On this episode of Comes a Time, founder and CEO of Flow State Micro Adam Bramlage joins Mike and Oteil to talk about the limitless potential of microdosing. In this conversation you’ll hear the three dive deep on how microdosing can rewire the brain to help develop new neural pathways, breaking intergenerational trauma through microdosing, and Adam’s work with Flow State Micro and how he aims to create the most effective experience for his clients. You’ll also hear about how loving yourself is ...
Oct 08, 2021•1 hr 35 min
This week on Comes A Time Oteil and Mike talk with one of the top young drummers in music, Nikki Glaspie. In this conversation Nikki, Mike, and Oteil discuss why Nikki knew that it was the right decision to leave school at Berklee to gig on her own, her move to New York City and the excitement of auditioning for Beyoncé, the new Nth Power album (which features Kofi Burbridge on 10 of it’s 11 tracks) and much more. You’ll also hear the three dive deep on religion and spirituality as Nikki discuss...
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 31 min
On this episode of Comes A Time Mike and Oteil welcome film director and UFO specialist James Fox onto the show. In this expansive conversation you’ll hear about an interview that James conducted with former Arizona governor Fife Symington about the Phoenix Lights sighting in 1997, a smoking gun linking J. Edgar Hoover to the Roswell UFO crash, and an experience of connection that occurred on the moon that is unlike anything we’ve heard on Comes A Time. James, Oteil, and Mike also talk about the...
Sep 24, 2021•1 hr 31 min
This week on Comes a Time Oteil and Mike talk with documentary filmmaker Lindsay Kent, who details the process of telling the story of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters through her feature-length documentary film Going Furthur, which was released in 2021. In this conversation you’ll hear Lindsay, Mike, and Oteil talk about Kesey and the Pranksters and their incredibly anomalous antics, Lindsay’s introduction to the universe of the Grateful Dead, the process of understanding her purpose as a fil...
Sep 17, 2021•1 hr 38 min
On this episode of Comes a Time, Mike and Oteil talk with banjo virtuoso and 14-time Grammy winner Béla Fleck, who is best known for his innovative playing with New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. In this conversation Béla, Oteil, and Mike talk about the creative and recording processes behind Béla’s upcoming album, the intricacies of playing music in a group setting, the origin of the banjo in Africa, and much more. You’ll also hear Mike tell a story about a time when Béla’s mu...
Sep 10, 2021•1 hr 20 min
This week on Comes a Time Oteil and Mike talk with a very special guest, Trixie Garcia! The daughter of our fabled guitar hero Jerry Garcia, Trixie shares unique insights about the Garcia family in this conversation, as well as some of our favorite topics here on Comes a Time. You’ll hear the three discuss Trixie’s love for hip hop and how she discovered music outside of the realm of the Grateful Dead as a teenager, Jerry’s rule of no parties consisting of more than 5,000 people while he was out...
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 16 min
On this episode of Comes a Time, Mike and Oteil welcome Yale Psychology Professor Laurie Santos onto the show. Laurie is the host of The Happiness Lab, a podcast focused on the science of happiness that provides helpful advice on ways to improve your life. In this conversation you’ll hear the three talk about the mental health crisis on college campuses, the idea of happiness existing as a relative concept, how misguided expectations can lead to disappointment and vice versa, and much more. You’...
Aug 27, 2021•1 hr 13 min
This week on Comes a Time Oteil and Mike talk with Jerry Grillo, who recently published a biography about Col. Bruce Hampton titled The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton: A Basically True Biography. In this conversation, the three dive deep on the mystical life of Col. Bruce, and Oteil reflects on some wild and inconceivable tales about his beloved mentor. You’ll hear about how Col. Bruce could intercept people's thoughts through certain stages of dreams, the story of an evening when Br...
Aug 20, 2021•1 hr 52 min
On this episode of Comes a Time, gun safety activist Fred Guttenberg joins Oteil and Mike for a crucially important conversation about gun violence, and hope for a brighter future. You’ll hear the three discuss the powerful moment at a vigil for the Parkland shooting when Greg became aware of his mission to end gun violence, survivors guilt and the emotional trauma of living through an event like Parkland, and the surprising history of gun laws in America. They also discuss President Biden’s pla...
Aug 13, 2021•51 min
This week on Comes a Time, Mike and Oteil welcome a very special guest, Annabelle Garcia. A direct member of the Grateful Dead lineage, Annabelle has too many riveting stories to tell for one podcast, but she makes sure to pack as many as she can into this episode! You’ll hear the three talk about Annabelle’s unabashed love for top-40 music when she was a kid, as well as a wild story about her first non-Grateful Dead concert- a Talking Heads show that led to a strange interaction with David Byrn...
