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It's such a devout and important thing to me.

And he's like, I need bananas to feel better.

Then again, factory farming is awful, but I try to stay, I try and walk the line.

And we came back and we showed his dad.

Well, we're certainly unique because we have altered the entire planet.

And they're constantly at war with everything else, but...

First of all, I'm such a Jordan Peterson fan, and I think the guy is heroic for a number of reasons.

We're rubbing up against things that are bigger than we thought were ever possible.

You have to get him by the head, like an anaconda like this.

I'm like, guys, please stop killing the things that keep us alive.

Yeah, which is reassuring.

And then that's the game you play.

There's no, if I'm out in the Amazon, there's nothing that's going to attack me.

And it got turned into a sideshow.

And if they don't get, I'm telling you, dude, it's been such a weapon.

Sometimes at night, and again, we don't have night vision, whereas almost every other animal does.

They're like, just leave me alone.

And on the way up, the jungle brings you up and the shaman brings you up and you get to move through the forest in a way that it's almost like you're inhabiting the consciousness of animals.

Look at the scars.

This is such a great moment for me. I kissed her on the head.

They'll like hold it, you know, ripping a tree up out of the ground.

And you look to your right and you look to your left, and is no one because it's the middle of the Amazon and the rainforests have been being destroyed since the 70s.

It was fun to watch.

How much of this do you want to see?

Like I've been to Finland, Lapland in the summer and the mosquitoes are horrendous, like devastating.

And like, and like, and in a way Instagram has allowed us to do that where it's like, I can have this crazy ass moment that, that is so unique.

So he was sort of a hero.

I hadn't had food and now, you know, hours and hours and hours.

And so I have a very clear cut, very definable, very measurable, improvable thing that I'm fighting against.

And it's like, we're, we're walking and we're walking.

In the next 10 years, we're gonna have to decide, are we gonna let our ocean ecosystems just collapse?

So we might as well continue to engineer it and manage it.

Like, so I could say, oh, it snuck back in the water.

And they've been using these guys to protect the last black rhinos, white rhinos, elephants.

And he was like, no.

He's actually good on camera because he doesn't care about cameras.

There's a certain dedication to curiosity at any expense.

He knows the habits.

I think that you have a severely fearless aspect to you.

I mean, there's one of the guys we work with on our team, Victor was in, I think it was 2004.

But Jags, I've won.

And so that's what they do to their prey, you know?

We don't want to keep losing species, losing indigenous cultures, losing the climate stabilizing services that the Amazon provides as a whole.

That it's so almost cinematically outside the realm of what I thought my life could be like.

I was talking about just the poetry of this incredible dragon.

I'm saying, do you live in a...

It got turned into a joke.

I mean, when you come up with something that intrigues you, like if somebody told you right now that you could go...

A cobra is going to stand up and show you its hood.

The whole jungle is constantly purifying everything.

And so my feet were dragging.

yeah but there's still this wander I struggle with that like you said that whatever's going on in here the idea and there's so much talk about the fact like at what point does an artificially intelligent robot become something that has and it's like I get I get very uncomfortable with that it makes me I don't know how to handle the things because I don't know enough about it probably but it's

I backed off.

And I'm very, and just like you said, there could be life forms that we can't even understand.

And we were like, we 12 days out in the jungle on a hunting trip.

And we tried to get in there to film years ago.

They know about medicines that we don't know about.

I said, you're going to make people think that it actually happened, not that we're attempting it.

I was like, this is a different reality.

Okay, so the first time that we ever did bullet ants, JJ said, you know, okay, this is what we're going to do.

They're actually being very peaceful.

So first of all, the imagining planets where there are, like just picturing like a, not a silent planet, but just like a planet of alternate life forms.

Most ayahuasca vines are like as thick as your arm.

And it's like, if anybody was to ask them, they'd be screaming.

And if everybody's going to Burger King and everybody's getting chicken wrapped in plastic, they forget that the fish are there because they're too busy watching sitcoms.

Like 27, maybe.

And the stars are reflecting on the ground.

And so through the amazon i mean that's sort of up in the andes but there's all kinds of stuff in the amazon there are places where they say there's can um pyramids beneath the canopy that we just don't know about um i mean there's it's endless if you had uh billions of dollars

And it sort of seems to outrage him.

There's no motor that could take you.

It's absolutely incredible.

Pushes the truck up on two wheels.

I cringe a little bit when he says, I feel like, and I might not even be accurate on this, but I cringe a little bit when I feel like he dismisses that there is an ecological emergency happening right now.

And I feel like on a daily basis, I find myself where I'm like, I can't believe that any of this is possible.

I think something like 50 or more percent of the humans on this planet live in cities.

And he sees the arrow coming right at his head.

And then we had to go looking for the shaman.

And the jungle is all around you.

I'm sure that somebody else could do it with a red.

They don't want people on their land.

You make $15 a day destroying the ancient trees of the jungle.

I think he appreciated it, but to him, it was very dark.

I mean, they are incredible hunters.

So these are sort of like delinquent elephants that were half wild and the forest department was thinking about getting rid of them, which whatever that meant.

I'm going to get to...

And so it was a long time before I got back to town and I didn't want to leave the anteater, but it became like, I was like, I realized I was dying.

It's just stunning.

In the Amazon, I find personally that these natural processes make up almost a religion.

And I strongly feel like the idea of jungle keepers, the idea of stewards of nature.

It's amazing what these people have done.

They're showing love, they're showing compassion, they're showing hate, they're showing fear.

They can hit a spider monkey out of a 160-foot tree with a bamboo arrow.

And then by morning I was like, I fell asleep.

And Dharma had the, this stuff doesn't, it's hard to write the book I'm writing right now because none of it sounds real.

We'll scare each other.

And so I started trying to see how, what was gonna work.

I just get worried when we start talking about it was a man-made thing.

He's a human being that like everything we saw from Steve Irwin was positive.

Have you listened to the things that we taught you?

He's like, I'm giving you permission.