Full podcast episode: ruclips.net/video/gPfriiHBBek/видео.html Lex Fridman podcast channel: ruclips.net/user/lexfridman 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.
There are two types of consciousness :Soul based conciseness vs Animal based consciousness. consciousness by itself is an innate idea and for any conciseness to exist there must already be consciousness(Allah the most exalted) to begin with because physical matter(atoms) does not just randomly transform into thinking human. Thoughts are a distinct quality compared to mere carbon skeleton(How does the carbon skeleton acquire the process of thinking when thinking and carbon skeleton are distinct entities with atoms having no characteristic of life and yet atoms have miraculously gained life). Heart is a faculty of cognition that all major scriptures(especially Quran) talk about which houses the soul. if the faculty of heart is impaired human being is blind to realities of God therefore descends to the level of lower than animals. you have somebody like Adolf Hitler whose brain is very sharp(able to efficiently process empirical data and make associations between it) but his heart(soul) is impaired therefore cannot process any spiritual data which is based on mercy and love and is purely driven by ego based consciousness rather than Heart(soul) based consciousness.
“How’d you get that scar?” “Oh, this? I was just making my way up the Amazon when I came across an uncontacted tribe and attempted a peace offering. They shot an arrow at my head and I narrowly escaped with my life. No big deal.”
Yeah it’s really not, life is an adventure. I mean you can live life without life in it, but it’s sad that a little arrow across the head is considered a cool story considering what the older generations went through
My dad goes into the wilderness for weeks at a time every year for elk hunting by bow, trekking by foot only for dozens of miles. He’s told me similar stories about how he would lose touch with reality a little after a week or so and he would start thinking I was possibly dead and a funeral had already been held. Crazy how it can fuck with your head.
@@basse9914 Because he knows directions and likely had a compass and shit lol. The "losing grip on reality" stuff doesn't mean you forget everything lol. You just start to question things you probably shouldn't need to question, and believe some things that don't really make much sense. Like for example, after a week in the hole when I was in prison, I definitely felt myself losing it. I'd find myself speaking out loud and having conversations with myself, and much like his dad, I also started to question whether or not I was actually alive still or if I just died and was in hell or something. I think it's just the fact that your brain has nothing but time to think and think and think, and there's nothing keeping it on the tracks so it just sometimes goes off. If you have another person to talk to, it kinda distracts your brain for brief moments and doesn't give it the time to just wander and wander until you're thinking some crazy shit.
When I was in the Amazon the scariest eye shine I've witnessed was spiders. First I didn't even know that spiders had eye shine and second when you shine your light on the jungle floor you realize there are 100s of these spiders literally everywhere around you. It's creepy in the jungle couldn't imagine running into tribes out there.
I already get an heart attack with normal tiny spiders here, I have arachnophobia I would probably kill myself, or set fire to everything including myself
@@armin3057 Most of the spiders in the Amazon rainforest are tiny. There are a few VERY large Tarantulas in South America, such as Theraphosa blondi/stirmi and a few large "true" spiders such as the Ctenidae family of spiders (Wandering spiders). Some trapdoor spiders can get to the size of the smaller tarantulas, but even the notorious Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria species) would rather keep out of your way. Go poke a Phoneutria nigriventer or fera and you'll regret it, but even they would much prefer to stay out of your way.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Lex, not only are you great with all that you do and all the people you bring, but you're one of the few who don't run ads in these clips and I deeply appreciate it.
Ive been to the deep amazon and the very first thing our guides asked us is if we could climb trees because we might have to very quickly. I knew jaguars could also climb so I asked what good climbing would do. He said its not for the cats its for the packs of wild pigs. He said the pigs will literally devour a person entirely in minutes. Really surprised he didn’t mention these animals in the beginning the locals all had stories about someone they knew being attacked or killed by the pigs.
The wild pigs in the Southern US will do the same. If you roll up on group that’s a little too big and they manage to surround you, or you sprain an ankle running away. People have certainly died that way.
@@BobbyT-yj1cw I tried to post a link, but it must have thought I was spamming. A woman was found torn apart in Texas, 2019. Deaths are not common it seems, only 5 recorded in the US since the 1800s. Their population has only just recently started to get way out of control in semi-urban areas. Anyone who hunts them will tell you they are mean and not afraid of very small groups of people on foot. Plenty of heavily armed hunters have been injured by them. I imagine there would be more than 5 if you could only hunt them with spears. You could look it up yourself if you have the capabiltiy or desire to learn things, rather than sit on a high horse. Boar hunting was notorious for killng a few nobles in Europe as well. This isn't a new concept at all.
Cool story but a load of bollocks, them wild pigs are called peccaries and they do live in groups but are not that dangerous, they would rather stay out of the way of humans but will defend themselves if they need to if they're being hunted. In my experience a lot of guides talk a lot of shit and assume tourists are stupid. I spent a year in the amazon and I met Rosolie who is an arrogant prick in real life.
I wish I knew someone like that to be best friends with unfortunately we rarely hang out with lamers like yourself on an occasion to rid the loneliness of our interesting lives.
i cant fathom how scary it must’ve been trying to sleep and then hearing one distant monkey call then waiting to hear another call that never comes, thinking to myself if that sounded weird. wondering if it was the tribes and if they’re gonna eat me alive 😭😭
@HenryFromSkalitz curious, but are you referring to him lieing like he never actually expirenced all the scenarios he spoke of, that those things he did actually live through? Or. Is he lying just for lying sake, & saying he is all those things that he is & that he did? Just curious to your opinion on this?
He's so right about the feeling of being alone after a while and losing his mind. I worked on a boat for 14 days in Austrailia with no prior experience and only two other people I didn't know at all. Started out sailing across the ocean next to the coast for about 3 days and then headed directly out to sea. We ended up floating around in the middle of nowhere for nearly a week.. could not see any land and almost 0 contact to the outside world. I started going loopy after around 5-6 days and at one point was ready to jump over-board and swim back to shore but they refused to point me in the right direction lol. I think the steady meals every day and cigarettes from my co-worker were the only things that kept me sane.
I spent a month in the alaska range when I had just turned 18 and I felt the same way I was so grateful for my mothers hug my dads voice any tiny amount of human interaction I truly wish every person on earth could feel what TRUE loneliness feels like the kind of lonely where no matter how bad you want to be with someone even a total stranger you know no matter what you do or how hard you travel you’re still days or weeks away from seeing another human or hearing another voice then when you add bears wolves cliffs freezing rain hypothermia and weather that doesn’t discriminate or in his case everything he encountered in his situation that adds a thousand percent into how much you miss and love everyone you’ve ever met even while being so grateful to have such a rare and spiritual experience truly being that far away. It’s incredible and humbling and I think the world would be a better place if every person could do that once in their life. I’ve chosen to do it dozens of times but that first time will always feel like yesterday. Just incredibly humbling
@Sharkdog11b - May I politely ask “whatever were you doing and how did you end up in the wilderness completely alone at only 18 years of age? How did you survive this experience as a teenager?” Wow! Just. Wow. 😱
This was my first time ever seeing a video from this channel. Honestly, I'm not sure how it ended up on my feed, but I could not stop watching. I subscribed immediately after the video was finished.
I think you meant to say "their AMAZON work". Fun fact: When I was in 3rd grade the class was taking turns reading a text book. The teacher was explaining something and, as I'm wont to do, I was talking and not paying attention, so she called on me to read. So I started reading my paragraph and I got to a word I wasn't sure how to pronounce so I took a stab at it; I said "the Amazin' River!". In my head it made sense because it's so big that it's amazing. Everyone started laughing and the teach just looked at me and said "You weren't paying attention, were you?" Boy did I feel like a real heel.
I know what I miss, the stories about nature, real stories from people who experiences it. I had some when I was a kid, but now living in the city, I miss that connection
@@Mario-su1jz Haven't went hiking for 1.5 years, covid n war in Ukraine kinda blocked it all out for me, also we have curfew, so anyone can't be outside after 10 pm
The thing with being completely isolated is there is no interruption in your internal dialogue, like none whatsoever. I know that personally my internal dialogue can go to aome really dark places in a room full of people, even interrupted by the occasional conversation. When i have spent days alone i end up developing a very acid-like headspace, amyone who's familiar with lsd could probably understand what im getting at.
