Episode Transcript: #1133 - Dennis McKenna
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And we're live.
Hello, Dennis.
Hi, Joe.
Great to see you.
It's great to be here, as always.
It's great to be here.
So tell me about this, these cards you gave me, and what this is all about.
Okay, well, this is an interesting project.
This is about the RV Heraclitus, which was associated with the Institute for Eco Technics
which is...
Try to keep this first to your face.
Okay, further associated with...
How do I explain it?
It was actually a theater company called the Theater of All Possibilities.
But the Institute for Eco Technics was started in the early 70s, and they built a ship, this
Chinese junk, essentially, with a ferrule concrete hull.
My connection was they have cruised the world, essentially, since 1973, looking into different
things relevant to global ecology.
They've done sampling in the Antarctic, and in 1981, they decided to go to the Amazon.