Tripping Past Your Ego with Michael Pollan

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Trevor enlists the help of journalist and author Michael Pollan (This is Your Mind on Plants, Omnivore’s Dilemma) as they try to convince Christiana of the positive impacts of therapeutic psychedelics and their current standing in society. Do they succeed? You be the judge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're a rat in a lab and you use LSD, the experience that you have would probably be so all-encompassing that you cannot fathom using it again.
0:10.9	You're in a lab.
0:12.7	You're in a, imagine, there are these giant monkeys making you walk through mazes and now you take LSD for the first time.
0:20.4	You're like, what does a maze mean?
0:21.9	Like, where am I going?
0:23.3	Why do I like cheese so much?
0:25.3	What is it that drives me?
0:27.1	And now you're seeing the universe for the first time
0:29.1	you're thinking about cats in a completely different way.
0:31.6	If I was a rat in a lab, I'd be like, I don't know,
0:34.5	I need to, I need to chill on this. I need to, I just need to think
0:37.7	about my life a little bit more.
0:44.4	This is What Now with Trevor Noah.
1:01.5	Do you think, this could be the first topic where we don't agree at all? Yes, which has made me like afraid.
1:03.7	Huh.
1:04.7	Yeah, because normally there's some overlap or I can even see where you're coming from.
1:10.7	Oh, you don't even think you'll be.
1:12.6	Okay, but wait, wait. So help me understand this. We say we're going to have a topic. We're going to have a
1:18.2	conversation. We're going to be speaking to Michael Pollan. He has single-handedly changed the perception
1:27.2	of, I mean, like millions and millions of people when it
1:31.4	comes to psychedelics. And it didn't, it's not only psychedelics, you know, he wrote the omnivore's
1:35.5	dilemma, this is your mind on plants, how to change your mind. And he's written beautiful accounts
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