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BookRecommended
Jungle Keeper
Paul Rosolie
“you should definitely go pre-order now”
“He has a new book coming out in a few days titled Jungle Keeper that you should definitely go pre-order now.”— Lex Fridman
BookRecommended
Jungle Keeper
Paul Rosolie
“I highly recommend it”
“Both the book and audiobook are great. I highly recommend it.”— Lex Fridman
The guest's own work
BookBy the guestISBN verified
Mother of God
Paul Rosolie
“after that, HarperCollins took me on... and it became Mother of God and then because of that, Jungle Keepers, Dax, everything else stemmed from that.”— guest
BookBy the guest
Endgame
Paul Rosolie
“Well, there's Mother of God, and now Jungle Keeper. And then I'm already working on Endgame.”— guest
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
BookReferenced
Echoes from Eden
Dax Dasilva
“he gave me this book that he has recently written, Echoes from Eden. Signed it.”— Lex Fridman
BookReferencedISBN verified
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien (inferred)
“they'd find the time to give us an hour of reading every night, whether it was Lord of the Rings or Sherlock Holmes or Jane Goodall.”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified
Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle (inferred)
“an hour of reading every night, whether it was Lord of the Rings or Sherlock Holmes or Jane Goodall.”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
“You read like For Whom the Bell Tolls. And, you know, "The air was crisp, and the water was sweet, and the wine was good"”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling (inferred)
“you can say, for example, "Write me The Jungle Book, but make it sound like Cormac McCarthy wrote it." And it'll be like...”— guest
ProductReferenced
Canon EOS R5
Canon (inferred)
“we're sitting there with 800 millimeters with a 2X teleconverter and, you know, R5s.”— guest
ProductReferenced
GoPro
GoPro (inferred)
“If I had a GoPro on my back to show you what I saw, just the shrapnel and devastation of this thing just bashing through trees.”— guest
ProductReferenced
ChatGPT
OpenAI (inferred)
“I can pick out with stunning accuracy when someone sends me a message and they've passed it through ChatGPT.”— guest
MediaReferenced
Jurassic Park
Steven Spielberg (inferred)
“It's like the first time they saw the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. You're going, "There's no way."”— guest
MediaReferenced
Up
Pixar (inferred)
“In the movie Up, those Venezuelan cliff jungles with the straight walls, like Angel Falls?”— guest
MediaReferenced
300
Zack Snyder (inferred)
“there's that moment in 300 where they show Leonidas, and they say, "Even the king allows himself a moment of hope"”— guest
MediaReferenced
Blow
Ted Demme (inferred)
“It'll be like those movies, like Blow, where it's like, "For a time it was amazing," and then at the end... it's not so great.”— guest
MediaReferenced
Dead Poets Society
Peter Weir (inferred)
“There's a scene in Dead Poets Society where Robin Williams makes them open their books.”— guest
MediaReferenced
Blood Diamond
Edward Zwick (inferred)
“I'd like to transition out of Blood Diamond and go to more the sort of professor role after this.”— guest
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