What if ayahuasca made you stop podcasting?
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People sometimes ask me which podcasts I listen to, and my answer is always, not many. I sample here and there, but I only devotedly listen to a few, and they are embarrassingly very popular ones. Every once in a while, though, I stray from my normal imaginary friends and dip into unfamiliar waters. And a month ago, I ended up in what were for me quite strange waters. A friend who delights in texting me unusual things texted me a podcast link. Had I heard this one? I had not. But once I heard it, it got into my head the way only some things do. The podcast was called A Special Place in Hell.
Welcome to A Special Place in Hell, the podcast where an aging Gen X author and a self-hating millennial activist come together to thoroughly and conclusively solve our culture war problems with our combined wit, wisdom, and most importantly, lived experiences. I am the aging Gen X author, Megan Daum, and with me is the self-hating millennial, Sarah Hader. Hi, Sarah. Hi.
A conversation show, basically an anti-woke podcast, in which the two hosts, week by week, humorously cataloged their disagreements with the online left. Sarah and Megan had been running the show for two years. And from the outside, it seemed to be working. They were finding an audience, they were publishing regularly. Things were going well, up until this episode my friend had sent me. The episode which abruptly announced the show's end. Most podcasts end quietly. The very special ones can end in indecipherable drama. This podcast had ended in a way I had never heard of a podcast ending before. One of the hosts, a former Muslim-turned-atheist activist who seemed to love getting into scraps online, she had announced that she had tried ayahuasca.
Ayahuasca, an extremely potent psychedelic. And now, the podcast wasn't for her anymore. The topics she'd once so enjoyed being outraged by, she now found them less interesting. What? There are so many people in my life who I've watched just get sucked into the internet, across the political gradient, who've gotten more strident or more strange, more certain, more cortisol-ed out, who spend their days screaming at strangers. I worry about them. I wonder what it would take to get them to reconsider at all. I've never found an answer.
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