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Speaker 1: All right, good morning, Happy Friday.
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Speaker 2: I'm Ross long Sleeve Gina producer Shannon behind the Glass. I saw a piece over at Axios at their Colorado Springs website with this headline documentary follows Colorado Man's five hundred mile run on psychedelics, and I thought.
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Speaker 1: All right, I need to know more, so joining us to tell us more.
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Speaker 2: Fernando Gonzalez, who is the man who made who directed this documentary.
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Speaker 1: It's called Dante.
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Speaker 2: It actually premieres tomorrow and Fernando will give us some information about that as well. But good morning, and thanks thanks for being here. Thanks for doing this on short notice. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning, guys.
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Speaker 1: How's it going. It's going great.
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Speaker 2: And I'll start with the basic question, and I guess both for the for the runner and for you why that's.
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Speaker 1: A great question.
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure if I know the answer to that one yet. I think for him there was some things that he wanted to I think he wanted to get to a place where he would feel something, and I think at that distance it's definitely going to do that. And for me, I just wanted to do a documentary with the foundation of psychedelics because They've completely changed and helped my life, so it was important for me to do something. However, the project kind of has evolved over the past couple of years that we've filmed it into something else.
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Speaker 1: So just briefly tell us.
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Speaker 2: A little bit about about the runner and exactly what he was trying to do or damn David know the outcome.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Dante's ex MMA fighter, and he transitioned out of that space, and I think he had a really hard time kind of spending so much of his energy trying to accomplish something in that career or in that feel and not achieving it, and so I think he was just kind of, you know, trying to work through some of those things. The reason that the psychedelics were involved is because his first hundred mile Ultra that he did, he was about to quit and uh, he accidentally someone gave him some LSD and he as he was going to take a little little micro dose, he tripped and the whole bottle went to it into his mouth, and uh, he ended up doing a negative split. So he finished the second half faster than he did the first half, and so he realized, like, oh man, this is like a superpower and so that's why the psychedelics were involved.
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Speaker 1: Wow, can you confer it? Is it really? Oops? I tripped?
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Speaker 3: Like that is actually it was really it was really oops he he says there was about ten hits of asset in that bottle.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so big, a big big oops. Wow. Okay.
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Speaker 4: So this then actually leads into a texture question that we had earlier.
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to read it word for word.
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Speaker 4: They said, Wow, I wonder how high on mushrooms when I'm tripping, I can barely stand up because my mind is so blasted.
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Speaker 1: Through the atmosphere. A lower dose, Yeah, I can see it.
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Speaker 4: So what was Dante doing during this run, because it sounds like during that one he was okay with ten hits of acid, but maybe for this one, was he doing more of.
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Speaker 1: A micro dose? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: We definitely, you know, and a lot of this we tried to have the scientific community be involved in as much as possible. It's just really hard to get data in the circumstances that we were in. We mostly or he mostly micro dose throughout the entire thing. I think that it takes a very I think it takes a lot of experience to be able to do a higher dose and not absolutely, just yeah, there's there's many times during the training portion before the run actually started, where I was filming him, you could definitely tell like he was he was feeling it, you know. So I think what we wanted to mitigate was him now excuse me, him not wanting to like sit on the grass and look at the look at the skies for a couple hours at a time.
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Speaker 1: Well, we're talking with Fernando Gonzalez.
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Speaker 2: His new documentary movie is called Dante, and it actually premieres tomorrow, in fact, just to make sure we get this in and then I and or Gina have another question for you, but we only have a couple of minutes left.
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Speaker 1: Just tell folks what they need to know.
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Speaker 2: About how they could watch your movie tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're we have you know, we booked the biggest theater in the Springs, it's the End Center for Arts. We've sold over five hundred tickets. I think there's one hundred and something left. You could get more information at Dante da Nte five hundred dot com and that's where the online streaming will be after the local premiere as well. But yeah, it's tomorrow at six in Colorado Springs.
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Speaker 1: Dante five hundred dot com. All right, I want to come back to you for a second.
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Speaker 2: So, what what's your message through this?
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is your art making.
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Speaker 2: Films and artists, not always but often are trying to have a message through their art. What's what's your message or or what's in it for you? What what is the the psychological perhaps benefit to you of this project?
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Speaker 3: My message is always the same. I don't like any like inherent belief system thrust it upon me, whether it's religion, politics, cultural anything. I don't think it works that way. So psychedelics are really important to me. But I really made it a point in this documentary that it's not I'm not like preaching for it, you know, it's it's I want people to either be curious or to be entertained, or to be like yeah, not for me, Like I'm not, I don't have I don't have a motive with the outcome. What I really wanted to do was kind of showcase what psychedelics could do there is the pros and the cons to it in the film, and also be able to share Dante's story because Dante's story is absolutely amazing.
