Stephen welcome to the report, good to have you with us, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much. Stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen cheers and applause folks, i think i know the answer to your questions already. Folks, i certainly hope all of you had a great weekend. I for one am still recovering from yesterdays nfl playoff action. I watched so much football yesterday i got a contact concussion. But now we know whos going to the big show, the big dance, the rodeo mass grande t will feature nfc champ the seattle sadbirds versus the afc champs the dep ver horse goats, who last night defeated the new England Space kites new england could not denvers bold strategy of scoring more points. What a performance by peyton manning, the denvers qb or quick boy, boom. This season has a League Record for screaming the word only what. Only aha , only aha , only a omaha. Every time he said that yesterday a group of companies in o ma what nbc doity thatted 800 to manning he foundation for at risk youth. He said it 31 times. That is 24,800. Stephen folks, it was worth every penny to omaha businesses because according to hotel. Com, searches for hotels in nebraskas largest city increased 21 since last sundays game. Folks, all my familys vacations, i turned on the tv and i booked tickets for the first city i hear someone shout. laughter and since i watch fog but fox news, kids, get ready for spring break in benghazi. Now folks cheers and applause folks, what really itches my pigskin that they hail from the states that legalized marijuana for recreational use. cheers and applause unlike other states which have legalized medical marijuana for recreational use. Nation, pot and football do not mix. They are like oil and water or baseball and laughter and once the nfl starts catering to these teams, doobie tocquing fans football will be ruined, just like pot heads ruined laser zeppelin it used to be about the love of laser. Before you know t all the super bowl commercials are going to be from munchies and all the ads are going to have freaky talking babies and animals. I say save it for the commercials at burning man, ya hippies. And say goodbye to the all american halftime shows, instead, put a two hour heyao miyazake movie up on the jumbotron. Wow, i got to say, steven tyler looks great. laughter now folks, if you watch this show an i hope you do, you know that i support the Death Penalty a. The ancient babylonians had it right, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth which means you owe me two molars dr. Brillstein. But suddenly, killing prisoners is not as easy as you hope within the drugs used in the 32 Death Penalty states are now running out. Its something called pintobarbital. The supply of the sedative began to dry up two years ago. After european humanrights groups spoke up against the drugs use in executions. A danish drug make are responded by cutting off its distribution for use in capital pun in punishment. Stephen those damadia damadiananybody they wont send us their death drugs but who knows how many lives theyve cut short with their deelectable paitionrys. I dont know but, folks, i dont know but, but i have have had it up to here with these damn danes. Dont they understand that if we dont get our hands on these death drugs soon, someone might not die . Luckily,s theres a way to keep the executions rolling and it brings us to tonights word. Chooers plaus. Ladies and gentlemen, i have always believed that states are the laboratories of democracy. And when it comes to the Death Penalty shall its an actual laboratory and the rat is a human being. Now in texas in texas prison officials are so desperate to get their hands on the drug that they have falsified descriptions and lied to pharmacies. Why go through all that trouble, texas. You can get powerful drugs online as long as the official cause of death is a 19 hour boner. laughter and texas is not, theyre not the only state thats thinking outside the box for new ways to put people in a box. So is ohio. Dennis mcguire was executed by lethal injection with a combination of drugs never before used in the united states. Its a sedative painkiller combination being used because ohios former execution drugs dried up. This is a combination that had never before been used in lethal injections. They are typically used for colonoscopies. Stephen sounds like a winwin, while theyre executing him, they can screen him for polyps. Of course applause people, all the people out there, anyone not strapped to a table we are all up in arms about killing a man with an untested cocktail. But folks, federal judge Gregory Frost found that ohio is free to innovate as it evolves in its procedures towards ministering Capital Punishment. Yes, ohio is free to innovate. After all they are the home of the Wright Brothers who, remember, invented the flying electric chair. laughter there is just a little hitch. The deadly drug mix had one fatal flaw. The convict, 15 minute death struggle was described by one witness as horrific. And thats a problem because americans want the government to kill people for us, but we dont want to feel ooky. Thats why were always trying to find that death sweet spot. Luckily, some states some states out there who understand