I was sent to a wilderness program when I was 17 and was in the mountains of North Carolina for 70 straight days. Obviously it’s nothing like this but the idea of a hug and having your friends is something that would make me cry. The feeling that you will never go back to reality was insane but at the same time not knowing the time, waking up when the sun rises and sleeping when it sets, rationing or food for weeks at time. It’s something I’ll never experience again but something I think about everyday since
i did the same in wyoming when i was 16 & i’m 21 now. i consider it to be one of most beautiful, pivotal moments in my life despite me hating it for much of the time i was there. but when you situate yourself, it’s really like nothing else. definitely a catalyst for change & i can only imagine what being in the amazon on a solo is like in comparison.
@@sheltynlynn6561 yup. And we usually set up camp where it really wasn’t even a camp site. We shit outside and rationed our food each week. If we ran out of food we didn’t eat…
@@lilbench5834 yeah the one part I left out is that you have zero contact to the outside world other then a mailed letter from your parents once a week. Other than that you don’t know exactly where u are, the time, or really anything other then hiking, finding a local stream near campsite and starting a fire
Humans pose the most danger to your existence anywhere you go. Even in a semi-rural area where I live, it's not coyotes, owls, mountain lions, or eagles that I need to be scared of, but a random person appearing out of nowhere. It's also people who can destroy the mood/ambience of an entire place. Living in the PNW, the nature itself is beautiful, but the tweakers and criminals that abound cast a pall over the landscape.
The hunters of indigenous societies in the Amazon can actually see in the dark, but they have to avoid electric light to maintain it. Otto Placht, a Czech visual artist who lived with indigenous people in the jungle, talks about it.
I bet if you went 100% all natural lifestyle like that your testosterone would go up 10x and you'd experience real life dreams, have stone hard mind blowing orgasms 20 times a day and crime and pedophilia would disappear from society
Actually staying out of their territory is a much better idea. I somehow doubt a half-eaten, stinking fish will appease an angry tribe looking to disembowel you in the night. _just sayin’_
If there were more people like this guy there would be no extinct species or endangered species, if we had our way humans would be the endangered species at the bottom of the food chain
@@terryrichmond4723 there is no need to be on top or at the bottom. Humans simply need to learn to take what is only necessary and live in harmony with nature.
This man is fascinating & has given his heart & soul towards saving as much of the Amazon as is humanly feasible. Look up the foundation … it’s genuine and impressive. He DID say, by the way, “that humans were the only danger to him in the Amazon jungles.
@@actionjksn yes being surrounded by huge Black Caiman isn't dangerous at all. Nor are jaguars dangerous. Nor are vipers...I think he's underestimating the jungle more than he realizes. And almost everything and every inch of land is coverd in biting flies, stinging ants, wasps. Plants that will make you feel pain for years and possibly the rest of your life. And the risk of getting lost, even on a river, can be extremely high, considering the dense vegetation. If this guy would have got an infection, he would have been dead, at least a week away from anyone that could help. He literally said he underestimated a caiman and it bit a whole through his hand.
Dude. The idea of needing to check in with other humans to stay sane makes total sense to me. Sometime’s I’ll be auditing and doing math all day alone and by the end of the day the simplest problems become harder to solve without asking someone else for help.
I read mother of God when I was 16. I am now 23, I hope to meet this man one day, for someone who is also dyslexic his book helped me to get through a lot of challenges I have faced so far in a world of information ❤
i usually don’t have much of an emotional reaction to stories on podcasts. whether that emotion is happiness, sadness, anger,etc. however, this story sent chills down my spine and actually brought & instilled fear into every sentence. the details & tension were felt. thank you for reminding me of a sensation i haven’t felt in a while haha, hopefully you or your colleagues won’t run into such tribes in the future.
Same!! It was just insane to listen to. Crazy to think about, these tribes are just out there, like right now living like it's thousands of years ago. I liked Lex's question about "Who are we to them" interesting to think about.
@@ohsweetmystery he went into the Amazon and is telling his story. He is an adventurer and a story teller. But for some reason u aren't impressed, or make out as if it's a bad thing to be able to articulate what occurred.
In all seriousness, the planet cares as little about you as you do about it. I’m not saying destroy the environment or do anything like that. But most things on this planet is trying to kill you regardless. The planet doesn’t care about anyone.
That was way more intense than I expected.he has some balls to even go that far in,alone,laugh off a close call with 27 kaymen, Hear stories of beaches getting painted red on a whim,but just picking eyes with a few of those people only for a few moment sent a shiver down his body talking about.then ran adrenaline fuel for several daysand he feels like he barely made it out of there ? You probably shouldn't mess with them at all .if you accidentally encounter them just hope they are too dumbstruck to make you one of those spider monkeys .so glad we don't have jungles where i live
I've been out in nature for 70 days without human contact. Only me and my dog in an isolated hunting cabin far out in Northern Scandinavia. I prepared by taking out food and other rations with a snowmobile during early spring. Then I spent late june, and the whole of july and august out there. Doing a little fishing and hunting. A lot of reading and hiking. Only with my dog. It was the most fantastic experience in my life. I was 17 then. I'm 35 now, and after 16 years of drug addiction I'm going to move out to a place like that for full time. I absolutely love being alone.
There was a point in my life where i became truely alone. My lifestyle made it extremely easy to just be in my room and not leave, and so i did exactly that. For over a month. I didn't even realise when i started talking to myself. I dont live like that anymore but to this day i still cant stop talking to myself when i am alone. Its messed with my head. Sometimes i dont even realise i do it. Sometimes my brain thinks I'm alone and start talking out load without tealising im in public. Almost like a tick. Its frustrating, embarrassing, and makes me feel like im losing it.
You aren’t alone bruh. Being raised like an only child with only 1 sibling 10 years my senior probably helped me get through the covid restrictions. Entertaining myself has never presented a problem. Now I sometimes resent the intrusion of being interrupted or having to go run some errand. For some context I live in NYC where one can be more alone than most people realize.
Answering Alex question around 4’ mark: We are simply outsiders to them, and they are not friendly with outsiders. I was born in Brazil, not in Amazonia exactly, but I understand the mindset of this isolated tribes.
On JRE, this guy said the boy from the tribe was kidnapped at 6 years old, here he said he’s not sure how he came into the village, maybe a rain storm. You really just can’t believe anything, everyone is just trying to be entertaining.
My Uncle would take people mountain lion hunting in Colorado as a guide in the deep woods one of his groups canceled out and he was in the deep woods for 25 days not talking to a person. He said it's wild, having bears come into his camping site knocking messing around the door of his camper. He said one time he got lost for about 5 hours, but he didn't panic, he said you panic you die, 5 hours may not seem that long, but you have time to freak yourself out in 5 hours to panic.
@@andrewcall8961leaving a fish outside his tent and waking up to 30 crocs and countless large mammals (can't remember their name) seemed unbelievable. A man like him would know that leaving a fish outside could be major trouble surely.
@@andrewcall8961Only some, but he’s one of those people who their talk sounds like it’s all talk but there’s also proof when he is with groups of peoples, there’s many videos and pictures of his work
I realized the social nature of myself after disconnecting. Gave my $5k pc to my best friend and moved focusing on work and improving my social life, only to realize everything is online now. Walking around social hubs in Asheville seeing people glued to their phones everyone ignoring everyone yet thinking they are being social. I’ll record next time I see the zombie crowds, it’s unnerving to see.
Having spent a good part of my adult life in a world without cell phones it’s pretty scary what technology has turned society into. When you consider all the misinformation and propaganda bs that’s spread around online and realize most people eat it up it becomes all the more terrifying. Critical thinking needs to become a mandatory subject in schools; my advice is to “just question everything.”
