Name: Billy Strings Has Seen Some Things on Psychedelics
Uploaded: 2024-02-19T15:00:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Billy Strings Has Seen Some Things on Psychedelics' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-19. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Billy Strings Has Seen Some Things on Psychedelics' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-19. Transcript available.

After being awake for a couple days, I remember looking out my window and
seeing silhouettes of people standing by the tree and behind the car and you
think people are watching you and shit.
Paranoia has got to be one of the worst fucking things that can happen.
Yeah, there's a comedian, Shane Moss, and he wanted to do a documentary, I
think, and I'm paraphrasing, an amazing comedian, great guy, go see him if you
get a chance.
And he was on here once and he was talking about, he was trying to make a
documentary about doing, I want to say it was mushrooms, right?
But he got so like deep into it, he started getting paranoid.
And he started thinking the documentary crew that he had hired to shoot the
documentary of him were that they were like ops, like they were like government,
like he started to go down a real rabbit hole.
And then he started to give clues to the camera so that when he watched,
whoever watched it would know that he knew, like he was getting deep, bro.
I think there's a level to it because psychedelics is another thing that I've dabbled
in.
And I think psychedelics is a very positive thing.
I am an advocate for psychedelics.
I'm not an advocate for meth, crack, Oxycontin, cocaine, any of those things.
Little mushrooms, I think it's, you know, take a hit of acid and if you're
brave, like a hit of DMT or something.
But it's not for everybody.
I don't think psychedelics are for everyone.
But I think it can help a lot of people.
I think a lot of people would benefit from eating a mushroom stem and going and
sitting down by the riverbank, pitching a tent, you know, making a fire and
hanging out with some friends and looking up at the trees and, you know,
staring at a bug and realizing, you know, it's like I've hung out with like,
like whenever you're around like the Grateful Dead camp, you know, Bob Weir and
Bill Kreutzman and some of those cats.
It's like, like, like for instance, when I was out in Hawaii hanging out with
Bill Kreutzman and those guys, a lot of like the people that are just around
the friend group, they're all like, and I noticed this while I was there
because these people are doctors and, you know, intellects and, you know, there's,
they're, they're all adults who are still children, but they're not immature.
And it's like, you see this 45 year old woman who has many degrees sitting
there staring at an aunt and being like, wow, you know, almost like a child.
And I think it's just a, a great thing to not lose that.
Maybe some people get it without drugs.
And I know my banjo player, Billy Failing, he might take a hit of weed like
every once in a while, but he, he's pretty, doesn't do anything.
And I'm like talking to him about that.
Like, man, when I take some mushrooms or whatever, I just feel like, you know,
I feel like psychedelics can make me feel like one with nature and, and stuff
like that.
And he's like, man, well, I get the same thing when I go on a three day long
hike and sleep on the ground.
Cause him and his wife go on these outdoor, you know, long hikes and stuff for
like weeks at a time.
And they sleep on the ground and they, you know, Grand Canyon or where, you
know, national parks and shit.
Yeah.
And being lost, but it's like organized.
You know, go and shit in a hole for a week.
You get one with nature pretty quick.
Oh yeah.
Without drugs.
Yeah.
But taking some shrooms or acid or something can really get you there a lot
quicker.
It's like, um, well, shrooms are a connector, I think.
And even fungus itself is like a expansatory type of thing.
You know, it's like a, it's that thing that fills in the space, you know, like,
so, um, it's like a caulk almost in a way.
So I, yeah, I definitely, I, I think that mushrooms are great.
I've always thought that, yeah, you can get a little crazy and then your buddy's
fucking, somebody's doing the Heimlich maneuver on him at a damn waffle house
or something.
And the guy's hitting on your friend or something and he's a kid or whatever.
But the problem, the biggest problem I think is, uh, is you just run the risk
of people not being able to do it in, um, moderate, in some sort of control or
moderation.
I was just going to say the moderation.
That's the key with everything, but we're getting more to the point.
Now you're seeing, like, I have people that hit me up that I say, Hey man, you
should work with this therapist.
They do, uh, like mushroom guided therapy, right?
Like, and you see a lot more like ketamine guided therapy, right?
And, um, ayahuasca adventures.
Like you're seeing things where I think people are getting away from the idea
of like, just, I just want to poison myself like with alcohol, which is a fun
poison.
I'm not saying it's bad, I'm not condemning anybody that drinks, like, I would
be drinking if I didn't go buy cocaine and end up trying to, you know, bite
some strangers.
If I was a responsible adult, I would drink too, but I'm not.
You want to hear a DMT story or two?
Yeah.
And then I'll trade you one and then, um, and then we'll get back into your
music.
But yeah, we don't have to get back into anything, but I don't want people to
forget that you're a musician.
Yeah, Psychonaut, Billy Strings.
Psychonaut, that's what Shane Moss was, a Psychonaut.
Nice.
But yeah, let's go down a DMT story.
Well, because I feel like, you know, since I'm talking about all the other bad
bullshit that I've done, I need to kind of clear my name here and tell you
about some of the better stuff that has happened to me because of my experience.
Experiments.
Amen.
Yeah.
