Welcome to Roon Soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we are speaking with Danny Nemo.

Danny is a writer, presenter and researcher in the fields of psychedelics and the history of science.

He is the author of science revealed and neuroapoculips and joins us today to talk about

entheogens in culture.

Danny welcome aboard.

Hello Gordon, how you doing?

I'm doing well, I'm doing well.

The traditional first question should be interesting.

Danny, were you a weird kid?

Um, no, I don't think I was a weird kid.

I think everyone else was weird and I kind of still maintain that

I remember a guy at school who could round off the

Gold-Scorers for the last 20 or 30 years of World Cups and I thought

that was a very weird thing to turn your attention towards and I to be honest I

couldn't really tell you what color England plays in at the moment.

So no, I don't think I was a weird kid.

I think I was always interested in quite weird things and I was quite, um, I was quite inquisitive, like inquisitive about, normally about why people think certain things

that they think, or why people think anything in particular rather than anything else.

And if you inquire far enough into why someone thinks something is normally

because of conventions.

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