The Trip Report Report

Cheth and Maven can talk forEVER about the Roman Empire, but Kai’s barely even heard of it. We talk about what we know best and this episode, that’s the origin of what would become Big Pharma, and the many Friedrichs who made it all possible (plus one classically coked up psychoanalyst). We chart Merck Pharmaceuticals' initial rise from its inception in the literal dark ages, and discover how a fe...

We’re back in a BIG way, taking you to a time before posh-goth ravers would bashfully ask for a bump on the dancefloor. In this episode we explore the coca leaf’s nearly 10,000 year history before being synthesized into the crystalline form known as Cocaine. We begin with high in the Andes Mountains, reading from an account of a coca laden llama fertility ritual, led by members of the Atacameño. T...

It's the crossover you didn't know you needed. We pulled out all the stops to convince embattled LA eatery, Horses, to reopen for one final business lunch. We sit down at this hyper exclusive luncheon to get the download on Michelle Lhooq's most bullish trades. Our discussion ranges from Beckley Foundation founder Amanda Feilding's experimental self-trepanation, to German billionaires funding...

We sit down at one of the most storied institutions on Hollywood Boulevard for a sprawling conversation spanning Compass Pathways, the psychedelic sector, and which gas station virility pills sent one of us to the urgent care. Later in the hour, Max auditions an array of drops in hopes of gaining Kai's coveted seal of approval. Is today her lucky day? Tune in to find out! Follow us on Instagram @t...

We missed you! Have you ever wondered what's actually in those brightly colored "shroom" chocolate bars behind the glass at your local head shop? For several years many of them were marketed as containing Amanita Muscaria, however user reports and independent lab testing tell a decidedly different story. How DID mushroom marketing hucksters confuse consumers, media, and government agencies alike?...

Could Amanita Muscaria be the secret to finally clearing up your psoriasis? Making your poops more regular? Increasing your agility in the ring? How about in the bedroom ;) The answer may shock you!  We discuss whether this fabled "poison" could have a place in the modern medicine cabinet. And after exploring several studies on the effects of muscimol and ibotenic acid, we examine the re...

Was the REAL Jesus not a man, but a mushroom shrouded in metaphor to survive Roman persecution? Did amanita muscaria inspire pre-Hindu Vedic priests to craft literally thousands of hymns? When the stakes are this high, can Jamie “pull that up?”  Today we're continuing on our trip down Amanita Lane talking about two dudes and their much disputed mushroom theories! We start off with Robert Gord...

In this episode, our wooden bowls floweth over with deep lore and more! We embark on a mystical journey to the land of the Koryak and Chukchi in Northeast Asia, and tell tales of what many people believe to be the original magic mushroom, Amanita Muscaria (aka Fly Agaric). You know we love primary source documents, so we're checking in with some 19th-century Russian dissidents who were exiled to S...

Today we're discussing the deliriant state known as Eiriel, and the two reports from the olde internet chan board which coined the phrase. This episode comes complete with a big wet smooch from the Hatman’s shadowy lips. We talk internet culture, enjoy tangents on figures like Frederick Brennan, and try to make sense of what drives people to consume life threatening amounts of over the counter all...

Bennies Part 1! And it's a doozy... We discuss the shockingly popular trends around so-called recreational Benadryl use, and the digital communities that have emerged to support this largely solitary activity. We follow The Hatman down a dark wooded path filled with creepy crawlers to figure out why he would telepathically misgender people, and to try and find out where we can get a funky hat...

We sat down for an in-studio conversation with filmmaker Courtney Stephens, co-director of the recent documentary, John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office . Courtney shares her unique perspective on Lilly as someone who has spent 5+ years conducting interviews with his associates and reviewing massive amounts of archival material. Our conversation centers around Lilly's sprawling and c...

We salute you!! In this episode we sniff out some bozos with problematic poppers takes, cover a bit of poppers current affairs, and drumroll please… speak with out first ever guest on the pod, the Pop Boss himself, Adam Zmith! We get his take on everything from poppers' ambiguous legal status, to which Star Trek character has the best queer story line. Finally, we climax with a discussion of the P...

The moment you've all been waiting for ... it's the Poppers ep! With poppers in the crosshairs, we had to give y'all a whiff of the story behind your favorite little brown bottle. We start at the beginning in a french apothecary, peruse some titillating archival material, and perform some particularly lewd and crude reports that absolutely dripping with nitrites, among other things ;) Tune in next...

We're finally giving into our targeted Instagram ads and taking our mental health into our own hands (with an internet nurse practitioner who shares a name with a certain former First Lady). It's 2025 and we're getting our Ketamine from a compounding pharmacy in Ohio and shipped through the goshdang US postal service.  *Trigger Warning for discussions of suicidal ideation. If you want this sh...

Finally one for the dolls! JK all our episodes are for the dolls. Do trans people like Ketamine more than cis people? I don't know, but it sure seems like it sometimes when you hang out with a lot of trans people who like Ketamine! We read from Hannah Baer's excellent book Trans Girl Suicide Museum, and discuss some the factors that contribute to higher rates of drug use among the queer commu...

We read at length from an early account of explorations with Ketamine from the self-proclaimed High Priestess of Ketamine herself: Marcia Moore. We talk about Marcia's life, and seminal therapeutic Ketamine text: Journey's Into the Bright World. This is a text heavy episode, but I think it's worth it for the canon. Featuring a cute John & Toni Lilly cameo later in the episode. If you want this...

The John C. Lilly episode! We discuss John Lilly's love and abuse of dolphins, potential three letter agency affiliations, float tanks (he invented them!), and of course, Ketamine. We read at length from John's autobiography, The Scientist , and discuss his proclivity for taking massive amounts of Ketamine later in his life. RIP John Lilly you would have hated ChatGPT. If you want this show to con...

In this one we discuss Ketamine's first use in a therapeutic setting and Salvador Roquet's sensory-overload psychedelic sessions in Mexico City. We talk about the first Yale study on Ketamine as a treatment for major depression, and the slew of studies and meta analysis that came next. Then we read two trip reports from people who have different goals for their Ketamine use. Trigger Warning: for b...

The seminal episode of The Trip Report Report! We discuss Ketamine's origins in the Parke-Davis lab and how it was fast-tracked through the FDA by testing it on prison inmates for use in the Vietnam war. Then we dive into some trip reports from Erowid and yes - there's a large jar of piss involved. IYKYK.  If you want this show to continue AND get access to more content like extended trip rep...