Cannibals of Papua New Guinea | Joe Rogan & Forrest Galante

What other like crazy trips do you want to do that you haven't done yet? Oh, there's a lot, man. I mean, the one that I've had on my bucket list since I was a... So there's a couple. One is there's one, really one place on earth left where there's true cannibals. It's Papua New Guinea. And unlike the missionary that went in, you know, with an agenda, I would just love to actually see these cannibalistic tribes. So I'd love to do that. Nobody has successfully, unless it's happened very recently and I'm not aware of, successfully done source to sea of the Congo River from guerilla warfare, from crazy waterfalls, disease, that's an expedition I'd like to try. And then when it comes to wildlife, I mean, the list is infinite. There's so many of these animals that I'm desperate to try and find. Those sound like very dangerous trips, like visiting cannibals? Yeah, I mean, like, I don't know how to say this without sounding arrogant, but that's what sounds exciting to me. You know, is giving that shot that other... taking that shot that other people aren't taking. So have people visited these cannibals and come out of there before? Yep. There was a Nat Geo photographer who got some incredible photos. They're called the Caraway tribe. And he went in there, took them a while for them to kind of assimilate and get comfortable. And then he got these photos that are just mind blowing. Now, how often do they practice cannibalism? It is a, it's not a daily thing. It is a spiritual thing where they actually eat the eat the other tribes deceased after a war or an inter-tribal conflict as a way to like ward off bad spirits. So it's not like a daily thing. It's not like they're going out hunting each other. It's more like when these things occur, they have to eat a certain killer, a certain body to keep evil spirits at bay. Do they get that version of mad cows disease that cannibals get? Was it Jockebs, Kratzfeld? I know what you're talking about. I'm not sure. I think it's probably infrequent enough that they're not getting it. Cause like in the, in the South Pacific, they got that all the time, but they were eating each other like all the time. Yeah. Well, I think you get it from nerves, right? And nerve tissue or brains. Yeah. That's, that's where they're getting it from. It's essentially mad cow disease. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Is this guy hanging out with them there? It starts off with sound and he's eating something. I don't think he's eating people with them. He's going to eat a fucking person. That's not a person. That's a pig or something. Yeah. I don't think they'd show that. But yeah, look at the tribe. I mean, they're just like amazing. Yeah. But it's just so incredible that there's still people that live the way they lived many, many, many thousands of years ago. And they essentially just get their resources from the land, right? The area they live and they're, they're just rocking it old school. And then for me, like the cultural significance is huge, but what's the biological area like? You're right. Nobody's going in there. How much biological study has been done? The answer is none. And these people have large population. Like, look at that lady. Oh my God. Isn't she amazing? Wow. Yeah. Um, do you, uh, read, um, sapiens? Sapiens. No, I'm not, uh, evolutionary book about human history. What is Noah Yuval Haradi? I think that's the name of his. He's amazing writing it down. Yeah. It's a, it's a great book, but one of the things that they talk about in the book was these nomadic tribes that would, yeah, that's it. Uh, Yuval Noah Haradi, I fucked up his name. Um, they would talk about these, uh, nomadic tribes that would kill the old ladies, like kill the people that were burdens and like just shows like them. No, just kill them. Just talking about like when people became a problem, they would just kill them. And this was normal, but they got along together. Great. Everybody was like laughing and smiling. Everybody's really friendly, but as soon as someone seemed to be a problem, they'd fucking club them from behind. And it's like, this is going to sound just awful, but doesn't that make sense? It kind of does. It sucks, but it kind of does. Right. Like you're a burden on the community or on the society. You know, there's no fucking old folks home out there. Yeah. Like that's, it's crazy. Like to us in our culture, that's absurd, but as a culture removed from the rest of the world makes sense. Like you're a burden, you know, you've had a good life. It's time to move on. And they're nomadic. That's the other thing. It's like they have to keep moving. So if someone stops and like there's one guy, he was sick. And so they left him on a tree and he became covered with buzzard shit because the vultures would just sit over him and wait for him to die, but he eventually recovered and he caught up with the rest of the tribe. And for the rest of the, they call them something like buzzard shit or something like that. That was their nickname for him. Yeah. Imagine being that guy. Imagine sitting under a tree, looking up at vultures, being like, it's moments till I die and they're going to drop down and eat me. At least they're polite enough to wait for you to die. It's true. They don't just, the guy probably couldn't have fought them off. That was in Baena. Yeah.