Ohio State Alum Gives Worst Commencement Speech Ever While High On Ayahuasca, Prompting Sing-Along

The commencement speaker for Ohio State University's graduation this past weekend admitted to being high on psychedelic drugs, including ayahuasca. It's why his speech went quickly off the rails. 

Speaker Chris Pan, who the University promoted as a "social entrepreneur, musician and inspirational speaker" as well as Buckeye alumni, quickly went viral as OSU family members and underclassmen watching along to the live stream at home all had a resounding "WTF" reaction.

To put it bluntly, Pan's speech was an absolute crap show as he began pushing Bitcoin and cryptocurrency investments to the puzzled graduating class of more than 12,000. At one point, Pan even got into an exchange with OSU President Ted Carter who tried shuffling him off the stage, which led to a massive number of boos that made Pan seem like Kim Kardashian at Tom Brady's roast.

Oh, he also led the students in a sing-along not once, but twice!

SPEAKER WAS HIGH AS A KITE WHEN WRITING SPEECH

As Pan began speaking to the Buckeye graduates, his speech quickly went off the rails as he began randomly bringing up Bitcoin as a "misunderstood asset" before encouraging students to invest in crypto. I'm sure that's just what many graduates swimming in student debt payments wanted to hear!

If that wasn't enough, Pan then decided to lead the crowd in two musical singalongs. First up was "What's Going On?" by the Four Non Blondes, which was an ironic choice given that everyone in attendance was wondering the same thing. The other song was "This Little Light Of Mine" by Harry Dixon Loes. 

Turns out that second song made perfect sense, as Pan had admitted to being on intense psychedelics when he wrote his speech.

CHRIS PAN LINKEDIN PAGE via LinkedIn.

PAN WROTE SPEECH WHILE ON AYAHUASCA

After Pan's speech went viral, people soon found out that he had been documenting his speech on his personal LinkedIn page - where he also admitted to taking psychedelics and ayahuasca. (That's what Aaron Rodgers loves.)

In fact, Pan said that he had some help from AI - only it wasn't Artificial Intelligence, but what he referred to as Ayahuasca Intelligence. (Not a bad line, to be honest.)

At one point, Pan even did a magic trick with OSU President Carter, which went as awkwardly as you'd imagine.

Eventually, Pan's bizarre speech ended, but not before he offered everybody a free bracelet with an inspiring message on it from a company that he's currently working with, as a token of appreciation for listening to him speak. I'm sure a couple of people had some choice of their own words about what Pan could do with that bracelet.

Yesterday, OSU President Carter said that he had nothing to do with selecting Pan as the speaker and that the process was "underway before he became President." 

"I did not review his speech.  I did not know what he really was going to speak about, and again, it wouldn't matter because once he gets the microphone, he's got the microphone. It was certainly an interesting speech. I would say very nontraditional. There were some that liked it and a lot that didn't," Carter added.

But hey, at least Ohio State had a graduation - bitcoin gibberish and all, unlike some schools that allowed Pro-Palestinian encampments to occur and subsequently canceled end-of year ceremonies.