Can’t recommend enough the documentary Beyond The Gates Of Splendor. It’s very interesting to hear what life was like for the tribe featured in the film before contact.
Bruh what he says about being alone for extended periods is no joke. When I went to prison I had a few stints like that where I went a few days to a week without contact with anyone really other than them sliding food in the door, but they wouldn't talk to me or anything so it's hardly true interaction. I could feel my grip on reality slipping. I obviously didn't full blown lose my mind but I met a guy who definitely did. He went over a year straight in isolation because he kept acting up, and when it was time to come out he acted up some more and stayed. Eventually he started doing that shit on purpose just to stay alone, but having a conversation with him now is almost impossible. He's always just randomly wandering off in his mind and half the shit he says doesn't make any sense. I remember one time he was doing some "ritual" he made up in his head where he had to march up and down the stairs kinda dancing almost, and this new guy didn't know about him yet and walked up the stairs to his room. He followed the guy in there and beat the shit out of him, because in his mind this guy was stepping on his ancestors by walking up this man made staircase inside a prison....
Ive done a lot of time also in the bucket but there's allways someone next door or across the hall u can talk to , play chess by yelling your moves , you got mail phone atleast once a month depending on why ur in there . And if the cops didn't talk to you there's a reason why !!! What were ur charges ?have a celly But usually u
Ive done a lot of time also in the bucket but there's allways someone next door or across the hall u can talk to , play chess by yelling your moves , you got mail phone atleast once a month depending on why ur in there . And if the cops didn't talk to you there's a reason why !!! What were ur charges ?have a celly But usually u
Ive done a lot of time also in the bucket but there's allways someone next door or across the hall u can talk to , play chess by yelling your moves , you got mail phone atleast once a month depending on why ur in there . And if the cops didn't talk to you there's a reason why !!! What were ur charges ?have a celly But usually u
Ive done a lot of time also in the bucket but there's allways someone next door or across the hall u can talk to , play chess by yelling your moves , you got mail phone atleast once a month depending on why ur in there . And if the cops didn't talk to you there's a reason why !!! What were ur charges ?have a celly But usually u
Tbh the fact he’s a native NYker it doesn’t surprise me that he’s equipped with the survival skills to survive in a jungle. Being one myself I can truthfully say “it’s a jungle out there!”
THANK YOU for what you said (Paul) about the uncontacted tribes being modern. It drives me bats when people refer to them as paleolithic or stone age people, partially because in the low jungle there is no rock, or very little, and secondly because they are not living in the past. Social evolution is not how it has been defined for us by 19th century explorers and others. (I spent my teenage years growing up near Pucallpa, Peru and had friends from a couple different tribes.)
@@jesusisking7495 In my experience and reading there are always "conservatives" and "liberals." It could be for just comfort, or for more deeply held reasons. When I visited the Matses for six weeks in '82 there was one old man who did not wear pants. Traditionally none of the men had worn pants, but began to wear them once exposed more to the outside world. While this elder, as far as I know, had not disagreement with wearing pants, he just couldn't get used to them and so didn't wear them. When he came visiting, he just word a long shirt.
@@jesusisking7495 We are all made in God's image, that's as basic as it gets. From there differences happen according to geography and access to other cultures, attitudes towards other cultures, etc.
Imagine how scary that Tribe truly must be... Just try to Imagine yourself Fleeing for your life, and you see a 16' Croc pull up next to you without it once trying to bite you and just starts swimming next to you to literally be a big MEAT shield for you OR swimming away for its own life as well. Chills just thinking about what they really do. That Caymen knew exactly what you were running from. You probably had the whole squad around you without even noticing. There is a reason they chill further down River and my guess is they fear the Tribe just as much if not more than you. I would presume that when you pulled up and peaked your head over, this Tribe was not by any means expecting humans...they were most likely hunting for anything they can eat including Crocs. If the Caymen see a normal smelling Human like the one, they just met a couple nights before, making a straight B-line down the Amazon without giving a single F' about what's in there...yeah, they goin too. No questions asked...I am Glad you lived to see another day.
Roger Casement (1864-1916) exposed the atrocities of private foreign rubber barons in Peru. His British Foreign Office-funded report was published in 1912. He won a knighthood for his efforts. Casement was a very controversial figure (to say the least) - he had earlier exposed the crimes of King Leopold's abhorrent regime in Congo (for which he was awarded a CMG (Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George)). After his return from South America he became a committed Irish nationalist. He was eventually arrested for treason and hanged by the British Government in 1916. He was 51. His life story is quite incredible.
Pretty ironic that he won awards for defending human rights in third world countries but was convicted of treason so close to home and for similar actions; defending a people’s sovereignty against oppression. _Yeah, the “good ol’ days” when acts of “wanton treason” were punishable by execut!0n._
Like he said, jaguars don’t view humans as a prey species. They’re not going to attack you for religious or ethnic differences or differing sexual preferences. In fact the jaguars will attack the wild pigs who would potentially end you in a gruesome manner. Bottom line; be nice to jaguars.
This is some of the most interesting an riveting podcast conversation ive accidentilly come across .... i didnt even know i had questions about these things . We forget how connected we are, but life is primal at its base
Did you read books at that time? It can help a little. Even though you read it in your own voice it still seems like a stranger is conversing with you.
Amazing story! His storytelling at the point where he comes to the end of the journey is riveting because of the seriousness of it all. Most excellent.
Worked doing owl surveys at night for years. As soon as you saw an RV or camp trailer you immediately turned around. Screw bears or mountain lions. People were the scariest things we ever dealt with with. I'll take a mama bear over a tweeker any night. Once came across a shopping cart surrounded by baby doll heads hanging from trees.
Spookiest thing I’ve found in the field was a circle of dead animals with a cross in the middle next to an abandoned trailer. Bears are scary but humans are psychotic.
This is really a trivial comment. Lex has talked to a lot of Grapplers...this guy is on a totally different level. Holding Anacondas and Crocs! Total Respect and much food for thought. Go against Gordon Ryan or a 35 foot snake. I'll take the torn ligament thank you.😂🙏🙏🙏
It’s a shame he let Hollywood get involved and they attempted to turn his life’s work into a reality show for ratings. Honestly, he shouldn’t have responded to anyone but national geographic!
@@jabrokneetoeknee6448 yeah I don’t think he’s totally lying either but I’m very much doubting that he was actually a part of that beach story at all. The way he tells it differently every pod he’s on makes me think it’s something that he’s heard from someone else. I also don’t buy the story he’s told on another pod that he trekked into the middle of the rainforest and ran into one of those tribes after following a tributary to its end and seeing smoke from one of their fires. He’s even make it point himself that he’s a dumbass when it comes to surviving their, there’s no fuckin way he’s been to the middle of the rainforest by himself, let alone ran away from a uncontacted tribe of people after walking up on them knowing full well they’d just kos. It’s cool bro you’ve been to the outer edges of the rainforest and you do good work down their with locals. But there’s no need to try and make yourself to be some kind of badass explorer. You’re not him lol.
I’m highly skeptical that his most dangerous encounter was on a solo trek with no witnesses. More skeptical than the hippo he undoubtedly escaped the jaws of before swinging from a vine over a pit of Anacondas while locals fired arrows at him and he grabbed his lucky hat at the last moment.
Am i the only one that would love to go in there wearing a full plate medieval knight armor so i can observe without getting hurt? Ofcorse it's hypothetical i wouldn't want to mess with their community like that
This thought has been going through my head for the last 10 minutes. They probably just hold you down and burn you though, or rip your armor off. And good luck with that armor in the hot rain forest. I feel like you’d need a mini tank like vehicle to stay safe. But I doubt they’d just go on with their normal life with your little mobile tank home rolling around watching them from just meters away 😂
@@gregg9725they woudnt understand the concept of armor tho, they woudnt approach you to hold you down in first place because if their arrows are doing fuck all, bouncing off and seemingly not hurting you at all they'll run the other way not knowning wtf is happening
Yes I agree with this man. I'm so sick of people complaining about how we all die alone, those people have never been in true isolation for a long period of time.
