Buddy Levy

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639 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 25 Mar

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Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast · Ep 605 - Arctic Cannibalism (feat. Buddy Levy) · 25 Mar 2026 podcast

um scribes that were there just to record Uh the events and then so you you get these first and letters that they're writing back home.

And so you really get transported to These places into the minds of the people who were there And then of course you have to balance out to what extent like they're lying Yeah, or or padding the story for different political reasons.

And so you're doing a bunch of sifting and deciding um on

which you believe and, you know, history to me is pretty dynamic and malleable.

It's not like this set thing.

It depends on, you know, they say history was written by the victors.

But I love it.

So I started in, I try to, for River of Darkness and Conquistador, I try to follow the route of the Conquistadors as precisely as possible, you know, using maps.

Now, in modern day context, it's a little different because, you know, there's more people there now.

But, yeah.

You know, for the Amazon, yeah, I started in Quito, did some went on partly on horseback, partly on a bus, and then I trekked down to the headwaters of the Coca River and then went for like three weeks in a dugout canoe with two guides and just me and two other people and floated down the river in a dugout canoe, sleeping in the rainforest in hammocks.

It was one of the coolest adventures I've ever done.

I mean, to put it in context, I spent like, I think, two to three weeks, including the Andy's part,

And by the time I finished, which was in Iquitos, Peru, that's just where the Maranon meets the Amazon.

I went 400 miles, and there's 2,300 miles more to go to the Atlantic.

And, you know, but it's cool because once you get out there, it's still, I mean, I floated through this Yasuni National Park and there's so, you know, it's like one of the most biodiverse places in the world.

And then you're just like, you get into this river rhythm where, you know, you float for hours and everything starts to look the same because, you know, you're shrouded on each side by these giant seba trees.

And, you know, you have to wear like knee-high rubber boots because there's ant colonies.

I mean, there's so many critters that can, you know, mess you up.

Vampire bats.

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