Passport Podcast

Vienna: Timothy Leary’s Long Strange Trip

E25
October 13, 2020
56:27

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Vienna is a city known for its Old World baroque charm, famous cafés, and waltzes. It consistently ranks as one of the best places to live globally. Vienna is the city of Mozart, Freud, Klimt, and Strauss. However, this story is less Blue Danube and more Orange Sunshine. In this episode, Andrés and guest producer Aisha Prigann take us back to the 1970s with a story involving mind-expansion, revolutionary politics, and the dangers of idol worship. This psychedelic diplomatic mission includes the Chancellor of Austria and Timothy Leary, the high priest of LSD, who was on the run from the law. How did this strange meeting come to pass, and how did it contribute to Vienna’s transformation into the city we know today?