Ryan Williams is Running for President (Live from the Telluride Mushroom Festival)
The Mushroom King, Ryan Williams, is Running for President (Live from the Telluride Mushroom Festival)
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Trailer for Mushroom Comedy with Ryan Williams
Mushroom Comedy is acknowledging that we’re living through the apocalypse, right now.
The L.A. Mushroom Comedy Night at the PACK Theater
Do you live in Los Angeles? Do you want to help save the world from The Apocalypse? Come watch L.A.’s top performers save the world from The Apocalypse with mushroom, sketch, improv, & clown! It is comedy with a soul! The L.A. Mushroom went into the multiverse
Achieving World Peace by 2034 with Mushroom Comedy
Mushroom comedy is unfiltered, reality-based, and truthful, and it must be presented as satire. Our goal is world peace by 2034. We aren't in charge of the world's peace-keeping efforts, yet, we all have a say in how humans work within the context of the planet.
The Mushroom King: 2028
I am The Mushroom King, and the fungi have hijacked my nervous system. I am a puppet for the mushrooms. They are holding me hostage, and they are forcing me to be a comedian in Los Angeles. The fungi have taken over my body. They forced me to address my
Hello, I'm From the Republic of Los Angeles
Hi, I'm Ryan, and I am a comedian who is a translator for the mushrooms. I listen to mushrooms and they talk to me. Mushrooms tell stories me that the humans are acting crazy and that we have to change over the next ten years to help prevent
The Mushroom King Loves Los Angeles
I am The Mushroom King, and the fungi have hijacked my nervous system. I am a puppet for the mushrooms. They are holding me hostage, and they are forcing me to be a comedian in Los Angeles. I’d rather be living in the middle of the wilderness, living off
Do Humans Want to Prevent a 6th Mass Extinction Event?
As humans evolved from our ape ancestors, our brains evolved to create technology, yet over the 275 years since the industrial revolution, we have detrimentally destroyed our home. Plundering the natural world for resources, wiping out 75% of the buffalo population in the 1900s, and massacring the Amazon rain forest,
The Mushroom King Comes to Los Angeles
Ryan Williams is the Mushroom King back from the Mushroom Underground. With his fungal brain, stuck in his ape-like body, he’ll share an unfiltered viewpoint into the perspective of the fungal kingdom, about us homosapsens. Human beings are causing great harm to the planet, this mostly started over 14,
Welcome to MushroomLand
One day I dream of opening up a Mushroom Land, which replaces Disneyland, where we can buy Disneyland as a distressed asset, converting every ride and attraction into a mushroom themed adventure park. Space Mountain becomes Mycelial Space Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain turns into Big Chanterelle Mountain, and the Haunted
My life is divided into two life spans: Before Mushrooms (BM) and After Mushrooms (AM)
My life will never be the same after tonight shatters my preconceived notions about what is possible in the more-than-human world.
From Influence to Impact to Mushrooms
Hi friends! This is Ryan Williams, and you may know me from The Influencer Economy book, wellness episodes, and hundreds of General Assembly Los Angeles events. How have you been? A lot has changed in our lives since we started this community in 2013. I am sending you love <
World Mycelium Storytelling Night Redux
Hi Mycelium Friends! A few months we organized an event during Los Angeles Climate Week, alongside Plant Based Treaty, World Mycelium Storytelling Night. I was in the middle of writing a one-person show, which was a big reason why we had to postpone it. Sorry about that! Like the mycelium
Announcing The Psilocybin Files: Becoming Resilient Like Fungi (One-Person Show!)
Hi, I'm Ryan, and is a newsletter about stories about mycelium, comedy, and personal mushroom writing and/or art from me. I am thrilled to announce that I am debuting my new one-person show, The Psilocybin Files: Becoming Resilient Like Fungi this June as part of the Hollywood
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Mush Love for Mycelium, the Underground Root-like Structure of Fungi
Mushrooms touch every aspect of our society from politics to science to pop culture to the more than human world. The more I learn about fungi, the deeper and more connected my life becomes.
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Rocky Mountain Fungi Comic, Healing Earth, and Healing Ourselves
Mushrooms teach us about interdependence, a reciprocal relation between two seemingly interdependent bodies, ours and theirs.
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A Decentralized Mushroom Book Club, Angel City FC, and The Mycoverse
Exploring the Mycoverse is a free Los Angeles-based meetup where we read myco-focused books, lead ecological discussions, facilitate conversations around fungi conservation, land restoration, and explore how to make mushrooms accessible to as many people as possible.
Cultivating Fungi For Emotional Support
With each mushroom that I cultivate, I feel a deeper connection to the world around me, a bond that had been obscured by years of disconnection and trauma. I find myself in my living room, adjusting the temperature in a Martha tent, a mini-greenhouse for growing mushrooms, with a humidifier,
When Irish Lungs are Breathing
With each intentional breath, I felt a deeper connection to my roots, a bond that had been obscured by distance and time. I found myself in Claregalway, a small town on the West Coast of Ireland, surrounded by relatives I'd never met before. It was a reunion of
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Going Green in the City of Angels: An Environmental Horror Story
Everywhere is War —Bob Marley As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us. —Robin Wall Kimmerer When I decided to go green and purchase an electric vehicle, I never imagined it would turn into an environmental horror story. As a lover of Mother Earth and father of
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