DeepSummary
Mike Corey, an adventure traveler and YouTube personality, recounts his experiences visiting and living among remote tribes around the world, including the Hadza in Tanzania, ostrich-footed tribes in Zimbabwe, and tribes in the Congo jungle. He describes hunting expeditions, bizarre rituals, and unique cultural practices, often immersing himself fully to gain an authentic understanding.
One of Corey's most intense experiences was with a potent form of ayahuasca in Mexico, which led to an overwhelming psychedelic experience where he felt an encounter with a higher power or presence that made him feel insignificant yet deeply impacted his perspective on spirituality and fear. He discusses how this experience, as well as his interactions with tribes who embrace spirituality, has shaped his beliefs.
Corey also recounts dangerous misadventures, such as narrowly escaping armed confrontations due to miscommunications and getting stranded in the Congo after his motorcycles broke down. Despite the risks, he seeks to document these vulnerable moments and obscure cultures before they disappear, often forming meaningful connections along the way.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- Many remote tribes around the world still live traditionally as hunter-gatherers and maintain cultural practices radically different from modern society.
- Immersing oneself fully in unfamiliar tribal cultures can provide profound insights and connections, but also carries substantial risks.
- Powerful psychedelic experiences like ayahuasca can induce existential revelations and reshape one's perspectives on spirituality and fear.
- Indigenous tribes often embrace strong spiritual beliefs and rituals centered around death, sacrifice and connecting with perceived higher powers.
- Documenting authentic cultural experiences involves overcoming language barriers, gaining trust, and sometimes confronting grave miscommunications and dangers.
- Observational awareness is heightened when seeking to capture the visual details and stories of unfamiliar environments.
- globalization and modernization are causing rapid cultural shifts that threaten the survival of traditional indigenous ways of life.
- Engaging with primal experiences and disconnecting from modernity can resensitize our understanding of fundamental human practices like singing, dancing, and bonding through shared rituals.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “And so what that means is every day the family goes in, they bring them food, they sing them songs, and then Grammy and Grampy still communicate to them in their dreams. In the birdsong. There's still very much a relationship between the sick and the alive.“ by Mike Corey
- “And so they show up with a crocodile over our shoulder. These people we've never met before, never seen before right here. And we're like, hi. And they don't even speak French, because, again, people from Belgium were French. They colonized this place. So French is a language you can speak in Kinshasa, a lot of places, they only speak the local language.“ by Mike Corey
- “Because, uh, part of the reason why I like this job is because it makes you aware. Because if you're always searching for a story or you're always looking for a shot, whether it be a face or a caterpillar or a cool flower or whatever it is, or a monkey in a tree, you're always aware when you're making videos or photography, you know, because you're always looking for a cool thing to shoot.“ by Mike Corey
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Danny Jones Podcast
Danny Jones
6/10/24
Tribal adventurer Mike Corey (AKA @fearlessandfar) explores lost tribes & cultures in the deadliest parts of the world. Mike has received 2 Emmy nominations for his Adventure Travel show "Uncharted Adventure", and for his podcast "Against the Odds".
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EPISODE LINKS
Mikes YouTube Channel: @fearlessandfar
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OUTLINE
00:00 - Venezeulan Santeria offerings
04:44 - Hadza tribe
14:23 - How to reach uncontacted tribes
17:52 - Going to war with baboons
31:01 - Drugs in uncontacted tribes
37:26 - Zimbabwe nose piercings
42:04 - Mortality uncontacted tribes
49:26 - Are ALL animals food?
53:51 - Rites of passage & body modifications
01:01:58 - Death cult tribe
01:19:05 - Truth about uncontacted tribes
01:23:11 - Solo camping in Satan's Castle
01:45:14 - Congo voodoo wrestling
01:53:07 - Sneaking into the Congo jungle
02:04:29 - Living among Congo tribes
02:12:08 - Singing, dancing & drugs
02:14:13 - Free diving & breath work
02:23:51 - Mayan blood rituals & sacrifices
02:29:46 - Butt trumpets for drugs
02:30:39 - Intense sky ayahuasca trip
02:45:52 - Fear