Mushroom Revival Podcast
A podcast devoted to the wonderful world of fungi. Our eclectic show covers fungi in health & wellness, technology, science, culture and more. Welcome to the Mushroom Revival.
Episodes
212 episodes since 2019
Ethnomycology in South Africa with Cullen Taylor Clark
Today we travel to South Africa to sit down with Cullen Taylor Clark to talk about two species of Psilocybin mushrooms (Psilocybe ingeli and Psilocybe maluti) that were newly scientifically described first the first time. Cullen Taylor...
September 09, 2024
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1:37:00
Mycelial Clothing with Aniela Hoitink
Today we sit down with Aniela Hoitink to talk about how to make clothing out of mycelium. The possibilities of mycomaterials are endless and Aniela and her team discovered an innovative technique to make mycoclothing custom fitted to each indiv...
September 04, 2024
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33:07
How Psilocybin Helps us Learn with Andrea Casanova
Today we sit down with Andrea Casanova who recently published a paper exploring the influence of psilocybin on subconscious and conscious emotional learning. Does eating magic mushrooms help us grow intellectually and emotionally as humans? Doe...
August 21, 2024
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48:35
Reishi Bonsai with Sam Shoemaker
Today we sit down with the highly creative Sam Shoemaker to chat about Reishi Bonsai, mycelial boats, cultivating stinkhorns and so many other interesting projects he's up to. Get curious, tune in and shroom in. Sign up for our podcast ...
August 16, 2024
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1:08:07
How Plant Fungicides are Affecting Humans with Marin T Brewer
When we spray fungicides on plants, these fungi are adapting and becoming resistant to anti-fungals when they go and infect humans later down the line. We sit down with Marin T Brewer to talk about these developing super microorganisms and our ...
August 08, 2024
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58:54
Marine Fungi with Massimo Pernice
Dive into the deep ocean to explore ecosystems of fungi with Massimo Pernice. Learn how fungi can adapt to extreme environments with ease, how they can breathe underwater, scavenge for food, reproduce, and mush more. Marine mycology is an under...
July 31, 2024
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38:36
Cooking Mushrooms with Alan Bergo
Alan Bergo, the chef better known as forager chef leads us on a gastronomic journey of the senses into the mushroom world. We talk about local foraged and farmed food, tips and tricks on how to cook mushrooms, notable varieties people should tr...
July 26, 2024
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53:52
How to Improve Your Sex Life With Psychedelics with Tommaso Barba
Today we sit down with Tommaso Barba to chat about how we can improve our sex lives with mushrooms and psychedelics. Did you know making love and doing a psychedelic ceremony are wildly all too similar, from set and setting, integration/afterca...
July 11, 2024
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50:53
Double-stranded RNA Mind Controls Rust Fungi with Rebecca Degnan
Right out of a science fiction movie - what if there was a magic spray that could control living organisms to do your bidding? Well, that spray exists, and researchers like Rebecca Degnan are using it for good. Rebecca, from the University of Q...
June 26, 2024
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1:03:49
Mushroom Art with Irene Antonez
Irene Antonez is an artist and musician based in Prague, who specializes in bio art and botanical/mycological illustration, particularly focusing on fungi and microorganisms. Irene's work is heavily influenced by her microscopic research of fun...
June 21, 2024
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1:00:17
Unveiling the Mystery of Chaga with Ben Bohémier
Today we dive into the mysterious world of chaga with Ben Bohémier. We don't know much about chaga's life cycle, it's illusive rare fruiting body, or much of anything to say the least. Ben is one of the leading experts on the matter and the mor...
June 13, 2024
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1:35:01
Using Native Fungi to Weaken Invasive Trees with Abe Stone
Today we sit down with Abe Stone from Michigan Tech to talk about his use of Chondrostereum purpureum — lab nickname “SuperPurp,” inspired by the animated TV series “Adventure Time” - to fight...
