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Magic: The Gathering is a card game and your goal is to knock your opponent down to zero points. But Magic: The Gathering also has a deep mythology about an infinite number of parallel worlds. Eric Molinsky of Imaginary Worlds looks at why this handheld card game has survived the onslaught of competition from digital games, and how the designers at Wizards of the Coast create a sense of story and world-building within a non-sequential card game.

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Buckle up kids, because this week we are going on a TRIP. But no need to pack your bags, because this trip is psychedelic. OH YES, you read that correctly. This week we are joined by New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan who enlightens us as we go foraging for some intel on mushrooms, acid, MDMA, ayahuasca and all the psychedelics mother nature has to offer. We share our own funny experiences with mushrooms, the future of psychedelics (Doctors could be prescribing them soon!), the safety of mushrooms (No, cordyceps won’t turn you into a zombie) and why there’s really no such thing as a “bad trip.” So hurry up, because we are literally going down the rabbit hole to Wonderland this week, and you don’t want to be late!

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