VICE - 2012-10-19
VICE heads to the Amazon on a hunt for its most hallucinogenic tree frogs. In part 2, federal agents, monster bugs, and an inept shaman keep getting in the way. Watch the rest here: http://bit.ly/Frog-Tripping-1 http://bit.ly/Frog-Tripping-3 There is an Amazonian frog called Phyllomedusa Bicolor or the Sapo which I have been reading about for years. It is totally different from the psychedelic toads found in North America. The Sapo's venom produces an effect much closer to morphine than LSD, but really it's not like either of those things. It's a distinctly vomitous dissociative experience unlike anything else I've ever encountered. There has been a lot written about the chemistry of the venom, and it has been said to have a diverse array of effects. Some people think it's a miracle opioid which will yield new non-addictive painkillers. Others think it's a super-potent stimulant and appetite suppressant, and even a strange psychedelic capable of tuning hunters on to the mindset of their prey. In the 80s researchers found one of the constituents of Sapo venom in the urine of autistic children, and developed an entire theory of autism around it. I had to find out what this frog really does, but supposedly it cannot produce its venom in captivity. The only way to experience its unique trip is to travel down the Amazon River and catch one yourself, which is exactly what I did. — VICE Correspondent Hamilton Morris Watch more VICE documentaries here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Documentaries Subscribe to VICE for the best videos online: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/user/vice/videos Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Read our tumblr: http://vicemag.tumblr.com
I love how dude heads into the jungle with a suitcase like he's Mary Poppins.
Mollie poppin*
GameSpy DarkAge lmfao
Best comment8:44
He's trippy Hopkins
Is he cool?!
This is not a documentary about hallucinogenic frogs, it’s a documentary about a skeleton man leaving his habitat in New York.
hahahahaahahahahahahahaha
Lmao
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Fucking great comment
LMAO!
"We have officially run out of food, but fortunately a child has offered to kill a chicken for us" 😂😂
😅😂
Ive never seen a person so unprepared for the Amazon
Ben Cawley I just had to laugh at this comment because it’s so, so incredibly TRUE😂🙈!! As someone who’s been there (well, deep into the Amazon rainforest, in the general context, not chasing frogs, lol), I LEGITIMATELY could NOT agree with your statement more!! I’m seriously amazed by how unprepared he was & his incompetence towards everything!! This is crazy😂!! Loved that someone FINALLY pointed this out!! Thank you😌!!
Best comment
Right!
All he was thinking about was getting high smdh
Man like Hamilton knows all he needs to know. Trust me!
The frog is probably getting high after the guy licked him
Squibby underrated af 😂😂😂
Best comment
Squibby for the win
Man that's funny! 😂
Lmao brilliant
This dude is wearing the same clothes he wore to the skate park in San Francisco to the amazon.
Ha
And he wonders why he attracts mosquitoes so badly...
His voice is nails are a chalk board to most.
This series is like when the weed man says he be 5 minutes but you know he wont
I read this comment at 4:23 and im pissing myself
😆🤣
mine said he was in the area and would be at my house in 20 mins ending up being 2 hours🤦🏽♀️
Nah bro chill I swear I'm on my way. I just had to get gas, make 5 other sales, and grab dinner. Gimme 15 more mins
@bajorekjon You noobs still buying off of retards like that lol
Imagine what is bassically an alien to you driving to your house and asking if you can help it get high
Thats funny
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
Honestly😂
First contact: take me to your dealer
@creepycharisma8861 underrated
After 7 days of searching they finally found the frog. It was in his throat the entire time.
My man 😂😂😂😂
Underrated comment 😂😂😂
lmfaooooooooooooooooooooo this comment made my day!
!HilariouS! this should have a million likes
Fucking hilarious 😂😂😂
"Bro, I am straight up not having a good time."
Always speak as if everything is somehow in the pretense of a question 😁
Those mosquitoes must have got SO high from his blood!!! Haha
FUCK I WISH I WAS EARLY THESE JOKES ARE SO ON POINT 😭
His enthusiasm is overwhelming.
