countries down down down to my new friendship

planted by my obsession

I'm putting the club drop

so so sufficed

so friend my phones Thank you. This is hell.

is hell.

Pretending to know what I'm talking about since 1996.

This is hell and you are about to hear me

affecting that pretense during our final interview in our three week series the best of

This is Hell 2022 edition. Actually to be honest the conversation you're about to hear

is one that I did not have to pretend to know what I was talking about as much as I usually do because our final interview selected by listeners as their favorite of 2022 is our discussion with journalist Roberto Lovato who wrote the Alta Online or Alta Media

article, Alta Journal, that's what it is, Alta Journal article, the gentrification of consciousness. Yes, the upcoming discussion is about

psychedelics, hallucinogens, psychoactive substances that introduce users to alternative

reality.

In fact, its subheadline is San Francisco's mission district

has become synonymous with well-paid tech workers

displacing non-white long-time residents.

It's now the setting for a new battle

as the coming psychedelic

industrial complex threatens to strip hallucinogenic drugs of their historical

and religious significance. It's a talk about tripping and while I may have very little training when it comes to economics, finance, philosophy, theology, political science, and any science for that matter, literature and technology, all topics we discuss on the show regularly,

I have tripped a lot, like so many times I have lost count, but it's got to be at least a hundred

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