Aug 06, 2021•1 hr 14 min
In this episode of Comes a Time, psychedelic researcher and drug activist Rick Doblin joins Oteil and Mike for an informative conversation about psychedelics, wolves, and cultural progress. During the introduction, Oteil says “I’m telling you, watch this one” and he sure wasn’t kidding! This is a can’t-miss conversation, and Rick delivers new insights on some of our favorite frequently-visited topics on Comes a Time. You’ll hear the three talk in-depth about psychedelics and unexpectedly positiv...
Jul 30, 2021•1 hr 37 min
This week on Comes a Time, Oteil and Mike catch up! You’ll hear your two favorite podcast hosts discuss a myriad of subjects ranging from working hard at their respective art forms in their salad days, to differences between performing in large venues versus small ones, to weirdness on the New York subway, and much more. The two converse as if there’s no microphone in front of them, as Mike tells an interesting story about a recent standup experience he had that “transcended time,” and Oteil tal...
Jul 23, 2021•54 min
In this episode of Comes a Time Mike and Oteil talk with filmmaker and producer Amir Bar-Lev, who joins the duo for an infatuating conversation about his masterpiece documentary Long Strange Trip, and finding ways to embody the qualities that we love about our cultural heroes. Each minute of this riveting discussion is packed with insightful commentary on some of our favorite topics that we visit on Comes a Time, so buckle up! You’ll hear the three talk in-depth about the Grateful Dead’s pivotal...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 32 min
This week, Oteil and Mike welcome government secrets extraordinaire John Greenewald onto the show. John has been unearthing some of the most puzzling UFO and government-related mysteries all his life, and in this conversation he fills the guys in on the intricacies behind these seemingly unsolvable enigmas. You’ll hear the three talk about the recent UAP report released by the Pentagon, John’s lengthy history with FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests, and the special government-curated lis...
Jul 09, 2021•1 hr 33 min
On this episode of Comes a Time, Mike and Oteil talk with musician, author, and Grateful Dead historian David Gans. In this exciting conversation you’ll hear the three dive deep on the intricacies behind putting on a successful live performance, how Robert Hunter’s lyrics and the music of the Grateful Dead combined to deliver an all-encompassing emotional experience for fans, American eating habits and how we can be more nutritionally efficient, and much more. You’ll also hear Mike spark an inte...
Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 33 min
This week on Comes a Time, Oteil and Mike talk with Andrew DeAngelo, co-founder of the Last Prisoner Project (LPP), a non-profit dedicated to cannabis-related criminal justice reform. In this eye-opening conversation Andrew walks listeners through the journey of dedicating his life to this cause, as he explains the efforts and the impact that the LPP has had on incarcerated individuals. You’ll also hear Andrew, Oteil, and Mike talk about the unfair history of cannabis incarceration towards peopl...
Jun 25, 2021•1 hr 14 min
In this episode of Comes a Time, Oteil and Mike are joined by Dr. Jan Pol, veterinarian and star of the hit TV show The Incredible Dr. Pol. To kick off the discussion the three get right into it (literally), as Dr. Pol vividly explains how he knew he wanted to be a veterinarian after helping deliver a litter of pigs at age 12. Throughout the rest of the conversation you’ll hear Dr. Pol tell impassioned stories about healing and understanding different kinds of animals, discuss massive advances i...
Jun 18, 2021•1 hr 6 min
This week on Comes a Time, the show celebrates its 50th episode with a can’t-miss conversation, as Bill Kreutzmann and John Mayer join Oteil and Mike for an action-packed discussion! The four dig deep on their musical philosophies, Billy’s recent shows in Hawaii with Carlos Santana and Billy Strings, and Mayer jokes amongst Deadheads. You’ll also hear Oteil ask Billy about his “social sliver” microdosing strategy, Mayer talk about the new album that he made over quarantine and how it’s going to ...
Jun 11, 2021•1 hr 14 min
In episode 49, Oteil and Mike take a look back on season one of Comes a Time before the show hits the big five-O mark. Both hosts reflect on what they love about the podcast, and talk in-depth about how this experience has been valuable to each of them, especially during the pandemic. You’ll hear Mike and Oteil talk about reuniting for the first time in over a year at a benefit show that Oteil played over Memorial Day Weekend, their gratitude for the support of Comes a Time listeners, high hopes...
Jun 04, 2021•51 min
This week on Comes A Time, Luther Dickinson and Brandon "Taz" Niederauer join Oteil and Mike for an action-packed episode chock full of captivating conversation. Oteil, Luther and Taz discuss their connection to Col. Bruce Hampton and the impact that his teachings had on each of them, and Taz describes what it was like to play with Bootsy Collins. You’ll also hear Luther ask Mike about the conceptual thought process behind joke delivery in stand-up comedy, and Mike’s insightful comparisons betwe...
