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[mysterious music plays]
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Official YIFY movies site:
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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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-[instrumental rock music plays]
-[gunshot]
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[tutting]
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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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-[screaming on TV]
-Parents panicking,
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children having freak-outs,
and people jumping out of windows.
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-[dramatic music plays]
-[wailing]
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[screaming]
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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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[instrumental rock music plays]
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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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[music stops abruptly]
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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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["Here to Fall"
by Yo La Tengo plays]
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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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[sighs] 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... [chuckles]
...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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[inhales deeply] 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.
-[tinkling]
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The grass starts talking to me...
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[grass] 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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[trees] 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." [laughs]
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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...
-[ominous music plays]
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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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[mooing]
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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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-[tinkling]
-[psychedelic music plays]
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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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[angelic revelatory music plays]
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You know, I think
what the psychedelic experience does
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is it takes...
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[sighs] the "it" out of "me and it".
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[chuckles]
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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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[string music plays]
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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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[echoing] 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...
-[laughing, 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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-[man 1] Ooh, yeah!
-[man 2] Yeah!
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[man laughing]
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So we just ran.
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[man 1] 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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-[car horns honking]
-...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.
251
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Don't drive on acid.
252
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[soft melodic tune plays]
253
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Hi, I'm Tommy Roe.
254
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By now it must be obvious to you,
as it is to me,
255
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that LSD is very powerful stuff.
256
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And that's just what it is: stuff.
257
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Acid and mushrooms are the Coke and Pepsi
of hallucinogens,
258
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but there are lots of things
that can make you trip...
259
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But these are just the beginning
of a list of compounds
260
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that can cause the human brain
to experience
261
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altered states of reality
and hallucinations.
262
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I decided I would, um...
263
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be initiated properly into peyote...
264
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So I took a plane down to Mexico City,
265
00:14:12,852 --> 00:14:15,896
and then we went out in a van
to the mountains,
266
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and we met these people who would
initiate me into this peyote cult.
267
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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,
269
00:14:25,948 --> 00:14:28,826
and you look at this thing,
and go, "This is poison."
270
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-[voices whispering]
-And they... keep stuffing it in.
271
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And very quickly, I am very high.
272
00:14:35,583 --> 00:14:40,754
You know, I mean, the desert already is
a sort of surreal psychedelic experience.
273
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You just have to look at one
of these gigantic cacti.
274
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You're in a sort of primal alien world.
275
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Sting!
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-Sting...
-Ssssting!
277
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And then they blindfolded me
with three other initiates.
278
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When you have your eyes closed,
279
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you're in this three dimensional,
uh... cartoon world.
280
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You know, you're in a kind of space movie.
281
00:15:02,443 --> 00:15:05,821
And we were forced
to climb the sacred mountain,
282
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I've forgotten the name
of the sacred mountain, blindfolded,
283
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high on peyote,
284
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in the midday sun.
285
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[chuckles]
286
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So, we're stumbling up this mountain,
and it's quite a hike.
287
00:15:16,832 --> 00:15:20,169
Anyway, eventually we get to the top
in the early evening,
288
00:15:20,252 --> 00:15:23,380
and I feel this kind of sprinkling
on my head.
289
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I think, "Oh, they're giving me a shower,"
because we were filthy dirty.
290
00:15:26,717 --> 00:15:30,012
I open my eyes, and it's blood.
[chuckles]
291
00:15:30,095 --> 00:15:33,349
And I said, "What is this?"
"Oh, it's deer's blood, it's part of it."
292
00:15:33,432 --> 00:15:36,060
I'm having deer's blood
poured on top of me.
293
00:15:38,729 --> 00:15:41,065
And it was during the time
of Halley's Comet.
294
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Halley's Comet is quite something,
especially when you're on peyote,
295
00:15:45,402 --> 00:15:48,072
because it looks like a fiery dragon.
[laughs]
296
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Quite fearsome, and very threatening.
297
00:15:52,284 --> 00:15:57,414
But it didn't frighten me as much
as this concept of mortality,
298
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which is a constant with me.
299
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This was something...
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difficult and, I think, meaningful.
301
00:16:06,715 --> 00:16:08,759
[upbeat electronic music plays]
302
00:16:20,437 --> 00:16:22,481
Drugs are great.
303
00:16:22,564 --> 00:16:25,526
Psychedelics are so cool.
304
00:16:25,609 --> 00:16:27,611
I love hallucinogens.
305
00:16:27,695 --> 00:16:29,530
Give me some, now!
306
00:16:30,197 --> 00:16:32,408
These are just some of the things
you'll hear
307
00:16:32,491 --> 00:16:34,743
on a typical playground these days.
308
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Does that scare you?
309
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It should.
310
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Because today's kids
are increasingly turning on,
311
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tuning in, and dropping out.
312
00:16:43,002 --> 00:16:47,214
Now, how do us "squares" wrap our heads
around this terrifying trend?
313
00:16:47,297 --> 00:16:50,300
Well, we watch videos, like this one,
314
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about one little girl,
let's call her Emily,
315
00:16:53,387 --> 00:16:55,472
because that is her name,
316
00:16:55,556 --> 00:16:56,515
and her...
317
00:16:58,475 --> 00:17:00,561
[rock riff plays]
318
00:17:03,647 --> 00:17:05,774
[bell ringing]
319
00:17:06,358 --> 00:17:08,360
-[giggling]
-Hey, guys, what's up?
320
00:17:08,444 --> 00:17:09,778
[ominous music plays]
321
00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:11,989
So, Emily, I'm throwing a party tonight,
322
00:17:12,072 --> 00:17:14,450
and it'd be pretty rad if you came by.
323
00:17:14,533 --> 00:17:17,119
No, remember we were gonna go have fun
at your place,
324
00:17:17,202 --> 00:17:19,246
doing safe stuff
under your mom's supervision.
325
00:17:19,329 --> 00:17:23,208
Parents get a bad rap, but...
they're not so bad to hang around with.
326
00:17:24,251 --> 00:17:27,921
C'mon, Emily, it'll be fun.
There'll be tons of hard drugs there.
327
00:17:28,714 --> 00:17:30,883
Okay, maybe I'll see you there.
328
00:17:31,842 --> 00:17:33,969
I mean, how bad could it be?
329
00:17:34,845 --> 00:17:36,597
[upbeat electronic music plays]
330
00:17:42,352 --> 00:17:44,313
Who's ready for some hard drugs?
331
00:17:44,897 --> 00:17:46,231
Got some LSD,
332
00:17:46,315 --> 00:17:47,691
some mushrooms,
333
00:17:47,775 --> 00:17:50,778
acid, some blue heaven, purple haze...
334
00:17:51,153 --> 00:17:52,905
I got blue sky on Mars,
335
00:17:52,988 --> 00:17:54,990
I got Grandma's dentures.
336
00:17:55,074 --> 00:17:56,909
I got Pac-Man...
337
00:17:56,992 --> 00:17:59,787
We got Super Marios, we got Luigis,
338
00:17:59,870 --> 00:18:03,123
we got Reagans,
and some orange sunshine...
339
00:18:03,957 --> 00:18:05,334
Oh, I'm in!
340
00:18:05,876 --> 00:18:06,877
[bag rustling]
341
00:18:11,632 --> 00:18:13,217
Orange sunshine doesn't sound too bad.
342
00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:15,344
It has lots of names, Emily,
343
00:18:15,427 --> 00:18:20,224
but it doesn't take being a math nerd
like Maya to know what it equals...
344
00:18:20,307 --> 00:18:22,267
A bad trip.
345
00:18:22,351 --> 00:18:23,936
[rock riff plays]
346
00:18:26,355 --> 00:18:28,148
C'mon, Emily, just try one.
347
00:18:28,232 --> 00:18:30,109
-[ominous music plays]
-Maybe just one.
348
00:18:30,192 --> 00:18:32,861
-[Maya] Don't do it, Emily.
-[boy] Think about your future, Emily!
349
00:18:34,822 --> 00:18:35,989
[breathes shakily]
350
00:18:36,573 --> 00:18:38,742
[distorted] I think I'm tripping...
351
00:18:40,953 --> 00:18:42,538
Weird...
352
00:18:43,539 --> 00:18:45,290
That's every acid trip in a movie.
353
00:18:45,374 --> 00:18:47,668
They have never, ever nailed it.
354
00:18:47,751 --> 00:18:51,171
They always, in movies,
will use, like, a fisheye lens.
355
00:18:51,255 --> 00:18:55,551
They always pitch the person's voice
way down,
356
00:18:55,634 --> 00:18:59,429
so everything just looks distorted,
you know, and the person's like...
357
00:19:00,097 --> 00:19:02,599
[distorted] "Hey, man, I'm on acid!
358
00:19:02,724 --> 00:19:05,352
Oh, my God, I can feel my soul!"
359
00:19:05,435 --> 00:19:08,605
[in normal voice] The one thing I've seen
in a movie that was pretty close
360
00:19:08,689 --> 00:19:10,607
was in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
361
00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,278
There's a scene
where Johnny Depp is in the casino,
362
00:19:14,361 --> 00:19:18,615
and the floor is, like,
kind of moving around and stuff.
363
00:19:19,199 --> 00:19:23,662
Like, when I saw that, I was like,
"Yes. That's acid."
364
00:19:23,745 --> 00:19:25,414
I don't know how much acid you've taken,
365
00:19:25,497 --> 00:19:28,584
but one of the constants
in most of my trips during that period
366
00:19:28,667 --> 00:19:31,628
is things would always happen
while high on acid
367
00:19:31,712 --> 00:19:35,257
that under no ordinary circumstances
would happen.
368
00:19:35,632 --> 00:19:37,885
Strange, and in this case,
terrible things.
369
00:19:38,177 --> 00:19:39,678
[funky electronic music plays]
370
00:19:47,811 --> 00:19:50,355
Hi, my name's Anthony Bourdain. Um...
371
00:19:51,523 --> 00:19:53,192
I liked LSD a lot.
372
00:19:53,275 --> 00:19:57,321
You know, I became a teenager
just as the '60s were ending,
373
00:19:57,404 --> 00:20:01,909
and, you know, I was cruelly disappointed
that I'd sort of missed out
374
00:20:01,992 --> 00:20:03,827
on the entire hippie era.
375
00:20:03,911 --> 00:20:06,246
You know,
I'd read about them in Life magazine,
376
00:20:06,330 --> 00:20:09,416
when I was nine and ten years old,
and that looked really good.
377
00:20:09,499 --> 00:20:12,336
I thought, "I can't wait
till I'm old enough to go to San Francisco
378
00:20:12,419 --> 00:20:14,796
and take acid," you know?
379
00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,799
People are jumping out of windows
and stuff, it must be interesting.
380
00:20:17,883 --> 00:20:20,135
And, you know,
my parents were horrified by it,
381
00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:22,846
so...
that was something of an endorsement.
382
00:20:22,930 --> 00:20:27,684
I know I was fully in the thrall
of the works of Hunter S. Thompson,
383
00:20:27,768 --> 00:20:30,604
And by fully in the thrall, I mean...
384
00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:34,274
we thought Hunter Thompson
was the coolest thing ever,
385
00:20:34,358 --> 00:20:36,985
and we wanted to be just like him.
386
00:20:37,069 --> 00:20:39,529
There's that Thompson image of,
you know,
387
00:20:39,613 --> 00:20:41,907
you know you're having a bad trip
when you look down,
388
00:20:41,990 --> 00:20:44,326
and you see your dead grandmother
with a knife in her teeth
389
00:20:44,409 --> 00:20:45,661
crawling up your leg.
390
00:20:45,744 --> 00:20:47,829
That was funny to us,
and we kind of...
391
00:20:47,913 --> 00:20:50,999
We wanted to, if not experience that,
to survive that.
392
00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:55,170
For this weekend, we prepared ourselves
for an early version of the road trip.
393
00:20:55,254 --> 00:20:58,257
I told my parents that I was staying over
at my friend's house
394
00:20:58,340 --> 00:20:59,967
for a sleepover weekend.
395
00:21:00,050 --> 00:21:01,051
[car horn honking]
396
00:21:01,134 --> 00:21:03,679
He had use of the car,
and, I think, a learner's permit.
397
00:21:03,762 --> 00:21:07,933
This was the basic framework
around which our master plan coalesced.
398
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:09,893
First we acquired some drugs.
399
00:21:09,977 --> 00:21:13,355
A lot of acid, some weed,
some Lebanese hash,
400
00:21:13,438 --> 00:21:16,358
Gordon's gin, and two cases
of Maximus super beer.
401
00:21:16,441 --> 00:21:18,402
I don't know why we chose that brand.
402
00:21:18,485 --> 00:21:20,570
Also, and this is important:
403
00:21:20,654 --> 00:21:21,905
some Quaaludes.
404
00:21:22,531 --> 00:21:25,701
And proceeded to take a lot of the drugs,
including the LSD.
405
00:21:26,952 --> 00:21:31,415
["Periodically Double or Triple"
by Yo La Tengo plays]
406
00:21:31,707 --> 00:21:35,168
We set out for the dark heart
of the Catskills.
407
00:21:35,252 --> 00:21:37,963
So we're driving along,
getting off on the acid,
408
00:21:38,046 --> 00:21:40,048
and we encounter two hitchhikers.
409
00:21:40,132 --> 00:21:43,552
Attractive-looking young women,
they were exotic dancers.
410
00:21:44,136 --> 00:21:47,556
One of them identified herself
by the name Panama Red.
411
00:21:47,639 --> 00:21:50,559
Experienced young women of the world
in search of a ride.
412
00:21:50,642 --> 00:21:53,645
We immediately let it slip as well
that we were fully loaded
413
00:21:53,729 --> 00:21:57,065
with a pretty dizzying array
of controlled substances.
414
00:21:57,149 --> 00:22:00,902
Unsurprisingly enough, this interested
these two young delicate flowers.
415
00:22:00,986 --> 00:22:02,821
-[horn honking]
-[woman squealing]
416
00:22:03,363 --> 00:22:04,990
We went back to her room.
417
00:22:05,532 --> 00:22:07,909
And we smoke some weed,
we smoke some hash...
418
00:22:07,993 --> 00:22:11,204
-[faux panicked screaming]
-Uh-oh, careful, he's gonna attack!
419
00:22:11,997 --> 00:22:13,081
[giggling]
420
00:22:14,541 --> 00:22:15,834
[faux strangled choking]
421
00:22:15,917 --> 00:22:17,294
It's not real. Look at this!
422
00:22:17,711 --> 00:22:20,505
Then she reminded us
that we had mentioned Quaaludes.
423
00:22:21,048 --> 00:22:23,175
And I gave her one,
424
00:22:23,258 --> 00:22:25,886
and she seemed to indicate
that this was unsatisfactory,
425
00:22:25,969 --> 00:22:26,970
that she would like two.
426
00:22:27,054 --> 00:22:28,347
Two Parest-400's.
427
00:22:28,430 --> 00:22:31,099
Now these motherfuckers
were industrial strength,
428
00:22:31,183 --> 00:22:33,268
powerful fucking Methaqualone.
429
00:22:33,352 --> 00:22:35,562
Panama starts,
with the help of all that liquor,
430
00:22:35,645 --> 00:22:38,940
starts getting pretty high
on that Quaalude as it's hitting in.
