Name: Duncan Trussell's First Acid Trip (from Joe Rogan Experience #179)
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Duncan Trussell's First Acid Trip (from Joe Rogan Experience #179)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2013-09-28. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience
A lot of us get there, right?
A lot of people that we know
came from a place where
when they were really young, they were like
what the fuck is going on with the world?
Yep.
How old do you think you were
when you had your first
oh, I think my parents might be fucking crazy
thought. Were you like, these people
are in charge of telling me what to do?
This is nonsense. You're talking crazy talk
here. It happened
for me the first time
that I took LSD
and maybe before that
but when I took LSD
for the first time, I can remember
whenever you take LSD
especially
when I took LSD, what worries
do I have? I'm in fucking high school
there's nothing in it
there's no demons to come swimming
out of my brain and taunt me with
all the myriad of things you get
when you're older. There's just fucking
nothing. You're just open. I might be
upset because a cheerleader
that came over to my house, I
couldn't figure out how to kiss her.
Maybe that's like the biggest problem
I'm having at the time.
But at that time
when I did it for the first time
and had that initial experience
and you go back to your parents
who've never taken it
and if you mentioned to them
that you'd even taken it
they might want to put you in a drug rehab
or they think you're insane
or they think you're getting down
the wrong track.
you're forced into this place of like
fuck man
I can't
you guys don't even
you don't even know
you don't even understand
this
this
new way of experiencing life
you know
so
and I think there's a lot of people
who spend their whole lives
never knowing that
you don't have to take psychedelics
to get to that place
there's other ways
to get to that place
but
yeah it's a very strange thing
and those people
who never get to that place
they're the ones who are
a lot of them are in control right now.
So your life took
an inexorable change
when you did acid.
Absolutely.
That was like the point
where you look back
and you said
this is the point
where I went off
into this direction.
Well no I'd say
that taking acid
started with
a series of like books.
It started with contact
with like
you know
the whole weirdness
my whole weirdness
started with
or as I recall
it started with me
coming upon this book
that my mom had
called
Raja Yoga
by Yogi Ramacharaka
who by the way
was never a yogi
it was just some
English mystic
who wrote this book
and lied about being a yogi.
That's awesome.
But it's a fascinating story
but the book
you know
that was the first time
I'd ever read
the idea
that you're
that you're an observer
observing yourself
that you
you
aren't necessarily
the you that you think
the you that can be observed
is not you.
You're the observer state
the mindfulness
the watcher
that's when I
that's the first time
I'd come upon the idea
of what's
that's called the Atman
the thing that observes
yourself.
You know when you
you know someone will say
I'm really mad right now.
The moment you say
I'm mad
you're creating a distinction
you know
between the thing
that's observing
that you're mad
and the thing that's mad.
So that observer
that watcher
that's the thing
that that mindfulness
is what you know
throughout my whole life
I try to you know
go into that place
of observing myself
rather than being the thing.
I mean it's a game
that you can play
and it really is quite helpful
with a variety
of problems
especially if you get
really angry.
If you get really angry
and you can stop yourself
and just watch
and there's tools
you can use
in that book
I remember it said
as you walk around
start thinking
he is walking
that was like
one of the tools
like it's in a book
and you're a character
in a book
so when you're going around
you're like
you know right now
he's doing a podcast
right now he's talking
and so that's
these are
these are activities
designed to create
this like
the watcher
the state of presence
of watching
so that started it
that led me to like
you know
and then I found out
about you know
I think I read
the electric kool-aid acid test
you know
about fucking
Ken Kesey
and the merry pranksters
blasting themselves
on acid
and going to the world's fair
in a bus
and then I read that shit
no I remember
wait
I'll tell you
then I'll stop
this weird
weird rant
I remember now
fucking film strip
that's what it started
in my head
I think I was in like
the fourth grade
and they showed us
a drug film strip
remember film strips
yes I do
and it fucking popped up
this guy
like it popped
there's a guy
I still remember
it's a guy in a
it's a guy in a
fucking empty apartment
and he's curled
against the wall
in the fetal position
and it's at LSD
and it looks terrible
and then the narrator says
LSD can make you
experience hallucinations
you can see dragons
and I remember him saying
you can see dragons
and I'm like
