, oh those times I could’ve died? Those things were traumatic? And I spent years telling myself it doesn’t make sense that I have trauma responses because I hadn’t experienced trauma? Interesting.

I have a theory that the reason tall people are calmer and short people are angry is due to size. Short people have only so much space for that anger to go to so it bursts out . Think Edward vs. Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist 😂😂

I watched Sean all throughout my high school career, stopped watching in college, and just starting watching him again through Brain Leak. It feels like reconnecting with the cool older cousin and realizing that you’re now equals lol

I found myself eager for Wednesday like never before and you two are the reason

At the gym while watching this and I keep messing up my sets cause I can’t stop laughing throughout this 😂😂

I’m autistic but I love your podcast because it’s so fast-paced and funny

Timestamps: 0:01 - 2:07 = destroying the environment (yay) 2:07 - 6:09 = brain leak photoshoots 6:13 - 8:55 = "any white liquid is milk" -ethan 9:01- 10:51 = skateboarding 10:55 - 13:45 = sponsor (code LEAK) 14:02 - 14:43 = arts n crafts (ft. Ethan's dad's mountain doo shark) 14:46 - 20:28 = SAT 20:34 - 23:26 = homework 24:15 - 28:11 = hot teachers 28:23 - 32:55 = soaking tampons in vodka and butt-chugging (?) 32:55 - 35:40 = sean's teacher sitting on his lap 35:45 - 38:21 = calling teachers by their first names 38:19 - 41:51 = class clown duo ( sean's class made his teacher cry) 41:59 - 43:17 = ethan was overmedicated with ADHD medicine 43:17 - 48:31 =sean was a heartthrob in primary school 48:37 - 50:35 = ethan's class going to an island (unsupervised manhunt) 50:34 - 52:25 = sean went to germany for a school trip 52:31 - 55:05 = senior pranks ended wholesomely bittersweet 55:39 - 56:49 = telling things to their therapists 56:49 - 58:22 = ethan's drean abt his therapist ADVICE SEGMENT!! 58:31 58:59 - 1:03:07 = 'how to be popular and likeable' and pushing emotions DEEP down 1:03:17 - 1:04:04 = 'how to fix my marriage 1:04:04 - 1:05:47 = a public show about couple therapy 1:05:47 - 1:08:03 = love is blind.... but therapy. 1:08:07 - 1:09:15 = 'how to get mommy and daddy to stop fighting' 1:09:15 - 1:10:35 = truman show but bad marriage? 1:10:35 - 1:13:25 = how long do you live in a place before it's yours? 1:13:25 = the solution

About the question "where does the liquid go" - absorbing excess water is kind of the colon's job, so, give it some time and it's all gone. I think Bear Grylls once gave himself an enema with some water that wasn't quite clean enough to drink in order to get some hydration, although I'm pretty sure that's also dangerous. Edit: I looked it up and yeah, absolutely don't do that even if you're in a survival situation. It IS a way to treat extreme dehydration when the patient can't drink anything due to unconsciousness or bad nausea, but if you use contaminated water like he did and get the shits from it, you'll lose that water again and die just as quickly (if not faster).

Me hearing Sean talking around 59:23 about growing up in a certain environment IMMEDIATELY made me go "Someone who knows what it is like!" I empathise hard for ya there. I'm still working on the rubble in my brain, but it is better than it was 2, 5, 10 years ago!

I hate to find good things right when they release cause I want to binge 50 episodes and I can't 💔

My secondary school PE teacher had it out for me..she would knock on the door while I was in other classes, point at me and tell me to take my coat off and in PE she would insist I participate (even though other students weren’t) .. I was severely underweight so was constantly cold and had no energy, wish I could go back and chastise her for literally bullying a child 😂

I love seeing the casual side of Sean and Ethan, its just so funny, keep up the great content!

