Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2209 - Paul Rosolie
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2209 - Paul Rosolie' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-10-02. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2209 - Paul Rosolie' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-10-02. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2209 - Paul Rosolie

No, I'm just making sure that there's nothing completely retarded looking about
myself right now
what could possibly be different than the way when you walked in here I have no
idea dude I'm I'll
tell you what it's so much fun walking in here not be like ready to throw up
out of nerves the first
time I walked out of here and I went holy shit I was actually nervous I don't
get nervous but the
first time I was not nervous now though no good no no it's good to see you
again good to see you
every time I see him like I'm glad he's still alive it's like where you live is
so crazy let me tell
you man I don't understand why you continue to do it but I guess you love it I
have to do it nothing
else I can do at this point how long do you think you're gonna stay out there
for until the mission's
complete until the mission is complete I mean we have my whole life has been
based around one goal
it's been protecting this river so and this year we've just been experiencing
miracles what's happened
in the last few months has been life-changing on a level that that like I didn't
understand these
things could happen when Lex came down and everything that happened we didn't
think you go out and you
don't think that that miraculous things are gonna happen and there's been there's
just been there's
just we've actually been making strides towards notching winds in protecting
this river saving the
Amazon it's wild so is it because you become more high-profile you've got more
support like what
it what has been the change well I mean coming on here helped a lot I mean
first of all just coming
over here like three different people stopped me in the airport and we're like
are you that guy from
Joe Rogan and I was like are you serious like I'm over there like I'm not used
to this I live in the
jungle so I don't you know I don't know and then I come back here and then
people like dude I know you
you're the jungle guy and I'm like oh shit that's new for me but so really the
the thing that happened
recently was that you know so I went on Lex's show a year and a half ago and he
said I'm gonna
come down to the Amazon which everybody says you went on Lex's show but Lex
actually went on your
show in the Amazon and to see Lex with his suit his customary suit on with how
hot was it it was hot if
you watch that carefully you can see him yeah he looks listening I was doing
fine but uh we like
we both like covered ourselves in bug spray and we're like we just we sat down
and we said okay
we're just gonna try it out and if it doesn't work it doesn't work it's fine
but yeah he came like
when he said he was coming down I was like yeah you and everybody else
everybody says they're gonna come
down I didn't think he would actually do it and then how long is the flight um
it's not long to get to
Lima from New York is eight hours so from here it's even shorter I'm sure oh
wow yeah it's really not bad
and he came down for two weeks the first day that he was I was like I want to
show you the start of the
end of the of the Amazon rainforest which starts in the Andes Mountains so we're
in the western edge of
the Amazon rainforest and so you have these glacial peaks up at 17,000 feet so
I was like Lex we I want
to take you up to 17,000 feet I want to go from source to river and so his
first day he arrived and then we
drove five hours got to the base of this mountain then we met up with these
dudes that are experts and they
brought us up to the glacier where we can't breathe wow yeah it was it was you're
driving on roads where
where the the you know the the cliff goes down a thousand feet yeah and fuck
all that I've seen
those roads that and and I was I opened the car door to try and goof around
with Lex to be like oh I'm
with Lex Freeman right now we're in the thing and I look over and I see the
wheel go over the fucking
edge and skid back on oh it happens all the time so yeah we got out we we we
walked we let the car I
was like look the car drive and then what we did was we took a rock and I was
like yo Lex I was like
this would be us if if the car flipped and we threw a rock over the edge and
this big rock was just
spinning like this and I was like man we would be chopped meat by the bottom
yeah so we got up to 70,000 feet we saw
the glacier and whenever you bring somebody to the jungle the thing is you don't
know some people take
to it some people don't some people get to the jungle and like their skin doesn't
react well to
the bug bites they're overwhelmed by the fact that they're far from everything
Lex's eyes lit up like
I didn't know he had that setting he walked into the jungle and was like I like
this he got this grin on
his face here Lex is a secret savage yeah look at his face he wasn't fucking
around yeah he could live
out there yeah and if you notice he came to the Amazon and he looked like like
the furt like like
Lex in his profile picture and when he left the Amazon he he looked totally
different and and that
process is is is what happened we he said you know he's like I'm coming down he's
like I want to do what
you guys do I want to go on like a deep expedition and so me and JJ who's the
guy I work with down
