01x08 - Iquitos

[bunniefuu]

Although considered repulsive

and taboo by most societies

Feet up.

human cannibalism

still remains a common practice

in a few parts of the world.

Like that. OK.

Cannibalism motives

vary from ritual to survival,

for conquest

- or even for purely gourmet reasons.

- What?

Do I have a safe word?

I do not.

OK.

Luckily, this episode

has nothing to do with cannibalism.

Wait, does does it?

It doesn't. I swear.

Yeah.

In fact, this journey

has nothing to do with meat of any kind.

Safe word is "ocelot."

We're in the heart

of the Amazon River,

heading deep into the jungle

to study plants.

This rain forest is bursting with plants

and trees

that provide nutrition, medicine

This is something you're gonna

take if you feel back pain, joint pain.

and even spiritual powers.

And Darin has never felt more at home.

Camu camu!

Woo-hoo!

- I have no idea what they're bringing.

- Big old thing of moving food.

- Maybe I'll try a little meat

- You definitely don't have to.

of some sort.

No, I have to.

- Traveled all the way out here for this.

- This is like your first k*ll, Zac.

Mmm.

This is Iquitos.

Let me start at the beginning.

A few years ago, I met Darin.

- Can't feel my feet or my hands.

- Proud of you, bro.

Yeah.

He's a guru of healthy living

and superfoods.

Yeah, it's great. Thank you so much.

Really appreciate it.

You could say he wrote the book

on the subject. Literally.

A healthy lifestyle,

solid principles.

Darin and I are traveling around the world

to find some new perspectives

on some very old problems.

That's Mother Earth, bro.

Searching for healthy, sustainable

living solutions for the planet

Wow!

and all who live on it.

Woo-hoo!

Ignore the crazy white guy.

And, hey you gotta eat, too, right?

You don't have to eat it.

- How does it move like that?

- Oh, my God.

It's time to get Down to Earth.

Trippy.

We're on the southeastern edge

of the fires.

Copy. That's us.

And it just might skirt the back

of these homes, and I don't know if

Broken. Can you repeat?

4218 South 290 Street. 11:32.

Living in Southern California

means dealing with fires.

Even so, of course it's weighing heavy

on Darin's mind.

But he believes so strongly in this cause

that he wants to continue.

- Marker!

- So that's what we're gonna do.

We've arrived in Iquitos,

a city in Peru on the banks

of the Amazon River.

We're here to meet a good friend

of Darin's,

who's been working

over the last 20 years

to conserve wild palm trees

in South American jungles.

I'm excited for you

to meet my buddy Tarek.

He's a PhD ecologist,

he's worked in this area in the Amazon

for over 30 years.

We're gonna head down to a small village

and finally hit some medicinal plants

and show you around.

Darin's wanted to take me here

since we first met.

Iquitos is known as Peru's "Jungle City,"

and the gateway to the Amazon.

There's unlimited natural beauty here.

But there's also many dangers.

- It's, like, an hour boat ride.

- Is there crocodiles or alligators here?

- Uh No. Not here, on the Amazon.

- Piranhas?

- There's definitely piranhas. Yeah.

- Definitely piranhas.

So, swim at your own risk.

Phew.

- Tarek. Good to see you, brother.

- Darin. How's it going?

- Good to see you.

- Meet my buddy Zac.

- Nice to meet you.

- Great to meet you.

Nice to meet you too.

So we're gonna jump in the Amazon

a little bit and check out some plants.

We're gonna go up the Nanay River.

- Perfect.

- About an hour.

- We got enough for camping?

- Yeah. In case we get lost again.

What happens when you get lost?

You just camp on the side?

You just sit there and try to figure out

where you are for a while.

- Really?

- Yeah.

Yeah, 'cause when you're in a flooded area

and everything looks the same

Oh, yeah.

We've left any semblance

of civilization.

Here on the Amazon River, we're surrounded

by nature as far as the eye can see.

I can't believe this place exists.

It's just a trip.

Sixty thousand plus years

we've been using these plants.

And we are in the home

of the medicinal plants.