I like being able to see this side of Sean again. Missed the uncensored chaos! Love this will definitely be watching/listening more 🖤❤

Love it when their brains said “It’s Leakin time!” then leaked all over the set

Ethan and Séan talking about the size of their classes saying 25 kids is small Me with a class of 7 kids total

It would be funny if they invited Bob and Wade from distractable but didn't invite Mark💀

everything Ethan said about his adhd medication was the same as my experience. "Husk of a human" is so relatable.

just two adhd buddies hanging out, me love it !

I’m so happy this podcast exists.

The whole school talk just made me realize how my entire childhood was so traumatic that if I talked about it as casually as they did I would be stopped every other minute being interrupted to explain what I just said.

i’m graduating on friday and literally like listening to them talk about their school experiences is making me realize how freaking boring mine was

This is just so fascinating to listen to. Usually I can't listen to podcasts, because I get too distracted, but this goes fast enough for me to actually follow along. I don't have ADHD, btw

53:00 I had a graduating class of just under 60 people and a very similar thing happened. As the end of senior was less than 2 weeks out MANY of us realized that "Oh.. wait... we're friends.. why did we never talk to each other over the last 7 years... weird"

While I'm grateful to have this new thing to listen to.. I'm sad I don't have a million episodes to binge. These two are ridiculous. 😂❤

I felt engaged this entire episode and that's good 👍 also I snickered at one point

Tbh, parents getting divorced instead of staying together "for the child" is so much better. They get happier, you get multiple celebrations, the house isn't full of screaming anymore... sure, you might have to "downgrade" from a house to an apartment or something like that, but now you have two bedrooms!

The fact that they talked about exams and standardized tests and I have AP lit and Lang exams tmrw

this podcast makes my wednesday's better bc i had a trauma w them (stardew valley players know)

As someone with Adhd and was diagnosed in my 20’s, i love hearing you guys talk about just all the things you’ve dealt with in life and with adhd. i love you both separately but there’s something about being able to really see two people with adhd connect over experiences that just makes me feel so seen and safe. thank you guys for making this podcast.

I'm sure you guys have enough wonderful energy to surpass one hundred Brain Leak episodes.

my history teacher looks exactly like sean but with short hair and i even got a picture and told him and he agreed then made an arthur morgan impression 💀

1:01:25 "That's why I stopped caring about my content, because I got happier" DAMMIT this was relatable after going through three years of therapy myself

These two transitioning a conversation from mommy and daddy getting a divorce to squatters rights so seemlessly just itches something in my brain

I love the time this comes out for me, perfect for cooking dinner. Cheers lads for the chilled out evening. Bloody awesome.

Whenever I hear or read "Brain Leak" I hear Ethan's old man voice in my head - "A little leaky, just like me."

I love the duality happening with this intro. Ethan: "Hi, everybody, welcome back--" Sean: "TWOOOO NIPPLES!"

i couldn't get myself to listen to an entire podcast ever, but I can listen to your episodes from start to finish and actually pay attention to the content. Keep it up, you guys are the best ✨

This is the only podcast that I can watch through completely! Never bored or get distracted! Thank you!

This is the podcast duo I didn't know i needed LOVE YOU GUYS!!

Legitimately look forward to these podcasts every week now ❤

i love this podcast because i dont get bored because they move to a different topic at the same pace as i do.

Loving the podcast so far

I think this is my fav episode so far, it’s comforting listening to you guys talking about Secondary School.. especially hearing Seán talking about his because I relate to it a lot as someone also Irish in an Irish Secondary School… I graduate 6th year in 2 weeks and it’s so scary.., I also have an interview with a college in a few days whic is TERRIFYING 😅

49:39 It's 4am for me and Sean's random "Don't smoke a badger" is making me lose it so much I'm scared I'll wake up my family. For me that's one of the funniest things he ever said, omg xD

I love how Sean has come from being a guy who swears and screams in front of a camera to a guy who makes sex jokes and laughs in front of a camera

