Paul Rosolie

And moving slowly.

Moving really slow with that assurance of power where she doesn't need to try and tap you quick.

She's going to get you eventually.

I haven't been able to make sense of it, really.

Look, I would say this.

In the case of elephants, if we ever end up in Africa together, I can get incredibly close to elephants because I've spent enough time with them where...

so far every time i've been able you know them it's always been a mock charge and and you can you you can be one with the elephant and learn their language enough that that you you respect their boundaries and you also show them that they're not like if this better be serious because you're either going to have to kill me or you're going to have to just turn around and go back to eating and you can have that exchange with them and and with smaller snakes i'll be careful and whatever else i can tell you with this

That when you have both your hands around an anaconda's neck, I truly have been known to surprise myself with the decisions I make.

But this alone would lead to death.

A hundred percent.

It's like laying down in front of an 18-wheeler with it in neutral.

It's like it's going to roll over you.

this is going to turn into anaconda handcuffs with this thickness and then that is going to wrap you with this thickness and then six more of those are going to go around your body and you will get squeezed and you will turn into goop and she will not and like just like that guy said she probably is in defense mode and not food mode so she'll probably just neutralize the threat and then go back to sleep

Well, the thing he's describing there is that he's saying they found an anaconda that had horns.

And in that moment, we were all hanging out by the side of the river, and I said, that's enough.

I stood up.

I was like, come on.

There's no anaconda that has horns.

And if I've learned anything in 20 years of living with the indigenous people in the Amazon, it's that they're not wrong.

If they say there's a tribe of naked people with arrows out there,