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Paul Rosolie

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“Engineering. And then when you have one that's this thick and all of a sudden that thing is moving with all the acceleration of that power the volume of water, the sound that comes out of their throat. They're dragons.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure, and if it's in celebration, then I'm all for it because my God is that power. Like the waves of fury that you saw, like when that tale, I mean, you saw, you saw the tail of the spectacle, that perfect, amazing thing with all those interlocking scales that work so, it's like a perfect creation.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It strikes me as unfair because humans were still in our minds, so programmed to worry about that predator, that predator, that predator. What predator we've killed everything? Black humans are coming off the endangered species list. We exterminated wolves from North America. I actually heard a suburban lady one time tell her son, watch out. Foxes will get ya. Fox Eat baby rabbits and mice”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I'm saying, like all my friends do the same thing. They go, you swim in the Amazon rainforest. You know, you swim in that river? And I go, yes, every day. We backflips into the river. We've been swimming in the river how many times. With the piranha and the stingray and the kandiru and the caiman and the anacondas, all of it in the river with us. And we just do it. And what's that for you? So, what allows you to doing that knowing and having researched all the different things that can kill you, which I feel like most of them are in the river, what allows you to just get in there with us?”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, just loggers, people who aren't from this part of the Amazon. Because a local person would either eat the animal or not mess with it. Like Pico would never kill a caiman for no reason because it doesn't make any sense. So these are clearly people who aren't from the region, which usually means loggers because they've come from somewhere else. They're doing a job here and they're just cleaning their pots in the river at night and they see eyes come near them because the Cayman probably smells fish and then they just whack because they want to see it and they're just curious monkeys on a beach Again, me friend of Caiman, I protect from my type.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Have a few on the river old. No, when we see their heads go under, it's just they're just getting out of the way. We're shining a light at them. They're going, why is there a light at night? I'm uncomfortable head under. So these came in, again, you think of it as this big aggressive animal, but I don't know anybody that's been eaten by a black came in. And the smaller species, smooth-fronted Caiman, dwarf came in, spectacle came in. They're not going to eat anybody. But again, at the worst, if you were doing something inappropriate with a Caiman, you jumped on it and were trying to do research and bit your hand. It could take your hand off. But that's the only time. I've been walking down the river and stepped on a caiman and the caiman just swims away. And so in my mind caiman are just these peaceful dragons that sit on the side of the river. And so to me they are my friends. And I worry about them because two months ago we were coming upriver and on one of the beaches was a beautiful about five foot black cayman with a big machine.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I'm going, I'm not worried at all. I was not worried. I was not worried that the Cayman would freak out. I was not worried that he would try to attack you. I knew 100% that came and just wanted us to go. So you could go back to eating fish. That's it.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nothing. So for me, seeing those eyes, I think I've become so comfortable with so many of these animals that I may have crossed into the territory where I feel so comfortable with many of these animals that they just don't worry me anymore. I mean, you were, I looked at you in a raft while you had a sizable, probably about 12 foot black caiman right next to your raft. I watched its head go under the bubbles. It was all coming up right next to your raft as he was just moving along the bottom of the river because he looked at me, went under, and then my raft passed and yours came over him. So now I'm looking back and your raft is going over this black caiman.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“JJ very rarely, very rarely he'll make a suggestion. Like he'll usually go like, maybe it's far. But in that situation, deep in the wilderness, unknown came in size, he went, Paul, it's too far. Don't leave the three of us right now. We were too far out to take risks. We're too far out to be walking along the riverbed at night because then, you know, right here at the research station, if you step on a stingray, you get evac. Out where we went”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so the other night Lex and I were in the river with JJ surviving a thunderstorm, we're in the rain and we had covered our Covered our equipment with our boats, and the only thing that we could do was get in the river to keep ourselves dry. And so we were in the river at night in the dark, no stars, just a little bit of canopy silhouetted with all this rain coming down. It was such a din you could hardly hear anything and all the way downriver I just see this caimani in my headlamp light. And I started walking towards it because I was like, this is even better. We can catch a caiman while we're in this thunderstorm in the Amazon River. And when JJ went, Paul, it's too far.