Oh Yard! Hello and what is the crack? Welcome to the Blind by Podcast. I'm recording this from a hotel room in Sydney, in Australia.

And it has required a considerable amount of effort for me to get the audio for the Deadly Rice because the table in the room is glass.

And when you record a podcast on a glass table, it's sound disgusting. So the glass table is currently got a mattress on it, and then my laptop is on a mattress.

If someone was to walk into the room, I'd look incredibly strange. I've basically deconstructed the entire bed and placed it on the fucking table in the corner.

So yeah, that's the crack I'm in Australia. And an incredibly intensive tour. It's good crack, it's good fun. But it's that type of fun where you're just non-stop busy.

So basically, I'm here at week and I've done nearly five gigs already. So I'm gigging, getting to bed, waking up the next morning, getting onto a flight, flying to a different part of Australia, gigging, going to bed, getting onto a flight.

So it's non-stop work, work, work. But I have been meeting some absolutely fucking incredible people and seeing some beautiful things.

The weather here is nice and mild, which is nice because it's the summer here, so I was expecting it to be fucking unfeasibly hot. But it's not quite mild.

The bushfires seem to literally get quenched the second I landed in Australia because the torrents of rain came down.

So that's about it. I have freed this week. I've had access to some pretty fucking incredible guests here in Australia. I had a lot of trouble getting guests because no one knows who the fuck I am over here.

I thought I'm being pleasantly surprised. I thought my live podcasts would just be fucking Irish people. My fear was that the live podcasts would be full of Irish people who moved here in 2011 because of the recession, who would come to the live podcast because of my previous work with the rubber bandits.

And that's completely different audience. I was afraid that data arrived at my podcast show expecting me to sing songs. But that's not the case. There's no fucking rubber bandits people. It's all podcast listeners. Absolutely amazing fucking audiences.

And about between 50 and 40% Australian too, which I'm shocked. I'm really shocked. I didn't know there was that many Australian people come into my listening to my podcast. So that's been amazing to get.

I suppose what it is is my first proper podcast, what I'm playing to a non Irish audience. So it's been absolutely incredible. So I have a conversation that I recorded with.

This is really interesting one. He's like a doctor of neuroscience and psychology, right?

But his research, he's doing groundbreaking research, which is being funded here in Australia. And as far as I know, it's the only place in the world doing it.

He, his name is Dr. Paul Licknitsky. Okay. I'm not going to attempt to spell this, but what I'll do is I'm going to write the spelling of his name in the description of this podcast because the research that he's doing is so interesting that I think if you're listening to this and you're a part of a university in England or in Ireland, you'd want to get in contact with him.

And I know that he would like to see trials of this stuff being done around the world. What he's researching is the clinical use of magic mushrooms, ecstasy, psychedelic drugs, things that we consider to be illegal recreational drugs.

Dr. Licknitsky is studying these things in helping to cure people's depression and cure PTSD and prepare patients that are in palliative care and have severe depression because their face and death.

He's doing some incredible stuff and it's groundbreaking and it's happening right now. So I have an incredibly engaging and an interesting chat fee around that.

Before I play it for you, just kind of a little disclaimer, like I don't want anyone listening to this podcast, someone who's, you know, suffering from depression or anxiety or someone who has mental health issues, who feels that the therapies, you know, going to therapists or the drugs that you might be on aren't working from.

I don't want you to listen to this podcast and think that you can now go away and start doing magic mushrooms or doing ecstasy as a former self-treatment.

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