Nardwuar vs. Timothy Leary

[@LouisT1990]

I wish Nardwuar had interviewed Terence McKenna...

[@flatearthsubgeniussociety6249]

Or Robert Anton Wilson

[@Oni64]

or William Bill Cooper

[@donniekirksey9978]

@@flatearthsubgeniussociety6249 he did! Just audio though.

[@patbau96]

McKenna would probably think he's hilarious. Nardwuar's got Self-Transforming Machine-Elf energy in spades

[@mattasticmattattack8546]

WOOPWOOP

[@therabbitholeisdeep9689]

Even Timothy Leary is tripped out by nardwuars questions wow nardwuar is one of a kind

[@Censored4UViaGoogle]

Leary is tripping balls during this interview. Look at his eyes

[@screwgreweagle]

Timothy Leary maybe had built up a pretty strong wall from being attacked so often by just about everybody in the media and in public. Constantly being criticized and abused gives you kind of an edge sometimes. Must be hard to maintain good humor after decades of that kind of treatment

[@fantasypgatour]

Yeah especially at his age

[@Vibes.d]

Hes a martyr

[@June_Magoo]

You're absolutely right. I could see his jaded-ness tossing around in his head when Nardwuar asked him "do guys with LSD get the most chicks?" He somewhat decided to go with the jaded response he gave. He knew it was a joke but I think at that point he didn't really like Nardwaurs questions anymore so he didn't play along

[@truthiseverything9511]

"Tim's tips to the young... don't get drugs from Manson."

[@anaklusmosgreek3198]

He knew what the fuck was Up

[@BobSacamano666]

I'd take drugs from Manson.

[@theneedledrop]

Woah!!!!

[@craigclement5079]

theneedledrop I’ve JUST found this. 🙌

[@Adama_Now]

I'm doing a Nardwuar deep cut search, and even stumbling upon this post from Anthony from 6 years ago feels like deep cut.

[@fishwoz17]

A wild Fantano in the comments

[@craneo7905]

Anthony findtano

[@yojimbonongrata]

AHHHHHHHHHH

[@hunterbagby1084]

"Is it true you designed rides for Disneyland?" "Hold on, back to the Prozac -" Only in a conversation with Timothy Leary.

[@rhykko77]

Tim was at the time of this interview suffering from prostate cancer . He died two years later.

[@spacecoyote224]

In support of Nardwuar he brought out the real Timothy Leary before he died. His questions were something that would catch him off guard and get a real emotional response, they did that very well. I think though it is cringy that's sort of what he goes for most of the time and he does not fail. In support of Timothy Leary he was about to die when they did this interview he had been in prison for years prior to it. You can't blame the man for being a little strange, the LSD may have had less than a 20% contribution to his personality at this stage of his life. Watch some videos from when he was a healthy man before the jail and the public mockery and he's not the same, scars build up over time I'd love to see anyone else handle themselves the way he did.

[@noizyme]

Wow, epic interview. I'm disappointed more people do not know who Leary is in the comments. He was an outlaw doctor for the LSD movement and conscious-thinking/living back in the 60's. He was a bit pious about his message about LSD, to me, but he represented someone who had taken on a professional life, discovered LSD, and attempted to 'turn on' an entire generation to the psychedelic experience. Pretty brazen shit.

[@Truckdriverdivorcee]

He was a cop

[@Raviolli]

@@Truckdriverdivorcee rare cia W

[@ILoveAnchovies334]

“If the government legalized a drug then there’s got to be something wrong with it” Timothy Leary~ God what a beautiful mind! We need more revolutionaries like this.

[@Vibes.d]

Got me thinking about cannabis legalization

[@imamea7946]

@@Vibes.d True, and where it comes from at times too.

[@mikeykane5938]

@@Vibes.d got me thinking about meth. Meth is pretty bad.

[@Vibes.d]

@@mikeykane5938 it’s already available for prescription

[@davidwhite4874]

Leary was CIA.