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And their power And they're just sitting there in the streams and they don't care. And even if there's a nuclear holocaust, you know that there would just be some croc sitting there dead-eyed in that stagnant water waiting for the life to regenerate so the cadet again.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With crocodiles, you're looking at this mega survivor. They're in a class with sharks where it's like they've been here so long. When you talk about multiple extinctions, you talk about the sixth extinction Earth's going through all this stuff, the crocodiles and the cockroaches have seen it all before. They're like, man, we remember what that comet looked like. And they're not impressed.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and that's a spectacle came in. A black came in is a whole other order of magnitude. It's like saying, oh, I was play fighting with my golden retriever versus I was play fighting with like, you know, what's the biggest, scariest dog you could think of, the dog from Sandlot, a giant gorilla dog thing like a Malamute, something huge. What are they called? Mastiff”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I went, JJ, as I always do. But in that moment, before I even let go, I knew I couldn't let go of the croc because if I let go of the croc, I thought she was going to destroy my face. So I said, okay, now I'm stuck here. If I just stay here, I can't release her. I need help. But I was like, I'm never, ever, ever, ever going to try and solo catch across a croc this big again. I was like, I knew in that moment, I was like, this is good enough.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I jumped on a spectacle came in that was slightly longer than I am. And I'm five nine, so I jumped on this probably six foot croc and quickly realized that my hands couldn't get around its neck, and my legs were wrapped around the base of its tail, and the thrash was so intense that as it took me one side, I barely had enough time to realize what was happening before it beat me against the ground. My headlamp came off, so now I'm blind in the dark, laying in a river in the Amazon rainforest, hugging a six foot crocodile.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We were doing Cayman surveys for years and we would go out at night, and you want to figure out what are the populations of black Cayman spectacle came in, smooth forensic came and dwarf came. And the only way to see which came in you're dealing with is to catch it because a lot of times you get up close with the light and you can see the eyes at night, but you can't quite see what species it is. For instance, this past few months, we found two baby black caiman on the river, which is unprecedented here. We haven't seen that in decades. So it's important that we monitor our croc population. So I started catching small ones. In Mother of God, I write about the first one that me and JJ caught together, which was probably a little bigger than this table. And probably mid-20s bravado and competition with other young males of my species led to me trying to go as big as I could.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just reminds you of that's a came in with a head this big, and it hurt. And I know that it could have taken off my finger now. If you scale that up to a black caiman. It's rib crushing. It's zebra head removing size, you know, just meat destroying. It's incredible. Nature is metal sort of, you know, just raw power.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We dropped one in the river, and what did it do? It chose peace. Now I had a smooth fronted cane a few weeks ago, and this is probably about a three and a half footer, not big enough to kill you, but very much big enough to grab one of your fingers and just shake it off your body. Just death roll it right off. And as I was being careful, totally different came in than the one that you got to see. This one has spikes coming off it. They're like leftover dinosaurs. It's like they evolved during the dinosaur times and never changed. They have spikes and bony plates and all kinds of strange growths that you don't see on the other smoother cayman. And I tried to release this one without getting bitten and I threw it into the stream gently into the water. Just went, wow, and tried to pull my hands back. And as I pulled my hand back, this came and in the air turned around and just tried to give me one parting blow and just got one tooth whack right to the bone of my finger and bone injury feels different than a skin injury.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so you can just like you know, like generally golden retrievers are viewed as a friendly dog generally, not every single one of them, but as a rule, Spectacle came Puppies. You released one in the river and it did nothing. Didn't bite one of your fingers, it just swam away. Mm hmm.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's where of the four species of caiman that we have here, you see differences in their personalities as a species.