In this episode of This Past Weekend, Theo talks about his weekend trip to Disney World and the LSD he took along the way. He also talks about a wild bus ride he went on when he was in high school.
00:01:48.440You know, I think a lot of people are still enjoying some of that 4th of July-ness and, you know, a little bit of that aftermath of Labor Day and vacation time.
00:03:40.160And I would like to just, while I'm thinking about it, let's make that the topic for next week.
00:03:43.700If you have been on a wild bus ride, I'm talking Greyhound or a bus adventure of some sort, Peter Pan, you know, one of those troubled bus lines.
00:03:53.880And if you've had a wild experience, you can hit the hotline and let me know about that.
00:03:57.720And we'll try to drop some of those in for next week.
00:04:05.240Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
00:04:08.220So, we got down to Orlando and somebody had some acid.
00:04:12.280And so, we took some acid, you know, a little bit of LSD.
00:04:16.140And I remember, if something was in this LSD, it made everybody look Asian.
00:04:22.140You know, if I don't know if we, you know, if the guy who had gotten it had copped it off of a, you know, an Asian guy or a Viet or, you know, a Cambo, a Cambodian.
00:04:32.780They call them Cambos, a lot of people.
00:04:35.940But we had that Vietnamese acid or whatever it was, a Cambo acid.
00:04:40.740And I remember, everybody I looked at looked Asian, you know.
00:04:45.280And I got thin eyes, so game recognized game.
00:04:48.740But when I'm on that acid, and everybody's, it just made everybody look Asian.
00:04:53.480So, we came there, and it was like graduation night.
00:04:56.800And all of my high school buddies, probably about eight or nine people on acid, and didn't tell the rest of the class.
00:05:17.360But we just spent the whole night on acid, running around and doing the different rides and being scared of each other and being scared of ourselves and hiding in the bathroom.
00:05:26.120And like six of us tried to split a hamburger.
00:05:29.660That's how geeked out we were and couldn't even do it, couldn't even eat it.
00:05:35.100But that was a good time, and that was part of high school, you know.
00:05:37.880But that was the last time I'd been to Disney World.
00:05:41.600And that was only one of two senior trips.
00:05:43.820Now, we'd taken another senior trip to Mexico.
00:05:46.200Mexico, you know, one of the larger countries, South of America.
00:05:50.900And we got down there, and everybody, I remember, bought a bunch of prescription pills and was doing, was stealing each other's stuff.
00:06:02.000I mean, it wasn't but a couple of, probably nine hours we were down there in Cancun and half the class, and this was a senior trip in high school.
00:06:10.660Half the class was, you know, hopped up on prescription pills and stealing each other's luggage and selling each other's shit on the streets and, you know, getting, stealing each other's whatever it was at the time.
00:06:26.240We had those calculators, TI-85s, those fancy, you know, U-laters.
00:06:30.980And we were, you know, those number crunchers, you know, that do the, they do algebra.
00:06:36.080And we were stealing those and selling them and buying more pills.
00:06:38.920And, I mean, for a group of 17 or 18, 19-year-olds, it only took us about 12 hours to go completely AWOL and half of us be addicted to painkillers and out there selling each other's goods and different type of textiles and wares.
00:06:57.420So that got bad, and then everybody's fighting.
00:06:59.820And half of us were sharing a room, and I remember we were stealing stuff from each other and hiding it in the same room we were in.
00:07:09.760So that right there will tell you what some prescription pills will do to you, you know.
00:07:15.060So that's one thing you need to stay off of.
00:07:18.820But anyhow, that was, and a lot more happened on that trip.
00:07:21.740But that was some of those high school trips, and one of those was to Disney, Disney Town, Florida.
00:07:26.320And I'm here this weekend in Orlando, Florida.
00:07:29.220And some lovely ladies, Miss Suzanne and Megan, they just hit me up, actually on the hotline.
00:07:36.180And they said, Theo, we would love to take you to Disney World.
00:11:16.640So you drive right past the place where that baby fought that alligator and lost.
00:11:21.180And so that's a little crazy out of the gate because you haven't even gotten to the magic.
00:11:25.880And then you got this, I mean, you literally go right over the beach.
00:11:29.380We've all seen the pictures of the beach and the, you know, the roped off area where, you know, the alligator just snatched up that baby.
00:11:37.440And so that's wild because you've just seen that and you get there.
00:11:42.100And then you get to the park and you go in and you see the magic castle.
00:11:48.780And a friend of mine, one of the friends that went with us, this young lady, Gio, she was telling us that they, there's a whole underground city there at Disney.
00:12:02.160And I'm like, wow, you know, this is very much like Vietnam, you know, when you think about it.
00:12:09.980Because, you know, the Vietnamese, they would really, they had these, the Coo Chi tunnels.
00:12:15.900And if you're not familiar, you can look that up and that's spelled C-U-C-H-I, I think separate words.
00:12:22.780But the Coo Chi tunnels where the Vietnamese would hide in the ground and then just poke you out with, with, you know, bamboo spikes up through the ground and surprise you and kill you.