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Speaker 5: On top of the viewing information. I also want to give you the opportunity to give the gofund me information because this was a passion project of yours and you really found yourself being like, well, I'm going to go for it. I love how the official trailer says companies said this was way too risky to sponsor and then they probably took a microdose at lunch.
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Speaker 4: And I won't say the rest of it on there, but tell us a little bit help you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we spoke with a lot of I mean, once this started getting some momentum a couple of years ago, like companies were all over it, like you know, someone running five at that distance, obviously they're going to want to be a part of it. Until they heard the psychedelic aspect, you know, and some of them were really like, you know, they would message us after the zoom calls be like I'm so sorry, like wet microdos. But you know it's just like the company, you know, we can't have the company attached to it, and so yeah, I mean I get it. I think part of it is also to kind of normalize it a little bit. I don't think the government should be telling me what to put in my body. And I'm gonna I'm gonna die by that belief. And yeah, that's that's part of it. Yeah, the gofund me is I think it's on the on a link to our Instagram. I'm so past even thinking about recouping funds. This is just I just want to get to the finish line. It's been a long two years and I'm just excited to have the community come and watch something cool, awesome.
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Speaker 2: I'm with you on that whole libertarian thing. I actually don't. I've never even tried a cigarette. I've never tried any drug. I'm not really interested. And I believe any adults should be able to put anything in their body that they want to put in their body. Just don't drive under the influence or something like that.
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Speaker 3: So I not hurting anyone.
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Speaker 1: I am fully with you. You're not hurting anyone.
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Speaker 2: Dante five hundred, d A n t E five hundred dot com. Go watch the movie in Colorado Springs tomorrow night. Fernando, thank you so much for thinking time for us. That was a fascinating conversation. Really appreciate all right. Oh my gosh, Gina, how about that?
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Speaker 1: Oops?
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Speaker 4: Oops, accidentally just wish when he said, I'm just gonna take a little bit.
00:08:36
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: All right, good morning, Happy Friday.
00:00:02
Speaker 2: I'm Ross long Sleeve Gina producer Shannon behind the Glass. I saw a piece over at Axios at their Colorado Springs website with this headline documentary follows Colorado Man's five hundred mile run on psychedelics, and I thought.
00:00:21
Speaker 1: All right, I need to know more, so joining us to tell us more.
00:00:25
Speaker 2: Fernando Gonzalez, who is the man who made who directed this documentary.
00:00:30
Speaker 1: It's called Dante.
00:00:32
Speaker 2: It actually premieres tomorrow and Fernando will give us some information about that as well. But good morning, and thanks thanks for being here. Thanks for doing this on short notice. I appreciate it.
00:00:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning, guys.
00:00:45
Speaker 1: How's it going. It's going great.
00:00:46
Speaker 2: And I'll start with the basic question, and I guess both for the for the runner and for you why that's.
00:00:56
Speaker 1: A great question.
00:00:57
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if I know the answer to that one yet. I think for him there was some things that he wanted to I think he wanted to get to a place where he would feel something, and I think at that distance it's definitely going to do that. And for me, I just wanted to do a documentary with the foundation of psychedelics because They've completely changed and helped my life, so it was important for me to do something. However, the project kind of has evolved over the past couple of years that we've filmed it into something else.
00:01:32
Speaker 1: So just briefly tell us.
00:01:33
Speaker 2: A little bit about about the runner and exactly what he was trying to do or damn David know the outcome.
00:01:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dante's ex MMA fighter, and he transitioned out of that space, and I think he had a really hard time kind of spending so much of his energy trying to accomplish something in that career or in that feel and not achieving it, and so I think he was just kind of, you know, trying to work through some of those things. The reason that the psychedelics were involved is because his first hundred mile Ultra that he did, he was about to quit and uh, he accidentally someone gave him some LSD and he as he was going to take a little little micro dose, he tripped and the whole bottle went to it into his mouth, and uh, he ended up doing a negative split. So he finished the second half faster than he did the first half, and so he realized, like, oh man, this is like a superpower and so that's why the psychedelics were involved.
00:02:45
Speaker 1: Wow, can you confer it? Is it really? Oops? I tripped?
00:02:49
Speaker 3: Like that is actually it was really it was really oops he he says there was about ten hits of asset in that bottle.
00:02:57
Speaker 1: Okay, so big, a big big oops. Wow. Okay.
00:03:01
Speaker 4: So this then actually leads into a texture question that we had earlier.
00:03:05
Speaker 1: I'm just going to read it word for word.
00:03:06
Speaker 4: They said, Wow, I wonder how high on mushrooms when I'm tripping, I can barely stand up because my mind is so blasted.
