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I'm Dr. Walt Miner.
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I'm here to talk about LSD.
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We have never given LSD
to a living creature
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that it hasn't affected.
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It affects fish, it affects spiders,
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it affects rabbits, and dogs, and cats.
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Perhaps most interesting of all,
for one reason or another,
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LSD was given to an elephant once.
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And, lo and behold,
it killed the elephant.
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Some people have a bad experience
the first time they take the drug.
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Others take it 30, 60,
or even a hundred times,
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before their bad trip.
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And the bad trip?
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Instant insanity.
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Often a never-never land of no return.
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There is nothing, um...
grown-up or sophisticated
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in taking an LSD trip at all.
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They're just being complete fools.
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It is playing Russian roulette.
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Drug use in educational films
has always been portrayed
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in a somewhat exaggerated
and hysterical way.
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-Parents panicking,
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children having freak-outs,
and people jumping out of windows.
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Don't get me wrong,
drugs can be dangerous,
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but they can also be hilarious.
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Now, what kind of person
would put themselves
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through something dangerous and hilarious?
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If nothing else,
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my hope is that tonight's film
will answer that question.
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Enjoy.
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I don't think psychedelics are the answer
to the world's problems,
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but they could be a start.
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All geniuses did it.
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Einstein, Steve Jobs,
Jimi Hendrix, A$AP fuckin' Rocky.
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And I just always had this question,
"There's gotta be more..."
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And then when I took acid, I went,
"Oh, you were right. There's a lot more."
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My point of view changed on drugs.
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We gained a lot of insight
about the way I view reality.
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I've easily done over a hundred hits...
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easily, and probably closer to two.
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-Doesn't eight make you legally insane?
-They say that...
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I think I've done mushrooms,
like, 12 times...
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I probably did mushrooms... 12 times.
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Literally 50 times.
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I took a lot of acid.
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A lot of acid.
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I took a lot of acid.
I must've taken around 500 trips.
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I took acid once.
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Maybe even
didn't need to actually take it.
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Probably could've
just watched this documentary.
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Is everybody in?
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The movie is about to begin.
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♪ There will be some happy endings ♪
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♪ There'll be dreams
That don't come true ♪
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♪ But in the times ahead ♪
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♪ There's love and hate
And hope and dread coming ♪
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♪ All in all ♪
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♪ It makes it that much harder
For you, yeah ♪
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♪ I know you're worried ♪
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♪ I'm worried too ♪
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♪ But if you're ready ♪
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♪ I'm here to fall with you ♪
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♪ What else is there for us to do? ♪
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Psychotropic drugs fall
under a huge, broad category.
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What I experimented with
were hallucinogens.
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And they put you in a state
of consciousness which is very altered,
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where your perception,
your cognition,
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your, uh... knowing is very different.
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Uh... Initially,
it feels like it's not real,
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but then when you come out of it,
you wonder what is real.
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Um, I wouldn't like this to be an exercise
in the sort of "just say no" campaign,
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you know...
...putting people off this experience,
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because I think
it's a valuable experience.
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And whenever I've had a bad trip,
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and I've had many,
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I always realize that, um...
it was what I needed.
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Um...
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sometimes it kicks your arse,
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and sometimes you need to have
your ego taken down...
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a notch or two.
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On the other hand,
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you can get
immensely rewarding experiences,
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full of love and support,
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and a sense of buoyancy,
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and a sense of... a religious sense
of connection to the planet.
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So my feeling is it's, um...
It balances out.
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I remember one day, a friend of mine
gave me some dried peyote,
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which I'd... I'd never taken before.
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I live on a farm down in England.
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-I took it at 11 a.m.
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On the way back to the main house, um...
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I started to get this feeling,
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-and everything was coming alive.
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The grass starts talking to me...
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Sting!
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...and very quickly,
I entered this psychedelic realm.
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The trees are waving
kind of musically at me.
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Sting!
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And I go past the farm,
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and I have a guy who runs my farm
called John,
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who hails me over very urgently,
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"Come on! I need your help!"
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I said, "John, I'm, uh...
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I'm actually busy."
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He says, "No, you've gotta help me."
I said, "Well, what is it?"
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He said, "Well, one of the cows
is having a problem birthing,
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-and I need your help...
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...because without your help, she'll die.
She's in a, you know, a bad way."
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And as he's speaking,
I'm getting more and more high, and...
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and disconcerted.
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So I go over to him,
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and she's in distress, she's crying,
and she's in a great deal of pain.
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What the experience does
is it very clearly
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presents you with the idea
of mortality, right here,
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and you cannot... You can't dodge it.
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It's your own mortality,
the mortality of this planet,
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the mortality of this little steer
who's being born, and its mother.
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So you cannot get around that.
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That is the central issue
of consciousness.
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One day we will not exist.
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How do we...
How do we deal with it?
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So, we wrap some rope
around the steer's forelegs and snout,
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and my job is to pull
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while he navigates the operation.
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And we're getting covered
in all kinds of amniotic fluid and stuff.
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This operation takes about 20 minutes.
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It's like pulling in a whale
on a fishing boat.
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And I'm getting higher.
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And we eventually get the steer out.
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His mother breathes a sigh of relief,
and for me,
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the entire universe has cracked open.
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It was like the meaning of life.
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You know, I think
what the psychedelic experience does
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is it takes...
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the "it" out of "me and it".
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It becomes me and thou.
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Everything, you know, whether it's a tree,
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or it's a river, or it's a piece of rock,
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you realize that you are connected.
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You know,
you're made up of the same matter.
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I think when you treat the world
as just an object,
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you tend to treat it badly.
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If you see the world as part of you,
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then you will treat it better.
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You know, it's not something
you want to do every day.
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You have to prepare.
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You need an intention.
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You can say, "Okay,
I'm going to have this experience,
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and I'm hoping with this experience,
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I will be able to write a song,
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or I will write my novel,
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or I will make love,
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or I will treat my family better,
I'll be a better citizen."
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So if you have an objective,
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and then you have the experience,
then you'll be rewarded.
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If your objective is
to just get fucked up,
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then you will get fucked up.
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So, my advice is don't do that.
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I'll be honest, I don't remember
having a conversation about it,
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I don't remember anything
other than he handed it to us,
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and we just went "boop,"
put it right in our mouths.
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Didn't think one thought about it.
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No thought went into it.
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Could've been a big life decision.
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I was a young comedian...
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in New York City.
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We used to hang out
at the end of the night,
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all the comics would hang out
at this restaurant.
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This old hippie-looking white guy
walked in.
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He had these, like, pretty substantial,
like, white pieces of paper...
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"Boop... Boop."
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Forty-five minutes later...
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"What was that, was that acid we took?
I don't feel anything."
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And it's always when you say,
"I don't feel anything,"
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it's usually kind of the tipping point.
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Do I feel anything?
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What is feeling?
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What is feeling?
What is feeling anything?
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Oh, this is what tripping on acid is like.
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And the hot chocolate came,
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and the foam or the whipped cream was,
like, breathing,
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and it was too alive to drink.
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We floated to Washington Square Park
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with a gaggle of people
we had never met before.
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Semi-homeless, maybe-ish people.
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And we found ourselves
feeling each other's faces,
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-and laughing and crying...
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...and realizing huge things.
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I remember saying,
"Let's go back to my apartment."
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- Ooh, yeah!
- Yeah!
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So we just ran.
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Aww...
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So we get in his car, and he pulls out,
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and we get to the red light,
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and the red light turns green,
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and then yellow, and then red...
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-...green,
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and then yellow, and then red,
then green, and yellow, and red.
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He has forgotten how to drive.
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For the life of him, he doesn't know
how he even pulled out.
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It was just muscle memory.
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And then, he doesn't know what he's doing,
how cars work.
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"How does a car work?
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We know how cars work?"
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Let's don't drive.
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Let's let... Let's have a sober buddy.
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No driving, that's insane.
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You want to be in the passenger seat.
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You don't wanna be the driver.
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I wanna be driving.
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I don't wanna sit there and think,
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"That person is seeing
all the things I'm seeing,
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I think I'd better drive."
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You know when you see those white lines,
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if you look way in the distance,
they almost look like they're going up.
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I remember sitting there
driving the car,
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and my hands are just doing this
by themselves.
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It's almost like I could just sit
and look out the window or whatever,
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'cause my body was driving the car.
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I eventually stopped.
I just completely stopped.
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Because it's so steep,
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but I'm not falling back.
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And I don't know how that's possible,
and then I realize...
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I don't have my foot on the gas.
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I've just coasted to a stop
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on the Hollywood freeway.
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The road went whoosh...
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and disappeared.
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And I saw nothing but total blackness.
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And then there was this tiny little skull
at the end of it.
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And it came forward,
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and in the skull was the road,
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and the mouth opened,
and, whomp, I got swallowed.
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Don't drive on acid.
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Hi, I'm Tommy Roe.
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By now it must be obvious to you,
as it is to me,
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that LSD is very powerful stuff.
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And that's just what it is: stuff.
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Acid and mushrooms are the Coke and Pepsi
of hallucinogens,
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but there are lots of things
that can make you trip...
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But these are just the beginning
of a list of compounds
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that can cause the human brain
to experience
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altered states of reality
and hallucinations.
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I decided I would, um...
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be initiated properly into peyote...
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So I took a plane down to Mexico City,
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and then we went out in a van
to the mountains,
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and we met these people who would
initiate me into this peyote cult.
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First of all, they cram massive amounts
of peyote into your mouth,
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I mean huge amounts, with strychnine,
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and you look at this thing,
and go, "This is poison."
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-And they... keep stuffing it in.
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And very quickly, I am very high.
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You know, I mean, the desert already is
a sort of surreal psychedelic experience.
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You just have to look at one
of these gigantic cacti.
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You're in a sort of primal alien world.
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Sting!
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-Sting...
-Ssssting!
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And then they blindfolded me
with three other initiates.
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When you have your eyes closed,
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you're in this three dimensional,
uh... cartoon world.
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You know, you're in a kind of space movie.
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And we were forced
to climb the sacred mountain,
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I've forgotten the name
of the sacred mountain, blindfolded,
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high on peyote,
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in the midday sun.
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So, we're stumbling up this mountain,
and it's quite a hike.
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Anyway, eventually we get to the top
in the early evening,
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and I feel this kind of sprinkling
on my head.
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I think, "Oh, they're giving me a shower,"
because we were filthy dirty.
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I open my eyes, and it's blood.
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And I said, "What is this?"
"Oh, it's deer's blood, it's part of it."
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I'm having deer's blood
poured on top of me.
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And it was during the time
of Halley's Comet.
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Halley's Comet is quite something,
especially when you're on peyote,
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because it looks like a fiery dragon.
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Quite fearsome, and very threatening.
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But it didn't frighten me as much
as this concept of mortality,
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which is a constant with me.
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This was something...
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difficult and, I think, meaningful.
284
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Drugs are great.
285
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Psychedelics are so cool.
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I love hallucinogens.
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Give me some, now!
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These are just some of the things
you'll hear
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on a typical playground these days.
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Does that scare you?
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It should.
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Because today's kids
are increasingly turning on,
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tuning in, and dropping out.
294
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Now, how do us "squares" wrap our heads
around this terrifying trend?
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Well, we watch videos, like this one,
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about one little girl,
let's call her Emily,
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because that is her name,
298
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and her...
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-Hey, guys, what's up?
300
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So, Emily, I'm throwing a party tonight,
301
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and it'd be pretty rad if you came by.
302
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No, remember we were gonna go have fun
at your place,
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doing safe stuff
under your mom's supervision.
304
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Parents get a bad rap, but...
they're not so bad to hang around with.
305
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C'mon, Emily, it'll be fun.
There'll be tons of hard drugs there.
306
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Okay, maybe I'll see you there.
307
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I mean, how bad could it be?
308
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Who's ready for some hard drugs?
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Got some LSD,
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some mushrooms,
311
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acid, some blue heaven, purple haze...
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I got blue sky on Mars,
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I got Grandma's dentures.
314
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I got Pac-Man...
315
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We got Super Marios, we got Luigis,
316
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we got Reagans,
and some orange sunshine...
317
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Oh, I'm in!
318
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Orange sunshine doesn't sound too bad.
319
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It has lots of names, Emily,
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but it doesn't take being a math nerd
like Maya to know what it equals...
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A bad trip.
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C'mon, Emily, just try one.
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-Maybe just one.
324
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- Don't do it, Emily.
- Think about your future, Emily!
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I think I'm tripping...
326
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Weird...
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That's every acid trip in a movie.
328
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They have never, ever nailed it.
329
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They always, in movies,
will use, like, a fisheye lens.
330
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They always pitch the person's voice
way down,
331
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so everything just looks distorted,
you know, and the person's like...
332
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"Hey, man, I'm on acid!
333
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Oh, my God, I can feel my soul!"
334
00:19:05.435 --> 00:19:08.605
The one thing I've seen
in a movie that was pretty close
335
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was in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
336
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There's a scene
where Johnny Depp is in the casino,
337
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and the floor is, like,
kind of moving around and stuff.
338
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Like, when I saw that, I was like,
"Yes. That's acid."
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I don't know how much acid you've taken,
340
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but one of the constants
in most of my trips during that period
341
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is things would always happen
while high on acid
342
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that under no ordinary circumstances
would happen.
343
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Strange, and in this case,
terrible things.
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Hi, my name's Anthony Bourdain. Um...
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I liked LSD a lot.
346
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You know, I became a teenager
just as the '60s were ending,
347
00:19:57.404 --> 00:20:01.909
and, you know, I was cruelly disappointed
that I'd sort of missed out
348
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on the entire hippie era.
349
00:20:03.911 --> 00:20:06.246
You know,
I'd read about them in Life magazine,
350
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when I was nine and ten years old,
and that looked really good.
351
00:20:09.499 --> 00:20:12.336
I thought, "I can't wait
till I'm old enough to go to San Francisco
352
00:20:12.419 --> 00:20:14.796
and take acid," you know?
353
00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:17.799
People are jumping out of windows
and stuff, it must be interesting.
354
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And, you know,
my parents were horrified by it,
355
00:20:20.219 --> 00:20:22.846
so...
that was something of an endorsement.
356
00:20:22.930 --> 00:20:27.684
I know I was fully in the thrall
of the works of Hunter S. Thompson,
357
00:20:27.768 --> 00:20:30.604
And by fully in the thrall, I mean...
358
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we thought Hunter Thompson
was the coolest thing ever,
359
00:20:34.358 --> 00:20:36.985
and we wanted to be just like him.
360
00:20:37.069 --> 00:20:39.529
There's that Thompson image of,
you know,
361
00:20:39.613 --> 00:20:41.907
you know you're having a bad trip
when you look down,
362
00:20:41.990 --> 00:20:44.326
and you see your dead grandmother
with a knife in her teeth
363
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crawling up your leg.
364
00:20:45.744 --> 00:20:47.829
That was funny to us,
and we kind of...
365
00:20:47.913 --> 00:20:50.999
We wanted to, if not experience that,
to survive that.
366
00:20:51.083 --> 00:20:55.170
For this weekend, we prepared ourselves
for an early version of the road trip.
367
00:20:55.254 --> 00:20:58.257
I told my parents that I was staying over
at my friend's house
368
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for a sleepover weekend.
369
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He had use of the car,
and, I think, a learner's permit.
