Eric Osborne, welcome to the podcast, brother.

Thanks for having me, Kyle.

I'm stoked, our mutual homie, Dr. Nathan Riley, as we call him Uncle Doctor,

the holistic OB-GYN.

He's been on this podcast many, many times, stayed at our house many times.

He was telling me all about you, you know.

And I think even if he just qualified you with, you know, a psilocybin church starter, you know, in the U.S. I'd have just been like, oh, bingo, let's go. Oh, yeah. A lot of people are really put off by that, man. Oh, dude, I'm like, not in Austin. Not wearing shirts like this, you know. But church work, right?

It's the church.

The church.

I honestly, I think more people, it's tough because y'all are in Kentucky, you know.

And so I, I've only been in Kentucky a handful of times, a couple times, not a handful.

And, you know, the first time I got there, we were out in Paducah, which is kind handful and um you know the first time i got there we were out in paduca

which is kind of if you know for people that don't know it's kind of like out in the cuts and uh

we were with the military guys we were going to be doing like hand-to-hand combat i was going to

teach the hand-to-hand combatives they They were going to teach me tactical gun stuff.

And we were planning on putting this on as an event down the road.

But this was just for us to like shoot 10,000 rounds, teach each other some cool shit, have fun, knock back some moonshine and just see how this would actually work, you know, teaching people.

And right when we got to a gas station,

because I was born and raised in the Silicon Valley in California, they're like, hey, man, this ain't like the West Coast. And I was like, oh, what do you mean? It's like, well, there's, you know, there was a lot of racism here. I'm not saying everyone was racist, but like, it's just a different vibe, you know, like sometimes people don't talk to each other, it's just different.

And I was like, oh, okay. And we get out of the car, we go into the gas station, and I love fanny packs, and there's Confederate flagged fanny packs everywhere. I'm like, man, this is the only place I'd be like I could find that. You'd never see that shit in California. You'd probably burn a building for having that in there. And then he, though, you know, we came out.

There's three like big brothers, though, you know, we came out.

There's three like big brothers, big black dudes sitting outside and they're talking to each other and, you know, they don't say a word as we walk in. We're just minding their own business. But they see us fucking with each other. And then, you know, one of them's like, hey, man, y'all ain't from around here. they're like no I'm from California

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