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Stuff You Should Know

Selects: How LSD Works

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In 1943 Swiss chemist Albert Hofman discovered he'd created what may be the most potent hallucinogen known to humankind. Then he took a bike ride. Learn about the chemistry, neurology, history and cultural impact of LSD-25 in this classic episode.

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.2

Hey everyone, it's your buddy Josh.

0:33.0

And for this week's Select, I chose our 2016 episode on LSD.

0:38.6

We really took our time with this one and it's the longest regular single episode we've ever recorded.

0:44.5

Clocking in at over 75 minutes.

0:47.6

Originally, it was even longer with a 30 minute interview with John Hodgman.

0:52.3

But we chose to remove that from this select because we've only recently broken Hodgman

0:57.3

of the habit of hanging around the studio, hoping for a chance to be in the show.

1:01.8

And we think that including the interview in this rerun might send some mixed signals

1:06.0

to him.

1:07.2

If you want to hear that interview, go back and listen to the original episode published

1:11.0

in 2016 where it will remain a part of that forever and ever.

1:16.3

One note, we recorded this several years back as evidenced by Chuck's I Can Has Cheeseburger

1:21.6

reference.

1:22.6

So some of the phrases we use are out of date like committed suicide.

1:26.5

Sorry for that.

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