370
00:21:03.762 --> 00:21:07.933
This was the basic framework
around which our master plan coalesced.
371
00:21:08.600 --> 00:21:09.893
First we acquired some drugs.
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A lot of acid, some weed,
some Lebanese hash,
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Gordon's gin, and two cases
of Maximus super beer.
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I don't know why we chose that brand.
375
00:21:18.485 --> 00:21:20.570
Also, and this is important:
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some Quaaludes.
377
00:21:22.531 --> 00:21:25.701
And proceeded to take a lot of the drugs,
including the LSD.
378
00:21:31.707 --> 00:21:35.168
We set out for the dark heart
of the Catskills.
379
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So we're driving along,
getting off on the acid,
380
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and we encounter two hitchhikers.
381
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Attractive-looking young women,
they were exotic dancers.
382
00:21:44.136 --> 00:21:47.556
One of them identified herself
by the name Panama Red.
383
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Experienced young women of the world
in search of a ride.
384
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We immediately let it slip as well
that we were fully loaded
385
00:21:53.729 --> 00:21:57.065
with a pretty dizzying array
of controlled substances.
386
00:21:57.149 --> 00:22:00.902
Unsurprisingly enough, this interested
these two young delicate flowers.
387
00:22:03.363 --> 00:22:04.990
We went back to her room.
388
00:22:05.532 --> 00:22:07.909
And we smoke some weed,
we smoke some hash...
389
00:22:07.993 --> 00:22:11.204
-Uh-oh, careful, he's gonna attack!
390
00:22:15.917 --> 00:22:17.294
It's not real. Look at this!
391
00:22:17.711 --> 00:22:20.505
Then she reminded us
that we had mentioned Quaaludes.
392
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And I gave her one,
393
00:22:23.258 --> 00:22:25.886
and she seemed to indicate
that this was unsatisfactory,
394
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that she would like two.
395
00:22:27.054 --> 00:22:28.347
Two Parest-400's.
396
00:22:28.430 --> 00:22:31.099
Now these motherfuckers
were industrial strength,
397
00:22:31.183 --> 00:22:33.268
powerful fucking Methaqualone.
398
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Panama starts,
with the help of all that liquor,
399
00:22:35.645 --> 00:22:38.940
starts getting pretty high
on that Quaalude as it's hitting in.
400
00:22:39.024 --> 00:22:41.985
We are, by this point, ha...
we're peaking, okay?
401
00:22:43.236 --> 00:22:45.781
That part, things started to go wrong.
402
00:22:47.783 --> 00:22:49.409
Well, things went wrong very quickly.
403
00:22:49.826 --> 00:22:54.373
Panama starts modeling her outfits
from her earlier years in Vegas.
404
00:22:59.169 --> 00:23:02.798
Suddenly, Panama, mid-stride,
her eyes roll up in her head,
405
00:23:02.881 --> 00:23:07.052
and she keels over,
stone dead on the fucking floor.
406
00:23:19.523 --> 00:23:21.024
She's OD'd, she's dead,
407
00:23:21.149 --> 00:23:23.110
and we've given her the drugs
that have killed her.
408
00:23:23.193 --> 00:23:27.030
Already in my mind, the police helicopters
with their searchlights
409
00:23:27.114 --> 00:23:29.491
would be swooping over the motel
at any minute.
410
00:23:29.574 --> 00:23:33.370
There will be, you know,
special units with battering rams
411
00:23:33.453 --> 00:23:35.288
coming in the windows and the doors.
412
00:23:35.872 --> 00:23:37.457
What do we do now?
413
00:23:37.833 --> 00:23:40.502
You know, "My parents think
I'm sleeping at your house,"
414
00:23:40.919 --> 00:23:43.004
and we're high. We're really, really high.
415
00:23:43.088 --> 00:23:44.297
On the way over here,
416
00:23:44.381 --> 00:23:48.885
you know, the sky is filled with colors
and concentric circles,
417
00:23:48.969 --> 00:23:51.221
and strange and,
you know, wonderful things.
418
00:23:51.304 --> 00:23:54.307
-Now, it's ugly and paranoid.
419
00:23:54.391 --> 00:23:57.853
Reality has intruded
in a seriously ugly way.
420
00:23:57.936 --> 00:24:02.023
Before we came close to figuring out
what happened,
421
00:24:02.107 --> 00:24:04.526
she stirred and roused herself,
422
00:24:05.068 --> 00:24:06.570
as if nothing had happened.
423
00:24:06.653 --> 00:24:09.823
She stood up as if
she collapses to the floor all the time.
424
00:24:13.076 --> 00:24:17.247
We drank a lot of gin,
and snorted coke off the Gideon's Bible.
425
00:24:17.330 --> 00:24:19.708
I remember at one point
excusing myself to go to the bathroom,
426
00:24:19.791 --> 00:24:22.794
and looking in the mirror
and seeing, uh...
427
00:24:22.878 --> 00:24:27.007
you know, an Indian chief
in full war-paint in the in the mirror,
428
00:24:27.090 --> 00:24:30.760
looking up and... Looking in a mirror
is never a good idea on acid,
429
00:24:30.844 --> 00:24:33.221
but in this case,
it was a really bad idea.
430
00:24:33.305 --> 00:24:36.349
Don't look in the mirror.
Cover the mirrors.
431
00:24:36.766 --> 00:24:38.685
Not a great idea to look in a mirror.
432
00:24:38.768 --> 00:24:41.646
Oh, my God, looking in the mirror is,
like, the worst.
433
00:24:41.730 --> 00:24:44.274
Like, looking in the mirror,
and who am I, who do I see?
434
00:24:44.357 --> 00:24:45.734
You can see through your skin.
435
00:24:45.817 --> 00:24:49.488
Your skin is apparently more translucent,
uh, when you're tripping.
436
00:24:49.571 --> 00:24:54.034
You can see, like, the blood rushing
through your vessels and the veins.
437
00:24:54.117 --> 00:24:56.786
Especially if you have
any self-esteem issues.
438
00:24:56.870 --> 00:25:00.957
You know, it's just like... I mean,
I've had, like, my face turns into a goat.
439
00:25:01.041 --> 00:25:03.543
Doesn't matter what you look like,
cover the mirrors.
440
00:25:08.840 --> 00:25:10.634
Don't look in the mirror!
441
00:25:10.717 --> 00:25:13.762
I'm Dr. Charles Grob, spelled G-R-O-B.
442
00:25:13.845 --> 00:25:15.889
I'm a psychiatrist.
443
00:25:15.972 --> 00:25:17.182
I'm a researcher
444
00:25:17.265 --> 00:25:21.186
investigating the potential
for a hallucinogen treatment model
445
00:25:21.269 --> 00:25:25.357
to heal psychiatric illness
446
00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:27.150
or heal addiction.
447
00:25:27.901 --> 00:25:32.197
I've also conducted an FDA-approved study
where we had permission
448
00:25:32.280 --> 00:25:37.452
to use the alkaloid
of hallucinogenic mushrooms, psilocybin,
449
00:25:37.536 --> 00:25:40.789
in a treatment model
for individuals with advanced stage cancer
450
00:25:40.872 --> 00:25:42.332
who have reactive anxiety.
451
00:25:42.415 --> 00:25:45.961
Overall, their quality of life
improved noticeably.
452
00:25:46.044 --> 00:25:47.754
No one had a bad trip,
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00:25:47.837 --> 00:25:51.299
no one had
a serious physiological reaction.
454
00:25:51.383 --> 00:25:54.886
So, we found that, you know,
at the very least,
455
00:25:54.970 --> 00:25:57.514
there was good potential
in this treatment model,
456
00:25:57.597 --> 00:26:00.559
and worthy
of further controlled investigation.
457
00:26:01.768 --> 00:26:05.689
Let's hear from young people who've had
their reasons for being down on LSD.
458
00:26:05.772 --> 00:26:08.942
Let's also hear from doctors,
psychologists and other experts
459
00:26:09.025 --> 00:26:10.735
who have tried LSD themselves.
460
00:26:11.611 --> 00:26:15.198
The only time I think
I've ever been able to understand myself
461
00:26:15.282 --> 00:26:16.449
was on an acid trip.
462
00:26:16.908 --> 00:26:18.618
Then things were really clear.
463
00:26:19.452 --> 00:26:21.746
You know, I didn't have
any one small bad trip.
464
00:26:21.830 --> 00:26:25.000
I had one long pretty good one.
465
00:26:25.417 --> 00:26:28.211
I had outfits that went with acid,
466
00:26:28.295 --> 00:26:30.922
I had the music that went with acid,
467
00:26:31.464 --> 00:26:33.925
uh... makeup that went with acid...
468
00:26:34.009 --> 00:26:35.927
To me, it was a...
469
00:26:36.511 --> 00:26:37.721
a ritual drug.
470
00:26:37.804 --> 00:26:39.514
You wanna look at my house?
471
00:26:39.598 --> 00:26:42.559
Okay, my house is the acid house.
472
00:26:54.404 --> 00:26:55.989
It affected everything.
473
00:27:06.666 --> 00:27:09.961
To me, it's so hilarious
to have, like, drug anecdotes.
474
00:27:10.045 --> 00:27:12.756
The very nature of what you're asking...
475
00:27:13.590 --> 00:27:16.843
If you're doing drugs the right way,
you can't tell an orderly story.
476
00:27:18.094 --> 00:27:20.889
Hi, I'm Carrie Fisher, and...
477
00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:23.725
I took a lot of LSD.
478
00:27:23.808 --> 00:27:27.479
I think I'd heard about acid
maybe from John Belushi.
479
00:27:27.562 --> 00:27:29.439
But I did not have a problem with...
480
00:27:29.522 --> 00:27:31.900
At that point,
I didn't have a problem with drugs.
481
00:27:31.983 --> 00:27:34.194
I had not gotten into the drug zone
482
00:27:34.277 --> 00:27:38.281
that would ultimately prove
to be my downfall,
483
00:27:38.365 --> 00:27:39.741
which would be opiates.
484
00:27:39.824 --> 00:27:41.534
You know, it would be hard to get...
485
00:27:41.618 --> 00:27:44.162
What, are you going to get addicted
to acid? You know, no.
486
00:27:44.245 --> 00:27:46.081
And it's a very hard drug to take.
487
00:27:46.164 --> 00:27:51.002
So, I would organize trips
around to places in the world
488
00:27:51.086 --> 00:27:52.837
simply to take acid there.
489
00:27:53.713 --> 00:27:56.925
I would do these things,
and forget that...
490
00:27:57.967 --> 00:27:59.844
I looked like someone...
491
00:28:00.679 --> 00:28:04.224
named Princess Leia,
or whatever I was for people, and...
492
00:28:05.100 --> 00:28:09.354
and so it's not a brilliant idea to then,
you know, take acid and go running around.
493
00:28:09.437 --> 00:28:11.564
So, yeah, I went to the Seychelles.
494
00:28:12.691 --> 00:28:15.068
And we took acid, and...
495
00:28:15.568 --> 00:28:18.488
Oh, my God, I was on...
496
00:28:19.989 --> 00:28:23.827
on the beach, and there was
no one else on the beach.
497
00:28:24.327 --> 00:28:31.167
And so I'm with my Super 8 movie camera,
that's when this was.
498
00:28:32.001 --> 00:28:33.795
And I'm filming my friend,
499
00:28:33.878 --> 00:28:37.090
and as this is going along, suddenly...
500
00:28:37.716 --> 00:28:39.843
I sensed that...
501
00:28:40.802 --> 00:28:43.346
there's been a disturbance in the force.
502
00:28:44.931 --> 00:28:46.015
Don't put that in.
503
00:28:46.099 --> 00:28:49.811
Uh, anyway, and I turn around,
and by the way, I'm...
504
00:28:51.146 --> 00:28:54.315
I can't imagine that I'm nude,
but certainly I'm topless.
505
00:28:55.442 --> 00:28:56.901
And we turn around,
506
00:28:56.985 --> 00:29:01.197
and there are a busload
of Japanese folk that have just arrived,
507
00:29:01.281 --> 00:29:03.450
and it turns out where we are,
508
00:29:03.533 --> 00:29:08.329
it's where they bring the tourists
to have lunch from all the hotels.
509
00:29:08.747 --> 00:29:13.710
I am at that time, I believe,
Princess Leia, in a profound way,
510
00:29:13.793 --> 00:29:15.086
and not...
511
00:29:15.754 --> 00:29:16.713
clothed.
512
00:29:16.796 --> 00:29:18.590
I took acid and went,
513
00:29:19.090 --> 00:29:22.802
"Oh, I see, this makes sense."
514
00:29:23.261 --> 00:29:27.056
And in fact,
when I was first, uh, told I was bipolar,
515
00:29:27.140 --> 00:29:29.934
well, I went in to see a doctor,
and I said,
516
00:29:31.978 --> 00:29:34.397
"Well, I felt normal on acid."
517
00:29:34.814 --> 00:29:40.278
Why she might feel normal when taking LSD
during the height of her fame,
518
00:29:40.361 --> 00:29:43.907
it may have something to do
with how unnatural it felt
519
00:29:43.990 --> 00:29:45.575
being a public persona,
520
00:29:45.658 --> 00:29:49.621
how disconnected
she may have been from herself.
521
00:29:50.205 --> 00:29:53.833
And how the LSD experience
may have allowed her
522
00:29:53.917 --> 00:29:58.296
to have accessed some core element,
her core self,
523
00:29:58.379 --> 00:30:01.007
and allowed her to feel more genuine
in that regard.
524
00:30:01.424 --> 00:30:05.136
Anyway, what happened was
we took this Owsley acid.
525
00:30:05.220 --> 00:30:07.222
We got really high.
526
00:30:08.097 --> 00:30:09.432
We were in Central Park.
527
00:30:10.141 --> 00:30:12.143
I'm holding onto the ground,
528
00:30:14.395 --> 00:30:17.190
'cause it was hard to stay on the planet.
529
00:30:19.025 --> 00:30:22.487
And I'm watching an acorn,
530
00:30:23.154 --> 00:30:26.032
and it's moving a lot.
531
00:30:26.866 --> 00:30:29.035
I never saw anything that wasn't there.
532
00:30:29.118 --> 00:30:32.747
I just saw things that were there...
misbehave.
533
00:30:37.585 --> 00:30:40.839
Holy shit! You're Carrie Fisher!
534
00:30:41.756 --> 00:30:43.758
You're fucking Princess Leia!
535
00:30:43.842 --> 00:30:46.678
Oh, my God, I'm such a huge fan of yours!
536
00:30:46.761 --> 00:30:48.388
And it's misbehaving...
537
00:30:48.471 --> 00:30:51.808
Look at this.
I got it at a garage sale. Huh?
538
00:30:51.891 --> 00:30:53.434
Woo!
539
00:30:53.518 --> 00:30:54.602
And misbehaving...
540
00:30:54.686 --> 00:30:58.356
I'm talking to you, 'cause
you're tripping your fucking balls off!
541
00:30:58.439 --> 00:31:01.067
-No, just... No, no!
542
00:31:01.150 --> 00:31:04.696
So I had to watch this acorn,
543
00:31:04.779 --> 00:31:08.408
you know, basically choreograph itself.
544
00:31:08.491 --> 00:31:10.535
You're in show business.
Can I run something by you?
545
00:31:10.618 --> 00:31:12.245
Tell me what you think, okay?
