The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Floats Canceling Midterms & MAGA Pushes Alt Super Bowl Halftime Show | Paul Rosolie

Episode Date: February 4, 2026

Conservatives amp up their mission to MAGA-fy America by overshadowing Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance with Turning Point USA’s own D-list halftime show, and Michael Kosta connects the dots between Trump’s call for Republicans to "nationalize" voting and the president's never-ending claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Plus, Troy Iwata explains why Trump’s pitch to cancel the midterms is peak comedy. With Amazon’s $40 million documentary about the first lady premiering at the Trump Kennedy Center, Jordan Klepper ventured to Washington, D.C., where he chatted with attendees about director Brett Ratner’s appearance in the Epstein files, whether the film’s purchase was a bribe, and why THIS is what our country should be focused on right now — not Minneapolis. Amazon rainforest conservationist, wildlife filmmaker, and author Paul Rosolie talks to Michael about his latest book, “Junglekeeper: What It Takes to Change the World.” They discuss how Rosolie’s quest for adventure led him to the wilderness of the Amazon rainforest and the importance of preserving an ecosystem that produces one-fifth of the world’s fresh water and oxygen and is home to ancient trees that have acted as “skyscrapers of life” to thousands of species for over a millennium. He describes how the organization he founded, Junglekeepers, works with indigenous communities to protect the Amazon, how his historic encounter with a previously uncontacted tribe is a result of deforestation pressuring them out of seclusion, and how people worldwide can take actions big and small to help conservation efforts. Go to https://quince.com/dailyshow for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Super Bowl woke up, and Jordan Klepper went to the most. Melania movie, so you didn't have to. Hey, let's get into the headlines. Let's start with the fun news. Super Bowl Licks is right around the corner, and everyone's excited for the Bad Bunny halftime show. And by everyone, I mean the radical woke communists who hate America. The NFL just chose the Bad Bunny Rabbit or whatever his name,

this guy who hates ICE, and he doesn't sing in English. Someone who hates America. Who wants to watch a man wearing a dress anyway? is woke puk. Bad Bunny's lyrics contain every sexual term possible in the most explicit and severe sexual terminology possible. The lyric is, where are the horny ladies? One more dance, and we're gonna call the Vatican.

I was in hell when I found a devil. I mean, is this who you want as your halftime entertainment? I mean, oh my God. Is anyone else as mad and horny as I am right now? So yeah, there's no way. Americans are going to want to watch the performance by the most popular musician in America. But good news, there is a halftime alternative. And it's not just turning that seven-layer dip into a seven-layer poop.

You want to tune out the woke nonsense that the NFL is promoting during the halftime show, then tune in to Turning Point USA's All-American halftime show. Their lineup just dropped friends, and it's fire. Now, this Sunday, patriots like Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Bryce, and Gabby Barrett, are performing right when halftime starts for the NFL. Woo! Huh? Man, that is a real who's who of who?

We've got Gabby Barrett, Brantley Gilbert, Garby Billet, Billy Garbin, Breely Grabbers, Bobby Glabert, gaggy bobbles, Barnacle Gaspardy, Babette Gingletree, hologram Hulk Hogan, Gregory Lee Bancelbob, Kid Rock, and Kid Rock's father, Adult Rock. Yeah. It's great. This is great. You know all those musicians. Unbelievable. It's great that there's a conservative halftime show. What we really need is an alternative to the ultra-woke puppy bowl, okay? Who's a good boy? Who's a good girl? Why are they so obsessed

with gender? Let's move on. The midterm elections are coming up and things are not looking good for my boy, Donald Trump. His approval rating is in the toilet and Democrats have been overperforming in every special election since he took office. Last week, they won an election in Deep Red, Texas by 14 points. Yeah. So let's give it up for Lee Womgans. Let's hear it, Lee Womgans. Okay, just so you know, Leam Womgans was the Republican, you idiots.

Good job following the news. But still, if Trump wants to avoid a blowout in the midterm, he's going to have to do something. Well, he could change his policies. He could slow down the rampant corruption. He could find less adorable kids to deport, so it's like, who cares? So, Mr. President, what's it going to be? Donald Trump once again floated the idea of canceling the midterms. He boasted that he had accomplished so much

that when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election. Yikes. Yikes. Look, I do get the joy of canceling plans. No one loves bailing on drinks or a work dinner or my kid's piano recital more than me. But you can't cancel elections. Voting is the most American thing you can do besides, well, not voting.

