LT3 #135 — Do You Trust Your Intuition?

Host: Superhighgasfees (@SHGFees) with cohost Sho (@AgogoKaren) · Thu, Sep 24 · 1:15:30 · 9 speakers

TL;DR

• Space built around LT3 #135 — a third eye and smoke, which Super read as "an eye that sees through the fog while your other eyes are closed" [11:48]. Topic: do you trust your gut?
• Near-unanimous "yes" from the room, with Super the dissenter — his intuition mostly over-warns him (see: New York, which turned out fine) [16:47].
• Jilly Snipes drew the cleanest distinction of the night: the ego is the voice that screams; intuition is the quiet one that just tells you the truth [43:02].
• Yot and Chicken Wizard, both living with Crohn's, traded the heaviest stories — Yot's ignored gut feeling ending in sepsis and, oddly, remission once his life unraveled [44:44] [50:22].
• Infinix closed it out with a ballast-tank rescue at sea that his instinct almost certainly made survivable [1:01:40].
• Sho floated the idea that women have sharper intuition; Jed arrived roughly four seconds later to litigate it, and the bit never fully died [28:30] [31:37].

Highlights

[11:48] — Super frames the piece and the question. He explains why he skipped a floor LT3 for this one: it carries meaning. Fog, a third eye, the other eyes closed. He also flags the risk up front — going with your gut sometimes saves you and sometimes sends you the wrong way — and mentions a family member's schizophrenia, where the "danger" signal is permanently on and always wrong.

[16:08] — Yot: "I can't remember last time it was wrong." He's ignored it enough times in the past to stop arguing with it now. It's not that he always obeys, it's that he stopped pretending he didn't hear it.

[16:47] — Super's counterexample: New York. He went in braced for trouble, partly because Jed had joked in an earlier Space about bringing knives and guns, and Super admits the joke landed on an already-nervous nerve. Then he got there and took the subway and it was, in fact, just a subway. His conclusion: he's learned to recognize his own false alarms.

[25:25] — Sho on giving people a second read. She trusts her gut in rooms and with people, but she's careful about first impressions: the instinct is usually right, sometimes it isn't, and she makes herself leave the door open rather than write someone off on contact.

[28:30] — The women's-intuition detour. Sho prefaces it with "don't shoot me off the stage" and argues women read situations — especially other women — faster. Jed comes up specifically for this [31:37]: "No woman in Oklahoma has more intuition than a dude from New York." He then admits he only came for the levity, picturing someone's intuition kicking in on a New York train roughly one second before the robbery. Sho counters that men think with two heads, Jed requests it for the soundboard, and Yot calls the headline [41:29]. Super's attempt at a reset lasts about a line and a half.

[33:19] — Host separates nerves from intuition. The most useful reframe of the first half: fear and nerves can masquerade as intuition, and the other side of that discomfort is usually growth. But if you'd boarded that subway car and it was full of the wrong people, that signal — the one that gets you off at the wrong stop — is the real thing.

[36:06] — Super's friend and the open-heart surgery. A skating friend whose panic attacks were built around a fear of surgery ended up needing open-heart surgery. He did it, and as far as Super knows hasn't had an attack since. Super's caveat: the fear "kind of rhymed" with what happened, but it wasn't a premonition.

[43:02] — Jilly Snipes reframes the whole conversation. You can trust your intuition 100% of the time; most people just can't identify it. The loud voice narrating and judging is ego. Intuition never instructs — it quietly states what you already know. Later she adds a split: gut feelings are warnings ("get the fuck out"), intuition is the calm read on a non-threatening choice [59:55].

[44:44] — Yot, and what happens when you ignore the whisper. House, car, marriage, and a gut feeling he kept overriding. Crohn's, nineteen tablets a day, a weekly injection, five days in hospital with sepsis. When it all came apart and he was left with nothing but his dog, the disease went into full remission within months — roughly three years on, still holding. Chicken Wizard picks it up [50:22], noting how tightly Crohn's tracks mental state, and admits he'd had a hunch Yot knew the illness without ever asking.

