Paul Rosolie

The loggers just went out and we're tearing down everything.

I just said, I got nothing.

And in this absolute black depression, I called him and I said, I quit.

I'm going to go get a job.

I said, I guess I'm just, you know, I guess I've been like jungle Peter Pan and it's time to grow up.

And I was like really embarrassed at the time that I did that.

And then I spent like four days just laying in bed, just with no idea what to do.

The only thing I can do is this.

And I had talked to Dax months earlier, told him my plan for protecting the river, for making a ranger team.

And he'd been looking over the budgets and spreadsheets and everything and saying, seeing if this was real.

He was still forming Age of Union.

And then four days after I quit, the phone rings and it's Dax.

And he goes, hey, I looked over the budget, by the way.

He goes, I'd like to make a 10-year commitment to Jungle Keepers.

He goes, let's go.

And of course, he had no idea what I was going through.

And he was just like, let's go.

And it's like going from that depressed to that inspired and that single converse, like you could get the bends from that.

It's that somebody believes in you.

No, it's that he believes.