Im portuguese and "suffer" a great deal of cultural guilt and have always loathed the sense of "national pride" because of our history and how the country got rich. Just the sentence of "should we bring them to society" made me literally scream out loud "WHY?!?!!" and feel a deep sense of rage. I cant even begin to imagine how they would feel after literal hundreds of years dealing with that crap.
@@CrystalBbyUSA As the guy in the podcast said, colonization was the most brutal in history. There is a difference between wars, taking slaves from wars, total war, and genocide. It was not just based on who was better at it but how greedy people became for resources and profit
I remember being at the zoo as a kid and seeing a sign “world’s most dangerous animal” with a huge crowd gathered around the exhibit. When I finally got to the front of the mob there was a mirror behind some bars. It’s a core memory.
@@Mackell314 English longbow archers who trained for years to use 6 foot longbows for war were shooting 24-33 inch arrows with draw weights of 80-130 pounds. But yeah, some 5 foot 2 inch tall jungle natives are shooting 7 foot long arrows. Why would they even need a 7 foot long arrow if the biggest thing they'd be shooting at is a human or a monkey or a tapir or a catfish? They're not hunting rhinos and hippos. Makes zero sense. This guy tells some tall tales. It's sad because he could just tell the truth and it would still be interesting.
Question: has the “Jungle Keepers” been able to purchase the land that the un-contacted tribe claim as their own? It’s the ‘best’ strategy to help protect the Hermano’s land rights. I do hope that such territory as been purchased, in all due respect. Lex & Paul = perfect podcast. 🙏
God bless you... Conservation is inspired by Heaven's love of Creation... Thanks for the content and beautiful sense of purpose. Hope to hear you play guitar again soon...!!! Be well !
I get what he is sayin about "Humans being most dangerous"but come on bro u see a Jaguar u are gonna b a lot more fearful then if u see a human walking around 🤦🏿♂️
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Full podcast episode: ruclips.net/video/gPfriiHBBek/видео.html
Lex Fridman podcast channel: ruclips.net/user/lexfridman
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.
btw, I read and own your book "Mother of God", Paul. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
There are two types of consciousness :Soul based conciseness vs Animal based consciousness. consciousness by itself is an innate idea and for any conciseness to exist there must already be consciousness(Allah the most exalted) to begin with because physical matter(atoms) does not just randomly transform into thinking human. Thoughts are a distinct quality compared to mere carbon skeleton(How does the carbon skeleton acquire the process of thinking when thinking and carbon skeleton are distinct entities with atoms having no characteristic of life and yet atoms have miraculously gained life). Heart is a faculty of cognition that all major scriptures(especially Quran) talk about which houses the soul. if the faculty of heart is impaired human being is blind to realities of God therefore descends to the level of lower than animals. you have somebody like Adolf Hitler whose brain is very sharp(able to efficiently process empirical data and make associations between it) but his heart(soul) is impaired therefore cannot process any spiritual data which is based on mercy and love and is purely driven by ego based consciousness rather than Heart(soul) based consciousness.
7ft srrows real’y?
This is the highlight of the conversation:
"there is like 27 caymans"
A few seconds later:
"How many ?"
Aspirin on egg
“How’d you get that scar?”
“Oh, this? I was just making my way up the Amazon when I came across an uncontacted tribe and attempted a peace offering. They shot an arrow at my head and I narrowly escaped with my life. No big deal.”
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah it’s really not, life is an adventure. I mean you can live life without life in it, but it’s sad that a little arrow across the head is considered a cool story considering what the older generations went through
It is a cool story, not taking thataway
@@MackNcD Ah yes "a little arrow across the head" should be a regular monday afternoon again, like them good ol days.
Anyone can sound badass after the fact, you know he shit himself
My dad goes into the wilderness for weeks at a time every year for elk hunting by bow, trekking by foot only for dozens of miles. He’s told me similar stories about how he would lose touch with reality a little after a week or so and he would start thinking I was possibly dead and a funeral had already been held. Crazy how it can fuck with your head.
Isolation especially in white snow (no stimuli) can definitely cause hallucinations.
Sounds like your dad shouldn’t be going elk hunting
How did he not get lost? How does he find his way back?
@@basse9914 Because he knows directions and likely had a compass and shit lol. The "losing grip on reality" stuff doesn't mean you forget everything lol. You just start to question things you probably shouldn't need to question, and believe some things that don't really make much sense.
Like for example, after a week in the hole when I was in prison, I definitely felt myself losing it. I'd find myself speaking out loud and having conversations with myself, and much like his dad, I also started to question whether or not I was actually alive still or if I just died and was in hell or something.
I think it's just the fact that your brain has nothing but time to think and think and think, and there's nothing keeping it on the tracks so it just sometimes goes off. If you have another person to talk to, it kinda distracts your brain for brief moments and doesn't give it the time to just wander and wander until you're thinking some crazy shit.
@@colecampbell1906 Yeah alright but I was referring to simply being lost in the forest because it's big
When I was in the Amazon the scariest eye shine I've witnessed was spiders. First I didn't even know that spiders had eye shine and second when you shine your light on the jungle floor you realize there are 100s of these spiders literally everywhere around you. It's creepy in the jungle couldn't imagine running into tribes out there.
I already get an heart attack with normal tiny spiders here, I have arachnophobia
I would probably kill myself, or set fire to everything including myself
@@armin3057
Most of the spiders in the Amazon rainforest are tiny.
There are a few VERY large Tarantulas in South America, such as Theraphosa blondi/stirmi and a few large "true" spiders such as the Ctenidae family of spiders (Wandering spiders).
Some trapdoor spiders can get to the size of the smaller tarantulas, but even the notorious Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria species) would rather keep out of your way.
Go poke a Phoneutria nigriventer or fera and you'll regret it, but even they would much prefer to stay out of your way.
Cannibal tribes are in papa New Guinea
@@armin3057calm down cos the cannibals will get you before them
Eye shine? What is that
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Lex, not only are you great with all that you do and all the people you bring, but you're one of the few who don't run ads in these clips and I deeply appreciate it.
You know there are browser extensions that block all ads, right? I haven't seen a commercial on youtube in years.
I love the way that Paul tells the stories of his experiences it's so descriptive with detail that reels you in.
Almost too good to be true…
@@kevkamo6289seems like it doesn’t it? 🤔
@@kevkamo6289only people who actually go could say
He’s like the uncle who comes to visit from another state and tells the same stories every Christmas eve… and you live for it.
@@The_Crucible714 🤣 exactly!
Ive been to the deep amazon and the very first thing our guides asked us is if we could climb trees because we might have to very quickly. I knew jaguars could also climb so I asked what good climbing would do. He said its not for the cats its for the packs of wild pigs. He said the pigs will literally devour a person entirely in minutes. Really surprised he didn’t mention these animals in the beginning the locals all had stories about someone they knew being attacked or killed by the pigs.
The wild pigs in the Southern US will do the same. If you roll up on group that’s a little too big and they manage to surround you, or you sprain an ankle running away. People have certainly died that way.
This is Terrifying
@@BobbyT-yj1cw I tried to post a link, but it must have thought I was spamming. A woman was found torn apart in Texas, 2019. Deaths are not common it seems, only 5 recorded in the US since the 1800s. Their population has only just recently started to get way out of control in semi-urban areas.
Anyone who hunts them will tell you they are mean and not afraid of very small groups of people on foot. Plenty of heavily armed hunters have been injured by them. I imagine there would be more than 5 if you could only hunt them with spears. You could look it up yourself if you have the capabiltiy or desire to learn things, rather than sit on a high horse. Boar hunting was notorious for killng a few nobles in Europe as well. This isn't a new concept at all.
@@BobbyT-yj1cwno lol that's weird
Cool story but a load of bollocks, them wild pigs are called peccaries and they do live in groups but are not that dangerous, they would rather stay out of the way of humans but will defend themselves if they need to if they're being hunted.
