Paul Rosolie

And then now, you know, now I go, thank God that happened.

Thank God.

Because the scar tissue that that builds, the resilience, the confidence in yourself where you go –

Man, I got publicly humiliated.

It took five years of going back to the drawing board, wiping the chalkboard and starting over and then sticking with it.

Again, at that point, you can go do something else or you can sort of renegotiate the contract you have with yourself and just go, I'm just not going to stop.

And that's where...

You know, I think obsession is the only way to do it.

And so it was, to me, it was just like, I just love the jungle and the responsibility of going, well, I'm just not gonna stop screaming about it.

I'm just not gonna stop.

And so that was in 2019, that was the year that the Amazon fires were burning and everyone was talking about it.

And for a few weeks, they were like the Amazon rainforest, the Amazon rainforest, every news station was talking about the Amazon rainforest.

And I had just come back from six months in the jungle.

And I had a video on my phone where I was screaming at the phone in the fires.

We were looking for animals to save.

And I was going, this is happening every day.

It doesn't need to happen.

This ecosystem does not naturally burn.

And I was like, welcome to the fucking Anthropocene.

I was so mad, so frustrated with that no one would pay attention no matter what I did.