You're in sort of a goldmine out here.

Tarek's business

is buying fruit upriver from the locals,

bringing it to the processing plant,

and packaging it for sale in the city.

While the palm oil industry

is linked to deforestation

and an increase in greenhouse gas,

Tarek is fighting

to create a greater demand

for a lesser-known wild palm fruit

that are sustainably harvested

and provide a fair price

to the people who gather them.

We're coming up on an opportunity to pick

one of Darin's favorites from the Amazon.

These are all camu camu trees.

This is where it builds up the Vitamin C

and the natural antioxidants

because of the stress of being flooded,

defending itself

of living in this situation.

Ten of those fruits, Zac,

and you got 1,000 milligrams of C.

Whereas in processing,

you lose at least half of that.

This is it.

- There's a few.

- Whoa!

Whew!

I don't see any more.

We're rich. Beautiful.

Woo-hoo!

Camu camu!

- Woo-hoo!

- Ignore the crazy white guy.

This is like your first k*ll, Zac.

Mmm.

It's good.

Now try one of the green ones.

It'll be a lot more sour.

That's the highest vitamin C, is green.

- Really?

- Yeah.

'Cause it's not fully ripe yet

or something?

Yeah. And then it declines.

Whew!

- Yeah.

- That gets your attention.

Throw us a few camu.

I have a feeling

you're not gonna catch it.

Yeah.

It's too valuable.

- I'm right here. I can catch it.

- No. I don't trust your catch.

I played softball.

Get it high.

I got it.

Yeah!

That is way more sour

than I thought.

The next plant is uña de gato,

or "Cat's Claw."

It uses little hook-like horns

on its vines to climb up the tree

and thrives here in the rain forest.

OK, guys,

let's go see some uña de gato.

- We're gonna go knee-deep?

- Yeah, or thigh.

Whew!

Bye, shoes!

Whew!

Oh, that's cold and amazing.

Hey, Zac, whatever it takes, bro.

So there's no electric eels

in this section?

No, fortunately not.

No leeches?

Well, leeches would be fine.

Leeches are fine?

- Yeah, leeches would be

- Leeches suck.

- This one's foaming.

- There you go. Get it.

Uña de gato has been used

for centuries

to treat ailments like arthritis,

dysentery, fevers, inflammation,

and stomach ulcers.

And while cat's claw has a long history

of medicinal use,

there's been very little research

conducted on humans.

This small village is Mishana,

our home for the night.

Hola. Hey, guys.

- How are you? Good?

- Good.

Most of this jungle is uncharted.

But Tarek's been exploring

and mapping it for years.

And he's giving us a rundown

of where we're headed.

Whoa! Oh.

What the?

- You stepped in monkey.

- Is it?

It's like a patty.

Trippy, dude, rain forest.

- Whoa.

- You can do it, Zacky!

Come on, Zacky!

Come on, Zac!

Hey, guys, watch the roots, here.

It's kind of a little trap.

I feel like Jumanji.

"In the jungle you must wait

till someone rolls a five or eight."

This is the chuchuhuasi tree.

For hundreds of years,

locals have used the pulp

scraped from under the bark

because it boasts,

among other benefits,

relief from arthritis pain

and from back pain.

There we go.

There's our Ziploc bag.

Look at that.

See the different phases?

He stopped because he was going deeper.

That super red,

that's where the medicine is.

And it's got these interesting compounds

that help reduce inflammation,

but then also stop

the conduction of pain at the same time.

Chew it a little bit.

It's really bitter.

That's the tannins you taste.

Super sharp.

Mmm.

That's medicine.

- Tastes super medicinal.

- Feel that power? That's a bark.

Some serious power in that.

Whoa.

So next stop, Zacarino,

Wasai blood-builder.

- Where?

- Wasai.

- Here. So it's the same genus as acai.

- Wasai?

Whoa, gnarly mosquitoes.

This is where you find snakes too.

They love to live in there.

You gotta boil this a lot

and then, at the end,

they take a red hot piece of iron,

they throw it in the boiling water,

and it extracts

the rest of the medicine out.

- Really?

