The Joe Rogan ExperienceAri 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.
EVERY SPOKEN WORD
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[upbeat music] Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
- ASAri Shaffir
The Joe Rogan Experience.
- SPSpeaker
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night. All day. [upbeat music]
- JRJoe Rogan
You know what you are on my phone?
- ASAri Shaffir
What?
- JRJoe Rogan
Ari the Wanderer.
- ASAri Shaffir
[laughs] That's a new phone number.
- JRJoe Rogan
[laughs]
- ASAri Shaffir
[laughs] That's not bad.
- JRJoe Rogan
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.
- ASAri Shaffir
[laughs]
- JRJoe Rogan
And you said no, it was in Rio.
- ASAri Shaffir
SaO Paulo.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, Sao Paulo?
- ASAri Shaffir
Yeah, yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay, so it was in Brazil.
- ASAri Shaffir
[laughs]
- JRJoe Rogan
So we, no one knew where you were. You were gone for how many months? Six?
- ASAri Shaffir
Seven.
- JRJoe Rogan
Jesus Christ.
- ASAri Shaffir
About seven months. Yeah.
- JRJoe Rogan
How many times have you done that now?
- ASAri Shaffir
[exhales] I guess three, although when I went to Ecuador, I was very much in touch with everybody.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm.
- ASAri Shaffir
So it was like-
- JRJoe Rogan
That was a halfway.
- ASAri Shaffir
That was a halfway.
- JRJoe Rogan
But you were there, you were kinda checked out, but you were in touch.
- ASAri Shaffir
I was gone for six months, but I was, I was in touch.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
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