546
00:31:12.328 --> 00:31:13.288
♪ I'm a nut ♪
547
00:31:14.789 --> 00:31:15.832
♪ I'm a nut ♪
548
00:31:16.833 --> 00:31:19.002
♪ I'm a nut, nut, nut ♪
549
00:31:19.085 --> 00:31:20.128
♪ I'm nuts ♪
550
00:31:20.211 --> 00:31:21.170
♪ I'm a nut ♪
551
00:31:21.254 --> 00:31:24.090
-What do you think? I'm still, you know--
-Shut up!
552
00:31:24.173 --> 00:31:26.759
Oh... you don't like it.
553
00:31:26.843 --> 00:31:28.261
So at that point,
554
00:31:28.344 --> 00:31:31.890
the acorn was almost back to being itself.
555
00:31:32.473 --> 00:31:33.975
Don't tell anybody what you saw here.
556
00:31:35.018 --> 00:31:36.644
Shh!
557
00:31:37.979 --> 00:31:39.939
-Shh...
558
00:31:40.023 --> 00:31:41.107
Don't say nothin'!
559
00:31:43.985 --> 00:31:45.403
As a psychologist,
560
00:31:45.486 --> 00:31:48.573
I have to tell you that the understanding
you think you have gained
561
00:31:48.656 --> 00:31:50.366
just doesn't fit in with the facts.
562
00:31:50.450 --> 00:31:52.619
The only real understanding
you could gain
563
00:31:52.702 --> 00:31:55.496
would come from having a bummer,
and then analyzing it,
564
00:31:55.997 --> 00:31:58.666
which would mean you'd have to want
to try to have bummers,
565
00:31:58.750 --> 00:32:00.585
and then attempt to understand them,
566
00:32:00.668 --> 00:32:03.046
the way that psychologists analyze dreams.
567
00:32:03.504 --> 00:32:05.465
Which, unless you are properly trained,
568
00:32:05.548 --> 00:32:07.258
you cannot do by yourself.
569
00:32:08.635 --> 00:32:13.264
Drugs, uh.... change your state
of consciousness very dramatically.
570
00:32:14.265 --> 00:32:17.310
So you run the risk of psychosis,
571
00:32:17.393 --> 00:32:19.228
or what's called "a bad trip."
572
00:32:19.312 --> 00:32:24.233
A bad trip is minimized
the more you control your set and setting.
573
00:32:24.317 --> 00:32:26.903
A "set" is who's the person
having this experience,
574
00:32:26.986 --> 00:32:30.239
their mindset, their vulnerabilities,
their intention.
575
00:32:30.323 --> 00:32:34.577
"Setting" is where you're doing it,
how safe is the setting,
576
00:32:34.661 --> 00:32:37.705
Don't take acid with... strangers,
577
00:32:37.789 --> 00:32:40.375
or people who pretend to be your friends,
578
00:32:40.458 --> 00:32:41.584
or friends of friends.
579
00:32:41.668 --> 00:32:43.252
Pick your company well.
580
00:32:43.336 --> 00:32:45.672
Do not ever take LSD with assholes.
581
00:32:45.755 --> 00:32:47.966
You don't want somebody doing,
"Oh, are you freaking out?"
582
00:32:48.049 --> 00:32:49.592
"Oh, you feel it?
583
00:32:49.676 --> 00:32:51.636
Oh, you feel your mind cracking?"
584
00:32:53.304 --> 00:32:54.597
So crazy...
585
00:32:54.681 --> 00:32:57.433
"Do you see pink elephants, man?
Do you see pink elephants?"
586
00:32:57.517 --> 00:32:59.811
If you've got a deep sadness or a problem,
587
00:32:59.894 --> 00:33:02.605
that can often be dangerously enhanced.
588
00:33:02.689 --> 00:33:06.109
You don't want a bunch of crazy stuff
going on in your head,
589
00:33:06.192 --> 00:33:09.737
like bad stuff that you're dealing with,
like, "I just broke up with somebody,"
590
00:33:09.821 --> 00:33:12.657
or, "I got caught masturbating
in the coffee machine,"
591
00:33:12.740 --> 00:33:15.326
because that sort of guilt and shame,
592
00:33:15.785 --> 00:33:17.453
you know, just becomes bigger.
593
00:33:17.537 --> 00:33:19.330
You wanna make sure
you're strong mentally.
594
00:33:19.414 --> 00:33:22.542
It's a journey
that everyone must take on their own...
595
00:33:22.959 --> 00:33:23.876
with friends.
596
00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:26.796
Hang out with a couple of good friends
in an enclosed space,
597
00:33:26.879 --> 00:33:29.882
not enclosed, with some outdoors,
enjoy the outdoors.
598
00:33:29.966 --> 00:33:32.969
I'd suggest the woods.
That's it, the woods.
599
00:33:33.052 --> 00:33:35.138
Water nearby, a flowing river,
600
00:33:35.221 --> 00:33:36.848
fucking trees, and beauty.
601
00:33:36.931 --> 00:33:38.224
People always say
602
00:33:38.307 --> 00:33:40.977
that you should trip in a meadow
or somewhere natural,
603
00:33:41.060 --> 00:33:43.062
and that's probably great,
but I've never done that.
604
00:33:43.146 --> 00:33:44.856
I've always been in New York City.
605
00:33:44.939 --> 00:33:47.775
The first time I went to New York
and just got high,
606
00:33:47.859 --> 00:33:50.069
I thought the taxis were out to kill me.
607
00:33:50.153 --> 00:33:51.404
Stay away from cities.
608
00:34:00.496 --> 00:34:03.207
And now, back to Bad Trip.
609
00:34:03.291 --> 00:34:06.753
Everyone will tell you
that taking a trip will be fine,
610
00:34:06.836 --> 00:34:09.797
as long as you control
your set and setting.
611
00:34:09.881 --> 00:34:11.632
But the only thing that is sure
612
00:34:11.716 --> 00:34:14.969
is you are set on setting out on a...
613
00:34:24.353 --> 00:34:26.731
"Orange" you glad we're friends?
614
00:34:28.566 --> 00:34:30.359
I don't know, "orange" you?
615
00:34:31.569 --> 00:34:34.113
You guys are acting really weird.
616
00:34:34.197 --> 00:34:37.408
Yeah, guys, knock it off,
it's not funny anymore.
617
00:34:37.492 --> 00:34:40.328
You know what'd be funny?
If I jumped out of a window.
618
00:34:40.411 --> 00:34:42.205
That sounds like a great idea!
619
00:34:42.288 --> 00:34:43.372
Yeah, do it!
620
00:34:43.456 --> 00:34:44.916
-Okay!
621
00:34:44.999 --> 00:34:46.667
What? No!
622
00:34:46.751 --> 00:34:48.169
Not the window!
623
00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:05.186
Drugs are a laugh riot...
until they're not.
624
00:35:12.735 --> 00:35:13.861
Hi, my name is Nick Kroll,
625
00:35:13.945 --> 00:35:17.490
and I have a cautionary tale to tell
about tripping. Um...
626
00:35:17.573 --> 00:35:20.827
You know, it was super fun,
I just want to caution people.
627
00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:32.338
Couple of years ago,
628
00:35:32.421 --> 00:35:34.799
uh, my friend's bachelor party,
629
00:35:34.882 --> 00:35:36.926
rented a house up in Malibu,
630
00:35:37.009 --> 00:35:39.428
and I procured a bunch of mushrooms for it
631
00:35:39.512 --> 00:35:43.432
because, you know,
dudes in their mid-to-late 30s
632
00:35:43.975 --> 00:35:47.854
are just looking to, you know,
fucking escape.
633
00:35:48.771 --> 00:35:52.483
People were smoking salvia,
so you knew it's a classy affair.
634
00:35:55.027 --> 00:35:57.029
We're on some private beach in Malibu.
635
00:35:57.113 --> 00:35:58.823
-We all take mushrooms.
636
00:35:58.948 --> 00:36:01.701
I take a few more, just to be, like,
"Yeah, it's cool, these are good."
637
00:36:03.119 --> 00:36:06.038
- Higher!
- Oh! I love my friends!
638
00:36:06.372 --> 00:36:07.748
So we're having a good time.
639
00:36:07.832 --> 00:36:09.917
I'm thinking,
"I'm in the water, I'm tripping,
640
00:36:10.001 --> 00:36:12.962
there's a 90% chance I'm going to drown,
641
00:36:13.045 --> 00:36:16.757
but it's feeling good
to be one with the Earth."
642
00:36:16.841 --> 00:36:20.553
We get out of the water, now I'm
on the beach, I'm starting to really roll,
643
00:36:20.636 --> 00:36:24.557
and I sit down, and I've eaten
more mushrooms than everybody else.
644
00:36:24.640 --> 00:36:28.936
I see my buddies, and they are starting
to gather a bunch of sea kelp.
645
00:36:29.020 --> 00:36:32.690
I see this, and I'm like,
"I understand what's going to happen now."
646
00:36:32.773 --> 00:36:34.025
Oh, God...
647
00:36:34.108 --> 00:36:35.443
They've come out of the water.
648
00:36:35.526 --> 00:36:38.404
They're emerging
with about 40 to 50 pounds,
649
00:36:38.487 --> 00:36:40.656
and I just see them lift it,
650
00:36:40.740 --> 00:36:43.951
and just put all of this sea kelp
on my body.
651
00:36:45.536 --> 00:36:47.788
And I was...
652
00:36:48.372 --> 00:36:49.415
thrilled.
653
00:36:49.498 --> 00:36:52.251
And the sea kelp starts to move on me,
654
00:36:52.335 --> 00:36:54.170
and I'm like, "I am the kelp monster."
655
00:36:54.253 --> 00:36:56.255
I am the kelp monster!
656
00:37:02.470 --> 00:37:05.431
I couldn't even fathom
wanting to remove...
657
00:37:06.724 --> 00:37:09.477
this fucking detritus from the sea.
658
00:37:09.560 --> 00:37:11.395
Kelp monster!
659
00:37:11.479 --> 00:37:13.314
Uh... The next day I woke up,
660
00:37:13.814 --> 00:37:16.025
uh, covered in red welts,
661
00:37:16.525 --> 00:37:19.904
um, because I had, uh...
662
00:37:19.987 --> 00:37:22.949
been covered in sea fucking kelp
663
00:37:23.032 --> 00:37:24.867
for 45 minutes.
664
00:37:25.493 --> 00:37:29.247
I don't really dig dropping pills,
but you get the wildest trip on acid.
665
00:37:29.330 --> 00:37:31.749
Yeah, but you can also get
the wildest bummers.
666
00:37:31.832 --> 00:37:35.378
You know, when there's, like,
four corners or whatever, and...
667
00:37:35.878 --> 00:37:38.547
you kind of get trained by stop lights
668
00:37:38.631 --> 00:37:41.384
or by the walk sign
and the don't walk sign or whatever,
669
00:37:41.467 --> 00:37:46.264
and I remember all of a sudden being like,
"Oh, I wanna get over there..."
670
00:37:46.347 --> 00:37:48.349
And instead of going from here...
671
00:37:48.432 --> 00:37:50.851
from point A,
to point B, to point C, I was like,
672
00:37:50.935 --> 00:37:53.771
"I could just go from point A to point C!"
673
00:37:53.854 --> 00:37:57.483
-And it sounds really stupid,
674
00:37:57.566 --> 00:37:59.193
but it's something acid gave me,
675
00:37:59.277 --> 00:38:01.570
and then in my life I use it all the time,
where I'm like,
676
00:38:01.654 --> 00:38:06.242
"If no one's looking,
I can just head straight to point C,
677
00:38:06.325 --> 00:38:08.953
without doing this point B bullshit."
678
00:38:19.338 --> 00:38:20.673
So, I'm Kathleen,
679
00:38:20.756 --> 00:38:24.260
and this is Adam, we're married,
we're both musicians. Tell yours.
680
00:38:24.343 --> 00:38:26.846
My story that I wanted to tell...
681
00:38:27.346 --> 00:38:28.472
isn't...
682
00:38:28.597 --> 00:38:32.977
I've never had, like, a bad acid trip,
or a bad mushroom trip,
683
00:38:33.060 --> 00:38:34.020
like a freak-out.
684
00:38:34.103 --> 00:38:37.523
Late '80s, I was with three friends,
we were driving to...
685
00:38:37.606 --> 00:38:40.568
My friend Money Mark said,
"You gotta go to this place in Baja."
686
00:38:40.651 --> 00:38:41.736
It's me and three women,
687
00:38:41.819 --> 00:38:45.031
and we're just, like,
in the middle of nowhere, in Mexico.
688
00:38:45.448 --> 00:38:47.742
My friend was like,
"Oh, I've got two hits of acid,
689
00:38:47.825 --> 00:38:49.076
we should take 'em."
690
00:38:49.160 --> 00:38:51.746
So we put them in a Snapple bottle,
we all drank it.
691
00:39:01.380 --> 00:39:02.631
And a tire blows.
692
00:39:02.715 --> 00:39:05.968
With me and three women,
and we're in the middle of nowhere.
693
00:39:06.052 --> 00:39:08.721
I don't know how to change a tire,
I don't even know if there was a tire.
694
00:39:08.804 --> 00:39:10.806
You know, as I'm saying it,
I don't even know...
695
00:39:10.890 --> 00:39:13.142
I can't believe
he didn't know how to change a tire!
696
00:39:13.225 --> 00:39:15.770
I don't even know if we looked to see
if there was another tire.
697
00:39:18.564 --> 00:39:21.525
As we're like, "This is really grim..."
698
00:39:22.109 --> 00:39:25.404
-a white owl flies right above us...
699
00:39:25.488 --> 00:39:27.365
...and we're like, "It's a sign.
700
00:39:27.448 --> 00:39:29.533
-Something great's about to happen!"
701
00:39:29.617 --> 00:39:32.787
These two vans filled with dudes,
702
00:39:32.870 --> 00:39:33.996
like, grown men,
703
00:39:34.080 --> 00:39:36.374
pull up, and we're like,
"Oh, this is great!
704
00:39:36.457 --> 00:39:38.125
Oh shit, this is a little weird."
705
00:39:38.209 --> 00:39:41.462
All these guys come out, and they're kinda
walking around the car checking us out.
706
00:39:41.545 --> 00:39:43.130
There are three hot girls in the car.
707
00:39:43.214 --> 00:39:44.840
If I go with them,
708
00:39:44.924 --> 00:39:47.468
they'll take me to a place...
to a guy who has tires.
709
00:39:47.551 --> 00:39:51.097
And so I'm like, "Look, I don't know
if I'm coming back, you guys."
710
00:39:51.180 --> 00:39:53.474
So we do the four-way hug, and we're like,
711
00:39:53.808 --> 00:39:55.309
you know, "Good luck."
712
00:39:55.393 --> 00:39:59.647
And so we drive, and we drive, and we take
a turn further into the mountains.
713
00:39:59.980 --> 00:40:01.649
It's like it's right out of a movie.
714
00:40:01.732 --> 00:40:04.860
And there's all these old dudes
sitting around by a campfire.
715
00:40:05.528 --> 00:40:08.114
And there's these two cinder block shacks,
716
00:40:08.197 --> 00:40:10.533
and I'm like, "Over there?"
717
00:40:12.910 --> 00:40:17.581
Out of the shack comes
the biggest person you've ever seen.