00:12:39.720You know, they're trying to show you joy, but they have a whole underground city apparently where the, you know,
00:12:45.080the Disney Vietnamese, if you will, are down there just subbing out chipmunks and subbing out, you know,
00:12:52.020dancing raccoons and wild animals or, you know, Winnie the Pooh, whoever their characters are that are on the lot that day that are, you know,
00:12:59.260up there rocking, you know, regular ground.
00:13:03.400They got it where you're, where they're subbing each other out and kind of piping each other in and out.
00:13:07.540So it was pretty, it was just crazy to just even hear that.
00:13:10.500And then you'd see some of the activity.
00:13:12.940You'd see like somebody, you know, you'd see like, oh, oh, this crazy walrus from, you know, from the walrus movie.
00:13:21.380He'll disappear around a building and then you'd see another walrus come out and he'd be like maybe just a two inches taller.
00:13:28.700You know, he'd be like, oh, look at that walrus.
00:13:31.080You know, I know he didn't just grow behind that building.
00:13:34.900So, you know, it was just interesting to start to see some of the inner workings of it.
00:13:38.780You know, if you really, as an adult, you're able to take a, you know, you're not as mesmerized by the childhood enamorations of it all.
00:13:47.320And you were able to, you're able to actually see some other stuff that's going on.
00:13:52.880So I thought that was really, really captivating to me just to be able to have that experience of, of, of seeing Disney from a more adult standpoint.
00:19:14.380And finally, after all this shit of just flipping it in the air and fucking, you know, dusting it with, you know, cumin and damn dust powder and smoke.
00:19:27.620And this guy's like, you know, he kept pulling the fat off of it and injecting it back into it and like recycled and reused and refurbished.
00:19:37.720And Jesus Christ reborn, born again, brisket.
00:19:41.600I'm like, what the fuck is going on, dude?
00:19:44.980I'm about to, the only place you need to baptize this fucking piece of meat is in my mouth, brother bear.
00:19:49.300And so, man, some of this chefing, though, is just going too far, you know?
00:19:56.240And you got these friends, it's like, dude, we're here to eat.
00:19:59.520Like, we've been swimming in a pool, you know, hanging out with the children.
00:23:14.060You were talking about what it means to be an American.
00:23:17.320And I thought all the callers had great points.
00:23:20.060And as always, you provided some good feedback, too.
00:23:23.180But on kind of a, I guess, more of like a philosophical side.
00:23:27.900And Trevor's talking about, you know, we talked about what it meant to be an American.
00:23:32.180If it's the first time you've heard this podcast, we talked about it.
00:23:35.800We had some callers call in just what it meant after Fourth of July, what they felt like it meant onward.
00:23:41.320I wonder, what do you think about the point, the counterpoint, I should say, that really nationalism and any sense of I'm an American or I'm a Canadian are names for our separation as humans.
00:23:57.860And it's a different way to label ourselves as something separate from one another.
00:24:04.640And I can kind of tell, you know, from listening to you all this time that you're more of kind of a, and maybe I'm wrong, but you seem to be more of like a brother, universal brotherhood, you know, all one type of thinking.
00:24:15.940So how do you square the fact that, yes, it's good to be proud to be an American, but at the same time, the more you believe, and especially psychologically and philosophically, if you really believe you are an American, that creates a them and us, or us and them sort of dynamic, which then really is the root cause of all war and conflict is.
00:24:39.060Yeah, and I'll just pause you right there, Trevor.
00:24:42.440And you know, what's funny is I've been thinking about this.
00:24:44.440I've been thinking about this since some of the calls and since we went over that topic some, and this is kind of the other side of that coin.
00:24:52.320You know, some of our calls and stuff were a little bit, not one-sided, but it was, those were, those are the people that called.
00:24:58.300So those are the things that we talked about.
00:25:00.260But this is another view, and it's a great point that Trevor makes, that if we say that, okay, I'm an American, and you're a Canadian, and you're a, you know, an Ethiopian, and you're from Siam, and you're from Mexico.
00:25:13.200So then by having, like, pride in our country, are we separating ourself, you know?
00:25:22.880Are we not looking at the fact to just say, hey, we're all people, and we're all here in this world.
00:25:27.460But instead, we're saying, I'm this, and you're that.
00:25:31.440So is having, and I'm not trying to juxtapose your point, Trevor, and I appreciate it, and you said it real clearly, but it's like, is, is that, is that bad?
00:25:41.100And it's interesting, man, it's a great point, you know, it's like, I mean, right when I heard your call, Trevor, it really made me think.
00:25:48.900Because I'm like, wow, yeah, like, if I'm thinking just, you know, America, America, then am I, like, immediately I'm, I'm separating myself from other places.
00:26:00.240You know, it's, is it all about people, one, one love, you know, one everyone.
00:26:05.620And I do, I believe in the idea of brotherhood.
00:26:08.540I believe that it would be great if we could all live in conjunction that way.
00:26:13.640I worry, though, that we, I, first of all, I think that if we're going to be able to do that in the world, that America is going to have to probably lead the way.