431
00:22:39,024 --> 00:22:41,985
We are, by this point, ha...
we're peaking, okay?
432
00:22:43,236 --> 00:22:45,781
That part, things started to go wrong.
433
00:22:47,783 --> 00:22:49,409
Well, things went wrong very quickly.
434
00:22:49,826 --> 00:22:54,373
Panama starts modeling her outfits
from her earlier years in Vegas.
435
00:22:59,169 --> 00:23:02,798
Suddenly, Panama, mid-stride,
her eyes roll up in her head,
436
00:23:02,881 --> 00:23:07,052
and she keels over,
stone dead on the fucking floor.
437
00:23:07,135 --> 00:23:08,804
[suspenseful music plays]
438
00:23:12,182 --> 00:23:14,684
[panicked screaming]
439
00:23:19,523 --> 00:23:21,024
She's OD'd, she's dead,
440
00:23:21,149 --> 00:23:23,110
and we've given her the drugs
that have killed her.
441
00:23:23,193 --> 00:23:27,030
Already in my mind, the police helicopters
with their searchlights
442
00:23:27,114 --> 00:23:29,491
would be swooping over the motel
at any minute.
443
00:23:29,574 --> 00:23:33,370
There will be, you know,
special units with battering rams
444
00:23:33,453 --> 00:23:35,288
coming in the windows and the doors.
445
00:23:35,872 --> 00:23:37,457
What do we do now?
446
00:23:37,833 --> 00:23:40,502
You know, "My parents think
I'm sleeping at your house,"
447
00:23:40,919 --> 00:23:43,004
and we're high. We're really, really high.
448
00:23:43,088 --> 00:23:44,297
On the way over here,
449
00:23:44,381 --> 00:23:48,885
you know, the sky is filled with colors
and concentric circles,
450
00:23:48,969 --> 00:23:51,221
and strange and,
you know, wonderful things.
451
00:23:51,304 --> 00:23:54,307
-Now, it's ugly and paranoid.
-[distorted police sirens wail]
452
00:23:54,391 --> 00:23:57,853
Reality has intruded
in a seriously ugly way.
453
00:23:57,936 --> 00:24:02,023
Before we came close to figuring out
what happened,
454
00:24:02,107 --> 00:24:04,526
she stirred and roused herself,
455
00:24:05,068 --> 00:24:06,570
as if nothing had happened.
456
00:24:06,653 --> 00:24:09,823
She stood up as if
she collapses to the floor all the time.
457
00:24:13,076 --> 00:24:17,247
We drank a lot of gin,
and snorted coke off the Gideon's Bible.
458
00:24:17,330 --> 00:24:19,708
I remember at one point
excusing myself to go to the bathroom,
459
00:24:19,791 --> 00:24:22,794
and looking in the mirror
and seeing, uh...
460
00:24:22,878 --> 00:24:27,007
you know, an Indian chief
in full war-paint in the in the mirror,
461
00:24:27,090 --> 00:24:30,760
looking up and... Looking in a mirror
is never a good idea on acid,
462
00:24:30,844 --> 00:24:33,221
but in this case,
it was a really bad idea.
463
00:24:33,305 --> 00:24:36,349
Don't look in the mirror.
Cover the mirrors.
464
00:24:36,766 --> 00:24:38,685
Not a great idea to look in a mirror.
465
00:24:38,768 --> 00:24:41,646
Oh, my God, looking in the mirror is,
like, the worst.
466
00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:44,274
Like, looking in the mirror,
and who am I, who do I see?
467
00:24:44,357 --> 00:24:45,734
You can see through your skin.
468
00:24:45,817 --> 00:24:49,488
Your skin is apparently more translucent,
uh, when you're tripping.
469
00:24:49,571 --> 00:24:54,034
You can see, like, the blood rushing
through your vessels and the veins.
470
00:24:54,117 --> 00:24:56,786
Especially if you have
any self-esteem issues.
471
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.
472
00:25:01,041 --> 00:25:03,543
Doesn't matter what you look like,
cover the mirrors.
473
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,634
Don't look in the mirror!
474
00:25:10,717 --> 00:25:13,762
I'm Dr. Charles Grob, spelled G-R-O-B.
475
00:25:13,845 --> 00:25:15,889
I'm a psychiatrist.
476
00:25:15,972 --> 00:25:17,182
I'm a researcher
477
00:25:17,265 --> 00:25:21,186
investigating the potential
for a hallucinogen treatment model
478
00:25:21,269 --> 00:25:25,357
to heal psychiatric illness
479
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,150
or heal addiction.
480
00:25:27,901 --> 00:25:32,197
I've also conducted an FDA-approved study
where we had permission
481
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:37,452
to use the alkaloid
of hallucinogenic mushrooms, psilocybin,
482
00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:40,789
in a treatment model
for individuals with advanced stage cancer
483
00:25:40,872 --> 00:25:42,332
who have reactive anxiety.
484
00:25:42,415 --> 00:25:45,961
Overall, their quality of life
improved noticeably.
485
00:25:46,044 --> 00:25:47,754
No one had a bad trip,
486
00:25:47,837 --> 00:25:51,299
no one had
a serious physiological reaction.
487
00:25:51,383 --> 00:25:54,886
So, we found that, you know,
at the very least,
488
00:25:54,970 --> 00:25:57,514
there was good potential
in this treatment model,
489
00:25:57,597 --> 00:26:00,559
and worthy
of further controlled investigation.
490
00:26:01,768 --> 00:26:05,689
Let's hear from young people who've had
their reasons for being down on LSD.
491
00:26:05,772 --> 00:26:08,942
Let's also hear from doctors,
psychologists and other experts
492
00:26:09,025 --> 00:26:10,735
who have tried LSD themselves.
493
00:26:11,611 --> 00:26:15,198
The only time I think
I've ever been able to understand myself
494
00:26:15,282 --> 00:26:16,449
was on an acid trip.
495
00:26:16,908 --> 00:26:18,618
Then things were really clear.
496
00:26:19,452 --> 00:26:21,746
You know, I didn't have
any one small bad trip.
497
00:26:21,830 --> 00:26:25,000
I had one long pretty good one.
498
00:26:25,417 --> 00:26:28,211
I had outfits that went with acid,
499
00:26:28,295 --> 00:26:30,922
I had the music that went with acid,
500
00:26:31,464 --> 00:26:33,925
uh... makeup that went with acid...
501
00:26:34,009 --> 00:26:35,927
To me, it was a...
502
00:26:36,511 --> 00:26:37,721
a ritual drug.
503
00:26:37,804 --> 00:26:39,514
You wanna look at my house?
504
00:26:39,598 --> 00:26:42,559
Okay, my house is the acid house.
[chuckles]
505
00:26:54,404 --> 00:26:55,989
It affected everything.
506
00:26:56,072 --> 00:26:58,074
[mellow music plays]
507
00:27:06,666 --> 00:27:09,961
To me, it's so hilarious
to have, like, drug anecdotes.
508
00:27:10,045 --> 00:27:12,756
The very nature of what you're asking...
509
00:27:13,590 --> 00:27:16,843
If you're doing drugs the right way,
you can't tell an orderly story.
510
00:27:18,094 --> 00:27:20,889
Hi, I'm Carrie Fisher, and...
511
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,725
I took a lot of LSD.
512
00:27:23,808 --> 00:27:27,479
I think I'd heard about acid
maybe from John Belushi.
513
00:27:27,562 --> 00:27:29,439
But I did not have a problem with...
514
00:27:29,522 --> 00:27:31,900
At that point,
I didn't have a problem with drugs.
515
00:27:31,983 --> 00:27:34,194
I had not gotten into the drug zone
516
00:27:34,277 --> 00:27:38,281
that would ultimately prove
to be my downfall,
517
00:27:38,365 --> 00:27:39,741
which would be opiates.
518
00:27:39,824 --> 00:27:41,534
You know, it would be hard to get...
519
00:27:41,618 --> 00:27:44,162
What, are you going to get addicted
to acid? You know, no.
520
00:27:44,245 --> 00:27:46,081
And it's a very hard drug to take.
521
00:27:46,164 --> 00:27:51,002
So, I would organize trips
around to places in the world
522
00:27:51,086 --> 00:27:52,837
simply to take acid there.
523
00:27:53,713 --> 00:27:56,925
I would do these things,
and forget that...
524
00:27:57,967 --> 00:27:59,844
I looked like someone...
525
00:28:00,679 --> 00:28:04,224
named Princess Leia,
or whatever I was for people, and...
526
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.
527
00:28:09,437 --> 00:28:11,564
So, yeah, I went to the Seychelles.
528
00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:15,068
And we took acid, and...
529
00:28:15,568 --> 00:28:18,488
Oh, my God, I was on...
530
00:28:19,989 --> 00:28:23,827
on the beach, and there was
no one else on the beach.
531
00:28:24,327 --> 00:28:31,167
And so I'm with my Super 8 movie camera,
that's when this was.
532
00:28:32,001 --> 00:28:33,795
And I'm filming my friend,
533
00:28:33,878 --> 00:28:37,090
and as this is going along, suddenly...
534
00:28:37,716 --> 00:28:39,843
I sensed that...
535
00:28:40,802 --> 00:28:43,346
there's been a disturbance in the force.
[sniggers]
536
00:28:44,931 --> 00:28:46,015
Don't put that in.
537
00:28:46,099 --> 00:28:49,811
Uh, anyway, and I turn around,
and by the way, I'm...
538
00:28:51,146 --> 00:28:54,315
I can't imagine that I'm nude,
but certainly I'm topless.
539
00:28:55,442 --> 00:28:56,901
And we turn around,
540
00:28:56,985 --> 00:29:01,197
and there are a busload
of Japanese folk that have just arrived,
541
00:29:01,281 --> 00:29:03,450
and it turns out where we are,
542
00:29:03,533 --> 00:29:08,329
it's where they bring the tourists
to have lunch from all the hotels.
543
00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:13,710
I am at that time, I believe,
Princess Leia, in a profound way,
544
00:29:13,793 --> 00:29:15,086
and not...
545
00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:16,713
clothed.
546
00:29:16,796 --> 00:29:18,590
I took acid and went,
547
00:29:19,090 --> 00:29:22,802
"Oh, I see, this makes sense."
548
00:29:23,261 --> 00:29:27,056
And in fact,
when I was first, uh, told I was bipolar,
549
00:29:27,140 --> 00:29:29,934
well, I went in to see a doctor,
and I said,
550
00:29:31,978 --> 00:29:34,397
"Well, I felt normal on acid."
551
00:29:34,814 --> 00:29:40,278
Why she might feel normal when taking LSD
during the height of her fame,
552
00:29:40,361 --> 00:29:43,907
it may have something to do
with how unnatural it felt
553
00:29:43,990 --> 00:29:45,575
being a public persona,
554
00:29:45,658 --> 00:29:49,621
how disconnected
she may have been from herself.
555
00:29:50,205 --> 00:29:53,833
And how the LSD experience
may have allowed her
556
00:29:53,917 --> 00:29:58,296
to have accessed some core element,
her core self,
557
00:29:58,379 --> 00:30:01,007
and allowed her to feel more genuine
in that regard.
558
00:30:01,424 --> 00:30:05,136
Anyway, what happened was
we took this Owsley acid.
559
00:30:05,220 --> 00:30:07,222
We got really high.
560
00:30:08,097 --> 00:30:09,432
We were in Central Park.
561
00:30:10,141 --> 00:30:12,143
I'm holding onto the ground,
562
00:30:14,395 --> 00:30:17,190
'cause it was hard to stay on the planet.
563
00:30:19,025 --> 00:30:22,487
And I'm watching an acorn,
564
00:30:23,154 --> 00:30:26,032
and it's moving a lot.
565
00:30:26,866 --> 00:30:29,035
I never saw anything that wasn't there.
566
00:30:29,118 --> 00:30:32,747
I just saw things that were there...
misbehave.
567
00:30:33,623 --> 00:30:35,834
[acorn yells, groans]
568
00:30:35,917 --> 00:30:37,502
[delighted giggling]
569
00:30:37,585 --> 00:30:40,839
Holy shit! You're Carrie Fisher!
570
00:30:41,756 --> 00:30:43,758
You're fucking Princess Leia!
571
00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:46,678
Oh, my God, I'm such a huge fan of yours!
572
00:30:46,761 --> 00:30:48,388
And it's misbehaving...
573
00:30:48,471 --> 00:30:51,808
Look at this.
I got it at a garage sale. Huh?
574
00:30:51,891 --> 00:30:53,434
Woo!
575
00:30:53,518 --> 00:30:54,602
And misbehaving...
576
00:30:54,686 --> 00:30:58,356
I'm talking to you, 'cause
you're tripping your fucking balls off!
577
00:30:58,439 --> 00:31:01,067
-No, just... No, no!
-[acorn laughs manically]
578
00:31:01,150 --> 00:31:04,696
So I had to watch this acorn,
579
00:31:04,779 --> 00:31:08,408
you know, basically choreograph itself.
580
00:31:08,491 --> 00:31:10,535
You're in show business.
Can I run something by you?
581
00:31:10,618 --> 00:31:12,245
Tell me what you think, okay?
582
00:31:12,328 --> 00:31:13,288
♪ I'm a nut ♪
583
00:31:14,789 --> 00:31:15,832
♪ I'm a nut ♪
584
00:31:16,833 --> 00:31:19,002
♪ I'm a nut, nut, nut ♪
585
00:31:19,085 --> 00:31:20,128
♪ I'm nuts ♪
586
00:31:20,211 --> 00:31:21,170
♪ I'm a nut ♪
587
00:31:21,254 --> 00:31:24,090
-What do you think? I'm still, you know--
-Shut up!
588
00:31:24,173 --> 00:31:26,759
Oh... you don't like it.
589
00:31:26,843 --> 00:31:28,261
So at that point,
590
00:31:28,344 --> 00:31:31,890
the acorn was almost back to being itself.
591
00:31:32,473 --> 00:31:33,975
Don't tell anybody what you saw here.
592
00:31:35,018 --> 00:31:36,644
Shh!
593
00:31:37,979 --> 00:31:39,939
-Shh...
-[relieved sighing]
594
00:31:40,023 --> 00:31:41,107
[yells] Don't say nothin'!
595
00:31:41,190 --> 00:31:42,567
[chuckling]
596
00:31:43,985 --> 00:31:45,403
As a psychologist,
597
00:31:45,486 --> 00:31:48,573
I have to tell you that the understanding
you think you have gained
598
00:31:48,656 --> 00:31:50,366
just doesn't fit in with the facts.
599
00:31:50,450 --> 00:31:52,619
The only real understanding
you could gain
600
00:31:52,702 --> 00:31:55,496
would come from having a bummer,
and then analyzing it,
601
00:31:55,997 --> 00:31:58,666
which would mean you'd have to want
to try to have bummers,
602
00:31:58,750 --> 00:32:00,585
and then attempt to understand them,
603
00:32:00,668 --> 00:32:03,046
the way that psychologists analyze dreams.
604
00:32:03,504 --> 00:32:05,465
Which, unless you are properly trained,
605
00:32:05,548 --> 00:32:07,258
you cannot do by yourself.
