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Potstirrer Podcast

100 EpisodesProduced by Jaye PoolWebsite

Where politics, religion and history collide - and it's not always polite! Political opinion podcast hosted by former political science instructor and current political observer Jaye Pool. Left-leaning yet not perfectly bound by ideology. Historical context with a dose of progressive Christianity … read more

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Bonus - America's Drug War: Turn On Tune In Drop Out

In this public release of a bonus episode originally released on Patreon in December 2019, Jaye discusses the life of Dr. Timothy Leary, the "Godfather of LSD." How did someone so apolitical (in the height of an extremely political era!) make political enemies, and what made President Richard Nixon call him "the most dangerous man in America?"

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Source Links: https://www.history.com/topics/crime/history-of-lsd  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-we-know-about-cias-midcentury-mind-control-project-180962836/  https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/timothy-leary  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/06/26/acid-redux  https://www.biography.com/scientist/timothy-leary  https://web.archive.org/web/20120509165407/  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/books/review/25sante.html?pagewanted=all  https://www.npr.org/2018/01/05/575392333/nixons-manhunt-for-the-high-priest-of-lsd-in-the-most-dangerous-man-in-america  https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/president-richard-nixon-and-lsd-guru-timothy-leary-crazy-in-their-own-ways/2018/01/12/76220fa4-ebf2-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html  https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1966/3/12/leary-gets-30-years-on-marijuana/  https://weburbanist.com/2010/10/24/legend-of-a-mind-a-psychedelic-celebration-of-timothy-leary/  https://web.archive.org/web/20180217141920/https://boingboing.net/2017/08/30/interview-with-timothy-leary-a.html  https://web.archive.org/web/20180216204642/ http://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/19/archives/leary-scored-as-cop-informant-by-his-son-and-2-close-friends.html 

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