Brigham Buhler

There's weird like little, there's this guy I've had in this podcast.

He's a hilarious dude.

He's a dude, he's from Kentucky.

He's a music journalist.

He was originally like a music journalist writing about like country pop, like rock bands and like blues bands and stuff like that.

And he got into this psychedelic study at Johns Hopkins.

He signed up for the study in like the early 2000s that Johns Hopkins was doing.

on um on i think it was on lsd and different kinds of things they're giving him all kinds of psychedelics and studying him and asking him questions and stuff and then he got like super fascinated in this whole world he's been reporting on the psychedelic world and this like new psychedelic renaissance ever since and like he finds out all he like he pulls out and like uh

brings to light all of the weird little financial entanglements with these billionaires who are funding certain psychedelic movements to do certain things.

And one of the things he found was there was this dude named George Sarlo, who was like a billionaire.

there's the whole MAPS Institute.

Have you heard of MAPS?

So they were studying MDMA with Rick Doblin.

They were trying to get MDMA, FDA approved or whatever.

And these girls from MAPS,

met this guy, he was like really, really old billionaire.

And they started like hanging out with him, having sex with him and stuff like that and giving him MDMA.

And he was like, oh my God, he's like, this is making my life so much better.

This is like improving the quality of my life so much that he decided to donate a bunch of his money to MAPS, to this MDMA stuff.

And this guy's,