[46:53] — Chicken Wizard: intuition is a trained muscle. Ignoring it once put him in genuinely life-threatening territory; following it another time meant staying in a friend's shack in Florida to post on a spirituality forum instead of going to the beach. The woman he met there was logging off the forum for good that same day. Fourteen years, a marriage and a daughter later, that's his argument.

[1:01:40] — Infinix's ballast tank. A fitter left equipment in a ballast tank; the next day he and the chief engineer went back in for "a minute," so nobody staged oxygen. Infinix, waiting outside, lost radio contact. His first impulse was to go in after them — his gut said low oxygen, they're down. He called the team, grabbed a tank over one shoulder and went in with backup. Both men were unconscious. Both were stretchered out and got to hospital. "Give it a chance," he says, which Super names as his top takeaway of the night [1:06:08].

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "Your intuition never tells you what to do or tells you that you're wrong. It doesn't tell you anything. It's gentle and soft. That's why it's not always easy to hear." — Jilly Snipes [43:02]
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• "You ignore that gut feeling for long enough it doesn't whisper anymore. It will manifest and fucking scream at you." — Yot [44:44]
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• "No woman in Oklahoma has more intuition than a dude from New York." — Jed [31:44]
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• "It's not always quiet. I don't agree with that." — Sho, on the quiet-voice theory [1:00:19]
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• "Intuition is one of those things that it's a trained muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets." — Chicken Wizard [46:53]
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• "Hey, remember at the beginning, Super, when you said you would delete this. You're not going to, are you?" — Sho [41:20], answered by Yot: "Fuck no, I can see the headlines now." [41:29]
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Called out for Re:Cap

• [40:02] But he also said that women's intuition was it was not better than men, and I'm just gonna fight you on that for a second… asked: Please, somebody reminded. Oh, Dan's here. Dan is here. Dan, we need that clip, bro. You guys think with two heads for uh for the… by @jed_131
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Who said what

• Super (@SHGFees) — host. Chose the piece, framed the topic, and played the room's skeptic: his gut errs toward over-caution and he knows it. Left with two takeaways he could remember and one he lost on the spot.
• Sho (@AgogoKaren) — cohost. Strong trust in her own intuition, loud rather than quiet, with a deliberate rule about giving people more than a first impression. Also the origin point of the evening's longest-running bit, and the one requesting the recording be deleted.
• Yot (@yotdog69) — trusts his gut completely, having learned the hard way; shared the Crohn's, sepsis and remission arc. Also delivered a public-service warning about first dates and crystal collections [30:00].
• Chicken Wizard (@ChickenWizardX) — intuition as trainable skill. Met his wife on a gut nudge, nearly died ignoring one, and now sees teaching his daughter to hear hers as part of the job.
• Jilly Snipes (@JillyRappaport) — first time in this Space, came up specifically because she had something to add, and handed the room its central distinction: ego shouts, intuition states.
• Host (@HostXweb3) — back on a repaired phone; drew the line between nerves, fear and genuine intuitive signal, and pointed out that facing the first two is usually where growth lives.
• Jed (@jed_131) — came in for levity, stayed to argue the women's-intuition point, and diagnosed himself as spiritually possessed by Yot's vocabulary after one phone call [35:01].
• Infinix (@OverlordInfinix) — former marine engineer; the ballast-tank rescue and the resulting lifelong "safety first, give it a chance" rule.
• Dan (@brokenrealitydh) — on soundboard and recap duty, receiving clip requests throughout.

Worth a full listen

• [28:30]–[42:19] — The stretch the summary can't hold. Sho's opening hedge, Jed's entrance, the two-heads exchange, Yot calling the headline, Jilly Snipes arriving mid-chaos and Sho apologizing for what she'd walked into. Chaotic, affectionate, and funnier in sequence.
• [44:44]–[56:44] — Yot and Chicken Wizard on Crohn's, stress, remission and the body as an early-warning system. Two people comparing notes on the same illness from opposite life circumstances, ending in Chicken Wizard admitting he'd intuited Yot had it all along.
• [1:01:40]–[1:06:08] — Infinix's ship story told straight through, with the technical detail about ballast tanks that makes the stakes land. The best single argument in the Space for the topic.