Name: "The Wait, What?! Moment" with Amber Lyon (from Joe Rogan Experience #470)
Uploaded: 2014-03-22T20:25:06.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video '"The Wait, What?! Moment" with Amber Lyon (from Joe Rogan Experience #470)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-03-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video '"The Wait, What?! Moment" with Amber Lyon (from Joe Rogan Experience #470)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-03-22. Transcript available.

the joe rogan experience and i i can't thank you enough joe for uh really
sticking your neck out
there and really i know you faced a lot of criticism for your support of
psychedelics
not really no it's been pretty easy i'm gonna be honest with you okay i'm
sitting here giving this
like heartfelt speech no you don't have to no but i just appreciate you
seriously it's a great way
to it's a great position to be in but but i did take you seriously that day in
the podcast when
you told me mushrooms could change the world and it really planted a seed in my
head which sprouted
this journey uh that i've been doing around the world investigating these
medicines and um that
never would have happened my you know my life wouldn't be in such the amazing
state i feel like
it is in now if it hadn't been for you uh having the gumption to to talk about
this and start this
dialogue as our country because psychedelics have been so taboo especially in
the mainstream and i
and i think you're really helping to shift that consciousness nationwide i
honestly don't think i
am i think i'm just a part of the the whole thing itself i mean it's very nice
to try to give me uh
i don't deserve any credit nor do i want any uh i just um i um uh i'm shocked
that more people don't
know about the experiences and i feel a duty because i've been there it's just
like if you and your
friends were starving to death and you found some food in the desert you're
like guys come here come
here come here i found the food i found the food would you want all this credit
for finding that food
no you'd want your friends to have the food that's how i feel i feel like uh
you know what what we're
all experiencing right now is we is a wait what moment the whole culture is
going wait wait wait wait
what wait wait wait wait wait the nsa is listening to my fucking emails they're
listening to my
voicemails they're they're reading my emails i don't do anything wrong man come
on i'm a fucking
insurance salesman and then and then people go wait wait wait wait wait what
marijuana makes how
much in fucking taxes for colorado they make how much for we know we're running
out of fucking money
for schools and we could pay for that with weed but being people are going to
smoke the same amount
of weed anyway statistically proven what the fuck is going on when you look at
what we're going to go
into syria wait whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa what the fuck are we doing this
wait what moment is we're
all part of this wait what moment you're a big part of this wait what moment
yeah you're a big part of
it by they stick your neck out about bahrain and about cnn and about you know
working for a corporation
and being honest about it you you stuck your neck out about it we're all just
we're all forced
into this reality we didn't ask to be here we weren't you know hey could you
give birth to me
so i can grow up in the 21st century and fake no this is what you get you got
nobody asked you
this is what you get and i think all of us realized that that was the same for
our our parents it was
the same for our grandparents it was the same for everybody and nobody hit the
brakes nobody had the
wait what moment where they went wait wait wait wait what the fuck are we doing
everybody just kept
going and then had heart attacks and died and taught a bunch of nonsense to
their kids and they went and
they had heart attacks and died teaching a bunch of nonsense to their kids and
then the internet came
along and that's the wait what moment and the wait what moment the real tipping
point is people like
people like you people like me people like anybody that's a part of the wait
what moment that might
be my new t-shirt
the wait what moment
you