I want to see a fucking dragon
how do you see a dragon
that sounds awesome
fuck the empty apartment
in the fetal position
I'll figure it out
that guy's a pussy
what are you crying
you saw a dragon
you little bitch
you took acid
what did you expect
yeah
and that was
that put it in my head
it's like
well you know
I think that that's
an interesting thing
to explore
oh that's hilarious
so you think
that you were like
two Duncans
like Duncan 1
and Duncan 2
like Duncan 1
is like regular Duncan
growing up
innocent boy
boom
psychedelics
and then Duncan 2
2.0
yeah
there's definitely
a Duncan 2
that happened
I'd say
and then that
that Duncan 2
changed too man
because you
you know
as you get older
the best thing
there's two great
the best thing
that can happen to you
is you get knocked
off track
that's the best thing
that can happen to you
in general
because generally
the track you're on
has been set for you
by people
who never got
off their track
you end up
you know
you end up the child
of someone
who decided to have you
in their 20s
21 22
they're not going to
know a lot of stuff
they're not going to
understand the universe
that much
unless they were like
came from a really
good family
of like artists
or intelligent people
chances are
they're scared
hungry
desperate
angry
they don't want
to be in the relationship
anymore
they don't want
to be monogamous
anymore
the idea of non-monogamy
to them
might just seem insane
you know
like who the fuck
knows
but you're born
into that planet
that's the atmosphere
you're born into
that's what you're breathing
when you're first born
and that can set you
on a weird path
and that's a very sad
path that you can get on
and so
hopefully
if you're lucky
you'll come across
somebody who knocks you
off that fucking path
you know
I remember the guy
who hooked me up
with acid
I remember sitting
in the theater
of my school
because I was taking
I was a drama nerd
and I was sitting
in the theater
of my school
next to this guy
I like the way
you said that too
next to this guy
Brad
and I remember
sitting and I
and we were talking
and he mentioned
tripping on LSD
and I'm like
what?
he's like
oh yeah
I took acid
over the weekend
I'm like
what?
you can get acid?
the movie
the life
the life
somebody must
animate this
somebody
please
I know
you're
folks out there
that animate shit
you gotta animate this
that
that moment
took me
to
and this is really weird
tell me what the
first trip was like
I'd love to
the first trip
was
it was white blotter
white blotter paper
I don't
it was just white blotter
somehow
if you don't know this
LSD
gets put on sheets
which look like
blotter paper
and sometimes
they have designs
sometimes they don't
but the name
is always a reference
to
usually is a reference
to the design
on the sheet
so
you know
purple Jesus
white blotter
lips
you know
there's a million
different names
for the different
types of acid
but
so this is just white
who knows what it was
but it was really good
and I can remember
I took it
and
you have to
you know
it takes 30 to 45 minutes
sometimes longer
for it to kick in
and I still remember
I was sitting
in my friend's trailer
in a trailer park
in North Carolina
sitting in an empty
bathtub
like an empty
jacuzzi tub
that was in this trailer
and I'm sitting there
and they're watching
Star Wars
and I'm sitting in this bathtub
and all of a sudden
the greatest
the greatest feeling
just started going
through my legs
and up into my body
and it was a fucking
sword fight
it was a
a lightsaber fight
and I'm listening to that
but all of a sudden
now
the sound's echoey
like someone's turned
an echo up on it
so it's like
it's kind of
bouncing around
it's beautiful
and I feel so
fucking good
started laughing
it seemed so funny
then I went outside
and lay in the grass
I'm staring at the sky
everything's
beautiful
trails
you put your hand
in front of your face
and it's just this
rainbow of hands
drifting in front of your face
everything's breathing
then my friends
come running out
because they knew
this was the first time
I was tripping
and they all start
jumping over me
they're like
jumping over me
as I'm laying there
and they're laughing
and we're all fucking laughing
and it's just perfect
then
I remember
somebody pulled their cock out
and that's when they pulled
that's when we all started
fucking
we fucked
and fucked
and then a dog
came by
and we grabbed the dog
and started fucking the dog
no
no
it was beautiful
country in the spirit of acid
it's very
no
yeah
there was no fucking happening
there was a lot of like
laughing
there was
I remember going into
my friend's
shitty high school car
and like sitting
and like pulling the
seat back
and looking at the ceiling
wow
and I'm looking at the ceiling
and it's fucking
hieroglyphics
or some kind of like
ancient writing
you know
I don't even think
I knew what Sanskrit
was at the time
but I'd probably be like
oh I'm seeing Sanskrit
some kind of runes
or glyphs
all over my friend's car
that's just kind of
breathing and warping
and it's just
beautiful
so
yeah
that was the
that was the first time