718
00:40:18.165 --> 00:40:19.625
Overalls, no shirt,
719
00:40:19.708 --> 00:40:20.793
he's backlit,
720
00:40:20.876 --> 00:40:24.088
with the biggest fucking hammer
you've ever seen in your life.
721
00:40:24.171 --> 00:40:26.424
The more I was freaking out,
the more they were laughing.
722
00:40:26.507 --> 00:40:29.593
He turns over
and then he starts banging on the door.
723
00:40:32.221 --> 00:40:34.014
He opens the door, I'm like...
724
00:40:34.348 --> 00:40:36.183
"Alright, this is it. This is...
725
00:40:36.267 --> 00:40:40.604
I try to fight everybody here
to get out, or I see what's in the room."
726
00:40:43.482 --> 00:40:46.110
Turns the light on,
it's filled with fucking tires.
727
00:40:46.193 --> 00:40:47.403
It's filled with tires!
728
00:40:47.486 --> 00:40:48.946
It's a church group.
729
00:40:49.029 --> 00:40:51.615
The two vans are from a church group.
730
00:40:51.699 --> 00:40:54.952
And they led us on our way,
they told us, "Go back down this way..."
731
00:40:55.327 --> 00:40:56.912
Wow. It all worked out fine.
732
00:40:56.996 --> 00:40:58.080
It was the owl.
733
00:41:04.879 --> 00:41:06.005
This is your brain.
734
00:41:06.589 --> 00:41:07.798
This is your brain.
735
00:41:08.174 --> 00:41:09.216
This is your brain.
736
00:41:09.300 --> 00:41:10.926
This is your brain.
737
00:41:11.469 --> 00:41:13.888
This is your brain on drugs.
738
00:41:20.561 --> 00:41:22.938
This is your brain on my sandwich.
739
00:41:27.109 --> 00:41:28.194
Delicious.
740
00:41:29.195 --> 00:41:31.655
Always that same LSD story,
you've all seen it.
741
00:41:31.739 --> 00:41:34.617
"Young man on acid, thought he could fly,
jumped out of a building.
742
00:41:34.700 --> 00:41:36.035
What a tragedy."
743
00:41:36.994 --> 00:41:39.914
What a dick! Fuck him. He's an idiot.
744
00:41:39.997 --> 00:41:42.958
If he thought he could fly,
why didn't he take off from the ground?
745
00:41:43.709 --> 00:41:46.462
There isn't a lot of stories
of people leaping.
746
00:41:46.921 --> 00:41:48.088
You know, that was the thing.
747
00:41:48.172 --> 00:41:50.716
It was a lot of shit
that was coming down the pipe
748
00:41:50.799 --> 00:41:54.845
when we were originally taking it,
you know, to kinda scare us off.
749
00:41:54.929 --> 00:41:56.805
Both my parents were therapists,
750
00:41:56.889 --> 00:41:59.934
and they worked
in this, uh, psychiatric hospital.
751
00:42:00.017 --> 00:42:03.312
And I guess the way
my parents telling me not to do drugs
752
00:42:03.395 --> 00:42:05.773
was by coming home and telling me
753
00:42:05.856 --> 00:42:08.400
how messed up the kids were
at the hospital
754
00:42:08.484 --> 00:42:09.902
who did drugs only once.
755
00:42:09.985 --> 00:42:11.028
My mom'd be like,
756
00:42:11.111 --> 00:42:14.198
"This kid smoked marijuana,
and it was laced with PCP,
757
00:42:14.281 --> 00:42:16.825
and now he's insane,
he doesn't know what to do.
758
00:42:16.909 --> 00:42:19.245
He puts a fist up his butt,
that's all he does."
759
00:42:19.328 --> 00:42:22.081
That was literally a story my mom told me.
760
00:42:22.164 --> 00:42:27.211
So I had the fear of God in me
about doing any sort of drugs whatsoever.
761
00:42:27.294 --> 00:42:30.756
I never did it. That is
until I went to Amsterdam.
762
00:42:40.724 --> 00:42:41.892
Hey, I'm Paul Scheer.
763
00:42:41.976 --> 00:42:46.313
And this is my story
about getting ridiculously high.
764
00:42:46.397 --> 00:42:50.067
I went to Amsterdam with a bunch
of my comedy friends to do some shows.
765
00:42:50.150 --> 00:42:53.362
And it was like, "Wow, Amsterdam,
like, marijuana's legal...
766
00:42:53.445 --> 00:42:55.489
Wow! You can even do mushrooms.
This will be amazing.
767
00:42:55.573 --> 00:42:58.117
Alright, we have to have a mushroom day."
768
00:42:58.200 --> 00:43:00.661
And we finally went to a shop,
and, you know,
769
00:43:00.744 --> 00:43:04.290
they bring them out like you would
bring out diamonds at Tiffany's.
770
00:43:04.373 --> 00:43:07.001
They have different types
of mushrooms,
771
00:43:07.084 --> 00:43:08.210
and we pick them...
772
00:43:08.294 --> 00:43:11.255
I remember I picked something
that was like "Hawaiian-something."
773
00:43:11.338 --> 00:43:13.424
I was like, "Hawaii, that's cool, yeah,
like surfing.
774
00:43:13.507 --> 00:43:14.758
That's the kind of trip I want."
775
00:43:14.842 --> 00:43:17.636
So we decided
where's the best place to do it
776
00:43:17.720 --> 00:43:20.431
and it would have to be
the Van Gogh Museum.
777
00:43:20.514 --> 00:43:22.683
So, we go into the Van Gogh Museum,
778
00:43:23.183 --> 00:43:25.185
and, you know,
we're just eating these mushrooms...
779
00:43:25.269 --> 00:43:27.855
They say, "Don't eat the whole thing
all at once, right?" "Fine."
780
00:43:27.938 --> 00:43:31.483
So I'm eating these mushrooms.
And about five minutes pass, I'm like...
781
00:43:31.567 --> 00:43:35.154
"Pfft... I don't feel anything.
These mushrooms don't work at all."
782
00:43:39.491 --> 00:43:40.576
Well...
783
00:43:41.744 --> 00:43:43.329
I'm Paul Scheer, in Amsterdam,
784
00:43:43.412 --> 00:43:46.248
and I guess these mushrooms
aren't kicking in.
785
00:43:46.790 --> 00:43:49.585
And so I just eat more of them,
and then more of them.
786
00:43:50.461 --> 00:43:52.129
I guess I'll just enjoy the art.
787
00:43:52.546 --> 00:43:53.756
I'm Paul Scheer in Amsterdam.
788
00:43:53.839 --> 00:43:56.050
I look up at one of the paintings,
789
00:43:56.133 --> 00:43:59.345
which is the crows over the cornfield,
790
00:43:59.428 --> 00:44:01.597
and it really, like, grabs me,
for some reason.
791
00:44:01.680 --> 00:44:04.558
"Wow, this is really interesting.
Oh, look at that!
792
00:44:04.642 --> 00:44:06.268
I can see under the crows!"
793
00:44:06.352 --> 00:44:07.561
I start to turn...
794
00:44:07.645 --> 00:44:10.022
Because I'm convincing myself
that if I turn,
795
00:44:10.105 --> 00:44:13.067
I'm seeing parts of the painting
that don't really exist.
796
00:44:13.150 --> 00:44:15.944
Holy shit!
797
00:44:16.028 --> 00:44:17.488
Look at all this corn!
798
00:44:18.530 --> 00:44:21.450
All of a sudden, I feel like these birds
are coming out at me,
799
00:44:21.533 --> 00:44:23.452
-and I'm in the middle of this cornfield.
-Whoa!
800
00:44:23.535 --> 00:44:25.454
What the fuck?
801
00:44:25.537 --> 00:44:27.414
Now, this is a popular museum.
802
00:44:27.498 --> 00:44:29.291
Family, people are all there...
803
00:44:29.375 --> 00:44:33.253
and I'm standing maybe four inches away
from the painting,
804
00:44:33.796 --> 00:44:35.673
almost upside down.
805
00:44:35.756 --> 00:44:38.092
Like this, like, "Yes, yes, yes..."
806
00:44:40.761 --> 00:44:45.057
And it's morphing and moving,
I'm like, "Van Gogh, genius!"
807
00:44:45.140 --> 00:44:46.767
I get Van Gogh!
808
00:44:46.850 --> 00:44:48.477
I get Van Gogh!
809
00:44:48.560 --> 00:44:52.106
Now I'm feeling a little bit too hot,
I'm like, "It's hot in here, I'm sweating,
810
00:44:52.189 --> 00:44:53.399
I gotta leave this museum."
811
00:44:53.482 --> 00:44:56.068
I arrive back at the house
that we're staying.
812
00:44:56.151 --> 00:44:57.277
And I go, "Guys...
813
00:44:57.903 --> 00:45:00.322
we need to get McDonald's."
814
00:45:00.406 --> 00:45:01.782
And everyone's like, "Yes!"
815
00:45:01.865 --> 00:45:04.660
I think my plan stemmed from the fact
that we were in a foreign country,
816
00:45:04.743 --> 00:45:07.496
and we needed to ground ourselves
with something American.
817
00:45:07.579 --> 00:45:09.206
So McDonald's was the way to go.
818
00:45:09.289 --> 00:45:10.624
And I go into McDonalds,
819
00:45:10.708 --> 00:45:13.001
they fill up a sack of burgers for me,
820
00:45:13.085 --> 00:45:14.837
I take it back to our house,
821
00:45:14.920 --> 00:45:17.965
and I toss them out to everybody,
everyone starts eating the burgers,
822
00:45:18.048 --> 00:45:21.009
and just like in Alice in Wonderland
when she eats the pill,
823
00:45:21.093 --> 00:45:22.428
we all finish our burgers,
824
00:45:22.511 --> 00:45:25.556
and it just wears off,
we're back to normal.
825
00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:29.017
And I was like, "Thank you, McDonald's.
You saved us."
826
00:45:29.101 --> 00:45:32.104
Never had experience in McDonald's,
because I'm not a fucking idiot.
827
00:45:32.187 --> 00:45:34.022
If there's anything antithetical
828
00:45:34.106 --> 00:45:36.608
to a trip on LSD, it's a McDonald's.
829
00:45:36.692 --> 00:45:38.527
Talk about yin and fuck-yang.
830
00:45:38.610 --> 00:45:42.489
You walk in there, and you realize,
"I'm in the belly of the fucking beast.
831
00:45:42.573 --> 00:45:46.243
I have a soul,
and I'm in a soulless cage."
832
00:45:56.378 --> 00:45:58.547
Hi, I'm Rob Corddry.
833
00:45:58.630 --> 00:46:00.215
A psychonaut.
834
00:46:01.216 --> 00:46:02.551
Screen Actors Guild.
835
00:46:02.634 --> 00:46:04.219
Once we were on mushrooms,
836
00:46:04.303 --> 00:46:05.929
and I sat in front of the mirror,
837
00:46:06.013 --> 00:46:07.264
tripping my balls off,
838
00:46:07.347 --> 00:46:08.515
high as a kite,
839
00:46:08.599 --> 00:46:11.143
just, like, staring at myself
in the mirror.
840
00:46:13.103 --> 00:46:14.438
I had my shirt off,
841
00:46:14.521 --> 00:46:17.191
which is usually something that bugs me,
842
00:46:17.649 --> 00:46:21.361
but at this point, like,
you don't have any body dysmorphia.
843
00:46:21.445 --> 00:46:24.198
You see things
for the way they really are.
844
00:46:24.281 --> 00:46:27.493
No matter how much
they sort of, like, shimmer and breathe.
845
00:46:27.826 --> 00:46:29.286
Your body's breathing anyway.
846
00:46:29.369 --> 00:46:31.997
And I'm, like, looking at it,
my body, and my face,
847
00:46:32.080 --> 00:46:35.292
for what it really, truly is.
848
00:46:35.375 --> 00:46:38.045
It... You know,
my face looked completely different.
849
00:46:38.128 --> 00:46:41.173
My body, I understood it was a shell,
850
00:46:41.256 --> 00:46:43.884
And I felt inside me, the real me,
not in the mirror,
851
00:46:43.967 --> 00:46:47.262
I felt bigger than my body,
and I felt wider.
852
00:46:47.346 --> 00:46:48.889
And I felt, like, "This is it."
853
00:46:48.972 --> 00:46:51.475
Like, "We're part of everything,
everything is connected."
854
00:46:51.558 --> 00:46:53.143
And then I'd look in the mirror,
855
00:46:53.227 --> 00:46:57.773
and I'd be like... I could see,
it seemed, like...
856
00:46:58.482 --> 00:47:01.109
the whole world was me.
857
00:47:01.193 --> 00:47:04.947
I could see everything,
everything was connected. All good.
858
00:47:05.030 --> 00:47:07.407
People always say
don't look in the mirror when you're high,
859
00:47:07.491 --> 00:47:09.618
but I'm like, "Don't ever leave a mirror!"
860
00:47:14.665 --> 00:47:16.500
Do look in the mirror!
861
00:47:17.042 --> 00:47:19.002
I remember looking in the mirror.
862
00:47:19.086 --> 00:47:21.213
My face turned into a gargoyle.
863
00:47:21.630 --> 00:47:24.049
That shit was trippy.
I was like, "Oh, shit."
864
00:47:31.598 --> 00:47:33.392
Growing up in an urban community,
865
00:47:33.475 --> 00:47:36.854
like the hood or some shit like that,
we look at acid, like,
866
00:47:36.937 --> 00:47:42.901
"Man, that's like crack, or like PCP,
angel dust, meth or some shit like that.
867
00:47:42.985 --> 00:47:44.611
The fuck you do with acid?"
868
00:47:45.028 --> 00:47:46.780
And then as you get older, you know,
869
00:47:46.864 --> 00:47:50.242
you start doing mushrooms
and shit like that, and you realize that
870
00:47:50.325 --> 00:47:53.245
all it is
is, like, fungus and mold, and, you know,
871
00:47:53.328 --> 00:47:56.540
this is just, like, some chill shit.
872
00:48:07.009 --> 00:48:11.513
I remember the first time I did acid.
It was a couple of years back.
873
00:48:11.597 --> 00:48:12.931
I felt I was ready,
874
00:48:13.390 --> 00:48:15.309
ready to become one with the planet,
875
00:48:15.809 --> 00:48:16.935
the universe.
876
00:48:17.019 --> 00:48:19.688
It was crazy.
It was with a beautiful female.
877
00:48:20.105 --> 00:48:22.149
She's the one who introduced me to it.
878
00:48:22.232 --> 00:48:26.361
All I remember is
she had it on, like, crackers already.
879
00:48:26.445 --> 00:48:29.197
Unfortunately, by the time I got with her
880
00:48:29.281 --> 00:48:32.951
is exactly when the acid
just started kicking in.
881
00:48:33.035 --> 00:48:36.163
And, you know, we gettin' jiggy
and whatnot, right?
882
00:48:36.663 --> 00:48:37.664
It feels so good.
883
00:48:37.748 --> 00:48:40.626
Like, it's...
Everything feels intensified.
884
00:48:40.709 --> 00:48:42.461
I'm seeing all type of shit.
885
00:48:42.544 --> 00:48:44.296
I'm feeling all type of shit.
886
00:48:44.630 --> 00:48:46.423
Colors are moving. I hear colors.
887
00:48:46.506 --> 00:48:47.841
I can taste the colors.
