Paul Rosolie

And I uploaded it to Instagram and the next day I had like 40,000 messages, news agencies calling me.

And after, I think, you know, that's years later, it was 2014 when the Eaton Alive thing, it was 2019 that then all of a sudden MSNBC was like, can we get you in the studio today?

And all of a sudden I'm on a panel with Bill McKibben talking about the Amazon rainforest and it started to heal the image.

of you know this is some douchebag who's on yeah and then you know all of a sudden it was like look no i'm down there seeing this stuff and i could tell you for real it's going and now to be at this point where you know we just had this meeting with the jungle keepers team me and jj and stefan and mosin and roy and the the directors of jungle keepers and we have the the peruvian police and the and the government talking about national parks and

But we also have the Narcos and we have the challenge of getting the funding of raising the next $20 million.

And the analogy I always make is, you know, how hard is it to make it through, you know, the highest level of high school football and college football and then get into the NFL and you're the last guy in the NFL, player number 700 or whatever it is.

And you end up on the field in the Super Bowl.

It's like, now's the thing.

We've been through so many levels, so many iterations.

We're standing on mountain peaks right now that the dreams of our past are like down there.

And we're going, wait, you're telling us that we have 150,000 acres already protected.

and that we might actually be able to do 300,000 acres.

And you go, wait a second, we might actually be able to save this thing.

This might actually happen.

And now it's not a joke.

We have to do it.

We've come this far.

There's no turning back.

How the hell we got here, I don't know.

And so it's just, you just running forward with their eyes closed.