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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard
“you recommended to me”
“So I started reading the "River of Doubt" book you recommended to me on Teddy Roosevelt.”— Paul Rosolie
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Postcard from Earth
Darren Aronofsky
“it's incredible”
“Saw it at The Sphere, "The Postcard From Earth". I mean, it's a celebration of Earth in all forms”— Lex Fridman
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The Fountain
Darren Aronofsky
“God, I love that movie”
“And the epiphany at the end, God, I love that movie. God, I love that.”— Paul Rosolie
The guest's own work
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Mother of God
Paul Rosolie
“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.”— Paul Rosolie
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal
“You go back to that Frans de Waal book, "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" There's so many incredible examples of controlled studies”— Paul Rosolie
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One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest
Wade Davis
“I know about him from reading Wade Davis' book "One River", which is this big, hefty, you know, five or 600 page tome about the Amazon.”— Paul Rosolie
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Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers
Richard Evans Schultes
“Yeah, he wrote the "Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers".”— Lex Fridman
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer (inferred)
“And you know what the kid from "Into the Wild" learned right before he died in that bus? That if you don't have somebody to share it with, it doesn't matter.”— Paul Rosolie
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The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien (inferred)
“and having "Lord of the Rings" be one of the things I grew up on, I just chose to come to the Amazon.”— Paul Rosolie
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Birds of Peru
Thomas S. Schulenberg (inferred)
“This is just here, this is birds of Peru. Dude, pages on pages of toucans and aracaris and hummingbirds and ant birds”— Paul Rosolie
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Alone
The History Channel (inferred)
“We talked about "Alone," this show a bit. Rock House, Roland Welker from season seven. He built a rock house.”— Lex Fridman
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Game of Thrones
HBO (inferred)
“And I've never seen anything like this except for in like "Game of Thrones", this croc head comes flying out of the water.”— Paul Rosolie
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Werner Herzog
“One of the things is he spent all of his 20s in, living in Siberia with the tribes out there. Herzog, "Happy People".”— Lex Fridman
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GoPro
GoPro
“He killed a muskox with bow and arrow and then finished it with a knife. And had the GoPro mount to, you know? To document it.”— Paul Rosolie
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