888
00:48:48.717 --> 00:48:51.637
Like, what the fuck
does a color taste like, you know?
889
00:48:52.596 --> 00:48:53.972
And for some reason,
890
00:48:54.056 --> 00:48:56.266
everything she did to me just felt...
891
00:48:56.350 --> 00:48:57.434
amazing.
892
00:48:57.517 --> 00:48:59.019
Like, times two.
893
00:48:59.102 --> 00:49:00.354
Out of the ordinary.
894
00:49:00.771 --> 00:49:03.023
And, uh... This is a bit graphic,
895
00:49:04.399 --> 00:49:07.778
it's a bit vulgar, it's a bit raunchy,
you feel me?
896
00:49:08.362 --> 00:49:09.529
You feel me, but...
897
00:49:09.988 --> 00:49:11.406
What can I say? It's life.
898
00:49:11.865 --> 00:49:12.866
No lie...
899
00:49:13.492 --> 00:49:15.494
A rainbow shot out of my dick.
900
00:49:15.911 --> 00:49:20.207
And it had a sound with it,
like a piano or some shit like that.
901
00:49:22.542 --> 00:49:24.711
I have no idea why there was a rainbow...
902
00:49:25.379 --> 00:49:26.672
coming out of my penis.
903
00:49:27.381 --> 00:49:29.007
I don't even like rainbows.
904
00:49:29.591 --> 00:49:32.761
And I woke up the next day and I told...
905
00:49:34.054 --> 00:49:36.556
I told the homie, and I said, "Yo,
906
00:49:37.391 --> 00:49:40.018
I know what the answer to life is."
907
00:49:41.353 --> 00:49:42.646
And I said...
908
00:49:43.105 --> 00:49:44.898
"It's to love each other."
909
00:49:44.982 --> 00:49:45.941
He was like...
910
00:49:46.692 --> 00:49:48.902
"Word."
911
00:49:50.362 --> 00:49:52.489
That was my first time doing acid, man.
912
00:49:53.407 --> 00:49:55.242
But to each his own, because...
913
00:49:55.784 --> 00:49:58.537
I'm not a psychedelic advocate. Like...
914
00:49:58.620 --> 00:50:00.831
you know, I have a good time with it.
915
00:50:00.956 --> 00:50:03.000
It's not for everybody, let me say that.
916
00:50:03.083 --> 00:50:06.253
You know, I'm an artiste,
it's my lifestyle.
917
00:50:07.212 --> 00:50:09.256
I'm on a, like, psychedelic, like,
918
00:50:10.090 --> 00:50:13.760
1960s rock, like, you know, like...
919
00:50:13.844 --> 00:50:15.470
The Castaways...
920
00:50:15.554 --> 00:50:17.180
Jefferson Airplane...
921
00:50:17.264 --> 00:50:20.517
The Rolling Stones had some shit,
fucking Beatles, of course.
922
00:50:20.600 --> 00:50:21.435
Jimi...
923
00:50:21.518 --> 00:50:24.479
Who sings the "Hurdy Gurdy Man,"
is that Donovan?
924
00:50:25.188 --> 00:50:28.859
A truly 1960s experience
925
00:50:28.942 --> 00:50:33.697
was, "Is there an answer
to the suffering of the world?"
926
00:50:33.780 --> 00:50:37.451
Because until 1966 in October,
927
00:50:37.534 --> 00:50:39.619
LSD was actually legal,
928
00:50:39.703 --> 00:50:44.499
and was used in extraordinary,
beneficial ways, as we all know.
929
00:50:45.042 --> 00:50:47.127
We know now, from documentation,
930
00:50:47.210 --> 00:50:49.004
how it helped so many people.
931
00:50:49.087 --> 00:50:50.881
Anxiety drops.
932
00:50:50.964 --> 00:50:54.801
People who are about to die,
who get DMT, you know the story...
933
00:50:55.302 --> 00:50:57.888
They are given some psilocybin,
934
00:50:58.305 --> 00:51:00.724
and suddenly their anxiety disappears,
935
00:51:00.807 --> 00:51:02.392
because they now feel,
936
00:51:02.476 --> 00:51:03.560
"This is natural."
937
00:51:03.643 --> 00:51:05.854
Never did ayahuasca or DMT.
938
00:51:05.937 --> 00:51:08.065
I'm too scared, man.
939
00:51:08.148 --> 00:51:11.109
You know, I admit it,
but maybe I'll get to the point one day
940
00:51:11.193 --> 00:51:12.652
when I feel brave enough to do it.
941
00:51:12.736 --> 00:51:15.989
DMT is, like, you know,
that is the express ticket
942
00:51:16.073 --> 00:51:18.200
to, you know, the primordial ooze.
943
00:51:18.283 --> 00:51:21.203
If you wanna see what it is like
to be just an organic being,
944
00:51:21.286 --> 00:51:24.581
absolutely watch your ego
dissipate into nothingness,
945
00:51:24.664 --> 00:51:27.501
smoke some DMT, and you'll get there.
946
00:51:27.584 --> 00:51:29.377
You'll get there right away,
and you will have
947
00:51:29.461 --> 00:51:32.672
direct contact with aliens, and colors,
948
00:51:32.756 --> 00:51:36.510
and ancient patterns,
and sacred geometry, and...
949
00:51:37.469 --> 00:51:38.386
it's amazing.
950
00:51:38.804 --> 00:51:40.514
My name is Zach Leary,
951
00:51:40.597 --> 00:51:43.642
and I grew up with Timothy Leary.
952
00:51:43.725 --> 00:51:49.731
He was an American philosopher
and psychologist of the late 20th century.
953
00:51:49.815 --> 00:51:53.401
The first time that my dad
did psilocybin in Mexico, you know,
954
00:51:53.485 --> 00:51:55.654
his famous quote from the experience was,
955
00:51:55.737 --> 00:51:57.823
"I learned more in my four hours
on mushrooms
956
00:51:57.906 --> 00:52:00.367
than I did in my previous
20 years of psychology."
957
00:52:00.951 --> 00:52:04.371
Naturally, the psychologists
and psychiatrists want to use LSD
958
00:52:04.454 --> 00:52:05.831
in treating mental illness.
959
00:52:05.914 --> 00:52:09.918
I think that LSD will be
the number one, uh...
960
00:52:10.001 --> 00:52:11.586
cure for mental illness
961
00:52:11.670 --> 00:52:14.297
when the psychologists know
how to use it.
962
00:52:14.381 --> 00:52:16.633
And in 1963, he was...
963
00:52:17.175 --> 00:52:21.054
fired quite ceremoniously
from Harvard University,
964
00:52:21.138 --> 00:52:25.559
for conducting psychedelic experiments
with grad students.
965
00:52:25.642 --> 00:52:29.521
Timothy Leary, and Ram Dass,
and, you know, um...
966
00:52:29.604 --> 00:52:32.399
Terence McKenna,
and all these people who...
967
00:52:32.482 --> 00:52:35.485
have spent their lives
exploring those realms,
968
00:52:35.569 --> 00:52:40.824
and then, they had also the knowledge
and the genius to be able to study them,
969
00:52:40.907 --> 00:52:42.117
were just shut down.
970
00:52:42.200 --> 00:52:44.411
And so, we fucking blew it.
971
00:52:44.494 --> 00:52:48.456
Well, I think it was a shame
that the prior...
972
00:52:49.124 --> 00:52:51.793
generation of psychedelic investigators
973
00:52:51.877 --> 00:52:54.421
were abruptly stopped in their tracks,
974
00:52:54.504 --> 00:52:59.551
because they were
onto some very important discoveries.
975
00:52:59.634 --> 00:53:02.554
And they were developing
new treatment models,
976
00:53:02.637 --> 00:53:05.807
which we feel today
should still be explored,
977
00:53:05.891 --> 00:53:11.229
because they might offer
a great deal of promise and hope
978
00:53:11.313 --> 00:53:14.774
for people who have suffered
from conditions
979
00:53:14.858 --> 00:53:18.612
for which mainstream psychiatry
may not have much to offer.
980
00:53:18.695 --> 00:53:22.490
There are many basic questions about LSD
which remain unanswered.
981
00:53:22.991 --> 00:53:25.076
There's much work to be done.
982
00:53:25.160 --> 00:53:28.580
A good deal of important research lies
in the future.
983
00:53:29.080 --> 00:53:31.291
Hopefully, someday we'll have the answers.
984
00:53:31.374 --> 00:53:33.168
People always ask...
985
00:53:33.251 --> 00:53:38.632
what my best experiences were
taking psychedelics with my dad.
986
00:53:38.715 --> 00:53:40.967
I mean, we had some good ones,
like Grateful Dead concerts.
987
00:53:41.051 --> 00:53:43.011
Yeah, the visuals were really, like...
988
00:53:43.094 --> 00:53:48.433
Gosh, I remember Jerry Garcia's head
sort of swelling to ten times the size...
989
00:53:48.516 --> 00:53:51.561
Going to a Grateful Dead show
without drugs was okay.
990
00:53:54.189 --> 00:53:57.025
But with drugs, it was pretty good.
991
00:54:00.070 --> 00:54:01.446
Grateful Dead shows.
992
00:54:01.529 --> 00:54:05.158
The greatest place to trip,
because it was very safe.
993
00:54:05.575 --> 00:54:08.078
There are facilities,
994
00:54:08.161 --> 00:54:11.122
um... and kind of makeshift areas,
995
00:54:11.206 --> 00:54:12.791
just for people who are tripping.
996
00:54:12.874 --> 00:54:14.876
As much as I didn't care for the music,
997
00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:17.003
I've probably seen the Dead...
998
00:54:17.087 --> 00:54:19.756
I mean, yeah, I gotta say,
like 11 or 12 times.
999
00:54:20.090 --> 00:54:21.549
I liked Jerry Garcia.
1000
00:54:21.633 --> 00:54:23.885
I can admit that publicly,
I'm not ashamed of that.
1001
00:54:23.969 --> 00:54:27.597
I appreciate the Grateful Dead.
I mean, I went to college, I'm white...
1002
00:54:27.681 --> 00:54:30.392
I went on stage with the Grateful Dead,
1003
00:54:30.475 --> 00:54:34.437
and fell asleep
in front of one of the speakers.
1004
00:54:38.275 --> 00:54:42.862
This is how you spot a guy at a concert
having a good trip, this is how they walk,
1005
00:54:42.946 --> 00:54:47.242
because they're leading with their head,
they're like... "Meeting life head on!"
1006
00:54:49.744 --> 00:54:53.498
But this is how you spot a guy tripping
that's having a bad trip:
1007
00:54:53.832 --> 00:54:55.959
He's leading with his knees, he's like...
1008
00:54:58.211 --> 00:54:59.296
He wants the knees,
1009
00:54:59.379 --> 00:55:03.300
he wants everything but the head
to meet the bad, bad shit head-on.
1010
00:55:03.383 --> 00:55:06.094
One time, uh...
I had figured the wrong amount,
1011
00:55:06.511 --> 00:55:09.973
and I had taken so much
that I looked over at Mickey and said,
1012
00:55:10.056 --> 00:55:12.267
"I can't finish the set,
I gotta go to the dressing room."
1013
00:55:12.350 --> 00:55:14.352
My cymbals were melting, and...
1014
00:55:15.020 --> 00:55:17.355
You know, you can take too much,
and that's a mistake.
1015
00:55:17.439 --> 00:55:21.985
I came home, and I was still real high.
You don't come down instantly, of course.
1016
00:55:22.068 --> 00:55:27.073
And I sat down politely
at my parents' dining room table,
1017
00:55:27.157 --> 00:55:29.200
and Mama's... It was breakfast,
sun had just come up,
1018
00:55:29.284 --> 00:55:30.952
and she was serving breakfast, of course,
1019
00:55:31.036 --> 00:55:34.039
and served me a plate of eggs
that looked like they were doing
1020
00:55:34.122 --> 00:55:36.124
some kind of new modern dance
on the stage,
1021
00:55:36.207 --> 00:55:38.710
some of this new gyration stuff
going on...
1022
00:55:38.793 --> 00:55:41.588
Everything's moving around,
the sausages were dancing,
1023
00:55:41.671 --> 00:55:43.715
making little buildings and things,
1024
00:55:43.798 --> 00:55:45.884
"How's breakfast, Billy?"
"Fine..."
1025
00:55:45.967 --> 00:55:48.261
I couldn't eat it.
1026
00:55:49.596 --> 00:55:52.140
And now, back to Bad Trip.
1027
00:55:54.726 --> 00:55:59.606
Do you like things happening to you
that you wouldn't like happening to you?
1028
00:55:59.689 --> 00:56:00.899
Of course you don't.
1029
00:56:00.982 --> 00:56:05.070
Well, that's exactly what will happen
when you go to a drug party.
1030
00:56:05.487 --> 00:56:08.406
Because at every drug party,
there is a prankster.
1031
00:56:08.782 --> 00:56:13.620
His mission: to get you high,
whether you want to be or not.
1032
00:56:13.703 --> 00:56:14.704
His scheme:
1033
00:56:15.372 --> 00:56:16.539
the dose.
1034
00:56:24.798 --> 00:56:26.007
-Guys.
-Come on!
1035
00:56:26.091 --> 00:56:27.217
Orange soda!
1036
00:56:27.300 --> 00:56:29.135
- Take a sip!
- Drink it!
1037
00:56:29.219 --> 00:56:30.595
-Drink it.
-Take a sip.
1038
00:56:30.678 --> 00:56:35.058
Well, if they're not going to enjoy
these fresh sodas, I am.
1039
00:56:35.141 --> 00:56:36.726
Yeah. Me too.
1040
00:56:43.900 --> 00:56:47.570
Whoa, why is everything
like an electric rainbow?
1041
00:56:47.654 --> 00:56:51.116
Yeah! I can see the whole universe.
1042
00:56:51.199 --> 00:56:52.700
It sounds like you guys are tripping.
1043
00:56:52.784 --> 00:56:55.078
No... We didn't take any drugs.
1044
00:56:55.161 --> 00:56:57.622
That's not something I would ever do. Oh!
1045
00:56:58.456 --> 00:56:59.582
Did you see that dragon?
1046
00:56:59.666 --> 00:57:02.001
Are you sure you're not tripping?
1047
00:57:02.085 --> 00:57:03.962
I'm sure they are tripping...
1048
00:57:04.379 --> 00:57:05.922
because they've been dosed!
1049
00:57:06.005 --> 00:57:08.967
I put ten tabs of LSD in their sodas.
1050
00:57:11.761 --> 00:57:12.971
I never wanted this!
1051
00:57:13.054 --> 00:57:14.931
I'll never be the same!
1052
00:57:21.688 --> 00:57:23.648
I feel it's really wrong to dose anybody,
1053
00:57:23.731 --> 00:57:26.818
because
you're taking over their psychology.
1054
00:57:26.901 --> 00:57:30.113
You're responsible
for how they're going to be for 12 hours,
1055
00:57:30.196 --> 00:57:33.783
and if they haven't taken acid before,
you don't really have a right to do that.
1056
00:57:34.242 --> 00:57:37.996
When we took
the notorious wonder drug LSD,
1057
00:57:38.746 --> 00:57:41.541
we were having dinner with our dentist.
1058
00:57:43.460 --> 00:57:45.795
And he put it in our coffee,
and never told us.