It's important.
Um, like when I was living in Traverse City, it was just, man, my buddy Seth,
he's gone now
too.
That sucks.
Cause he, you know, them opiates, man, got his ass, but he was my buddy who
always had whatever.
He was like into the like EDM scene and shit and he would like, just have a
backpack, which
Oh yeah.
I got whatever, bro.
He would come over and whatever.
One time he had this DMT.
So let me get a little bit, you know, so, you know, let me get a little bit, I'll
buy some
off you.
Right.
With a little bag.
And that bag sat on top of my dresser for fucking, I don't even know, six
months.
Yeah.
Because that's the other thing about psychedelics that I'll say is like, it's
not something to
play around with.
Yeah.
Get in the head space for it.
Don't do it.
You know, it's like, it's kind of, and I've learned that lesson from psychedelics.
It's almost like dipping your toe in the pool or something.
And, and, and it's like, don't do that.
Just, you know, if you want to go swimming or not, do you, or don't you?
Right.
Do you want to stay dry or do you want to get wet?
Right.
Okay.
Yeah.
And if you're wearing something that can't get wet, then fucking don't.
Yeah.
Then just chill.
Yeah.
Like if your attitude is an attitude that can't get wet right now.
Yeah.
Then just stay on the bank.
Yeah, exactly.
But so I was, you know, it took me six months to gain up the courage to, to hit
this DMT.
And one day I came home from work and there was nobody home.
My roommates were gone.
I knew they weren't going to be back because they were downstate.
And I had the house to myself.
The sun was shining.
Oh yeah.
I was like, you know what?
I'm feeling pretty good today.
It's like, I'm happy.
The sun's out.
Fuck it.
Nobody's home.
Like, I'm just going to rip this DMT.
Let's try it.
So I, and I was also ignorant at the time about what it even really was.
And I didn't know what to expect.
So I wasn't really scared of it.
Now I haven't done it in years, even though it's been so enlightening and
helpful.
I'm, I haven't done it in years because of how intense it is.
Um, but this, at this time I was like 21 or something, just like, man, I'm just
going to rip this DMT.
Yeah.
And so I sat on the couch and like took a big hit of this.
And I was listening to this.
Um, it was actually the old brother where art thou soundtrack.
Oh yeah.
I'll fly away with Killian Welch and Emmy Lou and Alison Krauss and Mike Compton
and, you know, all these instruments and stuff.
And I hit this and all of a sudden I'm kind of floating and the instruments are
surrounding me and it's all this beautiful kind of shit happening.
And I start to see this blue light and I'm like, well, what's that?
It's like this blue light way up ahead in the distance and it's getting closer
and closer to me.
And all of a sudden it's like, well, it's a chick.
And I'm like, I can see this lady and she's swirling and dancing and she starts
murmuring this ancient language that is brand new.
Something that this language has only been used right now for this particular
occasion, but it's ancient.
And I understood every word somehow, some, you know, she's telling me this
information as she's spinning and twirling and dancing for me.
And she's wearing this skirt and every time she twirls, her skirt kind of twirls
like that.
And it's made of like eyeballs.
And then she does a 360 and it's made of ears and then teeth and then hair, noses
and pupils and just all these different facial features.
Her skirt was like made up of like thousands of them as every time she turned,
it would change.
And she gets, she's getting closer and closer to me.
And then she got close enough to me and she kind of like caressed me in a way,
like put her arms around me and was like, are you good?
I'm like, I'm good.
And then we went like shot me out of the atmosphere, out of, you know, outer
space, like through this placenta where we kind of broke through.
And then it was like, we were on this beautiful pink mountain top overlooking
this vast everything.
Damn.
And, and she was kind of standing me on top of the mountain pointing and
looking and showing me everything.
These are all the universes.
Notice how they're spinning and working together like a gear, like a watch,
like a clock, like a movement.
And then she zapped us down super Zillow or something.
It was like all the universes spinning.
And then she took me down to our universe and showed me all the galaxies doing
that same thing.
And then she took me to our galaxy, showed me all of the planets doing it.
Then to our planet and showed me the wind and water and currents and, and then
to a grain of sand.
It was like a fractal out from everything and everything is spinning and
working together.
Doing the dance.
Yeah.
Doing the dance.
Yeah.
Doing the dance.
Yeah.
What you do affects your neighbor, you know?
And, and, and basically she told me, it was like, you need to be strong in
yourself.
You need to work on yourself, work on your mental health work.
You know, she didn't say all this shit, but you caught it from.
That's what I got.
It's like, you need to work on yourself.
We're all a link.
We're all links in a chain.
We're all together.
Me and you are the same, bud.
And we need to be the strongest links that we can be for everything for not
just, not just humanity, but all of everything, you know?
And what that is to be a strong link, you got to work on yourself and basically
just not be a dick, you know, and deep dive down inside of yourself and figure
out what it is.
Why are you an asshole?
Yeah.
You know, or why, how can you change to be better?
How could you be a kinder, better person to your neighbor, to mother nature?
To yourself.
To yourself, especially.
That's how you do it.
Right.
That's how you find the strength.
Yeah.
Thank you.