And forgive me for being serious for a moment. But the president suggesting that he might cancel the midterms appears to be the inflection point toward a dictatorship from which our nation cannot return. This is serious. The president was simply joking. Oh, forget it. A joke.

Few, that is a relief. Oh, my God. I guess I was worried that it wasn't a joke because it's a little unusual for a president to joke about canceling an election. And also, this particular president actually did try to overturn an election

so I guess I don't get the joke. Can someone in the press court please ask the White House what was funny about this? Are you saying that the president finds the idea of canceling elections funny? Andrew, were you in the room? No, you weren't. I was in the room, I heard the conversation.

Okay? It was a you had to be there thing, but none of us be there? If I was in the room, then I would have gotten it from his tone. It's like when Chris Rock tells a joke about black people. It works in the room, but it doesn't work later when Stephen Miller retells it at a clan meeting.

But this is why we have a press to hold these people. accountable. You can't blame the reporter for asking. That guy's from the Independent. A British paper. And he is actually a weenie. And I hope that gets back to him. That guy is such a nerd. People like that. I mean, that's why we hate the media. They're just nerds. Lighten up.

Yeah. What a fucking nerd. It's okay. I've learned my lesson. The president was just joking about this election stuff. And I'm a cool guy. I get jokes. So I'm going to take all this much less seriously. This morning, President Trump trying to exert more control over the nation's elections, saying Republicans should, quote, take over the voting. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Okay, this sounds scary, but I know now it's probably just another hilarious joke. Let's take over the elections. I'm going to cancel the midterms. I'm going to be president forever. I bet once you hear him actually say it, we'll get how funny it is.

The Republicans should say, we want to take over, we should take over the voting in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. This all looks and sounds pretty bad. If Trump does even half the things, he's saying our democracy will be less recognizable than the lineup of the TPUSA halftime show.

Don't make me use it again. The only thing that's giving me solace so far is that this is just talk, okay? If Trump was really going to meddle with the midterms, he'd be laying the groundwork by manufacturing evidence that there's widespread election fraud, and he's not doing that, right? Right? Right? Right?

Happening now, the FBI has seized all of the 2020 election ballots from Fulton County, Georgia. It's part of the Justice Department's effort to look for alleged voter fraud. President Trump keeps pushing this baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen. Holy shit, two things. First of all, Trump, you gotta get over 2020, man.

I mean, 2020 is over. You don't see the rest of us being grateful for essential workers anymore. Move on. And secondly, I think it's pretty clear that Trump is not joking about meddling in the election this year. And the only way we can prevent it

is if everyone stands up to stop him, especially Republican. I'm talking Mike Johnson, Lindsay Graham, Gabby Barrett, Brantley Gilbert, Bork Gutman, Gunk Butters, Griff Bortman, and of course, Brickley Gobble Bottom. God, I cannot wait for this halftime show. For more on Trump's statements about canceling the midterms, we go live to the White House with Troy Iwada. All this election undermining disturbing? Oh my God, Michael. Trump was clearly joking.

Okay, the only disturbing thing here is how you can't take a joke. I can take a joke. Oh, really? Knock, knock. Who's there? You have no sense of humor. That's not funny. See? You don't know when things are funny,

so you can't tell when the president is joking. Okay, but Troy, here's the thing. The president says and does a lot of unusual things. How are we supposed to know when it's a joke? That's the thing, Costa. It's all jokes. Trump's whole first year has... It's been a bit.

Like, dude, remember that time he made $1.4 billion in his first year as president? Can you say zing? I don't get how that's funny. It's funny because you're not supposed to do that. Look, look, since you're such a weaning nerd, let me explain. Okay, you ever see impractical jokers that show where a van full of fat Italian guys trick each other? This is that. But with the president and no van.

But he is fat. Okay. How is canceling the midterms funny? Because it makes the country worse. Do you get it? No, I don't. No. Dude, you are so gay. Wait, aren't you gay?

Yeah, as a bit. Look, you don't have to think Trump's funny, but you've got to admit the dude loves jokes. Really? Because you get so mad at people who make jokes. about him and Epstein. Because that's not funny. That's mean and rude.

