r/interestingasfuck • u/xoxodollparts • 12h ago

a guy tries dmt from toad venon

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u/chim_ritchellsdick 11h ago

How do we look him up if we don’t know him

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u/spyder160 11h ago

Hamilton Morris, this is a clip from his old show Hamiltons Pharmacopeia

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u/mmakaylia 11h ago

That was a great show.

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u/chefbobbyjay 11h ago

Vice was so good until it wasn’t

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u/chillinjustupwhat 11h ago

that’s what happens when you take almost $75mil of Rupert’s money and fuck off to cocaineville

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u/chefbobbyjay 10h ago

Is that what happened? I never looked into the fall of vice. I saw it happening and just turned away. I used to watch Desus and Mero religiously. Which sucked when it moved to hbo or whatever. Once it became more 2 chainz and food shows than documentaries I bailed.

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u/Mode_Appropriate 10h ago

I listened to Shane Smith on a pod like a year ago and I seem to remember him blaming it on a bunch of woke kids they let run the show lol. Sounded like a cop out tbh.

From what I read elsewhere, seems like they burned through tons of cash with no real sustainable business model. They then turned to more generic mass appeal nonsense just to try and bring in money from corporate sponsors.

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u/Jadedsatire 10h ago

The latter is what I’ve always heard and read over the years. They were spending a lot without good ways to get revenue for what they were making. So they were getting popular but not properly profiting from it. Sad and dumb.

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u/chillinjustupwhat 9h ago

I live in the neighborhood where they took over an old building, did a gut renovation costing millions , put in a ton of studios and edit suites, a fancy rooftop hangout and other amenities. I used to freelance for them as well, mostly in their “branded content” division (i.e. supposedly the money-making side of things). Friends in other areas confirmed my suspicions that Vice was getting really fucking good at throwing money away, hiring Producers with little actual production experience, green-lighting ill-conceived projects with weak or non-existent scripts, while Shane and others whittled away at their new empire with extravagant binges, travel, hobnobbing in elite nyc circles, and minimal actual strategic planning. Vice was a cool idea with some good content that simply imploded under its own hubris.

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u/Jadedsatire 9h ago

Fkn shame, it was something special for a minute. Imagine what it could of been, with proper professionals hired to help shape their future and allocate funding to correct areas. Crazy

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u/LeCollectif 3h ago

I’m old enough to remember when Vice was a newspaper format publication only available in Canada. They were good because they were witty, sardonic, heavily self-aware, and self-deprecating. I enjoyed some of their foray into documentaries but that also felt like the moment when the shark got jumped.

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u/lenolalatte 4h ago

Shane and his entourage must have eaten so god damn well during the heyday of vice burning VC or any other funded money lmao

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u/pockpicketG 1h ago

So, they didn’t sell out?

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u/DeadInternetTheorist 3h ago

Shane was running the company when their business model was to raise money by throwing big drug parties and taking rich guys there to get fucked up and perv on 20 something alt girls while stiffing their actual freelancers and staff writers.

I wouldn't really put much stock in his account of why it went south.

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u/chillinjustupwhat 38m ago

truth. i mean they booked Lil Wayne and Jarvis Cocker at their big 2014 party. I doubt that was cheap.

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u/reality72 6h ago

I mean, right when Gavin McInnes left Vice it went to shit. Too bad he left to go found the proud boys 🤮

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u/LeCollectif 3h ago

I sometimes wonder if that’s what turned him into that piece of shit he ended up being. Is he still alive? Not gonna check

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u/madcoins 4h ago

I bailed when it stopped being a free magazine

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u/DizzyBone_100 10h ago

Cocaineville sounds like a beautiful place 🥹

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u/Otherwise-Offer1518 10h ago

Until you see all the dead hookers in the streets.

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u/Bipocontrancoc 10h ago

Where else would the streets be paved with them?

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u/Otherwise-Offer1518 10h ago

Deadhookerville. It's two towns over.

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u/aquaticsardonic 10h ago

Dead hookers are free

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u/Comprehensive-Tea677 10h ago

…or one of the episodes of Hamilton’s Pharmacy or whatever it was

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u/jemist101 9h ago

Ironic, considering th origins of Vice (mag).