[@rickiwarrior]

Great material in many ways. Never expected to find a young Nardwuar interviewing an old Timothy Leary, is just unrepeatable.

[@AtacamaHumanoid]

Timothy Leary was a good sport. Most people that age wouldn't be so patient.

[@1ofEve]

I don't think you know most people his age

[@AtacamaHumanoid]

Aj Bon I know them all.

[@AtacamaHumanoid]

***** it would be creepier if they didn't.

[@AtacamaHumanoid]

***** I'm just saying if I knew them but they didn't know me, that would make me a stalker.

[@andreahansen5883]

Dude was an intelligence agent... thats why... :)

[@PoshyX]

I really believe nardwar started to fuck with timothy leary towards the end of the interview. dude takes himself way too seriously for a man as wise and psychedelically experienced as he. where's his inner child?

[@eleusis2286]

Talking to this dude id be getting a little irritated as well

[@jakefox9641]

Where's Leary's inner child? He's an old man 2 years away from death!

[@boarder614]

Nardwuar jumps from topic to topic, name to name in a very annoying, immature way here... to quote Walter Sobchak about Donny: "You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know..."

[@metaphoria3]

@@eleusis2286 he trolled him so hard lol

[@RenewedBeing]

He was pretty sharp for his age. Don't forget he was 75 in this interview. He was a lot more together that most people his age. Don't forget, he was suffering from terminal prostate cancer at the time. Given all that, he was a lot more intelligent than most of the planet... even while admitting to being senile.

[@elohimseraphim7871]

"i know Bill Gates very well", that blows my mind

[@booowie8374]

all the billionaire's love psychedelics

[@leroy707]

Me to!

[@rauxzorz]

tim leary had the balls to tell people to think for themselves. praise is in order for the man who opened up minds.

[@dannynoon013910]

its real weird, because i think that ideologically i agree with timothy leary in most things. Like i think we should be in control of our own minds. However, every time i see him in an interview, i always think he looks like a paranoid, crazy guy who is loosing the faculty of his mind. if i perform his own exercise, and try to look into his eyes and see if he was on the same spiritual journey as me, i see a guy who looks just slightly less nutty then Manson. I dont get it guys, can someone show me an interview with this guy which is not teeth grindly awkward?

[@jamessweeten6926]

Hallucinogenic experiences cannot be explained in words you have to be in it in the moment to understand. Tim Leary seems like such a wonderful doctor of the Mind because everyone following him was on the same wavelength. If you've ever been high on LSD you will know that it's impossible to have a normal conversation with a sober person but have that same conversation with a person who has taken a similar amount of LSD and you can almost communicate without speaking like I mentioned before you have to be in it in the moment to understand and if you've never taken LSD I'm sorry I don't know how else to explain it

[@flipflop6525]

Watch Dying to Know on Netflix. It presents the best of Leary and all that he went through.

[@derrikferguson3219]

danny noon Drugs are factually poisons and scramble and hinder one’s mind.

[@jessejulian9069]

It’s because he was put in solitary confinement for a long period of time. Its been shown to cause people to lose their touch with the outside world and therefore lose some of their expressive ability to communicate with people effectively( i.e. the empty look in his eyes)

[@DillHurley7]

@@jamessweeten6926 I agree 100% with the thread starter when it comes to specifically Tim Leary Because I get the same vibes. But everything you said was spot on too... So idk I think Tim Leary might be a little overrated based on the accumulated data. But 1960s Leary. Thats a whole other person. He even said that himself in this interview

[@LANDSEAAIRCANADA]

We are proud of our Canadian Narduar, This is a Classic, Big Thanks !

[@TheTheoTherone]

"Me too." Dang. Kinda prophetic, that last bit. I'm so glad KZbin started recommending Narduar videos to me again. It's weird how it goes in waves.