there the local indigenous Saha native who who is the reason that I do the work
I do I I support his
work and so we said okay well we're gonna do let's find the wildest place we
can think of let's think
let's go way up our river so we're ready like to if you take a boat from town
it's two days deep into
the jungle to get there by river we said let's go five more hours up river
leave the boat and then we're
gonna go from our river up to this other tributary and it's like 20 miles more
like 20 20 miles right
the fuck yeah it's be fine we had our backpacks machetes we get off the boat
and Lex is all good
to go the first five minutes we're out there JJ machetes a branch that has wasps
oh god his whole
head and neck gets surrounded by wasps he gets 30 stings on runs and so right
away we're like oh god
here we go we had to use a stick to get his hat out from under where the wasps
were attacking we hike all
day and here's the thing you think it's the rainforest is gonna be water
everywhere there's no water so
picture being in the sauna for eight hours straight and then no re-up on water
we drank all of our water
thinking we're gonna find a stream we didn't find a stream we camped that night
like dry camp nothing
fell asleep woke up we're like we gotta find water and at this point Lex's how
do you find water well I
mean there should just be streams right this this section were there that you
just didn't run into or it's
like it was a weird section of forest and and this is integral to the whole
story was that this part of
the forest unlike where we are which is very very flat and there's all these
like little streams
they're clear this came in an anaconda and then but they're clear and the
jungle works like the roots
work like a huge filtering system so you can drink that water right out of the
streams where we were
it was up and down and up and down and up and down and so that's why we're
sweating all day we can't we
didn't have water we start going the next day no water and Lex starts looking
at me and he's like
dude we can't keep doing this we're slipping and sliding down slopes we're
hiking up slopes and
just grabbing onto things and when you grab onto trees in the Amazon they have
spikes on them you're
worried about stepping on venomous snakes you're worried about twisting an
ankle it was brutal travel like level 10
hiking and JJ made contact made eye contact with me behind him and he was just
going this is this is not good and so I think it was day three we're what we're
going in here we're in such a whole day without water at all we went with a
whole day with no water whatsoever and what's the temperature
99 degrees full humidity oh my god so you're like full dehydration yeah
probably a little delirious completely delirious and so we're bodies not
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the smartest way to hire right start taking bad steps because you're tired so
you go i'll just step on this thing and so you step on a root that goes down
you slide you hit the ground you get tangled up in vines we had we had um pack
rafts this company alpaca rafts they we had paddles sticking out of our backpacks
that kept getting stuck on vines
and what happened though was as we're going through this forest we're going god
this is so incredibly dense
and i see this tree this huge tree the size of this room and i go jj what tree
is that and he smiles at me
teacher to student and he goes you know why you know what don't know what that
is he goes you've never
seen a mature mahogany tree because the loggers down there they took them all
out this forest has never
been cut millions of years the amazon rainforest forming geologically has never
been cut
and so we're going through this forest we see jaguar tracks ancient mahogany
trees we're seeing ironwood
trees no one's been there's not even signs of uncontacted tribes this is forest
that no one's been
through and so right at the time i remember we stopped for lunch lunch we
stopped to eat the last food we
have and we're the problem that we were doing was i had a compass and we were
getting to the top of these
hills and you know when you look on the ocean floor and the the sand makes like
those geometric ripples
and there's like there's a pattern to it and so we were coming to the top of a
ridge line and we were like
we don't want to go down again and we don't want to hike up again so we're
staying on the ridge lines and
what that was doing was taking us a 30 degree tick to the i think it was to the
west but that what that
was doing though was taking us about another 20 miles off course so we had to
hit the river here but we
were going to hit over there oh no so we had to correct for course we stopped
we're eating the last of the food
we have we drank water out of a puddle i have a video and we're going to
release all this do you have a
filtration system we went with nothing we had our we had our tents and our machetes
christ and i have a
video video of lex and he's looking at this bring a steripan or something uh
because i do everything
with the local guys and they were just like oh it'll be fine there'll be water
and we just we didn't
anticipate this happening and i i lex was crouched by this water by this puddle
with his backpack on and he's
like looking at the water and he looks at me and he goes i'm gonna drink it and
i said do not drink
that i was like please don't drink that and he goes i'm gonna drink it he goes
i don't care about
anything else on earth right now except for water and i was like please don't
drink it jardi is no joke
nope we stopped for lunch we did he drink it he did not drink it wow no he 