and once you've had
that experience
how do you go back
to a world
a normal kind of world
the first time
I ever did acid
I've told you this
before I met
Kurt Cobain
how crazy was that
whoa
wow
tell that story again
I think I died this night
by the way
I have this new theory
that no I
this is what made me
think of a theory
that like every time
you die
you don't know
that you died
but then you left
this world
and everyone else
in this other
parallel world
you know
they think you died
like you know
they went to the funeral
this is where I thought
this from was
the first time
I did acid
me and my girlfriend
at the time
that was Marissa
we went to go see
holla Melissa
yeah
we went to go see
Nirvana
and she had acid
and I've never
done acid before
she goes let's do acid
and see Nirvana
so we took acid
and the opening band
was on
which is some Asian band
that just screamed
the whole time
and it was like
you know
it's kind of like
I don't know
annoying
so I was sitting
so I was sitting
next to the side
of the stage
and Kurt Cobain
comes around the corner
and just comes out
and it was really dark
so no one could see it
and he's just standing
right next to me
I look over
and I'm like
oh my fucking god
it's Kurt Cobain
and I was like
hey what's up
and he goes
hey what's up
you want a Cheeto
and he held out his bag
and I'm like
yeah
and so I held on the Cheeto
and then suddenly
he's just like
somebody goes
oh Kurt
and then he just like
throws all the Cheetos
out in the crowd
and then it returns backstage
I'm holding this Cheeto
and I'm like
he threw the Cheetos
in the crowd?
yeah like he had a bag
of Cheetos
that he was eating from
he just threw it
at the crowd?
yeah
he just threw Cheetos
everywhere
I mean this is like
a mosh pit
in Dayton, Ohio
you know
like side of the stage
like a rock club
you know
hair arena
I think it was
there's a fucking video
of Dana White
getting in a mosh pit
have you ever seen it?
no
yeah he went to
a Rage Against the Machine
concert
the motherfucker
got in a mosh pit
he got security guards
looking out for him
and shit
he jumped in a mosh pit
so I took this Cheeto
and I put it in my pocket
like I'm like
I'm gonna save this Cheeto
you know
and then I started
you know
tripping really hard
and it was an amazing concert
on the way home
we're driving
and we go by
and like I'm driving
and this is a thunderstorm
of rain
I'm still tripping
and you're tripping on acid
and I'm tripping on acid
this is a responsible citizen
no no no
and then
this is even better
and I swear to god
you could ask her
I'm not gonna say
who she is on here
but we started fucking
while I was driving
in the rainstorm
on acid
for my first time
and that's where
I think I died
the first time
one of the first times
I died
it might be man
son
we are broadcasting
to iTunes
oh shit iTunes
we're recording
to server
get the fuck
out of here
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Duncan Trussell's First Acid Trip (from Joe Rogan Experience #179)

The Joe Rogan Experience
A lot of us get there, right?
A lot of people that we know
came from a place where
when they were really young, they were like
what the fuck is going on with the world?
Yep.
How old do you think you were
when you had your first
oh, I think my parents might be fucking crazy
thought. Were you like, these people
are in charge of telling me what to do?
This is nonsense. You're talking crazy talk
here. It happened
for me the first time
that I took LSD
and maybe before that
but when I took LSD
for the first time, I can remember
whenever you take LSD
especially
when I took LSD, what worries
do I have? I'm in fucking high school
there's nothing in it
there's no demons to come swimming
out of my brain and taunt me with
all the myriad of things you get
when you're older. There's just fucking
nothing. You're just open. I might be
upset because a cheerleader
that came over to my house, I
couldn't figure out how to kiss her.
Maybe that's like the biggest problem
I'm having at the time.
But at that time
when I did it for the first time
and had that initial experience
and you go back to your parents
who've never taken it
and if you mentioned to them
that you'd even taken it
they might want to put you in a drug rehab
or they think you're insane
or they think you're getting down
the wrong track.
you're forced into this place of like
fuck man
I can't
you guys don't even
you don't even know
you don't even understand
this
this
new way of experiencing life
you know
so
and I think there's a lot of people
who spend their whole lives
never knowing that
you don't have to take psychedelics
to get to that place
there's other ways
to get to that place
but
yeah it's a very strange thing
and those people
who never get to that place
they're the ones who are
a lot of them are in control right now.
So your life took
an inexorable change
when you did acid.
Absolutely.
That was like the point
where you look back
and you said
this is the point
where I went off
into this direction.
Well no I'd say
that taking acid
started with
a series of like books.
