![]() So Myc's one of these subterranean psychic mushroom aliens that got introduced to Earth billions of years ago and is now native to the planet. And then the fun outlandish part of the theory is that these hallucinogenic mushrooms are an alien fungoid species that came from an asteroid that hit earth. And mushrooms were purported in this theory to be the key to that happening. But what separates us from animals is kind of the imagining of what's not yet there. They can call out, "Predator, predator." They do communicate with each other. Because a lot of animals actually have rudimentary language. And that consciousness-expanding trip that they would go on kind of formulated their ability to entertain abstract concepts. The idea is that hallucinogenic mushrooms were growing on the plains of the Sahara, and generations and generations and generations of primates would cross over the Sahara and pluck these mushrooms and eat them. Well, I'll do the somewhat believable part first. But essentially, the idea is that an astroid. TAKEUCHI: So Myc, he's a subterranean psychic mushroom from inside the hollow earth, and there's this kind of wild, out-there conspiracy theory called the Stoned Ape Theory about how human beings evolved from primates into being sentient beings. In terms of the other characters, where did the concept for Myc come from? RELATED: Best Animated TV Series on Netflix Right NowĮxcellent. That's not a time period-appropriate reference, but you get the idea. And so, they usually have to do with either capitalism, just good old-fashioned money, or something ridiculous, like someone left their sandwich on the console, the Hindenburg exploded. I think that the thesis of the show, even though we're saying that some conspiracy theories are real, is that the motivations and the reasons behind conspiracy theories are human and small and petty. So yeah, it's definitely been a trip.ĭid you set up guidelines or rules, like, "this is something that falls into the universe of our show, but this is something I don't want to touch"? I was wildly surprised to discover that it would not become esoteric. And so, that was definitely a wild thing to navigate, because I thought I was making something kind of esoteric back then. And then during the production and the making of the show, that's when it suddenly exploded into the mainstream. At the time that I was developing it, it was really before conspiracy theories had a ton of cultural relevance. TAKEUCHI: It's really funny, because it's evolved. I'm asking because of course, the notion of the conspiracy theory has taken on a very different meaning these days. TAKEUCHI: It's probably like late 2015, early 2016. And I thought that'd be a really funny office comedy. So I imagined that if there was a shadow government, it would be just as chaotic and stressful as any job that you or I would have. And from what I know of people, we really can't get our shit together. So I stopped listening to that stuff when I discovered myself becoming more paranoid.Īnd then a few years later, I was thinking about it, And that idea became funny to me, because if there was a shadow government, there would have to be people running it. And it was introduced to me as hyper mysterious, incredibly competent people, manipulating global events beyond our our comprehension, with how advanced they were. That was when I was introduced to the idea of the shadow government. ![]() SHION TAKEUCHI: I've been interested in the paranormal and conspiracy theories for a long time since college, where I listened to some archives of Coast to Coast AM, which was a super late-night radio show, where the host would have on kind of fringe people from that world. ![]() ![]() Collider: I'd like to start off by asking, what was the kicking-off point for this? What was the origin story? ![]()
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