#1035 - Paul Stamets

and we're live all right Paul first of all welcome thank you for coming here and you are

probably one of the most requested people from the internet that I've ever had so feel good

about that I'm honored and you're the first guy ever to wear a mushroom hat okay that's really a

hat made out of mushrooms yeah it's made from this Amadou mushroom it's called Fomius Fomentarius

it grows on birch trees throughout the world but this is an example of why I think shamanistically

plants mushrooms become significant there's a plurality of benefits so this mushroom is a fire

starter mushroom it allowed for the portability of fire there's no doubt that we came from Africa

we migrated north we discovered something new called winter oops this allowed for the portability