The risk of dying in the Amazon jungle | Paul Rosolie and Lex Fridman
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Paul Rosolie is a conservationist, explorer, author, filmmaker, real life Tarzan, and founder of Junglekeepers which today protects over 50,000 acres of threatened habitat.
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Guest bio: Paul Rosolie is a conservationist, explorer, author, filmmaker, real life Tarzan, and founder of Junglekeepers which today protects over 50,000 acres of threatened habitat.
I could listen to this guy's stories for hours
Man he's insufferable. Rich New York Connecticut kid trying to be cool/extreme
Absolutely
Gayyyy
What's the word
I have listened to this podcast 4 times….
Yea i saw like 2 minutes of one clip and i got absolutely addicted to hearing this guy talk about the jungle
I’ve spent time in the bush. Other side of the world from the Amazon - Borneo, New Guinea, Sulawesi, Sumatra. You have to respect it every second. Let your guard down or lose focus, and you could be in a bad spot fast. But I also think it is undeniable that it’s the most beautiful and inspiring place on the planet.
My dad told a couple stories about things they saw in Laos regarding animals helping one another. The first was about these birds who built their nest in a hole in a tree. The male would cover up the hole to where only a small hole is left. Only big enough for the male to feed the female and chicks through. the female and eggs will stay inside until the chicks are ready to come out and the male would break open the hole. He said there was a time where the male could break the barrier and he tried all day but to no avail. It ended up leaving and the people observing the situation thought it had given up. Hours later it came back with a bigger male who started working on breaking the barrier. Eventually the bigger male was successful and all the chicks and female flew out. The second story was a snake that was climbing a tree to get at a birds eggs. The bird wasn’t able to fend off the snake so it flew away and came back with a falcon. The falcon dived and hit the snake out of the tree and flew off.
I'd love to spend time in the jungle. But my absolute worst fear is spiders. So that's pretty much a wrap on that idea.
If you spent time in the jungle like this guy has, you would never be scared of spiders again.
In my opinion, one of the worst ways to die is in isolation, so that your death will forever be speculated and a mystery to your family. The mind often makes up the darkest of scenarios, so the surviving family would likely think the worst of your final hours. In a way, you'd be torturing them.
Good point. People made horror movies about that.
That's why they say the biggest type or punishment is prison is isolation. You go nuts
Meh
Great stuff Lex! Thanks!
That's one of my biggest fears. Getting lost in the Amazon but I will never put myself in a situation to be there
right, I’d like to go but not by myself 😅
this discussion is so refreshing
One question I have though is why didn't you simply bring the boat on land? If it was small enough to sink from 15 minutes worth of rain it was small enough that you could have just shored it.
Maybe the terrain didn't allow for the boat to be dragged on land, and if you are alone and extremely drained of energy that feat of just getting the boat on land can be extremely hard.
It is not as simple as one might think
Unusually heavy rain remember and i imagine the boat would be a lot heavier once filled with water.
You obviously havnt played Green Hell
@@fourteendays544 I lived on a lake and had multiple boats, and I honestly can't think of a situation with a boat on a river being too heavy. It just wouldn't happen. When boats get to a certain size they tend to have bilge pumps, but honestly I can't see that being the case here. My guess is it was probably a 10 foot aluminum dingy type situation that they would be using, that would make the most sense, and if not it would have been a wooden boat similar to your rowboat but with a motor on it. Either way the story of it filling with rainwater and sinking is just not feasible and I have serious doubts about that particular part of his story. I think a lot of the things he says are mostly true with some exaggeration thrown in but the boat story just seems 100% bovine excrement.
Just because you haven't experienced it doesn't mean it's a lie. You can't compare a lake house to the Amazon jungle lol.
What a great point about us having the general assumption that every animal is the mean of its species. We can notice possibly physical deviance but we don’t think about the varying ranges of intellect.
Dude I already heard the whole podcast episode THIS is the present day indiana Jones and I will listen to EVERYTHInG 3xs over so dam cool man
I love lex’ take on the penguin.
Grew up in a farming community and now live in the city doing corporate stuff. My upbringing was so influential to my ‘success’. Doing very well but with a knowing and humble heart.
google 'humble brag'.
nobody asked man
This makes me think of the Lord of War scene where the plane gets deconstructed overnight
Great movie.
@@FarewellFix for sure. Stands up well even today
What’s the movie they are quoting about the boat
Could you have rolled it over and anchor the boat?
honestly this would be my dream, exploration. i dont even knw how to break into that field. but that would be my dream.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull wrote in 1970...
The fact that he is from New York, not a place full of wild animals (except maybe the people, joke 😅😂)is even more inspiring how he can survive in the Amazon. Maybe being from New York made him so tough that he was able to survive down there.