- Yeah.

Smells like dirt.

I've heard of some

of these plants before.

But I'm amazed at what this rain forest

has to offer.

He really is at home here.

So sangre de grado.

Sangre o-gado.

San-jay de grado.

Sangre de grado.

I feel like you make

"L"s where your "R"s need to be.

This I'm excited to show you.

So, watch this.

Whoa!

See that that bleeding?

So, this is a super resin.

Cuts, burns, scrapes

- Lesions.

- You don't eat it?

No. Well, you can eat it.

Wow, I wish I had this

when I typically have lesions.

I never know what to put on my lesions.

Yeah.

Look at these little ant protectors.

Yeah, they don't want you messing

with their tree.

The molecule's so complex that

they have to harvest it from the plant.

They can't synthesize it.

You use this on your face?

Yeah, absolutely. It interacts

with the collagen of the skin

and helps to heal and recreate

the collagen in the skin again.

So neat this is out here.

I don't know

why it isn't more used.

Ow,. I just got bit.

Fire ants.

Fire ants. Ah!

They're biting me

through my pants.

We've ducked into this shelter

to meet Doña Lisia

as she prepares bataua milk,

made from palm fruits.

When I first tried this,

I climbed this tree,

they told me

I could bring that fruit down.

I came back, delivered it,

they made this drink,

and I just couldn't believe

we were drinking this out in the forest.

- h*-h*!

- It was just amazing.

- That's a duck.

- Yeah. Some bataua, duck?

- How do you say it?

- Bataua.

Bataua.

It's fun to say.

It's interesting that human milk

has a lot less protein than cow's milk.

And so this is actually, nutritionally,

is very similar to human milk.

So instead of us eating cow's milk

that doesn't really

- Can't digest it.

- equate

to our digestive system,

the ratios are off.

Man, I'm excited for this.

And where was this gathered at?

In the forest.

Someone climbed yesterday.

It's really good.

Milky

forest power, right there.

Tarek has a way to make it better:

add coffee.

- Oh, man.

- God, that's good.

- Oh, wow.

- Let me get a taste.

That's so money.

- Man, you That's unreal.

- Come on. Wow!

It tastes It's better than almond milk,

it's better than

- Yeah. Any milk.

- That's what I think.

There's definitely a flavor profile.

- It's, like, nutty.

- Yeah.

Traditional tree-climbing

is extremely dangerous.

Without a safe way to climb tall palms,

some locals have resorted

to simply chopping them down

in order to harvest the fruit.

In an effort to reduce

destructive harvesting,

Tarek invented a harness device

that allows the person

to safely climb the tree

and easily gather the precious fruit

at the top,

all while leaving the tree unharmed.

Doña Lisia took

one of our first courses here.

And she climbed.

- Oh, really? Wow.

- So, you guys,

the bar is high.

Doña Lisia was climbing up and down.

Mmm.

Gracias.

You're gonna be

right on the palm.

But where's the safety rope?

- Seriously, is there a safety rope?

- The safety rope

that was a special-order item.

Yeah, this is

a one-size-fits-all harness.

Money.

- You nice and snug in there?

- Pretty snug, yeah.

'Cause that's really important.

- OK? Auto-lock the carabiner.

- Auto-lock.

This guy's got a funny smile on his face.

Yeah, I see you.

You see him? He's like, "Oh, man."

He's like, "Tarek's doing it again."

OK, just for a second,

stand up straight.

Yeah, see what I mean?

Whoa-h*-h*!

- Yeah, pull that under you. There you go.

- Oh, man!

There you go.

- You're on the bottom one, right?

- Oh, man.

- I'm on the bottom.

- Or on the top?

Oh, man.

I got, like, two inches off that.

You went up more than

you thought you did on that one.

Yeah, go a little bit higher.

Move this one up and just kind of

loosen it from here.

There you go.

OK, now, you can lean back.

- Like this?

- Yeah.

All right. How far, like, three more?

See you guys in an hour.

Oh Whoa, that was

Zac, is it high up there?

I can't hear you.

What?

- We got it.

- Yeah.

