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Joe Rogan Experience #2347 - Paul Stamets

Joe Rogan Experience #2347 - Paul Stamets

Recommended on this episode

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The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

“I've got copies of it... I used to keep a stack of them on the table and hand them out to people”
“Presfield talked about that in the war of art. Have you read that book? No. I've got copies of it. He sent me a whole box because back in Los Angeles, I used to keep a stack of them on the table and hand them out to people.”— Joe Rogan
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iNaturalist

Scott Loarie / California Academy of Sciences (inferred)

“an app that I'm just in love with”
“there is an app that I'm just in love with called I Naturalist. It was created by a guy named Scott. You can take a phone and you can go out and you can look at a flower, a frog, a mineral, a mushroom.”— Paul Stamets
MediaRecommended

Deeper Well

Kacey Musgraves

“an album called Deeper Well that's just amazing”
“Casey Musgraves, she's superstar in country music. She has an album called Deeper Well that's just amazing.”— Paul Stamets

The guest's own work

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Psilocybin Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitat

Paul Stamets

“Book number eight. Yeah. Who would have known there's so many books to be written on mushrooms? Well, this is state-of-the-art taxonomy.”— Paul Stamets
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Mycelium Running

Paul Stamets

“In my book, Myelium Running, I have the best photographs of the largest organism in the world. And I hired an airplane”— Paul Stamets
ProductBy the guest

Host Defense

Paul Stamets / Fungi Perfecti

“this is your company, Host Defense. You have great stuff, man. I buy your stuff. You gave me a bunch of it, but I buy it. Well, thank you for your support.”— Joe Rogan
ProductBy the guest

Stamets Stack

Paul Stamets

“they were selling the stem of stack, which is kind of weird because I had my name on it.”— Paul Stamets

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan

“when I took Michael Pollen out on a mushroom hunt. And in this in his book, How to Change Your Mind, when I said, I took two steps out of this little cabin”— Paul Stamets
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule

Rick Strassman

“he had run those FDA studies documented in DMT the spirit molecule, the book. He was very reticent to talk about it”— Joe Rogan
MediaReferenced

Turtles All the Way Down

Sturgill Simpson

“my friend Sturgil Simpson sort of opened up the door for psychedelics and country music with turtles all the way down. He basically wrote a song about God and psychedelics.”— Paul Stamets
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Postcards from Earth

Darren Aronofsky (inferred)

“I bought there's something called Postcards from Earth, and I'd heard a lot about it. it's great flying through around the earth through the old growth forest and the volcanoes.”— Paul Stamets