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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr and Nia Mushroom Story' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-29. Transcript available.

um talk about the mushroom trip and where we were and evidently not there
anymore
my favorite thing you said my favorite thing you said after i know it's still
there but my favorite
thing you said you said after the mushroom trip is you go you go was that true
did that really
happen or were we just two idiots on mushrooms and i go it was both yeah that
really did happen so we
and i'm gonna do like a little something on my instagram about not this part
this will just be
for the podcast but yeah so we went someplace and we had mushrooms and it was
like it was my first
time really taking mushrooms and especially in my first time taking it in the
raw and it was my first
time really having like an adequate dose that would bring certain things out so
you know i had heard
that we need to have it on an empty stomach so we took it at 9 30 in the
morning all we had was water
and that shit metabolized like that and 20 minutes later real fast real fast
real fast and furious and
then we were thinking we were going to go on a nature walk no no no no quickly
realized you you were
thinking that was your idea let's go and walk through nature and i was like
going i don't know that we
want to do that i think we want to be nature walk and i remember i was seeing
the condensation on a
spider web and i was like look at this oh my god i know and then i was thinking
like all right we took
it yeah we took an equal dose but i i think because you're smaller you went a
little further but like
yeah so when we we went back to no no no you missed it we we walked and we went
to go into that
they'll get on that trail and it was like 12 signs saying we shoot guns here we
got guns there's guns
did we mention there's guns there's nothing there's nothing here worth dying
over and we were like
all right you know i see those signs like i hear what they're saying maybe we
won't be going for this
nature walk because god forbid yeah so then we were like walking back up the
hill and it was like a
dirt driveway we were staying in this uh uh you know there was nobody around
whatever you say that rural
yeah so um and we were overlooking the ocean and all that we were up in the
hills
and um i remember we got like halfway up the drive on you just stopped
and you were looking up at the clouds oh my god and your mouth was just hanging
open as you
were smiling you were like oh it was like all hitting me and i was just like oh
my god and i
wanted to start laughing but i didn't want to ruin your trip but i i was i was
so happy for you
i was like oh my god and i i also saw i knew that you were having a good trip
yeah so you were you
you were like you were literally tripping you were just looking at the clouds
whatever the
they were doing and mine hadn't hit me like that yet so my whole thing was i
was just trying to be a
calm force to get you back to the base camp yes which was the move it was a
hundred percent yeah thank
god because what i went through like 20 minutes after that moment i could not
have been in the
middle like when we didn't really know where we were we were just walking like
oh we're just looking
at the flowers like i had my little oh everything is wavy gravy and like the
hills were alive with the
sound of music and things were undulating colors were popping like literally
like every like the hills were
moving it was that and then we were both lying down on these like lounge chairs
i had gotten us blankets
remember we said the whole thing out we're both lying there like he he like
under our blankets just
chilling out yeah cracking up laughing having a good time and then you and then
all of a sudden
yeah and she hit was underneath the covers and she just looks over she just
goes
and she has their sunglasses on a hat on and the covers pulled up over her nose
underneath her
sunglasses and you just go bb i'm like what you're like i have to ask the
universe the question
and i'm like well it's you it's your universe too you know right ask the
question yeah so then you
you as you were asking the question i was thinking to myself a person that's in
my life that's
a narcissist i was like they should take this because i think it would maybe
would
help them because narcissists they can't help themselves it's really a sad
thing to watch
and then i was thinking like what would a narcissist on mushrooms ask the
universe and i thought in my
head the narcissist would say to the universe what do you want to know and it
was a dumb joke so i start
cracking up laughing and then you asked the universe whatever you asked it i
don't even think i asked
it a question i just my there was a part of my mind my brain whatever my soul
whatever that was
became open to receiving whatever it was that the universe wanted to tell me so
that's really
what it was heavy man it wasn't as if i was even asking a specific question
like you would ask like
a fortune teller or a psychic or something like that it's just something in my
brain opened up
and then i received this message that said you are a lonely goddess walking the
earth and from that
moment on everything changed oh yeah like meaning you started sobbing i went
