I wish Nardwuar had interviewed Terence McKenna...

@flatearthsubgeniussociety6249

5 жыл бұрын

Or Robert Anton Wilson

@Oni64

4 жыл бұрын

or William Bill Cooper

@donniekirksey9978

4 жыл бұрын

@@flatearthsubgeniussociety6249 he did! Just audio though.

@patbau96

4 жыл бұрын

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

@mattasticmattattack8546

3 жыл бұрын

WOOPWOOP

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah especially at his age

@Vibes.d

3 жыл бұрын

Hes a martyr

@June_Magoo

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

@anaklusmosgreek3198

3 жыл бұрын

He knew what the fuck was Up

Woah!!!!

@craigclement5079

6 жыл бұрын

theneedledrop I’ve JUST found this. 🙌

@Adama_Now

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

A wild Fantano in the comments

@craneo7905

4 жыл бұрын

Anthony findtano

@yojimbonongrata

4 жыл бұрын

AHHHHHHHHHH

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

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

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.

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

10 ай бұрын

He was a cop

“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

3 жыл бұрын

Got me thinking about cannabis legalization

@imamea7946

Жыл бұрын

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

@mikeykane5938

Жыл бұрын

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

@Vibes.d

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeykane5938 it’s already available for prescription

@davidwhite4874

Жыл бұрын

Leary was CIA.

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

@1ofEve

9 жыл бұрын

I don't think you know most people his age

@AtacamaHumanoid

9 жыл бұрын

Aj Bon I know them all.

@AtacamaHumanoid

9 жыл бұрын

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

@AtacamaHumanoid

9 жыл бұрын

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

@andreahansen5883

7 жыл бұрын

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

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

That time Timothy Leary didn't know about aspergers.

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

8 жыл бұрын

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

@jakefox9641

7 жыл бұрын

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

@boarder614

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

@@eleusis2286 he trolled him so hard lol

"Brian Wilson as in fun fun fun fun fun fun fun"

@Betoven81

7 жыл бұрын

+fun

@BuffaloJams716

6 жыл бұрын

😂

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.

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

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

@booowie8374

3 жыл бұрын

all the billionaire's love psychedelics

@leroy707

2 жыл бұрын

Me to!

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

6 жыл бұрын

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!

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

@derrikferguson3219

5 жыл бұрын

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

@jessejulian9069

5 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

@@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

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

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

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

Damn Leary turned into an old guiser

@willb586

3 жыл бұрын

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

Nardwuar vs Foucault when

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

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

3 ай бұрын

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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

oh man. the ending is so perfect!

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

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 .

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

6 жыл бұрын

25yearssk8nerd op8surviver Nailed it, most accurate comment here!

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

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....

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

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

7 жыл бұрын

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

6 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

@@mackrevinack498 Classic boomer bullshit.

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

This is amazing!

This was a crazy find yall

Good interview

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.

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

"Nardwuar" is probably his most psychedelic experience

@nataliezementbeisser1492

2 жыл бұрын

Most *boring experience

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).

favorite interview

be awesome to see him do this interview now

Absolutely remarkable, stellar!

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

How am I just now seeing this...

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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

Did you buy LSD from him?

@starkillerbeats420

11 ай бұрын

❤

@starkillerbeats420

11 ай бұрын

What a time to be alive and witness

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

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

wow what a great video

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

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.

Brilliant man , way ahead of his time!

@hampstershat123

7 жыл бұрын

remember when he said he was only 20 years ahead of his time back in the 60s?... too optimistic haha

just discovered this and boy am i happy

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

well put .

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

Only time nardwuar answers an interviewees question?? Great interview

Nardwuar vs Alvin Risk, where's it at, bro?

He's clearly there

Why post the videos like this though?

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.

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

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

Insightful

This is a gem.

I love how Nardwuar asks the most absurd questions which are often based on what most people say about his subject. Then dismisses these stupid rumors. That's why he asks stupid questions. There's definitely a lot of intelligent people in that room.

Whoo Nardwuar Keep em comin bro! :D

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

This is great

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

Nardquar, please have a show where you interview famous people please!

never expected this

I enjoy classical music as well but, that doesn't limit my ability to appreciate other genres either. If something doesn't entertain you though, it's fully sensible for you not to listen to it, but then going on with that lack of interest and commenting on something to do with someone you're not interested in, because you felt bitter about the style you (willingly) don't understand...well, you're clearly smart enough to see the drawbacks of it, if you can set bias aside momentarily.

hi nard!

YES please nard

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

What an amazing soul

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

@brodyzakira3078

9 жыл бұрын

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...

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

interesting stuff, not into psychedlics beyond grass, but I do know Leary was a an iconic figure during the late 60s and this interview was a good watch.

Bro I’m rollin

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

@losethos1734

2 жыл бұрын

Like a mandatory vaccine?

@zipperblues6714

2 жыл бұрын

Idk...xanax is pretty good. Lol

This is art

in this case the versus actually describes the interview quite well

What's with the constant flow of questions? At least acknowledge what's been said. Seems very robotic otherwise.

I wanna see Nardwuar vs Necro!! THAT shit would be crazy!!!

Don't aspire to take yourself too seriously though. If you see some of Nardwuar's other interviews, they are fantastic. He evokes reactions that not many can. It's not "this or this." There are various styles of existing as a "human." This was quite some time ago...

yeah by underestimating Nardwuars intelligence Leary definitely undermined the interview

Wild!

this is iconic.

watch the damn interview

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

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.

@jordanwebb3483

9 ай бұрын

You forgot John Frusciante

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

damn this was very sad to watch

@Natasha-ce3rm

4 жыл бұрын

GuitarGodSam 69 he’s not enlightened. Some people believed that. He’s got ego showing🤥

@mirrorinsideout

4 жыл бұрын

@@Natasha-ce3rm common fallacy you're using here

@madtiboysen5397

4 жыл бұрын

@@Natasha-ce3rm yea, he's human. He was also a spokesman an influenced, characteristics of an active ego.