[@McPlEmuLegs]

"did you design some rides for disney land?" "let's go back to prozac here . . . " Classic

[@gha23ify]

Tim always warned against taking LSD for kicks - at Millbrook before and after a session there were several days of interpersonal examination for each Post Grad , musician, artist ,etc . Theres a whole host of others during that period who's names never get mentioned , Leary was singled out because he was the most articulate , and had Harvard attached to his name. The reason LSD became popular was because of word of mouth - again, Tim warned against doing it without guidance and preparation .

[@Mytube777]

Uma Thurman’s mother has got to be one of the most beautiful woman in the world along with Sharon Tate. IMO. On a another note I was lucky enough to see Mr. Leary lecture at UCLA, and an older friend of mine used to know him (and Richard Alpert Baba Ram Das) and go up to his house in the hills and met his son and their friends. Timothy was working with the Internet in the early 90s and praised it to be the future, and to this day his web page is still up that he never got to complete.

[@LilyMathus988]

Woah!!! That’s incredible do you know the website?

[@retrobluemusic]

this comment section is a spilt between people who Timothy was dick and nuadward asking stupid questions. I personally liked this interview theres nothing wrong with it.

[@LosBerkos]

RetroBlue Yes, Nardwuar did his thing and elderly Tim Leary was just caught just as off-guard as every other Nardwuar interviewee in those days were!

[@zMysTicc]

LSD started my spiritual journey. Currently reading Be Here Now by Ram Dass where he speaks of the psychedelic study’s done by Tim and colleagues, legends. Thankful for their work.

[@jjfav2231]

drugs have opened my eyes to emotions especially empathy but once your mind has been free’d there is no need to do the drugs any longer. cant give them all the credit

[@zMysTicc]

@@jjfav2231 I agree. The real work is integrating what one has learned through the experiences or else it’s very easy to fall back into broken habits and why many could feel as if they need these higher consciousness inducing substances in order to tap in when truly we’ve held and hold it internally all along. Just need to connect. Peace and best of luck on your journey friend ☮️

[@zMysTicc]

@@patrickhenry2342 I’m not woke but I’m closer to enlightenment than you probably ever will be which is probably why you’re projecting and spreading negativity on the internet. High five.

[@Texansfandylan]

Damn Leary turned into an old guiser

[@willb586]

Kinda hard to remain very up and at em with cancer in your 80s

[@alliant]

He was 73 years old when he did this interview, I think it's pretty stupid to sit here criticizing him for being appropriately senile. Nardwuar's a character, why would Leary speak to him the way he would a person genuinely inquiring?

[@vasey6635]

I'm older now and have this to say: I appreciate Leary's passions and bravery. When it was there. But here, as often, he was a dick. he's a dick for saying that about Brian -- who achieved more spiritual uplifting of the world than Leary ever did in his entire lifetime. he was either jealous or a rude cold egghead who crowned every spiritual value in intellectual linguistics and ego. precisely why Ram Dass distanced himself from that vanity project. history shows us what became of the "pathetic moron", and what became of the psychedelic guru. HEART vs MIND. if you're going to exclusively have one, pick the former. and in Brian's case, his compositions reveal a great mind. but they are a higher dimensional creative structure, not the one of piecemeal word linguistics. Brian was and is a better man, and example of the creative and spiritual Spirit.

[@andraaaaa]

"Nardwuar" is probably his most psychedelic experience

[@nataliezementbeisser1492]

Most *boring experience

[@ohiodrb]

"If the government legalizes a drug, there has to be something wrong with it" -Timothy Leary

[@losethos1734]

Like a mandatory vaccine?

[@zipperblues6714]

Idk...xanax is pretty good. Lol

[@susansmiles2630]

Yay for Timothy! Timothy asked asked me to help him produce his first computer workshop in Santa Monica in the in the early 1980's.. He was so thrilled with the potential for and the similarities of the brain and the computer. I met so many interesting people through him, from Larry Flint to Tom Robbins to the top neuroscientists in the world at the time. Watching him here and on these other later clips cracks me up. He REALLY is a magical guy and he was ALWAYS so PRESENT. WATch him right before he dies, he's amazing. We lost a True Treasure. He sure has busted the myth that taking psychedelics ruins your brain! Such a gift to have got to play with the Irish Trickster!

