PT488 – Matthew 'Whiz' Buckley – The Cost of War: Veterans' Mental Health and Government Responsibility
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🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Joe interviews Matthew 'Whiz' Buckley: former decorated US Navy F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilot and now, founder and CEO of No Fallen Heroes Foundation, a non-profit focused on healing veterans and first responders with psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Buckley met Joe in D.C. while they were both campaigning for psychedelic therapy to any lawmaker they could speak with. He talks about how the government is spending a fortune on the military, but not paying the total cost, since so much of that is externalized onto the soldiers themselves. He points out how many of them care more about making money than saving lives, and how we need "We the people" moments to wake them up or remove them from office.
He discusses:
- His time in the Navy and his transition back to civilian life, coming to terms with trauma and realizing how much was physical (including tinnitus)
- His life-changing experiences under ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT with the Mission Within
- How we should be teaching veterans about various mental health options (including psychedelic-assisted therapy) as part of their transition process
- The signing of the National Defense Authorization Act and the disappointing amount of money reserved for psychedelic research: Was it all just lip service?
- The complications that arise when trying to get benefits from the VA while also trying to move on: When honesty about mental health isn't incentivized, when do you tell the truth?
- His experience operating legally in Colorado and how he plans to stay on top of Governor Desantis to bring psychedelics to Florida
and more!
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| 0:48.7 | Hello, everybody, and welcome back to Segadalex today. |
| 0:51.6 | This is Joe Moore coming out from Brackenrich, Colorado. |
| 0:53.6 | Today on the show, we have Wiz Buckley. |
| 0:56.0 | Whiz is somebody I met in Washington, D.C. when we were doing some work with the Psychedelic Medicine Coalition, |
| 1:02.0 | wandering the halls of Congress together. And, uh, WIS is doing some stuff where people donate |
| 1:09.0 | and, uh, they issue grants for people to get psychedelic healing, |
| 1:14.3 | largely overseas. And I think they just recently had a Colorado retreat, which we'll get |
| 1:21.3 | into in the podcast. And in this episode, we go all over the map, mostly trying to profile |
| 1:26.2 | Wiz and his path through this um |
| 1:28.4 | you know psychedelic onboarding i guess we'd call it a military career and in the why and just how |
| 1:35.2 | much loss you can experience in the armed services so thank you whiz for everything you're doing |
| 1:39.8 | thanks for coming on the show really hope we got to to do more recently. Wiz had me on his show, |
| 1:45.1 | which was lovely. And also, I think we did some live streams as well. So, |
| 1:49.5 | Wiz, it's been great and really enjoyed this podcast. And we will see you on the other side. |
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