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What is your favorite scene from this season’s Madventures?
RIKU: Can’t name one, gotta go with at least three – most positive and negative ones.
Never feared a scene as much beforehand as Ayahuasca ritual. Many a books I read, plenty of documentaries I watched but still I was completely terrified the first moment we met Don Francisco the curandero and I realized we’re going for it, for real.
The second one is the roof jump in St. Petersburg. The whole day I was petrified, I was 100 % sure one of us would die in the progress.
Those two were prime examples negative turning into positive and I guess it shows in the actual episodes as well.
But the easiest one and the most funniest one for me was – as I don’t normally shoot scenes myself was Tunna eating leeches filled with my blood in Russia episode. The wimp manned up!
TUNNA: Every scene is a favorite and over the top in its own way. But the highlights for me must be the crucifixion ritual in the Philippines, that weird zentai fetishist dude crushing stuff in the Japanese love hotel and midnight Aghori puja in India, where some of the scariest sides of human nature manifested themselves.
If you’d have recommend a country one should visit during his or her lifetime, what would it be?
TUNNA: Use your intuition. Do not necessarily go where others go.
RIKU: India.
The fictional character most like you?
RIKU: Mostly it’s Passepartout from Around the World in Eighty Days, but I wished it was Marco Polo. Which I claim is a fictional character.
TUNNA: Tarzan.
Where will you travel next?
TUNNA: India.
RIKU: Iceland. I have a crush on islands and that’s the last one of the Nordic countries I haven’t visited.
Why the hell you do the things you do in the show?
RIKU: Sometimes things I do are comical, but I don’t do it for humor. I do it for the story and the story is always better when you can add your own experience into it.
TUNNA: Harder it is to understand a culture, more important it is to understand it.
I have a lot more to say but for now I have 1 request.. Tunna will you pls wake Riku up out of a dead sleep with something shocking.. any liquid… well, you choose.. it is your game.
I laughed so hard at your jump up and punch move…I can laugh bcuz.. i do the same, so does my Dad and Grandfather. hehe.. MAD MAD MAD LoVe to you boys. Keep going!
Your advetures are everything I dream of.. and do believe I have the balls to do.. not by myself with a 5′4 120lb frame.. but vicarious until MY next adventure..
I love your way of respect when you go into a culture.. with the HeadHunters.. very sad..
Thank you sooooo much for bringing these things to us..
Shawna:
Here is a nice compilation of Tunna waking up Riku http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkykLTsk20Q
What you guys do is really cool. Hunter S. would be proud. Gonzo anthropology, maybe? In any case, I appreciate the messages of cultural understanding, personal discovery, adventure and pure, weird fun that you guys spread. I’ll be watching your show regularly and hope to run into you somewhere in the developing world after I graduate.
Your India episode was amazing and mirrored my experience their last year (I lived in Karnataka for about 6 months). I, too, have gotten zonked out of my gourd and danced in the street, and seeing you guys having as much fun as I had brought a smile to my face. The combination of exuberance and reverence which you bring to the travel experience is beautiful and I wish you all the success in the world. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Hi,
http://www.madventures.tv – da best. Keep it going!
Nadine