back i don't know how
much you want i'll tell i'll tell it i went back to my most loneliest point as
a child my parents
are divorced i had to fly back and forth over the summers to see my dad here in
la i grew up in atlanta
i'm from boston grew up in atlanta but i would fly back to see my dad who moved
out here when i was
like eight right so i went back to that low like what i recall being like the
loneliest moment of
just dealing with the back and forth and not really having somebody there to
like sort of talk to about
things because you know it was like back then it was just like go see your dad
there and there was no
talking about it how are you doing are you okay i know you know it must be hard
none of that stuff so i
went back to that moment as a child i was literally holding myself as that
child comforting her sobbing
weeping and telling her it was going to be okay everything was going to be fine
but that i couldn't
keep coming back there i had to move forward i had to move on i can't you know
keep staying in that lonely
place and i had to embrace being the goddess that is here to lead with like
love and empathy and fun
and excitement that was the message and meanwhile i was laying on the thing and
i was waving at the
clouds and you asked me later i looked at him he was waving and you were like
what were you waving at and
well the clouds had all turned into like these skulls they look like skeletons
to me too yeah
that were kind of coming to get me and i knew what they were i was like those
are my demons i know i
have them i'm not afraid of them so i just was like hey guys
good to see you again and the second i waved at him this other cloud came in
like it was on a horse
with like a sword and just stabbed one in his his mouth just kept opening until
it like disappeared and
then after that i was like fine and um no i just watching all all your stuff i
i told you
that's why i was joking about the misogyny it kind of cured me of my misogyny
because i've been
telling you since the day i met you like the day you met me i was like you're a
goddess i've been
telling you that it's true he that's that's always the compliment he gives me
and so so i'm sitting
weeping and sobbing for my lonely child and my lonely childhood and but then i
you know then the
euphoria kicked in and i was like oh my god like i know what it is now like i
know what it is i've
been struggling with because i think about when i was a kid and i you know had
so much but i would
often feel so sad and i was like and i remember thinking why am i sad right now
like what's making me
sad and i think it was the loneliness of being a child of divorce and even
though my parents divorced
when i was like two and a half three years old and i don't have any memories of
it i still was very
lonely in my journey between them and they never talked about each other they
never put me in the
middle they were very mature i had a great relationship with my dad we were in
communication all the time
but that that journey of going from atlanta to la every summer i think was very
lonely for me to leave
all my friends in atlanta and then go to la and kind of have to make new
friends or reconnect with
the friends that i saw last summer that i haven't seen all year and so much
when you're a kid so much
happens in the school year you know you change so much so to have to go and
sort of start over every
single time i think was lonely for me and even though i don't really have
memories of all of us
together i have pictures of when i'm a baby and there's the three of us but i
don't know that life
and so there's something very lonely about that too so to be able to finally
like give it a name
of the whatever it is that i've been holding on to and struggle with even in
like adulthood feeling
like lonely on this journey of life or whatever that when when that came to me
it was like oh my god
this is what it is you know so yes i was weeping and sobbing uncontrollably and
you were right there
with me like consoling me and you know all that other stuff and it took you
through the trip man yeah
yeah it was it was it was really great i thought we really had an amazing
moment you know
right yeah no we did just me no no no i just i don't know how much you want to
talk about it but
yeah it was great i ain't gonna get it at all no we basically we laughed we sobbed
we told each
other we loved each other we said we were soulmates we had a great time because
it could have gone the
other way we could have had a trip and been like could you imagine what the
have i been doing
with you imagine like but we both were like inside like saying all these things
that we
needed to say to each other and like loving on each other and giving each other
all these compliments and
like it was not should we be together i don't know it was we were very much
like yes and then we drove
down the hill afterwards yeah we got down we got something to eat and then we
were like and then it
was like yeah at about 1 32 o'clock we're just like whoa that really fucking
happened like it was honestly
i will never be the same that was a transformative experience and yeah the
stuff that we said to each
other is gonna is gonna remain yeah with us but uh and then at the end of the
night at dusk um i was in
my truck with the lovely nia and uh nia loves the ocean so i just backed it up