1059
00:57:45.879 --> 00:57:47.547
And we'd never heard of it.
1060
00:57:47.630 --> 00:57:51.676
I mean, it's a good job we hadn't ,
because there's been so much paranoia,
1061
00:57:51.759 --> 00:57:55.430
uh... created around the drug
that people now, if they take it,
1062
00:57:55.513 --> 00:57:57.891
they're already on a bad trip
before they start.
1063
00:57:57.974 --> 00:58:00.977
When the realization came
that I was on acid...
1064
00:58:01.352 --> 00:58:04.772
bad trip, like a dark tunnel.
I just shut down.
1065
00:58:14.741 --> 00:58:18.870
Hi, I'm Rosie Perez,
AKA Puerto Rican icon. Holla!
1066
00:58:19.329 --> 00:58:22.707
It was New Year's Eve in the late '80s.
1067
00:58:22.790 --> 00:58:24.375
One of my sisters and I,
1068
00:58:24.459 --> 00:58:28.796
we were going to an after-hours club
in Alphabet City.
1069
00:58:29.214 --> 00:58:32.509
They never sold alcohol
or anything at this club.
1070
00:58:32.592 --> 00:58:36.054
It was all like, you know,
"We're all into the music and dance,
1071
00:58:36.137 --> 00:58:38.389
and we're into our bodies, and health,
and whatever,"
1072
00:58:38.473 --> 00:58:41.726
so they would only have punch there,
or fruit.
1073
00:58:41.809 --> 00:58:44.145
So we get to the bar,
we see the bartender,
1074
00:58:44.229 --> 00:58:46.064
and he's like, "Oh, what's up, girls?
1075
00:58:46.147 --> 00:58:48.149
You wanna get hooked up?"
We're like, "Yeah, sure!"
1076
00:58:48.233 --> 00:58:50.985
And he goes, "Yeah?"
I was like, "Yeah, alright."
1077
00:58:51.110 --> 00:58:52.987
So, he gives us this punch.
1078
00:58:53.446 --> 00:58:55.657
And we drink it down,
and we start dancing,
1079
00:58:55.740 --> 00:58:57.992
sweating, go back...
1080
00:58:58.076 --> 00:58:59.661
"Can we have another punch?"
1081
00:58:59.744 --> 00:59:00.870
He's like, "For real?"
1082
00:59:00.954 --> 00:59:03.915
I was like, "Yeah, it's really good!"
He goes, "Alright..."
1083
00:59:03.998 --> 00:59:05.083
We drink another glass.
1084
00:59:05.166 --> 00:59:06.584
All of a sudden...
1085
00:59:06.668 --> 00:59:10.338
the entire nightclub started to expand.
1086
00:59:10.421 --> 00:59:13.216
The floorboards...
The wooden floorboards
1087
00:59:13.299 --> 00:59:17.428
were waving as if they were
water on the high seas,
1088
00:59:17.512 --> 00:59:18.888
and I'm looking at it,
1089
00:59:18.972 --> 00:59:22.475
going, "This is beautiful... Oh, my gosh!"
1090
00:59:22.559 --> 00:59:23.893
So I went on my back,
1091
00:59:23.977 --> 00:59:26.437
and I started doing the backstroke
on the floorboards,
1092
00:59:26.521 --> 00:59:28.940
because they were waves, of course, right?
1093
00:59:29.023 --> 00:59:31.859
And everything's just beautiful,
and everybody's watching me,
1094
00:59:31.943 --> 00:59:33.736
and I'm just, like, in my glory,
1095
00:59:33.820 --> 00:59:35.905
and then all of a sudden
my sister Sally walks over
1096
00:59:35.989 --> 00:59:38.116
and goes, "Your tits are out."
And I went, "Oh..."
1097
00:59:38.199 --> 00:59:42.579
And I looked down,
and I was like, "Oh, my God!
1098
00:59:42.662 --> 00:59:43.913
They look gorgeous!"
1099
00:59:45.415 --> 00:59:47.000
And they looked beautiful,
1100
00:59:47.083 --> 00:59:50.253
and I was in awe of their beauty
and their size.
1101
00:59:50.336 --> 00:59:52.380
But then I started looking around,
1102
00:59:52.463 --> 00:59:55.091
and I thought everybody
was looking at me, right?
1103
00:59:55.174 --> 00:59:56.467
And I got real paranoid.
1104
00:59:56.551 --> 00:59:59.929
So I kept trying to cover them up,
because I couldn't find my top,
1105
01:00:00.013 --> 01:00:02.724
because my top was floating
in the wood water, right?
1106
01:00:02.807 --> 01:00:04.684
So I'm covering my breasts like this,
1107
01:00:04.767 --> 01:00:08.938
and my titty fat kept squeezing
between my fingers.
1108
01:00:09.022 --> 01:00:10.565
Right? And so it was just like...
1109
01:00:13.818 --> 01:00:16.613
My sister comes over,
and she starts cracking up.
1110
01:00:16.696 --> 01:00:18.740
She goes,
"Come on, we gotta get out of here!"
1111
01:00:18.823 --> 01:00:20.908
We get to the house, get upstairs,
1112
01:00:20.992 --> 01:00:23.578
and when I laid into the bed,
I became the bed.
1113
01:00:23.661 --> 01:00:25.204
My body was the bed.
1114
01:00:25.955 --> 01:00:29.500
And I'm trying to flip myself over,
like, my body, that's the mattress,
1115
01:00:29.584 --> 01:00:31.628
and I'm waddling down the hallway,
1116
01:00:31.711 --> 01:00:34.756
still didn't occur to me
that I was high on acid.
1117
01:00:34.839 --> 01:00:37.383
And I slid,
1118
01:00:37.467 --> 01:00:40.178
and I'm thinking that the hallway
has now become a slide,
1119
01:00:40.261 --> 01:00:43.806
and I'm sliding down the hallway,
all the way down.
1120
01:00:43.890 --> 01:00:46.559
I went, "I'm a bed...!"
1121
01:00:46.643 --> 01:00:50.063
And I slid, and I...
1122
01:00:50.772 --> 01:00:53.775
busted my ankle on the porcelain bathtub.
1123
01:00:53.858 --> 01:00:56.361
Then I thought my foot was
this humongous thing,
1124
01:00:56.444 --> 01:00:58.446
and it just kept growing, and growing,
and growing.
1125
01:00:58.529 --> 01:01:00.448
I look up, and my boyfriend,
1126
01:01:00.531 --> 01:01:03.534
he tells me, "You're high on acid."
1127
01:01:05.828 --> 01:01:10.541
My first thought wasn't,
"Oh, my God, I'm high on acid."
1128
01:01:10.625 --> 01:01:12.669
My first thought was, "Oh, my God,
1129
01:01:12.752 --> 01:01:15.463
I hope God doesn't punish me
because I'm high on acid."
1130
01:01:16.631 --> 01:01:19.717
Because I just thought, you know,
"He has... I'm going to hell.
1131
01:01:19.801 --> 01:01:21.386
I'm going straight to hell."
1132
01:01:21.469 --> 01:01:24.389
Prior to this, I didn't drink,
1133
01:01:24.472 --> 01:01:25.598
I didn't smoke weed,
1134
01:01:25.682 --> 01:01:27.100
I didn't smoke cigarettes...
1135
01:01:27.183 --> 01:01:29.769
I did nothing. My high was dancing.
1136
01:01:33.231 --> 01:01:35.733
When you go to a nightclub
and someone offers you a free drink,
1137
01:01:35.817 --> 01:01:37.610
ask what the fuck is in it.
1138
01:01:39.779 --> 01:01:40.655
Yeah.
1139
01:01:40.738 --> 01:01:43.157
The other part of it that I got from it
1140
01:01:43.241 --> 01:01:46.536
is that I really,
really needed to seek therapy
1141
01:01:46.619 --> 01:01:49.539
in regards to my Catholic upbringing.
1142
01:01:49.622 --> 01:01:53.501
God forbid, I never want to be burdened
with that much guilt
1143
01:01:53.584 --> 01:01:55.002
ever again in my life.
1144
01:01:55.086 --> 01:01:56.170
So, you know what?
1145
01:01:56.254 --> 01:01:59.257
I guess being on acid
did kinda do me good.
1146
01:01:59.674 --> 01:02:03.928
The mental effects of this material
are tremendously variable.
1147
01:02:04.011 --> 01:02:06.472
They are completely unpredictable.
1148
01:02:07.390 --> 01:02:10.393
You cannot tell for any given individual
1149
01:02:10.476 --> 01:02:13.229
if he's going to have a good trip
or a bad trip.
1150
01:02:14.856 --> 01:02:17.608
I don't think they've been able
to identify the foci in the brain
1151
01:02:17.692 --> 01:02:19.736
that might be responsible for a bad trip.
1152
01:02:19.819 --> 01:02:24.157
But internally what's going on
is a sense of disorientation,
1153
01:02:24.240 --> 01:02:25.283
confusion,
1154
01:02:25.366 --> 01:02:29.120
a sense of being overwhelmed by stimuli,
1155
01:02:29.203 --> 01:02:33.458
high levels of anxiety,
even bordering or going into paranoia.
1156
01:02:33.541 --> 01:02:36.836
I've done a lot of acid,
I've done shrooms, I've done speed...
1157
01:02:36.919 --> 01:02:38.212
I don't know what this was...
1158
01:02:38.296 --> 01:02:39.881
It was very speedy...
1159
01:02:39.964 --> 01:02:41.174
-very speedy...
-Oh, yeah!
1160
01:02:41.257 --> 01:02:43.342
...but you also hallucinated.
1161
01:02:43.426 --> 01:02:46.596
-It turned the world around you...
-Yeah.
1162
01:02:46.679 --> 01:02:49.432
-...into an opera of your nightmares.
-Yeah.
1163
01:02:49.849 --> 01:02:51.934
Everything in my brain just switched,
1164
01:02:52.018 --> 01:02:54.979
and everything went drastically downhill,
like...
1165
01:02:55.605 --> 01:02:56.898
at an incredible rate.
1166
01:02:56.981 --> 01:02:59.567
Things would turn into glass and crystal,
and then they would break,
1167
01:02:59.650 --> 01:03:02.528
then form back up in front of your eyes,
and then break again.
1168
01:03:02.612 --> 01:03:04.739
My legs started to go numb.
1169
01:03:04.822 --> 01:03:08.785
I started to feel my heart beat
in my chest, really quickly,
1170
01:03:08.868 --> 01:03:11.662
and it felt like it was going to pound
through my rib cage.
1171
01:03:11.746 --> 01:03:14.957
I didn't want to say anything to my wife,
1172
01:03:15.041 --> 01:03:20.171
because I didn't want her to affirm
how strong this was,
1173
01:03:20.254 --> 01:03:22.673
and then my paranoia would increase
even more,
1174
01:03:22.757 --> 01:03:25.092
making the nightmare
that much more intense.
1175
01:03:25.176 --> 01:03:27.762
I saw violence, I saw bloodshed,
1176
01:03:27.845 --> 01:03:30.223
I saw warfare, I saw terrorism,
1177
01:03:30.306 --> 01:03:32.642
I saw beheadings,
1178
01:03:32.725 --> 01:03:34.268
I saw hell.
1179
01:03:34.352 --> 01:03:37.230
At one point, I remember looking out
the window of the car,
1180
01:03:37.313 --> 01:03:40.233
and there was a little girl
in the backseat of the car next to us,
1181
01:03:40.316 --> 01:03:42.819
like, looking at me,
like, really intensely.
1182
01:03:42.902 --> 01:03:46.781
This little girl can save me.
This little girl can get help.
1183
01:03:46.864 --> 01:03:48.908
She can get me out of this situation
1184
01:03:48.991 --> 01:03:50.868
She was a child. She was innocent.
1185
01:03:50.952 --> 01:03:53.663
I remember trying to communicate
to her with my eyes,
1186
01:03:53.746 --> 01:03:57.834
like I was a hostage, like,
"Get me outta here."
1187
01:03:57.917 --> 01:04:01.754
I didn't want to talk, 'cause I didn't
want my friend to hear me and kill me.
1188
01:04:01.838 --> 01:04:05.800
And so I was like...
I can see there's a glimmer of hope.
1189
01:04:06.300 --> 01:04:09.095
Finally, the little girl,
like, flips me off,
1190
01:04:09.178 --> 01:04:12.056
and then in my head, I'm like,
"I think everybody is in on this.
1191
01:04:12.139 --> 01:04:14.392
Everybody is trying to kill me!"
1192
01:04:14.934 --> 01:04:16.185
Some people...
1193
01:04:17.103 --> 01:04:19.939
will reach the peak
of these mental effects right here,
1194
01:04:20.022 --> 01:04:21.774
and they will stay there.
1195
01:04:23.484 --> 01:04:27.113
From here on out,
these people are insane.
1196
01:04:27.446 --> 01:04:29.282
Uh... I'm Lewis Black.
1197
01:04:30.992 --> 01:04:32.785
And I'm still Lewis Black.
1198
01:04:32.869 --> 01:04:35.454
That's all I need to say
is "I'm Lewis Black," right?
1199
01:04:45.506 --> 01:04:47.717
I did acid when I was about 20.
1200
01:04:47.800 --> 01:04:51.804
I took it in an apartment,
in a place called Hyattsville, Maryland.
1201
01:04:51.888 --> 01:04:54.974
When you reach this point, you're gone,
1202
01:04:55.057 --> 01:04:58.978
and the point I got to was
that I couldn't remember my name.
1203
01:05:00.021 --> 01:05:04.066
And it's...
I can't remember my name at all.
1204
01:05:05.693 --> 01:05:09.655
One of the things that is a linchpin
between you and those around you
1205
01:05:09.739 --> 01:05:11.032
is your fucking name.
1206
01:05:11.115 --> 01:05:12.742
It's kind of really important.
1207
01:05:12.825 --> 01:05:14.952
The shortest distance between two points
1208
01:05:15.036 --> 01:05:17.872
is for me to just turn to one of them
and say, "What's my name?"
1209
01:05:17.955 --> 01:05:20.875
But you can't,
in the middle of an acid trip,
1210
01:05:20.958 --> 01:05:24.462
turn to your friends
and ask them what your name is.
1211
01:05:24.545 --> 01:05:28.299
Now, I don't know what acid etiquette is,
but I just thought, "You don't..."
1212
01:05:28.382 --> 01:05:32.553
They're having fun. There's no reason
that I should destroy their fun.
1213
01:05:32.637 --> 01:05:36.432
Nor should I bring up something
that would show as if I'm in trouble,
1214
01:05:36.515 --> 01:05:38.809
so they would feel
like they had to take care of me,
1215
01:05:38.893 --> 01:05:40.394
which might even be worse.
1216
01:05:40.478 --> 01:05:42.647
So, now I sat with a dictionary,
1217
01:05:42.730 --> 01:05:47.109
looking for hints
of what my name might be.
1218
01:05:50.863 --> 01:05:53.115
This goes on for half an hour,
1219
01:05:53.199 --> 01:05:56.911
which, in LSD time, is probably 26 years.
1220
01:05:57.286 --> 01:05:59.664
I reached into my pocket,
1221
01:05:59.747 --> 01:06:02.166
'cause I realized that I had a wallet,
1222
01:06:02.792 --> 01:06:04.377
and that I could find my name.
1223
01:06:04.460 --> 01:06:07.046
And, truly, my next thought was...
