A fireplace spoke ‘wisdom’ to me

Josh Brolin’s first taste of psychedelics came early.

During his performance on Thursday, December 12, the Jimmy Kimmel live to promote his recently published memoir From under the truckasked host Jimmy Kimmel Dune actor, 56, to talk about his experience trying LSD for the first time at 13.

“I don’t know how it happens, man. You have parents—where are the parents?” Brolin said. “If they gave it to me, they misplaced a sugar cube, I don’t know.”

Brolin, the son of actor James Brolin and casting director Jane Cameron Agee, was quick to explain that he and his friends in Santa Barbara, California, began experimenting with LSD “very early on,” even noting that some of his buds continued to to form an influential punk rock band called Rich Kids on LSD (RKL).

“RKL never got their time because they were doing too much LSD, but it was a good time,” Brolin recalled. “And I had an amazing trip. I had the most amazing – 13 years old, your brain is still developing. It’s probably not the best time to start with that drug, but I really had an amazing time. I saw a fireplace talking to me who said some nice things, i didn’t like what he said.

The Avengers: Endgame the actor explained that he and his friends “went through it all”, and at the end of the night someone suggested that the group take LSD for the second time that day.

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“Because as a drunk, when you drink alcohol, you’re like, ‘Let’s go to the bar, and let’s do it again,’ the next night, and the next night, and the next,” Brolin, who has been sober since 2013, said. added. “So I was in the habit of doing things again. That trip was not so good. No nice conversation. It was a lot of fire, but not a fireplace.”

When Kimmel asked Brolin if he would now “dissuade” the 13-year-old version of himself from trying LSD at that age, Brolin joked, “Dude, I can’t — you can’t put me in that position. Because it’s like every 13-year-old who watches your show — because that’s your biggest demographic.”

“Don’t do LSD. Don’t do LSD, kids,” he said, staring into the camera before turning to Kimmel and adding, “It was the best thing I ever did.”

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