China w/ Hamilton Morris | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

You Be Trippin'

Ari Shaffir

Places & Travel, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.4 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Follow Hamilton on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/hamiltonmorris/?hl=en SPONSORS: -Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://shopify.com/trippin , all lowercase On this episode of You Be Trippin, Hamilton Morris shoots a steam punk rock opera in a drug manufacturing plant in China. On the show, he and Ari talk about where drugs come from, different ways to make MDMA, and how fentanyl became so prevalent in America drugs. The also discuss how journalists negatively write about drugs, secret recordings, no-cebo effects, and the guy that ate a homeless man’s face. Other topics include: the Twilight Zone decapitation, synthetic cannabinoids, spyglasses, VICE, the doctrine of signatures, Martin Shkreli, and why stimulants are unavailable. Tune in, drop out, and enjoy the trip! You Be Trippin' Ep. 53 https://www.instagram.com/arishaffir https://www.instagram.com/youbetrippinpod https://store.ymhstudios.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:37 - Drugs & Society 00:07:30 - Making MDMA 00:16:49 - How Journalists Cover Drugs 00:20:21 - Legal & New Drugs 00:23:26 - Visiting the Labs, VICE, & Shanghai 00:26:19 - Getting Around & Filming 00:32:46 - A Steam Punk Drug Baron 00:37:18 - More Labs, An Ethical Chemist, & Eating Faces 00:43:34 - Bathrooms & Secret Recordings 00:52:57 - The Steam Punk Rock Opera, The Twilight Zone, & Synthetic Cannabinoids 01:00:21 - Martin Shkreli & Drug Costs 01:04:20 - Fentanyl 01:14:18 - No-cebo Effect 01:19:46 - Why Fentanyl is in Everything & Stimulants are 01:25:30 - More Rock Opera & Where Next 01:28:34 - Amazonian Cures 01:31:23 - Why Psychedelics 01:36:46 - Travel Tips Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It really is, I was telling somebody about, like, the feelings you get on, on Molly, on MDMA.
0:09.0	I love how Maps is always like, please don't call it Molly.
0:11.9	They're trying to make it an actual, like, usable drug.
0:14.6	But, like, I've fallen in love on it before.
0:16.6	And then people are like, but then when you come off it, like, you realize that was just a drug.
0:19.8	It's like, no, the feeling's real.
0:21.5	Feeling less.
0:23.1	Yeah, it's complicated.
0:25.2	I mean, I've had, I've never had something that was like completely illusory, but definitely,
0:31.4	that's the main reason I wouldn't want to do it in public because you can just end up in a conversation with some stranger.
0:35.8	Yeah. because you can just end up in a conversation with some stranger where you have this tremendous,
0:38.0	boundless love, and they're not necessarily a bad person, but it just seems like maybe a small
0:44.1	waste of your, or maybe that's what it's all about.
0:48.2	Maybe where you, like, connect with somebody.
0:50.2	Yeah.
0:50.6	I think the biggest problem with it is, like, calling an ex saying you don't want to fight anymore or like life's too short.
0:56.9	And the next day you go, I really actually want to keep fighting.
1:00.2	I shouldn't have made that call.
1:01.6	Now it's really set in.
1:04.3	Where you've been and where you're going?
1:07.4	This is our race travel show.
1:09.9	Yeah.
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