In my experience a lot of guides talk a lot of shit and assume tourists are stupid. I spent a year in the amazon and I met Rosolie who is an arrogant prick in real life.
Everybody knows that one friend that always comes back from holidays with stories like this .
I hear ya.
Not me.
My “wild” stories are usually something like I had a subpar dinner at a steak house.
@@johnnyripple8972 , A brussel sprout skidded across my plate, across the tablecloth, and down ONTO THE FLOOR. Omg, I was shocked. 😂
@@Ottee2
Total chaos man….total chaos.
I wish I knew someone like that to be best friends with unfortunately we rarely hang out with lamers like yourself on an occasion to rid the loneliness of our interesting lives.
Everyone does not have this friend!!...WHAT?!?!
i cant fathom how scary it must’ve been trying to sleep and then hearing one distant monkey call then waiting to hear another call that never comes, thinking to myself if that sounded weird. wondering if it was the tribes and if they’re gonna eat me alive 😭😭
@HenryFromSkalitz curious, but are you referring to him lieing like he never actually expirenced all the scenarios he spoke of, that those things he did actually live through? Or. Is he lying just for lying sake, & saying he is all those things that he is & that he did? Just curious to your opinion on this?
@@kimmy4714Yeah says you. Who are you to call this man a liar when you can't even write English. Come on man do better!
calm down libby @@kimmy4714
@@Itsallillusionalironic
@@kimmy4714the way he explains some things do sound suspect.
Took me ages to FINALLY find the whole interview with who this chap is. Worth it
Was a great interview with Paul. Having this guy as your guide, i wish you the biggest adventure of your life.
He's so right about the feeling of being alone after a while and losing his mind. I worked on a boat for 14 days in Austrailia with no prior experience and only two other people I didn't know at all. Started out sailing across the ocean next to the coast for about 3 days and then headed directly out to sea. We ended up floating around in the middle of nowhere for nearly a week.. could not see any land and almost 0 contact to the outside world. I started going loopy after around 5-6 days and at one point was ready to jump over-board and swim back to shore but they refused to point me in the right direction lol. I think the steady meals every day and cigarettes from my co-worker were the only things that kept me sane.
I bet you had hallucinations and grew new neurons in your brain from that. I'd like to be isolated like that for a month
@@AsAWhiteManMarriedToALatina just do it then
@@shrigga5089 no
@@shrigga5089 tiga
Piss weak
I like how Lex wouldn't let him get away with being so casual about 27 crocs at his tent in the middle of the night.
Caymans
@@WeRacin Cool
@@WeRacin Caimens. Genius
@@WeRacin caimans
@@WeRacin Caiman crocodile alligator or some kind of Cryptid haflsie
Same difference when they're surrounding your tent at night
I spent a month in the alaska range when I had just turned 18 and I felt the same way I was so grateful for my mothers hug my dads voice any tiny amount of human interaction I truly wish every person on earth could feel what TRUE loneliness feels like the kind of lonely where no matter how bad you want to be with someone even a total stranger you know no matter what you do or how hard you travel you’re still days or weeks away from seeing another human or hearing another voice then when you add bears wolves cliffs freezing rain hypothermia and weather that doesn’t discriminate or in his case everything he encountered in his situation that adds a thousand percent into how much you miss and love everyone you’ve ever met even while being so grateful to have such a rare and spiritual experience truly being that far away. It’s incredible and humbling and I think the world would be a better place if every person could do that once in their life. I’ve chosen to do it dozens of times but that first time will always feel like yesterday. Just incredibly humbling
Bro find out what punctuation is sheesh
@Sharkdog11b - May I politely ask “whatever were you doing and how did you end up in the wilderness completely alone at only 18 years of age? How did you survive this experience as a teenager?” Wow! Just. Wow. 😱
This was my first time ever seeing a video from this channel. Honestly, I'm not sure how it ended up on my feed, but I could not stop watching. I subscribed immediately after the video was finished.
I feel like this is the exact conversation he has on first dates.
Lol!
I'm so glad Paul is getting these stages to spread the word on their amazing work! Thanks for having him on!
Hi, im Paul!
I think you meant to say "their AMAZON work".
Fun fact: When I was in 3rd grade the class was taking turns reading a text book. The teacher was explaining something and, as I'm wont to do, I was talking and not paying attention, so she called on me to read. So I started reading my paragraph and I got to a word I wasn't sure how to pronounce so I took a stab at it; I said "the Amazin' River!". In my head it made sense because it's so big that it's amazing. Everyone started laughing and the teach just looked at me and said "You weren't paying attention, were you?" Boy did I feel like a real heel.
I mean leave them alone, don't go near them & folks won't get themselves k-lled.
😂🤣😂🤣 he's full of s**t
I know what I miss, the stories about nature, real stories from people who experiences it. I had some when I was a kid, but now living in the city, I miss that connection
Experience it for yourself brother. Go hiking.
@@Mario-su1jz Haven't went hiking for 1.5 years, covid n war in Ukraine kinda blocked it all out for me, also we have curfew, so anyone can't be outside after 10 pm
@@cry2love you still have curfew? WTF
And hiking should be viable today with all
@@nr1NPC Ukraine war
@@cry2love as in, you’re in Ukraine? Holy shit
The fact that there are isolated tribes out there is so fascinating
🎉
The thing with being completely isolated is there is no interruption in your internal dialogue, like none whatsoever. I know that personally my internal dialogue can go to aome really dark places in a room full of people, even interrupted by the occasional conversation. When i have spent days alone i end up developing a very acid-like headspace, amyone who's familiar with lsd could probably understand what im getting at.
Am I a Schopenhauer fan
I was sent to a wilderness program when I was 17 and was in the mountains of North Carolina for 70 straight days. Obviously it’s nothing like this but the idea of a hug and having your friends is something that would make me cry. The feeling that you will never go back to reality was insane but at the same time not knowing the time, waking up when the sun rises and sleeping when it sets, rationing or food for weeks at time. It’s something I’ll never experience again but something I think about everyday since
Is that the same place in North Carolina you have to set up your own camp and if you don't your s*** out of luck
Youll adapt eventually, Humans adapt to any situation, u just got really home sick
i did the same in wyoming when i was 16 & i’m 21 now. i consider it to be one of most beautiful, pivotal moments in my life despite me hating it for much of the time i was there. but when you situate yourself, it’s really like nothing else. definitely a catalyst for change & i can only imagine what being in the amazon on a solo is like in comparison.
@@sheltynlynn6561 yup. And we usually set up camp where it really wasn’t even a camp site. We shit outside and rationed our food each week. If we ran out of food we didn’t eat…
@@lilbench5834 yeah the one part I left out is that you have zero contact to the outside world other then a mailed letter from your parents once a week. Other than that you don’t know exactly where u are, the time, or really anything other then hiking, finding a local stream near campsite and starting a fire
Humans pose the most danger to your existence anywhere you go. Even in a semi-rural area where I live, it's not coyotes, owls, mountain lions, or eagles that I need to be scared of, but a random person appearing out of nowhere. It's also people who can destroy the mood/ambience of an entire place. Living in the PNW, the nature itself is beautiful, but the tweakers and criminals that abound cast a pall over the landscape.
~Yes, this is absolutely true!!!~
Over here in the East coast, it's gotten really bad. They just be methin around . Nothing is safe they'll steal your thoughts if they could
Yep!
Wrong, sounds nice but wrong. Wild animals will kill you there’s no talking. Humans can talk. BIG DIFFERENCE
Same for Ozarks
The hunters of indigenous societies in the Amazon can actually see in the dark, but they have to avoid electric light to maintain it. Otto Placht, a Czech visual artist who lived with indigenous people in the jungle, talks about it.
Interesting
I bet if you went 100% all natural lifestyle like that your testosterone would go up 10x and you'd experience real life dreams, have stone hard mind blowing orgasms 20 times a day and crime and pedophilia would disappear from society
It would be crazy to have an autopsy done on a deceased tribe member
If you’re afraid of being ripped apart by an angry tribe maybe leaving fish for caymans is actually a decent defense system 😂
Good point 🤷
You want a bunch of alligators scratching at your door for dinner?