This podcast posts perfect timing for me to listen to before bed :')

new episode out on my birthday woooo just made the day 10x better 🥳😂

this episode is so funny omg 😭😭 bro said "where liquid go when in ass" i cannot

I absolutely loved this. I've always loved to see their friendship, so I'm glad to see more of them. It was also really nice to hear their stories as well. And I was also kinda glad to see them talk about therapy, I look up to both of them and have been debating on going back into therapy, this really helped

I love this podcast so much. I feel like I'm just sitting in on a discord call.

this is so great it's really been banger after banger!! can't wait for the next episode & hope you guys get a chance to talk more about your pets too 🐱🐶

I want the whole "aww we could have called it _______" thing to be a running gag.

this podcast lives up to it's name so well, new favorite for sure

I can’t with you guys😂, I smile and laugh a lot watching this. Y’all are awesome🖤

22:43 I got the exact grade I needed to pass one of my classes because my teacher gave me an 80 on a project I didn't even do out of pity, he's the only reason I graduated

I love you dorks together 😂 I'm going thru some crap rn and I'm happy to have this chaotic podcast to brighten my day 😂❤

This duo is so golden i cant

I'm so early its only in 360p XD

This is awesome! Also I love Jack laughing about the issue of dishes and divorce. That actually is a big reason when household work is not balanced equally. There is a book called She Divorced Me Because I Left Dishes By The Sink” By Matthew Fray which talks about the author’s personal experience of unbalanced work breaking a marriage. I’m sure he knows this, but just in case a little “Ey, damn look at this joke being real”.

It makes me feel so much better knowing that i am not the only one who had a hard time in school.

Another great episode!!! Thanks guys!!

Saw Ethan's eye is bruised and it took me a sec to remember he was training for Creator Clash when this was recorded

"Blood, not funny" thank you, Ethan, absolutely fantastic

Jack: "I'm sorry your ears cant see" Me with synesthesia: "BOY DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU"

“come on my podcast” had me holding my laugh in public so hard, i dont think ive found sumn so silly so hilarious in ages, i cant wait for more of this podcast

In my senior year of high school, I was a student aid to the biology/zoology professor. One day, a sub came and knocked on his door while I was there desperate for my professor to help her get the class under control. He looked at me and told me to go grab two of the preserved cats from the lab closet (the ones we dissect at the end of the year). I grabbed two of them (they were sealed in plastic bags) and he grabbed one of them and told me to follow him. We went with the sub to the classroom that was rowdy as hell. He SLAMMED the cat he was holding down onto one of the students desks and yelled "if ms. Substitute has to come and get me one more time about y'all not listening, then I will make you wear this cat around your neck for the rest of the day." The silence was golden. The sub didn't have to come get him for the rest of the day. He didn't really need me there but I'm so glad he let me go. It was amazing, honestly. One of my favorite stories from high school.

Lol my graduating class was nearly 600, idk how I ever survived high school 🙃 but speaking of senior pranks, my mother was the one who gave the idea for her class's senior prank that ended up flooding the school 😂 my school didn't do one but another school in our district painted all the parking spots with the handicapped symbol. They got in a bunch of trouble for it but WORTH IT

This is the best thing to listen to after work

Thank you so much for talking about therapy so openly on a platform!! So underrated how important that is!!! Especially for guys, it definitely needs to be accepted for guys to go to therapy!!! I go to therapy every two weeks and my husband goes once a week aswell, both due to our childhoods… So great to hear you both bring up your therapists 💪💪 thank you!

Heck yeah!!! 3am baby!!!

The combo of Sean's hair and earring in this episode 😳

What a beautiful way to start my day. Thanks, guys!

YESSSSS SO HAPPY TO SEE THE NEXT EPISODE.

there was a girl at my highschool that would slap bloody tampons on the bathroom mirrors so they’d stick there

If Seán thinks that a class of 140 is huge, I can't imagine what he'd think of me and the 627 kids in my graduating class in high school.

I didn't know how bad I needed these two together podcasting until it happened. Thank you gentlemen, I feel at home here. Cheers.

I love this podcast so much, everything you two say is just so funny