After a while,

I started to catch on.

Get all your weight off.

Lift your knee.

Yeah,

you're really getting the hang of it.

Yeah!

Woo!

- Very impressive.

- Coming down's gonna be

a lot easier.

Thanks for coming to the Amazon.

Big effort.

Thanks for showing us around.

- That was a pretty unreal day.

- All right.

All right, man. And we'll see you soon.

- See you.

- See you, brother.

Today, we're going to explore

another ancient tradition here.

Ayahuasca is quite possibly

the most notorious

and misunderstood plant

in the Amazon jungle.

A cooked mixture of the vines

and leaves creates a powerful,

vision-inducing hallucinogenic

that takes you on a journey,

which can last up to ten to 12 hours.

With a proper facility

and when administered by a trained shaman,

guests can experience

biographical memories from the past

and have a true spiritual awakening

into the future.

- Zac.

- Nice to meet you.

Hey, pleasure.

This is the founder

of the Ayahuasca Foundation,

Carlos.

What made you come here and start

this center right next to this village?

Uh I was in a bad way.

I was a heroin addict,

I was pretty much spiraling down.

I woke up one night,

in my car, under water, having driven

Blacked out behind the wheel

and driven it into a river.

And that was kind of my wake-up moment,

where I was, like,

"I gotta do something, or I could die."

And, um luckily I came down,

drank Ayahuasca

five times with a shaman

and never did heroin again.

But not only that, like,

realized the roots of why

I wanted to do heroin.

You know,

what the traumas in my life had been

and was able to bring them

to the surface and resolve them.

And it was just, like, incredible.

The shaman said, you know,

you have the potential to be a healer,

and this is your path.

And, if you want, you can come down

and live with me and I'll teach you.

And, my experiences after that

were so profound, like

it sounds crazy,

but I had spirits saying,

like, "Yes. This is what you should do."

And so I just said,

"I'm gonna do it."

Epic!

- I'm glad you're here, man. Thank you.

- Thanks.

How long ago was that?

That was 15 years ago.

Two thousand January, 2004.

I moved down,

I lived with the shaman in his house,

in this, like, dirt floor hut

with him and his family

- Whoa.

- for four years.

No running water.

And I just learned the tradition.

Ayahuasca tourism is a huge thing.

People come from all over the world

to get special rain forest treatments

from camps in the Amazon jungle,

like this one.

This is the ceremony space.

It's called a maloka.

That's beautiful.

It's such a blessing to have found

this place and to work with these guys.

The people that we work with

are just incredible.

Not everyone comes here

for the Ayahuasca ceremony.

There are other plant-based,

non-psychoactive treatments

that can be administered also.

Ayahuasca gets so much attention,

but you can't just heal everything

with Ayahuasca.

Ayahuasca is an important component.

You could say it's the emotional-

psychological-spiritual component,

but there is physical reality to sickness.

- For sure.

- And that needs treatment too.

And so what I'd like to show you guys

is some of the treatments that we use,

and they're very powerful treatments.

And those plants are just as important

in the tradition.

That's why I wanna show you

some of them

and maybe you can experience

some yourself.

- Awesome, how do we do that?

- Let's go down here.

This is what we call our "cooking hut."

Or our "vapor bath hut."

- Looks like a medieval

- Yeah, right? The stocks.

Well, we've got a pot

that's got seven plants boiling in there.

And all of those plants have

a specific property.

Who showed you the specific combo?

Was it the shaman?

- Yes. Yeah. Right.

- Cool.

This is, like, a general healing.

So you put these seven plants in,

some of them for protection,

some of them increase your circulation,

some of them purify your blood,

some of them open your spirit,

like the Ayahuasca leaves.

So by combining them all

you get this full package.

- They're rolling right now.

- Yep, they're rolling.

So we've got them boiling,

so that they get a really good steam

- Wow.

- And then,

you guys are gonna sit in that steam

as long as you can,

and then the shaman will come

and do a little treatment that

To close in the healing.

- You up for it?

- Yeah, are we just jumping in?

Yeah, let me get the shaman.