606
00:32:08,635 --> 00:32:13,264
Drugs, uh.... change your state
of consciousness very dramatically.
607
00:32:14,265 --> 00:32:17,310
So you run the risk of psychosis,
608
00:32:17,393 --> 00:32:19,228
or what's called "a bad trip."
609
00:32:19,312 --> 00:32:24,233
A bad trip is minimized
the more you control your set and setting.
610
00:32:24,317 --> 00:32:26,903
A "set" is who's the person
having this experience,
611
00:32:26,986 --> 00:32:30,239
their mindset, their vulnerabilities,
their intention.
612
00:32:30,323 --> 00:32:34,577
"Setting" is where you're doing it,
how safe is the setting,
613
00:32:34,661 --> 00:32:37,705
Don't take acid with... strangers,
614
00:32:37,789 --> 00:32:40,375
or people who pretend to be your friends,
615
00:32:40,458 --> 00:32:41,584
or friends of friends.
616
00:32:41,668 --> 00:32:43,252
Pick your company well.
617
00:32:43,336 --> 00:32:45,672
Do not ever take LSD with assholes.
618
00:32:45,755 --> 00:32:47,966
You don't want somebody doing,
"Oh, are you freaking out?"
619
00:32:48,049 --> 00:32:49,592
"Oh, you feel it?
620
00:32:49,676 --> 00:32:51,636
Oh, you feel your mind cracking?"
621
00:32:51,719 --> 00:32:53,221
[slow distorted laugh]
622
00:32:53,304 --> 00:32:54,597
So crazy...
623
00:32:54,681 --> 00:32:57,433
"Do you see pink elephants, man?
Do you see pink elephants?"
624
00:32:57,517 --> 00:32:59,811
If you've got a deep sadness or a problem,
625
00:32:59,894 --> 00:33:02,605
that can often be dangerously enhanced.
626
00:33:02,689 --> 00:33:06,109
You don't want a bunch of crazy stuff
going on in your head,
627
00:33:06,192 --> 00:33:09,737
like bad stuff that you're dealing with,
like, "I just broke up with somebody,"
628
00:33:09,821 --> 00:33:12,657
or, "I got caught masturbating
in the coffee machine,"
629
00:33:12,740 --> 00:33:15,326
because that sort of guilt and shame,
630
00:33:15,785 --> 00:33:17,453
you know, just becomes bigger.
631
00:33:17,537 --> 00:33:19,330
You wanna make sure
you're strong mentally.
632
00:33:19,414 --> 00:33:22,542
It's a journey
that everyone must take on their own...
633
00:33:22,959 --> 00:33:23,876
with friends.
634
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,796
Hang out with a couple of good friends
in an enclosed space,
635
00:33:26,879 --> 00:33:29,882
not enclosed, with some outdoors,
enjoy the outdoors.
636
00:33:29,966 --> 00:33:32,969
I'd suggest the woods.
That's it, the woods.
637
00:33:33,052 --> 00:33:35,138
Water nearby, a flowing river,
638
00:33:35,221 --> 00:33:36,848
fucking trees, and beauty.
639
00:33:36,931 --> 00:33:38,224
People always say
640
00:33:38,307 --> 00:33:40,977
that you should trip in a meadow
or somewhere natural,
641
00:33:41,060 --> 00:33:43,062
and that's probably great,
but I've never done that.
642
00:33:43,146 --> 00:33:44,856
I've always been in New York City.
643
00:33:44,939 --> 00:33:47,775
The first time I went to New York
and just got high,
644
00:33:47,859 --> 00:33:50,069
I thought the taxis were out to kill me.
645
00:33:50,153 --> 00:33:51,404
Stay away from cities.
646
00:33:51,904 --> 00:33:53,906
[soft melodic music plays]
647
00:34:00,496 --> 00:34:03,207
[narrator] And now, back to Bad Trip.
648
00:34:03,291 --> 00:34:06,753
Everyone will tell you
that taking a trip will be fine,
649
00:34:06,836 --> 00:34:09,797
as long as you control
your set and setting.
650
00:34:09,881 --> 00:34:11,632
But the only thing that is sure
651
00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:14,969
is you are set on setting out on a...
652
00:34:17,013 --> 00:34:18,514
[rock riff plays]
653
00:34:22,727 --> 00:34:24,270
[hysterical laughter]
654
00:34:24,353 --> 00:34:26,731
"Orange" you glad we're friends?
655
00:34:28,566 --> 00:34:30,359
I don't know, "orange" you?
656
00:34:31,569 --> 00:34:34,113
You guys are acting really weird.
657
00:34:34,197 --> 00:34:37,408
Yeah, guys, knock it off,
it's not funny anymore.
658
00:34:37,492 --> 00:34:40,328
You know what'd be funny?
If I jumped out of a window.
659
00:34:40,411 --> 00:34:42,205
That sounds like a great idea!
660
00:34:42,288 --> 00:34:43,372
Yeah, do it!
661
00:34:43,456 --> 00:34:44,916
-Okay!
-[both laugh]
662
00:34:44,999 --> 00:34:46,667
What? No!
663
00:34:46,751 --> 00:34:48,169
Not the window!
664
00:34:48,252 --> 00:34:49,587
[squealing, laughing]
665
00:34:53,216 --> 00:34:55,218
[sarcastic laughter]
666
00:35:01,599 --> 00:35:05,186
Drugs are a laugh riot...
until they're not.
667
00:35:06,562 --> 00:35:08,564
[rock riff plays]
668
00:35:12,735 --> 00:35:13,861
Hi, my name is Nick Kroll,
669
00:35:13,945 --> 00:35:17,490
and I have a cautionary tale to tell
about tripping. Um...
670
00:35:17,573 --> 00:35:20,827
You know, it was super fun,
I just want to caution people. [chuckles]
671
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:32,338
Couple of years ago,
672
00:35:32,421 --> 00:35:34,799
uh, my friend's bachelor party,
673
00:35:34,882 --> 00:35:36,926
rented a house up in Malibu,
674
00:35:37,009 --> 00:35:39,428
and I procured a bunch of mushrooms for it
675
00:35:39,512 --> 00:35:43,432
because, you know,
dudes in their mid-to-late 30s
676
00:35:43,975 --> 00:35:47,854
are just looking to, you know,
fucking escape.
677
00:35:48,771 --> 00:35:52,483
People were smoking salvia,
so you knew it's a classy affair.
678
00:35:55,027 --> 00:35:57,029
We're on some private beach in Malibu.
679
00:35:57,113 --> 00:35:58,823
-[laughter]
-We all take mushrooms.
680
00:35:58,948 --> 00:36:01,701
I take a few more, just to be, like,
"Yeah, it's cool, these are good."
681
00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:06,038
-[man 1] Higher!
-[yelling] Oh! I love my friends!
682
00:36:06,372 --> 00:36:07,748
[Nick] So we're having a good time.
683
00:36:07,832 --> 00:36:09,917
I'm thinking,
"I'm in the water, I'm tripping,
684
00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:12,962
there's a 90% chance I'm going to drown,
685
00:36:13,045 --> 00:36:16,757
but it's feeling good
to be one with the Earth."
686
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,
687
00:36:20,636 --> 00:36:24,557
and I sit down, and I've eaten
more mushrooms than everybody else.
688
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,936
I see my buddies, and they are starting
to gather a bunch of sea kelp.
689
00:36:29,020 --> 00:36:32,690
I see this, and I'm like,
"I understand what's going to happen now."
690
00:36:32,773 --> 00:36:34,025
Oh, God...
691
00:36:34,108 --> 00:36:35,443
They've come out of the water.
692
00:36:35,526 --> 00:36:38,404
They're emerging
with about 40 to 50 pounds,
693
00:36:38,487 --> 00:36:40,656
and I just see them lift it,
694
00:36:40,740 --> 00:36:43,951
and just put all of this sea kelp
on my body.
695
00:36:45,536 --> 00:36:47,788
And I was...
696
00:36:48,372 --> 00:36:49,415
thrilled. [giggles]
697
00:36:49,498 --> 00:36:52,251
And the sea kelp starts to move on me,
698
00:36:52,335 --> 00:36:54,170
and I'm like, "I am the kelp monster."
699
00:36:54,253 --> 00:36:56,255
[yelling] I am the kelp monster!
700
00:36:56,339 --> 00:36:57,465
[laughter]
701
00:37:02,470 --> 00:37:05,431
[Nick] I couldn't even fathom
wanting to remove...
702
00:37:06,724 --> 00:37:09,477
this fucking detritus from the sea.
703
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,395
[Nick] Kelp monster!
704
00:37:11,479 --> 00:37:13,314
Uh... The next day I woke up,
705
00:37:13,814 --> 00:37:16,025
uh, covered in red welts,
706
00:37:16,525 --> 00:37:19,904
um, because I had, uh...
707
00:37:19,987 --> 00:37:22,949
been covered in sea fucking kelp
708
00:37:23,032 --> 00:37:24,867
for 45 minutes.
709
00:37:25,493 --> 00:37:29,247
I don't really dig dropping pills,
but you get the wildest trip on acid.
710
00:37:29,330 --> 00:37:31,749
Yeah, but you can also get
the wildest bummers.
711
00:37:31,832 --> 00:37:35,378
You know, when there's, like,
four corners or whatever, and...
712
00:37:35,878 --> 00:37:38,547
you kind of get trained by stop lights
713
00:37:38,631 --> 00:37:41,384
or by the walk sign
and the don't walk sign or whatever,
714
00:37:41,467 --> 00:37:46,264
and I remember all of a sudden being like,
"Oh, I wanna get over there..."
715
00:37:46,347 --> 00:37:48,349
And instead of going from here...
716
00:37:48,432 --> 00:37:50,851
from point A,
to point B, to point C, I was like,
717
00:37:50,935 --> 00:37:53,771
"I could just go from point A to point C!"
718
00:37:53,854 --> 00:37:57,483
-[chuckles]
-And it sounds really stupid,
719
00:37:57,566 --> 00:37:59,193
but it's something acid gave me,
720
00:37:59,277 --> 00:38:01,570
and then in my life I use it all the time,
where I'm like,
721
00:38:01,654 --> 00:38:06,242
"If no one's looking,
I can just head straight to point C,
722
00:38:06,325 --> 00:38:08,953
without doing this point B bullshit."
723
00:38:19,338 --> 00:38:20,673
So, I'm Kathleen,
724
00:38:20,756 --> 00:38:24,260
and this is Adam, we're married,
we're both musicians. Tell yours.
725
00:38:24,343 --> 00:38:26,846
[clears throat]
My story that I wanted to tell...
726
00:38:27,346 --> 00:38:28,472
isn't...
727
00:38:28,597 --> 00:38:32,977
I've never had, like, a bad acid trip,
or a bad mushroom trip,
728
00:38:33,060 --> 00:38:34,020
like a freak-out.
729
00:38:34,103 --> 00:38:37,523
Late '80s, I was with three friends,
we were driving to...
730
00:38:37,606 --> 00:38:40,568
My friend Money Mark said,
"You gotta go to this place in Baja."
731
00:38:40,651 --> 00:38:41,736
It's me and three women,
732
00:38:41,819 --> 00:38:45,031
and we're just, like,
in the middle of nowhere, in Mexico.
733
00:38:45,448 --> 00:38:47,742
My friend was like,
"Oh, I've got two hits of acid,
734
00:38:47,825 --> 00:38:49,076
we should take 'em."
735
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,746
So we put them in a Snapple bottle,
we all drank it.
736
00:39:01,380 --> 00:39:02,631
And a tire blows.
737
00:39:02,715 --> 00:39:05,968
With me and three women,
and we're in the middle of nowhere.
738
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.
739
00:39:08,804 --> 00:39:10,806
You know, as I'm saying it,
I don't even know...
740
00:39:10,890 --> 00:39:13,142
I can't believe
he didn't know how to change a tire!
741
00:39:13,225 --> 00:39:15,770
I don't even know if we looked to see
if there was another tire.
742
00:39:18,564 --> 00:39:21,525
As we're like, "This is really grim..."
743
00:39:22,109 --> 00:39:25,404
-a white owl flies right above us...
-[owl hooting]
744
00:39:25,488 --> 00:39:27,365
...and we're like, "It's a sign.
745
00:39:27,448 --> 00:39:29,533
-Something great's about to happen!"
-[chuckling]
746
00:39:29,617 --> 00:39:32,787
These two vans filled with dudes,
747
00:39:32,870 --> 00:39:33,996
like, grown men,
748
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,374
pull up, and we're like,
"Oh, this is great!
749
00:39:36,457 --> 00:39:38,125
Oh shit, this is a little weird."
750
00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:41,462
All these guys come out, and they're kinda
walking around the car checking us out.
751
00:39:41,545 --> 00:39:43,130
There are three hot girls in the car.
752
00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:44,840
[Adam] If I go with them,
753
00:39:44,924 --> 00:39:47,468
they'll take me to a place...
to a guy who has tires.
754
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."
755
00:39:51,180 --> 00:39:53,474
So we do the four-way hug, and we're like,
756
00:39:53,808 --> 00:39:55,309
you know, "Good luck."
757
00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:59,647
And so we drive, and we drive, and we take
a turn further into the mountains.
758
00:39:59,980 --> 00:40:01,649
It's like it's right out of a movie.
759
00:40:01,732 --> 00:40:04,860
And there's all these old dudes
sitting around by a campfire.
760
00:40:05,528 --> 00:40:08,114
And there's these two cinder block shacks,
761
00:40:08,197 --> 00:40:10,533
and I'm like, "Over there?"
762
00:40:12,910 --> 00:40:17,581
Out of the shack comes
the biggest person you've ever seen.
763
00:40:18,165 --> 00:40:19,625
Overalls, no shirt,
764
00:40:19,708 --> 00:40:20,793
he's backlit,
765
00:40:20,876 --> 00:40:24,088
with the biggest fucking hammer
you've ever seen in your life.
766
00:40:24,171 --> 00:40:26,424
The more I was freaking out,
the more they were laughing.
767
00:40:26,507 --> 00:40:29,593
He turns over
and then he starts banging on the door.
768
00:40:32,221 --> 00:40:34,014
He opens the door, I'm like...
769
00:40:34,348 --> 00:40:36,183
"Alright, this is it. This is...
770
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."
771
00:40:43,482 --> 00:40:46,110
Turns the light on,
it's filled with fucking tires.
772
00:40:46,193 --> 00:40:47,403
It's filled with tires!
773
00:40:47,486 --> 00:40:48,946
It's a church group.
774
00:40:49,029 --> 00:40:51,615
The two vans are from a church group.
775
00:40:51,699 --> 00:40:54,952
And they led us on our way,
they told us, "Go back down this way..."
776
00:40:55,327 --> 00:40:56,912
Wow. It all worked out fine.
777
00:40:56,996 --> 00:40:58,080
It was the owl.
778
00:40:59,915 --> 00:41:01,959
[owl hooting]
779
00:41:04,879 --> 00:41:06,005
This is your brain.
780
00:41:06,589 --> 00:41:07,798
This is your brain.
781
00:41:08,174 --> 00:41:09,216
This is your brain.
782
00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:10,926
This is your brain.
783
00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:13,888
This is your brain on drugs.
784
00:41:20,561 --> 00:41:22,938
This is your brain on my sandwich.
