I Met An Uncontacted Tribe: They Killed My Friend!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Business, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 167 minutes

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This is a FIRST for The Diary Of A CEO…a live snake on set, with jungle explorer PAUL ROSOLIE. After 20 years surviving jaguars, anacondas, cartels, and uncontacted tribes, he warns of a collapse that could end life on Earth! Paul Rosolie is an American conservationist who has spent over 2 decades living in the Amazon rainforest. He is the co-founder and director of Junglekeepers, a non-profit protecting areas of rainforest from logging and mining, and is the bestselling author of books such as, ‘Junglekeeper: What It Takes to Change the World’. He explains: ◼️What happens when a live snake is inches from your face ◼️Being surrounded by warriors with 7-foot bows and arrows ◼️Why humans living outside history don’t suffer modern misery ◼️How the jungle keeps you alive when everything goes wrong ◼️The moment you realise this place is bigger than humanity itself (00:00) Intro (02:34) On a Mission to Save the Amazon (05:32) A Jungle Warning After 20 Years Off the Grid (11:25) How a Wild Adventure in Peru Changed Everything (15:34) What It’s Like Meeting Uncontacted Tribes for the First Time (19:58) Why This Ancient Forest Could Disappear Forever (26:36) What Living in the Amazon for a Decade Does to You (28:56) How We Discovered the Uncontacted Tribes (42:04) Unseen Footage the World Wasn’t Supposed to Watch (46:01) When Tribe Women Took Our Food—And What It Meant (47:06) Do Uncontacted Tribes Really Eat Humans? (54:20) How Many Hidden Tribes Still Exist? (59:13) Can These Tribes Actually Communicate With Monkeys? (01:01:39) What If They’re Just Searching for Happiness? (01:03:25) Do Tribal People Still Live in Huts? (01:06:40) The Most Haunting Stories I’ve Heard in the Jungle (01:09:26) Why I Had to Stop Here (01:10:18) Would You Survive Living Like an Uncontacted Tribe? (01:11:35) Ads (01:13:53) How I Almost Got Crushed by a Snake (01:15:53) The Terrifying Reality of Being Eaten Alive (01:18:06) How Jane Goodall Saved My Life (01:22:09) The TV Show I Made to Help the Amazon (That Went Terribly Wrong) (01:29:36) The Truth About Handling Deadly Snakes (01:44:24) Should You Really Be Scared of Snakes? (01:46:18) Ads (01:47:41) What 20 Years in the Jungle Taught Me About Life (01:55:50) How Do You Know When It’s Time to Quit? (02:12:17) Are Humans Really the Most Important Species? (02:16:06) AI, Robots, and the Jungle’s View of Modern Tech (02:23:15) I Saw the Creation of the Universe on Ayahuasca (02:27:22) What Is the Jungle Keeper’s Mission Really About? (02:30:20) Ancient Medicine Hidden in the Amazon (02:34:30) What It’s Like Living in the Jungle With My Wife (02:41:42) What Still Scares Me After All These Years (02:44:14) If You Had 3 Years Left, What Would You Regret? Enjoyed the episode? Share this link and earn points for every referral - redeem them for exclusive prizes: https://doac-perks.com Follow Paul: Instagram - https://bit.ly/4t6fvIs TikTok - https://bit.ly/45F9xEx Facebook - https://bit.ly/4a2tV3E Junglekeepers - https://bit.ly/3NNDFre You can purchase ‘Junglekeeper: What It Takes to Change the World’, here: https://amzn.to/4q8WK4u The Diary Of A CEO: ◼️Join DOAC circle here - https://doaccircle.com/ ◼️Buy The Diary Of A CEO book here - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook ◼️The 1% Diary is back - limited time only: https://bit.ly/3YFbJbt ◼️The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards (Second Edition): https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb ◼️Get email updates - https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt ◼️Follow Steven - https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb Sponsors: Intuit - If you want help getting out of the weeds of admin, https://intuitquickbooks.com Pipedrive - https://pipedrive.com/CEO Apple Card - https://Apple.co/get-daily-cash Apple Card issued by Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Salt Lake City Branch. Offer may not be available everywhere. Terms and limitations apply.

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0:19.3	Add F&C Investment Trust to your ISA before the deadline. Search FNC Investment Trust, capital at risk. This FNC Investment Trust advert is approved for distribution by Columbia Threadneedle Management Limited January 2026. This Burmese Python wants to know what is inside the diary of a C. 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-foot snake across the table before? No, this is my first. Awesome. And we'll bring out the next friend. They'll bring it over here. Just don't move. Cool. What if you spent the last 20 years of your life doing? living out of a backpack, and the Amazon rainforest, barefoot with a machete, to help the indigenous people save the Amazon. Whatever it takes. Which means, crocodile bites, snake busts, very rare diseases hunted by the narco traffickers. Like the picture of that guy. That scar is because he was shot in the head by a seven-foot arrow while he was trying to make peaceful contact with the uncontacted tribes.
1:12.6	And this is actually a very important story.
1:15.6	I think I have a video of this.
1:16.6	Yeah, this is world first footage.
1:18.6	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.
1:25.6	So we do a two-day boat journey in one night through the worst thunderstorm I've ever seen.
1:29.3	They were scared, we were scared.
1:31.3	Because these tribes killed people all the time.
1:33.3	And they had one question.
1:34.3	How do we tell the bad guys from the good guys?
1:37.3	You see, these people are being hunted by traffickers and gold miners and loggers,
1:41.3	and boxed in by deforestation.
1:43.3	But if our oceans, a rainforests are
1:45.2	vanishing, life on Earth is not possible. Now, it's not too late, but we're the last generation
1:49.2	that can save. Paul, young kids are growing up attached to screens and loneliness as an all-time
1:53.9	high. Is there anything that you learn in those 15 years? A westerner like me would find useful?
1:58.3	100%. So let's start with purpose.
2:08.5	Listen, my team gave me a script that they asked me to read, but I'm just going to ask you in the nicest way I possibly can. Thank you first and foremost for choosing to subscribe to this
2:13.3	channel. It's been one of the most incredible crazy years of my life. I never could have imagined. I 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 appreciative of. And I almost carry away a sort of burden of responsibility to pay you back. And the favour I would like to ask from you today is to subscribe to the channel if you would be so obliged. It's completely free to do that. Roughly about 47% of you that listen to this channel currently don't subscribe to this channel. So if you're one of those people, please come and join us, hit the subscribe button. It's the single free thing you can do to make this channel better. And every subscriber sort of pays into this show and allows us to
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