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#235 - The Amazon Jungle Saved My Life: Encounters with STRANGE Creatures | Harry Turner

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.4777 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Harry Turner moved to the Peruvian Amazon following a life altering military tour of the American-led invasion of Afghanistan. When Harry Turner was filming his life in the Amazon Jungle, the last thing he expected was for his footage to turn into an award winning nature documentary. SPONSORS https://buy.ver.so/danny - Use code DANNY to save 15% on your first order. https://pxg.com/danny - Get FREE shipping on all equipment. EPISODE LINKS https://www.emeraldarch.org https://www.instagram.com/harry__turner Wildcat Doc: https://amzn.to/49X72MZ FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Producing WILDCAT 08:17 - Joining the military 17:36 - Military combat in Afghanistan 35:42 - Why Harry went to the Amazon Jungle 49:43 - Logging industry in Peru 53:04 - Rescuing a baby ocelot 01:02:26 - Most frightening animals in the Amazon rainforest 01:18:29 - Humans don't belong in the Amazon jungle 01:19:49 - Uncontacted tribes 01:32:08 - Ecuador 01:39:29 - Reintroducing animals to the jungle 01:47:28 - Amazon burn & destruction funded by China 01:54:14 - Will Harry ever see Keanu again? 01:59:37 - Exotic animal trade 02:03:34 - Insane adventures of Andrew Ucles & Cane toads 02:12:58 - Ancient sites in Australia 02:18:03 - Florida everglades & Florida panther 02:29:10 - Mysterious effects of snake venom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

your documentary is amazing um it was i love the way you give a really unique perspective on on the

0:16.7

amazon and uh what you guys you and that girl what was her name again Sam yeah what you guys were

0:23.0

doing down there um rehabilitating those animals and uh you know after talking to paul rosalie about

0:30.0

the Amazon I had this like really dark scary picture of that place and like what it was but after

0:36.9

watching yours it was like oh no this place is nice it's not that that's not that place and like what it was. But after watching yours, it was like, oh, no, this place is nice.

0:39.8

It's not that scary.

0:42.0

It seems kind of fun.

0:43.2

Yeah, I don't know.

0:44.9

People kind of make their own decisions on, you know, how it is.

0:49.3

And if you haven't been there, it's kind of hard to kind of read other people's kind of ideas of it. Like, it is hard,

0:55.7

it is scary. It can be, you know, this mean and ferocious and vicious place. You know,

1:02.2

whether you're struggling with mental health or whether you're struggling with Leishmaniasis or dengue or

1:09.4

malaria, you know, like any of these things that can make the jungle awful,

1:12.8

but at the same time, it can be one of the most incredible experiences that you ever, you know, have.

1:22.4

And I remember being kind of scared before I went down there.

1:26.3

I was like 20, coming on 21 when I first went down there.

1:34.1

I kind of went down there for a reason of, I went down there to commit suicide.

1:39.4

And I ended up just like falling in love with the place.

1:49.5

But, you know, prior to that, I was thinking like, damn, like, I don't know anything about this place. And you hear all these things about, you know, dangerous people, loggers, miners, all these things, you know.

1:58.5

And, you know, and they are dangerous.

1:59.8

Don't get me wrong.

2:00.6

But, like, once you're there and you wake up to the howler monkeys and the birds and you can

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