785
00:41:27,109 --> 00:41:28,194
Delicious.
786
00:41:29,195 --> 00:41:31,655
Always that same LSD story,
you've all seen it.
787
00:41:31,739 --> 00:41:34,617
"Young man on acid, thought he could fly,
jumped out of a building.
788
00:41:34,700 --> 00:41:36,035
What a tragedy."
789
00:41:36,994 --> 00:41:39,914
What a dick! Fuck him. He's an idiot.
790
00:41:39,997 --> 00:41:42,958
If he thought he could fly,
why didn't he take off from the ground?
791
00:41:43,709 --> 00:41:46,462
There isn't a lot of stories
of people leaping.
792
00:41:46,921 --> 00:41:48,088
You know, that was the thing.
793
00:41:48,172 --> 00:41:50,716
It was a lot of shit
that was coming down the pipe
794
00:41:50,799 --> 00:41:54,845
when we were originally taking it,
you know, to kinda scare us off.
795
00:41:54,929 --> 00:41:56,805
Both my parents were therapists,
796
00:41:56,889 --> 00:41:59,934
and they worked
in this, uh, psychiatric hospital.
797
00:42:00,017 --> 00:42:03,312
And I guess the way
my parents telling me not to do drugs
798
00:42:03,395 --> 00:42:05,773
was by coming home and telling me
799
00:42:05,856 --> 00:42:08,400
how messed up the kids were
at the hospital
800
00:42:08,484 --> 00:42:09,902
who did drugs only once.
801
00:42:09,985 --> 00:42:11,028
My mom'd be like,
802
00:42:11,111 --> 00:42:14,198
"This kid smoked marijuana,
and it was laced with PCP,
803
00:42:14,281 --> 00:42:16,825
and now he's insane,
he doesn't know what to do.
804
00:42:16,909 --> 00:42:19,245
He puts a fist up his butt,
that's all he does."
805
00:42:19,328 --> 00:42:22,081
That was literally a story my mom told me.
806
00:42:22,164 --> 00:42:27,211
So I had the fear of God in me
about doing any sort of drugs whatsoever.
807
00:42:27,294 --> 00:42:30,756
I never did it. That is
until I went to Amsterdam.
808
00:42:30,839 --> 00:42:32,841
[funky music plays]
809
00:42:40,724 --> 00:42:41,892
Hey, I'm Paul Scheer.
810
00:42:41,976 --> 00:42:46,313
And this is my story
about getting ridiculously high.
811
00:42:46,397 --> 00:42:50,067
I went to Amsterdam with a bunch
of my comedy friends to do some shows.
812
00:42:50,150 --> 00:42:53,362
And it was like, "Wow, Amsterdam,
like, marijuana's legal...
813
00:42:53,445 --> 00:42:55,489
Wow! You can even do mushrooms.
This will be amazing.
814
00:42:55,573 --> 00:42:58,117
Alright, we have to have a mushroom day."
815
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,661
And we finally went to a shop,
and, you know,
816
00:43:00,744 --> 00:43:04,290
they bring them out like you would
bring out diamonds at Tiffany's.
817
00:43:04,373 --> 00:43:07,001
They have different types
of mushrooms,
818
00:43:07,084 --> 00:43:08,210
and we pick them...
819
00:43:08,294 --> 00:43:11,255
I remember I picked something
that was like "Hawaiian-something."
820
00:43:11,338 --> 00:43:13,424
I was like, "Hawaii, that's cool, yeah,
like surfing.
821
00:43:13,507 --> 00:43:14,758
That's the kind of trip I want."
822
00:43:14,842 --> 00:43:17,636
So we decided
where's the best place to do it
823
00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:20,431
and it would have to be
the Van Gogh Museum.
824
00:43:20,514 --> 00:43:22,683
So, we go into the Van Gogh Museum,
825
00:43:23,183 --> 00:43:25,185
and, you know,
we're just eating these mushrooms...
826
00:43:25,269 --> 00:43:27,855
They say, "Don't eat the whole thing
all at once, right?" "Fine."
827
00:43:27,938 --> 00:43:31,483
So I'm eating these mushrooms.
And about five minutes pass, I'm like...
828
00:43:31,567 --> 00:43:35,154
"Pfft... I don't feel anything.
These mushrooms don't work at all."
829
00:43:39,491 --> 00:43:40,576
Well...
830
00:43:41,744 --> 00:43:43,329
I'm Paul Scheer, in Amsterdam,
831
00:43:43,412 --> 00:43:46,248
and I guess these mushrooms
aren't kicking in.
832
00:43:46,790 --> 00:43:49,585
And so I just eat more of them,
and then more of them.
833
00:43:50,461 --> 00:43:52,129
I guess I'll just enjoy the art.
834
00:43:52,546 --> 00:43:53,756
I'm Paul Scheer in Amsterdam.
835
00:43:53,839 --> 00:43:56,050
[Paul] I look up at one of the paintings,
836
00:43:56,133 --> 00:43:59,345
which is the crows over the cornfield,
837
00:43:59,428 --> 00:44:01,597
and it really, like, grabs me,
for some reason.
838
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,558
"Wow, this is really interesting.
Oh, look at that!
839
00:44:04,642 --> 00:44:06,268
I can see under the crows!"
840
00:44:06,352 --> 00:44:07,561
I start to turn...
841
00:44:07,645 --> 00:44:10,022
Because I'm convincing myself
that if I turn,
842
00:44:10,105 --> 00:44:13,067
I'm seeing parts of the painting
that don't really exist.
843
00:44:13,150 --> 00:44:15,944
Holy shit!
844
00:44:16,028 --> 00:44:17,488
[Paul] Look at all this corn!
845
00:44:18,530 --> 00:44:21,450
All of a sudden, I feel like these birds
are coming out at me,
846
00:44:21,533 --> 00:44:23,452
-and I'm in the middle of this cornfield.
-Whoa!
847
00:44:23,535 --> 00:44:25,454
What the fuck?
848
00:44:25,537 --> 00:44:27,414
Now, this is a popular museum.
849
00:44:27,498 --> 00:44:29,291
Family, people are all there...
850
00:44:29,375 --> 00:44:33,253
and I'm standing maybe four inches away
from the painting,
851
00:44:33,796 --> 00:44:35,673
almost upside down.
852
00:44:35,756 --> 00:44:38,092
Like this, like, "Yes, yes, yes..."
853
00:44:40,761 --> 00:44:45,057
And it's morphing and moving,
I'm like, "Van Gogh, genius!"
854
00:44:45,140 --> 00:44:46,767
I get Van Gogh!
855
00:44:46,850 --> 00:44:48,477
I get Van Gogh!
856
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,
857
00:44:52,189 --> 00:44:53,399
I gotta leave this museum."
858
00:44:53,482 --> 00:44:56,068
I arrive back at the house
that we're staying.
859
00:44:56,151 --> 00:44:57,277
And I go, "Guys...
860
00:44:57,903 --> 00:45:00,322
we need to get McDonald's."
861
00:45:00,406 --> 00:45:01,782
And everyone's like, "Yes!"
862
00:45:01,865 --> 00:45:04,660
I think my plan stemmed from the fact
that we were in a foreign country,
863
00:45:04,743 --> 00:45:07,496
and we needed to ground ourselves
with something American.
864
00:45:07,579 --> 00:45:09,206
So McDonald's was the way to go.
865
00:45:09,289 --> 00:45:10,624
And I go into McDonalds,
866
00:45:10,708 --> 00:45:13,001
they fill up a sack of burgers for me,
867
00:45:13,085 --> 00:45:14,837
I take it back to our house,
868
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,965
and I toss them out to everybody,
everyone starts eating the burgers,
869
00:45:18,048 --> 00:45:21,009
and just like in Alice in Wonderland
when she eats the pill,
870
00:45:21,093 --> 00:45:22,428
we all finish our burgers,
871
00:45:22,511 --> 00:45:25,556
and it just wears off,
we're back to normal.
872
00:45:25,639 --> 00:45:29,017
And I was like, "Thank you, McDonald's.
You saved us."
873
00:45:29,101 --> 00:45:32,104
Never had experience in McDonald's,
because I'm not a fucking idiot.
874
00:45:32,187 --> 00:45:34,022
If there's anything antithetical
875
00:45:34,106 --> 00:45:36,608
to a trip on LSD, it's a McDonald's.
876
00:45:36,692 --> 00:45:38,527
Talk about yin and fuck-yang.
877
00:45:38,610 --> 00:45:42,489
You walk in there, and you realize,
"I'm in the belly of the fucking beast.
878
00:45:42,573 --> 00:45:46,243
I have a soul,
and I'm in a soulless cage."
879
00:45:46,326 --> 00:45:49,371
[funky music plays]
880
00:45:56,378 --> 00:45:58,547
Hi, I'm Rob Corddry.
881
00:45:58,630 --> 00:46:00,215
A psychonaut.
882
00:46:01,216 --> 00:46:02,551
Screen Actors Guild.
883
00:46:02,634 --> 00:46:04,219
Once we were on mushrooms,
884
00:46:04,303 --> 00:46:05,929
and I sat in front of the mirror,
885
00:46:06,013 --> 00:46:07,264
tripping my balls off,
886
00:46:07,347 --> 00:46:08,515
high as a kite,
887
00:46:08,599 --> 00:46:11,143
just, like, staring at myself
in the mirror.
888
00:46:13,103 --> 00:46:14,438
I had my shirt off,
889
00:46:14,521 --> 00:46:17,191
which is usually something that bugs me,
890
00:46:17,649 --> 00:46:21,361
but at this point, like,
you don't have any body dysmorphia.
891
00:46:21,445 --> 00:46:24,198
You see things
for the way they really are.
892
00:46:24,281 --> 00:46:27,493
No matter how much
they sort of, like, shimmer and breathe.
893
00:46:27,826 --> 00:46:29,286
Your body's breathing anyway.
894
00:46:29,369 --> 00:46:31,997
And I'm, like, looking at it,
my body, and my face,
895
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:35,292
for what it really, truly is.
896
00:46:35,375 --> 00:46:38,045
It... You know,
my face looked completely different.
897
00:46:38,128 --> 00:46:41,173
My body, I understood it was a shell,
898
00:46:41,256 --> 00:46:43,884
And I felt inside me, the real me,
not in the mirror,
899
00:46:43,967 --> 00:46:47,262
I felt bigger than my body,
and I felt wider.
900
00:46:47,346 --> 00:46:48,889
And I felt, like, "This is it."
901
00:46:48,972 --> 00:46:51,475
Like, "We're part of everything,
everything is connected."
902
00:46:51,558 --> 00:46:53,143
And then I'd look in the mirror,
903
00:46:53,227 --> 00:46:57,773
and I'd be like... I could see,
it seemed, like...
904
00:46:58,482 --> 00:47:01,109
the whole world was me.
905
00:47:01,193 --> 00:47:04,947
I could see everything,
everything was connected. All good.
906
00:47:05,030 --> 00:47:07,407
People always say
don't look in the mirror when you're high,
907
00:47:07,491 --> 00:47:09,618
but I'm like, "Don't ever leave a mirror!"
908
00:47:14,665 --> 00:47:16,500
Do look in the mirror!
909
00:47:17,042 --> 00:47:19,002
I remember looking in the mirror.
910
00:47:19,086 --> 00:47:21,213
My face turned into a gargoyle.
911
00:47:21,630 --> 00:47:24,049
That shit was trippy.
I was like, "Oh, shit."
912
00:47:24,132 --> 00:47:26,844
[tense psychedelic music plays]
913
00:47:31,598 --> 00:47:33,392
Growing up in an urban community,
914
00:47:33,475 --> 00:47:36,854
like the hood or some shit like that,
we look at acid, like,
915
00:47:36,937 --> 00:47:42,901
"Man, that's like crack, or like PCP,
angel dust, meth or some shit like that.
916
00:47:42,985 --> 00:47:44,611
The fuck you do with acid?"
917
00:47:45,028 --> 00:47:46,780
And then as you get older, you know,
918
00:47:46,864 --> 00:47:50,242
you start doing mushrooms
and shit like that, and you realize that
919
00:47:50,325 --> 00:47:53,245
all it is
is, like, fungus and mold, and, you know,
920
00:47:53,328 --> 00:47:56,540
this is just, like, some chill shit.
921
00:48:07,009 --> 00:48:11,513
I remember the first time I did acid.
It was a couple of years back.
922
00:48:11,597 --> 00:48:12,931
I felt I was ready,
923
00:48:13,390 --> 00:48:15,309
ready to become one with the planet,
924
00:48:15,809 --> 00:48:16,935
the universe.
925
00:48:17,019 --> 00:48:19,688
It was crazy.
It was with a beautiful female.
926
00:48:20,105 --> 00:48:22,149
She's the one who introduced me to it.
927
00:48:22,232 --> 00:48:26,361
All I remember is
she had it on, like, crackers already.
928
00:48:26,445 --> 00:48:29,197
Unfortunately, by the time I got with her
929
00:48:29,281 --> 00:48:32,951
is exactly when the acid
just started kicking in.
930
00:48:33,035 --> 00:48:36,163
And, you know, we gettin' jiggy
and whatnot, right?
931
00:48:36,663 --> 00:48:37,664
It feels so good.
932
00:48:37,748 --> 00:48:40,626
Like, it's...
Everything feels intensified.
933
00:48:40,709 --> 00:48:42,461
I'm seeing all type of shit.
934
00:48:42,544 --> 00:48:44,296
I'm feeling all type of shit.
935
00:48:44,630 --> 00:48:46,423
Colors are moving. I hear colors.
936
00:48:46,506 --> 00:48:47,841
I can taste the colors.
937
00:48:48,717 --> 00:48:51,637
Like, what the fuck
does a color taste like, you know?
938
00:48:52,596 --> 00:48:53,972
And for some reason,
939
00:48:54,056 --> 00:48:56,266
everything she did to me just felt...
940
00:48:56,350 --> 00:48:57,434
amazing.
941
00:48:57,517 --> 00:48:59,019
Like, times two.
942
00:48:59,102 --> 00:49:00,354
Out of the ordinary.
943
00:49:00,771 --> 00:49:03,023
And, uh... This is a bit graphic,
944
00:49:04,399 --> 00:49:07,778
it's a bit vulgar, it's a bit raunchy,
you feel me?
945
00:49:08,362 --> 00:49:09,529
You feel me, but...
946
00:49:09,988 --> 00:49:11,406
What can I say? It's life.
947
00:49:11,865 --> 00:49:12,866
No lie...
948
00:49:13,492 --> 00:49:15,494
A rainbow shot out of my dick.
949
00:49:15,911 --> 00:49:20,207
And it had a sound with it,
like a piano or some shit like that.
950
00:49:20,290 --> 00:49:22,459
[A$AP mimes piano notes]
951
00:49:22,542 --> 00:49:24,711
I have no idea why there was a rainbow...
952
00:49:25,379 --> 00:49:26,672
coming out of my penis.
953
00:49:27,381 --> 00:49:29,007
I don't even like rainbows.
954
00:49:29,591 --> 00:49:32,761
And I woke up the next day and I told...
955
00:49:34,054 --> 00:49:36,556
I told the homie, and I said, "Yo,
956
00:49:37,391 --> 00:49:40,018
I know what the answer to life is."