It started with contact
with like
you know
the whole weirdness
my whole weirdness
started with
or as I recall
it started with me
coming upon this book
that my mom had
called
Raja Yoga
by Yogi Ramacharaka
who by the way
was never a yogi
it was just some
English mystic
who wrote this book
and lied about being a yogi.
That's awesome.
But it's a fascinating story
but the book
you know
that was the first time
I'd ever read
the idea
that you're
that you're an observer
observing yourself
that you
you
aren't necessarily
the you that you think
the you that can be observed
is not you.
You're the observer state
the mindfulness
the watcher
that's when I
that's the first time
I'd come upon the idea
of what's
that's called the Atman
the thing that observes
yourself.
You know when you
you know someone will say
I'm really mad right now.
The moment you say
I'm mad
you're creating a distinction
you know
between the thing
that's observing
that you're mad
and the thing that's mad.
So that observer
that watcher
that's the thing
that that mindfulness
is what you know
throughout my whole life
I try to you know
go into that place
of observing myself
rather than being the thing.
I mean it's a game
that you can play
and it really is quite helpful
with a variety
of problems
especially if you get
really angry.
If you get really angry
and you can stop yourself
and just watch
and there's tools
you can use
in that book
I remember it said
as you walk around
start thinking
he is walking
that was like
one of the tools
like it's in a book
and you're a character
in a book
so when you're going around
you're like
you know right now
he's doing a podcast
right now he's talking
and so that's
these are
these are activities
designed to create
this like
the watcher
the state of presence
of watching
so that started it
that led me to like
you know
and then I found out
about you know
I think I read
the electric kool-aid acid test
you know
about fucking
Ken Kesey
and the merry pranksters
blasting themselves
on acid
and going to the world's fair
in a bus
and then I read that shit
no I remember
wait
I'll tell you
then I'll stop
this weird
weird rant
I remember now
fucking film strip
that's what it started
in my head
I think I was in like
the fourth grade
and they showed us
a drug film strip
remember film strips
yes I do
and it fucking popped up
this guy
like it popped
there's a guy
I still remember
it's a guy in a
it's a guy in a
fucking empty apartment
and he's curled
against the wall
in the fetal position
and it's at LSD
and it looks terrible
and then the narrator says
LSD can make you
experience hallucinations
you can see dragons
and I remember him saying
you can see dragons
and I'm like
I want to see a fucking dragon
how do you see a dragon
that sounds awesome
fuck the empty apartment
in the fetal position
I'll figure it out
that guy's a pussy
what are you crying
you saw a dragon
you little bitch
you took acid
what did you expect
yeah
and that was
that put it in my head
it's like
well you know
I think that that's
an interesting thing
to explore
oh that's hilarious
so you think
that you were like
two Duncans
like Duncan 1
and Duncan 2
like Duncan 1
is like regular Duncan
growing up
innocent boy
boom
psychedelics
and then Duncan 2
2.0
yeah
there's definitely
a Duncan 2
that happened
I'd say
and then that
that Duncan 2
changed too man
because you
you know
as you get older
the best thing
there's two great
the best thing
that can happen to you
is you get knocked
off track
that's the best thing
that can happen to you
in general
because generally
the track you're on
has been set for you
by people
who never got
off their track
you end up
you know
you end up the child
of someone
who decided to have you
in their 20s
21 22
they're not going to
know a lot of stuff
they're not going to
understand the universe
that much
unless they were like
came from a really
good family
of like artists
or intelligent people
chances are
they're scared
hungry
desperate
angry
they don't want
to be in the relationship
anymore
they don't want
to be monogamous
anymore
the idea of non-monogamy
to them
might just seem insane
you know
like who the fuck
knows
but you're born
into that planet
that's the atmosphere
you're born into
that's what you're breathing
when you're first born
and that can set you
on a weird path
and that's a very sad
path that you can get on
and so
hopefully
if you're lucky
you'll come across
somebody who knocks you
off that fucking path
you know
I remember the guy
who hooked me up
with acid
I remember sitting
in the theater
of my school
because I was taking
I was a drama nerd
and I was sitting
in the theater
of my school
next to this guy
I like the way
you said that too
next to this guy
Brad
and I remember
sitting and I
and we were talking
and he mentioned
tripping on LSD
and I'm like
what?
he's like
oh yeah
I took acid
over the weekend
I'm like
what?
you can get acid?
