Ken Rideout

I've created the life that I dreamed I could have.

And I can't believe it's happened now.

Thank you, brother.

I appreciate you.

Let's go.

You're talking to like a professional former drug addict.

The idea of some extra caffeine doesn't exactly like make me start to sweat.

If you told me we're going to smoke DMT, I'd be like, oh my God, I'm so, I don't want to, I don't want to die again.

Thanks for having me.

It's my pleasure.

I'm going to give you the abbreviated version because there's a whole book of it right there.

It's true.

I'm originally from Boston.

I grew up in the inner city, grew up in kind of a rough environment, rough childhood, a lot of abuse, drug addiction, very hostile environment.

But from my youngest age, I just remember feeling like I'm not supposed to be here.

I don't know how I ended up in this

in this place in life but i knew i wanted to get out of there and i don't know why i didn't have role models or mentors necessarily that were pushing me towards going to college getting like working in a professional setting like you know in my to at that time it was probably expected that you would have either like a blue collar job which i'm cool with like but that what the aspiration was to like get a job for the state or the city and like

work for the sanitation department or the city doing like road work or you know, maybe work at the prison, which is what I ended up doing.

I played I was very athletic in the sense that I played a lot of sports.

I played football and hockey in high school and then also in college played two NCAA sports, neither one really well.