Bad Trip: Stories about a negative drug-taking experience
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers learn the hard way that getting high doesn’t always mean having a good time.
Part 1: At his friend’s bachelor party, Andrew McGill joins in on a mushroom trip that quickly spirals out of control.
Part 2: In an attempt to calm his nerves about going on an Alaskan cruise, Will Clegg turns to marijuana.
Andrew McGill is a storyteller born and raised in Brooklyn, NY when not on stage is a English teacher at a high school in Brooklyn.
Will Clegg is a filmmaker, storyteller, and new dad living in Westfield, NJ. He’s the co-creator and sometimes host of the long-running storytelling show “Awkward Teenage Years” as well as the writer and performer of two solo shows: “The Lonely Road” and “Syncope.”
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt. |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, everyone. Hey everyone, welcome to The Story Clutter, |
| 0:26.3 | where true personal stories about science help us explore just how weird and wonderful it is to exist in this world and be a human. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm your host, Mishigayevsky, and what better way to wrap up October than with stories of bad trips. |
| 0:38.3 | Creepy, chaotic, and very on brand for this spooky time. |
| 0:42.1 | Tis the season for a little psychological horror. |
| 0:44.7 | Our first story today comes from English teacher and storyteller Andrew McGill. |
| 0:48.7 | This story is recorded at our go-to spot in New York caveat earlier this year. |
| 0:53.1 | Here's Andrew. |
| 0:53.6 | Here's Andrew. |
| 1:12.8 | The first, when I thought of the first bachelor party I was going to attend, I always had this vision of what it was going to be. And it involved strippers, strip clubs, |
| 1:17.6 | hang with the boys, and then just like we bond. |
| 1:20.4 | And we just, you know, we have an adventure. |
| 1:23.0 | And we just become better friends by the end of this trip. |
| 1:26.2 | And when my buddy told us he was getting married, |
| 1:28.8 | I was so excited. I was like, oh, the dream is going to come true. We're going to have some |
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