1224
01:06:07.129 --> 01:06:10.257
I was afraid to open my wallet
because I thought,
1225
01:06:10.341 --> 01:06:12.551
"What if there's nothing in there
but Monopoly cards?"
1226
01:06:18.265 --> 01:06:20.810
No!
1227
01:06:20.893 --> 01:06:24.188
First it terrified me,
and then I couldn't stop laughing,
1228
01:06:24.271 --> 01:06:26.065
and then I found my name again.
1229
01:06:28.484 --> 01:06:30.653
And then things kind of got back on track.
1230
01:06:31.529 --> 01:06:32.446
Guys!
1231
01:06:33.406 --> 01:06:34.949
My name is Lewis Black.
1232
01:06:39.412 --> 01:06:40.955
I've seen people bug out.
1233
01:06:41.038 --> 01:06:43.541
So that's the only reason why
I don't recommend it for everybody.
1234
01:06:43.624 --> 01:06:45.918
I'd be lying if I said it's for everybody,
it's not.
1235
01:06:46.002 --> 01:06:48.421
"Just give it to me, yeah,
I'm ready, let's go!"
1236
01:06:48.504 --> 01:06:50.464
I was so not ready to take acid.
1237
01:06:50.548 --> 01:06:52.717
It was a huge mistake.
1238
01:07:03.644 --> 01:07:06.605
In retrospect, I didn't realize how much
it was going to change my life.
1239
01:07:06.689 --> 01:07:09.191
Because it really changed my life
for a long time.
1240
01:07:09.316 --> 01:07:12.486
I just thought, "Alright, here we go,
this is gonna be great."
1241
01:07:12.570 --> 01:07:16.615
I think we'd seen Hair recently,
which was a big influence.
1242
01:07:16.699 --> 01:07:19.618
♪ LSD ♪
1243
01:07:19.702 --> 01:07:22.371
♪ LSD ♪
1244
01:07:26.792 --> 01:07:31.088
Well, I was hoping for some sort
of psychedelic, uh... revelation,
1245
01:07:31.172 --> 01:07:33.424
uh, kind of Hair-like, you know,
1246
01:07:33.507 --> 01:07:36.510
with just amazing sort of imagery,
1247
01:07:36.594 --> 01:07:41.015
and just, you know...
just sort of some sort of opening
1248
01:07:41.098 --> 01:07:43.726
into some sort of other form
of consciousness.
1249
01:07:43.809 --> 01:07:46.562
And it just... It was not that at all.
1250
01:07:46.645 --> 01:07:50.983
It was, uh, just fear and anxiety...
1251
01:07:51.692 --> 01:07:55.237
being... Just being amplified.
1252
01:07:55.321 --> 01:07:57.740
Which is not, you know, I...
like, who needs that?
1253
01:07:57.823 --> 01:07:59.658
Who needs to take a drug
to have that happen?
1254
01:08:00.785 --> 01:08:02.203
So I took one,
1255
01:08:02.286 --> 01:08:05.081
half an hour goes by, 45 minutes go by,
1256
01:08:05.164 --> 01:08:06.415
an hour goes by...
1257
01:08:06.499 --> 01:08:09.335
We're hanging out,
and, of course, nothing's happening.
1258
01:08:09.960 --> 01:08:11.378
Another half-hour goes by.
1259
01:08:11.462 --> 01:08:15.257
Now it's an hour and a half,
and nothing's happening, so, of course...
1260
01:08:15.800 --> 01:08:17.384
I say to him, "We gotta take another."
1261
01:08:17.468 --> 01:08:20.513
So we took another,
and then something happened.
1262
01:08:20.596 --> 01:08:23.224
Immediately, I started to freak out
and get really scared.
1263
01:08:23.307 --> 01:08:24.642
I started looking at my hand,
1264
01:08:24.725 --> 01:08:27.937
doing the cliche thing
of, like, pondering what my hand was.
1265
01:08:28.020 --> 01:08:31.148
Isn't there always that thing of just,
like, staring at your hand?
1266
01:08:31.398 --> 01:08:35.945
Or, like, your thumb, and, like, seeing
the whole universe in your thumb,
1267
01:08:36.028 --> 01:08:36.946
that kind of thing...?
1268
01:08:37.029 --> 01:08:40.950
What is going on in your brain
when you are tripping?
1269
01:08:41.492 --> 01:08:45.746
Well, roughly 10% of your brain
is consumed by sound and color,
1270
01:08:45.830 --> 01:08:48.874
another 10% by the concept of time,
1271
01:08:48.958 --> 01:08:52.336
which has been known to speed up
and/or slow down.
1272
01:08:53.003 --> 01:08:54.588
And the other 80%?
1273
01:08:55.548 --> 01:08:57.091
Staring at your hand.
1274
01:08:59.176 --> 01:09:00.845
Whoa, that's cool...
1275
01:09:01.345 --> 01:09:03.806
I'm freaking out. I said,
"Let's just go to my house."
1276
01:09:03.889 --> 01:09:07.059
And we were walking towards
where they blow up the balloon animals
1277
01:09:07.143 --> 01:09:08.602
for the Thanksgiving Day Parade,
1278
01:09:08.686 --> 01:09:11.313
and I started to trip out on that idea.
1279
01:09:11.397 --> 01:09:14.150
-Evil... giant... inflated characters
1280
01:09:14.233 --> 01:09:17.736
were flipping up
and coming out of 77th Street.
1281
01:09:17.820 --> 01:09:19.488
I was a big Ghostbusters fan,
1282
01:09:19.572 --> 01:09:22.241
and so the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man image
1283
01:09:22.324 --> 01:09:25.828
of him coming down Central Park West
was sort of in my mind...
1284
01:09:25.911 --> 01:09:31.584
and then very quickly realizing
that I had no idea where I was,
1285
01:09:31.667 --> 01:09:32.626
who I was,
1286
01:09:32.710 --> 01:09:35.796
or what this whole...
the whole context of life was.
1287
01:09:35.880 --> 01:09:38.549
I decided that I needed
to talk to my parents
1288
01:09:38.632 --> 01:09:40.593
to tell them what was happening to me.
1289
01:09:40.676 --> 01:09:43.929
And my parents were out of town,
filming a Love Boat episode.
1290
01:09:44.013 --> 01:09:45.639
♪ The Love Boat ♪
1291
01:09:47.099 --> 01:09:49.810
♪ Soon we'll be making another... ♪
1292
01:09:49.894 --> 01:09:54.648
I called Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara
on the phone...
1293
01:09:55.441 --> 01:09:58.027
...and I said, "Dad, I took some acid."
1294
01:09:58.110 --> 01:10:00.821
And he said, "What? What is acid?"
1295
01:10:01.155 --> 01:10:04.867
I think he might have thought
I drank some battery acid or something.
1296
01:10:04.950 --> 01:10:07.453
It wasn't like my dad was Jerry Garcia.
1297
01:10:07.536 --> 01:10:08.787
He's Jerry Stiller.
1298
01:10:08.871 --> 01:10:10.372
And I said, "LSD."
1299
01:10:10.456 --> 01:10:11.916
And he's like, "Oh, LSD."
1300
01:10:11.999 --> 01:10:14.251
And I could hear him processing it.
1301
01:10:14.335 --> 01:10:15.669
I think the immediate thought was
1302
01:10:15.753 --> 01:10:17.963
I think he was thinking
he'd failed as a parent.
1303
01:10:18.047 --> 01:10:20.466
I think that was what was
probably going through his mind.
1304
01:10:20.549 --> 01:10:22.384
And then my dad said,
1305
01:10:22.468 --> 01:10:24.678
"I understand what you're going through.
1306
01:10:24.762 --> 01:10:28.515
When I was ten years old,
I smoked a Pall Mall cigarette,
1307
01:10:28.599 --> 01:10:30.351
and I was sick for two days."
1308
01:10:30.434 --> 01:10:33.771
And I said, "No, Dad,
that's not what I'm going through.
1309
01:10:33.854 --> 01:10:35.522
This is a whole different experience."
1310
01:10:35.606 --> 01:10:38.859
I tried to explain to him what it was,
and he basically said...
1311
01:10:38.943 --> 01:10:42.613
He just said it's going to be okay,
which actually was really... sweet.
1312
01:10:43.280 --> 01:10:47.493
When someone consumes a drug,
and they feel they're going crazy,
1313
01:10:47.576 --> 01:10:49.828
the biggest fear is, "Oh, my God,
1314
01:10:49.912 --> 01:10:52.998
I'm never going to return
to being myself again.
1315
01:10:53.082 --> 01:10:54.875
I'm always going to be crazy."
1316
01:10:54.959 --> 01:10:58.504
"My brain is broken,
and I'm never, ever coming back."
1317
01:10:58.587 --> 01:11:00.297
"Maybe this is just my brain now.
1318
01:11:00.381 --> 01:11:02.508
And this is now
how the world actually is."
1319
01:11:02.591 --> 01:11:04.051
And that's... That can be scary.
1320
01:11:04.134 --> 01:11:05.761
You know, "This isn't going well.
1321
01:11:05.844 --> 01:11:08.264
I want this to end.
How do we make this end?"
1322
01:11:08.347 --> 01:11:09.390
"Oh, my God.
1323
01:11:09.473 --> 01:11:11.225
This is never going to end.
1324
01:11:11.308 --> 01:11:13.811
I'm going to go
into a mental institution,"
1325
01:11:13.894 --> 01:11:18.399
and then I would see my mother's face
in the window of the padded cell,
1326
01:11:18.482 --> 01:11:19.650
bawling her eyes out.
1327
01:11:19.733 --> 01:11:22.528
You cannot coax a person
out of their bad trip.
1328
01:11:22.611 --> 01:11:26.198
And once it's in their system,
it takes its own time.
1329
01:11:26.282 --> 01:11:28.158
The most important intervention
you can make
1330
01:11:28.242 --> 01:11:32.204
is just to reassure them that
they're experiencing this altered state,
1331
01:11:32.288 --> 01:11:33.664
as frightening as it is,
1332
01:11:33.747 --> 01:11:36.208
but they're experiencing it
because they ingested a compound.
1333
01:11:36.292 --> 01:11:38.168
The bad news is they're in a scary place,
1334
01:11:38.252 --> 01:11:40.504
but the good news is
it's going to be time-limited.
1335
01:11:40.587 --> 01:11:43.424
I think the first time
I had such an experience,
1336
01:11:43.507 --> 01:11:48.887
I had those kind of naive... feelings.
You know, "Maybe I won't be normal again."
1337
01:11:48.971 --> 01:11:51.890
But I've had enough experiences
to realize that that's not true.
1338
01:11:51.974 --> 01:11:54.101
When in doubt, zoom out.
1339
01:11:54.184 --> 01:11:58.314
Um... If you're fearful of something,
you just need to zoom away from it,
1340
01:11:58.397 --> 01:12:01.317
so you can see the larger context,
and go, "Okay, that's not a big deal."
1341
01:12:01.400 --> 01:12:03.027
Things get scary.
1342
01:12:03.110 --> 01:12:05.821
But that's why it's important
to remember you're high.
1343
01:12:05.904 --> 01:12:07.281
It's not reality.
1344
01:12:07.364 --> 01:12:09.408
I'm literally just falling in my mind,
1345
01:12:09.491 --> 01:12:11.327
and I'm like, "I gotta go
to the emergency room.
1346
01:12:11.410 --> 01:12:12.703
I can't handle this anymore."
1347
01:12:12.786 --> 01:12:14.997
There's one of those dudes
sitting in front of me,
1348
01:12:15.080 --> 01:12:17.541
who's, like,
you used to see them at Dead shows,
1349
01:12:17.624 --> 01:12:19.960
they've clearly been on too many trips.
1350
01:12:20.044 --> 01:12:22.504
They sort of move at a different
frequency than other people.
1351
01:12:22.588 --> 01:12:25.883
They're like, "Hey, man."
They've got this weird... you know.
1352
01:12:25.966 --> 01:12:29.053
So I just tap him on the shoulder,
and I look at him, and go,
1353
01:12:29.136 --> 01:12:31.930
"Pretty soon, Jerry's gonna come out,
1354
01:12:32.014 --> 01:12:35.434
and him and his guitar are gonna be,
like, one thing."
1355
01:12:35.517 --> 01:12:37.436
And this guy just looks at me
and he goes...
1356
01:12:38.479 --> 01:12:40.814
"Just hang on, man."
1357
01:12:41.273 --> 01:12:44.276
And he turns back around,
and I was like, "Okay."
1358
01:12:44.360 --> 01:12:47.404
And that was, like, the best advice
I ever got. And I use it to this day.
1359
01:12:51.200 --> 01:12:53.243
Just hang on, man.
1360
01:12:53.660 --> 01:12:54.703
Thanks, Fred.
1361
01:12:56.538 --> 01:13:00.209
And now
for the horrifying conclusion of Bad Trip.
1362
01:13:00.501 --> 01:13:02.002
Knock, knock, knock.
1363
01:13:02.086 --> 01:13:03.170
"Who is it?"
1364
01:13:03.253 --> 01:13:05.089
"It's a deranged drifter
1365
01:13:05.172 --> 01:13:08.008
who wants to torture you
for the next 12 hours,
1366
01:13:08.092 --> 01:13:10.594
by slowly peeling your skin off your body,
1367
01:13:10.677 --> 01:13:13.305
then plucking out
your horror-filled eyeballs
1368
01:13:13.389 --> 01:13:16.016
and feeding them to you
on a soft pretzel roll
1369
01:13:16.100 --> 01:13:18.018
made of your own epidermis."
1370
01:13:18.102 --> 01:13:19.353
"Oh, sure, great!
1371
01:13:19.436 --> 01:13:20.437
Come on in!"
1372
01:13:20.521 --> 01:13:22.022
Sounds crazy, right?
1373
01:13:22.106 --> 01:13:24.066
Well, that's exactly what you're doing
1374
01:13:24.149 --> 01:13:26.276
when you open your brain, the door,
1375
01:13:26.360 --> 01:13:29.446
to hallucinogenics, the deranged drifter.
1376
01:13:30.072 --> 01:13:31.949
Let's check in with Emily and her friends
1377
01:13:32.032 --> 01:13:35.160
now that they have willingly agreed
to have their brains dissected,
1378
01:13:35.244 --> 01:13:36.495
metaphorically,
1379
01:13:36.578 --> 01:13:40.040
by the deranged psycho of psychedelics.
1380
01:13:45.295 --> 01:13:47.756
We definitely made the right choice
getting out of that party.
1381
01:13:47.840 --> 01:13:50.259
They wouldn't let us back in
after we broke all those windows.
1382
01:13:54.513 --> 01:13:56.181
- Oh, no!
-Look out!
1383
01:14:10.028 --> 01:14:13.490
Well, you've seen two sides
of the LSD psychedelic question.
1384
01:14:13.574 --> 01:14:15.033
But if you really think of it,
1385
01:14:15.117 --> 01:14:17.411
there's been about 20 sides
to the question.
1386
01:14:17.494 --> 01:14:20.038
While it's possible
that some things were left out,
1387
01:14:20.122 --> 01:14:24.626
we did hear from the most important
and most strongly felt opinions about LSD.
1388
01:14:24.710 --> 01:14:25.711
Now it's your turn.
1389
01:14:27.004 --> 01:14:28.005
You decide.
