Tripping in Berkeley with Writer Jupiter Diego

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4.1 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Writer/storyteller Jupiter Diego, swallowed a beautiful magic mushroom then visited a holy swami at an ashram in Berkeley, and came to a perfect, ineffable knowledge of who his future bride would be.

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0:47.2	Hello, Jupiter Diego here.
0:50.1	You're listening to Storyworthy. Thank you. there.
1:03.0	Welcome to the story-worthy podcast.
1:07.5	Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Hannes Finney.
1:20.2	Thank you. and hana spini welcome the storyworthy my name is christine blackburn and i'm here with hanness finney and we're coming to you from madison wisconsin the berkeley california of the
1:25.5	midwest that's very funny you know i was thinking to myself, obviously tonight's title, Tripping in Berkeley, has the place right in the title. And so I said, of course, we're going to come from Berkeley. Oh, no, no, no. And then Honest Finney, you throw me a curveball, and we're back in the goddamn Midwest. That's right. But Madison is the kind of place. It's like Berkeley. It's very, very liberal, but it's completely surrounded by farms. So it's weird because I remember taking a class with a guy who was an actual communist. The teacher was an actual communist. And so he said that in the beginning of class. Welcome to my... No, we just all knew he was a communist. He's a member of the Communist Party. And he's teaching some history class. And then I'm thinking, if I drive for 15 minutes, I'll be on a farm with a guy with a gun. Oh, I tell you what, I don't like... Okay, he wouldn't talk like that. He's in Wisconsin.
2:17.9	He'd be like, oh, yeah.
2:19.0	I don't care for those communists.
2:20.7	You know, even in Berkeley, I mean, that's still very isolated.
2:23.5	I was looking up some facts about Berkeley, and there's only about 115,000 people there.
2:28.4	So it's not like a huge city or anything.
2:30.3	It's a small town, really.
2:32.2	How far is it from San Francisco? It's, how far is it from San Francisco? I don't know, maybe an hour. How far? 45 minutes? Something like that. So it's just a small, like kind of an alcove of San Francisco, but it's, it's its own place. Yeah, and it's its own, and it's a very liberal, you know, it's funny because it's the home of the University of California.
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