957
00:49:41,353 --> 00:49:42,646
And I said...
958
00:49:43,105 --> 00:49:44,898
"It's to love each other."
959
00:49:44,982 --> 00:49:45,941
He was like...
960
00:49:46,692 --> 00:49:48,902
"Word." [laughs]
961
00:49:50,362 --> 00:49:52,489
That was my first time doing acid, man.
962
00:49:53,407 --> 00:49:55,242
But to each his own, because...
963
00:49:55,784 --> 00:49:58,537
I'm not a psychedelic advocate. Like...
964
00:49:58,620 --> 00:50:00,831
you know, I have a good time with it.
965
00:50:00,956 --> 00:50:03,000
It's not for everybody, let me say that.
966
00:50:03,083 --> 00:50:06,253
You know, I'm an artiste,
it's my lifestyle.
967
00:50:07,212 --> 00:50:09,256
I'm on a, like, psychedelic, like,
968
00:50:10,090 --> 00:50:13,760
1960s rock, like, you know, like...
969
00:50:13,844 --> 00:50:15,470
The Castaways...
970
00:50:15,554 --> 00:50:17,180
Jefferson Airplane...
971
00:50:17,264 --> 00:50:20,517
The Rolling Stones had some shit,
fucking Beatles, of course.
972
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:21,435
Jimi...
973
00:50:21,518 --> 00:50:24,479
Who sings the "Hurdy Gurdy Man,"
is that Donovan?
974
00:50:25,188 --> 00:50:28,859
A truly 1960s experience
975
00:50:28,942 --> 00:50:33,697
was, "Is there an answer
to the suffering of the world?"
976
00:50:33,780 --> 00:50:37,451
Because until 1966 in October,
977
00:50:37,534 --> 00:50:39,619
LSD was actually legal,
978
00:50:39,703 --> 00:50:44,499
and was used in extraordinary,
beneficial ways, as we all know.
979
00:50:45,042 --> 00:50:47,127
We know now, from documentation,
980
00:50:47,210 --> 00:50:49,004
how it helped so many people.
981
00:50:49,087 --> 00:50:50,881
Anxiety drops.
982
00:50:50,964 --> 00:50:54,801
People who are about to die,
who get DMT, you know the story...
983
00:50:55,302 --> 00:50:57,888
They are given some psilocybin,
984
00:50:58,305 --> 00:51:00,724
and suddenly their anxiety disappears,
985
00:51:00,807 --> 00:51:02,392
because they now feel,
986
00:51:02,476 --> 00:51:03,560
"This is natural."
987
00:51:03,643 --> 00:51:05,854
Never did ayahuasca or DMT.
988
00:51:05,937 --> 00:51:08,065
I'm too scared, man.
989
00:51:08,148 --> 00:51:11,109
You know, I admit it,
but maybe I'll get to the point one day
990
00:51:11,193 --> 00:51:12,652
when I feel brave enough to do it.
991
00:51:12,736 --> 00:51:15,989
DMT is, like, you know,
that is the express ticket
992
00:51:16,073 --> 00:51:18,200
to, you know, the primordial ooze.
993
00:51:18,283 --> 00:51:21,203
If you wanna see what it is like
to be just an organic being,
994
00:51:21,286 --> 00:51:24,581
absolutely watch your ego
dissipate into nothingness,
995
00:51:24,664 --> 00:51:27,501
smoke some DMT, and you'll get there.
996
00:51:27,584 --> 00:51:29,377
You'll get there right away,
and you will have
997
00:51:29,461 --> 00:51:32,672
direct contact with aliens, and colors,
998
00:51:32,756 --> 00:51:36,510
and ancient patterns,
and sacred geometry, and...
999
00:51:37,469 --> 00:51:38,386
it's amazing.
1000
00:51:38,804 --> 00:51:40,514
My name is Zach Leary,
1001
00:51:40,597 --> 00:51:43,642
and I grew up with Timothy Leary.
1002
00:51:43,725 --> 00:51:49,731
He was an American philosopher
and psychologist of the late 20th century.
1003
00:51:49,815 --> 00:51:53,401
The first time that my dad
did psilocybin in Mexico, you know,
1004
00:51:53,485 --> 00:51:55,654
his famous quote from the experience was,
1005
00:51:55,737 --> 00:51:57,823
"I learned more in my four hours
on mushrooms
1006
00:51:57,906 --> 00:52:00,367
than I did in my previous
20 years of psychology."
1007
00:52:00,951 --> 00:52:04,371
Naturally, the psychologists
and psychiatrists want to use LSD
1008
00:52:04,454 --> 00:52:05,831
in treating mental illness.
1009
00:52:05,914 --> 00:52:09,918
I think that LSD will be
the number one, uh...
1010
00:52:10,001 --> 00:52:11,586
cure for mental illness
1011
00:52:11,670 --> 00:52:14,297
when the psychologists know
how to use it.
1012
00:52:14,381 --> 00:52:16,633
And in 1963, he was...
1013
00:52:17,175 --> 00:52:21,054
fired quite ceremoniously
from Harvard University,
1014
00:52:21,138 --> 00:52:25,559
for conducting psychedelic experiments
with grad students.
1015
00:52:25,642 --> 00:52:29,521
Timothy Leary, and Ram Dass,
and, you know, um...
1016
00:52:29,604 --> 00:52:32,399
Terence McKenna,
and all these people who...
1017
00:52:32,482 --> 00:52:35,485
have spent their lives
exploring those realms,
1018
00:52:35,569 --> 00:52:40,824
and then, they had also the knowledge
and the genius to be able to study them,
1019
00:52:40,907 --> 00:52:42,117
were just shut down.
1020
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,411
And so, we fucking blew it.
1021
00:52:44,494 --> 00:52:48,456
Well, I think it was a shame
that the prior...
1022
00:52:49,124 --> 00:52:51,793
generation of psychedelic investigators
1023
00:52:51,877 --> 00:52:54,421
were abruptly stopped in their tracks,
1024
00:52:54,504 --> 00:52:59,551
because they were
onto some very important discoveries.
1025
00:52:59,634 --> 00:53:02,554
And they were developing
new treatment models,
1026
00:53:02,637 --> 00:53:05,807
which we feel today
should still be explored,
1027
00:53:05,891 --> 00:53:11,229
because they might offer
a great deal of promise and hope
1028
00:53:11,313 --> 00:53:14,774
for people who have suffered
from conditions
1029
00:53:14,858 --> 00:53:18,612
for which mainstream psychiatry
may not have much to offer.
1030
00:53:18,695 --> 00:53:22,490
There are many basic questions about LSD
which remain unanswered.
1031
00:53:22,991 --> 00:53:25,076
There's much work to be done.
1032
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,580
A good deal of important research lies
in the future.
1033
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,291
Hopefully, someday we'll have the answers.
1034
00:53:31,374 --> 00:53:33,168
People always ask...
1035
00:53:33,251 --> 00:53:38,632
what my best experiences were
taking psychedelics with my dad.
1036
00:53:38,715 --> 00:53:40,967
I mean, we had some good ones,
like Grateful Dead concerts.
1037
00:53:41,051 --> 00:53:43,011
Yeah, the visuals were really, like...
1038
00:53:43,094 --> 00:53:48,433
Gosh, I remember Jerry Garcia's head
sort of swelling to ten times the size...
1039
00:53:48,516 --> 00:53:51,561
Going to a Grateful Dead show
without drugs was okay.
1040
00:53:51,645 --> 00:53:54,105
[music plays gently]
1041
00:53:54,189 --> 00:53:57,025
But with drugs, it was pretty good.
1042
00:54:00,070 --> 00:54:01,446
[David Cross] Grateful Dead shows.
1043
00:54:01,529 --> 00:54:05,158
The greatest place to trip,
because it was very safe.
1044
00:54:05,575 --> 00:54:08,078
There are facilities,
1045
00:54:08,161 --> 00:54:11,122
um... and kind of makeshift areas,
1046
00:54:11,206 --> 00:54:12,791
just for people who are tripping.
1047
00:54:12,874 --> 00:54:14,876
As much as I didn't care for the music,
1048
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,003
I've probably seen the Dead...
1049
00:54:17,087 --> 00:54:19,756
I mean, yeah, I gotta say,
like 11 or 12 times.
1050
00:54:20,090 --> 00:54:21,549
I liked Jerry Garcia.
1051
00:54:21,633 --> 00:54:23,885
I can admit that publicly,
I'm not ashamed of that.
1052
00:54:23,969 --> 00:54:27,597
I appreciate the Grateful Dead.
I mean, I went to college, I'm white...
1053
00:54:27,681 --> 00:54:30,392
I went on stage with the Grateful Dead,
1054
00:54:30,475 --> 00:54:34,437
and fell asleep
in front of one of the speakers.
1055
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,
1056
00:54:42,946 --> 00:54:47,242
because they're leading with their head,
they're like... "Meeting life head on!"
1057
00:54:49,744 --> 00:54:53,498
But this is how you spot a guy tripping
that's having a bad trip:
1058
00:54:53,832 --> 00:54:55,959
He's leading with his knees, he's like...
1059
00:54:58,211 --> 00:54:59,296
He wants the knees,
1060
00:54:59,379 --> 00:55:03,300
he wants everything but the head
to meet the bad, bad shit head-on.
1061
00:55:03,383 --> 00:55:06,094
One time, uh...
I had figured the wrong amount,
1062
00:55:06,511 --> 00:55:09,973
and I had taken so much
that I looked over at Mickey and said,
1063
00:55:10,056 --> 00:55:12,267
"I can't finish the set,
I gotta go to the dressing room."
1064
00:55:12,350 --> 00:55:14,352
My cymbals were melting, and...
1065
00:55:15,020 --> 00:55:17,355
You know, you can take too much,
and that's a mistake.
1066
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.
1067
00:55:22,068 --> 00:55:27,073
And I sat down politely
at my parents' dining room table,
1068
00:55:27,157 --> 00:55:29,200
and Mama's... It was breakfast,
sun had just come up,
1069
00:55:29,284 --> 00:55:30,952
and she was serving breakfast, of course,
1070
00:55:31,036 --> 00:55:34,039
and served me a plate of eggs
that looked like they were doing
1071
00:55:34,122 --> 00:55:36,124
some kind of new modern dance
on the stage,
1072
00:55:36,207 --> 00:55:38,710
some of this new gyration stuff
going on...
1073
00:55:38,793 --> 00:55:41,588
Everything's moving around,
the sausages were dancing,
1074
00:55:41,671 --> 00:55:43,715
making little buildings and things,
1075
00:55:43,798 --> 00:55:45,884
"How's breakfast, Billy?"
"Fine..."
1076
00:55:45,967 --> 00:55:48,261
[chuckles] I couldn't eat it.
1077
00:55:49,596 --> 00:55:52,140
[narrator] And now, back to Bad Trip.
1078
00:55:54,726 --> 00:55:59,606
Do you like things happening to you
that you wouldn't like happening to you?
1079
00:55:59,689 --> 00:56:00,899
Of course you don't.
1080
00:56:00,982 --> 00:56:05,070
Well, that's exactly what will happen
when you go to a drug party.
1081
00:56:05,487 --> 00:56:08,406
Because at every drug party,
there is a prankster.
1082
00:56:08,782 --> 00:56:13,620
His mission: to get you high,
whether you want to be or not.
1083
00:56:13,703 --> 00:56:14,704
His scheme:
1084
00:56:15,372 --> 00:56:16,539
the dose.
1085
00:56:16,623 --> 00:56:18,208
[ominous music plays]
1086
00:56:18,291 --> 00:56:20,293
[rock riff plays]
1087
00:56:24,798 --> 00:56:26,007
-Guys.
-Come on!
1088
00:56:26,091 --> 00:56:27,217
Orange soda!
1089
00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:29,135
-[Maya] Take a sip!
-[boy] Drink it!
1090
00:56:29,219 --> 00:56:30,595
-Drink it.
-Take a sip.
1091
00:56:30,678 --> 00:56:35,058
Well, if they're not going to enjoy
these fresh sodas, I am.
1092
00:56:35,141 --> 00:56:36,726
Yeah. Me too.
1093
00:56:43,900 --> 00:56:47,570
[distorted] Whoa, why is everything
like an electric rainbow?
1094
00:56:47,654 --> 00:56:51,116
[distorted]
Yeah! I can see the whole universe.
1095
00:56:51,199 --> 00:56:52,700
It sounds like you guys are tripping.
1096
00:56:52,784 --> 00:56:55,078
[in normal voice]
No... We didn't take any drugs.
1097
00:56:55,161 --> 00:56:57,622
That's not something I would ever do. Oh!
1098
00:56:58,456 --> 00:56:59,582
Did you see that dragon?
1099
00:56:59,666 --> 00:57:02,001
Are you sure you're not tripping?
1100
00:57:02,085 --> 00:57:03,962
I'm sure they are tripping...
1101
00:57:04,379 --> 00:57:05,922
because they've been dosed!
1102
00:57:06,005 --> 00:57:08,967
I put ten tabs of LSD in their sodas.
1103
00:57:09,050 --> 00:57:11,678
[both laughing]
1104
00:57:11,761 --> 00:57:12,971
I never wanted this!
1105
00:57:13,054 --> 00:57:14,931
I'll never be the same!
1106
00:57:15,306 --> 00:57:16,558
[both scream]
1107
00:57:21,688 --> 00:57:23,648
I feel it's really wrong to dose anybody,
1108
00:57:23,731 --> 00:57:26,818
because
you're taking over their psychology.
1109
00:57:26,901 --> 00:57:30,113
You're responsible
for how they're going to be for 12 hours,
1110
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.
1111
00:57:34,242 --> 00:57:37,996
When we took
the notorious wonder drug LSD,
1112
00:57:38,746 --> 00:57:41,541
we were having dinner with our dentist.
1113
00:57:41,666 --> 00:57:43,376
[audience laughs]
1114
00:57:43,460 --> 00:57:45,795
And he put it in our coffee,
and never told us.
1115
00:57:45,879 --> 00:57:47,547
And we'd never heard of it.
1116
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,
1117
00:57:51,759 --> 00:57:55,430
uh... created around the drug
that people now, if they take it,
1118
00:57:55,513 --> 00:57:57,891
they're already on a bad trip
before they start.
1119
00:57:57,974 --> 00:58:00,977
When the realization came
that I was on acid...
1120
00:58:01,352 --> 00:58:04,772
bad trip, like a dark tunnel.
I just shut down.
1121
00:58:04,856 --> 00:58:06,900
[rock instrumental plays]
1122
00:58:14,741 --> 00:58:18,870
Hi, I'm Rosie Perez,
AKA Puerto Rican icon. Holla!
1123
00:58:19,329 --> 00:58:22,707
It was New Year's Eve in the late '80s.
1124
00:58:22,790 --> 00:58:24,375
One of my sisters and I,
1125
00:58:24,459 --> 00:58:28,796
we were going to an after-hours club
in Alphabet City.
1126
00:58:29,214 --> 00:58:32,509
They never sold alcohol
or anything at this club.