in this parking spot we
sat in the tailgate and watched people surf it was so beautiful it was so great
it was such a
fucking amazing trip literally figuratively yeah and that was funny is then the
second it's it's over
then we were coming down to the hills down onto the fucking 118 or the 101
wherever the
we were and it was like and back into the matrix yeah oh my god yeah 100 and i
was kind of like
i felt a little depressed i just feel like you know you get that dopamine or
serotonin or whatever it is
you get that rush you get that high and then you kind of come down and you're
just sort of like
that's why i was like was that real did that happen was that true no but that's
just like a high
idiot like just you know and you were like no it was real but yes we were also
i and you know all
that stuff and idiots but it was no but what i like about them is it doesn't
make me want to go
and just start like i smoke a cigar and then the next day i was like i want
another cigar and i got
to fight smoking another one you know it's not like that it's actually you come
down
and for me anyway and then it's like i need to work on this part of my life i
need to work on
that part of my life yeah and that's how i feel and then it's just like all
right and then in like
you know a year or so i'll take them again i'll check in on them because like i
don't think um
you know going around like if i like micro dose those things and i'm just sort
of you know
everything's groovy man like all the time i don't have like depression like i
like people like
walk around like like clinically depressed or something like that i heard it's
really helpful
for that but i i know i've been micro dosing and i find it like super helpful
but i don't feel like
that's what the has been going on with you no i don't feel like weird i don't
feel weird i don't
feel high i feel incredibly clear and focused but i also don't take it every
day i take it monday
through thursday and then i take a break as instructed by the person who's
guiding me through
that type of thing so i don't know for me for me i feel very productive on the
days that i'm on it i don't
feel like not productive on the off days but on the on days i feel extremely
productive and very like
keyed in why are you laughing so just picture you you're actually doing like
some pill version of
cocaine and you're like grinding i'm getting done no no no no no it's because i
i came up i came up in
the era of like i feel like this is like a golden age of drugs where like uh as
far as like
the ones that are like illegal in a way they made weed is now legal but like
mushrooms for the most
part are still illegal i think although that seems to be changing which i think
is gonna be a bad thing
for mushrooms because once corporations get their hands on it like you look at
weed now i mean those
gummies and stuff with all that sugar all over them it's like what did you turn
this into yeah
you know and and and i i worried that they're gonna do that and then somehow
the monsanto will own the
seed you know the monsanto whatever they're they're the guy that took over the
whole food supply oh
and if their seeds blew onto your farmland they could sue you for using them
because of the wind
oh my god yeah okay listen to john cougar melancamp singing about that stuff no
i've never listened to
john cougar melancamp so anyway when they sing jack and diane yeah and then the
sequel i was born in
a small town is that him too yep okay that's there's a sequel to jack and diane
yeah what's it what's it
called jack and diane and fran when they open up their relationship yeah my god
they got they got
bored they got bored with each other and they tried that and they just didn't
realize that they just
it was young love and it wasn't real oh my god yeah that's not what happened in
the song it's like a
seven minute song yeah it was a b-side on the 45 to uh smoke and fire whatever
that song was
like heaven and fire whatever that one is i don't know i'm not familiar with
his catalog

Bill Burr and Nia Mushroom Story

um talk about the mushroom trip and where we were and evidently not there
anymore
my favorite thing you said my favorite thing you said after i know it's still
there but my favorite
thing you said you said after the mushroom trip is you go you go was that true
did that really
happen or were we just two idiots on mushrooms and i go it was both yeah that
really did happen so we
and i'm gonna do like a little something on my instagram about not this part
this will just be
for the podcast but yeah so we went someplace and we had mushrooms and it was
like it was my first
time really taking mushrooms and especially in my first time taking it in the
raw and it was my first
time really having like an adequate dose that would bring certain things out so
you know i had heard
that we need to have it on an empty stomach so we took it at 9 30 in the
morning all we had was water
and that shit metabolized like that and 20 minutes later real fast real fast
real fast and furious and
then we were thinking we were going to go on a nature walk no no no no quickly
realized you you were
thinking that was your idea let's go and walk through nature and i was like
going i don't know that we
want to do that i think we want to be nature walk and i remember i was seeing
the condensation on a
