6. Open Heart Surgery

Cover Story

New York Magazine

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We talk to participants in the most advanced clinical trials on MDMA as a treatment for trauma. On paper, they are success stories. In reality they are a mess. And one of them was put in a terrible bind by her trial therapists. CREDITS: Cover Story is a production of New York magazine. Power trip is co-created, produced and reported by David Nickles and Lily Kay Ross. Our senior producers are Marianne McCune and Whitney Jones. Also produced by Tarkor Zehn, Liza Yeager, Noor Bouzidi, and iO Tillett Wright. Our executive producer and editor is Hanna Rosin. With additional editing help by Nichole Hill. Sound design and scoring by Brandon McFarland. Additional sound design by Sharif Youssef, who also mixed the show. Cover Story’s theme music by Santigold. Additional music by Lynx DeMuth and John Ellis. Fact-checking by Britina Cheng and Ted Hart. Special thanks to legal minds Elissa Cohen, Jillian Robbins, and Samantha Mason. And also to Russell Hausfeld. Power Trip is also produced with Psymposia, a non-profit watchdog group. For a deeper dive into some of these issues visit psymposia.com/powertrip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Are you ready to quit smoking? A little support can go a long way. Nicaret can
0:05.8	increase your chances of quitting by up to 60% versus Willpower alone, because when
0:10.4	you're dealing with a stressful commute, it's tough to work, or a night out with
0:14.3	friends. Your Willpower could use a little help now and then. Nicaret gum fights
0:19.4	cravings fast to help give more power to your Willpower. Find out more at
0:24.2	nicaret.co.uk, Nicaret 2 milligram gum contains nicotine, stop smoking aid,
0:28.6	requires Willpower, always read the label.
0:33.0	Support for this show comes from Intel. Where do world-changing ideas get their
0:38.4	start? At Intel, it starts with real solutions and real solutions start with
0:44.2	exceptional engineering. The quantum computing revolution, the next generation of
0:49.6	AI experts, the renewable energy grid, early diagnosis for cancer. The
0:55.6	examples are countless, the impacts are endless, but the foundation is always the
1:01.2	same. It starts with Intel. Learn more at intel.com slash stories.
1:12.2	Just a quick note, this series deals with sexual assault and suicide, so please
1:17.9	keep that in mind when you decide when and where to listen. Also, to protect
1:22.8	their identities, we've changed the names of some of the people we've interviewed.
1:28.3	Hey, it's IO. You've got to be fucking kidding me, host, from the first half of
1:33.3	Power Trip. Jesus Christ. What the fuck? Oh my god, I'm so sorry. In our first five
1:38.6	episodes, Lily K. Ross walked me through basically the key points of her
1:43.6	transformation from a girl growing up without a mom to a tripping hippie with
1:48.4	plans to become a psychedelic guide via Harvard Divinity School, to her
1:53.0	truly horrible experience of rape by a shaman in Ecuador. Then Lily met her
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from New York Magazine, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of New York Magazine and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.