Deviate Season One finale with Ari Shaffir

Deviate with Rolf Potts

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“The hashtag level of social media discourse can be really frustrating. It tends to bend narratives toward the hashtag slogan. But when we start sweeping everything into the same category, we begin to trivialize the core issue.” – Rolf Potts

Ari Shaffir (@AriShaffir) is a comedian, writer, podcaster, and actor. He is the current host of the podcast Skeptic Tank.

In the Season 1 Finale of Deviate, Rolf and Ari resume their conversation about magic mushrooms (7:00); discuss Ari’s strange bets and the experience of panhandling for money (17:00); reflect on lessons learned from the past year of podcasting (32:00); discuss the shortcomings of travel television (55:00); and explore self-mythology and society’s over-simplification of complex topics (1:07:00).

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Deviate episodes mentioned

Bestselling author Tim Ferriss on how to create a successful podcast
Comedian Ari Shaffir on ‘shrooms, hugging, and quitting smartphones
Ari Shaffir on travel, memory, and the odd psychology of souvenirs
Satanic backward masking changed 1980s rock (but not in the way you think)
What it’s like to be a black police officer in America
What it’s like to be a Latino police officer in America
The weird and complicated history of America’s national anthem
Punk icon Ian MacKaye on why we should question the official history of rock music
Celebrating the best places to live (and the quest for home) in America
Kink Doctor Dulcinea Pitagora on sex therapy, BDSM, and dominatrix work
The way we grow food has been broken for 10,000 years (but we can fix it)
Deviate Live in New York City: Travel Stories and Souvenirs
White Zombie guitarist J. Yuenger on music, expat life, and long-term travel
Kevin Kelly on the lost world of 1970s Asia (and why you should travel now)
Andrew McCarthy on storytelling, celebrity, and how travel changed his life
Paul Theroux on the art of listening, and the necessary obstacles of deep travel

Guests

Ari Shaffir