1390
01:14:29.173 --> 01:14:32.176
You know, what we call everyday reality,
1391
01:14:32.259 --> 01:14:34.428
is a projection of consciousness.
1392
01:14:34.511 --> 01:14:37.514
In reality, there's no such thing
as colors or sounds,
1393
01:14:37.598 --> 01:14:40.309
or textures, or tastes, or smells,
1394
01:14:40.392 --> 01:14:42.311
in the so-called real world.
1395
01:14:42.394 --> 01:14:46.899
The real world is a radically ambiguous
and ceaselessly flowing quantum soup.
1396
01:14:46.982 --> 01:14:51.236
It's a fluctuation of energy
and information in an infinite void.
1397
01:14:51.320 --> 01:14:55.657
The sky that an insect sees
is not the sky you and I see.
1398
01:14:56.033 --> 01:14:58.911
A honey bee experiences, um,
1399
01:14:58.994 --> 01:15:01.455
ultraviolet radiation
1400
01:15:01.538 --> 01:15:04.166
I have no idea what that looks like,
you know?
1401
01:15:04.249 --> 01:15:06.001
So when a honey bee looks at a flower,
1402
01:15:06.084 --> 01:15:08.504
it doesn't see a flower
the way you and I see,
1403
01:15:08.587 --> 01:15:10.714
although it can sense honey
from a distance.
1404
01:15:10.797 --> 01:15:13.967
-A snake experiences infrared radiation.
1405
01:15:14.051 --> 01:15:16.845
-A bat experiences the echo of ultrasound.
1406
01:15:16.929 --> 01:15:19.598
A chameleon's eyeballs swivel
on two different axes.
1407
01:15:19.681 --> 01:15:23.560
You can't even remotely imagine
what this would look like to a chameleon.
1408
01:15:23.644 --> 01:15:25.187
So, what's reality?
1409
01:15:25.270 --> 01:15:27.397
And the answer is there's no such thing.
1410
01:15:27.481 --> 01:15:30.234
These compounds,
when utilized under optimal conditions,
1411
01:15:30.317 --> 01:15:33.320
seem to have
a rather remarkable facility
1412
01:15:33.403 --> 01:15:37.741
for catalyzing
spiritual-level experiences,
1413
01:15:37.824 --> 01:15:39.409
which by their very nature
1414
01:15:39.493 --> 01:15:42.496
may be... may have the potential
to be transformative.
1415
01:15:42.579 --> 01:15:47.834
It enhanced my ability
to navigate the world,
1416
01:15:47.918 --> 01:15:49.711
to be in a family,
1417
01:15:49.795 --> 01:15:51.338
to relate to my children,
1418
01:15:51.421 --> 01:15:53.799
to relate to my wife, to my colleagues.
1419
01:15:54.508 --> 01:15:57.594
Um... It teaches me about community,
1420
01:15:57.678 --> 01:16:02.182
and it teaches me that the core
of all religious thought ought to be...
1421
01:16:03.183 --> 01:16:06.436
"Let me treat others the way
I want to be treated myself."
1422
01:16:06.520 --> 01:16:08.438
Whenever it was a good trip,
1423
01:16:08.522 --> 01:16:11.358
I would think, "Oh, my God, we're all one.
1424
01:16:11.441 --> 01:16:14.111
Uh... Death is not something to fear.
1425
01:16:14.194 --> 01:16:17.739
Life and death are really walking
hand-in-hand with each other,
1426
01:16:17.823 --> 01:16:18.699
and it's cool."
1427
01:16:18.782 --> 01:16:22.160
The first time,
or the first couple times I tripped,
1428
01:16:22.244 --> 01:16:25.956
I... I really did believe
every single person,
1429
01:16:26.039 --> 01:16:30.752
the planet would be a better planet
if everybody took acid once.
1430
01:16:30.836 --> 01:16:34.131
Did it make me smarter?
Did I become enlightened?
1431
01:16:34.214 --> 01:16:36.717
I don't know. But I think it...
1432
01:16:37.134 --> 01:16:41.597
It enabled me, early on,
to imagine another point of view.
1433
01:16:41.680 --> 01:16:43.265
Another perspective.
1434
01:16:43.348 --> 01:16:45.517
I think it made me a better person,
1435
01:16:45.601 --> 01:16:48.395
both creatively, and in every other way.
1436
01:16:48.478 --> 01:16:50.939
I'd rather be a person
who's had that in his past
1437
01:16:51.023 --> 01:16:53.358
than somebody who missed it.
1438
01:16:53.442 --> 01:16:54.776
Even now, in my adult life,
1439
01:16:54.860 --> 01:16:57.571
I continue to experience it
as a very psychedelic adventure,
1440
01:16:57.654 --> 01:17:01.283
that is, like, a, you know,
a baffling nonsensical riddle.
1441
01:17:01.366 --> 01:17:03.910
Let's face it, we're all gonna die,
so, you know...
1442
01:17:03.994 --> 01:17:06.288
It was kind of like
jumping out of an airplane.
1443
01:17:06.371 --> 01:17:08.790
About a second-and-a-half into it,
I realize,
1444
01:17:08.874 --> 01:17:11.335
"Oh, I never need to do this again,
ever, in my life.
1445
01:17:11.418 --> 01:17:13.211
I don't ever want to do this."
1446
01:17:13.295 --> 01:17:16.381
That was sort of my experience with acid
a few minutes into it,
1447
01:17:16.465 --> 01:17:18.383
only it lasted for another six hours.
1448
01:17:18.467 --> 01:17:19.635
That was the problem.
1449
01:17:20.093 --> 01:17:23.305
I think what I'd say to anyone
tripping for the first time
1450
01:17:23.388 --> 01:17:25.307
is be moderate.
1451
01:17:25.390 --> 01:17:28.435
It's the haircut theory:
you can always cut more off.
1452
01:17:29.102 --> 01:17:32.064
But once you cut too much,
once you've taken too much,
1453
01:17:32.147 --> 01:17:33.440
there's no turning back.
1454
01:17:33.523 --> 01:17:35.776
I thought I'll never do that again,
1455
01:17:35.859 --> 01:17:38.028
but I did, a few more times.
1456
01:17:38.111 --> 01:17:41.448
You should not take it cavalierly.
I don't know if you should take it.
1457
01:17:41.531 --> 01:17:44.201
In the sky, I see a giant zipper.
1458
01:17:45.410 --> 01:17:48.789
And the zipper starts to open.
1459
01:17:48.872 --> 01:17:51.625
Now, if you go with the flow,
1460
01:17:52.209 --> 01:17:53.794
you let the zipper open.
1461
01:17:53.877 --> 01:17:55.253
And you just fucking deal.
1462
01:17:55.337 --> 01:17:58.632
If they're bats,
if it's God's penis, whatever.
1463
01:17:58.715 --> 01:17:59.925
You just do it.
1464
01:18:00.008 --> 01:18:02.928
Okay, if you have any fucking sense
when it comes to drugs,
1465
01:18:03.011 --> 01:18:05.222
you don't stop the zipper.
1466
01:18:05.305 --> 01:18:09.935
I'm always looking to evolve
as a human being.
1467
01:18:10.018 --> 01:18:12.938
I think we do that
by thinking out of the box, you know.
1468
01:18:13.480 --> 01:18:15.607
We have to accept
that the box is just a construct.
1469
01:18:15.691 --> 01:18:18.318
It's something
that we've been conditioned to accept,
1470
01:18:18.402 --> 01:18:20.195
but it's not particularly useful.
1471
01:18:20.278 --> 01:18:21.613
Everything is in crisis.
1472
01:18:21.697 --> 01:18:23.532
How are we gonna survive the crisis?
1473
01:18:23.615 --> 01:18:25.492
How do we get over
the other side of the wall?
1474
01:18:25.575 --> 01:18:28.995
And so we need to use
whatever tools it takes
1475
01:18:29.079 --> 01:18:30.747
to get over the other side.
1476
01:18:30.831 --> 01:18:33.333
It's like a step ladder
to look over a brick wall
1477
01:18:33.417 --> 01:18:34.876
that's a little bit too tall for you.
1478
01:18:34.960 --> 01:18:37.921
You use a stepladder,
you get to see this crazy landscape
1479
01:18:38.004 --> 01:18:42.008
that you kind of had an inkling about
every time you walked by this wall,
1480
01:18:42.092 --> 01:18:45.554
and then some people, you know,
can sit in front of the wall,
1481
01:18:45.637 --> 01:18:48.557
and, like, meditate,
and then the wall becomes transparent,
1482
01:18:48.640 --> 01:18:50.267
and they see beyond it, you know?
1483
01:18:50.350 --> 01:18:53.854
So, there are many pathways
to arrive at the same realization.
1484
01:18:53.937 --> 01:18:55.731
It's a tremendous asset,
1485
01:18:56.106 --> 01:18:57.566
freedom to learn about it,
1486
01:18:57.649 --> 01:19:00.569
and not have our government
stop us from learning things
1487
01:19:00.652 --> 01:19:02.362
that could really be...
Same with marijuana.
1488
01:19:02.446 --> 01:19:04.740
I mean, they take away
all the possible discovery
1489
01:19:04.823 --> 01:19:06.992
of all the medicine it could be.
1490
01:19:07.075 --> 01:19:09.161
What I would envision
1491
01:19:09.244 --> 01:19:12.372
really would be
a certified retreat center,
1492
01:19:12.456 --> 01:19:15.625
you know, preferably close to nature,
1493
01:19:15.709 --> 01:19:18.545
where individuals can go
and have a treatment,
1494
01:19:18.628 --> 01:19:23.258
and have expert facilitators
help guide them through the experience,
1495
01:19:23.341 --> 01:19:27.304
and afterwards help them integrate
that experience into their lives.
1496
01:19:27.721 --> 01:19:30.724
If I may say so,
the whole consciousness revolution
1497
01:19:30.807 --> 01:19:32.809
that started in the '60s,
1498
01:19:32.893 --> 01:19:34.561
which led to other movements,
1499
01:19:34.644 --> 01:19:35.854
the feminist movement,
1500
01:19:35.937 --> 01:19:37.397
the ecology movement,
1501
01:19:37.481 --> 01:19:38.940
the peace movement,
1502
01:19:39.024 --> 01:19:40.859
uh, Greenpeace, all of that,
1503
01:19:41.401 --> 01:19:43.612
began, um...
1504
01:19:43.695 --> 01:19:47.240
with the use of hallucinogenic drugs.
1505
01:19:47.324 --> 01:19:50.076
Many people think that it peaked
and it went away.
1506
01:19:50.327 --> 01:19:55.207
Uh... I'm sorry to inform you,
the awakening is still going on.
1507
01:19:55.707 --> 01:19:57.292
We're on a trip all the time.
1508
01:19:57.375 --> 01:19:59.795
Right now we're on a trip, right?
Life is a trip.
1509
01:20:31.910 --> 01:20:34.037
Lots of people drink coffee
before they go to work.
1510
01:20:34.120 --> 01:20:36.414
Others, believe it or not, drop acid.
1511
01:20:36.540 --> 01:20:39.501
Now, why some psychiatrists
and researchers
1512
01:20:39.584 --> 01:20:42.337
are giving psychedelic drugs a second look
1513
01:20:42.420 --> 01:20:46.174
as a possible way of treating depression
and some mental illnesses.
1514
01:20:46.258 --> 01:20:50.095
They're being used to treat depression,
anxiety, and addiction.
1515
01:20:50.178 --> 01:20:52.264
The early results are impressive.
1516
01:20:52.347 --> 01:20:55.559
They're relatively non-toxic,
less toxic than alcohol.
1517
01:20:55.642 --> 01:20:57.018
They're non-addictive.
1518
01:20:57.102 --> 01:21:00.021
The DEA says it's granted permission
to more than 50 researchers
1519
01:21:00.105 --> 01:21:03.149
to study the therapeutic effects of LSD.
1520
01:21:03.233 --> 01:21:05.652
Denver has become
the first city in America
1521
01:21:05.735 --> 01:21:08.405
to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.
1522
01:21:08.488 --> 01:21:11.741
The city of Oakland is now
the second city in the US
1523
01:21:11.825 --> 01:21:16.288
to decriminalize the adult use
and possession of magic mushrooms.
1524
01:21:16.371 --> 01:21:19.624
The Santa Cruz City Council
unanimously approved the resolution.
1525
01:21:19.708 --> 01:21:23.461
This decriminalizes the use,
possession and cultivation
1526
01:21:23.545 --> 01:21:24.921
of psychoactive plants.
1527
01:21:25.005 --> 01:21:27.674
If you could use a drug,
and this has been done now,
1528
01:21:27.757 --> 01:21:31.052
that could stop you smoking cigarettes
or being an alcoholic,
1529
01:21:31.136 --> 01:21:34.055
you know, working maybe 80% of the time,
at least initially...
1530
01:21:34.139 --> 01:21:34.973
Yeah.
1531
01:21:35.056 --> 01:21:36.933
We gotta explore how that's possible.
1532
01:21:37.017 --> 01:21:38.685
Let's you and I do some mushrooms.
1533
01:21:38.768 --> 01:21:40.103
-Alright.
-Let's do it.
1534
01:21:43.773 --> 01:21:44.858
Good luck!
1535
01:22:11.509 --> 01:22:13.678
♪ Whatever you want from me ♪
1536
01:22:14.554 --> 01:22:16.681
♪ Whatever you want, I'll do ♪
1537
01:22:17.641 --> 01:22:20.352
♪ I'll try to squeeze a drop of blood ♪
1538
01:22:20.435 --> 01:22:21.978
♪ From a sugar cube ♪
1539
01:22:36.493 --> 01:22:38.620
♪ Try to be more assured ♪
1540
01:22:39.579 --> 01:22:41.748
♪ Try to be more right there ♪
1541
01:22:42.707 --> 01:22:44.793
♪ Try to be less uptight ♪
1542
01:22:45.877 --> 01:22:47.963
♪ Try to be more aware ♪
1543
01:22:48.755 --> 01:22:51.049
♪ Whatever you want from me ♪
1544
01:22:51.925 --> 01:22:54.219
♪ Is what I wanna do for you ♪
1545
01:22:55.095 --> 01:22:57.305
♪ Sweeter than a drop of blood ♪
1546
01:22:57.764 --> 01:22:59.391
♪ From a sugar cube ♪
1547
01:23:44.686 --> 01:23:48.773
♪ And though I like to act the part
Of being tough ♪
1548
01:23:50.900 --> 01:23:54.154
♪ I crumble like a sugar cube ♪
1549
01:23:56.114 --> 01:23:57.699
♪ For you ♪
1550
01:24:18.094 --> 01:24:20.430
♪ Whatever you want from me ♪
1551
01:24:21.306 --> 01:24:23.433
♪ Whatever you want, I'll do ♪
1552
01:24:24.309 --> 01:24:25.852
♪ And I will try ♪
1553
01:24:30.482 --> 01:24:32.650
♪ Whatever you want from me ♪
1554
01:24:33.526 --> 01:24:35.737
♪ Whatever you want, I'll do ♪
1555
01:24:36.571 --> 01:24:39.532
♪ I'll try and squeeze a drop of blood ♪
1556
01:24:39.616 --> 01:24:42.952
♪ Squeeze a drop of blood
From a sugar cube ♪
1557
01:24:51.836 --> 01:24:52.837
Good night.