Fungi science with a restless, curious edge.
Mushroom Revival Podcast is a curious, guest-led mycology show hosted by Alex Dorr. It ranges from psilocybin research and addiction models to mycelium lampshades, wind turbine materials, mushroom farming, and pregnancy and menstrual conversations.
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Mushroom Revival Podcast is a fungi-obsessed science and culture show hosted by Alex Dorr. It treats mushrooms as more than forest curiosities. Across recent episodes, fungi become medicine, material, food, farm crop, design medium, and research question. The conversations are loose and enthusiastic, but they often land in specific science. Stephanie Dawes discusses work on psilocybin and heroin-seeking behavior in rats. That episode uses addiction research to ask how environment, social experience, relapse, and drug-seeking behavior interact. Petros Petrides brings the show into psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for patients with cancer. The conversation widens from psychiatric symptoms to caregiver distress and the emotional ripple effect of diagnosis. Jennifer Chesik talks about psilocybin and women, drawing from her work as a medical and science journalist and author of the psilocybin handbook for women. Mikaela Dila-Mico brings mushrooms into menstrual and pregnancy-related conversations. The show is just as interested in fungal materials. Kim discusses mycelium lampshades, air mycelium, substrate choices, 3D-printing paste, and the difference between beautiful prototypes and workable production. Valeria connects mycelium to engineering questions, including wind turbine materials. Max of Golden Mushroom Co. grounds the fungal fascination in San Diego markets, fresh mushroom production, grow kits, and the lived path into mushroom farming. The result is part classroom, part workshop, part curiosity cabinet. It favors guests who are actively making, studying, writing about, or growing with fungi. The register is friendly and nerdy. The host often starts from simple questions, then lets guests explain the details. Listeners hear both polished research themes and messy practical realities. The show works best for people who want mushrooms taken seriously without draining away their strangeness. It is expansive, sometimes exuberant, and consistently focused on what fungi might make possible next.
Made for: For mushroom-curious listeners, amateur growers, mycology fans, psychedelic research followers, and science-minded makers who like accessible conversations with guests. It also suits people interested in how fungi intersect with health, materials, farming, and culture.
What sets it apart: The show connects mycology across fields that are often kept separate: psychotherapy research, addiction models, menstrual and pregnancy conversations, biomaterials, engineering, and small-scale farming. Its strength is the range of guests paired with Alex Dorr’s informal, detail-seeking interview style.
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.
A fungal spray sabotages rust from within, and suddenly your mental model involves a very bad architect.
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A grounded look at mycelium as a design material, from fungal growth to lampshades and 3D-printing experiments.
Fungal materials feel concrete here as Alex Dorr talks with Kim about what mycelium and fungi can actually become. The discussion ties Kim's interior design background to hands-on material testing, from thin light-passing sheets to more fragile growth around wood chips or hemp,…
A measured look at cancer, psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy, and the caregiver distress around it.
Cancer can redraw the whole map of care, and this episode follows that strain from a patient's psychiatric symptoms to the distress carried by family members.
Science education between theory and classroom reality.
Mushroom Revival Podcast host Alex Dorr talks with Stephanie Dawes about psilocybin, heroin-seeking behavior in rats, and what her Temple University lab thinks the findings could mean for human addiction treatment.
Mushroom Revival Podcast's "Mycomaterials with Kim Kedem" follows Kim Kedem from FIT and hospitality design into mycelium lampshades, vases, and furniture in Beacon, New York.
Mushroom Revival Podcast host Alex Dorr talks with Dr.
Rebecca Degnan, a University of Queensland PhD candidate, studies RNA-based control of myrtle rust, an invasive pathogen affecting Australian native plants.
Abraham Stone of Michigan Technological University explains how Chondrosterium purpureum, a native wound pathogen, may suppress invasive buckthorn after cutting.
An interview with Jennifer Chesak about her book on psilocybin for women, exploring the role of women in psychedelic research and use.
An interview exploring the use of mushrooms and fungi to support menstrual and pregnancy health.
An interview with a UC Davis professor about her journey into mycology and the fascinating world of fungi.
An interview with a mushroom grower about cultivating and selling fresh mushrooms at farmers markets.