Episode 47: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the Ups and Downs of Ayahuasca

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 9 September 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Ariel Levy investigates ayahuasca, an ancient Amazonian hallucinogen, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talks with David Remnick about the mortality rates of athletes.

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0:00.0	48.
0:04.0	I'm excited to be having a conversation with someone when they have that revolution.
0:11.0	It's making sure.
0:14.0	But maybe looking at this case, it could be an interesting process.
0:18.0	Okay.
0:19.0	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production
0:24.6	of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:42.4	Drive. Driving the car.
0:49.3	Getting into my car, I vow that I will drive with mindful care and caution.
0:55.7	If in fact this is my vehicle, for I often step into someone else's car by accident.
1:02.2	If I have done so now here in the parking lot of stop and shop,
1:06.3	may I smile with self-compassion and not curse my cluelessness,
1:13.0	as the cars where I live are all Subaru's and all the same model and all the same Jasmine Green.
1:17.2	A bewildering forest of foresters.
1:26.0	Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour.
1:30.8	And now, poetry for modern mindfulness.
1:37.0	Going to the movies.
1:43.5	Taking my seat in the movie theater, I'm excited to be here,
1:46.8	and offer my heartfelt hope that it is not a film like Carol, beautiful but so boring. I love the period costumes, but wearied of the
1:54.8	endless shots of the movie stars gazing soulfully at each other, or staring into space like mute
2:00.8	people.
2:02.1	I love talking to you, one of the women says to the other in one scene,
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