June 05, 2024
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55:53
New Technique for Measuring Potency in Magic Mushrooms with Kevin Schug
Today we sit down with Kevin Schug, the Shimadzu Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, to chat about his work using liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry to measure psiloc...
May 30, 2024
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54:56
The Difference Between Pure Psilocybin and Full Spectrum Mushrooms with Lerer Bernard and Orr Shahar
Today we sit down with two researchers who just published the paper: "Effect of chemically synthesized psilocybin and psychedelic mushroom extract on molecular and metabolic profiles in mouse brain" to discuss the clinical difference between pu...
May 22, 2024
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1:08:58
Mushrooms in Ecuador with Alan Rockefeller and Mandie Quark
Today we travel to Ecuador with Alan Rockefeller and Mandie Quark of Mycena to talk about the trip we all went on to look for rare and new species of tropical fungi in the jungle. Some were poisonous, some psychedelic, some glowed under UV, som...
May 15, 2024
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1:37:09
Psilocybin Therapy for Women with Heather Lee
Today we sit down with Heather Lee to talk about healing psilocybin therapy retreats for women. We chat about how one holds space for people dealing with trauma, what is it like to be a therapist, and what are the common things women from aroun...
May 07, 2024
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1:01:03
Astromycology with Marta Filipa Simões
Today we travel to space with Marta Filipa Simões to talk about what fungi has been found in space, how they can survive, what tests we are doing on earth to discover their space exploration potential, and the possibility of fungal life on othe...
April 29, 2024
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46:34
Mycelial Buildings with Christopher Maurer
Today we sit down with Christopher Maurer to talk about building mycelial homes in Namibia, Cleveland and even Mars. Transforming invasive plants into homes in Namibia, toxic construction waste into homes in Cleveland, and high tech materials i...
April 15, 2024
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48:11
Mushroom Virtual Reality with Nanotopia
What happens when you make mushroom music and generate virtual reality with mushroom signals? We sit down with nanotopia to dive into an alternate reality to explore the weird world of mushroom signals and the explorative landscapes they create...
April 10, 2024
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1:02:37
Mushrooms of New Zealand with Liv Sisson
Today we travel to New Zealand with Liv Sisson to talk about the fungi of Aotearoa better known as New Zealand. We chat about the folklore and indigenous uses of various mushrooms and her newest book all about the topic. Sign up for our...
March 26, 2024
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43:41
Mushroom Music with Tarun Nayar
Today we sit down with the musician and biologist Tarun Nayar to dive into the mystical world of mushroom music. Did you know we can hook up sensors to mushrooms and turn their electrical signals into music? Learn how to make your own and sit b...
March 14, 2024
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51:31
Oregon Psilocybin Services with Angie Allbee
Today we sit down with Angie Allbee, the Oregon Psilocybin Services section manager, to discuss how the first state in the USA has paved the way for legal psilocybin services in the state. Just in 2023 alone they've given over 206 facilitator l...
March 06, 2024
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55:15
Mushroom DNA Sequencing with Kyle Canan
Today we sit down with the robin hood of mushroom DNA sequencing, Kyle Canan, founder of the Ohio Mushroom DNA Lab, which offers free mushroom DNA sequencing to the public. We chat about the process of DNA sequencing, finding new species, types...
February 28, 2024
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1:08:09
Pikilo Mushroom Protein in Finland with Simo Ellilä
Today we travel to Finland to take a history lesson on the foundations of fungal protein developed in 1963, having coined the name "Pikilo". Finnish researchers in the 60's were growing edible fungi on agricultural wastes and feeding livestock ...
February 22, 2024
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51:48
Bisexual Death Caps with Yen-Wen Wang
Invasive deadly poisonous death caps are sexual deviants switching from unisexual and bisexual reproduction. We sit down with Yen-Wen Wang to dive into the sexual reproduction strategies of fungi and what makes these death caps so unique in Cal...
February 12, 2024
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49:52