Interview · moment 9 of 20
Babysitting a First Acid Trip in Sedona
from Alien School (with Jessa Reed) · #89
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5 minGuest
Jessa describes taking her podcast partner on his first acid trip at Sedona's vortexes, compares it to her own eighth-grade first trip, and they riff on how differently kids research and 'micro-dose' drugs today versus the reckless dirtbag era.
- 38:02Tim babysat someone's first acid trip in Sedona, Arizona.
- 38:17Sedona's vortexes and twisted trees felt magical and cool even before the drugs kicked in.
- 39:10His companion called a Uber but forgot about it, then panicked and jumped into a gutter when the driver showed up.
- 39:28Tim's first acid was eighth grade at his friend Tina's house, where they stayed inside smoking weed instead of exploring nature.
- 39:58Tina's mother walked in and did a funky chicken dance, then said 'now you'll never know if I really did that or not' and left.
- 40:17At fifteen, Tim sat in a basement dry-firing a sawed-off shotgun while on acid, then tried to take it for a walk down the street.
- 40:50His companion is thirty-one and researched his first acid trip beforehand instead of just doing it.
- 41:26Modern drug culture is different—kids are efficient about it, microdosing to expand consciousness rather than just having fun.
- 41:54Today's kids are still trying to get into Brown while doing drugs; the late '90s and early 2000s had a dirtbag mentality that's gone.
- 42:26Tim and Deanna used to get high behind a Food Town with a dented soda can; now kids say they don't like sativas because they cause anxiety.