the movie
the life
the life
somebody must
animate this
somebody
please
I know
you're
folks out there
that animate shit
you gotta animate this
that
that moment
took me
to
and this is really weird
tell me what the
first trip was like
I'd love to
the first trip
was
it was white blotter
white blotter paper
I don't
it was just white blotter
somehow
if you don't know this
LSD
gets put on sheets
which look like
blotter paper
and sometimes
they have designs
sometimes they don't
but the name
is always a reference
to
usually is a reference
to the design
on the sheet
so
you know
purple Jesus
white blotter
lips
you know
there's a million
different names
for the different
types of acid
but
so this is just white
who knows what it was
but it was really good
and I can remember
I took it
and
you have to
you know
it takes 30 to 45 minutes
sometimes longer
for it to kick in
and I still remember
I was sitting
in my friend's trailer
in a trailer park
in North Carolina
sitting in an empty
bathtub
like an empty
jacuzzi tub
that was in this trailer
and I'm sitting there
and they're watching
Star Wars
and I'm sitting in this bathtub
and all of a sudden
the greatest
the greatest feeling
just started going
through my legs
and up into my body
and it was a fucking
sword fight
it was a
a lightsaber fight
and I'm listening to that
but all of a sudden
now
the sound's echoey
like someone's turned
an echo up on it
so it's like
it's kind of
bouncing around
it's beautiful
and I feel so
fucking good
started laughing
it seemed so funny
then I went outside
and lay in the grass
I'm staring at the sky
everything's
beautiful
trails
you put your hand
in front of your face
and it's just this
rainbow of hands
drifting in front of your face
everything's breathing
then my friends
come running out
because they knew
this was the first time
I was tripping
and they all start
jumping over me
they're like
jumping over me
as I'm laying there
and they're laughing
and we're all fucking laughing
and it's just perfect
then
I remember
somebody pulled their cock out
and that's when they pulled
that's when we all started
fucking
we fucked
and fucked
and then a dog
came by
and we grabbed the dog
and started fucking the dog
no
no
it was beautiful
country in the spirit of acid
it's very
no
yeah
there was no fucking happening
there was a lot of like
laughing
there was
I remember going into
my friend's
shitty high school car
and like sitting
and like pulling the
seat back
and looking at the ceiling
wow
and I'm looking at the ceiling
and it's fucking
hieroglyphics
or some kind of like
ancient writing
you know
I don't even think
I knew what Sanskrit
was at the time
but I'd probably be like
oh I'm seeing Sanskrit
some kind of runes
or glyphs
all over my friend's car
that's just kind of
breathing and warping
and it's just
beautiful
so
yeah
that was the
that was the first time
and once you've had
that experience
how do you go back
to a world
a normal kind of world
the first time
I ever did acid
I've told you this
before I met
Kurt Cobain
how crazy was that
whoa
wow
tell that story again
I think I died this night
by the way
I have this new theory
that no I
this is what made me
think of a theory
that like every time
you die
you don't know
that you died
but then you left
this world
and everyone else
in this other
parallel world
you know
they think you died
like you know
they went to the funeral
this is where I thought
this from was
the first time
I did acid
me and my girlfriend
at the time
that was Marissa
we went to go see
holla Melissa
yeah
we went to go see
Nirvana
and she had acid
and I've never
done acid before
she goes let's do acid
and see Nirvana
so we took acid
and the opening band
was on
which is some Asian band
that just screamed
the whole time
and it was like
you know
it's kind of like
I don't know
annoying
so I was sitting
so I was sitting
next to the side
of the stage
and Kurt Cobain
comes around the corner
and just comes out
and it was really dark
so no one could see it
and he's just standing
right next to me
I look over
and I'm like
oh my fucking god
it's Kurt Cobain
and I was like
hey what's up
and he goes
hey what's up
you want a Cheeto
and he held out his bag
and I'm like
yeah
and so I held on the Cheeto
and then suddenly
he's just like
somebody goes
oh Kurt
and then he just like
throws all the Cheetos
out in the crowd
and then it returns backstage
I'm holding this Cheeto
and I'm like
he threw the Cheetos
in the crowd?
yeah like he had a bag
of Cheetos
that he was eating from
he just threw it
at the crowd?
yeah
he just threw Cheetos
everywhere
I mean this is like
a mosh pit
in Dayton, Ohio
you know
like side of the stage
like a rock club
you know
hair arena
I think it was
there's a fucking video
of Dana White
getting in a mosh pit
have you ever seen it?
no
yeah he went to
a Rage Against the Machine
concert
the motherfucker
got in a mosh pit
he got security guards
looking out for him
and shit
he jumped in a mosh pit
so I took this Cheeto
and I put it in my pocket
like I'm like
I'm gonna