PT269 – Adam Strauss – Comedy, OCD, and The Mushroom Cure
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 94 minutes
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In this episode, Joe interviews Adam Strauss: writer, performer, and comedian. Strauss discusses OCD and how he's learned to manage his with psilocybin, which he documents in his one-man show, "The Mushroom Cure."
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| 0:41.4 | Hello, and welcome back to psychedelics today. This is your host, Joe Moore, coming at you from |
| 0:47.1 | Phoenix, Arizona. Today on the show, we have Adam Strauss. Adam is a a comic writer and his website says biped. Adam is famous for this |
| 1:01.2 | play that he produced, kind of a one-man act, I believe, called the mushroom cure. And it is really |
| 1:08.0 | funny. It talks about, you know, Adam's personal history with OCD. And I think there's a lot of |
| 1:16.4 | relation to just being human in this. And he talks a lot about how mushrooms helped him get a grip on |
| 1:24.0 | OCD. And Adam is endlessly funny. We got to meet at Horizons a few years back and had a great time. |
| 1:31.3 | And I think we had a great time recording this. |
| 1:35.0 | I have a lot of respect for Adam. |
| 1:36.5 | It's got a lot of integrity from what I've seen. |
| 1:38.7 | And yeah, it comes at this from a really interesting place. |
| 1:42.5 | And I think you're going to like this episode. |
| 1:45.9 | If you've not listened to any of Adam's work, he has his own podcast, he's got some videos on |
| 1:50.0 | his website. And he even produced a one-off kind of TV thing called The Trip Report, Psychedelic News. |
| 1:57.9 | You can find that right on his website, Adam Stra strouse dot com a lot of great feedback from some |
| 2:02.4 | great news outlets new york times strauss minds a great deal of laughter from disabling pain |
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