And Trump had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein except that recurring bit where Trump hung out with Jeffrey Epstein. You know, as a joke. Wait, Troy, I'll be honest. I think Trump's supposed jokes are part of a larger strategy to normalize his authoritarian tendencies,

gradually conditioning the public to accept the undermining of democratic norms until our basic constitutional rights have been completely and totally stripped away. Yeah, I think you're right. And you've got to admit that's pretty funny. You got me. Trelawana, everyone.

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Again, the new Melania movie came out and what a ride. She pretends to go missing, frames him, then he comes back, and they live happily ever after. I'm assuming I didn't watch it. Surprisingly, the movie did way better at the box office the people had expected. And you might be thinking, who would have gone to see that? Well, Jordan Klepper went to the premiere to find out. Last weekend, Maga celebrated the release of Amazon's $40 million documentary

about Melania Trump. So I traveled to our frozen capital to visit America's most respected cultural institution. The Trump Kennedy Center. I was sure to see the glitz and glamour that surrounds our first lady. There's a lot going on in the world right now. People are stressed about the affordability crisis, the issues with Greenland, people are dying in Minneapolis. My big question for you is, who are you wearing? Well, in my soul, I'm wearing the truth and freedom.

But on my body, I'm wearing a dress by my friend Weave. I'm wearing Dolce. I'm actually wearing an Ivanka Trump dress. Is that right? Oh, Ralph Warren. Well done. And Stuart Oatesman. I'm wearing primarily Bass Pro Shop and three layers of Carhart.

My Rebecca Valians, very Melania approved. And jewelry, I'm wearing lacosta, which is organic jewelry. So, kind of making America healthy again. Is that right? Yes, I'm telling me. I can't get meevils from your ring, can I? They came for the spectacle of 118 minutes of Flotus heroically walking into rooms and out of rooms,

and into planes, and even out of cars. It was an epic tale that drew people from all over America. It's a big night. Where are you guys coming in from? Vegas. Yes. South Dakota. Why don't you just go to a movie theater in South Dakota and have the whole theater to yourself?

Well, you know, I could have done that. So what were they all expecting to see? We're going to see behind the scenes of the First Lady, you know, her day to day, and it's the 20 days leading up to the inauguration. I'm not even sure which 20 days it is, right? I hope it was in the last 20 days. Greenland, those murders in Minneapolis. Hopefully it's the earlier 20 days.

Do you think there'd be any cameos in the film today? I'm sure. Who do you think? Who do you want to see? Maybe, you know, Nikki Minaj might be in it. Who knows? You might be? You never know. Yeah. Stay after the credits. Maybe Epstein pops in. Who knows? Probably not.

I think it's an important night because Melania is a very notoriously private person. You know, everybody loves that narrative arc of someone who comes from a small European country and ends up becoming the first lady of the United States of America. It's truly an immigrant story. So why are you watching that bullshit in there? What do you mean? What is this film? Is it a romance, is a political thriller, a bribe?

What is this film? I guess we'll see. Maybe a little bit of everything. I think so, right? It's definitely a little bit of all three of those. Yeah. Movie's part of the movement. There's a lot behind it.

The movement is making America great again, making America healthy again. So it's not just a movie. It's a movement. I think it's a reclamation of the divine feminine. So it's not a $40 million payoff from Jeff Bezos just to kiss up to Donald Trump. The thing is, is why you... pricing it. Clearly they don't need money, right? I mean, they're very wealthy. So it's just strange that you focus on that. I think about billionaires is once they get enough money, they stop wanting.

Money. Right? I agree. The movie was directed by Brett Ratner, who recently appeared in the Epstein Files and was pushed out of Hollywood for alleged sexual harassment. The perfect guy to reclaim the divine feminine. Are you a Brett Ratner fan? I started my career in documentary film, I do respect Brett Rattner a lot, exactly. Me too. What do you think of Brett Rattner? I think he's a fantastic director. To be honest, I'm here to also support him as a friend,

and I'm really forward to see what he's doing. Me too. Trump wants them to make a rush hour forward. Do you hope they make a rush hour? It's so exciting. I'm so looking forward to that. Me too. Why?

Why do you think it was Brett Rattner got kicked out of Hollywood? I think there are like all kinds of scenarios that happen, and... Me too. I'm not a person to talk about this, but I... Me too. I've never had a bad experience with him, and he's such a wonderful person. Me too.

It was the Me Too movement. Right. Right? I guess. So was this unflinching look at Melania's pre-inagoration social calendar right for this moment in America? How do you think America is doing right now? There's a lot going out in America. The first 365 days have been pretty awesome.

