Episode 521: I Trip, Ergot I AmThis week host Dave Bledsoe got into a batch of Rye and woke up the next day convinced he had ergotism. (Turns out his body was rejecting top shelf whiskey) On the show this week bring you part one of the story of LSD and the 1960s. (By talking about anything but the 1960s. Naturally.)Along the way we discover that Dave has big plans for the future. (He is gonna get SO HIGH!) Then we dive right into the ancient history of hallucinogens and human civilization. (We have religion because of them!) Then we learn about ergotism. (Which Dave was shocked to learn wasn’t about him!) Then we meet the man who created LSD and the people who made it groovy!Our Sponsor this week is The Little Dudes Who Live In the Walls, who wants you that are VERY high. We open with Jimmy Carter and close with Grateful Dave, who is on a journey. Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common SenseThe Show on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/whatthehellpodcast.bsky.socialThe Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/The Show on Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQThe Show on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatthehellwereyouthinkingpod/Our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/kHmmrjptrqOur Website: https://www.whatthehellpodcast.comPatreon:  https://www.patreon.com/WhatthehellpodcastThe Show Line: 347 687 9601Closing Music: https://youtu.be/s30knXhV940?si=IkOKdtMZKD--tDNDBuy Our Stuff: https://www.seltzerkings.com/shopCitations Needed:How Do Psychedelics Work in the Brain?https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_do_psychedelics_work_in_the_brainThe long history of psychedelics in religion, from ergot-spiked wine to magic mushroomshttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-21/religion-psychedelic-renaissance-peyote-magic-mushrooms-lsd/101346594Wikipedia: The History of LSDhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_LSD#DiscoveryHigh Times: When does self-experimentation cross the line?https://web.archive.org/web/20230408075721/https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/high-timesLSD experiments by the United States Armyhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0957154X17717678?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmedHigh Anxiety: LSD in the Cold Warhttps://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/high-anxiety-lsd-in-the-cold-warWhen Aldous Huxley Opened the Doors of Perceptionhttps://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-aldous-huxley-opened-the-doors-of-perception/Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices