Paul Rosolie

And the other thing is there's not even a path.

There was no path ahead of us.

There was no, you know, okay, you go to school, you get trained in this and you're gonna become a this.

I went there and it was like, you're never gonna be a conservation biologist because you don't have the grades.

You don't have a PhD.

You don't have family money.

You're not gonna be able to protect rainforest.

So I said, all right, well then selfishly, I just wanna see it.

And then I ended up getting trained by the indigenous people.

And like what happens so many times and you could use, you know, like I think a restaurant example is the best one you could use where you might start washing dishes, but at least you're in the restaurant, you know, and then at some point that the manager is going to need you to help with, you know, restocking and at some point after a few years, you're going to be helping the new guy.

And at some point after a few years, you might end up being the manager.

And at some point, you might end up being in a position where you're starting your own restaurant.

That's the only way to do that.

You can't just search it on a computer.

You have to go sweat and bleed and do it.

Yeah, we've watched a lot of forest burn.

We've pulled a lot of animals out of the flames.

Yeah, I wrote that at a time where we were just getting hammered, man.

Funding wasn't coming in.

There was miners.