All treatments are administered

by a curandero, or guide.

The ceremonies and procedures

are passed down

from generation to generation,

through shaman like him.

This is Don Miguel.

And I got something super cool

for you lined up outside.

- Nice.

- Smoke bath.

Cool. Let's do it.

Smoke bath. Smoke me out.

The first step is a shower to cleanse

the body and open the pores.

- Feet up?

- Yeah.

Like that? OK.

- See you in an hour, Zac.

- What?

Do I have a safe word?

The safe word is "ocelot."

How long am I supposed to be

under this thing?

This is called Palo Santo.

It's the wood of a tree.

We burn it, make it into a smoke,

and you're gonna take a bath with it.

Oh, yeah.

Sort of warm on the niblets.

The last step is a smoke bath,

from a sacred tobacco,

to cleanse the spirit.

It's powerful stuff, right?

- Big time.

- Yeah.

Especially when you feel you have

a dark cloud over you or something.

This helps to relieve that.

Um

How was the vapor bath?

- Yeah, really cool.

- Yeah, cool.

Awesome.

So this is a Kushma.

This is what the curandero wears

in ceremonies

That was

an unforgettable experience.

From the superfoods with Tarek

to the spiritual healing plants

with Carlos,

I feel like

I've just scratched the surface

of why this amazing jungle

needs to be protected.

Now it's time to head downriver

and back to the bustling city of Iquitos.

Hi, Darin. This is Mom calling.

I just saw on the news

We had to evacuate.

Our whole neighborhood is destroyed.

Darin, it's Tony. Uh Please call me.

Hey. It's, uh Eliza.

I'm so sorry that this has happened.

I'm really, um

I can't stop thinking about

you and, um

what you must be feeling.

This is so sad.

Just know I'm here

and I am just thinking of you.

I talked to my ex-wife.

- Really? What'd she say?

- Yeah.

- Said she's just supporting and

- Good.

I mean, she lived with me on the place,

so she was heartbroken too. So

That's hard luck, man.

Got a message from Laird

and it's like, he shot some pictures

and, like, it's just black.

Who could've imagined

our last destination

would be overshadowed by such tragic news?

As Darin put it,

at least it was just stuff.

His dog was kenneled

and nobody he knew was hurt.

I can't imagine

what Darin's feeling right now.

We offered to cancel the rest of the sh**t

and head home early.

But Darin insisted there's nothing

we could do to change the situation,

so we're pressing forward.

- Well

- Best way to travel: tuk-tuk.

Tuk-tuk.

They call it in India "rickshaw."

- We're not in India, Darin.

- We're not.

- No.

- Where are we?

We're in a tuk-tuk.

Sometimes the best thing you can do

for a friend is just sit and listen.

Everything I have is with me right now,

in suitcases and.

Surreal.

And in some weird way,

I'm glad I'm on this mission

and I'm glad I'm doing this

because it's purposeful

and it's not so helpless,

of just seeing your house burn.

And, you know,

the thing that pisses me off,

now that I've been sitting with it

a little bit?

How it's in our face

that the planet is changing.

It's in our face

and it's burning our houses down.

It's not about having an argument

about global warming necessarily,

but the truth of the matter is,

our planet's different.

We're on the river today,

these guys who are living on the Amazon,

literally are saying,

"In the last few years,

so many things are radically different."

- Our planet being affected by us

- Yeah.

living an unsustainable way

is affecting people's lives.

And now, it's directly affected mine.

It's just.

It's just, uh brutal,

and I don't even know how to process it.

You know what I need?

I need a distraction.

Yeah. Yeah.

Darin chose this restaurant

because his friend Tarek

supplies much of the produce.

Including Darin's favorite:

camu camu juice.

- Beautiful.

- It has a lot of C vitamins.

- Cheers.

- Cheers, brother.

- To new beginnings, apparently.

- Thank you.

- It's still pretty good.

- It's so good.

Oh, this looks amazing.

- This is ceviche.

- Oh.

But this ceviche is made

with palm heart.

Yes, there's a little

And the juice is made of camu camu.

- Beautiful.