this problem like wyoming know that all morally complex issues have the same answer. More guns. Jim . A wyoming lawmaker pushing the use of firing squads as an alternative form of execution for those on death row. Yes. Bring backfiring squads. With so much gun vie len in america, shouldnt we shoot at least one person who deserves it . And firing squads applause i believe this might just be me but firing squads are a great way to throw an execution on a budget. Wyoming allowed the use of the gas chamber if lethal injection is not available. According to state senator bruce burns building an operating gas chamber is impractical and awe a firing squad is the cheapest option. Okay. So if were just trying to save some, i got all kinds of ideas. The drug may be in short supply in prison but not in veterinarians offices where its the preferred method am for the euthanasia of pets. So just put your death row inmate in a dog kos fume and then tell the vet he bit the neighbor. You can bury him in the yard next to the cat. Hey and hey, folks, you know what else is free . Gravity. Okay. We got plenty of gravity here and last time i checked america still has tall buildings. I say just shove the condemned off the sears tower, if he survives the drop, remember hell land in chicago and someone will shoot him. The point is applause as long as were talking about new ways to perpetrate the Death Penalty, there are no bad ideas. Nothing is off the table. Ooh, we could beat him to death with a table. laughter but you know come to think of it, why are we doing all the work here. We should make Capital Punishment byoe. Bring your own execution. Whatever you like, chainsaw, curling iron in a bathtub, chokeable monopoly piece. You know, your choice. And dont worry that its cruel and unusual punishment. Because if were cruel often enough, it wont seem unusual. And thats the word. Well be right back. Stephen welcome back, everybody . Folks, you know, i dont think its any secret if i tell you folks that i love the Catholic Church. Need proof . Well youre going to have to take it on faith. In fact, out of 1. 2 billion catholics out there, there is only one of them who really bothers me. Its this guy named i am so poed at this socialist coddles, foot watchingatiest hugging odd asity of pope that i have to tell you i may start flirting with other religions. Full confession last night hi a few drinks and you up to that free from avatar. Folks, i see you. I see you. And folks, the popes latest assault on our traditional values is outrage us. Pope francis encouraged mothers to breastfeed their babies in the Sistine Chapel yesterday during a baptism ceremony, a down to earth pontiff said if they are hungry, then feed them. Dont think twice. Stephen how dare, how dare, i clap when im angry too. How dare the pope encourage just to whip them out in public. The Catholic Church spent the past 2,000 years making us feel shame about our bobbies that is correct is why a shower in a bathing suit while wearing one of those dog cones, okay . laughter the shower is over when i start to drown. laughter plus encouraging women to breastfeed violates the central tennette of catholicism there is no snacking in church. If that kids a wlau to cow down at his personal dairy queen i should be allowed to bring in a plate of buffalo wings, all right . You want to put some you want to put some in the pews fill up the bap tis mall fonts with blue cheese and put the game up on the alter. The point is someone needs to top this hippie hippie before he starts wearing tie divestments and giving out certificate months about jesus multiplying the loafs and the fish tickets. And thats not the only thing that got me headed for the narthex. The frugal living pope francis is looking to scale back the cost of becoming a saint. Vatican leaders are now being given an unannounced Reference Price to use as a guide in st. Hood sainthood application, a a part of an effort to cut down on the cost and make it more equal for cases with less funding. Cases donated by wealthy donors make it through faster. You cant slash the price of becoming a saint. Being rich is the first miracle laughter sainthood is like god a country club. They dont let in poor people or jews. But if there is a poor candidate they just need to get resourceful like Mother Teresa by selling sponsorship on their own. Well be right back. Within my guest top is the editor of the call age of anxiety. Please welcome scott stossel. Hey, scott, thanks some of for coming on. Thanks for having me. Okay, as, i will get to your book in a second but first youre the editor of the atlantic, the author of previously life and times of stars and you have written for the new yorker, new york time, the wage waj but your new book age of anxiety, fear, hope, dread and the search for peace of mind. What do you mean my age of anxiety. Are you particularly anxious person . Yes. Stephen are you anxious right now. Terrified. Stephen really . Yl, no, im doing okay. So basically i have since the age of about 2 as i say in the book been kind of a twitchy bundle of phobias, near os es, anxieties, all kinds of strange idiosyncratic phobias like for instance cheese and. Stephen you have a fear of cheese. Yeah, i will never go to wisconsin. Stephen what