Love the book title, by the way.

Hi, this is William Ramsey.

Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show of a very special guest.

His name is Sam Kelly, K-E-L-L-L-Y.

And if you're watching this on my three returned YouTube channels X, Rumble, Rockfin,

you'll see the title of his new book, which I really enjoy the cover of it.

And the full title is human history on drugs an utterly

scandalous but entirely truthful look at history under the influence and it's a very

broad scope it's really nice to fund to read and highly recommend the book I'm glad it

came to my attention I wasn't able to interview him earlier I had obligations I was in jury duty but we made this happen so I'm glad it came to my attention. I wasn't able to interview him earlier. I had obligations. I was in jury duty, but we made this happen, so I'm glad he's here. He's a history grad from Stanford University. He's on the autism spectrum, and his interest and passion for history have become an almost physical compulsion. He loves to dig up forgotten, weird historical stories, and spends hours uncovering every

last stubborn detail.

As a deep believer, that history can be as exciting as any Marvel movie, Sam aims to make

history both engaging and accessible to all in human history on drugs is his first book,

hopefully not his last.

There's also great drawings drawings in here too which

i enjoyed and kind of brought light to the different topics and stuff like that but he can talk

more about that so sam kelly welcome to show hey it is great to be here thank you for having me so

much i'm really glad we're able to make this work yeah me too so for people who haven't heard haven't heard your name, maybe not heard the book, maybe you can talk about your background, your research

and what led up to the publication in July 2025 of Human History on Drugs. Absolutely, yeah.

So this is my first published book. I'd only had a few, I had a few things published in various sort of like little online magazines.

And I'd had one thing published in my alumni magazine.

And of course, I had a TikTok prior to this that was sort of a launching pad to see if people were interested in these ideas.

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