May 28, 2021•1 hr 18 min
On this episode of Comes A Time Oteil and Mike welcome Oteil’s bandmate from Dead & Company, keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, onto the show. Since joining RatDog in 1997 Chimenti has been the go-to pianist for projects started by former members of the Grateful Dead, and he has become a fundamental contributor in keeping the Dead’s music alive and well. In this conversation Oteil, Mike, and Jeff talk about Jeff's early musical education, golf and why Chimenti enjoys it’s meditative silence, gaining...
May 21, 2021•1 hr 11 min
“The integral experience is where people come up with mystical experiences, spiritual experiences. Not everybody gets that far, but those that do often feel a sense of oneness … or some of them feel that they’re in the presence of God or of the Spirit. And again, this can be very very powerful and in previous days, this would be looked upon as a psychotic hallucination.” -- Dr. Stanley Krippner This week on Comes A Time, Oteil and Mike are joined by accomplished psychologist Dr. Stanley Krippner...
May 14, 2021•1 hr 16 min
“We got the prognosis and they said, OK, maybe a year we'll see as we kept going. So we keep pushing the outer limits, but it's the perpetual opportunity to immerse yourself in the present. That's ultimately the outcome.” - Alex Peavey This week, Oteil and Mike talk with Alex Peavey, a mindfulness consultant and the Team Consultant and Mindfulness Coach for VCU Men’s Basketball. Alex reached out as a listener of the podcast, sharing what a refuge the show has been throughout his battle with canc...
May 07, 2021•1 hr 26 min
Mike and Oteil welcome a very exciting guest on this week’s episode: Phish keyboard player Page McConnell, who recently released a new solo album Maybe We’re the Visitors. Once Mike finishes gushing over having just talked with one of his heroes, they get into the interview. Page enlightens the guys about his trip to Iceland, how it played into the creation of his new album, and how he didn’t originally think he was going to release this collection of music. He and Oteil do a deep dive into play...
Apr 30, 2021•1 hr 9 min
This week, Mike and Oteil talk with legendary visionary artists and couple Alex & Allyson Grey, who together founded the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, CoSM, a spiritual creative retreat center outside of New York City. Alex & Allyson talk about using psychedelics with intention to find the “mystic light” that runs through everything, and the experience of having your mind opened to love and to the light. They also discuss the experience where their love was solidified, when Alex took LSD for...
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 31 min
On today’s episode, Oteil and Mike welcome Dr. James Fadiman, psychologist and writer known for his extensive work in the area of psychedelic research. Dr. Fadiman shares his first life-changing experiences with psychedelics, talks about using psychedelics as compared to prescription drugs, the personalities of the best spiritual teachers, and more. He also talks about his research in microdosing, what he’s seen, and what he’s learned. If you’re interested in learning about the potential benefit...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 16 min
On today’s episode, Oteil and Mike talk with Dennis McNally, Author, Historian and longtime publicist for the Grateful Dead. Dennis is also known as the biographer for Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. Dennis talks about bonding with Jerry over their love for Beat writers, shares stories about Jerry Garcia’s time in the army, and how he wound up writing the band’s biography. He also talks about the Bay Area in the 50’s and 60’s, choosing to write his PhD dissertation on Kerouac and the philoso...
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 30 min
Mike and Oteil are joined by famous Merry Prankster Ken Babbs. Babbs shares adventures from his time with the Merry Pranksters, tales from the acid tests, and jokes aplenty. Ken talks about the book of stories he’s putting together called “Cronies,” encounters with the Hell’s Angels and Ram Dass, and the three discuss the meaning of the American spirit. Ken Babbs is a famous Merry Prankster who became one of the psychedelic leaders of the 1960s. He along with best friend and Prankster leader, Ke...
Apr 02, 2021•1 hr 14 min
“I love Willie Nelson because nobody has a voice like that. Bob Dylan, I wonder if he can even sing? Can he really even sing? That’s a question. But there is no one like him, so we love him. And to me, that's the thing that really draws people in, whether we realize it or not. Is that when someone realizes who they are so strongly, it touches a part of who we are, and we relate to it.” - Victor Wooten Mike & Oteil are joined by Victor Wooten, a GRAMMY award winning bass player who first came...
Mar 26, 2021•2 hr 21 min
Oteil & Mike talk with singer, songwriter and musician Billy Strings on the heels of his GRAMMY win for Best Bluegrass Album. Billy shares the genesis of his 6-night ESP experiment stream series at the Capitol Theatre, which paid homage to the Grateful Dead’s 1971 run. He talks about the mentors that helped turn his life around, coming full circle when he got to introduce his dad to Bluegrass legends like Del McCoury and David Grisman, and explains how songwriting for him is like traveling t...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 19 min