I read that spoken Winther his voice😂
He sounds like he OD'd on xanax bars
this man went to the amazon with absolutely nothing but drugs
Wait so...are you supposed to bring anything else?
Junkie
Red Lawton There’s always someone in every comment section who ever doesn’t get the joke or what it means. To be a junkie you have to be severely addicted to a harmful substance, now you get people throwing the word junkie at people who smoke weed recreationally and it’s lost it’s meaning by this point.
@jackhibberd4660 a junkie is a junkie no matter how hard u try to explain. If ur mindset is in getting high over the prime essential u need than yea dude ur a junkie
Red Lawton What it originally meant was being addicted to heroine but it gradually took on a broader meaning while keeping the same concept. And no a junkie isn’t you’re version, a junkie is someone who is addicted to a hard substance and finds it very hard to stop or can’t. If you don’t do drugs everyday willingly then you’re not a junkie, a junkies someone who’s lost all control and lives to feed his addiction. Don’t speak on what you clearly don’t know because with that logic someone who goes down the pub every Saturday is a junkie, if you took beer out of their cycle they wouldn’t cope, a lot of people live for these few and far between moments but understand why they can’t do it all the time, it’s called moderation and it’s something that the smart and safe drug users do.
He was perfectly hand picked for this 😂this is the darkest comedy drug documentary I ever saw
You havent watched the new stuff ?
Wow
Lol
What a gimmick vice is lol
I’ve been laughing for about 40 minutes!
He looks like he eats nothing but Xanax
His body type says meth, but his lazy ass voice and empty eyes say Xanax.
He looks like a xanax bar
Yep. He probably Does
The real lil xan lol
Telios Abraxas your wife’s boyfriend??
I've never seen a human look more like an animal they were standing next to than when Hamilton and that Tucan were in the same frame.
I just want a whole series where this dude interacts with exotic wildlife
SAME HIS VOICE AND ATTITUDE IS PERFECT
*psychedelic wildlife
It's so opposite of eachother it would be like the perfect anti comedy lol
Whenever he sees an animal, it seems as though he doesn't die inside as much in that moment..
Mosquito biting him is not enough for you???🤣🤣👍
The producers took the most unprepared city boy drug addict out on this expedition. This is great 😂
It's like they needed someone to offset the weight of the camera gear.
The Dubya this unprepared city boy drug addict is also a chemist
Lol
Hamilton is extremely well educated.
Definitely not a drug addict city boy. Just a guy fascinated by the culture and impact of psychoactive compounds, particularly psychedelics (which areny addictive btw), and happens to br a fucking chemist who went to college for close to a decade.
Sending this dude to the amazon is like a cruel joke
Karachi yo!
my man copied the comment from the first video
He volunteered so he could get smacked on the frog
Haha
GOTTA GIVE UP THE TOAD LYRICS
[Verse 1]
You'll get chills
All through your body
And you'll lose
All control
Of your bladder
And your sphincter
That's your butthole!
[Pre-Chorus]
Cause if you use toad
Then I'm tellin you
You can kiss your life goodbye
Yeah when you use toad
It'll mess you up
It'll make your mama cry
That's no lie
You'll choke on your tongue and die
[Chorus]
Gotta give it up
(Give up the toad now)
It's no joke
Buddy give it up
(Gotta give up the toad now)
Or you'll croak
Buddy give it up
(Gotta give up the toad now)
And don't smoke
Or you'll see
It hurts to pee
[Verse 2]
There'll be blood
Gushing from ya
Every time
That you cough
And forget
Getting lucky
It falls off
[Pre-Chorus]
Yeah you better wise up
Cause I'm telling you
Toad is what Lando forbids
Gotta give it all up
Or you're gonna see
Your whole life will hit the skids
And your kids
Will be born without eyelids
[Chorus]
Gotta give it up
(Give up the toad now, thanks to you Lando)
Give it up
(Give up the toad now, thanks to you Lando)
Give it up
(Gotta give up the toad now, ooh ooh ooh)
I'm no fool
(shi-bi-do-bop-ba-do-bop-ba-do-bop)
Lando's cool
So no-one had the foresight of thinking the frog might now jump into the river?
we ran out of food but fortunately a child offers to kill a chicken
Lmaoooo
Mvp 🙌🏽
and the chicken escaped (and 3 other people joined to catch it again.)
