Paul Rosolie

You see like the beauty, you know, the red macaws and you see monkeys going down in the trees.

You're not high above the canopy.

You know, you hear that stuff about like, you know, there's thousands of football fields being destroyed every minute we're losing species.

And it's like, yeah, but if we can prove that we can save this river,

and employ the local people in a positive way and improve things, then that blueprint can be used in all kinds of places around the world.

No, only the Narcos, but they're like a different thing.

Yeah.

The loggers are usually just people that don't have a ton of money.

They're working for some big company that's contracted to China on some level.

And again, JJ is the key.

Making friends with JJ changed my entire life.

If...

It's like my friends in Virginia, they wouldn't trust someone from New York if we went down there and tried to buy land.

They just wouldn't.

And down on the Amazon, if you showed up as a foreigner and said, hey, man, I want to buy this piece, they would never.

They'd be like, you're crazy.

But JJ can walk in, and he knows all the local dishes.

He knows all the local food.

He knows all the local words that nobody even knows outside.

And so he sits down with them and he's like, oh, I know your dad.