- This has lemon, onion, and corn.

- All right.

- Bon appétit.

- Whoa. Beautiful.

- Yeah.

Muy bien.

To see these chefs

integrating this rain forest,

wonderful fruit that we just saw

and we're eating it in this beautiful

presentation, is pretty amazing.

Delicious.

There's something special

on the menu,

and everybody wants me to try it.

Are we Are we eating, uh grubs?

I think at some point, maybe.

- Excuse me?

- There are grubs.

- This is to share.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa.

This is our suri.

Oh Aye, aye, aye, aye.

I love the suri.

- You love it?

- I don't.

- Yeah, it's delicious.

- It's delicious, right?

- Yeah.

- I'm gonna do it.

You have to try this.

What do they turn into

- If they were to not be cooked?

- These are like beetles.

Beetles.

This is suri

or "grubs," that are very popular in Peru.

You don't have to eat it.

I've already made the choice,

I'm just lingering.

I hope it has sauce on it.

It's all you, dude.

It's sticky.

Yeah, it's s slimy worm guts.

Yeah.

Excuse me, this is the suri.

- Oh, come on.

- Look at that.

- What the hell?

- How does it move like that.

It's greasy, like butter.

Oh, yeah, it's like butter

just moving around.

Oh! Oh!

Stay on there, little guy.

- Do some people eat it alive?

- Yeah.

Really? It's like a delicacy?

- Put him to rest.

- Do I have to eat them all?

- No.

- Excuse me.

- Jackie! Jackie!

- Yeah! Jackie!

- Go! Go!

- I want that little one, though.

Oh, my God.

She went for the tail.

- Mike, do you want heads or tails?

- I definitely need water now.

Oh, it actually tastes pretty good.

- It tastes like teriyaki.

- It's a little smoky.

It's the mental block of the texture.

Can I have some of that?

- The head is crispy.

- Tastes like teriyaki.

- It's way more juicy than I thought.

- Yeah.

It's all vegetables, man.

- They live in trees.

- You keep telling yourself that

Nah, they're, like, 100% vegetable.

as they're squirming around

in your stomach.

Something did pinch in my stomach,

and I'm wondering if it was the pincer.

Yeah, it was the last little ditch effort.

He's like, "I'm gonna get this guy."

We're gonna think he's dead

He's very happy. He's eaten a lot of them.

- I'll take that. Thank you.

- Ah, perfect.

Thanks, darling.

- Hola.

- Hey. Hola.

This is the Amazon Rescue Center,

a preserve dedicated to healing,

rehabilitating, and re-homing

creatures from the Amazon rain forest.

Their main focus of rescue is manatees.

- So we have two manatees here.

- Wow!

You can see it.

They have a good sense

It looks like a dog.

The manatees are

very important animals for the nature

- because they are eating these plants.

- What is that? What is it that they eat?

It's a water plant. It's called guama.

In places where they k*lled

too much of the animals,

the rivers are full of this plant.

There are too much right now.

These dedicated people

are working hard to return the balance

and educate the public.

We have given some gloves.

You need to hold his chin up

and feed with your right hand,

your strong hand.

And is that cow's milk?

- Um It's goat's milk

- Oh, OK.

because they're intolerant of lactose.

Oh, you're lactose intolerant?

Me too, buddy.

- Yeah.

- Wow.

So, humans are

their number one threat?

- Humans are their number one threat.

- Wow.

Manatees aren't the only animals

being held here at the Rescue Center.

There are many creatures that are harmed

and displaced due to mankind.

- Whoa! Look at that!

- Look at that thing.

- That's prehistoric.

- It's like a prehistorical turtle.

That's the weirdest turtle I've ever seen.

Yeah, they're also from the black market,

which they were selling illegally.

And the police brung him to us.

In three months, we set 50 of them free.

- Wow, 50?

- Amazing.

Fifty of them, yeah.

What's this little guy,

poking his head up?

- Oh-h*-h*-h*. Look at that.

- What's up?

We have three otters here.

They're enemies with the fishermen

because they're very intelligent.

They like to hunt this species

for their fur.