This man it literally the human version of salad fingers
LMFAO
Damn. Good one.
Instead of “I like rusty spoons” it’s “I like getting high off of frog venom”
😂😂😂😂😂 what a spot that is
Ayo i been laughing at this for 10 mins now
Hamilton: only has one pair of pants
Also Hamilton: has methylphenidate and jwh-018
And riddelin
P͓̽o͓̽i͓̽s͓̽o͓̽n͓̽ methylphenidate= Ritalin
Jlo Jlo oh ok
@freddougfreddoug4766 Do you know how to read somebody already said that and i acknowledged it? Dummy
@Yamiel Angeles liar
Wait a minute vice illegally sent this guy without getting the proper permits and paperwork done? I'm actually kinda surprised they admitted that on camera and left it in the documentary
Right??
Half the stuff Vice does is illegal but I guess if you say it's for a documentary you get away with it..
But often with Vice, they don’t send journalists. Independent journalists pitch ideas they have and Vice mostly funds it and help improve the concept. But the journalist or producer is the one taking the risks.
I just want to know if that ice lasted the whole 6 days
Because it had the blessing of the catfish blood it was dragged through, it actually made it more than 6days. Juan's charismatic demeanor and joke continues to allow the ice to stay frozen much longer than expected.
@milkncookie 😂😭
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The camera man is Definitely underrated fr
Imo they need to get paid more
@lippesterlippester400 What makes you believe that they don't?
What makes you believe an increase is impossible?
fr, hes keeping that camera so still
Dosnt bitch once
I lost my shit when he said the Vice magazine would make good mansturbation material.
Lmfao
Considering they're 3 days travel from "civilization" that magazine is practically a playboy hahahah
😂😂😂😂😂
Telios Abraxas they are south american not indian
Telios Abraxas like most don't understand about your wife's boyfriend
I love how the cameraman went running as well to chase the chicken
He should get a job offer from Maury.
Well that was dinner runing away.
@abseiduk mf was like “I ain’t starving in the jungle” lmao
That Chicken was up!
When's the last time you changed your name and what was it
I feel like dude wouldn't mind being kidnapped and made some villager's wife.
Eric Fouch thought the same thing
Only if he had access to amazonian drugs 24/7
Lol
Some villager's husband u mean.
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why the fuck would you wear a button up shirt and skinny jeans to the Amazon rainforest?
+Tatum Sheppard usually intravenous drug use.
+Tatum Sheppard a better question would be,who the hell hired this clown
if there was ever a heroin poster child..:P
Well button up shirt is quite smart as it's easy to take on and off, it keeps you cool, and keeps bugs off, but the skinny jeans r dumb
+Tatum Sheppard why the fuck not..._
+Tatum Sheppard I own that same button up shirt!!! lol and the jeans are thick so if anything bites him it may not go as deep.
"It's nice to receive a free fish."
It's not what he says, how he says it kills me in a murderously good way
This guy cares more about drugs and getting high than eating food
me too
PHANTOM NeMeS every addict
its his job.
Make a fire and burn old coconut husk and you will be ok
I dont dare eat in the Amazon. Too many parasites and deseases
I just want To see him trippin i have been watching this for 45 mins now
My man this video is 27 minutes long I’d be worried for myself if I had been watching a 27 min video for 45 min lmao
@andrewroumelis898 It is the second part of a three part series.... I'm guessing they included the first part in their time watching....
XTrainer xx it’s called foreplay
This whole video 1-3 is hilarious
XTrainer xx samee 😂😂
My dude is exploring the jungle..one of the hottest, wettest environments in the world..wearing black skinny jeans and a $15 H&M button up...bruh. Space cadet.
