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Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca | Lex Fridman Podcast #369

Lex Fridman | October 15, 2025



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. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
2:33 – Amazon rainforest
13:47 – Discovery of the Amazon
18:24 – Werner Herzog
24:30 – Jane Goodall
38:19 – Anacondas
1:02:08 – Eaten Alive
1:14:32 – Joe Rogan
1:22:51 – Surviving in the Amazon
1:50:03 – Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon
1:59:58 – Surrounded by black caiman crocodiles
2:17:35 – Graham Hancock and ancient civilizations
2:23:06 – Aliens
2:53:08 – Climate change
2:58:19 – Jordan Peterson
3:15:41 – Hunting
3:22:57 – Ayahuasca
3:31:24 – Meaning of life

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  1. @lexfridman

    October 15, 2025 at 11:32 am

    Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast.
    0:00 – Introduction & sponsor mentions:
    – Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings
    – BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off
    – Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex to get 1 month of fish oil
    2:33 – Amazon rainforest
    13:47 – Discovery of the Amazon
    18:24 – Werner Herzog
    24:30 – Jane Goodall
    38:19 – Anacondas
    1:02:08 – Eaten Alive
    1:14:32 – Joe Rogan
    1:22:51 – Surviving in the Amazon
    1:50:03 – Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon
    1:59:58 – Surrounded by black caiman crocodiles
    2:17:35 – Graham Hancock and ancient civilizations
    2:23:06 – Aliens
    2:53:08 – Climate change
    2:58:19 – Jordan Peterson
    3:15:41 – Hunting
    3:22:57 – Ayahuasca
    3:31:24 – Meaning of life

  6. @seibertmccormick184

    October 15, 2025 at 11:32 am

    About 20 minutes into this, Paul Rosolie mentions the Machiguenga tribesmen. That brings back some memories! I stayed with some Machiguenga tribesmen for a few days in the Upper Amazon in Peru. That was in 1980. I was beginning to panic after just a few days. I needed some real food. All we had was boiled casava and maize. Nothing on it. It was soooo plain. Everybody else (none of whom were Gringos like me) seemed to be OK with it. But there was a little store in a hollow tree trunk which sold little tins of fish and whatnot. Such a relief!!!

  8. @Nxtrice

    October 15, 2025 at 11:32 am

    Of course he had to add oil propaganda. Global warming is well understood by the experts, there are zero questions, take your car to a receptionist instead of a mechanic if you don't know what an expert is. The oceans are rapidly acidifying, the forests are burning, the entire climate is in a state of collapse, the earth is literally dying. Only extreme stupidity or extreme uneducation could ever believe the rainforest was planted, it literally took millions of years of evolution to be created. Even the tiniest knowledge of the complexity of that ecosystem would know that as plain as day. A crazy level of ignorance and stupidity ruined a great podcast.

  9. @rickwrites2612

    October 15, 2025 at 11:32 am

    1 hr in what really strikes me is just how easy it was to convert an illegal goldminer destroying the environment into a purveyor of ecotourism. It really drives home just how most of the smaller outfits (rather than the big multinationals or narcotraffico cartels) are just victims of global capitalism- desperate men born on the "wrong" side of the equator, trying to make a living in the only manner they see available to them. I wonder how many, if given an opportunity, would prefer to be building eco-friendly lodges, teaching students and tourists about biodiversity, teaching Spanish or Ticuna or Quechua, helping scientists find, count and measure fauna, or managing foreign labor on "volunteerism vacations"…. it would be amazing to take the whole dirty industry and replace it with a positive one, something that still paid but that was safer and healthier for everyone involved, a win/win for everyone.
    Obviously dealing with the multinational corporations and narcotriffico cartels wpuld be much harder and a whole nother ball game (though its interesting how once in the Amazon there is little difference between the two: they both employ private paramilitary mercenaries.)

  12. @theofficeguy1000

    October 15, 2025 at 11:32 am

    At 0:22, he mentions the penguin that is going in the wrong direction. There are research stations inland in Antarctica that cause the wildlife, such as walruses, to lose their bearings. This is due to the lights and noise produced by these stations. It is the saddest sight to see these animals crying out to their group, so lost and doomed to die.

  14. @FinnishArmy

    October 15, 2025 at 11:32 am

    I fell asleep to this podcast and when he talked about hunting your own food, I had an entire vivid dream of finding my own moose and hunting it, was pretty cool

  18. @Rottgi

    October 15, 2025 at 11:32 am

    Once you call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and believe on him with your heart, you are saved and born again and have everlasting life in heaven.
    We are saved by grace through faith, not by our works, it is the gift of God.

  22. @matteomaffei5519

    October 15, 2025 at 11:32 am

    Once, it was thaught that to predict the weather was impossible. Now we have daily weather forecasts, for the most part accurate.
    Why wouldn't scientist be able to predict what's going to happen within a few years due to this huge climate canges? Humans had besn altering the environment for centuries. That's how we developed and flourished: by bending, harnessing, modifying the natural environment. How to deny it's OUR activities causing climate changes? It doesn't really take rocket science to understand we can't go on the way we did until now.

  25. @kindness-love-illumination

    October 15, 2025 at 11:32 am

    Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino explores this concept of different worlds, people, separated insurmountably by the void of time. Sending out signs and messages that get read and responded to out of sync, so the connection is always out of reach. It’s a beautiful depiction of the longing and the ache of being disconnected from this larger family. People that might know you, but can’t, because you’re too far away. Too far in space and time, but also in understanding.

    He has a similar story in that compilation where two beings are falling eternally through space, and their paths never intersect. And somehow they hold on to this hope that someday their paths might cross, that maybe the science could bend to their desire to connect.

    A lot of us are trying to live with love, connection, compassion at the core of our values that we carry with us. And sometimes that’s enough – to fulfill whatever purpose we have in this life, or to transcend whatever limitations we’re meant to transcend, or whatever else enough might mean. But there is always a longing, to be connected in a way this world isn’t ready for yet. Maybe that we still aren’t ready for, even though we’d like to be.

    🙏🪷💫🌠

  28. @Odisseia-hh2td

    October 15, 2025 at 11:32 am

    1:43:30 sexual selection is pretty much definitely a thing. Being very shiny and flamboyant is probably detrimental for survival, but many male birds are so nonetheless, while their females look much more tame to blend in with their surroundings.

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