In this episode, the team gets their minds blown about nuclear power by our former moon landing expert, Dr. Kevin Peter Hickerson.
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Nuclear Power

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DMT and Ayahuasca? What’s the difference? What are they? Jim couldn’t even fake his way through these questions. Good thing our podcast shaman Professor David Nutt was here to guide Jim his Ayahuasca journey.
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Prof. David Nutt is the Founder of Drug Science and the Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology. He serves as the Head of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit in the Centre for Academic Psychiatry within the Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, at Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London. He has also chaired the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. For over twenty-five years, Prof Nutt has served as the editor of the Journal of Psychopharmacology, and he acts as a psychiatry drugs advisor to the British National Formulary. He has written over 500 original research papers and 31 books. Notably, his book for the general public, 'Drugs Without the Hot Air' , earned him the Transmission book prize in 2014 for Communication of Ideas.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 — Ads
2:20 — Theme Song
12:27 — Judging a Book by It’s Cover
14:37 — David Nutt Introduction
18:35 — Questions
24:08 — Jim’s Ayahuasca Diet
26:55 — Ads
38:47 — Grading
39:43 — Answers
44:28 — The Great Tradition
50:30 — How Old Is Too Old?
1:13:25 — Australian Ayahuasca Guide
1:14:33 — Dinner Party Fact

DMT and Ayahuasca

Is Magic the Gathering only for nerds? The answer may surprise you, almost as much as it surprised Jim thanks to our expert Dan Black (@danblackattack).
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Magic the Gathering

The consensus is in: Jim doesn’t understand how polls work. Luckily our expert Joshua Doss knows enough within a margin of error (that’s a polling term!)
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Political Polling

Jim don't know sh*t about poop. Our expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz helps him out.
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Poop

Jim may know Australia but does he know Austria? Thank goodness historian Stephen Beller is on the podcast to tell us everything Jim doesn't know.
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GUEST BIO: Steven Beller was born in London, England and educated at Cambridge University; since 1989 he has lived in the USA. He has written widely on Austrian, Jewish and Central European history. His books include A Concise History of Austria (Cambridge, 2006), Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938: A Cultural History (Cambridge University Press, 1989); Herzl (Halban, 1991); Francis Joseph (Longman, 1996); ; Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2008, 2015); Democracy: All That Matters (Hodder, 2013). He also edited and introduced the anthology Rethinking Vienna 1900 (Berghahn, 2001). His latest book is The Habsburg Monarchy 1815-1918 (Cambridge, 2018). He is currently an independent scholar resident in Washington DC. 

Nuclear Power

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