rant · moment 9 of 10
Getting High as a Kid: The Booth, Rips and Tears, and the Gravity Bong
from Who's Gonna Fix Our Lives · #16
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
6 minTim recounts his teenage drug initiation on Long Island — hanging at 'the booth' by the train station, dodging his friend's mom's car, learning to smoke cigarettes at LaFawn's house, his first gravity bong hit, and escalating through weed, acid, coke, and Special K with his friend Shay.
- 49:59Tim describes The Spot, a half-built clubhouse structure in Long Beach where he and friends would get stoned as kids.
- 50:38Progression from smoking in hidden places as a child to hanging out in cars as a teenager, eventually driving to the Bronx for cocaine.
- 51:01Tim claims there's nothing better than getting fucked up as a young kid, calling his own first time in college pathetic by comparison.
- 51:40He lied to his grandmother about going to Chefs Club in seventh grade, actually going to smoke cigarettes at a girl named LaFawn's house.
- 52:27LaFawn's house had bongs and ashtrays everywhere, and Tim's friends taught him how to smoke a cigarette for the first time.
- 52:59Tim's first experience smoking weed was through a gravity bong, which he used an actual lung to construct.
- 53:38College story: a friend made an entire blunt from a twenty-dollar bag of hydroponic weed, and they went to see Red Dragon after smoking it.
- 54:34Second time smoking weed, Tim ducked out of a teen night event to get high behind a Food Town with friends.
- 55:07After smoking, he returned to the teen night event in his dad's car, set off on a decade of unimaginable horror.
- 55:38Tim and his friend Shay fell in love with weed, frequenting Rips and Tears head shop near the Nassau Coliseum, buying bongs, grinders, and hash before progressing to coke, acid, ecstasy, and special K.
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