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Alligators and Caymen and crocodiles have some of the strongest bite forces on Earth, I think a saltwater crocodile wins as the strongest bite force on Earth. And you got to hold about, what was it, a four-foot spectacle came in? And you got to feel, I mean, you're a black belt in jiu-jitsu. How do you compare the explosive force you felt from that animal compared to what a human can generate?”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Fight happening. They weren't trying to kill the Cayman. They were just trying to mess with it And the caiman was doing his best to try and kill these otters. And they were just having a good time in that sick sort of hyperintelligent animal like Wolf sort of way where they were just going, you can't catch us.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This huge black caiman sixteen feet, head half the size of this table, and she was thrashing her tail around, creating these huge waves in the water, trying to catch an otter, and they're so fast that they were zipping around or biting her, and then going around. And this otter, swear to God, interspecies, looked at me and watch this. We're fucking with this can. It was amazing. And for the first time, I got to stand there watching this incredible interspecies.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I followed the river out down the stream. We started running down the stream. The river router looks at me one more time as like, yo, jumps into the lake. And I'm like, what does he want me to see? Now, in the lake, this river otter is doing dives and freaking out and going up and down and up and down, and they're very excited. They're screaming, they're screeching. All of a sudden, and I've never seen anything like this except for Game of Thrones, this crockhead comes flying out of the water all of the river otters were attacking”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They're coming back. They're coming back and they're huge and they're beautiful. And I was walking near a lake and I never understood how big they could get except for I was walking near a lake last year and I was following this stream. You know what it's like when you found a little stream and there's just a little trickle of water and all of a sudden this river otter had been running the other direction on the stream. River Otter comes up to me and I swear to God this animal looked at me and went, hey, and I went, hey, he was like, didn't expect to see me there. And he turned around. He like did a little spin, started running down the stream. Then he turned around and you could tell he was like, let's go. And I, you know, I'm not anthropomorphizing here. The animal was asking me to come with him.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The big bad black caiman, which is the largest reptilian predator in the Amazon except for the Anaconda, the kind of both share that notch of apex predator. They were actually hunted to endangered species level in the 70s because their leather, black scale leather,”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and so the cats sometimes will get like a greenish or a bluish glow from the cats, the deer are usually white to orange, caiman, orange, night jars, orange, snakes can usually be like orange moths, spiders sparkle. And so you have all these different as you walk through the jungle, you can see all these different eyes. And when something large looks at you, like that deer did, your first thing is, what animal is this that I am staring back at? Because through the light, you kind of get you see the reflection off the bright light off the leaves, and I couldn't tell at first because that actually those big bright eyes, it could have been Ocelot, could have been Jaguar, could have been a deer. And then when it did this movement, that's what the cats do. They try to see around.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Animals live in a constant state of danger. Like if you look at that deer that we saw last night, it's. Stalking through the jungle, wondering what's going to eat it, wondering if this is the last moment it's going to be alive. It's like animals are constantly terrified of that this is their last moment.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the people that called the snake rescuer, because it's a profession in India, you know, it had gotten into their kitchen or their backyard. And so we showed up and we got the snake. And the snake rescuer, he knew, he looked at the snake and he went to me. He said, you know, why do you think the snake would go in a house? And he was quizzing me. And I actually went, you know, I don't know. Is it warm? Is it cold? You know, like sometimes cats like to go into the warm warm cars in the winter. And he was like, he's thirsty. He goes, watch this. He took a water bottle, poured it over the... Now the snake is standing up. Snake stands up three feet tall. This is a huge King Cobra with a hood, terrifying snake to be around. He leans over to the snake and the snake is standing there trusting him. And he takes a water bottle and pours it onto the snake's nose and the snake turns up its nose and just starts drinking from the water bottle, human giving water to snake. Big, scary snake, but this human understood. Snake gets water.