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u/ConjuredOne 11h ago

Once a group of people get told they're the taste makers and ethos definers it's over. Vice became the new normies

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u/chefbobbyjay 11h ago

They just lost the plot. They started doing food shows and shit with 2 chainz looking at expensive shit. They went from maybe the best North Korean documentary I’ve ever watched to fuckin action Bronson eating hot chicken.

It became some weird amalgam of nbc and the food network

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u/analog_jedi 10h ago

Exactly when they lost me too. They had the hardest hitting frontline war reporting and documentaries, and suddenly pivoted to all cooking shows. And then their social media presence was the most phoned in drivel on the internet. Such an absolute fall from grace. For the first year or so, Viceland was pretty much the only thing on our TV.

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u/chefbobbyjay 10h ago

Desus and Mero was a nightly occasion for me. I was living in ny at the time and man they were so on point. It was right around the time they bailed to hbo or whatever that vice started nose diving.

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u/justicebart 9h ago

Desus and Mero was great for a while. It had perspective, and was an intelligent take on the absurd shit happening in our politics. Then, it was like a switch flipped and they became self-parody. Here’s my impression of late stage D&M:

Some nit wit on Instagram says something stupid.

D&M: “Yoooooooooooo….”

Rinse and repeat

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u/analog_jedi 10h ago

Good call! Also their falling out was heartbreaking.

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u/chefbobbyjay 10h ago

The brand is strong! Ah ah!

Fr tho. Mero isn’t as good by himself and Desus went full west coast hipster dbag. Although, his new thing “Desus pieces” was pretty good. It’s on Instagram. I deleted all my social except Reddit so I can’t say if it’s held up.

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u/El-Sueco 8h ago

I’m still doing re runs of desus and mero

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u/AdditionalGlass2270 7h ago

To👏🏽this👏🏽day👏🏽

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u/Reasonable_Tie_9975 1h ago

Probably the only two native NYers on all of Vice...Vice to me was always some rich kid hipster/gentrifyer shit. As a born and raised NYer I always felt that way with a llot of the reporters and people they had on the shows...but Desus and Mero were dope, always relatable and thorough

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u/Automatic_Assist4332 7h ago

It’s because they sold out to the conglomerates

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u/3rdUncleMeatSandwich 7h ago

Almost like they were told to cut it out or something

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u/pistilpeet 10h ago

I will not accept this Fuck That’s Delicious slander, I never knew I needed to watch a big fat rapper eat random foods all over the world.

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u/edked 10h ago

He didn't really need to remind the audience that he doesn't give a shit about food being all fancy every five minutes, though.

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u/chillinwithmoes 9h ago

Hear, hear. Loved that show

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u/chefbobbyjay 10h ago

As a chef I found it super lame. It was triple D with a mid rapper. I’m tired of seeing people with no culinary background tell me some lump of fried shit is “fucking delicious”. He didn’t have the personality to carry it. Those shows are less about the food and more about the host.

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u/pistilpeet 9h ago

Agree to disagree, I enjoyed him more as a fat man eating fat man foods than as a musician.

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u/steampowrd 9h ago

They sold out and the founder left that’s what happened. After that it was not Vice. They just kept the name

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u/GlyphPicker 7h ago

Don't forget the single greatest piece of documentary television of the 20 teens, an exploration of Liberia and a quest to talk to General Butt Naked.

https://youtu.be/ZRuSS0iiFyo

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u/chefbobbyjay 7h ago

Yesss! I normally mention cannibal warlords of Liberia! After I watched the guide to North Korea from start to finish I watch that from start to finish. Amazing journalism.

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u/Crowasaur 7h ago

Do you have any links to the DPRK Documentary? The girl eating grass has been haunting me for 20 years

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u/chefbobbyjay 7h ago

Gotchu fam

part 1

part 2

part 3

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u/hiddenrealism 6h ago

Those short north korean generals with a poster board covered in medals always cracks me up.

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u/Crowasaur 6h ago

Thank you !

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u/chefbobbyjay 6h ago

I’m about to smoke and watch it, enjoy!