There's images coming out of Minneapolis. Yes. That are very disturbing? I don't think you. You can, everything you see, you can believe. So you don't believe your eyes when you see videos. No. No. No.

You're going to believe your eyes about the bloody attack? I hope so. Oh, it's a celebration of our country, of America, you know, our president, first lady. There are some people who are critical of having a big gala like tonight. Yeah, well, they should come and check it out. Yeah, maybe they be less critical. You think so. For all those naysayers out there, right?

You should probably see this, right? Check it out and experience your country and see what, you know, America's all about. Yeah. You're too busy being downers, aren't you? Yeah. Stop being a downer. Yeah.

Minneapolis. Why do you guys be here such a donor? What's the birthday? It's kind of, not being so dumb, Minneapolis. What if you're going to be? The heroes have come here. I hate this.

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This is great. Wonderful. Wow, what a fun read. Love this, love this, love this. There's stories in here. You walk through the jungle with elephants. You befriend a spider monkey. You drink whiskey with Jane Goodall.

You see your father's friends, huge dick. It's the best part. It's a very funny part. You contact an uncontacted tribe. It almost feels like this is fiction. It does read like that. This is real. When I had to read it for the audiobook,

I was reading it going, no one would believe this without photos. Yeah, and people must think that sometimes. Because, you know, what do you mean you jumped on an 18-foot snake in the river and it dragged you down to the bottom? Yeah, I wanted to let them show you on the day. desk. They said, no. You got to, you got to grab these things by the head. And if you don't get them by the head, I mean, you're talking about a great Dane size head that will come back at you

with lots of teeth. And that's how we started doing Anaconda research. And so, yeah, I grabbed one that was so big, I couldn't get my arms around it. And so that's the only measurement I have. Yeah. And so that one, I had to make the decision of going down into the swamp with it. Yep. Or letting go. Yeah, and letting go is what you could have done. Yeah. You're from Brooklyn. Originally. Originally. And now you're a jungle conservationist.

Did you just take the subway too often here? You wanted someplace more wild. My parents really messed up. They read me so much Jane Goodall. And I learned all about me. I was allowed to watch David Attenborough and Steve Irwin. And so I grew up just watching all this stuff. And I also heard about, you know, you look at someone like Goodall and you go,

why didn't they have such an adventurous life? And I'm stuck in detention. Right. You know? And I was like, I want to go to a place where I can drink. the river. I want to go to a place where this huge, ancient trees. I wanted wild. I wanted to go on a real adventure. You know, teenage, you like want your life to be put at risk. I love the part of the book where you keep getting in trouble at school and you run out of school just to be

with the trees in the woods. Yeah, I'm severely dyslexic. I can barely read. Okay. And so I couldn't do math. By the way, the book doesn't read like it was written by a severely... It's beautifully written. It's written in Spider-Monkey. You mentioned trees. Let's talk about trees. You write about them beautifully. You share with us how they actually put water into the air for us. Talk a little bit about your passion for trees and what they mean for you. I've always loved huge old trees.

The forest that I grew up in, the trees were small. They've already been cut. And so when I got to the Amazon, there's giant millennium trees, thousand-year-old trees. And what people don't realize, is that floating above the canopy of the Amazon rainforest is an invisible mist river that has more water than the Amazon itself.

So each day, 20 trillion liters of water comes up off the Amazon. Each day. Each day. Trillion. 20 trillion liters of water. I'm just not sure this audience understands anything you're fucking saying.

And then it rains back down, making it the Amazon rainforests. And so these trees are these biotic pumps sending up all of this moisture. And we depend on that. No matter where you live in the world, New York, Bangalore, Tokyo, the climactic stabilization

that the Amazon is providing is what makes our world livable. Has a fifth of our oxygen and produces a fifth of our fresh water. And so it's an incredibly important thing. A fifth of our oxygen and a fifth of our fresh water. Fifth of our fresh water is contained in the Amazon and it produces another fifth of our oxygen.

You know, I had an evening to myself recently out in the woods and I... Well, it was my house out in the woods, but I ate some mushrooms. And I found myself standing in front of this tree, touching it, feeling its power. I know this is going to sound crazy,

but I'm actually being serious with you now. It blew me away how strong they are, yet also how flexible in the wind. And I had this great appreciation for this tree. The next day, when the mushrooms wore off, I was like, I'm not going to feel that way anymore, but I still just fucking love trees, man. And I feel like you write about it so beautifully in here.

