Episode 34: Bob Weir and Paul Stamets

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Oteil Burbridge (1:04)

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Mike Finoia (1:15)

Comes A Time podcast. I'm Mike.

Oteil Burbridge (1:18)

I'm Oteil. Sorry if I still have a little bit of tears in my eyes.

Mike Finoia (1:23)

We record these intros right after we do the episode, and we just had Paul Stamets and Bob Weir.

Oteil Burbridge (1:30)

Man, for those of you who don't know Paul Stamets, he is a mushroom expert. And I got turned on to him through podcasts years ago, and I've just been on the train ever since. And it's kind of still freaking out that, you know, we got him on the podcast and that I know him and just, you know, yeah, so, but wow.

Mike Finoia (1:57)

And even to back up a little bit further, when we had Bob Weir on, right when we shut the mics off, you know, we kept talking. And mushrooms came up in the conversation and he said, we really should have my friend Paul Stamets on and me, and we'll do a talk about, you know, mushrooms and about consciousness. And here it had happened and we, you know, that, thank you, Bob, for recommending it.

And thank you, Paul, for making it happen too. And it's just, this was something.

Oteil Burbridge (2:31)

It was even better than I thought it was going to be. And I was going in with super high expectations just because I know him. You can literally just let him go for like three hours and I'm riveted. Nobody else has to speak, but wow.

And the end, you should wait for the end part.

The end part's real good, man. It just meant so much to me personally. I'm not going to ruin it at all.

Mike Finoia (3:01)

Anytime that we can spend time with Bob and for, you know, this combination is just, I mean, this is just something that I would wake up and be like, I had a dream last night that Paul Stamets and Bob Weir were on the podcast and it's here. It was. So, uh, we're, yeah, thank you guys so much and please enjoy and listen and, uh, and we'll see you next time. There's really not much else to say. Go on and listen.

Oteil Burbridge (3:25)

Yeah. Other than you're welcome.

And I say that as humbly as I possibly can.

Mike Finoia (3:33)

Totally.

Oteil Burbridge (3:34)

For real.

Mike Finoia (3:35)

Enjoy, everyone.

Oteil Burbridge (3:48)

So when I went to India, we adopted a girl from India, a little girl. And when I was over there, I hadn't seen Star Trek in forever. And then I saw, someone was like, oh, you gotta see the Discovery one.

Cause I think we were talking about mushrooms. And he didn't know about you. And he didn't, so when I heard Captain Stamets, I was like, nah, really? They said your full name. I was like, what? I called my brother. Actually, I was wishing I could call my brother.

He passed away, but I just freaked out, man. And the whole, it was crazy. So that blew my mind. And I was already a huge fan of yours, you know? But having those...

Paul Stamets (4:29)

Well, yeah, we can talk about that whole backstory. So I have a lot of information on that, this kind of thing.

Oteil Burbridge (4:35)

Sweet, I love it. Outer space and UFOs is my thing too. We've had a Harvard professor on that was talking about UFOs. And so I like to me, they all come together, like religion, spirituality, UFOs, tripping, music, like it all is like connected together. So I'm glad you don't mind talking about the Star Trek part.