- I am tripping and there is
an attractive middle-aged woman
trying to initiate a
sexual activity with me.
  (funky jazz music)
  (bubbling)
Hi there, my name's Mark Vigeant
and this is a story about
the time I did acid in
the mountains in Aspen.
 At this time, I was in a very
 self-serious improv
 comedy group.
  Our comedy group's
  whole thing was
 let's scare ourselves
 offstage so that
 when we're onstage,
 we're invincible.
 So, I called my friend Chris.
 We decided we were going to
 drop acid and go
 into the mountains.
  We needed to borrow a
  car that night at a party
 so that we could drive to the
 airport the very next morning.
 So, we did our acid at nine
 in the morning, thinking that
 by 9 PM, when we were at this
 party, we'd be totally fine.
It's like 7:00, 7:30 and
we are fucking tripping.
 And we enter this
 party, which Chris has
 told me nothing about
 and it is a mansion.
  So we're bumpin'
  around this party
and I'm chatting with this woman
and we're having a
really good conversation
and it doesn't occur to me that
 what I am doing, in her
 eyes, is flirting with her,
but that's certainly what she is
 interpreting this
 moment to be, okay?
 This woman just goes,
 "Does anyone wanna
 "go on a tour of the mansion?"
 And I'm thinking, like, "Oh
 yeah, we all do." (laughs)
 It turns out, we're upstairs
 and it's just the two of us.
 We're walking around
 an upstairs pantry
  and I'm like, "Whoa, cool,
  a kitchen in the upstairs?
 "What is this, Spain?"
She leads me onto this balcony.
  I'm staring out at the
  majesty of nature and then
 I just hear from behind me,
 "Won't you come join me?"
And I turn and she is laying out
  in, like, the, like, James
  Bond, this is a woman
  trying to seduce you
  from a movie kind of pose
on a bed on a balcony and then,
 all of the sudden, it hits me,
 I am tripping and
 there is an attractive
  middle-aged woman
  trying to initiate
  a sexual activity with me,
  a true fantasy situation.
 Two necessary elements
 of backstory here.
  At this point in
  time, I've been in
  a monogamous relationship
  for three years.
Number two, I was
really into older women
at this particular point
in time and I'm like,
  "Oh my god, oh my god,
  oh my god, what do I do?"
And then I'm like, "No,
there's no starting."
Because once you pop, you know?
So I'm sitting there
and she just turns to me
 and she goes, "What
 are you afraid of?"
And I just went,
"Literally everything."
 And I stood up and I exited
 the room and I've never felt
 so in control of
 my fucking destiny.
 And then I just went
 into the elevator,
  because there was an
  elevator for this mansion.
 She just sneaks into
 the elevator with me,
puts her hand on my
back and then just goes,
(inhales sharply) "They
warned me about you."
 First of all, no one
 warned her about me.
 No one knew this was coming.
 All this is to say,
 um, I didn't tell
 my girlfriend until the night
 before I proposed to her.
 She said yes.
  - [Narrator] Tales
  from the Trip.
