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Joe Rogan Experience #2441 - Paul Rosolie

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Hello, Jungle Man.
What's happening?
Good to see you, my brother.
What's going on?
You got books?
You got notes?
I got books.
Marshall's here with us.
I got this for you.
Yeah, a little note in there you can read later.
Jungle Keeper, buddy.
Yeah, the brand new.
That's what, back from the Amazon with that.
Nice.
Marshall, you say hi to everybody.
Come on up here.
I love that you bring Marshall.
Has Marshall come on other podcasts or is it just...
Yes, he's been on a couple.
You're a good boy.
You're a good boy.
We should...
I just have to keep him from going under the water.
Little buddy.
Yeah.
I've got to keep him from getting under the water.
Come on up here.
Come on up here.
Say hi to everybody.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's the best.
He is the best.
He's a big sweetie.
He's soft, man.
He's got amazing coat.
Big sweetie.
Well, he gets groomed.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you for the kisses.
Okay.
Okay, lie down, please.
Lie down.
Lie down, please.
So...
Oh, my God.
You released that video.
I saw the video of the uncontacted tribe.
Yeah, hitting send on that was scary because...
Woo!
Yeah.
Wild.
I sent you a message that day.
Yeah.
When that happened.
Yeah, you did.
That is crazy.
I've showed it to a few people, but we've never showed it live, but it is...
So, Marsha, you've got to lie down, buddy.
You can't be climbing under the wires.
Lie down, Bubba.
Sit, sit, sit.
Come here.
Go, boy.
Go, boy.
Go, boy.
Go, boy.
Go, boy.
That experience has to be so insane to contact, like, legitimately uncontacted
people.
There they are.
Yeah.
Ladies and gentlemen, do not look at their dongs.
Do not.
Well, I mean, you know, but also maybe take a style tip from them and tie them
up.
Weird how they got their waist wrapped up, but they don't have their dongs
wrapped up or their butthole.
Well, it seems like they're trying to protect or they're trying to keep lots of
rope.
I think rope is, like, their main thing.
So, that's how they carry all their rope.
Interesting.
They carry their rope around their waist.
They carry their rope around their waist and they just want rope.
They want rope and bananas.
Do bananas grow in the Amazon?
So, bananas don't grow unless people plant them.
So, there's certain human settlements where, you know, you can find old bananas
growing.
But, you know, plantains, really, is what this is.
And they were requesting them.
What you see happening here is...
They request them?
Yes.
They come out.
And, I mean, these are people coming out a thousand years late to society.
And they're out on the beach holding up their hands saying,
Nomole, we are the brothers.
Nomole means brothers.
And so, now we actually think that they call themselves the brothers.
And their first thing was, we want bananas.
And so, the local anthropologists that we were with, we were just there to work
with the communities that we work with.
And these guys came out across the beach and you see them, they're holding
their bows.
And those bows are six-foot bows, seven-foot arrows.
And we were saying, you know, the anthropologist was saying, put down your
weapons.
Put down your bows.
Before you talk to us, this does not need to be violent.
Because their first instinct is to defend themselves.
And so, there's maybe 20, 30 of us.
And the local guys had a couple of shotguns just in case for protection.
Because we were not initiating contact.
That's the thing I've been explaining to everybody.
We were just there working in the community.
They came out to us.
So, they knew you were there and they came out to you.
And how, does someone speak their language?
There's one guy in the community that kind of speaks a little bit.
They speak, in the community, they speak yine.
The mashkopiros speak a derivation of that.
And so, they're speaking in broken terms across the river.
So, they were sort of shirts versus skins.
We were on this side of the river.
They were on that side of the river.
And then, I mean, the courage of this guy to get in the river and go, you know,
10 feet from them and push the canoe.
There was no contact, no physical contact made.
But he gave them these plantains.
And then, you notice when they take them, it's not like, oh, yeah, let's take
the plantains.
We'll go back in the jungle and divvy them up.
It's like, what I get, I get.
They're fighting over them.
And they were all screaming and fighting over them.
So, there's desperation there.
Yeah, well, I mean, I guess food is fucking hard to come by, right?
I mean, the jungle is filled with life.
But it's still, it's got to be difficult to source.
And you've got to do it every single day.
Every single day.
Yeah, I mean, there's no refrigeration.
There's no preservation.
No, so everything is instantaneous.
You shoot a monkey, you've got to cook it and eat it.
You know, you get a turtle, you've got to eat it.
You've got to open it and eat it.
And so, there's, I mean, you can see there's more, there's that questioning
look on their face.
They don't understand who really, who we are.
And really, the only communications that we got was, we need more food and stop
cutting down our trees.
They wanted to, they said, who are the bad ones?
They said, of you, who are the bad ones?
Why are you cutting down our biggest trees?
Well, not just cutting down the trees, but also killing the indigenous people
that protest it, that get in the way of it.
If their tribe is centrally located in an area where they're chopping down the
trees, they kill those people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so, right now, what we have is we have the loggers and the gold miners
coming in.
And so, since, like, the last time I saw you, it was, we were nailing all these
successes, adding acres to the reserve, because what we're doing is trying to
create this corridor, which is going to become a national park.
