Owen Smith Did Acid with Mitch Hedberg

Did I ever tell you my Mitch Hedberg story? Which one? I did acid with him. Whoa, when I was 26. That's a great story. Yeah man, so me and Mitch met at the Chicago Comedy Festival and we clicked, right? And we walk around, I was living in Chicago at the time. And we walked around, he was like, yo, oh, I'm about to be rich, man. He had just signed this deal or whatever in Montreal. I couldn't get Montreal to like look at me, he had just crushed in Montreal. And he goes, I'm about to be rich, man. He pulls out this Velcro wallet. It was, and he goes, you see this ring? I live in Seattle. I used to pawn this ring so I could eat. And then I would go eat and get a gig and then buy it back. I won't have to do that no more. So he just signed some big deal. So he needed a shirt for his HBO half hour special, the one where he's sitting on the steps. And so I helped him pick out that shirt. And then I had a gig in Minnesota, after the festival he goes, can I ride with you? So we road tripped in Minnesota because he was from St. Paul. I spent a night in his home. And I learned he was like a chef and all that stuff. So we really clicked and we were bumping to each other on the road. We were in Houston and he goes, when I decided I wanted to do comedy, I hit acid. You know, I took a hit of acid. I got my notebook and everything I saw, I wrote. And I was like, it won't be funny like that. So I did acid with him. And we were both in this hotel room. And the woman, it was a woman who was a dealer. And she came over in the hotel room. And that's when I learned where cartoons come from. Like everything I saw was like a fucking cartoon. And I was tripping, man. And he videotaped me, tripping. And I'm going, why is A, A? Why is B, B? Why is the letter green green? Who said green? Who said the letter? And I was doing, he videotaped me. And he literally goes, I clearly remember going, you should do this on stage. Go ahead and take me some more. And I go, stage, stage, stage. I'm like scatting, man. And I'm seeing on stage. And then I started, I was on this whole thing. All I kept thinking about was pussy, right? And I was dating this girl. And this is back when you used a calling card. And I only did two numbers by heart. My mom's number and hers. And I was like, I pray that I'm calling the girl. As I was talking to her on the phone, and I was on the bed and I was like, I want your pussy. Like all that shit. Are you high? You know, just fucking up the whole thing. And I go, yeah, don't do anything. Don't jump. And I was like, why are you putting that shit in my head? Like, cause whatever she saw, I could see, like I could physically see it. And then I look over in the bed next to me and Mitch is like fucking the girl that bought the thing. And I'm like, oh shit, I'm in the orgy, but not really. Like, I want the phone. He's actually doing it. I'm virtual reality. And then like my body started shaking and the whole shit like left my body. And so that's how like, you know, that was my experience. I never did it again. Never desired to do it again, but I did it with Mitch. And it was like, it was like this crazy thing. I was like, I'm not going to do it again. I'm going to do it again. I'm going to do it again. I'm going to do it again.