Man I'd love to visit the Amazon
It's a central issue for humans..are we so far removed, and I reckon in a city like new York we are..from the connection to basic observation of animals and our environment? We are like children when it comes to real instinctual monkey wisdom in this regard. As you say, people are blown away by simple revelations of everything being connected & intelligent. Probably the planet itself is intelligent? The ultimate oneness of it all is there to observe if one can dump the dull conditioning of convenient existence in a safe capsule. I feel fortunate to have grown up in Australia where ignorance of such things gets you bitten, drowned, burned or lost..its taken me 50 odd years to really comprehend the basic stuff that is actually right in front of you but hard to distinguish when you're born & educated to be a consumer.
Love your work gents. ❤
Yo!!! I paused the video halfway through the penguin story and had the same thought as Lex. Maybe that penguin has a mrs penguin he has an urgency to get back to, rather than the urgency to march away from who you know and to your death, which ye is dark.
That's typical tropical rainforest. Never go into small or large rivers. It's nasty.
natures toilet
Lex is getting jacked
That penguin was probably just looking for his "Kate Winslet." I believe his heart WILL go and on.... that ship has NOT sailed for the "average" male penguin in the wilderness of the tundra.
not gonna lie i dont even eat chicken thats been kept in the fridge overnight lol
Harsh environments are what promote evolution via natural selection. It’s what had brought us to where we are today.
Yeah that part about "do animals have compassion" is such a dumb question.
Ofc they do...
Are you dumb?
Hes really likeable and i want his stories to be true, but they are so unfathomable. Im NOT calling him a liar, but its hard to be fully convinced of these mental stories
Penguins aren't lost or deranged. We assign those labels.
2:20 - 3:20
Kevin Richardson is another one, and is still alive!
Lex is a suitor I am sure now haha.. love in penguins ? an animated series is a must
Even the lion shows the gazelle compassion on occasion
It's called being full.
Even The Sun shines on a dog's ass every once in awhile
@@therealHogmaNtheIntruder sometimes perhaps but there are well documented cases where a lioness would go out of its way to look after young prey. Even going up to a week without hunting
@@michaelcunningham5120 you can say that again
@@apelincoln1616 now that you mention it, I've heard of that as well. I don't know if it was a lioness or another big cat, but I remember it being a mother who just lost her cub. Maternal instinct is a powerful thing. Good point.
Is there a documentary about his stories? Any evidence?
THANKS LEX AND PAUL! DRIPPINNNNNNNNNNNNN
u good bro? 💀
Are animals compassionate? Are insects compassionate? Perhaps mankind exists out of their compassion. They may have great hopes for what we can become.
Animals have more soul than most humans
omg shut up lol
Doubt that, as much as I love my dog
This guy is transitioning pardon THEM
@@derekladyga1716 dafq are you on about
@@derekladyga1716are you fully transitioned?
Yeaaaa in grizzly man he was obviously selfish and suicidal and got his gf killed
First
This host is so is the most monotoned person I have ever heard in my life.
You're making wanna live in the jungle.
Please go, we need more people like yourself to leave.
Wish you the best
Go
The film Rosolie mentions, Burden of Dreams, was directed by Les Blanc not Herzog. Incredible film!
The only risk in dying is not knowing your Creator.
Do u need help?
@Wax he was saying if you believe in god you’ll go to heaven, so there’s no risk in dying, the risk is going to hell if you don’t believe in god
Wow. Deep.
But if you are god then the risk is not knowing yourself.
must be really tough not knowing your parents
You can have 100 % assurance that you are saved and sealed by the Holy Spirit. Believe how that Christ Shed His blood and died for your sins, was buried, and rose again on the third day for your justification.
jesus isn’t saving you in the amazon!
James 3:16 "For where envying and strife is there is confusion and every kind of evil work ." All sins require a little bit of uncaring selfishness to accomplish, to God or your fellow people. Matthew 4:17 "For at about that time Jesus began to preach, repent the Kingdom of heaven is at hand." Repent: to change your mind, to change your ways to believe in Jesus and what he said who is himself equated as being the New Testament itself and the Word, message, and Logos: λόγος of the Living God Elohim. (See John 1:1 & 14) Note: When someone ask for forgiveness at each point in the past you did something wrong you wish you had done the right thing. Love Jesus, build hope faith and trust on his word. God wanted to know who thought being a good person is important. Read the KJV and pray for wisdom
Amen. Praise King Jesus 🙏🏼
gtf outta here with that genocidal racist book
God is definitely gonna let you in heaven now for copy and pasting some quotes into CZcams lmfao good job
John 4;69 blow once I forgive thee blow ye twith I forgot huh?
@GAME 👏👏👏👏
This man is incapable of telling a genuine sounding story.
Yes, Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God, and to Him all power, and glory, and honor forever and ever.
The movie is Encounter at the end of the earth
GONZO