OT Update: OSU Commencement speaker wrote his speech while on drugs
Title prett much sums it up. What a train wreck!
huffing those cooler fumes
Of course he did.
This guy looks stoned.
this was info provided in the article when it was posted previously
It actually wasn't.
It actually was. From the article linked in the original post on May 6th ……
Pan was also, by his own admission, high on the South American psychedelic brew known as “ayahuasca,” which was recently popularized by Aaron Rodgers, a conspiracy theorist who moonlights as an NFL quarterback.
Yeah, I distinctly remember this detail from that article...
Yeah, I riffed on the drug thing when it was originally posted.
And likely future B10 Commissioner. Cue Jim Delaney meme.
"...Aaron Rodgers, a conspiracy theorist who moonlights as an NFL quarterback."
LOL
They forgot to include his "healthcare professional" qualifications.
Ryan Day should give this a shot. Might help him design a more creative game plan.
It might also explain Borges and his 27-for-27 debacle in Happy Valley.
You’re wrong you know
It was directly stated in the article and at least a couple of the recaps and comments i saw
I've come here for an argument.... no you haven't... yes you have...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ
"This isn't an argument. It's just contradiction."
no it isn't....
Yes, this was already posted several days ago and honestly is the least insane thing about the whole commencement. The OSU president ignoring his advisory committee and picking someone not on their list because he's on the board of a crypto company and this speaker is big into crypto is the new piece of news I haven't seen on this board yet. That and the speaker's note about how he needed to move all his crypto-fluffing before his sing-along because "the alpha males in the audience would trust him about crypto more if they heard it before having to sing" is pretty hilarious.
because he's on the board of a crypto company and this speaker is big into crypto is the new piece of news I haven't seen on this board yet.
Not that it was any great piece of insight on my part—I mean it was pretty easy to deduce—but I made this exact assertion here a couple of days ago.
I thought having former OSU President Gordon Gee say he hoped he wouldn't be fired by Jim Tressel was as ridiculous as it could get, but the new OSU prexie said "hold my beer"
The really important detail in this article is that someone had an accident and died during the event.
Unfortunately it was not an accident. A young woman who was graduating found out shortly after the ceremony that her mother had taken her own life at the stadium. Terrible situation
Ayahuasca (pronounced ‘eye-ah-WAH-ska’) is a plant-based psychedelic. Psychedelics affect all the senses, altering a person’s thinking, sense of time and emotions. They can cause a person to hallucinate—seeing or hearing things that do not exist or are distorted.
If you have no idea what Ayahuasca is, The Alcohol and Drug Foundation says this about it.
Everything I know about ayahuasca, I learned from Aaron Rodgers.
Not really a strong endorsement for the product.
I literally never heard of it until last Friday when Kendrick Lamar suggested Drake use it.
That really doesn't make it less confusing.
I still haven't heard of it and I'm reading this thread right now. Maybe I'm on ayahuasca right now and don't even know it.
Weird timing. I was rewatching blue mountain state and Thad uses this brew to go on a vision quest and I did a bunch of research on it after.
‘eye-ah-WAH-ska’ is the sound I make when I sneeze.
Before Minnesota fans went with Ski-U-Mah, they were considering Eye-A-Wah-Ska
Michigan football national champs, B2B2B BIG champs. Main rival has doped up commencement speaker peddling bitcoin (3 in a row). Lessor rival (49-0) puts up a murderous dictator on the big screen for trivia. What a time to be alive.
I feel bad for The Onion. The past…9??…years have been increasingly surreal
How do they compete?
Go back to your 2008-2014 self and tell them that. Or your 2018 or 2019 self
(then tell them to buy piles of bitcoin to fund a $1B UofM NIL slush fund)
I just finished talking to a guy I work with who was there and listened to it live. He said not only was the speech beyond weird and uncomfortable to watch it started about two hours behind schedule because of the jumper suicide that took place right before he was scheduled to begin. Cops shut everything down because it was considered initially a crime scene but nobody knew what was going on, they just knew it was REALLY late getting started (they had a grad party planned for their son so he was worried they wouldnt be home before guests started arriving). What was funny was he said he didnt pay any attention to what the guy was saying (cant blame him, given the circumstances he was dealing with I probably wouldnt have paid attention either) so it wasnt until he got home and talked to his son that he realized what a complete disaster the speech itself was.
Was the jumper prescient? We'll never know.
Poor, poor form...
Ah, the serial xm downvoter. (Oh, and I see him going after my posts too. Gj!)
Tragic, yes. But Brady joked about 9/11 the other night. Appropriateness for joke timing is subjective. There'll be people joking about it this year when OSU loses in the shoe.
It's takes 22.3 years for a tragedy to be funny, according to South Park.
Here's hoping OSU loses The Game until then.
Is your avatar a picture of yourself?
No, it's my wife. She favors father a bit more than I do.
you married your sister?
I wasn't going to let any of my asshole cousins have her, that's for sure. Besides, she's only my sister by blood.
Lolololololololololol
Great timing (and awareness of the 22.3 year rule) by Brady then! We only recently crossed the 22.3 year "boundary" for 9/11 --- December 29, 2023.
9/11 is never going to be funny. Shame on Brady for making it a source of humor.
Let's not go there. Mock the speaker not the poor soul who committed suicide.