We're trying to save this one river in the headwaters of the Amazon.
And we had been on this success run, you know, from people hearing the stories,
from things like this, people coming in and helping us do that.
And then it started to change where we realized, okay, we're protecting so much
land that the logging mafias and the narco traffickers started pushing back.
And so now it's getting more serious.
As we're getting closer to the finish line, it's getting harder, because they're
going, we want this to remain wild.
And we're going, we're trying to protect this.
And the local communities are going, this is our forest.
And the loggers and the narcos and the miners are coming from other places, and
they're cutting down this forest.
And so it's just, you know, I mean, everyone knows the Amazon is the lungs of
the earth.
Everyone knows it's got a, it produces a fifth of our oxygen on our planet.
It contains a fifth of the oxygen of the fresh water on our planet.
So it's vital to global planetary stability.
But we've already destroyed 20% of it.
And so we're seeing the moisture cycle get broken.
20% of the whole Amazon rainforest.
That's insane.
And that thing is 2.7 million square miles.
And I think the lower 48 is 3 point something million square miles.
Wow.
It's gigantic.
Wow.
And they've already killed off 20% of it.
20% of it's already gone.
Is it mostly cattle running?
Like what is, what are they, what are they doing it for?
Cattle ranching accounts for 60% of Amazon deforestation.
And then it's just development roads.
China has a new shipping port in Peru that they want to, you know, create a, I
think a railroad over the Andes Mountains or through the Andes Mountains.
So they can start getting access to the Amazon for Asian markets.
Is it true they carved out a giant pathway through the Amazon for a climate
change conference?
You know, I've been trying to figure out if that's true.
I saw that go all over the internet.
But it's one of those things.
It's like, who knows if that's real?
That and then the other one is they're like, you know, Swedish billionaire
bought this much of the Amazon and it's like, but what's his name?
They keep saying that and I'm like, I don't.
Well, let's put it into perplexity and find out if that's true.
Which one?
The, uh, whether or not they carved out a pathway through the Amazon for a
climate change summit.
Because that sounds like horse shit.
That just sounds too, too ridiculous.
There's no way they would do something that stupid.
I don't know, but I did see people.
Also, why would they have a climate change summit in the Amazon?
Are you going to do it in a tent?
No, I think they did it in Manaus.
I mean, there are cities in the Amazon.
There's Iquitos.
There's Manaus.
But you can fly into those cities.
You don't need to carve out a fucking pathway.
But I remember seeing a video of this guy and he was saying, like, this is
where the jungle used to be.
And now it's just this big road.
And I was like, but again, who in charge of the climate?
Unless they were going to have a climate conference and just local
administrators and politicians said, well, we better get ready and clear this
area.
And, like, maybe it wasn't intentional.
I don't know.
I mean, if they have pictures of it.
Whoa.
It's on the BBC.
Amazon forests fell to build road for climate summit.
There you go.
Oh, my God.
It's real.
Oh, my God.
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected
Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian
city of Belem.
Oh, my God.
Oh, so it wasn't Manaus.
That is so crazy.
It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will help climate.
It's easier to drive when there's no trees.
Which owes more than 50,000 people, including world leaders, at the conference
in November.
The state government touts the highway sustainable.
I love how they use that term.
Sustainable is one of those wonderful terms you can just throw on things.
Sustainable credentials, but some locals and conservationists are outraged at
the environmental impact.
Yeah, duh.
That's crazy.
Yeah, look at that.
You're chopping down trees to protest chopping down trees.
That's fucking insane.
Sounds amazing.
I just, you know.
At what point in time are people going to wake up?
At one point in time, people are going to wake up, and I think that that's, you
know, that's sort of as I've been, I've just started this book tour and
everything else.
And it's the thing I'm trying to impress, I was just talking about this the
other night, is like, we've had world wars.
We've had great famines.
We've had the dust bowls.
There's never been a time in history, though, before where we're looking at, is
there going to be ecological collapse?
The thing that I'm talking about with where they've cut 20% of the Amazon,
scientists are warning that if we cut too much of the Amazon, that moisture
cycle, I think the thing was that 20 trillion liters of water every day are
pumped into the air from the Amazon.
And that becomes the cloud system that rains back down and creates the Amazon
rainforest.
If you cut too much of that, you break the cycle.
And that forest has been growing for something like 55 million years.
I believe it formed in the Eocene.
And so we are the generation that's going to decide, do we find a sustainable
way to keep the Amazon rainforest functioning, or are we going to break that
cycle?
And once we lose it, it's not going to come back.
It's so crazy.
It's so crazy that people are so short-sighted.
They're like, we want them to have cattle ranches.
It is disorganization and apathy.
It's like we have the ability to organize and credit.
I mean, if you can organize an airport, you can figure out a way to protect a
forest.
But the fact that it's in numerous Latin American countries, Brazil wants to
develop.
In Peru, you have the legal gold miners coming in.
And now you have the pressure from the Asian markets.
And, you know, we found that if you just, I mean, that's what we've been doing
over the last 20 years is going to these gold miners and loggers and g