9 Hours Lost On Psychedelics In A National Park | Habib Siam | Ep. 16

This week on Creating Consciousness I sat down with Habib Siam — Lebanese-Canadian comedian, PhD, and one of the most thoughtful voices in Toronto's scene — for a conversation that stretched almost two hours and still felt too short. We got into why he left the club circuit to rent his own rooms and do 90-minute cold opens, the moment the Beirut port blast of August 2020 made it impossible for him to keep comedy and real life separate, We talked about getting lost in the woods on psychedelics and encountering a school group, and the magic that happens in the third week of being off-grid.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Gil Scott-Heron Changed Everything

6:30 Two Of My Idols Blew Me Away, One Didn't

10:00 The Check Spot And Learning To Use Silence

13:00 Why Comedy Clubs Are The McDonald's Of Comedy

15:00 The Beirut Blast That Rewrote My Comedy

18:00 I Don't Want To Be The Jerk-Off Joke Guy

23:00 Writing From Ideas Instead Of Jokes

29:00 The Sneaker Podcast That Came Before Stand-Up

36:00 My First Set, 1 Year After The Breakup

45:00 Survivor's Remorse, Truthfully, And Now

50:00 Lost In The Woods, Tripping, With A School Group

58:00 Beirut, Pandemic, Losing My Dream Job

1:03:00 The Magic Happens In The Third Week

1:19:00 Why I Got A PhD On The Wire

1:33:00 Levels To Me With Habib

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