They k*ll their mothers

and they hold the little ones like pets.

Oh, man.

- Are they endangered because of that?

- Uh Yes.

It must be rewarding to work here.

And frustrating,

as they constantly battle

against the ravages of poaching,

deforestation,

and all of the other man-made problems

that are destroying the rain forest.

It's so important that the people

around the world

know that,

in the Amazon, exist this species.

The manatee, it's important to take care.

- Absolutely.

- Very valuable part of the ecosystem.

- Yeah.

- You guys are doing amazing work.

This is really amazing. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much for visiting us

and to tell our story.

- Thanks so much.

- Thank you.

- See you guys. Chao.

- Chao.

All right. See you.

Gracias. Thank you.

This entire project has been

an amazing journey.

Unfortunately, it's come to an end.

Heading to the airport

for our flight home

we're finally able to process

the incredibly eye-opening experience.

This journey we're on,

I'm really excited that we've done this

and I'm also

just, deeply

heart-wrenchingly impacted by

everything we've seen.

It's almost maddening.

The more you learn,

the more you realize how

vulnerable

this planet is.

And every step we take,

we should be conscious of.

- Yeah.

- You know?

We don't understand our massive impact

on the world.

Hell, we were in Puerto Rico, dude.

They're no different than I am now.

These people just got

their whacked out.

We're all just as exposed to

anything happening at any moment.

Now, me personally losing my house,

I'm gonna go down swinging,

trying to move the needle on this planet

to help the human family

and to help Mother Earth

that clearly is showing us

what the is wrong.

I agree.

It's crazy to think about

how all of this started.

I reached out to Darin

because I appreciated what he had to say.

I had no idea how far

that curiosity would take me.

You have all these people that follow you.

And you said very clearly to me,

which impacted me straight in my heart,

and it was, like,

"I wanna use it for something good."

That was the moment I was like,

"Oh, man,

like, we can actually do something,"

'cause it's, like

it's just so

It's so intense.

And we see all this,

I mean, you look around and

so many people don't have much and..

And it's it's just gutting.

When people actually open their eyes

and see the world beyond the United States

and beyond their little communities

I'm just

I don't know why, it's

I feel you, man.

I've taken so many trips, you know,

and I just go and experience culture

and I don't

take pictures or anything,

but, like,

there is something that you learn

that's a product of seeing

and meeting people,

that you could explain if you did bring

a camera and did film something,

there would be a story to tell.

So it's nice to have

Shout-out to our crew. Everybody here

- Oh, my God.

- So amazing,

like, going into the trenches with us.

- Getting dirty, getting sick, coughing

- Yeah, fighting through it.

Scratching,

fighting through jungles,

sweating their off,

having no sleep.

Like, these guys and girls are awesome.

- Heroes.

- They've become family and

Yeah, we were pretty lucky on this trip.

The more we learn

and the more stuff we see,

the more questions are asked.

And I feel like there's endless doorways

that have shown themselves to us.

It seems like the more we, kind of,

excavate, the more comes out to play.

I am so fired up to, like,

take it way beyond what we've even done.

Absolutely.

Well, it'll be great to see

the needle move in some capacity.

Or, at least, foster some attention.

We out here. It's crazy. We're all here.

- Yeah.

- And we gotta take care of this place.

We gotta live happy, be healthy,

take care of the planet.

This has been the adventure

of a lifetime.

I can't help but take these experiences

with me everywhere I go, from here on out.

I can't look at a bottle of water

or flip on the light switch

like I used to.

When I see a concrete wall,

I want it to be a green wall.

When I see an empty roof,

I wanna cover it with solar panels.

I suddenly stop

and want to know everything I can

about every bite of food I'm going to eat.

What is it, really?

Where did it come from?

Who grew it?

Are they treated well?

Are they happy?

It's overwhelming.

But I have to do it.

Our time here is short.

Even if we live to be 100 years old,

it all goes by so fast.

I want to make a difference

in whatever time I have.

It's a nice world we've got here.

Let's make it last.

Oh, my God.

Ughhh Argh!

Oh, my God.