Hunting with the Hadza Tribe (uncensored) [BTS 65]

I am a firm believer of the gritty truth and I completely agree with your sentiment on how you need to understand that the meat we eat was a part of a living breathing animal. I have brought that up to friends and family and have always been met with disagreement haha. thank you for bringing the controversial truth even if its ugly

It's interesting the way you are framing the way they live. If you look at the whole scope of the human timeline, the way we are living today (post-agricultural) only makes up an extremely small portion of how humans have always lived. In reality, the way they are living is what is actually more normal to how we have evolved: they move all day getting plenty of exercise, they are eating completely natural foods, they have a close knit tribe of people that they will form deep and meaningful relationships with, etc. Culturally, physically, emotionally I can understand how you and many of us are conditioned in a way that the many things they are doing in their day to day lives is questionable. Thank you so much for putting this content. Please do not filter ANY of this. This is the closest thing to our raw humanity that we can get nowadays. In the early 1900s, there were roughly 8-10million wild humans on the planet. Today, now there are collectively less than 1million. It is so important that although we will forever be domesticated in the modern world, that we never become truly separated from our origin as humans. I LOVED to see their perspective on health. Ancestral populations like the Hadza have always looked at their in the simplest ways. What you eat and put in your body should nourish you and protect you. They know this from the way they talk about food in the COVID video. Although they might know exactly what COVID is, they do understand what it means to get sick and how important it is to be healthy and strong to mitigate any possible illness that could affect them.

Exactly Matthew. I just returned from Part 2 where we actually caught the baboons. It was even more graphic!

Yeah. Especially recently. They have become very conservative with content. It worries me a bit because a lot of my content could be considered controversial in the wrong eyes. And ultimately I’m not in control of my channel.

And that’s why I’m so happy to have you here Mike. The “Red Pill” club. The truth seekers. The people who want to see how it really is!

This is my first experience with Patreon. We live in a filtered, censored world and reality is a bit much for many. I personally want to experience reality, and if I can't have that, then people like you can provide a substitute. So you frequently ask how much you should show, and I respond with a question back to you - do you want people (at least people like me) to see filtered "reality", or reality? The injured dog, the killing of the mongoose mother and baby...while we might view these as cuddly animals and find it tough to watch, I am far more interested in how they are viewed by these people - not to judge, but to reflect, learn and indirectly have a new experience. This is part of life, and I want to see it as it is. If something challenges my view of good or bad, right or wrong, then that is a challenge I welcome. My 2 cents...

Whoah, intense!! I think you made a good call editing that stuff out of what the general public will see. I've heard YouTube is really cracking down on content for a lot of reasons. You are always questioning things and exploring deeper, which is why I really enjoy your videos. You fully immerse yourself in the travel experience, and we benefit as the audience. I'm just comparing this to the Kilimanjaro watermelon experience...such a huge contrast! Love that you can do justice to such wildly different situations! Keep it up, man! 🐉

I'm 100% with you as far as seeing the real, raw world. I want to see the "secrets" and the things that are often hidden away, even if they make me a bit squeamish or uncomfortable. As far as figuring out how much to show on YouTube, I think you did a really good job of that. I'd say upload the more palatable version there, while still hinting at the rawness you can't show there. Save the "director's cut" for Patreon so you don't unwittingly incriminate someone or find yourself in hot water with YouTube over extreme content. As an animal lover, seeing the ways the bird, mongoose, and kudu were killed weren't pleasant (not to mention, the wounded dog). But as you said, who are we to tell them that they're wrong? Who are we to say that our societal norms are right and that anything else is unacceptable? One of my favorite things about your videos is that, even when you share your opinion on what you're witnessing, you never frame the story you're telling around that opinion. You show us whatever is going on and let the footage speak for itself. Your opinion never becomes the focus. I tend to agree with you, but it is great to watch travel content where the creator isn't actively judging the things going on around them, and is instead, observing with the goal of learning and understanding. That is why you have always been one of my favorite travel filmmakers and why I'm proud to call myself a dragon. 🐉🔥

Brandon Moore

I think you made the right decision. I am not sold that the YouTube community as a whole would appreciate the cut or ‘uncensored’ footage. The people here on Patreon are prepared for the possibility of graphic violence for survival/living sake, as well as possible alt-world living (the smoke section of our program), or even human nudity. I think we are here and we are open and prepared for that type of material, where the YouTube community as a whole probably is not. What you posted here isn’t comfortable to watch, but it is life, and I agree that people should probably see that chicken doesn’t originate in a bucket and it is a living creature (If that makes sense). Footage like this definitely opens my eyes and reminds me that life is definitely different outside of my front door.

Matt H.