A few months back, our former Uproxx colleague Matt Ufford went to the Westminster Dog Show with a mission to pet every dog there. From the similarly awesome ideas file, Vice sent a reporter there who’d never done acid before to experience the Westminster Dog Show on acid (trying to name your indie band? You’re welcome). I love that they resisted the obvious temptation to over-stylize the video, though part of me does wish the guy had been tripping hairier balls.
This was my favorite exchange (screencapped above):
DOG LADY: Today we showed Flat Russian Terriers, Norfolk Terriers, Brittanies, Vizlas, Goldens, and Labradors.
VICE GUY: Oh my God.
Thanks to Mike the really tall Jew for the tip.
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Greg ‘The Hammer’ Valentine’s mom at 4:34
Strangely enough, Ufford is the name of my speed metal band.
If you could somehow combine this guy and Fred Willard’s character from Best in Show, you’d have the greatest dog show coverage in the history of ever.
More like dong show, amirite? UP TOP, BROSEPH!
Oh snap!
Can we make a request for Ufford to interview Kate Upton on acid?
Is Ufford going to be on acid or is Upton going to be on acid?
I’d- I… I don’t know…
LSD doesn’t exist on the street anymore. It’s just too tricky to make, too sensitive to degradation, and too easy to pass off other similar, cheaper psychoactives as acid themselves. Twenty to one, he was on DOI or somesuch.
SHUT UP NERD!
There is something to this; the guy is higher than shit, but not in trippin’ ballsville.
You just dont know where to look, brah.
You are harshing our vibes
Wasn’t tripping anywhere near hard enough to be on LSD. He even said he didn’t really have visuals which are a huge part of an acid trip. I agree with Alvis, probably DOB.
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There’s not really anything you can fit on paper that has any effect at all a such a small amount. You’re right about the first two parts though I’d say.
Actually I looked up DOI/DOB. Hrm….
What struck me as odd is that it looked like he swallowed the tab just after putting it in his mouth, which is a no-no. It’s supposed to sit, preferably underneath the tongue, for awhile. Then he immediately notices smoke looking weird. LSD takes a lot longer than that to kick in.
However, I’ve had many trips in my youth that weren’t very visual. Very common to have just head and/or body trip. Three parts to an LSD trip: mental, body and visual. Not uncommon for one of these to be missing
Plus, some LSD is just more powerful than others. I rarely took just one hit. Especially of paper. So not surprising he’s not tripping very hard
I’d make a bigger ass of myself after downing a Coke Zero.
this was his first time. from my personal experience and from others that ive tripped with in the past our first times were not nearly as “trippin balls” as the numerous times that followed. id say he followed suit as to what id expect from someones first experience with lsd.
I dunno what acid is like nowadays, but the cops used to say the stuff in the 90s was weaker than the 70s, which i’d probably agree with because in the 90s I’d see weird visuals, like tracers and shimmering shadows, and if i closed my eyes I’d see kaleidoscopic images pulsing to the Greatful Dead music (the only time I appreciated that band). But nothing hardcore visually like Fear and Loathing…except one time when I took a tab and it was like being in cartoonland and John Boy from the Waltons t.v. show came out of the t.v. glowing like a 3D Egyptian sun god and it got crazy from there and there was neon lava squirting all over the place and that was the tip of the iceberg. And all that was from a small tab ha ha. I’ve never again experienced anything as close to mind blowing as that. It was cool but scared the shit out of me because i felt insane because I couldn’t tell if I was making shit up or not — like I’d see Michael J. Fox on t.v. and I’d go ‘hey, that’s Michael J. Fox, right?’ and my buddy was frying he was like “I think you made it up.” and I was like “oh, yeah, maybe I did.”
I can’t think of a worse place to pickup chicks than at a cat show? Unless you’re a chubby chaser looking for a virgin.
Sigh. I want to do acid and pet dogs.
Glad to see the guy from Simply Red is still active.
Since there’s no room for us in porn, gingers have to find alternative ways to debase ourselves.
One tab?
I know, right? Pretty lame.
“You are the prettiest girl at the dog show.”
-Vice Guy
I just don’t believe that this guy was really on acid, especially for the first time. Very skeptical.
I find that kind of odd because this was probably the most accurate and relevant thing to an acid trip I have ever seen on a video on the internet.
Vice Guy has to do something about that hair.
The twin pony tails was not it.
Those pony’s too tight to mention.
This guy probably pet every dog on the show floor and he probably loved every mind blowing second of it.
What an incredibly STUPID and infantile stunt! Psychedelics are powerful, helpful and healing tools in expert hands. It is irresponsible for you to engage in this low level promotion of poorly informed drug use.
Get off your high horse (no pun intended).
Some pretty mellow shit , the stuff I used to do was powerful as hell there is no way in hell anyone could be around all them straight people without losing your melon but the video was a gas I got a good chuckle out of it.
His pupils aren’t dilated at all. Even though it’s bright, his pupils would still be dilated. He’s right about the sensory amplification. If it was DOC(the only really likely chem to be substituted for acid) it would last like 16-20 hours per tab. Acid only lasts about 5-7 depending. The pupils make me really suspicious as to whether he’s on it at all though.