Jul 24, 2026 · 1 hr · 14 segments
Johnny sits down with Dennis Walker, founder of the Mycopreneur podcast, for an unplanned but perfect conversation that covers his first mushroom trip, why harm reduction and psychonaut culture kept…
So yeah, they consulted with me like six, seven months ago and Purdue pitched to me this idea to grow mushrooms in space.
And during the call, he hung up because he couldn't answer how the biomass actually like continued to grow.
Because if you do liquid state onto ceramic, like, you need nutrients and the mushrooms that he grew weren't like really grown.
So like, I think there's a lot of bullshit there, but there's the backend story about all of that.
And so none of that could be improved, um, that, uh, yeah, cause he was trying to do with oyster mushrooms, but he couldn't ever get like a full actual floret or canopy of any type of mushroom.
Um, so I don't know how far that's going to go, but I've been, uh, You know, besides this mushroom stuff and everything else, you know, I did have my gigantic mushroom farm where I ended up getting working with like other companies trying to do bioremediation.
So there was like a lot of those like companies popping up, raising all this money, saying they're going to do all this good and then just fizzling.
You know, there's mega farms going down all the time just because people want to put all this money into tech rather than just growing food.
events where you can talk to people because, for example, every Thursday I do the Micropreneur Incubator.
We have a great core group like Triptomics often comes and you're working with shout out chris and lots of great people come and like let's say somebody comes and makes these claims then you could kind of cross-reference or scrutinize on the spot and that's why i like also for having these events like the more the merrier let's hear what you're working on and then people can be very diplomatic and be like oh ask a question about it and oh you can't answer that question okay well What about this question? Let's explore this.
So yeah, they consulted with me like six, seven months ago and Purdue pitched to me this idea to grow mushrooms in space.
And during the call, he hung up because he couldn't answer how the biomass actually like continued to grow.
Because if you do liquid state onto ceramic, like, you need nutrients and the mushrooms that he grew weren't like really grown.
So like, I think there's a lot of bullshit there, but there's the backend story about all of that.
And so none of that could be improved, um, that, uh, yeah, cause he was trying to do with oyster mushrooms, but he couldn't ever get like a full actual floret or canopy of any type of mushroom.
Um, so I don't know how far that's going to go, but I've been, uh, You know, besides this mushroom stuff and everything else, you know, I did have my gigantic mushroom farm where I ended up getting working with like other companies trying to do bioremediation.
So there was like a lot of those like companies popping up, raising all this money, saying they're going to do all this good and then just fizzling.
You know, there's mega farms going down all the time just because people want to put all this money into tech rather than just growing food.
events where you can talk to people because, for example, every Thursday I do the Micropreneur Incubator.
We have a great core group like Triptomics often comes and you're working with shout out chris and lots of great people come and like let's say somebody comes and makes these claims then you could kind of cross-reference or scrutinize on the spot and that's why i like also for having these events like the more the merrier let's hear what you're working on and then people can be very diplomatic and be like oh ask a question about it and oh you can't answer that question okay well What about this question? Let's explore this.
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