Holidaze Special: Trippin' Balls with Santa Claus

Great Moments in Weed History

David Bienenstock

Tv & Film, Comedy, History

4.8 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Explore St. Nick’s psychedelic shamanic roots in Siberia in the only Christmas Special where Santa gifts you magic mushrooms and even the reindeer get high AF! So hang on to your sleigh bells, because it's time for Abdullah and Bean's annual re-telling of this classic story as we celebrate the holiday season with Amanita muscaria mushrooms, weed-infused cookies, extra oil to dab for Chanukah and plenty of fermented yak milk. Special thanks to Harvard professor Donald Pfister for his enlightening annual lecture on Psychedelic Santa! Check out Doubleblind magazine and MAPS for more information on psychedelics. EPISODE ARCHIVE Visit our podcast feed for 100+ episodes of Great Moments in Weed History , and subscribe now to get a new weekly podcast every Weednesday. PATREON Please support Great Moments in Weed HIstory on Patreon. Supporters get exclusive access to video versions of this podcast and private seshes, plus cool rewards like a signed book. And it truly helps us make the best show possible

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0:00.0	Hi there, it's Bean. Welcome to the great moments in weed history, Holidays SmokeTacular. By the way,
0:08.8	that's Holidays, spelled with a Z, to acknowledge that we're all just a bit dazed from getting
0:14.7	so lit this holiday season. Yep, that's one last, very subtle weed pun to round out the year. As this is our final
0:24.5	regularly scheduled Weedness Day transmission in advance of Christmas, it is time for our annual
0:31.1	retelling of the greatest psychedelic Santa story ever told. Statistically, this is the most popular episode of the show, and it's the only one that we ever repeat for very good reason.
0:45.3	Because by the end of this rigorous historical investigation, you, yes, you will be 100% convinced that the personage we all know as Santa is actually
0:58.2	a Siberian psilocybin mushroom shaman whose flying reindeer are totally tripping balls,
1:05.4	dude. So stay tuned for that. The holiday smoketacular was originally recorded back in December of 2020 and features
1:13.7	myself and my former co-host on this podcast, Abdullah Saeed. It was our first show back after a long
1:20.4	hiatus that was imposed on us because a podcast network that had been producing great moments in
1:25.9	weed history basically fucked us over,
1:28.4	and for a while we couldn't record any new material. But we eventually made the tough decision
1:34.3	to come back fully independent. Nowadays, it's just me. To quickly reiterate what's been
1:41.0	previously explained on the podcast and online, Abdullah decided to move on
1:45.9	to greener pastures, yep, pun intended, after selling a pilot for a TV show to a streaming service.
1:52.9	We're still friends, and I'm super excited to see what he makes next, but for the past year,
1:58.2	it's been just me guiding the sled over here.
2:01.0	For those of you who've been listening for a long time and are still listening,
2:05.6	thank you so much for getting high on history with me.
2:10.6	And for all of the new people coming in over this past year, welcome.
2:16.0	And I invite you to definitely go back into the archives. We have
2:20.4	over a hundred shows and so many incredible history stories archived there. And, and especially
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