Actually staying out of their territory is a much better idea.
I somehow doubt a half-eaten, stinking fish will appease an angry tribe looking to disembowel you in the night.
_just sayin’_
I worked with some people who worked jungle in SA in the 80s.. they said jaguars were a concern, but the narcos were number 1 danger.
Very entertaining. Happy to have people like Paul fighting for the right cause.
If there were more people like this guy there would be no extinct species or endangered species, if we had our way humans would be the endangered species at the bottom of the food chain
@@terryrichmond4723 there is no need to be on top or at the bottom. Humans simply need to learn to take what is only necessary and live in harmony with nature.
He says"the jungle won't kill you" and then proceeds to talk about the jungle almost killing him. Lol
“Almost.” Point proven, eh?
That's not what he said he said the animals won't kill you.
This man is fascinating & has given his heart & soul towards saving as much of the Amazon as is humanly feasible. Look up the foundation … it’s genuine and impressive.
He DID say, by the way, “that humans were the only danger to him in the Amazon jungles.
@@doracotterell2863 I think the locals would disagree.
@@actionjksn yes being surrounded by huge Black Caiman isn't dangerous at all. Nor are jaguars dangerous. Nor are vipers...I think he's underestimating the jungle more than he realizes. And almost everything and every inch of land is coverd in biting flies, stinging ants, wasps. Plants that will make you feel pain for years and possibly the rest of your life. And the risk of getting lost, even on a river, can be extremely high, considering the dense vegetation. If this guy would have got an infection, he would have been dead, at least a week away from anyone that could help. He literally said he underestimated a caiman and it bit a whole through his hand.
Dude. The idea of needing to check in with other humans to stay sane makes total sense to me. Sometime’s I’ll be auditing and doing math all day alone and by the end of the day the simplest problems become harder to solve without asking someone else for help.
Try isolation for a month+
@@Anonymous8317have you never been camping/hunting??
Makes you wonder how some (single) people survived the covid lockdowns.
I don‘t think we should „bring them in“ society - they are the last humans living like we all did thousand and thousand of years ago
Besides they’d all die from our germy azzes, they don’t have the immunity we do.
Scamala Hairybalz entered the chat
"The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race"
Great one Lex! We need to start thinking about the planet and the animals a lot more and taking care of it is so important at this moment in time.
I read mother of God when I was 16. I am now 23, I hope to meet this man one day, for someone who is also dyslexic his book helped me to get through a lot of challenges I have faced so far in a world of information ❤
From what I'm seeing the people that met him claim he's a complete asshole so I wouldn't be that excited
Incredible podcast. I immediately went and found another podcast Paul was on. The guy must have so many insane stories. What a crazy and unique life.
This man is my new Hero, could listen to him all day.
i usually don’t have much of an emotional reaction to stories on podcasts. whether that emotion is happiness, sadness, anger,etc. however, this story sent chills down my spine and actually brought & instilled fear into every sentence. the details & tension were felt. thank you for reminding me of a sensation i haven’t felt in a while haha, hopefully you or your colleagues won’t run into such tribes in the future.
Same!! It was just insane to listen to. Crazy to think about, these tribes are just out there, like right now living like it's thousands of years ago. I liked Lex's question about "Who are we to them" interesting to think about.
Have some cocaine.
The guy is a story-teller more than anything else. Lots of people have been in the Amazon jungles and have had dangerous encounters. 🙄
@@ohsweetmystery he went into the Amazon and is telling his story. He is an adventurer and a story teller. But for some reason u aren't impressed, or make out as if it's a bad thing to be able to articulate what occurred.
Wow. This isn’t about you, bro.
This guy makes me want to stop chasing money and start focusing on protecting the planet
Cool thought bro. Lol
Just arm yourself to the teeth while doing it 😅
Lol we were he just east to do the same thigg nogs
😂
In all seriousness, the planet cares as little about you as you do about it. I’m not saying destroy the environment or do anything like that. But most things on this planet is trying to kill you regardless. The planet doesn’t care about anyone.
That was way more intense than I expected.he has some balls to even go that far in,alone,laugh off a close call with 27 kaymen, Hear stories of beaches getting painted red on a whim,but just picking eyes with a few of those people only for a few moment sent a shiver down his body talking about.then ran adrenaline fuel for several daysand he feels like he barely made it out of there ? You probably shouldn't mess with them at all .if you accidentally encounter them just hope they are too dumbstruck to make you one of those spider monkeys .so glad we don't have jungles where i live
Where do you live?
@@andresmuaythai missouri
I've been out in nature for 70 days without human contact. Only me and my dog in an isolated hunting cabin far out in Northern Scandinavia. I prepared by taking out food and other rations with a snowmobile during early spring. Then I spent late june, and the whole of july and august out there. Doing a little fishing and hunting. A lot of reading and hiking. Only with my dog. It was the most fantastic experience in my life. I was 17 then. I'm 35 now, and after 16 years of drug addiction I'm going to move out to a place like that for full time. I absolutely love being alone.
After having such an amazing experience - May I politely ask,
“What are the factors which caused and lengthened the long duration of drug addiction?”
I find the life of Paul very fascinating as he ventures into wildlife. His narratives are a real joy to hear.
There was a point in my life where i became truely alone. My lifestyle made it extremely easy to just be in my room and not leave, and so i did exactly that. For over a month. I didn't even realise when i started talking to myself. I dont live like that anymore but to this day i still cant stop talking to myself when i am alone. Its messed with my head. Sometimes i dont even realise i do it. Sometimes my brain thinks I'm alone and start talking out load without tealising im in public. Almost like a tick. Its frustrating, embarrassing, and makes me feel like im losing it.
Everyone talks to themselves… chill out
@@Cumconnoisseur69yeah you have to talk to yourself. It's healthy
You aren’t alone bruh. Being raised like an only child with only 1 sibling 10 years my senior probably helped me get through the covid restrictions. Entertaining myself has never presented a problem. Now I sometimes resent the intrusion of being interrupted or having to go run some errand. For some context I live in NYC where one can be more alone than most people realize.
Answering Alex question around 4’ mark:
We are simply outsiders to them, and they are not friendly with outsiders.
I was born in Brazil, not in Amazonia exactly, but I understand the mindset of this isolated tribes.
Respect to this guy for talking about the natives like humans..not bloodthirsty savages just for trying to defend themselves
They are bloodthirsty savages
On JRE, this guy said the boy from the tribe was kidnapped at 6 years old, here he said he’s not sure how he came into the village, maybe a rain storm. You really just can’t believe anything, everyone is just trying to be entertaining.
He said he thought he was six. Under 10 for sure. I bet it was a story he heard and wasn't involved with.
right because it's absolutely impossible to have gotten more information in between the podcasts
My Uncle would take people mountain lion hunting in Colorado as a guide in the deep woods one of his groups canceled out and he was in the deep woods for 25 days not talking to a person. He said it's wild, having bears come into his camping site knocking messing around the door of his camper. He said one time he got lost for about 5 hours, but he didn't panic, he said you panic you die, 5 hours may not seem that long, but you have time to freak yourself out in 5 hours to panic.
That arrow was probably meant for his eye, not for the center of his head. Which means it missed by as little as 3/4 an inch.
Wow this man had me more gripped than I think I ever have been with that story. Real stakes.
looks kinda like John Stamos
@@thatdarnmage1515 this man is Berberine
this guy is an amazing storyteller
@@K74t???
I doubt some aspects of his story.
He takes HUUUGE shits 😎
@@andrewcall8961leaving a fish outside his tent and waking up to 30 crocs and countless large mammals (can't remember their name) seemed unbelievable. A man like him would know that leaving a fish outside could be major trouble surely.
@@andrewcall8961Only some, but he’s one of those people who their talk sounds like it’s all talk but there’s also proof when he is with groups of peoples, there’s many videos and pictures of his work
I realized the social nature of myself after disconnecting. Gave my $5k pc to my best friend and moved focusing on work and improving my social life, only to realize everything is online now. Walking around social hubs in Asheville seeing people glued to their phones everyone ignoring everyone yet thinking they are being social. I’ll record next time I see the zombie crowds, it’s unnerving to see.