Vice: who wants to go to the Amazon and trip balls?
Emo first timer: (raises hand) Me..I'll go...I guess
Jacob Boone haha 😂 nailed it!
😂😂😂
@J Grimm I bet you could see it through his skin!! Lol
Nice.
He’s actually a scientist which makes it even funnier that he looks like a 15 yr old emo kid
"we hand out batteries pens notebooks T-shirts and other trash" 💀7:21
This man really said “let’s do an extremely powerful psychedelic while we wait to put frog venom in my open wound to get high”
Dawson “Because we have nothing better to do”
@Awkward Autistic and?
How did Vice transform a 13 year old goth girl into this 20 something show host?
i was thinking the same shit, but more emo/goth black as your soul life is pain type chick constantly whipping hair our of her left eye lmao
“Pre-op valley girl visits amazon and complains”
The way the frog jumped off Hamilton into the deck made me laugh
I could skip to the third episode to watch him tripping but I will watch all of the episodes because this is a masterpiece
A masterpiece this is not
What's wrong with u? His voice is so crap! He lacks enthusiasm,
@vincetetomo4273 I would love to hear the enthusiasm in your voice while having 51 mosquito bites on one hand and 52 on the other hand while also having hundreds more over your entire body. while also being in a completely foreign and extremely hostile environment
@anonbaby377 that's cool that you'd love to hear my voice 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆
@Awkward Autistic what??? 😆 🤣 😂
Psychedelic frog or not, traveling through the Amazon on boat and meeting the people from the area would be a cool experience on its own.
You a goofy
You should watch the first video then! The things he had to endure to get there don't seem very cool to me
And it's not even psychedelic. It's a dang heroin frog.
I wouldn’t sit in that boat for 6 days for five million dollars much less a chance to catch a buzz by licking a frogs ass
I dont know whats funnier, the documentary or the comments? lmao.
Joe Mays Mediocre comments on mediocre video
To be clear, Hamilton Morris created this show and yes season 3 (finished in 2021)
will on. The first episode aired in 2016.
He studied anthropology, chemistry and various other science related topics. He then focused on journalism and is a professional researcher and writer.
He graduated from The University of Chicago and the masters work at The New School.
Not too shabby.
Thanks for writing your Bio Hamilton!
Impressive credentials
WWG. your comment is idiotic. Surprised you didn't delete it.
Nobody cares
His dad is also Errol Morris, a famous documentary film maker.
I love how he’s like, “Ugh, the chicken ran away...” like he actually eats.
Hamilton: f the chicken.wtf is the 🐸 frog🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bullshit, I think the FROG got high when he walked on this stoner's skin. Started trippin, went for a swim.
just take some lsd
lmfao hahahahahah
lol
LMFAAAAOO FUCK.
80% of series... Hamilton getting screwed over. 20%... frog
I love this episode. It makes me thankful of my air conditioning in my cozy house!
Takes a lot of guts to call a shaman “inept” when you yourself went into the Amazon wearing vans and skinny jeans.
Any jeans would be skinny jeans on this fella
Or when you work for Vice.
@Minddecoded-e2e on the contrary, most skinny jeans would look baggy on this guy.
Lol indeed
"But fortunately the child offers to kill a chicken for us. " USES CHICKEN AS BEYBLADE
Let er rip
The child was not very adept at killing the chicken.
Side note..this guy is funny as hell and im sure hes not trying to be..lol
He 100% is trying to be. He's got a fucked up sarcastic sense of humor. I love Hamilton Morris, lol.
@jakepearson1450 - 2019-05-01
Dudes wearing skinny jeans in the amazon
@IamVintage72 - 2019-05-12
Complete Moron
@tattben1207 - 2019-05-15
And at the same time complaining that he’s hot dip shit
@MrTonyMontana1177 - 2019-05-16
I bet he smells like an elephant's nutsack!
@BeadeyeGroove - 2019-05-20
Jake pearson 😂😂😂😂😂
@Nxpo_ - 2019-05-23
Fuckin fools 😂😭