spider web and i was like look at this oh my god i know and then i was thinking
like all right we took
it yeah we took an equal dose but i i think because you're smaller you went a
little further but like
yeah so when we we went back to no no no you missed it we we walked and we went
to go into that
they'll get on that trail and it was like 12 signs saying we shoot guns here we
got guns there's guns
did we mention there's guns there's nothing there's nothing here worth dying
over and we were like
all right you know i see those signs like i hear what they're saying maybe we
won't be going for this
nature walk because god forbid yeah so then we were like walking back up the
hill and it was like a
dirt driveway we were staying in this uh uh you know there was nobody around
whatever you say that rural
yeah so um and we were overlooking the ocean and all that we were up in the
hills
and um i remember we got like halfway up the drive on you just stopped
and you were looking up at the clouds oh my god and your mouth was just hanging
open as you
were smiling you were like oh it was like all hitting me and i was just like oh
my god and i
wanted to start laughing but i didn't want to ruin your trip but i i was i was
so happy for you
i was like oh my god and i i also saw i knew that you were having a good trip
yeah so you were you
you were like you were literally tripping you were just looking at the clouds
whatever the
they were doing and mine hadn't hit me like that yet so my whole thing was i
was just trying to be a
calm force to get you back to the base camp yes which was the move it was a
hundred percent yeah thank
god because what i went through like 20 minutes after that moment i could not
have been in the
middle like when we didn't really know where we were we were just walking like
oh we're just looking
at the flowers like i had my little oh everything is wavy gravy and like the
hills were alive with the
sound of music and things were undulating colors were popping like literally
like every like the hills were
moving it was that and then we were both lying down on these like lounge chairs
i had gotten us blankets
remember we said the whole thing out we're both lying there like he he like
under our blankets just
chilling out yeah cracking up laughing having a good time and then you and then
all of a sudden
yeah and she hit was underneath the covers and she just looks over she just
goes
and she has their sunglasses on a hat on and the covers pulled up over her nose
underneath her
sunglasses and you just go bb i'm like what you're like i have to ask the
universe the question
and i'm like well it's you it's your universe too you know right ask the
question yeah so then you
you as you were asking the question i was thinking to myself a person that's in
my life that's
a narcissist i was like they should take this because i think it would maybe
would
help them because narcissists they can't help themselves it's really a sad
thing to watch
and then i was thinking like what would a narcissist on mushrooms ask the
universe and i thought in my
head the narcissist would say to the universe what do you want to know and it
was a dumb joke so i start
cracking up laughing and then you asked the universe whatever you asked it i
don't even think i asked
it a question i just my there was a part of my mind my brain whatever my soul
whatever that was
became open to receiving whatever it was that the universe wanted to tell me so
that's really
what it was heavy man it wasn't as if i was even asking a specific question
like you would ask like
a fortune teller or a psychic or something like that it's just something in my
brain opened up
and then i received this message that said you are a lonely goddess walking the
earth and from that
moment on everything changed oh yeah like meaning you started sobbing i went
back i don't know how
much you want i'll tell i'll tell it i went back to my most loneliest point as
a child my parents
are divorced i had to fly back and forth over the summers to see my dad here in
la i grew up in atlanta
i'm from boston grew up in atlanta but i would fly back to see my dad who moved
out here when i was
like eight right so i went back to that low like what i recall being like the
loneliest moment of
just dealing with the back and forth and not really having somebody there to
like sort of talk to about
things because you know it was like back then it was just like go see your dad
there and there was no
talking about it how are you doing are you okay i know you know it must be hard
none of that stuff so i
went back to that moment as a child i was literally holding myself as that
child comforting her sobbing
weeping and telling her it was going to be okay everything was going to be fine
but that i couldn't
keep coming back there i had to move forward i had to move on i can't you know
keep staying in that lonely
place and i had to embrace being the goddess that is here to lead with like
love and empathy and fun
and excitement that was the message and meanwhile i was laying on the thing and
i was waving at the
clouds and you asked me later i looked at him he was waving and you were like
what were you waving at and
well the clouds had all turned into like these skulls they look like skeletons
to me too yeah
that were kind of coming to get me and i knew what they were i was like those
