Hey, everybody, welcome to crackpot, the podcast, we're each and every week.

We dive into a different episode, a different conspiracy theory and discuss the merits or the demerits of each. We're your host. I'm Tim. And I'm Zach. And I've said this 140 times and I still can't always get it right. Well, the problem is you have to read it every time and the moment your eyes just, you know, look elsewhere on the page. I read them for probably like the first six months. I actually remember that, too. You know. You had that notebook and it was like kind of written in and then also taped in or something. Like you printed something and taped it in there? I, uh, yeah. Thanks. Yeah, I remember just seeing that, be like, respect. This is the read. I would do the same thing, to be honest. Got to get it down right. How you been? I haven't been over in a while. What's up? Well, it's minus 7 billion degrees outside right now. I've determined that every like first week of February, it gets to be this temperature. And it is just like, we're officially now we yeah it's cold it's sunny though so i'll take that sun for days but it's not that bad like minus two it's cold but you know we're talking Fahrenheit people yeah by the way true very different than minus two Celsius listen to me it's like minus two is cold

but it's not that cold yeah yeah yeah which is true as far as I'm concerned exactly dude so

yeah hey uh you said wait this is a Patreon one specifically correct cool yes awesome thank you

patrons you guys thank you patrons jamming seriously we couldn't do without you I just want to say, you know, as much as we say it, it's true. So thank you so much for your support. Yeah, honestly. That is the truth. All right. So we got a good one here. I say that a lot, but I mean it this time and also every other time. I was going to say, what does that imply? This time I really actually mean it. I just want to be level setting with you guys.

You actually are looking good today. Yeah, exactly. Actually, I had a high school teacher that said, that's actually a good question. It's like, thanks. Thank you. No, anyway, this is, this is, I know some of you out there have definitely heard of this topic. Maybe you know a little bit about it. Maybe you don't. But the stoned ape theory, Zach, what do you know? What do you don't know? What do you know you don't know? Like, where you at? You know, truthfully, I don't know a ton about it.

I mean, I'm just thinking about the words of the title,

Stone dap, obviously implies some sort of gorilla or something that's using probably hallucinogens.

And I have to think, given the evolution of humans, I would say that probably humans have evolved from that to have receptors

in the brain to take on hallucinogens, all that kind of stuff.

More or less right on.

So the idea, well done.

That's actually a good answer.

I've never heard that before, to be fair.

So, okay, the Stone Ape theory, like you said, is the theory that humans evolved because of hallucinogenic mushrooms.

And we'll go into the theory.

We'll go into all the details.

And it's super fun.

And I'm really excited to do it.

But before we do, I want to talk a little bit about the guy that came up with

the theory, Terrence McKenna.

So very fascinating guy.

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