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I think I'm going to have to go a little bit further back for that.

So I went to a little high school in Boston, Massachusetts, Newman Prep.

And when I graduated there, I was luckily accepted into Northeastern University.

So I go into Northeastern University in my 20s, and they ask you, what do you want to major in, right?

And who knows what they want to major in at that age.

I was like, let's study psychology, right, and get to know myself, figure things out.

Such a behavioral program.

What I mean by that is rats pressing levers, observable stuff, right?

I wasn't getting what I was looking for.

So I take a philosophy class.

I take a religion class.

Eventually, I take so many of those classes, I graduate with an undergraduate degree in religion and philosophy and a huge minor in psychology, right?

So I'm a seeker.

At that time as well, Northeastern is a co-op school.

So you go to school for six months, you work for six months.

I was able to convince my co-op advisor to let me be a security guard in the nightclub industry in Boston for my co-op for school.

Okay, so five year program, I'm studying religion and I'm working as a security guard in the 90s in the nightclub scene in Boston.

I have a front row seat when ecstasy hits the scene.

I start working when it's high test stimulants and alcohol and I'm there continuing to work when the scene gets introduced to ecstasy, MDMA.

I not only get to see how it affects people, but it affects the whole culture.