Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #429

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Paul Rosolie is a naturalist, explorer, author, and founder of Junglekeepers, dedicating his life to protecting the Amazon rainforest. Support his efforts at https://junglekeepers.org

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TRANSCRIPT:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
2:07 – Amazon jungle
4:25 – Bushmaster snakes
15:51 – Black caiman
34:11 – Rhinos
37:25 – Anacondas
1:07:42 – Mammals
1:19:48 – Piranhas
1:30:38 – Aliens
1:48:23 – Elephants
1:59:40 – Origin of life
2:12:59 – Explorers
2:26:16 – Ayahuasca
2:34:41 – Deep jungle expedition
2:48:48 – Jane Goodall
2:51:19 – Theodore Roosevelt
3:02:15 – Alone show
3:12:01 – Protecting the rainforest
3:28:14 – Snake makes appearance
3:36:25 – Uncontacted tribes
3:49:49 – Mortality
3:51:17 – Steve Irwin
3:58:57 – God

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35 thoughts on “Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #429”

  1. I made it out of the jungle alive ❤

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    Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/paul-rosolie-2-transcript

    0:00 – Introduction

    2:07 – Amazon jungle

    4:25 – Bushmaster snakes

    15:51 – Black caiman

    34:11 – Rhinos

    37:25 – Anacondas

    1:07:42 – Mammals

    1:19:48 – Piranhas

    1:30:38 – Aliens

    1:48:23 – Elephants

    1:59:40 – Origin of life

    2:12:59 – Explorers

    2:26:16 – Ayahuasca

    2:34:41 – Deep jungle expedition

    2:48:48 – Jane Goodall

    2:51:19 – Theodore Roosevelt

    3:02:15 – Alone show

    3:12:01 – Protecting the rainforest

    3:28:14 – Snake makes appearance

    3:36:25 – Uncontacted tribes

    3:49:49 – Mortality

    3:51:17 – Steve Irwin

    3:58:57 – God

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  3. Leopards are one of the baddest animals, not just big cats but all animals. Their incredible power to carry up animal that weighs as much or more than itself up a tree and continue to place it the exact correct way so it doesn’t fall. Panthers I know are leopards but they are just so dope for the obvious reasons of how beautiful they are.

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  8. Dinosaurs didn’t exist the way humans have depicted in my opinion. I don’t believe in coincidences, and I definitely don’t believe that massive creatures who existed millions or billions of years ago would ever be found because 1. They would be so deep covered up with billions of years worth of earth 2. To think that people just go start randomly digging at a site they aren’t reaching those depths and the odds of being at the right spot to find something is trillions to one and 3. It’s just another coincidence that only several Mega Museums around the world in the top cities are the only places that have full skeletons of dinosaurs and all the species we saw in Jurassic Park and read about, but yet nobody has ever just discovered a T-Rex skull or thigh bone. And why would they be laying eggs? They would be giving birth to live babies like snakes wouldn’t they? Just the amount of time that has passed makes it impossible to believe that anyone ever luckily found several full skeletons of each species and then that’s it, once the museums that make money have the skeletons then there’s no more need to go find more? No it’s because they have no clue where to look and no way after a billion years you are digging those up. Humans love to place an emotional value to things they have no real factual idea ever existed because we have never seen them before, and that takes away the other side of the argument of, what if they never did exist and that is easier to prove than some mega creature existing and humans somehow knew exactly where to dig, but they were only 15-20 feet down? No way. Then the last convenience of how would humans have ever known about dinosaurs to begin with because there is no written record whatsoever. Always trying to keep people believing in a past nobody can prove instead of focusing on the unmeasurable amount of earth we have never seen or has ever been seen or researched! That and the cataclysmic event that took them all out but has never happened again since! If I can poke this many holes there’s no way in believing anything that was told to me by another person with just as much information as I have. It’s not like humans haven’t attempted to claim that huge creatures still exist today with Bigfoot and Lock Ness. Creatures need a lot of goo to get that big just like humans and dinosaurs make the claim that doesn’t matter. That’s why sea creatures and fish can get so massive because endless supply of food

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  12. 3:29:42 – As Paul is handling the tiny snake and talking about the probability of it making an appearance at that moment, a butterfly is sitting on his head the whole time. What are the chances.

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  13. Humans never evolved from apes, I think that is such a disservice to how amazing humans are. We have always been humans and always been intelligent humans, we have always been #1 and never evolved from a caveman. I think that is ridiculous and an injustice to humans and how intelligent we are.

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  15. I may be getting myself into tricky waters, but I do not agree that this is the best episode. I think Lex could have done much better by not letting testosterone take the lead. There’s too much Joe Rogan in all of this. I’ve been to the Amazon myself, and there’s so much more to it than caiman fighting, snake wrangling, etc. And above all, a guide would never knowingly put his client in danger. Never ever. So why would Paul Rosolie repeatedly mention that he made a mistake and if something had gone wrong, they would all be gone now? Seriously? (PS: I’ve been listening to Lex for years and like his show)

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  19. Paul and lex very intelligent luv the conversations, and always learn new things just listening to them! Id luv to take a trip up there 😊 Yu only live once why not explore this curious world 🌍

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