Coming to you from the bleak barren tarmac of University Avenue

and straddling the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

My name's Mishki.

Got a good show for you today.

I have a guest.

I hope you enjoy him, as well as the topic.

Wow. You may or may not know of the life of Terrence McKenna.

The name may ring a bell.

It may not ring a bell.

But he was a classic child of the 60s who went all in on the culture that that era presented. When he died at the far too young age

of 53, the New York Times described Terence McKenna as having lived on the wild side of an

already wild generation. That gives you a little indication of just how wild his world was.

That same New York Times obit described Terence McKenna as having a leprechaun's wit,

as well as a poet's sensibility. Terence and his brother Dennis McKenna are more responsible than anyone for bringing

magic mushrooms to America and teaching Americans how to grow them and the wonders of them.

These two brothers get credit for being one of the dominant voices out there, pushing the idea that

psychedelic drugs like LSD or ayahuasca or magic mushrooms have much to teach, much to offer,

that they enhance one's life, and ought to be legal and ought to be taken, that they're there to serve us.

I just read a book on the McKenna brothers, and I wouldn't normally have the author on

if it weren't for the fact that these wild boys did their part over the years to gradually

usher in an astoundingly accepting era when it comes to psychedelic drugs,

the era we are in today, where these drugs are being studied by scientists and are being found

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