Mark Plotkin
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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And then when we did it again 50 years later, and I wasn't at the first one,
We talked a lot about Cambo, the magic frog.
The point being that the greatest minds in ethnobotany who worked in the rainforest for decades or maybe hundreds of years, if you looked at it cumulatively, didn't know anything about magic frogs.
If you just said that, they would have thought you were crazy or you'd been drinking too much ayahuasca in the meantime.
The point being is that we know what's out there, but we don't know everything that's out there.
And if you look at the diversity, there's got to be more stuff out there.
I'm sure you're familiar with Paul Stamets.
He's on the board of my organization, the advisory board here at the Amazon Conservation Team.
And I was saying to him, okay, you call...
you call psilocybin the Einstein molecule because it's so brilliant at helping humanity with so many things.
Is there another psilocybin out there?
And he smiled and he said, I can't say there isn't.
And then a few months ago, and I'm sure you saw it, they found another mushroom where you take it and you see all these little people.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
It's not psilocybin.
It's not a psilocybin mushroom.
We don't know what the hell it is or what's going on.
And so once again, we find something which you do to ask the greatest scientists of the age, they would have said, no, there's nothing like that.
I know it's a little wives tale, except it wasn't.
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