Joe Rogan Experience #1035 - Paul Stamets

Why HN readers recommended it

Commenters offer it as a fascinating, accessible introduction to the world of fungi whenever mushrooms or mycelium come up.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

PowerfulJRE

Topic

fungi and mycology

Format

podcast

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

10

HN mentions in dataset

15

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I stumbled upon Paul Stamets on Joe Rogan's podcast, which made a nice introduction to the world of funghi- absolutely fascinating and exciting to think of what else we may discover in this field in the coming years! For anyone interested- [VIDEO]

• As a lay person, it's not clear to me whether these malacidins were found in mycelium (fungi). I'm inclined to think this is likely. If so, finding them in dirt is not really surprising (30% of dirt is comprised of mycelium - living and dead). …

• I generally dislike mushrooms but I was pretty moved by Joe Rogan's podcast #1035 with Paul Stamets. Despite being over 2 hours long I suggested it to and watched it in it's entirety with several different people and each time we end up discussing the …