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Ari Shaffir on Joe Rogan: Why Mushrooms Beat the Algorithm

Seven months offline and a key psilocybin trip shaped his show The End; Ari argues those months proved nature restores what the algorithm steadily drains.

Ari ShaffirguestJoe Roganhost
Apr 30, 20262h 35mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. SP

    [upbeat music] Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.

  2. AS

    The Joe Rogan Experience.

  3. SP

    Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night. All day. [upbeat music]

  4. JR

    You know what you are on my phone?

  5. AS

    What?

  6. JR

    Ari the Wanderer.

  7. AS

    [laughs] That's a new phone number.

  8. JR

    [laughs]

  9. AS

    [laughs] That's not bad.

  10. JR

    That's the, that's the new number. 'Cause that's what you are. Oh, well, I was telling you last night that I, I thought it was in Mexico City, but we had a, a report that you were at an Oasis concert in Mexico City.

  11. AS

    [laughs]

  12. JR

    And you said no, it was in Rio.

  13. AS

    SaO Paulo.

  14. JR

    Oh, Sao Paulo?

  15. AS

    Yeah, yeah.

  16. JR

    Okay, so it was in Brazil.

  17. AS

    [laughs]

  18. JR

    So we, no one knew where you were. You were gone for how many months? Six?

  19. AS

    Seven.

  20. JR

    Jesus Christ.

  21. AS

    About seven months. Yeah.

  22. JR

    How many times have you done that now?

  23. AS

    [exhales] I guess three, although when I went to Ecuador, I was very much in touch with everybody.

  24. JR

    Mm.

  25. AS

    So it was like-

  26. JR

    That was a halfway.

  27. AS

    That was a halfway.

  28. JR

    But you were there, you were kinda checked out, but you were in touch.

  29. AS

    I was gone for six months, but I was, I was in touch.

  30. JR

    Yeah.

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