Psychedelics
Psychedelics show up here as spiritual inquiry more than party favor. A comedian recounts an ayahuasca trip and the guilt and porn debates it dredged up, and an alternative historian folds plant medicine into his larger claim that mainstream science is a small, late chapter in a much older human story. The coverage takes the experiences seriously without going credulous.
Koa Smith says three grams of psilocybin mushrooms ended his post-concussion depression
The big-wave surfer’s story is powerful, but the leap from spiritual breakthrough to brain-injury treatment needs a warning label.
Carl Hayden Smith says DMT entities told him he was not scheduled to die in an fMRI scanner
The psychedelic researcher’s wildest claim is not that DMT produces entities, but that those entities appeared to treat his lab scan like a cosmic false alarm.
DJ Shipley says he drove to a beach with a pistol to kill himself the same day he came back from an ibogaine trip in Mexico
The Modern Wisdom episode that starts as a SEAL career debrief ends somewhere most podcasts never go.
Graham Hancock Wants You to Know Science Is Just a Pimple on the Nose of Human History
The ancient civilizations theorist comes to Diary of a CEO to relitigate everything, and some of it actually lands.
Pete Holmes on Silly Silly Fun Boy, Carousel Guilt, and the Case for Paying for Your Porn
The comedian stops by Whiskey Ginger to workshop new material, defend OnlyFans on philosophical grounds, and explain why mushrooms change your walk.
Pete Holmes Went to Ayahuasca, Neal Brennan Is Scared of His Dog
Two comedians closing in on 20 years of friendship talk God, plant medicine, body dysmorphia, and whether love is just a dog following a turkey leg.