Uncontacted Tribes, Jungle Warfare & Being Eaten Alive - Paul Rosolie - #1052
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 133 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | People of Australia and New Zealand and Bali. I'm coming to you live this March and April. |
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| 0:10.8 | and the kind of conversations I don't get to have on the podcast live in a room together. |
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| 0:21.4 | Adelaide, Christchurch, Auckland and Bali, and you can get yours right now by going to the link |
| 0:26.4 | in the description below or heading to chris williamson. Live. See you there. How was getting stung |
| 0:33.0 | by a sting right? That's it was wonderful. I loved every second of it because people pursue ice plunges |
| 0:41.7 | and iwaska journeys and and people people are constantly looking for the edge and and i found the edge right |
| 0:48.6 | i thought i was tough i thought i'd been through pain i didn't know anything anything. I was, I was making deals with God. |
| 0:55.3 | I was, I was in so much pain. And you don't think, you know, you think like your chest cavity or your head, you don't think that your foot could throw you into agony. I got, you know, so it, it stung me in the foot. And what happened was. Where were you? So I'm in a stream in the Amazon rainforest, |
| 1:10.1 | and I had my shoes on just because I'd been hiking |
| 1:13.4 | and I reached this waterfall, and I said, I'm going to take my shoes off to enjoy the waterfall and swim around. And as I'm playing in the waterfall, I just, you instantly know it. It's like you got shot in the foot. and the stingray, I stepped on the stingray, and it stuck its barb in, you know, |
| 1:29.3 | it's the size of a steak knife. |
| 1:30.3 | It sticks its barb in, know it. It's like you got shot in the foot. And the stingray, I stepped on the stingray, and it stuck |
| 1:27.8 | its barb in, you know, it's the size of a steak knife. It sticks its barb in through the skin, and the thing is |
| 1:33.0 | is it wagged its tail under the skin. So it flayed the skin off of the meat of the foot and then swam |
| 1:39.4 | out. So just what does a, what does a stingray, because it's flat and it's just the tail? So if you stood on the tail, or has it been looking for you? No, no, no, it's flat, flat. The whole thing is flat. And then if it gets scared, it stings to make you go away. Oh. They're not trying to attack you. They want to be left i stepped on him it's my fault i couldn't see him |
| 2:01.4 | and then the tail came up tail went straight up in the the and the arch of your foot is sensitive |
| 2:06.0 | and so so steak knife to the arch of the foot injected a ton of venom as it flayed the skin off |
| 2:13.0 | pulls out and so i'm like i'm like look this hurts but the flesh wounds don't hurt that much and i'm like that hurt getting stabbed hurt and so i'm like, I'm like, look, this hurts, but the flesh wounds don't hurt that much. |
| 2:18.3 | And I'm like, that hurt, getting stabbed hurt. And so I'm over there, I'm about to film and I'm like, I'm in the Amazon rainforest and I just got hit by a stingray. My friend comes up to me and he goes, we don't have time for this. He's like, you're going to pass out soon. And when you pass out we can't carry you to the river and i said how do you know i'm going to pass out he goes it happens to |
| 2:34.6 | everybody and sure enough the next thing you know i'm going to pass out he goes it happens to |
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