1127
00:58:32,592 --> 00:58:36,054
It was all like, you know,
"We're all into the music and dance,
1128
00:58:36,137 --> 00:58:38,389
and we're into our bodies, and health,
and whatever,"
1129
00:58:38,473 --> 00:58:41,726
so they would only have punch there,
or fruit.
1130
00:58:41,809 --> 00:58:44,145
So we get to the bar,
we see the bartender,
1131
00:58:44,229 --> 00:58:46,064
and he's like, "Oh, what's up, girls?
1132
00:58:46,147 --> 00:58:48,149
You wanna get hooked up?"
We're like, "Yeah, sure!"
1133
00:58:48,233 --> 00:58:50,985
And he goes, "Yeah?"
I was like, "Yeah, alright."
1134
00:58:51,110 --> 00:58:52,987
So, he gives us this punch.
1135
00:58:53,446 --> 00:58:55,657
And we drink it down,
and we start dancing,
1136
00:58:55,740 --> 00:58:57,992
sweating, go back...
1137
00:58:58,076 --> 00:58:59,661
"Can we have another punch?"
1138
00:58:59,744 --> 00:59:00,870
He's like, "For real?"
1139
00:59:00,954 --> 00:59:03,915
I was like, "Yeah, it's really good!"
He goes, "Alright..."
1140
00:59:03,998 --> 00:59:05,083
We drink another glass.
1141
00:59:05,166 --> 00:59:06,584
All of a sudden...
1142
00:59:06,668 --> 00:59:10,338
the entire nightclub started to expand.
1143
00:59:10,421 --> 00:59:13,216
The floorboards...
The wooden floorboards
1144
00:59:13,299 --> 00:59:17,428
were waving as if they were
water on the high seas,
1145
00:59:17,512 --> 00:59:18,888
and I'm looking at it,
1146
00:59:18,972 --> 00:59:22,475
going, "This is beautiful... Oh, my gosh!"
1147
00:59:22,559 --> 00:59:23,893
So I went on my back,
1148
00:59:23,977 --> 00:59:26,437
and I started doing the backstroke
on the floorboards,
1149
00:59:26,521 --> 00:59:28,940
because they were waves, of course, right?
1150
00:59:29,023 --> 00:59:31,859
And everything's just beautiful,
and everybody's watching me,
1151
00:59:31,943 --> 00:59:33,736
and I'm just, like, in my glory,
1152
00:59:33,820 --> 00:59:35,905
and then all of a sudden
my sister Sally walks over
1153
00:59:35,989 --> 00:59:38,116
and goes, "Your tits are out."
And I went, "Oh..."
1154
00:59:38,199 --> 00:59:42,579
[laughs] And I looked down,
and I was like, "Oh, my God!
1155
00:59:42,662 --> 00:59:43,913
They look gorgeous!"
1156
00:59:45,415 --> 00:59:47,000
And they looked beautiful,
1157
00:59:47,083 --> 00:59:50,253
and I was in awe of their beauty
and their size.
1158
00:59:50,336 --> 00:59:52,380
But then I started looking around,
1159
00:59:52,463 --> 00:59:55,091
and I thought everybody
was looking at me, right?
1160
00:59:55,174 --> 00:59:56,467
And I got real paranoid.
1161
00:59:56,551 --> 00:59:59,929
So I kept trying to cover them up,
because I couldn't find my top,
1162
01:00:00,013 --> 01:00:02,724
because my top was floating
in the wood water, right?
1163
01:00:02,807 --> 01:00:04,684
So I'm covering my breasts like this,
1164
01:00:04,767 --> 01:00:08,938
and my titty fat kept squeezing
between my fingers.
1165
01:00:09,022 --> 01:00:10,565
Right? And so it was just like...
1166
01:00:10,648 --> 01:00:11,983
[makes whomping sound]
1167
01:00:13,818 --> 01:00:16,613
My sister comes over,
and she starts cracking up.
1168
01:00:16,696 --> 01:00:18,740
She goes,
"Come on, we gotta get out of here!"
1169
01:00:18,823 --> 01:00:20,908
We get to the house, get upstairs,
1170
01:00:20,992 --> 01:00:23,578
and when I laid into the bed,
I became the bed.
1171
01:00:23,661 --> 01:00:25,204
My body was the bed.
1172
01:00:25,955 --> 01:00:29,500
And I'm trying to flip myself over,
like, my body, that's the mattress,
1173
01:00:29,584 --> 01:00:31,628
and I'm waddling down the hallway,
1174
01:00:31,711 --> 01:00:34,756
still didn't occur to me
that I was high on acid.
1175
01:00:34,839 --> 01:00:37,383
And I slid,
1176
01:00:37,467 --> 01:00:40,178
and I'm thinking that the hallway
has now become a slide,
1177
01:00:40,261 --> 01:00:43,806
and I'm sliding down the hallway,
all the way down.
1178
01:00:43,890 --> 01:00:46,559
I went, "I'm a bed...!"
1179
01:00:46,643 --> 01:00:50,063
[sniggers] And I slid, and I...
1180
01:00:50,772 --> 01:00:53,775
busted my ankle on the porcelain bathtub.
1181
01:00:53,858 --> 01:00:56,361
Then I thought my foot was
this humongous thing,
1182
01:00:56,444 --> 01:00:58,446
and it just kept growing, and growing,
and growing.
1183
01:00:58,529 --> 01:01:00,448
I look up, and my boyfriend,
1184
01:01:00,531 --> 01:01:03,534
he tells me, "You're high on acid."
1185
01:01:05,828 --> 01:01:10,541
My first thought wasn't,
"Oh, my God, I'm high on acid."
1186
01:01:10,625 --> 01:01:12,669
My first thought was, "Oh, my God,
1187
01:01:12,752 --> 01:01:15,463
I hope God doesn't punish me
because I'm high on acid."
1188
01:01:15,546 --> 01:01:16,547
[chuckles]
1189
01:01:16,631 --> 01:01:19,717
Because I just thought, you know,
"He has... I'm going to hell.
1190
01:01:19,801 --> 01:01:21,386
I'm going straight to hell."
1191
01:01:21,469 --> 01:01:24,389
Prior to this, I didn't drink,
1192
01:01:24,472 --> 01:01:25,598
I didn't smoke weed,
1193
01:01:25,682 --> 01:01:27,100
I didn't smoke cigarettes...
1194
01:01:27,183 --> 01:01:29,769
I did nothing. My high was dancing.
1195
01:01:33,231 --> 01:01:35,733
When you go to a nightclub
and someone offers you a free drink,
1196
01:01:35,817 --> 01:01:37,610
ask what the fuck is in it.
1197
01:01:37,694 --> 01:01:39,696
[cackles]
1198
01:01:39,779 --> 01:01:40,655
Yeah.
1199
01:01:40,738 --> 01:01:43,157
The other part of it that I got from it
1200
01:01:43,241 --> 01:01:46,536
is that I really,
really needed to seek therapy
1201
01:01:46,619 --> 01:01:49,539
in regards to my Catholic upbringing.
1202
01:01:49,622 --> 01:01:53,501
God forbid, I never want to be burdened
with that much guilt
1203
01:01:53,584 --> 01:01:55,002
ever again in my life.
1204
01:01:55,086 --> 01:01:56,170
So, you know what?
1205
01:01:56,254 --> 01:01:59,257
I guess being on acid
did kinda do me good.
1206
01:01:59,674 --> 01:02:03,928
The mental effects of this material
are tremendously variable.
1207
01:02:04,011 --> 01:02:06,472
They are completely unpredictable.
1208
01:02:07,390 --> 01:02:10,393
You cannot tell for any given individual
1209
01:02:10,476 --> 01:02:13,229
if he's going to have a good trip
or a bad trip.
1210
01:02:14,856 --> 01:02:17,608
I don't think they've been able
to identify the foci in the brain
1211
01:02:17,692 --> 01:02:19,736
that might be responsible for a bad trip.
1212
01:02:19,819 --> 01:02:24,157
But internally what's going on
is a sense of disorientation,
1213
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:25,283
confusion,
1214
01:02:25,366 --> 01:02:29,120
a sense of being overwhelmed by stimuli,
1215
01:02:29,203 --> 01:02:33,458
high levels of anxiety,
even bordering or going into paranoia.
1216
01:02:33,541 --> 01:02:36,836
I've done a lot of acid,
I've done shrooms, I've done speed...
1217
01:02:36,919 --> 01:02:38,212
I don't know what this was...
1218
01:02:38,296 --> 01:02:39,881
It was very speedy...
1219
01:02:39,964 --> 01:02:41,174
-very speedy...
-Oh, yeah!
1220
01:02:41,257 --> 01:02:43,342
...but you also hallucinated.
1221
01:02:43,426 --> 01:02:46,596
-It turned the world around you...
-Yeah.
1222
01:02:46,679 --> 01:02:49,432
-...into an opera of your nightmares.
-Yeah.
1223
01:02:49,849 --> 01:02:51,934
Everything in my brain just switched,
1224
01:02:52,018 --> 01:02:54,979
and everything went drastically downhill,
like...
1225
01:02:55,605 --> 01:02:56,898
at an incredible rate.
1226
01:02:56,981 --> 01:02:59,567
Things would turn into glass and crystal,
and then they would break,
1227
01:02:59,650 --> 01:03:02,528
then form back up in front of your eyes,
and then break again.
1228
01:03:02,612 --> 01:03:04,739
My legs started to go numb.
1229
01:03:04,822 --> 01:03:08,785
I started to feel my heart beat
in my chest, really quickly,
1230
01:03:08,868 --> 01:03:11,662
and it felt like it was going to pound
through my rib cage.
1231
01:03:11,746 --> 01:03:14,957
I didn't want to say anything to my wife,
1232
01:03:15,041 --> 01:03:20,171
because I didn't want her to affirm
how strong this was,
1233
01:03:20,254 --> 01:03:22,673
and then my paranoia would increase
even more,
1234
01:03:22,757 --> 01:03:25,092
making the nightmare
that much more intense.
1235
01:03:25,176 --> 01:03:27,762
I saw violence, I saw bloodshed,
1236
01:03:27,845 --> 01:03:30,223
I saw warfare, I saw terrorism,
1237
01:03:30,306 --> 01:03:32,642
I saw beheadings,
1238
01:03:32,725 --> 01:03:34,268
I saw hell.
1239
01:03:34,352 --> 01:03:37,230
At one point, I remember looking out
the window of the car,
1240
01:03:37,313 --> 01:03:40,233
and there was a little girl
in the backseat of the car next to us,
1241
01:03:40,316 --> 01:03:42,819
like, looking at me,
like, really intensely.
1242
01:03:42,902 --> 01:03:46,781
This little girl can save me.
This little girl can get help.
1243
01:03:46,864 --> 01:03:48,908
She can get me out of this situation
1244
01:03:48,991 --> 01:03:50,868
She was a child. She was innocent.
1245
01:03:50,952 --> 01:03:53,663
I remember trying to communicate
to her with my eyes,
1246
01:03:53,746 --> 01:03:57,834
like I was a hostage, like,
"Get me outta here."
1247
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.
1248
01:04:01,838 --> 01:04:05,800
And so I was like...
I can see there's a glimmer of hope.
1249
01:04:06,300 --> 01:04:09,095
Finally, the little girl,
like, flips me off,
1250
01:04:09,178 --> 01:04:12,056
and then in my head, I'm like,
"I think everybody is in on this.
1251
01:04:12,139 --> 01:04:14,392
Everybody is trying to kill me!"
1252
01:04:14,934 --> 01:04:16,185
Some people...
1253
01:04:17,103 --> 01:04:19,939
will reach the peak
of these mental effects right here,
1254
01:04:20,022 --> 01:04:21,774
and they will stay there.
1255
01:04:23,484 --> 01:04:27,113
From here on out,
these people are insane.
1256
01:04:27,446 --> 01:04:29,282
Uh... I'm Lewis Black.
1257
01:04:30,992 --> 01:04:32,785
And I'm still Lewis Black.
1258
01:04:32,869 --> 01:04:35,454
That's all I need to say
is "I'm Lewis Black," right?
1259
01:04:35,538 --> 01:04:37,540
[suspenseful music plays]
1260
01:04:45,506 --> 01:04:47,717
I did acid when I was about 20.
1261
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:51,804
I took it in an apartment,
in a place called Hyattsville, Maryland.
1262
01:04:51,888 --> 01:04:54,974
When you reach this point, you're gone,
1263
01:04:55,057 --> 01:04:58,978
and the point I got to was
that I couldn't remember my name.
1264
01:05:00,021 --> 01:05:04,066
And it's...
I can't remember my name at all.
1265
01:05:05,693 --> 01:05:09,655
One of the things that is a linchpin
between you and those around you
1266
01:05:09,739 --> 01:05:11,032
is your fucking name.
1267
01:05:11,115 --> 01:05:12,742
It's kind of really important.
1268
01:05:12,825 --> 01:05:14,952
The shortest distance between two points
1269
01:05:15,036 --> 01:05:17,872
is for me to just turn to one of them
and say, "What's my name?"
1270
01:05:17,955 --> 01:05:20,875
But you can't,
in the middle of an acid trip,
1271
01:05:20,958 --> 01:05:24,462
turn to your friends
and ask them what your name is.
1272
01:05:24,545 --> 01:05:28,299
Now, I don't know what acid etiquette is,
but I just thought, "You don't..."
1273
01:05:28,382 --> 01:05:32,553
They're having fun. There's no reason
that I should destroy their fun.
1274
01:05:32,637 --> 01:05:36,432
Nor should I bring up something
that would show as if I'm in trouble,
1275
01:05:36,515 --> 01:05:38,809
so they would feel
like they had to take care of me,
1276
01:05:38,893 --> 01:05:40,394
which might even be worse.
1277
01:05:40,478 --> 01:05:42,647
So, now I sat with a dictionary,
1278
01:05:42,730 --> 01:05:47,109
looking for hints
of what my name might be.
1279
01:05:50,863 --> 01:05:53,115
This goes on for half an hour,
1280
01:05:53,199 --> 01:05:56,911
which, in LSD time, is probably 26 years.
1281
01:05:57,286 --> 01:05:59,664
I reached into my pocket,
1282
01:05:59,747 --> 01:06:02,166
'cause I realized that I had a wallet,
1283
01:06:02,792 --> 01:06:04,377
and that I could find my name.
1284
01:06:04,460 --> 01:06:07,046
And, truly, my next thought was...
1285
01:06:07,129 --> 01:06:10,257
I was afraid to open my wallet
because I thought,
1286
01:06:10,341 --> 01:06:12,551
"What if there's nothing in there
but Monopoly cards?"
1287
01:06:12,635 --> 01:06:14,053
[tense music plays]
1288
01:06:18,265 --> 01:06:20,810
[echoing scream] No!
1289
01:06:20,893 --> 01:06:24,188
First it terrified me,
and then I couldn't stop laughing,
1290
01:06:24,271 --> 01:06:26,065
and then I found my name again.
1291
01:06:26,148 --> 01:06:28,401
[mellow music playing]
1292
01:06:28,484 --> 01:06:30,653
And then things kind of got back on track.
1293
01:06:31,529 --> 01:06:32,446
Guys!
1294
01:06:33,406 --> 01:06:34,949
My name is Lewis Black.