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They can be at a puddle and they just take it in, or one time in India I was with a snake rescuer, and we found this nine foot King Cobra, this god of a snake, their Ophiophagus Hannah is their Latin name, and they're snake eaters. They're the king of the snakes, the largest venomous snake.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Begin to hiss and say, Don't approach me. I'm asking you nicely not to mess with me. and most other snakes are fast or they stay in the trees or they're extremely camouflaged, but their whole MO is just don't bother me. I don't want to be seen, I don't want to be messed with. In fact, all I want to do is be left alone, and once in a while I just want to eat, and by the way, when you see a snake drink, your heart will break. It's like seeing, it's the only thing that's cuter than a puppy. Like watching a snake touch its mouth to water and just, you just see that little mouth going as they suck water in. And it's like, it's just so adorable watching this scaled animal just be like, I need water.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, as far as I know, there's only really two snakes on Earth that could be aggressive. Because aggression indicates offense. And so a reticulated Python has been documented as eating humans, anacondas, although while it hasn't been publicized, they have eaten humans. Every single other snake from Boa constrictor to bushmaster to spitting cobra to grass snake to garter snake to everything else every single other snake does not want to interact with you. No interest. So there's no such thing as an aggressive snake once you get outside of Anaconda and reticulated Python. Aggression could be trying to eat you. That's predation Every other snake, a rattlesnake, if it was there, would either go escape and hide itself, or it would rattle its tail and tell us, don't come closer. A cobra will hood up.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Snakes, there's venomous snakes, there's tree snakes, there's huge crushing anacondas. It's just of the 2600 species of snakes that exist on Earth. There's just such beauty, such complexity, and such simplicity. They're just, they're just, to me, to me, I feel like I'm friend with snake, and they rely on me to protect them from my people.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's when you just spoke about it. That's the first snake you've met. And it was a tiny little snake in the jungle. And you spoke about it with so much light in your eyes. And I think that because we've been programmed to be scared of snakes, there's something wondrous that happens in our brain. Maybe it's just this joy of discovery that there's nothing to be scared of. And whether it's a rattlesnake that is dangerous and that you need to give distance to, but you look at it from a distance and you go, whoa, or it's a harmless little grass snake that you can pick up and enjoy and give to a child, they're just these strange legless animals that just exist. You know, they don't even have eyelids. They're so different than us. They have a tongue that senses the air. And to me, are so beautiful. And I've my whole life been defending snakes from humans. And they seem misunderstood. I think they're incredibly beautiful. There's every color and variety of snakes.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The tongue flicking was a sign of curiosity, he was trying to figure out what was going on. I was like, why am I on this treadmill of human skin? They're just trying to get to the next thing, trying to get hidden, trying to get away from the light.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Such a calm little thing. He just focuses on eating baby lizards and little snails and things. And that snake has no concept of defending itself. It has no way to defend itself. So even something the size of a blue jay could just come and just peck that thing in the head and swallow it. And it's a helpless little snake. So it's really, it kind of depends on the animal, depends on the mood you catch him in. Each one has a different temperament.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Too ready, he's like, I love this. Okay. All right. So you know, you just know, you just know. Whereas like the snake you met last night”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was the movement and the S of the neck. It was as if you pushed me and I went, let's go, make my day. Like he just looked a little bit”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Readiness. I wanted to get him by the tail and show him to the people that were there and maybe work with the snake a little bit. As an 11 foot snake, the snake turned around and made it very clear, like, not today, pal. It's not going to happen.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now the other option is that you get a bushmaster that's alert and hunting and outlooking for something to eat, and they're ready to defend themselves, and so I once came across a bushmaster in the jungle at night, and this bushmaster turned its head towards me, looked at me, and made it very clear I'm going to go this way, and so I did the natural thing that any snake enthusiast would do and I grabbed its tail. Now eleven feet later by the head the snake turned around and just said, if you want to meet God, I can arrange the meeting I will oblige. And I decided to let the Bushmaster go. And so it's like that with most animals. You know, a jaguar will turn and look at you and just remind you of how small you are.