What is up you guys? Welcome to another edition of Controversial Thoughts.

When this episode releases on Friday of this week, I will be on plane somewhere over the

Atlantic Ocean, maybe over Africa, on my way to Tanzania, and potentially Uganda for

a few weeks to spend time with some of the last remaining hunter-gatherers on the planet,

the Hadsah, and other tribes like the Mesaay, the Dittoga, the Chaga, some of whom have

adopted more pastoralist ways, some of whom are at the border of an intersection or an

integration into Western society. So it's going to be really fascinating experience.

I'm really excited to hang out with the Hadsah, especially to go hunting with them.

There's lots of videos that I've seen about them. There's lots of books I've read about

them, all of which kind of point to the same thing that they really favor meat and organs.

They eat some plant foods with regard to plant toxicity, spectrums, spectra, and I'm

just excited to spend time with them in person and really understand how they view the world,

what they prioritize, how they really find joy, what they like to do in their lives, what

are the most important things for them, and how they eat and live, and why they make

the food choices that they do from their perspective evolutionarily. Many people believe

that this culture, this group of the Hadsah, and perhaps the Saan for their south in South

Africa and Botswana and Ornemybia are some of the most direct descendants of our original

Homo sapiens and ancestors. Homo sapiens, as you all know, if you've read my book, and

listen to other stuff I've done, is a species that probably is 350 to 500,000 years old,

whereas other hominids go back two to four million years. So our direct ancestors are

potentially from this exact region of Africa that I'm going, the Lake Iasi region at the

base of Mount Kilimanjaro. But as I'm traveling, I thought it would be interesting to talk

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