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00:00This might look like individual fungi, but their mycelium communicates with each other.
00:05If a fungus needs help, the network knows and transfers sugars, water, and minerals to a friend in need.
00:14You think you're looking at a different fungus, but what you're seeing is a single intelligence.
00:19Because what does fungi do? It adapts.
00:23We poison the planet, so how do they respond?
00:26They only get stronger.
00:29The blue angel mushroom, rumored, never found, could have massive potential.
00:35Effects on humans 100 times more effective than stem cell therapy, than anything we've ever seen.
00:43Boy, Hilde's not exactly on the grid, but this should be the spot.
00:50Knock, knock, knock.
00:56Well, look who's here.
00:59Hilde! Nice, um, uh, home.
01:02Yes, very, thank you.
01:04Is it okay if I come in?
01:06Anyone with you?
01:08Uh, I have a tortoise.
01:15Would your tortoise like some tea?
01:17Uh, I don't think so.
01:19Okay.
01:20Um, are you still teaching?
01:22The occasional seeker comes by.
01:25People who aren't afraid of real science.
01:28Oh, shit, see, it wasn't too bad.
01:30You should have stuck with fungi, Marshall.
01:33Well, that's kind of why I'm here, Hilde.
01:36I found it.
01:38You found what?
01:39The mushroom.
01:41The mushroom? The blue angel? Ha, doesn't exist.
01:46Oh, I found it. It exists. I even took it. It saved my life.
01:50Found it? Found it where?
01:53Uh, in Peru. A valley. I followed a river up into the...
01:56I spent 15 years in Peru. It's not in Peru.
02:00Well, I found it, Hilde. You have to trust me.
02:04And the problem is, upriver from where the mushroom grows,
02:07Riutical has this horrible industrial waste site that's poisoning everything.
02:14I don't know how much longer they can survive.
02:18Of course. Of course. It adapted. It evolved.
02:24What?
02:25The runoff. It fed it.
02:27Fed it? No.
02:29Chernobyl. Remember Chernobyl? The melanized fungi?
02:33Uh, yeah.
02:35The radiation altered the structure of the melanin molecules.
02:38The fungi weren't growing in spite of the radiation.
02:40They were changing and growing because of it.
02:45Oh, my God. How did I miss that?
02:48Oh, my God. It's feeding on the runoff, Hilde.
02:55Did you bring it here?
02:57What?
02:58Did you bring it here? Let me see it.
03:00Well, okay. I was hoping that, you know, the two of us, maybe with your help,
03:04we could find a way to grow it.
03:07So you do have it. You brought it here.
03:10Show it to me. Show it to me.
03:12Hilde, you're kind of scaring me a little. Have you been taking your medication?
03:17Meds? They should be taking my meds.
03:20Maybe this...
03:21Show it to me. Show it to me.
03:23I want to see it work.
03:24Hilde.
03:30Hilde, whoa, whoa.
03:32I want to see it work.
03:36I want to see it work.