John Shenk
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 6 Feb
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Well, Amber and Marcus started talking about this amazing treatment that he got in Mexico in, I think it was 2017.
We heard about it a couple of years later.
And we thought, Navy SEALs tripping balls?
There's just something.
There's got to be a story there.
In all seriousness, we met Amber and Marcus, and they told us their story, and we were just immediately hooked.
And in the film, you see their backstory, you experience it with them.
And then in the film, you get to go kind of inside their heads because we do this animation that simulates the Ibogaine experience.
Well, we interviewed dozens of special operators who had been down to Mexico to do the treatment.
And one thing that always comes up after Ibogaine is they describe it like seeing a movie or a slideshow of your life.
It's kind of this life review.
And we knew right away we had to put that on screen somehow.
And we were lucky to work with these incredible animators in England that ended up doing this thing where you're kind of in the present tense.
but you're sort of watching scenes that happened from your life, and you're suddenly able to get insight into that kind of psychological perspective that you might have had difficult getting before the Ibogaine.
That's really the magic of the drug.
The day they came to San Francisco, where we're based, to see the rough cut for the first time was one of the most nervous days of our lives.
It's so personal.
You're putting on screen just the most intimate scenes from these people's lives.
Yeah, you know, as you probably know, the zeitgeist around psychedelics is changing.
You know, it's not the 1970s anymore.
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