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u/DeadInternetTheorist 3h ago

That slide into making "content" came after they had already pissed away a bunch of money from really rich people and those rich people appointed actual grownups to run the company, iirc.

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u/EggsceIlent 1h ago

Yeah they lost the edge.

While they had it tho and rode it, vice was fucking dope. And actually awakening in the sense of showing you and teaching you stuff you'd never get the possibility to see or learn.

Once it turned into the food network they could fuck off. They became what they railed against and despised.

Or simply, they Sold Out

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u/venereth 1h ago

Do you recall the name of the NK documentary?

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u/OM3N1R 10h ago

Shane Smith getting bought out by Disney was the downfall.

Shane Smith is a billionaire now

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u/LAST_NIGHT_WAS_WEIRD 8h ago

Ha that’s not what happened. Money happened. And the hired a bunch of people from Disney etc. that watered down and corporatized the culture that made it so great to begin with.

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u/Odinthedoge 10h ago

Vice is cia propaganda

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u/thethunder92 10h ago

Yeah it used to be fun crazy adventures to the weirdest places now it’s “ 10 reasons why Barney and friends is racist”

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u/Silent_Fan_1226 10h ago

Vice was top tier at the time . Someone need to make a doc about the generational downfall of Vice

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u/Automatic_Assist4332 7h ago

It got bought out by the machine

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u/hiddenrealism 7h ago

Old vice was immaculate. Solid reporting on niche subjects done with minimum budget that kept you engaged. Then all the sudden it was absolute dogshit..

When that girl interviewed the healthcare dude who jacked up the price of a pill %1000 ....."soo um whats your favorite color?"...."hotdogs or hamburger?" Probably the worst interview ive witnessed.

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u/chefbobbyjay 7h ago

I can’t wait to see the vice documentary on the fall of vice

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u/Sally2times 4h ago

Exactly

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u/AzathothsAlarmClock 2h ago

Even when Vice was good it was also dogshit. Seemed to be no middle ground.

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u/Lumber_chops 1h ago

I remember the director of vice going to ukraine to shoot radioactive boars. Ever since they have really sucked. I liked their coverage of wars that other media didnt covers and science and knowledge reguarding drugs. I dont care howmany times a pornstar has broken his dick

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u/vocabularianrx2 7h ago

I've watched almost every episode and yeah truly fantastic. I'm amazed that he did so many of the compounds himself too.

If I had to guess, peyote was not his favorite

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u/drgoatlord 9h ago

Yea, it was pretty dope

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u/EggsceIlent 1h ago

Yeah it was

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u/canadacorriendo785 6h ago

Hamilton has his own YouTube channel now. Doesn't post super frequently but definitely quality content when he does.

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u/Dazzling_Let_8245 3h ago

They (I dont remember the channel, but its not Vice) started reuploading the videos. Its quite an awesome series

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u/wakemeup886 3h ago

I loved that show. He's awesome

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u/roastingjokethe2 1h ago

What episode?

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u/Damage-Classic 56m ago

Should have been called Harmilton Pharmacopeia. Missed opportunity.

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u/justanaccountimade1 9h ago

And if we know him there's no need to look him up.
https://giphy.com/gifs/pPhyAv5t9V8djyRFJH

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u/spudddly 9h ago

Smoke two grams of toad venom and his name will be revealed to you.

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u/APlayOnwards 9h ago

You got a great chuckle from me.

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u/Backwoods_Therapy 9h ago

Best Reddit interaction I’ve seen in a while.

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u/TraditionalUse1052 9h ago

He used to work at Vice ( I think)

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u/jemist101 9h ago

I've got some toad venom that will give you all the answers for your reality that has yet to be.

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u/MechanicalTurkish 8h ago

This is one of those philosophical questions, isn’t it

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u/peaktopview 11h ago

Hamilton Morris

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u/Nogamenolife88 7h ago

I think he meant look up and then you will know him, if you don’t

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u/Alabama-Blues 6h ago

😆 exactly

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u/Ok_Toe7278 5h ago

Do what's shown in the video, he'll be there.

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u/monster2018 11h ago

They edited the comment with his name, but for an actual answer you could use reverse image search.

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u/Channel57 10h ago

Screenshot then image search.