1295
01:06:37,118 --> 01:06:38,452
[relieved sigh]
1296
01:06:39,412 --> 01:06:40,955
I've seen people bug out.
1297
01:06:41,038 --> 01:06:43,541
So that's the only reason why
I don't recommend it for everybody.
1298
01:06:43,624 --> 01:06:45,918
I'd be lying if I said it's for everybody,
it's not.
1299
01:06:46,002 --> 01:06:48,421
"Just give it to me, yeah,
I'm ready, let's go!"
1300
01:06:48,504 --> 01:06:50,464
I was so not ready to take acid.
1301
01:06:50,548 --> 01:06:52,717
It was a huge mistake. [laughs]
1302
01:06:53,843 --> 01:06:55,845
[funky music plays]
1303
01:07:03,644 --> 01:07:06,605
In retrospect, I didn't realize how much
it was going to change my life.
1304
01:07:06,689 --> 01:07:09,191
Because it really changed my life
for a long time.
1305
01:07:09,316 --> 01:07:12,486
I just thought, "Alright, here we go,
this is gonna be great."
1306
01:07:12,570 --> 01:07:16,615
I think we'd seen Hair recently,
which was a big influence.
1307
01:07:16,699 --> 01:07:19,618
♪ LSD ♪
1308
01:07:19,702 --> 01:07:22,371
♪ LSD ♪
1309
01:07:26,792 --> 01:07:31,088
Well, I was hoping for some sort
of psychedelic, uh... revelation,
1310
01:07:31,172 --> 01:07:33,424
uh, kind of Hair-like, you know,
1311
01:07:33,507 --> 01:07:36,510
with just amazing sort of imagery,
1312
01:07:36,594 --> 01:07:41,015
and just, you know...
just sort of some sort of opening
1313
01:07:41,098 --> 01:07:43,726
into some sort of other form
of consciousness.
1314
01:07:43,809 --> 01:07:46,562
And it just... It was not that at all.
1315
01:07:46,645 --> 01:07:50,983
It was, uh, just fear and anxiety...
1316
01:07:51,692 --> 01:07:55,237
being... Just being amplified.
1317
01:07:55,321 --> 01:07:57,740
Which is not, you know, I...
like, who needs that?
1318
01:07:57,823 --> 01:07:59,658
Who needs to take a drug
to have that happen?
1319
01:08:00,785 --> 01:08:02,203
So I took one,
1320
01:08:02,286 --> 01:08:05,081
half an hour goes by, 45 minutes go by,
1321
01:08:05,164 --> 01:08:06,415
an hour goes by...
1322
01:08:06,499 --> 01:08:09,335
We're hanging out,
and, of course, nothing's happening.
1323
01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:11,378
Another half-hour goes by.
1324
01:08:11,462 --> 01:08:15,257
Now it's an hour and a half,
and nothing's happening, so, of course...
1325
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:17,384
I say to him, "We gotta take another."
1326
01:08:17,468 --> 01:08:20,513
So we took another,
and then something happened.
1327
01:08:20,596 --> 01:08:23,224
Immediately, I started to freak out
and get really scared.
1328
01:08:23,307 --> 01:08:24,642
I started looking at my hand,
1329
01:08:24,725 --> 01:08:27,937
doing the cliche thing
of, like, pondering what my hand was.
1330
01:08:28,020 --> 01:08:31,148
Isn't there always that thing of just,
like, staring at your hand?
1331
01:08:31,398 --> 01:08:35,945
Or, like, your thumb, and, like, seeing
the whole universe in your thumb,
1332
01:08:36,028 --> 01:08:36,946
that kind of thing...?
1333
01:08:37,029 --> 01:08:40,950
What is going on in your brain
when you are tripping?
1334
01:08:41,492 --> 01:08:45,746
Well, roughly 10% of your brain
is consumed by sound and color,
1335
01:08:45,830 --> 01:08:48,874
another 10% by the concept of time,
1336
01:08:48,958 --> 01:08:52,336
which has been known to speed up
and/or slow down.
1337
01:08:53,003 --> 01:08:54,588
And the other 80%?
1338
01:08:55,548 --> 01:08:57,091
Staring at your hand.
1339
01:08:59,176 --> 01:09:00,845
Whoa, that's cool...
1340
01:09:01,345 --> 01:09:03,806
I'm freaking out. I said,
"Let's just go to my house."
1341
01:09:03,889 --> 01:09:07,059
And we were walking towards
where they blow up the balloon animals
1342
01:09:07,143 --> 01:09:08,602
for the Thanksgiving Day Parade,
1343
01:09:08,686 --> 01:09:11,313
and I started to trip out on that idea.
1344
01:09:11,397 --> 01:09:14,150
-[balloons growling]
-Evil... giant... inflated characters
1345
01:09:14,233 --> 01:09:17,736
were flipping up
and coming out of 77th Street.
1346
01:09:17,820 --> 01:09:19,488
I was a big Ghostbusters fan,
1347
01:09:19,572 --> 01:09:22,241
and so the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man image
1348
01:09:22,324 --> 01:09:25,828
of him coming down Central Park West
was sort of in my mind...
1349
01:09:25,911 --> 01:09:31,584
and then very quickly realizing
that I had no idea where I was,
1350
01:09:31,667 --> 01:09:32,626
who I was,
1351
01:09:32,710 --> 01:09:35,796
or what this whole...
the whole context of life was.
1352
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:38,549
I decided that I needed
to talk to my parents
1353
01:09:38,632 --> 01:09:40,593
to tell them what was happening to me.
1354
01:09:40,676 --> 01:09:43,929
And my parents were out of town,
filming a Love Boat episode.
1355
01:09:44,013 --> 01:09:45,639
♪ The Love Boat ♪
1356
01:09:47,099 --> 01:09:49,810
♪ Soon we'll be making another... ♪
1357
01:09:49,894 --> 01:09:54,648
I called Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara
on the phone... [embarrassed chuckle]
1358
01:09:55,441 --> 01:09:58,027
...and I said, "Dad, I took some acid."
1359
01:09:58,110 --> 01:10:00,821
And he said, "What? What is acid?"
1360
01:10:01,155 --> 01:10:04,867
I think he might have thought
I drank some battery acid or something.
1361
01:10:04,950 --> 01:10:07,453
It wasn't like my dad was Jerry Garcia.
1362
01:10:07,536 --> 01:10:08,787
He's Jerry Stiller.
1363
01:10:08,871 --> 01:10:10,372
And I said, "LSD."
1364
01:10:10,456 --> 01:10:11,916
And he's like, "Oh, LSD."
1365
01:10:11,999 --> 01:10:14,251
And I could hear him processing it.
1366
01:10:14,335 --> 01:10:15,669
I think the immediate thought was
1367
01:10:15,753 --> 01:10:17,963
I think he was thinking
he'd failed as a parent.
1368
01:10:18,047 --> 01:10:20,466
I think that was what was
probably going through his mind.
1369
01:10:20,549 --> 01:10:22,384
And then my dad said,
1370
01:10:22,468 --> 01:10:24,678
"I understand what you're going through.
1371
01:10:24,762 --> 01:10:28,515
When I was ten years old,
I smoked a Pall Mall cigarette,
1372
01:10:28,599 --> 01:10:30,351
and I was sick for two days."
1373
01:10:30,434 --> 01:10:33,771
And I said, "No, Dad,
that's not what I'm going through.
1374
01:10:33,854 --> 01:10:35,522
This is a whole different experience."
1375
01:10:35,606 --> 01:10:38,859
I tried to explain to him what it was,
and he basically said...
1376
01:10:38,943 --> 01:10:42,613
He just said it's going to be okay,
which actually was really... sweet.
1377
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:47,493
When someone consumes a drug,
and they feel they're going crazy,
1378
01:10:47,576 --> 01:10:49,828
the biggest fear is, "Oh, my God,
1379
01:10:49,912 --> 01:10:52,998
I'm never going to return
to being myself again.
1380
01:10:53,082 --> 01:10:54,875
I'm always going to be crazy."
1381
01:10:54,959 --> 01:10:58,504
"My brain is broken,
and I'm never, ever coming back."
1382
01:10:58,587 --> 01:11:00,297
"Maybe this is just my brain now.
1383
01:11:00,381 --> 01:11:02,508
And this is now
how the world actually is."
1384
01:11:02,591 --> 01:11:04,051
And that's... That can be scary.
1385
01:11:04,134 --> 01:11:05,761
You know, "This isn't going well.
1386
01:11:05,844 --> 01:11:08,264
I want this to end.
How do we make this end?"
1387
01:11:08,347 --> 01:11:09,390
"Oh, my God.
1388
01:11:09,473 --> 01:11:11,225
This is never going to end.
1389
01:11:11,308 --> 01:11:13,811
I'm going to go
into a mental institution,"
1390
01:11:13,894 --> 01:11:18,399
and then I would see my mother's face
in the window of the padded cell,
1391
01:11:18,482 --> 01:11:19,650
bawling her eyes out.
1392
01:11:19,733 --> 01:11:22,528
You cannot coax a person
out of their bad trip.
1393
01:11:22,611 --> 01:11:26,198
[chuckling] And once it's in their system,
it takes its own time.
1394
01:11:26,282 --> 01:11:28,158
The most important intervention
you can make
1395
01:11:28,242 --> 01:11:32,204
is just to reassure them that
they're experiencing this altered state,
1396
01:11:32,288 --> 01:11:33,664
as frightening as it is,
1397
01:11:33,747 --> 01:11:36,208
but they're experiencing it
because they ingested a compound.
1398
01:11:36,292 --> 01:11:38,168
The bad news is they're in a scary place,
1399
01:11:38,252 --> 01:11:40,504
but the good news is
it's going to be time-limited.
1400
01:11:40,587 --> 01:11:43,424
I think the first time
I had such an experience,
1401
01:11:43,507 --> 01:11:48,887
I had those kind of naive... feelings.
You know, "Maybe I won't be normal again."
1402
01:11:48,971 --> 01:11:51,890
But I've had enough experiences
to realize that that's not true.
1403
01:11:51,974 --> 01:11:54,101
When in doubt, zoom out.
1404
01:11:54,184 --> 01:11:58,314
Um... If you're fearful of something,
you just need to zoom away from it,
1405
01:11:58,397 --> 01:12:01,317
so you can see the larger context,
and go, "Okay, that's not a big deal."
1406
01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:03,027
Things get scary.
1407
01:12:03,110 --> 01:12:05,821
But that's why it's important
to remember you're high.
1408
01:12:05,904 --> 01:12:07,281
It's not reality.
1409
01:12:07,364 --> 01:12:09,408
I'm literally just falling in my mind,
1410
01:12:09,491 --> 01:12:11,327
and I'm like, "I gotta go
to the emergency room.
1411
01:12:11,410 --> 01:12:12,703
I can't handle this anymore."
1412
01:12:12,786 --> 01:12:14,997
There's one of those dudes
sitting in front of me,
1413
01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:17,541
who's, like,
you used to see them at Dead shows,
1414
01:12:17,624 --> 01:12:19,960
they've clearly been on too many trips.
1415
01:12:20,044 --> 01:12:22,504
They sort of move at a different
frequency than other people.
1416
01:12:22,588 --> 01:12:25,883
They're like, "Hey, man."
They've got this weird... you know.
1417
01:12:25,966 --> 01:12:29,053
So I just tap him on the shoulder,
and I look at him, and go,
1418
01:12:29,136 --> 01:12:31,930
"Pretty soon, Jerry's gonna come out,
1419
01:12:32,014 --> 01:12:35,434
and him and his guitar are gonna be,
like, one thing."
1420
01:12:35,517 --> 01:12:37,436
And this guy just looks at me
and he goes...
1421
01:12:38,479 --> 01:12:40,814
"Just hang on, man."
1422
01:12:41,273 --> 01:12:44,276
And he turns back around,
and I was like, "Okay."
1423
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.
1424
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:53,243
Just hang on, man.
1425
01:12:53,660 --> 01:12:54,703
Thanks, Fred.
1426
01:12:56,538 --> 01:13:00,209
[narrator] And now
for the horrifying conclusion of Bad Trip.
1427
01:13:00,501 --> 01:13:02,002
Knock, knock, knock.
1428
01:13:02,086 --> 01:13:03,170
"Who is it?"
1429
01:13:03,253 --> 01:13:05,089
"It's a deranged drifter
1430
01:13:05,172 --> 01:13:08,008
who wants to torture you
for the next 12 hours,
1431
01:13:08,092 --> 01:13:10,594
by slowly peeling your skin off your body,
1432
01:13:10,677 --> 01:13:13,305
then plucking out
your horror-filled eyeballs
1433
01:13:13,389 --> 01:13:16,016
and feeding them to you
on a soft pretzel roll
1434
01:13:16,100 --> 01:13:18,018
made of your own epidermis."
1435
01:13:18,102 --> 01:13:19,353
"Oh, sure, great!
1436
01:13:19,436 --> 01:13:20,437
Come on in!"
1437
01:13:20,521 --> 01:13:22,022
Sounds crazy, right?
1438
01:13:22,106 --> 01:13:24,066
Well, that's exactly what you're doing
1439
01:13:24,149 --> 01:13:26,276
when you open your brain, the door,
1440
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:29,446
to hallucinogenics, the deranged drifter.
1441
01:13:30,072 --> 01:13:31,949
Let's check in with Emily and her friends
1442
01:13:32,032 --> 01:13:35,160
now that they have willingly agreed
to have their brains dissected,
1443
01:13:35,244 --> 01:13:36,495
metaphorically,
1444
01:13:36,578 --> 01:13:40,040
by the deranged psycho of psychedelics.
1445
01:13:40,124 --> 01:13:41,750
[rock riff plays]
1446
01:13:43,127 --> 01:13:45,212
[panting, groaning]
1447
01:13:45,295 --> 01:13:47,756
We definitely made the right choice
getting out of that party.
1448
01:13:47,840 --> 01:13:50,259
They wouldn't let us back in
after we broke all those windows.
1449
01:13:50,342 --> 01:13:52,344
-[tires screeching]
-[screaming]
1450
01:13:54,513 --> 01:13:56,181
-[boy] Oh, no!
-Look out!
1451
01:13:56,265 --> 01:13:57,516
[all screaming]
1452
01:14:06,066 --> 01:14:08,068
[rock riff plays]
1453
01:14:10,028 --> 01:14:13,490
Well, you've seen two sides
of the LSD psychedelic question.
1454
01:14:13,574 --> 01:14:15,033
But if you really think of it,
1455
01:14:15,117 --> 01:14:17,411
there's been about 20 sides
to the question.
1456
01:14:17,494 --> 01:14:20,038
While it's possible
that some things were left out,
1457
01:14:20,122 --> 01:14:24,626
we did hear from the most important
and most strongly felt opinions about LSD.
1458
01:14:24,710 --> 01:14:25,711
Now it's your turn.
1459
01:14:27,004 --> 01:14:28,005
You decide.
1460
01:14:29,173 --> 01:14:32,176
You know, what we call everyday reality,
1461
01:14:32,259 --> 01:14:34,428
is a projection of consciousness.
1462
01:14:34,511 --> 01:14:37,514
In reality, there's no such thing
as colors or sounds,
1463
01:14:37,598 --> 01:14:40,309
or textures, or tastes, or smells,
1464
01:14:40,392 --> 01:14:42,311
in the so-called real world.
