Chris Evans with Michael Pollan

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Virgin Radio UK

Comedy

4.4 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In this podcast special, Chris Evans chats to New York Times best-selling author Michael Pollan about the paperback release of his latest book ‘This Is Your Mind On Plants’ which looks at the incredible effects that three plant drugs - opium, caffeine, and mescaline - can have on the mind.

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0:00.0	Enjoy cracking deals at ASDA this Easter.
0:02.3	With selected roast joints roll back to half price.
0:05.3	Try our mouth-watering whole lamb leg.
0:07.2	Named Best Easter lamb 2025 by the Good Housekeeping Institute,
0:10.8	down from £12.34 per kilo to just £617.
0:14.8	Or a large beef joint also half-priced.
0:17.2	Down from £11.36 per kilo to just £5.68. For more great offers, make Asda
0:22.6	your one hot Easter shop. That's Asda price. Selected stores and line subject to availability,
0:27.7	offer ends 20th of April, excludes Azure Express.
0:32.4	Hello, Chris Evans here with a special edition of The Best of the Breakfast
0:35.2	Show podcast with Sky from Virgin Radio today with Michael Pollan.
0:39.1	For more than 30 years, Michael has been writing books and articles about places where the human and natural worlds intersect.
0:45.4	On our plates, in our farms, via our plants, and our flowers, and our gardens, and in our minds.
0:52.3	His brand new book, This Is Your Mind on Plants, Opium, Caffeine and Mascalin,
0:57.3	is published on Thursday the 7th of July. I read it in hardback when it first come out. I've read
1:01.9	the paperback version again. It is off the scale. Amazing. Whether it's popping poppy seeds in your
1:09.0	teapot for an alternative brew or not getting arrested for what you might be innocently growing in your window box.
1:16.2	This psychonaut super gardener is here to guide us through the psychedelic spiders web of uppers, downers and outers.
1:25.0	Pollan by name, pollen by nature.
1:27.7	It's Michael Pollan.
1:28.8	Good morning, Michael.
1:30.4	Good morning, Chris.
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