Having spent a good part of my adult life in a world without cell phones it’s pretty scary what technology has turned society into. When you consider all the misinformation and propaganda bs that’s spread around online and realize most people eat it up it becomes all the more terrifying. Critical thinking needs to become a mandatory subject in schools; my advice is to “just question everything.”
I can’t believe I’ve just watch someone describe a BRUTAL ordeal he went through in the back of an Amazon van!
In full depth convo about the tribes. And Lex is like.. tell me about the crocs
lex has a way of not listening to the end of a good story
Right??? Multiple times!
Can’t recommend enough the documentary Beyond The Gates Of Splendor. It’s very interesting to hear what life was like for the tribe featured in the film before contact.
Where can I watch it mate?? 😎
@@scottgray6238 here on YT
Thanks for the recommendation. My sense of fear and curiosity is piqued from this one so imma check it out
Bruh what he says about being alone for extended periods is no joke. When I went to prison I had a few stints like that where I went a few days to a week without contact with anyone really other than them sliding food in the door, but they wouldn't talk to me or anything so it's hardly true interaction. I could feel my grip on reality slipping. I obviously didn't full blown lose my mind but I met a guy who definitely did. He went over a year straight in isolation because he kept acting up, and when it was time to come out he acted up some more and stayed. Eventually he started doing that shit on purpose just to stay alone, but having a conversation with him now is almost impossible. He's always just randomly wandering off in his mind and half the shit he says doesn't make any sense. I remember one time he was doing some "ritual" he made up in his head where he had to march up and down the stairs kinda dancing almost, and this new guy didn't know about him yet and walked up the stairs to his room. He followed the guy in there and beat the shit out of him, because in his mind this guy was stepping on his ancestors by walking up this man made staircase inside a prison....
I thrive off solitude and silence, its great for thinking.
Ive done a lot of time also in the bucket but there's allways someone next door or across the hall u can talk to , play chess by yelling your moves , you got mail phone atleast once a month depending on why ur in there . And if the cops didn't talk to you there's a reason why !!! What were ur charges ?have a celly But usually u
Ive done a lot of time also in the bucket but there's allways someone next door or across the hall u can talk to , play chess by yelling your moves , you got mail phone atleast once a month depending on why ur in there . And if the cops didn't talk to you there's a reason why !!! What were ur charges ?have a celly But usually u
Ive done a lot of time also in the bucket but there's allways someone next door or across the hall u can talk to , play chess by yelling your moves , you got mail phone atleast once a month depending on why ur in there . And if the cops didn't talk to you there's a reason why !!! What were ur charges ?have a celly But usually u
Ive done a lot of time also in the bucket but there's allways someone next door or across the hall u can talk to , play chess by yelling your moves , you got mail phone atleast once a month depending on why ur in there . And if the cops didn't talk to you there's a reason why !!! What were ur charges ?have a celly But usually u
Paul is a true pioneer- just heard of today an gonz watch more of his stuff - amazing man...respect- paul rosolie
Tbh the fact he’s a native NYker it doesn’t surprise me that he’s equipped with the survival skills to survive in a jungle. Being one myself I can truthfully say “it’s a jungle out there!”
Lex that was an incredible explanation of life and how humans vs animals communicate and the undeniable fact that we all will
Pass
I love long form discussions I can listen to at work. Keep it rolling!
THANK YOU for what you said (Paul) about the uncontacted tribes being modern. It drives me bats when people refer to them as paleolithic or stone age people, partially because in the low jungle there is no rock, or very little, and secondly because they are not living in the past. Social evolution is not how it has been defined for us by 19th century explorers and others. (I spent my teenage years growing up near Pucallpa, Peru and had friends from a couple different tribes.)
I wonder if the modern tribesmen are criticized by the elders like “ back in my day we didn’t have sticks to make a fire “
@@jesusisking7495 In my experience and reading there are always "conservatives" and "liberals." It could be for just comfort, or for more deeply held reasons. When I visited the Matses for six weeks in '82 there was one old man who did not wear pants. Traditionally none of the men had worn pants, but began to wear them once exposed more to the outside world. While this elder, as far as I know, had not disagreement with wearing pants, he just couldn't get used to them and so didn't wear them. When he came visiting, he just word a long shirt.
@@samswords9993 it’s amazing how culturally similar we are as a species. Customs and courtesies differ but in the core we are all similar
@@samswords9993 thank you for sharing
@@jesusisking7495 We are all made in God's image, that's as basic as it gets. From there differences happen according to geography and access to other cultures, attitudes towards other cultures, etc.
would love to hear more about the tribes and the encounters with them
Imagine how scary that Tribe truly must be... Just try to Imagine yourself Fleeing for your life, and you see a 16' Croc pull up next to you without it once trying to bite you and just starts swimming next to you to literally be a big MEAT shield for you OR swimming away for its own life as well. Chills just thinking about what they really do. That Caymen knew exactly what you were running from. You probably had the whole squad around you without even noticing. There is a reason they chill further down River and my guess is they fear the Tribe just as much if not more than you. I would presume that when you pulled up and peaked your head over, this Tribe was not by any means expecting humans...they were most likely hunting for anything they can eat including Crocs. If the Caymen see a normal smelling Human like the one, they just met a couple nights before, making a straight B-line down the Amazon without giving a single F' about what's in there...yeah, they goin too. No questions asked...I am Glad you lived to see another day.
expecting humans is crazy like they're less human than yt people or something
Great work, Lex. Great questions, humour, etc.
Etc.
“Stop killing the things that are keeping us alive” it’s so scary that that’s the only thing we have to do but will not stop doing.
There are 15% more greenery on Earth today than a decade ago. Earth has been getting greener for decades.
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Receipts…?
@@The_Crucible714the Amazon is not the lungs of planet Earth you fell for propaganda
Roger Casement (1864-1916) exposed the atrocities of private foreign rubber barons in Peru. His British Foreign Office-funded report was published in 1912. He won a knighthood for his efforts. Casement was a very controversial figure (to say the least) - he had earlier exposed the crimes of King Leopold's abhorrent regime in Congo (for which he was awarded a CMG (Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George)). After his return from South America he became a committed Irish nationalist. He was eventually arrested for treason and hanged by the British Government in 1916. He was 51. His life story is quite incredible.
Pretty ironic that he won awards for defending human rights in third world countries but was convicted of treason so close to home and for similar actions; defending a people’s sovereignty against oppression.
_Yeah, the “good ol’ days” when acts of “wanton treason” were punishable by execut!0n._
This story gives me the chills
I love that he said no, you're not born alone. I was literally thinking yesterday what a stupid fucking saying. He nailed it!!!
I totally understand those tribes.... There's alot of "toxicity in the city"....
Respect to this podcast.
Hahahaha such a badass podcast clip, it genuinely is lol
I refuse to believe that there isn’t shit in the Amazon that won’t attack me
Fully automatic &Night vision
There’s loads of shit that will attack you. From insects to fish to anacondas. This guy’s selling something
Like he said, jaguars don’t view humans as a prey species. They’re not going to attack you for religious or ethnic differences or differing sexual preferences. In fact the jaguars will attack the wild pigs who would potentially end you in a gruesome manner. Bottom line; be nice to jaguars.
He said no mammals would attack you. He didn’t even get into replies and insects.
1:04 - 7:11 un contacted tribes
7:12- 11:14- his 3 week journey in a jungle
17:58 - his experience with uncontacted tribes
This is some of the most interesting an riveting podcast conversation ive accidentilly come across .... i didnt even know i had questions about these things . We forget how connected we are, but life is primal at its base
I don’t know if it’s on this podcast but his ayahuasca story is wild.
Great way to bring true values into perspective. Swimming the Amazon... WOW... Respect !!!
This whole podcast was really incredible will listen a couple of times this guys got some crazy wild stories.