[@williamhall3933]

Did you buy LSD from him?

[@starkillerbeats420]

❤

[@starkillerbeats420]

What a time to be alive and witness

[@lauramarx8098]

Nardwuar vs Foucault when

[@ilovemikerogers]

It's interesting that a guy known for having a head full of psychedelics would take every question so damn literally. I hope in 50yrs when kids wonder who he was they pull up something other than video of him being a grumpy old guy.

[@doctorfeelfunny584]

Many psychedelic drug users found increased empathy and patience. Leary himself was more of an humourless, arrogant, agitated douchebag. Nardwaur is the great deconstructionist of our time.

[@mackrevinack498]

its odd coming from someone who was part of the hippy movement in the 60s that was made up of freaks and weirdos trying to be different. its like hes done a 180 and turned into one of the "squares" that he used to shit on so much. maybe it was all just an act in the first place

[@Tauva]

@@mackrevinack498 Classic boomer bullshit.

[@Renslink]

thought nardwuar did well in asking leary a whole spectrum of questions from the seriousness of LSD(Brian Wilson) to the triviality of it(Does it get chicks).

[@DillHurley7]

Anyone hating on this old dude check out his Folsom interview in 1973

[@dougfisher9525]

Im thinking Tim doesnt like getting asked nothing but acid questions. He was attacked all his life for it, and he has other things hes contributed.

[@HaikesXO]

He's clearly there

[@iangrahamson]

Timothy Leary was a well respected by some, mocked and refuted by most- psychedelic philosopher of the 1960's and '70's. His ideas and actions were revolutionary and strange of their time as all others of the same period and before it. Forgotten, tarnished and revered are all words to describe how Tim's mind is processing the questions that Nardwuar is asking him in this video. As of January 15, 1994, his mind was receiving the context of the Q's as though he was dead & it was his own folklore.

[@IvanRichardTV]

I thought the snoop dogg interviews were awesome. Holy crap this is epic beyond proportion.

[@findfreddy]

I was totally at this UBC Tim Leary event with Mike Styles, Bill Degrazio and Justin Arnet (and possibly Ryan Degrazio). It was a true privilege to see Mr. Leary in the flesh. ❤️️ESP Crew foraver haha

[@Rossdiesel420]

bro this is the most insane interview because Nardwuar is so young and clearly grew since then, its also Leary at his peak of understanding and connection.

[@chunkytoafu]

yeah by underestimating Nardwuars intelligence Leary definitely undermined the interview

[@rakeortry]

wow, timothy leary is a bit of a prude for someone who's induced that many psychedelics. "getting chicks, i mean what does that mean, i mean that is a very vulgar 50's term" you'd think he'd enjoy an interview that isn't totally serious and realise that nardwuar is just commenting on a social stigma, that guys with acid get girls.

[@Gosmoke.]

That prudes also was about to die soon. Hes suffering from old age as well as nardwuar asking about stupid shit about peoples personal lives. This guys life is about not giving two fucks about any one elses life but his. Check out terrence mkenna sometime and you will see what I meen. Is there a patent on acid? Who the fuck asks that?

[@haydenknopp1013]

Gosmoke ashotgun Mckenna would never be such a prick to a cool guy like narduwar, not even when he was dying. The getting chick's question was a little dumb, but Leary was a douche the whole interview.

[@1ofEve]

Cj1 Pate Nardwuar asks that.

[@richardkey4289]

Wow!that response to the final question was something I heard years ago, I always wondered who had said that.THAT was one of Narduars weirder interviews....

