🪶 Was Shakespeare A STONER?!

Some centuries-old pipes found in the garden of William Shakespeare still contain traces of cannabis, according to South African scientists who examined the relics with forensic technology.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gold. It's Jonesy demand as jam Nation driving you home
this Friday.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Here's something I've come across. It's a sentence you don't
see see every day. Was Shakespeare a stoner a bit
of the Hayman? Was he on the Hayman? And what's
making people think this is a team of South African
scientists have analyzed twenty four clay smoking pipes found in

(00:25):
his garden. I don't know when if they smoke the
same way that say you do, Brendan, but.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
They're saying this forchy bottle in the garden is the
stereotype you're putting out there about me?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
No stereotype. Traces of cannabis were found in pipes excavated
from his garden. This is not definitive proof that he's
on the Hayman, but they have found traces of cannabis
in several pipes, cocaine residue in two pipes that were
found near his home disclaimer not in his actual garden
but gardener yep. And no evidence of tobacco, despite tobacco

(01:04):
being very common at the time. Interesting. Some scholars believe
cannabis may have helped him write some complex poetry to
invent new words, craft legendary.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Characters and work for John Lennon, Well.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Maybe, And when you go back to some of his soliloquies,
remember this one, hey man, to be or not to be?
I don't know. I'm off ru kebab What about this one?
Friends Romans countryman, lend me fifteen bucks? Reply?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Was that Shakespeare?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I come to bury Caesar salad and grab some chocks.
That was Shakespeare. That's the written word, but I also
have some of the spoken words. No, really have a
listen you too?

Speaker 3 (01:45):
There from the Joshua Tree album without or with with
with or without you?

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (01:53):
A bit of a tonguele tongue twists there to kill
a sunrise before that and reasons Tony Farnham, let it
up first.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Let it up? Must everything about that's terrible?

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Must you go back to my community radio as when
I used to partake a little bit? You can not
that you can hear it there?

Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's like you're going to exphyxiate. Wish I had listening
to that. Who would have thought that you and Shakespeare
have a lot in common apart from the big baggy pantaloons?
What wind through yonder window? Bres do you finish, I
finished