I Met An Uncontacted Tribe: They Killed My Friend! (VIDEO PROOF)

This Burmese python wants to know what

is inside the diary of a CEO.

>> Oh my god.

>> Beautiful. Now, what are you feeling

right now?

>> Wondering why I do this for a living.

>> Have you ever done a podcast with a

10-ft snake across the table before?

>> No, this is my first.

>> Awesome. Bring out the next friend.

Don't bring it over here.

>> Just don't move.

>> Paul, what have you spent the last 20

years of your life doing? living out of

a backpack in the Amazon rainforest

barefoot with a machete to help the

indigenous people [music] save the

Amazon whatever it takes which means

crocodile bites snake very rare diseases

hunted by the narot traffickers with a

picture of that guy that scar [music] is

because he was shot in the head by a 7ft

arrow while he was trying to make

peaceful contact with the unconted

tribes [music] and this is actually a

very important story I think I have a

video of this

>> yeah this is world first footage so

tribe isolated so deep in the jungle

that they've never heard of a spoon or

the wheel or Jesus was coming out to

make contact. So, we do a 2-day boat

journey in one night through the worst

thunderstorm I've ever seen. They were

scared. We were [music] scared because

these tribes kill people all the time.

And they had one question. How do we

tell the bad guys from the good guys?

You see, these people are being hunted

by traffickers and gold miners and

loggers and boxed in by deforestation.

But if our oceans of rainforests are

vanishing, life on Earth is not

possible. Now, it's not too late, but

we're the last generation that can save

it. Paul, young kids are growing up

attached to screens and loneliness is at

an all-time high. Is there anything that

you learned in those 15 years that a

westerner like me would find useful?

>> 100%. So, let's start with purpose.

>> Listen, my my team gave me a script that

they asked me to read, but I'm just

going to ask you um in the nicest way I

possibly can. Thank you first and

foremost for choosing to subscribe to

this channel. It is um it's been one of

the most incredible crazy years of my

life. I never could have imagined. had

so many dreams in my life, but this was

not one of them. And the very fact that

these conversations have resonated with

you and you've given me so much feedback

is something I will always be

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won't. Thank you. [music]

Paul, you live an extraordinary life. A

very atypical extraordinary life. What

have you spent the last 20 years of your

life doing? trying to find a way to

explore the wildest parts of the Amazon

and figure out a way to save them.

>> The Amazon, for a lot of people that

don't know anything about this part of

the world, they'll they'll think of it

as a bunch of trees where lots of wild

animals live. What is the sort of

central misunderstanding of the true

nature of the Amazon?

>> I think it's a it's a problem of scale.

People don't understand the importance

of the Amazon. This is one of the most

crucial things on our planet. It's one

of the most physically defining features

of our planet. If you look at Earth from

space, you see this giant green belt

over most of South America. That's the

Amazon rainforest. And that's where

1ifth of our fresh water is contained

and another fifth of our oxygen is

produced. This system is irreplaceably

valuable to all life on Earth.

>> And you live in the Amazon.

>> For the last 20 years, I've lived mostly

in the Amazon. I've slept more nights

outdoors than I have in in my adult life

because I befriended the indigenous

people of the upper Amazon rainforest.

And that's that's what the book is

about. It's I went down there at 18

years old because I needed adventure.

And then the quest for adventure led for

this call to meaning. And then that led

to the discovery that we were the only

ones who could do anything to stop the

bulldozers and the chainsaws from

destroying the thing that we loved.

A lot of people have clicked on this

conversation for whatever reason. What

are we going to talk about today that

you think might be interesting to them

in their lives and what is the wide

variety of things from the conversations

you have every single day that compels

people cuz I want to give them a bit of

a tlddr before we get into the detail.

>> I think that what people are going to

find and this is what I tried to write

about was that I didn't know where I was

going at first. I just knew what I

loved. And so over the last 20 years,

it's been following a dream in a

direction. [snorts] And that dream was

finding a way to relieve the the

incredible stress that I felt over the

the state of the environment. We live in

these times where people feel like the

world is ending. There's nothing we can

do. Our oceans are collapsing. The

rainforests are vanishing. Elephants are

being hunted to extinction. And I wanted

to know, are there solutions to these

problems? Is there a way to change the

narrative of conservation and come up

with an alternative reality where

everything's okay? And do you think your

message is more timely now than ever

with everything that's going on with

technology and AI and this sort of great

transition we're in?

>> I think that this message is timely now

because whether we like it or not, we're

alive at the most important moment in

history. And the reason that that's true

is because never before as a global

society have we been all faced with the

same problem. If our ecosystems

collapse, life on Earth is not possible.

And we are the last generation in

history that's going to have a chance to

restore those ecosystems. and those

sacred cycles before it's too late.

>> And as it relates to mental health,

young kids are growing up attached to

physical to screens and to technology

and all these things. You've lived

almost the opposite life. It appears for

the last 20 years. I'm wondering if

there's anything, you know, cuz you said

today on your way here that you like

didn't know how to get out of the Uber

and

>> Yeah. No, it was a it was a mess getting

here. I almost got run over by a guy who

recognized me and said and said, "Get

out of the road, Anaconda guy." And then

I'd never opened uh I guess I'd never

opened a door with a button before, but

I couldn't figure out how to get out of

out of the Uber. And then uh I had I had

a whole adventure in the bathroom that

should have been filmed. Um but no, I

mean I have lived uh we used to we call

it the barefoot machete days. You know,

a lot of my early learning in the Amazon

took place under the toutelage of

indigenous experts. And these are people

that like JJ, who I meet when I first go

down to the Amazon, he didn't have shoes

until he was 13 years old. So he lived a

life where if you want to fish, you have