Episodes

  • We Changed Our Minds Ep. 7 Haight Ashbury Underground History II w/ Prof Stan McDaniels

    We Changed Our Minds Ep. 7 Haight Ashbury Underground History II w/ Prof Stan McDaniels
    Jul 2 2022
    Welcome back! Laura and Matthew catch up after some adventures in Phil Lesh and Friends and reminisce about the last 23 years with him. Then it’s onto our very special guest Prof Stan Mc Daniels. Laura takes this interview solo and they cover everything from Stan’s introduction to San Francisco’s ‘Summer of Love’ in 1967, his hand in organizing concerts in the panhandle, Janis Joplin, Alan Watts, JRR Tolkien and everything in between. This is one not to be missed! After our post interview discussion, our favorite segment - listener questions! This episodes musical guest is Starwind with excerpts from their soon to be releases debut album ‘Eponymous.’
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    2 hrs and 32 mins
  • Episode 6 We Changed Our Minds

    Episode 6 We Changed Our Minds
    Jun 1 2022
    Dr. Laura and I are taking a break from special guests this week and spend the two hours catching up on recent events, SF Bicycle Day, Laura’s run in with COVID and Matthews first Paul McCartney show in Oakland. We pick up where we left off last episode with Bobby and explore the relationship between artistry and altered states of consciousness, one of our all time favorite topics. Before signing off, we take caller questions and feature some beautiful and haunting new music “Lifeline” from Utopia as well as the new single “Anagrams” from Matthews Trap Rapper alias Popsiclez! Join us next episode for the return of our guest segment with retired Sonoma Professor of Philosophy, founder of the Alan Watts Society of Sausalito and a key architect in the Haight Ashbury during the summer of love, Prof. Stan McDaniels. Featured music “Anagrams” by Popsiclez “Lifeline” by Utopia
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    2 hrs and 9 mins
  • We Changed Our Minds Episode 5 w/ special guest Bobby Weir of the Grateful Dead

    We Changed Our Minds Episode 5 w/ special guest Bobby Weir of the Grateful Dead
    May 25 2022
    Matthew and Laura catch up a little and Matthew reports back from his annual legal psychedelic therapy session. We get into some of our favorite topics - the relationship between altered states of consciousness and creativity and music! Specifically music made by musicians on drugs for people on drugs. (Can you guess one of our favorite bands that we talk about ?) This episode, we are especially blessed with the road and life wisdom of one of psychedelic rock n roll’s royalty-Bobby Weir! Matthew digs into his personal archives and plays for us an interview he and a journalist friend did with Bobby back in 2008 out at his home in Mill Valley. Matthew finally was able to ask him many of the questions he’s always wanted as we touch on current politics, sustainability, psychedelics, meditation, creativity, the Muse and clues to the afterlife Bobby has found within his unbreakable bond with his dearly departed band mate and brother, Jerry Garcia. An episode for the ages and we’re only five deep! You won’t want to miss this one! Special thanks to Bruno Torturro! Musical contribution on ‘My Jerry’ by John Kane
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    1 hr and 46 mins
  • We Changed Our Minds Episode 4 w/ special guest Carolyn ‘Mountain Girl’ Garcia

    We Changed Our Minds Episode 4 w/ special guest Carolyn ‘Mountain Girl’ Garcia
    May 3 2022
    This week we are joined by a very special guest and beloved friend, Carolyn ‘Mountain Girl’ Garcia. Long time original Merry Prankster and Matriarch of the Grateful Dead, MG has spent her life and raised her daughters in the eye of the cyclone that is North American psychedelic counterculture. An author, artist and master gardener, Mountain Girl fell in with Neal Cassidy and Ken Kesey in the earliest days of the 1960s in Palo Alto, CA when she was just 19. She would go on to have a daughter, Sunshine, with great American author and psychedelic leader Ken Kesey before befriending and ultimately marrying and having two more daughters, Annabelle and Trixie, with Jerry Garcia - front man and lead guitarist and singer for the legendary San Francisco psychedelic improvisation band, the Grateful Dead. In this episode, MG and Matthew go on to reflect on MGs unique perspectives on the arc of psychedelic medicines journey from legal and promising therapeutics in the early 60s, , to illegal social and scientific taboos and then recently back again. The real heart of this episode reveals itself when MG lays down a powerful and impassioned plea for freedom and amnesty for the many men and women still serving hard time in prison for non-violent drug offenses on Grateful Dead tour. We touch upon the realities of the impact imprisonment has upon communities and families, a topic very near to our hearts and one especially personal for Laura. To close, Laura shares with us her families own heroic and painful journey through the punitive insanity that is the American criminal Justice system. As a treat, we get a Neal Cassidy story from Phil Lesh and MG sticks around to answer our caller voicemail. We dedicate this episode to the end of the cruelty and injustice of America’s excessive criminal sentencing guidelines for non-violent drug offenses and to the many untold sacrifices of every person that’s lost a piece of their lives to its devastating consequences. Original music by Mark.
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    2 hrs and 6 mins
  • We Changed Our Minds Ep. 3 w/ special guest Sunshine Kesey

    We Changed Our Minds Ep. 3 w/ special guest Sunshine Kesey
    Mar 17 2022
    Dr. Laura and Matthew are back! We catch up and talk about how hard and strange the world has grown lately, how we’re trying to cope and Dr. Laura introduces us to her new psychedelic science project! Our dear friend Sunshine Kesey (daughter of Ken Kesey and Mountain Girl) takes some time to talk about her understanding of the past and visions for a psychedelic future. And we’ll check the 1(833)IAM2HIGH listener call in line to see if we have any messages from our listeners before we go. One of our favorite episodes yet! **********************************************************************************************************Special thanks to our musical guest Lindsay James with “To The Whole” Evergreen Oracle is the Intersection of Lindsay’s Creation & Contemplation. More @ www.saysayjames.com/music
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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • WCOM Episode 2 - The Haight Ashbury then and now w/ Tsvi Deer

    WCOM Episode 2 - The Haight Ashbury then and now w/ Tsvi Deer
    Feb 23 2022
    Matthew and Laura reminisce about Dead Tour and some of the early days first coming out to San Francisco, their mutual love for the city and it’s colorful counterculture history and customs. Haight Ashbury icon Harry ‘Tsvi Deer’ Strauch joins in on our conversation as our special guest and takes us on a cosmic tour of underground Haight Ashbury history like you’ve never heard. Special appearance by Phil Lesh Musical Guest Carleigh Kennedy
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    2 hrs and 37 mins
  • We Changed Our Minds Episode One special appearance by Bobby Weir

    We Changed Our Minds Episode One special appearance by Bobby Weir
    Feb 14 2022
    Matthew and Dr. Laura introduce ourselves and discuss new ideas of recovery, psychedelics, and harm reduction and take listener questions at the end. Bobby Weir drops in for a moment to tell us what he learned from psychedelics over all these years.
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    2 hrs and 8 mins