[@Weasd]

"This is very primitive thinking," -Timothy Leary .... A line I will never forget. "What is getting chicks? That is a very 50's way of saying this, you are very out of it,"

[@darkChristian]

hats off to nard, great interview thnx for these moments. cheerz

[@phatPplH8]

its honestly insane how this man(nardwuar) makes these people(Well-known personalities) interested to him just by teasing them.That has to mean that they see something special in Nardwuar.Also insane how much knowledge nardwuar has.Please please someone interview nardwuar

[@victorha9923]

Nardwuar, you had much more interesting interview subjects back in the day. Mr. "Turn on tune in, drop out" himself. Nice one here.

[@hammysuhhh]

Only time nardwuar answers an interviewees question?? Great interview

[@j0eX]

Dr. Leary was dying from terminal cancer at this point, ( see how funny and top of your game you can be in that state of constant pain and anxiety ) along with being 75 years old, many of those years spent fighting persecution, prison, criminal conspiracy charges, misquotes etc etc. He still manages to be witty in the face an imitation Stuttering John Well, slightly better than SJ, several questions were good.

[@daedal]

I'm really surprised that this doesn't haven't more views. This is excellent!

[@ericphoenixg]

This was in 1994 as the description says. He's a much better interviewer than he was back then.

[@CLUBTOHM]

How am I just now seeing this...

[@jblitz55]

You know, much music does it right up in canada. I live in the states and at one time we used to get it on the local cable but not anymore. It's really what a music station should be like. They also got Nardwuar. Guys the man.

[@smalliver365]

I think he’s old and senile and in his younger days interviewers were very antagonistic towards him, So he was having flashbacks in a sense

[@starfishplectrumelectrumge8013]

I have nothing but respect for the both of them. Leary, the counterculture icon, at this point was embracing a massive shift in popularity. Especially those who were regulars at the newly-opened Viper Room. He got to hang out with Jim Jarmusch, Johnny Depp, Bob Forrest, Gibby Haynes, Cris Kirkwood, and Evan Dando. He was an avid reader of cybernetics' novels and was convinced that instead of mind expansion on psychedelics, you could explore the nether regions of the mind from dial-up Internet.

[@Storieswithvern]

You forgot John Frusciante

[@brucemaki1351]

"It's like sting in english." "...buuuuuzzzz."

[@roars7777]

oh man. the ending is so perfect!

[@swpo1]

Grumpy old man must not have done his nardwuar interview research. R.I.P. Timmy Leary

[@Cwarnershapes72]

True - 1991 UCLA Tim Leary / Med / Law

[@RenewedBeing]

The questions he called out as dumb.... were dumb. I like Nardwar, & part of his shtick is to throw in dumb questions to get a reaction. Tim was just able to pick up on that.

[@GaryLee123]

Why does this look like it was in the middle of Timothy Leary's dorm room

[@yearssknerdopsurviver]

once upon a time Timothy Leary was relevant and sharply profound. and upon that time would have been the place to have this interview, because in that place, these questions would have excited Mr. Leary, due to the fact that the questions were derived out of Leary's past(which for Leary, is fuzzy and jaded now) hence the abrasive stance he took when realizing that nardwar (whom i don't really care for) was connecting obscure p/p/t in a round about way, making it almost impossible for Leary not to sound contradicting. (weather on purpose or not) Bottom line: T. Leary is old and a little off kilter (no longer personifies the once pillar like Leary) and nardwar was planning on interviewing Timothy Leary the profound thinker, not "ol' man Leary" the bitter pessimist. in all fairness, nardwar was really young and ill prepared. of course even if he was, he still would have had to deal with Learys pre-conceived notions on "today's" media, weather nardwar fits into said group or not.

[@ThrasherGnar]

25yearssk8nerd op8surviver Nailed it, most accurate comment here!

[@TheHorus471]

Not exactly, i think at least in cognitive level, Leary was sharp as ever, but he was also naturally cautious of any interviewer that can twist around his words to make a headline. Nardwuar style of frantic questions turns interviews into interrigations, and to be fair, he is the most political and contreversial interviewee he ever had. So, considering these factors, i would consider it better than expected. And it would not go easier in the past, on the contrary, Leary would be more cautious, and may have picked apart Nardwuar a lot more in the past.

