The 55-year-old UFC commentator Joe Rogan has garnered millions of listeners’ attention through his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. In each episode of the show, Rogan is seen having interesting conversations with his guests, which can go beyond two to three hours. In most of the episodes, Rogan deals with each of his guests in a seemingly effortless manner. No matter what field the guest is from, Rogan listens to them patiently. 

However, one of the episodes of JRE was different from the rest where Rogan sat with the mycologist, Paul Stamets. The two discussed a lot about mushrooms. However, one of Rogan’s questions had the potential to put Stamets’ life in danger. Hence, he refused to answer the question. When Rogan insisted the mycologist answer, Stamets gave a deathly stare to the podcaster, which compelled him to move on respectfully.

Joe Rogan scared at Stamets’ response

Joe Rogan was talking with Paul Stamets in the #1035 episode of JRE. Stamets, being a mycologist and advocate of bioremediation and medical fungi, gave a lot of insights about fungi culture. During the conversation, Rogan asked, “What are what are the benefit or the negative effects of this?” Stamets gave the most unexpected answer to Rogan’s question, “This is an explosive area of conversation and puts my life in danger, so reserve the right not to answer a question.“

Rogan replied, “Whoa didn’t expect that. It puts your life in danger talking about portobello mushrooms. He’s looking at me silently. I will respectfully move on.” When Stamets stared at Rogan, he looked scared and decided to move on to the next question. Stamets is also a businessman who has a mushroom company of his own called Defense Mushrooms. His company sells mushrooms that help people get cured of various diseases. However, after coming to the show, he didn’t want to put himself in trouble by answering Rogan.

Rogan’s interest in the psychedelic experience

 Joe Rogan faced a difficult time in his career when the crowd wanted to cancel Rogan for his jokes that might affect the sentiments of a certain race. The entire media targeted Rogan, and some called Rogan a racist.

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Rogan walked on fire during that period, and he faced a severe backlash from the public. In an interview with Lex Fridman, Rogan was asked how he dealt with the harsh times. The 55-year-old replied that he used mushrooms. Rogan has always openly acknowledged that he loves to use mushrooms to have a psychedelic experience. 

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