00:03:13
Speaker 1: Through the atmosphere. A lower dose, Yeah, I can see it.
00:03:16
Speaker 4: So what was Dante doing during this run, because it sounds like during that one he was okay with ten hits of acid, but maybe for this one, was he doing more of.
00:03:24
Speaker 1: A micro dose? Yeah?
00:03:27
Speaker 3: We definitely, you know, and a lot of this we tried to have the scientific community be involved in as much as possible. It's just really hard to get data in the circumstances that we were in. We mostly or he mostly micro dose throughout the entire thing. I think that it takes a very I think it takes a lot of experience to be able to do a higher dose and not absolutely, just yeah, there's there's many times during the training portion before the run actually started, where I was filming him, you could definitely tell like he was he was feeling it, you know. So I think what we wanted to mitigate was him now excuse me, him not wanting to like sit on the grass and look at the look at the skies for a couple hours at a time.
00:04:21
Speaker 1: Well, we're talking with Fernando Gonzalez.
00:04:23
Speaker 2: His new documentary movie is called Dante, and it actually premieres tomorrow, in fact, just to make sure we get this in and then I and or Gina have another question for you, but we only have a couple of minutes left.
00:04:36
Speaker 1: Just tell folks what they need to know.
00:04:38
Speaker 2: About how they could watch your movie tomorrow.
00:04:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're we have you know, we booked the biggest theater in the Springs, it's the End Center for Arts. We've sold over five hundred tickets. I think there's one hundred and something left. You could get more information at Dante da Nte five hundred dot com and that's where the online streaming will be after the local premiere as well. But yeah, it's tomorrow at six in Colorado Springs.
00:05:10
Speaker 1: Dante five hundred dot com. All right, I want to come back to you for a second.
00:05:13
Speaker 2: So, what what's your message through this?
00:05:18
Speaker 1: I mean, this is your art making.
00:05:20
Speaker 2: Films and artists, not always but often are trying to have a message through their art. What's what's your message or or what's in it for you? What what is the the psychological perhaps benefit to you of this project?
00:05:37
Speaker 3: My message is always the same. I don't like any like inherent belief system thrust it upon me, whether it's religion, politics, cultural anything. I don't think it works that way. So psychedelics are really important to me. But I really made it a point in this documentary that it's not I'm not like preaching for it, you know, it's it's I want people to either be curious or to be entertained, or to be like yeah, not for me, Like I'm not, I don't have I don't have a motive with the outcome. What I really wanted to do was kind of showcase what psychedelics could do there is the pros and the cons to it in the film, and also be able to share Dante's story because Dante's story is absolutely amazing.
00:06:27
Speaker 5: On top of the viewing information. I also want to give you the opportunity to give the gofund me information because this was a passion project of yours and you really found yourself being like, well, I'm going to go for it. I love how the official trailer says companies said this was way too risky to sponsor and then they probably took a microdose at lunch.
00:06:46
Speaker 4: And I won't say the rest of it on there, but tell us a little bit help you.
00:06:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, we spoke with a lot of I mean, once this started getting some momentum a couple of years ago, like companies were all over it, like you know, someone running five at that distance, obviously they're going to want to be a part of it. Until they heard the psychedelic aspect, you know, and some of them were really like, you know, they would message us after the zoom calls be like I'm so sorry, like wet microdos. But you know it's just like the company, you know, we can't have the company attached to it, and so yeah, I mean I get it. I think part of it is also to kind of normalize it a little bit. I don't think the government should be telling me what to put in my body. And I'm gonna I'm gonna die by that belief. And yeah, that's that's part of it. Yeah, the gofund me is I think it's on the on a link to our Instagram. I'm so past even thinking about recouping funds. This is just I just want to get to the finish line. It's been a long two years and I'm just excited to have the community come and watch something cool, awesome.
00:07:53
Speaker 2: I'm with you on that whole libertarian thing. I actually don't. I've never even tried a cigarette. I've never tried any drug. I'm not really interested. And I believe any adults should be able to put anything in their body that they want to put in their body. Just don't drive under the influence or something like that.
00:08:09
Speaker 3: So I not hurting anyone.
00:08:10
Speaker 1: I am fully with you. You're not hurting anyone.
00:08:12
Speaker 2: Dante five hundred, d A n t E five hundred dot com. Go watch the movie in Colorado Springs tomorrow night. Fernando, thank you so much for thinking time for us. That was a fascinating conversation. Really appreciate all right. Oh my gosh, Gina, how about that?
00:08:29
Speaker 1: Oops?
00:08:30
Speaker 4: Oops, accidentally just wish when he said, I'm just gonna take a little bit.
00:08:36
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