[@jaz.imskyy]

legendary interview

[@DarkEcstasyWorld]

I can't tell you how happy I got when I saw the title of this video in my subscription feed! Awesome! Nardwuar rules!

[@delorespiccini9972]

I've never seen so much hate in a comment section :(

[@brodyzakira3078]

Then you must of never been on the internet before but I respect your sensitivity/awareness to peoples negativity :) that's a rare trait, most people are assholes because they don't have that sensitivity...

[@WarmBelowTheStorm]

I'm convinced he didn't even know which Brian he was talking about. :D

[@DrNasty-ey7gz]

That's exactly what I said when I realized the person posting your comment was Anthony Fantano.

[@stephenkane2464]

Absolutely remarkable, stellar!

[@aluciddreams]

a cokes worth of lsd is an astonishing amount to ingest.

[@VehementDenial]

A young Nardwuar interviewing an old Leary, that's quite a combination.

[@accordingtohonda4308]

Tim couldn't keep up.

[@thegrimyeaper]

What a grumpy man. I'd walk out the door after two minutes.

[@nickgeary7919]

Two people with two different understandings of the world. Both genius in their own way.

[@blk86nike]

I just want to mention whoever your camera guys are over all these interviews thank you to them to.

[@nightshadegatito]

My mind is thoroughly blown and I know where to look for reading material next.

[@minkey2007]

Holy shit this is legendary. Was this unreleased until now?

[@christianl3852]

Just watching this guy talk gives me anxiety

[@manvaix]

I guess Timothy Leary was really disappointed by Nardwuar as an example of young people. His idiotic and stupid questions and bacically the whole style of the interview? It was beyond belief...

[@aristotle358]

Is the Indian guy in the background the tabla player who used to play with Ravi Shankar?

[@matthewturner5032]

This is amazing!

[@chasecarter1170]

Beautiful collision of human embodiments of beauty. Nardwuar and Tim Leary, just wow.

[@Mikeso367]

Sick ass fuckn video. This interview is by far the best he's done. Respect the Nard!

[@Hecateize]

A guy said to me in a chat about Timothy Leary, i thought this guy never existed.

[@Censored4UViaGoogle]

This is a cool interview. Leary is a legend

[@JokersAce0]

Never would have imagined the Timothy Leary would have ever spoke about Throbbing Gristle

[@jamescarter3196]

He seems like William S Burroughs in this interview.

[@_Bangs_]

I feel like Timothy Leary and I could have been best friends.

[@tomminykanen]

Why post the videos like this though?

[@duncandixon7151]

Damn Timothy Leary a straight savage 😭😭🤣

[@Trundlecake]

Good interview

[@SamShadow93]

HOLY SHIT !!! Nardwuar you're a legend !!

[@averytijerina3425]

This was a crazy find yall

[@Dean11link]

This is two years before he died :(

[@nikkmitchell]

Ahahahaha, Nardwuar hasn't changed at all! Holly shit. If i just was listening to him and didn't see the footage I would have no idea this video wasn't from yesterday.

[@mostentertainment7457]

i sold Nardwuar his first cellphone 2 years ago... no joke.

[@gha23ify]

Is Prozac the L S D of the 90s ? The questions were not only stupid , immature, but disrespectful .

[@BlackOpsMwarfare2]

Why is there no Nardwaur vs. Eminem ????

[@goatskindreams]

for a free thinker, hes always looking at someone else for confirmation.

[@NickTheKid266]

tim leary was one of the best guys back in 60s, he looks a bit worried now though..

[@KiLiKThaLuminary]

Bro I’m rollin

[@umscottschaeffer]

sometimes I get self conscious for never having done a psychedelic drug and then I hear guys like this calling brian wilson a "pathetic moron"

[@aristotle358]

That was rather catagorical. Could you not be more detailed? Can you not see the resemblance of the man with the one in question?!