are my demons i know i
have them i'm not afraid of them so i just was like hey guys
good to see you again and the second i waved at him this other cloud came in
like it was on a horse
with like a sword and just stabbed one in his his mouth just kept opening until
it like disappeared and
then after that i was like fine and um no i just watching all all your stuff i
i told you
that's why i was joking about the misogyny it kind of cured me of my misogyny
because i've been
telling you since the day i met you like the day you met me i was like you're a
goddess i've been
telling you that it's true he that's that's always the compliment he gives me
and so so i'm sitting
weeping and sobbing for my lonely child and my lonely childhood and but then i
you know then the
euphoria kicked in and i was like oh my god like i know what it is now like i
know what it is i've
been struggling with because i think about when i was a kid and i you know had
so much but i would
often feel so sad and i was like and i remember thinking why am i sad right now
like what's making me
sad and i think it was the loneliness of being a child of divorce and even
though my parents divorced
when i was like two and a half three years old and i don't have any memories of
it i still was very
lonely in my journey between them and they never talked about each other they
never put me in the
middle they were very mature i had a great relationship with my dad we were in
communication all the time
but that that journey of going from atlanta to la every summer i think was very
lonely for me to leave
all my friends in atlanta and then go to la and kind of have to make new
friends or reconnect with
the friends that i saw last summer that i haven't seen all year and so much
when you're a kid so much
happens in the school year you know you change so much so to have to go and
sort of start over every
single time i think was lonely for me and even though i don't really have
memories of all of us
together i have pictures of when i'm a baby and there's the three of us but i
don't know that life
and so there's something very lonely about that too so to be able to finally
like give it a name
of the whatever it is that i've been holding on to and struggle with even in
like adulthood feeling
like lonely on this journey of life or whatever that when when that came to me
it was like oh my god
this is what it is you know so yes i was weeping and sobbing uncontrollably and
you were right there
with me like consoling me and you know all that other stuff and it took you
through the trip man yeah
yeah it was it was it was really great i thought we really had an amazing
moment you know
right yeah no we did just me no no no i just i don't know how much you want to
talk about it but
yeah it was great i ain't gonna get it at all no we basically we laughed we sobbed
we told each
other we loved each other we said we were soulmates we had a great time because
it could have gone the
other way we could have had a trip and been like could you imagine what the
have i been doing
with you imagine like but we both were like inside like saying all these things
that we
needed to say to each other and like loving on each other and giving each other
all these compliments and
like it was not should we be together i don't know it was we were very much
like yes and then we drove
down the hill afterwards yeah we got down we got something to eat and then we
were like and then it
was like yeah at about 1 32 o'clock we're just like whoa that really fucking
happened like it was honestly
i will never be the same that was a transformative experience and yeah the
stuff that we said to each
other is gonna is gonna remain yeah with us but uh and then at the end of the
night at dusk um i was in
my truck with the lovely nia and uh nia loves the ocean so i just backed it up
in this parking spot we
sat in the tailgate and watched people surf it was so beautiful it was so great
it was such a
fucking amazing trip literally figuratively yeah and that was funny is then the
second it's it's over
then we were coming down to the hills down onto the fucking 118 or the 101
wherever the
we were and it was like and back into the matrix yeah oh my god yeah 100 and i
was kind of like
i felt a little depressed i just feel like you know you get that dopamine or
serotonin or whatever it is
you get that rush you get that high and then you kind of come down and you're
just sort of like
that's why i was like was that real did that happen was that true no but that's
just like a high
idiot like just you know and you were like no it was real but yes we were also
i and you know all
that stuff and idiots but it was no but what i like about them is it doesn't
make me want to go
and just start like i smoke a cigar and then the next day i was like i want
another cigar and i got
to fight smoking another one you know it's not like that it's actually you come
down
and for me anyway and then it's like i need to work on this part of my life i
need to work on
that part of my life yeah and that's how i feel and then it's just like all
right and then in like
you know a year or so i'll take them again i'll check in on them because like i
don't think um
you know going around like if i like micro dose those things and i'm just sort
of you know
everything's groovy man like all