{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Smoke Trail","title":"The Smoke Trail: S2 E52: Build Castles Ibogaine, the Mirror, and the Sum of All the Love with Ron Perry","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3451,"description":"THE SMOKE TRAIL  |  SEASON 2  |  EPISODE 52\n\nBuild Castles\n\nIbogaine, the Mirror, and the Sum of All the Love with Ron Perry\n\nEpisode Hook\nAt seven years old, Ron Perry decided to join the military so his own kids could brag about their dad the way he bragged about his father’s Vietnam medals. He measured West Point on a paper atlas, 986 road miles from southern Illinois, and applied without knowing what the place was. What it was nearly broke him. A ten minute phone call, a father’s hard sentence, and an empath’s vow to stop feeling set the course for the next thirty years: combat, a marriage lost mid-deployment, twins he saw four days a month, a 2009 that took his eye, his home, and his will, and then a company on the Inc. 5000 five years running while the man inside wanted only sleep.\nThis is the conversation Smoke and Ron meant to record a month ago. Recorded on a Scottsdale rooftop, it follows Ron from that vow to Easter weekend of 2023, when a friend’s suicide sent him to Mexico for ibogaine and a ten hour waking dream unpacked his life case by case. He watched alcohol drain the color from his memories, forgave the man who first picked up the bottle, heard a voice name his purpose, and met his own reflection twice. The second time, it smiled. They close on the question at the center of his work now, the daily hygiene that keeps the walls down, and the castle each man can see in the other.\nIn This Episode\n•     A childhood plan hatched on a playground: medals, an atlas, and an application to a school he had never seen\n•     The Private Pyle moment: tough love on a basic training phone call and the shell that formed around an empath\n•     Success as byproduct: “I failed a lot” and the love deficit behind five straight Inc. 5000 years\n•     A cannabis gummy in St. Augustine, two homeless strangers, and the first flicker of empathy in decades\n•     Why a West Point classmate’s death in November 2022 turned skepticism into a one way ticket\n•     Eight...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GLQIccuHv_JUEWKoEIFMJBnneGY8IDvT3pA_q5BOBe8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85OTEx/YjI1YTJmZmU3NjQz/YTZhZjRlYjllZjMw/M2U1Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}