Colin Wells is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, a devoted father, and a man who has transformed his pain into service. This conversation moves through the ravages of addiction, the promises of psychedelics, and the specific loneliness that follows a uniform. There’s one question that motivates Colin to keep showing up for his nature-based psychedelic peer support group, Veterans Walk and Talk. Stick around ‘til the end to find out what it is.

Stephen Kinzer spent years reconstructing the mysterious life of a man the CIA worked hard to keep invisible: Sidney Gottlieb, the chemist behind MK-Ultra and the man responsible for some of the most extreme experiments the US government ever ran on its own citizens. This conversation is an investigation into the specific kind of person capable of doing that work, what he told himself to make it possible, and how much of what he pioneered around the manipulation of personality and the re-structuring of belief still persists today.