1465
01:14:42,394 --> 01:14:46,899
The real world is a radically ambiguous
and ceaselessly flowing quantum soup.
1466
01:14:46,982 --> 01:14:51,236
It's a fluctuation of energy
and information in an infinite void.
1467
01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:55,657
The sky that an insect sees
is not the sky you and I see.
1468
01:14:56,033 --> 01:14:58,911
A honey bee experiences, um,
1469
01:14:58,994 --> 01:15:01,455
ultraviolet radiation
1470
01:15:01,538 --> 01:15:04,166
I have no idea what that looks like,
you know?
1471
01:15:04,249 --> 01:15:06,001
So when a honey bee looks at a flower,
1472
01:15:06,084 --> 01:15:08,504
it doesn't see a flower
the way you and I see,
1473
01:15:08,587 --> 01:15:10,714
although it can sense honey
from a distance.
1474
01:15:10,797 --> 01:15:13,967
-A snake experiences infrared radiation.
-[hissing]
1475
01:15:14,051 --> 01:15:16,845
-A bat experiences the echo of ultrasound.
-[twittering]
1476
01:15:16,929 --> 01:15:19,598
A chameleon's eyeballs swivel
on two different axes.
1477
01:15:19,681 --> 01:15:23,560
You can't even remotely imagine
what this would look like to a chameleon.
1478
01:15:23,644 --> 01:15:25,187
So, what's reality?
1479
01:15:25,270 --> 01:15:27,397
And the answer is there's no such thing.
1480
01:15:27,481 --> 01:15:30,234
These compounds,
when utilized under optimal conditions,
1481
01:15:30,317 --> 01:15:33,320
seem to have
a rather remarkable facility
1482
01:15:33,403 --> 01:15:37,741
for catalyzing
spiritual-level experiences,
1483
01:15:37,824 --> 01:15:39,409
which by their very nature
1484
01:15:39,493 --> 01:15:42,496
may be... may have the potential
to be transformative.
1485
01:15:42,579 --> 01:15:47,834
It enhanced my ability
to navigate the world,
1486
01:15:47,918 --> 01:15:49,711
to be in a family,
1487
01:15:49,795 --> 01:15:51,338
to relate to my children,
1488
01:15:51,421 --> 01:15:53,799
to relate to my wife, to my colleagues.
1489
01:15:54,508 --> 01:15:57,594
Um... It teaches me about community,
1490
01:15:57,678 --> 01:16:02,182
and it teaches me that the core
of all religious thought ought to be...
1491
01:16:03,183 --> 01:16:06,436
"Let me treat others the way
I want to be treated myself."
1492
01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:08,438
Whenever it was a good trip,
1493
01:16:08,522 --> 01:16:11,358
I would think, "Oh, my God, we're all one.
1494
01:16:11,441 --> 01:16:14,111
Uh... Death is not something to fear.
1495
01:16:14,194 --> 01:16:17,739
Life and death are really walking
hand-in-hand with each other,
1496
01:16:17,823 --> 01:16:18,699
and it's cool."
1497
01:16:18,782 --> 01:16:22,160
The first time,
or the first couple times I tripped,
1498
01:16:22,244 --> 01:16:25,956
I... I really did believe
every single person,
1499
01:16:26,039 --> 01:16:30,752
the planet would be a better planet
if everybody took acid once.
1500
01:16:30,836 --> 01:16:34,131
Did it make me smarter?
Did I become enlightened?
1501
01:16:34,214 --> 01:16:36,717
I don't know. But I think it...
1502
01:16:37,134 --> 01:16:41,597
It enabled me, early on,
to imagine another point of view.
1503
01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:43,265
Another perspective.
1504
01:16:43,348 --> 01:16:45,517
I think it made me a better person,
1505
01:16:45,601 --> 01:16:48,395
both creatively, and in every other way.
1506
01:16:48,478 --> 01:16:50,939
I'd rather be a person
who's had that in his past
1507
01:16:51,023 --> 01:16:53,358
than somebody who missed it.
1508
01:16:53,442 --> 01:16:54,776
Even now, in my adult life,
1509
01:16:54,860 --> 01:16:57,571
I continue to experience it
as a very psychedelic adventure,
1510
01:16:57,654 --> 01:17:01,283
that is, like, a, you know,
a baffling nonsensical riddle.
1511
01:17:01,366 --> 01:17:03,910
Let's face it, we're all gonna die,
so, you know...
1512
01:17:03,994 --> 01:17:06,288
It was kind of like
jumping out of an airplane.
1513
01:17:06,371 --> 01:17:08,790
About a second-and-a-half into it,
I realize,
1514
01:17:08,874 --> 01:17:11,335
"Oh, I never need to do this again,
ever, in my life.
1515
01:17:11,418 --> 01:17:13,211
I don't ever want to do this."
[laughs]
1516
01:17:13,295 --> 01:17:16,381
That was sort of my experience with acid
a few minutes into it,
1517
01:17:16,465 --> 01:17:18,383
only it lasted for another six hours.
1518
01:17:18,467 --> 01:17:19,635
That was the problem.
1519
01:17:20,093 --> 01:17:23,305
I think what I'd say to anyone
tripping for the first time
1520
01:17:23,388 --> 01:17:25,307
is be moderate.
1521
01:17:25,390 --> 01:17:28,435
It's the haircut theory:
you can always cut more off.
1522
01:17:29,102 --> 01:17:32,064
But once you cut too much,
once you've taken too much,
1523
01:17:32,147 --> 01:17:33,440
there's no turning back.
1524
01:17:33,523 --> 01:17:35,776
I thought I'll never do that again,
1525
01:17:35,859 --> 01:17:38,028
but I did, a few more times.
1526
01:17:38,111 --> 01:17:41,448
You should not take it cavalierly.
I don't know if you should take it.
1527
01:17:41,531 --> 01:17:44,201
In the sky, I see a giant zipper.
1528
01:17:45,410 --> 01:17:48,789
And the zipper starts to open.
1529
01:17:48,872 --> 01:17:51,625
Now, if you go with the flow,
1530
01:17:52,209 --> 01:17:53,794
you let the zipper open.
1531
01:17:53,877 --> 01:17:55,253
And you just fucking deal.
1532
01:17:55,337 --> 01:17:58,632
If they're bats,
if it's God's penis, whatever.
1533
01:17:58,715 --> 01:17:59,925
You just do it.
1534
01:18:00,008 --> 01:18:02,928
Okay, if you have any fucking sense
when it comes to drugs,
1535
01:18:03,011 --> 01:18:05,222
you don't stop the zipper.
1536
01:18:05,305 --> 01:18:09,935
I'm always looking to evolve
as a human being.
1537
01:18:10,018 --> 01:18:12,938
I think we do that
by thinking out of the box, you know.
1538
01:18:13,480 --> 01:18:15,607
We have to accept
that the box is just a construct.
1539
01:18:15,691 --> 01:18:18,318
It's something
that we've been conditioned to accept,
1540
01:18:18,402 --> 01:18:20,195
but it's not particularly useful.
1541
01:18:20,278 --> 01:18:21,613
Everything is in crisis.
1542
01:18:21,697 --> 01:18:23,532
How are we gonna survive the crisis?
1543
01:18:23,615 --> 01:18:25,492
How do we get over
the other side of the wall?
1544
01:18:25,575 --> 01:18:28,995
And so we need to use
whatever tools it takes
1545
01:18:29,079 --> 01:18:30,747
to get over the other side.
1546
01:18:30,831 --> 01:18:33,333
It's like a step ladder
to look over a brick wall
1547
01:18:33,417 --> 01:18:34,876
that's a little bit too tall for you.
1548
01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:37,921
You use a stepladder,
you get to see this crazy landscape
1549
01:18:38,004 --> 01:18:42,008
that you kind of had an inkling about
every time you walked by this wall,
1550
01:18:42,092 --> 01:18:45,554
and then some people, you know,
can sit in front of the wall,
1551
01:18:45,637 --> 01:18:48,557
and, like, meditate,
and then the wall becomes transparent,
1552
01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:50,267
and they see beyond it, you know?
1553
01:18:50,350 --> 01:18:53,854
So, there are many pathways
to arrive at the same realization.
1554
01:18:53,937 --> 01:18:55,731
It's a tremendous asset,
1555
01:18:56,106 --> 01:18:57,566
freedom to learn about it,
1556
01:18:57,649 --> 01:19:00,569
and not have our government
stop us from learning things
1557
01:19:00,652 --> 01:19:02,362
that could really be...
Same with marijuana.
1558
01:19:02,446 --> 01:19:04,740
I mean, they take away
all the possible discovery
1559
01:19:04,823 --> 01:19:06,992
of all the medicine it could be.
1560
01:19:07,075 --> 01:19:09,161
What I would envision
1561
01:19:09,244 --> 01:19:12,372
really would be
a certified retreat center,
1562
01:19:12,456 --> 01:19:15,625
you know, preferably close to nature,
1563
01:19:15,709 --> 01:19:18,545
where individuals can go
and have a treatment,
1564
01:19:18,628 --> 01:19:23,258
and have expert facilitators
help guide them through the experience,
1565
01:19:23,341 --> 01:19:27,304
and afterwards help them integrate
that experience into their lives.
1566
01:19:27,721 --> 01:19:30,724
If I may say so,
the whole consciousness revolution
1567
01:19:30,807 --> 01:19:32,809
that started in the '60s,
1568
01:19:32,893 --> 01:19:34,561
which led to other movements,
1569
01:19:34,644 --> 01:19:35,854
the feminist movement,
1570
01:19:35,937 --> 01:19:37,397
the ecology movement,
1571
01:19:37,481 --> 01:19:38,940
the peace movement,
1572
01:19:39,024 --> 01:19:40,859
uh, Greenpeace, all of that,
1573
01:19:41,401 --> 01:19:43,612
began, um...
1574
01:19:43,695 --> 01:19:47,240
with the use of hallucinogenic drugs.
1575
01:19:47,324 --> 01:19:50,076
Many people think that it peaked
and it went away.
1576
01:19:50,327 --> 01:19:55,207
Uh... I'm sorry to inform you,
the awakening is still going on.
1577
01:19:55,707 --> 01:19:57,292
We're on a trip all the time.
1578
01:19:57,375 --> 01:19:59,795
Right now we're on a trip, right?
Life is a trip.
1579
01:20:31,910 --> 01:20:34,037
Lots of people drink coffee
before they go to work.
1580
01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:36,414
Others, believe it or not, drop acid.
1581
01:20:36,540 --> 01:20:39,501
Now, why some psychiatrists
and researchers
1582
01:20:39,584 --> 01:20:42,337
are giving psychedelic drugs a second look
1583
01:20:42,420 --> 01:20:46,174
as a possible way of treating depression
and some mental illnesses.
1584
01:20:46,258 --> 01:20:50,095
They're being used to treat depression,
anxiety, and addiction.
1585
01:20:50,178 --> 01:20:52,264
The early results are impressive.
1586
01:20:52,347 --> 01:20:55,559
They're relatively non-toxic,
less toxic than alcohol.
1587
01:20:55,642 --> 01:20:57,018
They're non-addictive.
1588
01:20:57,102 --> 01:21:00,021
The DEA says it's granted permission
to more than 50 researchers
1589
01:21:00,105 --> 01:21:03,149
to study the therapeutic effects of LSD.
1590
01:21:03,233 --> 01:21:05,652
Denver has become
the first city in America
1591
01:21:05,735 --> 01:21:08,405
to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.
1592
01:21:08,488 --> 01:21:11,741
The city of Oakland is now
the second city in the US
1593
01:21:11,825 --> 01:21:16,288
to decriminalize the adult use
and possession of magic mushrooms.
1594
01:21:16,371 --> 01:21:19,624
The Santa Cruz City Council
unanimously approved the resolution.
1595
01:21:19,708 --> 01:21:23,461
This decriminalizes the use,
possession and cultivation
1596
01:21:23,545 --> 01:21:24,921
of psychoactive plants.
1597
01:21:25,005 --> 01:21:27,674
If you could use a drug,
and this has been done now,
1598
01:21:27,757 --> 01:21:31,052
that could stop you smoking cigarettes
or being an alcoholic,
1599
01:21:31,136 --> 01:21:34,055
you know, working maybe 80% of the time,
at least initially...
1600
01:21:34,139 --> 01:21:34,973
[man 2] Yeah.
1601
01:21:35,056 --> 01:21:36,933
We gotta explore how that's possible.
1602
01:21:37,017 --> 01:21:38,685
Let's you and I do some mushrooms.
1603
01:21:38,768 --> 01:21:40,103
-Alright.
-Let's do it.
1604
01:21:40,186 --> 01:21:42,063
[audience applauds, cheers]
1605
01:21:43,773 --> 01:21:44,858
Good luck!
1606
01:21:44,941 --> 01:21:46,943
["Sugarcube" by Yo La Tengo plays]
1607
01:21:53,325 --> 01:21:55,493
-[whooshing]
-[tinkling]
1608
01:22:11,509 --> 01:22:13,678
♪ Whatever you want from me ♪
1609
01:22:14,554 --> 01:22:16,681
♪ Whatever you want, I'll do ♪
1610
01:22:17,641 --> 01:22:20,352
♪ I'll try to squeeze a drop of blood ♪
1611
01:22:20,435 --> 01:22:21,978
♪ From a sugar cube ♪
1612
01:22:36,493 --> 01:22:38,620
♪ Try to be more assured ♪
1613
01:22:39,579 --> 01:22:41,748
♪ Try to be more right there ♪
1614
01:22:42,707 --> 01:22:44,793
♪ Try to be less uptight ♪
1615
01:22:45,877 --> 01:22:47,963
♪ Try to be more aware ♪
1616
01:22:48,755 --> 01:22:51,049
♪ Whatever you want from me ♪
1617
01:22:51,925 --> 01:22:54,219
♪ Is what I wanna do for you ♪
1618
01:22:55,095 --> 01:22:57,305
♪ Sweeter than a drop of blood ♪
1619
01:22:57,764 --> 01:22:59,391
♪ From a sugar cube ♪
1620
01:23:44,686 --> 01:23:48,773
♪ And though I like to act the part
Of being tough ♪
1621
01:23:50,900 --> 01:23:54,154
♪ I crumble like a sugar cube ♪
1622
01:23:56,114 --> 01:23:57,699
♪ For you ♪
1623
01:24:18,094 --> 01:24:20,430
♪ Whatever you want from me ♪
1624
01:24:21,306 --> 01:24:23,433
♪ Whatever you want, I'll do ♪
1625
01:24:24,309 --> 01:24:25,852
♪ And I will try ♪
1626
01:24:30,482 --> 01:24:32,650
♪ Whatever you want from me ♪
1627
01:24:33,526 --> 01:24:35,737
♪ Whatever you want, I'll do ♪
1628
01:24:36,571 --> 01:24:39,532
♪ I'll try and squeeze a drop of blood ♪
1629
01:24:39,616 --> 01:24:42,952
♪ Squeeze a drop of blood
From a sugar cube ♪
1630
01:24:51,836 --> 01:24:52,837
Good night.
1631
01:24:54,923 --> 01:24:56,925
[rock riff plays]