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The Joe Rogan Experience I mean I can sort of understand that in a sense of like I'm not an adrenaline junkie like I don't go for skydives or you know any of that stuff it doesn't drive me but that thrill and rush I get of you know darting a bear or working with a lion or doing you know swimming with an anaconda like that fuels me for weeks like I I like I get getting Goosebumps thinking about some of them right now because I get so excited by and it's not just for a personal rush but rather you know we're doing it for work or whatever but those moments stick with me forever and I I sort of get that but not like I'm just gonna risk my life over this climb or whatever you know so what are you doing on giant anacondas like because there's always been this thing about enormous anaconds that live in the rainforest so yeah there's fascinating so I love anacondas I believe and I've got a colleague Brian fry um in Australia actually and he he has a similar belief that there are 30-foot anacondas now 30s a big anaconda but you're talking about those mysterious like 1500 Footers Okay so take out the Amazon and take out anacondas for a second okay all right think about where all the largest snakes are in the world Florida well now yes but um you know we've got all these wet tropical environments that have that house these huge stakes in Indonesia you have articulated pythons you have Burmese pythons you have African rock pythons Indian rock pythons anacondas all these big snakes yeah the only place that has a wet tropical humid high density of prey environment that doesn't have a massive snake is the Congo central Africa now interesting Stay With Me these that area is home to some African rock bite and stuff but not big monster anaconda size ones right but during World War II there was a colonel who flew over there and this was a well-respected colonel I'm sure Jamie you'll be able to find this very quickly a well-respected like I forget he had like his wings or his his patch of Honor or whatever like very distinguished who him and his two passengers in the plane both reported a hundred foot long snake they flew over at once they're like wait a minute what is that they were they
were Dutch Belgium in the Congo um they flew over at once went what is that and flew over it two more times to verify it and got so low to the ground that they said the snake struck at the airplane and all three people the pilot this well-respected Colonel and the two passengers had the exact same story of this giant snake in central Africa interesting yeah and yet no big snake has ever been proven from there but it's also a very poorly biologically explored area and most of the time when these animals get this big snakes or otherwise they're in very low yeah here's the picture they took a photo of it they did yeah they did um they're in very low densities so hmm that's the real photo over on the left there what do they think it was they thought it was a giant snake a 50 foot long so that's the photo right there I believe so um but the story is fascinating of these kernels they don't know like what kind of snake they don't know if it was a condor python or it would be an undescribed species because the only snake there the African rock python doesn't get that big what is the biggest snake that we know oh it says it measured approximately 50 feet in length saw brown green with a white belly has a triangle shaped jaw and a head three by two feet oh my God three foot heads the photo was later analyzed and verified to be genuine van leerd uh claims that is that how you say his name I'm not sure but that was that was the colonel Remy van lier as he flew lower for a closer inspection the snake rose up approximately 10 feet giving a warning that it would have attacked a helicopter if it had been within striking range but imagine flying over and having a snake sort of lunge at a helicopter a three foot Snakehead Jesus so rice Jamie do you mind going to my Instagram swallow you alive dude look at this one I posted a picture day before yesterday this is 18 feet and look at the size of it compared to me and how scary the snake is um now to think of yeah like you said two by like you're like a you're like an Eminem to a snake that's a Tic Tac you want them chocolate covered almonds that are so good for you yeah whoa look at the size of that thing that's an 18-footer and look it out granted it's
not three foot by two foot head but still that thing you know what's the weight on something like that I was over 200 it broke our scale wow yeah it was over 200 pounds wow Indonesian villagers claim to have captured a python that is almost 49 feet long and weighs nearly 990 pounds I I've seen this it's not there's no it's not verified at all like do they have an image of it um this might be the one that's on the track actor no it's not there's a fake one on a tractor that it's fake floated around well it's just very forced perspective it's like a wide angle lens and the snake is right in front but it looks massive but this is NBC this is NBC News let's see if it has uh images this sucker so these are all like reticks and you know there's there are big snakes out there look at the size of that goddamn thing yeah Jesus so what is the biggest snake is it a python the biggest snake that we know of so the heaviest is the reticulated python look at the size of that thing yeah how big is that that's big that's probably it's probably 20-ish so there's quite a lot of 20-foot snakes out there and then there's a couple 21 22s but that's it and so there's all these rumors of 30-foot snakes and 40-foot snakes and blah blah and there's nothing that's been verified outside of one skin I believe I want to say from Indonesia that is like but skin stretch that says it turns out to be a tall tale it says when uh recreation park in Indonesia put a huge reticulated python on show last week Keepers insisted to report as it was 49 feet long make it the longest ever caught but that the fine turned out to be a tall tale yeah so how big was it exactly I bet it was 20-ish 21 there it is yeah 21 feet still yeah crazy it's a big snake man but not 50 not 50. I have no idea why the snake has shrunk said one keeper when asked about discrepancy as the snake lounged on a tree branch inside the cave but things do shrivel up when you catch them you know like fish do like when you catch them fish yeah well definitely when you tell people about it but yeah I went fishing here in Austin this morning oh did you really right downtown literally right in front of the Google
building Lady Bird Lake yeah it was awesome yeah it's a great little spot yeah yeah really fun right in front of the Google building right in front of it yeah yeah um so the biggest in the world is the python right so they are bigger than anacondas so it's sort of a toss-up the reticulated python has been clocked as the heaviest snake in the world because they get fatter but the anacondas have been clocked in slightly longer I think 26 feet is the longest ever recorded did you ever see the Jennifer Lopez movie yeah the documentary yeah um yeah it's great it's such a corny movie it's so good the bad like snake head if you watch it so bad that's so bad that's so bad but that was always the rumor is that there was enormous snakes in the Amazon and that you know you just didn't see him I I do believe that there are some megafauna out there that are yet to be found that are in low population like you believe in the sloth the Giants I believe that has a and again that's like the thylacine it's a proven animal it's been 10 000 years but it doesn't mean that it couldn't be extant in certain remote areas same with some of these big snakes maybe not 50 because maybe these things are embellished but maybe 30 maybe 35 right and I just think that there are a few not a lot of these big things out there if you're one of these uncontacted Amazonian tribes of which there are still several pop west Pop wind tribes whatever and you're seeing a 50-foot snake nobody in the Western World we're not hearing about that right you know like those things can be happening and those stories get embellished and passed on and all of that but we wouldn't even know until Western science gets in there and it's sort of a double-edged sword because once it does it sort of ruins certain aspects of that right so but I do believe that there are big animals to be found still