PT497 – Wendy Tucker – Reflections from Shulgin Farm: Psychedelics, Legacy, and the Spirit of Discovery
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, released on Ann Shulgin's birthday, Joe interviews Wendy Tucker: daughter of Ann and stepdaughter to Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin.
Recorded in Sasha's old office, she recounts her formative years, giving an insider's look into her Mother's openness about psychedelics, working with Sasha in the lab, how the Shulgins made a perfect team, and watching a close-knit circle of self-experimenters start to form at Shulgin Farm – and keep coming back over the years.
She talks about the energy infused into the property from the decades of research and gatherings, and how she is trying to preserve it – not just to capture its history and the pioneering research that happened there, but as a beacon for future generations. She imagines weddings, conferences, other communal gatherings, and more. Imagine taking a chemistry course in Sasha Shulgin's lab?
To learn more about the project and to donate, head to Shulginfarm.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome back to Psychedelics today. This is Joe Moore coming at you from |
| 0:16.6 | Breck and Ridge, Colorado. Today on the show, we have Wendy Tucker, who is Ann Shulgin's |
| 0:21.8 | daughter. We recorded this episode live in Sasha Shulgin's office, where all the books and papers |
| 0:28.9 | are. It was really cool. I got an invite from the Shulgin Foundation to record a bunch of podcasts, |
| 0:33.8 | and I jumped all over that opportunity to record at the farm, the Shulgin Farm in, I don't really know what they call it, Berkeley Hills, Oakland Hill, something like that. It's gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. And this project is to raise funds for a foundation to acquire the property, the Shulgin Farm properties, so that we can have a community center |
| 0:54.8 | for events, chemistry lessons, events, spaces, weddings, all that kind of fun stuff. |
| 1:00.6 | And there's so much going on around the foundation. It's endlessly interesting. And there's |
| 1:07.2 | going to be two more episodes I recorded at the farm. And I'm going to have another |
| 1:12.4 | part from this series recorded remotely as well. So stay tuned. This is kind of the Shulgin |
| 1:19.2 | collab project. And I'm very excited about it. So hope you enjoy this episode with Wendy Tucker, |
| 1:25.3 | fascinating individual, lots of really great stories in here. |
| 1:29.3 | And I hope you all choose to learn more about the Shulgin Foundation and the farm. |
| 1:34.6 | And see if you can get involved or donate or anything fun like that. |
| 1:38.5 | All right. |
| 1:38.9 | We'll see you on the other side. |
| 1:39.8 | Enjoy this episode. |
| 1:40.9 | Bye. |
| 1:41.0 | Bye. |
| 1:45.0 | And before we get going too far, I wanted to give a shout out and a big thank you to |
| 1:49.9 | our friends at Hover Pictures out of the Bay. Ethan Goldwater was there along with some team |
| 1:56.3 | members at the Shulgin Farm with us and blessed us with some beautiful footage that you can see on our |
| 2:02.4 | YouTube channel. So if you like this podcast, you might consider actually watching, re-listening over |
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