One thing i noticed being isolated from people for a long time was my thoughts became louder and louder until you question if you become scizofrenic.
Did you read books at that time? It can help a little. Even though you read it in your own voice it still seems like a stranger is conversing with you.
Amazing story! His storytelling at the point where he comes to the end of the journey is riveting because of the seriousness of it all. Most excellent.
Worked doing owl surveys at night for years. As soon as you saw an RV or camp trailer you immediately turned around. Screw bears or mountain lions. People were the scariest things we ever dealt with with. I'll take a mama bear over a tweeker any night. Once came across a shopping cart surrounded by baby doll heads hanging from trees.
I promise you wouldn't come between a bear and her cubs
Idk if i’d go that far, I’d rather deal with a Tweaker than a momma bear. Now if it was a serial killer than i’d probably pick momma bear.
Tho don’t forget there is a good chance you’ve walked by several serial killers in your lifetime
Spookiest thing I’ve found in the field was a circle of dead animals with a cross in the middle next to an abandoned trailer. Bears are scary but humans are psychotic.
@@DeltaDanner That sounds like you came across a witches / satanists sacrifice circle.
This is really a trivial comment. Lex has talked to a lot of Grapplers...this guy is on a totally different level. Holding Anacondas and Crocs! Total Respect and much food for thought. Go against Gordon Ryan or a 35 foot snake. I'll take the torn ligament thank you.😂🙏🙏🙏
I think I get you, but that kinda highlights how amazing our civilization has become
Best RUclips videos ever!! Thank you!
These tribes have obviously never met an AK-47.
😂 ayo chill out
They haven’t met a Tesla either
They will when the cartels want that land, cartels pull up in armored cars with mounted machine guns…6 feet bow? They got guns that size 😂
ak-47s are to be the mean of preventing ak-47s of getting in contact with those prestine humans
😂😂😂😂
That is def one of the coolest scar stories I’ve ever heard lol. I would be loving when people asked how I got my scar
Wow you are right this man is a modern day Tarzan crazy stories, enlightening.
It’s a shame he let Hollywood get involved and they attempted to turn his life’s work into a reality show for ratings. Honestly, he shouldn’t have responded to anyone but national geographic!
Cool story bro but why does the story of the uncontacted tribe murdering that one guy change every time you tell it?
Embellishments man lol
I laughed at his “27 caimans” story. Not saying he’s lying but why 27?😂 Like how do you eyeball that?
@@jabrokneetoeknee6448 yeah I don’t think he’s totally lying either but I’m very much doubting that he was actually a part of that beach story at all. The way he tells it differently every pod he’s on makes me think it’s something that he’s heard from someone else. I also don’t buy the story he’s told on another pod that he trekked into the middle of the rainforest and ran into one of those tribes after following a tributary to its end and seeing smoke from one of their fires.
He’s even make it point himself that he’s a dumbass when it comes to surviving their, there’s no fuckin way he’s been to the middle of the rainforest by himself, let alone ran away from a uncontacted tribe of people after walking up on them knowing full well they’d just kos.
It’s cool bro you’ve been to the outer edges of the rainforest and you do good work down their with locals. But there’s no need to try and make yourself to be some kind of badass explorer. You’re not him lol.
I’m highly skeptical that his most dangerous encounter was on a solo trek with no witnesses. More skeptical than the hippo he undoubtedly escaped the jaws of before swinging from a vine over a pit of Anacondas while locals fired arrows at him and he grabbed his lucky hat at the last moment.
@@djcastano1180 yea, the whole "27 crocodiles" thing is HIGHLY suspect. The guy sounds like he's full of shit.
Am i the only one that would love to go in there wearing a full plate medieval knight armor so i can observe without getting hurt? Ofcorse it's hypothetical i wouldn't want to mess with their community like that
This thought has been going through my head for the last 10 minutes. They probably just hold you down and burn you though, or rip your armor off. And good luck with that armor in the hot rain forest. I feel like you’d need a mini tank like vehicle to stay safe. But I doubt they’d just go on with their normal life with your little mobile tank home rolling around watching them from just meters away 😂
@@gregg9725they woudnt understand the concept of armor tho, they woudnt approach you to hold you down in first place because if their arrows are doing fuck all, bouncing off and seemingly not hurting you at all they'll run the other way not knowning wtf is happening
Lex should interview an uncontacted person.
😂😂😂😂😂
Yes I agree with this man. I'm so sick of people complaining about how we all die alone, those people have never been in true isolation for a long period of time.
wow this man has lived real adventure! :O such a great storyteller
Im portuguese and "suffer" a great deal of cultural guilt and have always loathed the sense of "national pride" because of our history and how the country got rich. Just the sentence of "should we bring them to society" made me literally scream out loud "WHY?!?!!" and feel a deep sense of rage. I cant even begin to imagine how they would feel after literal hundreds of years dealing with that crap.
Maybe awareness of what is wrong in your countries past is the first step to helping to advocate for the people that have been hurt
All human groups have engaged in slavery, colonization, etc to some extent. Don't feel guilty bc your people were better at it.
@@CrystalBbyUSA As the guy in the podcast said, colonization was the most brutal in history. There is a difference between wars, taking slaves from wars, total war, and genocide.
It was not just based on who was better at it but how greedy people became for resources and profit
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It could be worse, look what the Belgians did in Africa!
Humans are always the apex predator.
I remember being at the zoo as a kid and seeing a sign “world’s most dangerous animal” with a huge crowd gathered around the exhibit. When I finally got to the front of the mob there was a mirror behind some bars. It’s a core memory.
when he describes "losing it " after a week alone in the jungle it reminded me so much of that movie "the beach"
Sometimes I wonder if Lex knows people can be Evil, it doesn't always take a reason, great channel
That guy they were talking about can say with full authority, 'I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the head'.
I like this Lex guy.
He reminds me of that one kid at school that swears his Uncle owns a space ship.
7 foot arrows
@@poleag lol exactly
@@Mackell314 English longbow archers who trained for years to use 6 foot longbows for war were shooting 24-33 inch arrows with draw weights of 80-130 pounds. But yeah, some 5 foot 2 inch tall jungle natives are shooting 7 foot long arrows. Why would they even need a 7 foot long arrow if the biggest thing they'd be shooting at is a human or a monkey or a tapir or a catfish? They're not hunting rhinos and hippos. Makes zero sense. This guy tells some tall tales. It's sad because he could just tell the truth and it would still be interesting.
@@poleag lol literally just look up “how long were Native American arrows” first thing that pops up is “up to 2.5 metres”
@@nickp5328 You believe that?
Question:
has the “Jungle Keepers” been able to purchase the land that the un-contacted tribe claim as their own? It’s the ‘best’ strategy to help protect the Hermano’s land rights. I do hope that such territory as been
purchased, in all due respect.
Lex & Paul = perfect podcast.
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theres currently couple big youtubers making alaska content. i want somebody like that but for amazon rainforest. so fascinating
I sense glamorization in his stories.
Thank you !!
lol no shit, so much so that i had a hard time believing anything he says. Charismatic story teller, but i dont buy 50 percent of what he said.
@@peekosama2709 Agreed 100%
Agreed, unfortunately, major BS alarms going off. At least SERIOUS embellishment.
hidden motives
God bless you... Conservation is inspired by Heaven's love of Creation... Thanks for the content and beautiful sense of purpose. Hope to hear you play guitar again soon...!!! Be well !
I get what he is sayin about "Humans being most dangerous"but come on bro u see a Jaguar u are gonna b a lot more fearful then if u see a human walking around 🤦🏿♂️
These tribes have no idea just how helpless they are against modern weapons.
This is crazy that he didn’t die from this expedition sort of, I love hearing this story also because it opened my eyes on how life could be there.
Guys like this don’t understand they are part of the problem. Why do you feel the need to go to peoples homes unwelcome?
Just like all the immigrants coming to us and destroying western world
Omg he is part of an org that orotects that lsnd so it remains untouched by modern world. Read what he is doing.
Exactly 😂