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've come face to face with the bushmaster, and there's two things, there's two reactions that you might get. One is if the bushmaster decides that it's vacation time, if it's sleeping, if he just had a meal, they'll come to the edges of trails or beneath a tree and they'll just circle up little spiral, big spiral, big pile of snake on the trail, and they'll just sit there. And one time there was a snake sitting on the side of a trail beneath a tree for two weeks. This snake was just sitting there, resting, digesting his food out in the open in the rain, in the sun, in the night. Didn't matter. You go near it, barely even crack a tongue.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“See that? So, like everything is defended. If you're driving on the road and you have your arm out the side, or if you're on a motorcycle going through the jungle And you get one of these, it'll just tear all the skin right off your body. It's kind of doing that to me now.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Grab a piece of the chocolate. It's like even this seemingly beautiful little fern, if you go this way on the fern, you're fine. As soon as you go this way, there's invisible little spikes on there if you want to.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Say, you don't rush and try and save your own life. You try to savor what's around you. Look around at the world. Smoke your last cigarette, call your mom. That's it. So that moment of stasis that is life is going to end abruptly when you interact with one of those. Yeah. I even have even this seemingly... Can I just pause?”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Every other animal just wants to eat and exist in peace. That's it. But there is each of those animals that you describe have a kind of radius of defense. So if you accidentally step into its home into that radius, it can cause harm. Or make him feel threatened. Make him feel threatened. There is a defense mechanism that is activated. Some incredible defense mechanisms. I mean, you're talking about 17 foot black caiman crocodiles that with significant size that could rip you in half. Anaconda is the largest snake on Earth. Bushmasters that can grow up to be nine to I think even eleven feet long and I've caught bushmasters that are thicker than my arms. So for people who don't know, bushmasters snakes, what are these things? These are vipers. I believe it's the largest viper on Earth. Venomous. Extremely venomous with hinged teeth, tissue-destroying venom. If you get bitten by a bushmaster,”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so the things in this forest, while they don't want to hurt us, there are things that are heavily defended because, for instance, a giant anteater needs claws to fight off a jaguar. A stingray needs a stinger on its tail, which is basically a serrated knife with venom on it, to deter anything that would hunt that stingray, even the catfish have pectoral fins that have razor long, steak knife sized defense systems. Then you have course the jaguars, the harp eagles, the piranha, the kandiru fish that can swim up a penis, lodge themselves inside. It's the Amazon rainforest. The thing is, as you've learned this week, nothing here wants to get us except for the exception of maybe mosquitoes.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What are all the creatures right now if they wanted to could cause us harm? The thing is, the Amazon rainforest has been described as the greatest natural battlefield on Earth because More life here than anywhere else, which means that everything here is fighting for survival. The trees are fighting for sunlight. The animals are fighting for prey. Everybody's fighting for survival. And so everything that you see here, everything around us will be killed, eaten, digested, recycled at some point. The jungle is really just a giant churning machine of death, and life is kind of this moment of stasis where you maintain this collection of cells in a particular DNA sequence, and then it gets digested again and recycled back and renamed into everything.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's the Amazon jungle. There's vegetation, there's insects, there's all kinds of creatures. A million heartbeats, a million eyes. So really, where are we right now? We are in Peru in a very remote part of the western Amazon basin. And because of the proximity of the Andean cloud forest to the lowland tropical rainforest, we are in the most biodiverse part of planet Earth. There is more life per square acre per square mile out here than there is anywhere else on Earth, not just now, but in the entire fossil record. I can't believe we're actually here. I can't believe you actually came. And I can't believe you forced me to wear a suit. That was the people's choice, trust me. All right. We've been through quite a lot over the last few days. We've been through a bit. Let me ask you a ridiculous question.”
2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
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2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
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2024-05-15 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source