is it about cheese that frightens you. Its utterly well, its irrational. Stephen okay. This is what is so peculiar about anxieties. Basically you know, i tell people that i would rather be buried in a sar cough gution full of say snakes which im not afraid of though many people are then be dipped into like gorgonzola. laughter and. Stephen so no cheese. No cheese. Stephen so youre good with velveeta though. No, no, not even velveeta. So i set out to write this book because ive struggled with Anxiety Disorders all my life. And i finally, and i was sort of fascinated by the notion of like what caused this. So i, looked deep into the science, the culture, the history, is it genetic, how i was raised. And i realized. And i ended up writing this book that actually applies to the 40 million americans who are cronically diagnosed with Anxiety Disorders. Stephen lets be clear. Anxiety and fear, are they the same thing . Because fear has got a nice sharp edge to t anxiety can feel like a smoldering fire. Right. Well, so. Stephen . I have, i would say a normally prudent avoidance of fire but that is not one of my. Stephen youre not like frankenstein. No. No, so anxiety is when its appropriately deployed is an evolutionary response, an adaptive evolutionary response, fight or flight response. In the state of nature if you are were being attacked by a sabre tooth tiger or enemy tribe. Stephen or a plate of gorgonzola. It would be incredibly a daive to have this response where your adrenaline starts firing and blood flows to your strong muscles and maybe you void your bowels. But that happens. Stephen sure. It lightens you to be able to unwill am run but the problem is for people that have anxiety disorder, and not just for people with Anxiety Disorders but for all of us in modern life, you are not often being chased by a sabre tooth tiger. But the same sort of physiological fight or flight response happens when your wife gets, you know, mysterious letter from her exboyfriend or when the boss look at you funny. And you have the same kind of fight or flight response and you end up kin kindofmarinating in this stew of unused chemicals stress hormones which can be very damaging to you over the long term. Stephen so what, you said you have had this since you were two. Do you remember being afraid at that age. Oh, yeah, when i was a little kid i was always convinced and again in retrospect, completely irrational i was always convinced my parents were gone, this is called separation anxiety which is a normal developmental stage when you are three or four. Hi it when i was three three and four acutely but then when i was nine, 10, 11 and 12, and i used to torement my poor sis tir who was two years younger than me. And if my parents werent there and at a party and 15 minutes late i would make her call the party and say like, im sorry, im scotts brother, hes crazy, are his parents still alive. Stephen so if your parents werent there you thought they were gone forever. I was convinced, it was not rational but i was convinced that they either were not really my parents or were conducting some sort of horrible experiment and just decided to leave. Stephen so peekaboo was not a lot of fun for you. Peekaboo was terrifying. Stephen so what do you do . How do you treat it . Because in years past, this sort of thing would be treated by and i hope im pronouncing this correctl correctly alcohol, how do you and how do 40 million other people treat this kind of anxiety. So i have, i tried lots of things but i am medicated and again this is the sort of thing that i never admitted because i was ashamed of it i take antidepressants, benzo die az mean. Stephen xanax. An antianxiety medication. Stephen did you bring enough for the whole class. I have some, dow want me to share, i dont know. Stephen what are some of the things that you are afraid of. Well, okay,. Stephen you name yours and i will name mine. Okay. Stephen i will go first, illegal immigrants. laughter i dont know the term for that one but thats a good one. Well, cheese, my most acute one and longest standing and this, i think completely rational but i know that most people think its irrational, a mehtaphobia which is the fifth most common, which is pathological fear of vomiting which i have not done since 1977. Stephen is it your vomit or that someone will vomit on you . That i will vomit. Stephen thats my fear. So what do you do, how do you treat it. I could vomit on you right now and i would be cured and you would be cured. cheers and applause do you have a good custodial staff here . laughter stephen the book is my age of anxiety. Well be right back. ecmcmojrll][n folks, dont forget tomorrow night the book club and farewell to arms by earnest hemingway, read it, good lighter flicks water pipe bubbling frank coughs ooh lighter flicks water pipe bubbling what the bleep is this . Uh, cheech over here bought himself a bong. frank laughs, coughs deandra, this is wacky. Go download me a hoagie off the internet. frank laughs im sorry . Those words dont make any ssense. Oh, god, you guys. Oh, weird, i feel weird. Rip another one. Yeah, Say Something else stupid, too. My arms kind of numb. Dennis, can you feel my head . Is it am i hot . Iim not touching you. Were enjoying ourselves over here