But it was connecting with me and I feel like we all need to be loving trees, man. We need to be loving trees. Yeah, and that's the most big Lebowski thing I've ever said. So deforestation particularly sucks, but explain to us what you saw out there and some of the images are nuts. Full jungle, millennium trees next to what? Well, we call the trees. This is a great example.

Sky-scrapers of life. And so each of these millennium trees can have thousands of species living on it. And if you think of this tree, from the Renaissance to the World Wars, to the current age, that tree's been out there growing in the Amazon rainforest. So how many millions of reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals have been over that thing's branches? And when they cut them down, you're ending this thousand-year story, and we're never going to get it back in human lifespan. And so places that I love, that I explored, where I knew the animals were not just degraded.

They were annihilated. And that's what we're seeing in the Amazon is that we are losing acreage of this incredible. pristine habitat, and once you lose it, it doesn't grow back. Why is that happening? Why are the trees being cut down, and why is it being burned? The expansion of agriculture, the beef industry, the soy industry, everything is coming in there, and people just want land. And a lot of times they're burning the ancient hardwoods.

They're not even using the valuable wood that they're cutting. And we forget, and Jane brought this up, that with the loss of habitat, is also massive individual suffering for the animals that live there. Yeah. And that's, after living 20 years in the Amazon, I've come to think of myself as the voice for them. They can't come on the show and talk. They can't petition go to the UN.

And so they're all living out there in the Amazon, and it's the leaf cutter ants and the butterflies and the hummingbirds that are creating the forest. They're carrying the seeds and pollinating the flowers that are making those trees that are keeping our earth functioning. And so it's not just the animals live in a forest, that create the forest. That's amazing.

You write beautifully about your friend, Jay, who's native to Peru. Tell me a little bit about him and what he means to you and your journey. Yeah, he's the rarest of species. Someone recently called him the only unicorn in the Amazon. He's an indigenous person who grew up. He didn't have shoes until he was 13 years old.

And so he learned from his grandmother's grandfather's back and back and back and back, all those indigenous medicines, how to track, how to catch fish. And so when I met him, I was like, you know everything about the forest. And he did. He knew how to cure everything. There's a sap. If you have an illness, there's a sap. illness, there's a sap for that. They can cure it. And the only thing that I knew was how to handle

snakes. And he was terrified of snakes. And of course, I came and I went, JJ's terrified of snakes? He used to be. Okay. Before we became anaconderos. We started the Anaconda men. Yeah. And so I said, I'll teach you how to handle snakes, but you got to teach me everything else. And so he opened the Amazon for me. Wow. And it was him that when we started exploring these places. This is him and JJ. That's our first small. I don't know what that other thing is. By the way, thanks for not bringing that to the desk. I mean, what out there? Talk a little bit about you made contact with the Mosco Piro.

Is that right? Am I saying that right? Yes, you are. An indigenous tribe who has really not connected, been contacted with other humans. Tell me a little bit about this. This was some of the craziest storytelling in the book. Great pictures, too. and yeah, that was, look at this.

I mean, so this looks like out of a movie set. This is real. Yeah, so we didn't contact them. They contacted us. As jungle keepers has grown, we protect 130,000 acres of the Amazon now with the indigenous people. JJ is leading that charge. And so we got called by a normal indigenous community who we interact with, who we hire as rangers, and they said, the tribes are coming out.

Now, these people have been on the periphery of myth for years and years, and they said, no, they're coming. We've seen their footprints. They're coming out. And so me and two of the other directors of Jumbokeepers went there who both happened to be photographers. They don't text. It's footprints. It's footprints. It's how they tell us.

And I loved in here, it's like they leave a stick on the beach if they're coming back. If the stick is gone, they're gone. Yes. God, it's crazy. Yeah, and if you're walking through the forest and you see like an X of sticks on a trail, you don't. go because they're telling you, but if you're walking and you don't know with the machete and you just cut the sticks, they will fire seven foot arrows through you. Wow. Okay. Yeah. And so I was there with Mosen and Stefan who both happened to be professional photographers, also jungle keepers directors, and these people actually came out of the forest. And like you saw in that photo, they're looking at us with their bows and arrows and coming down the beach. And, you know, the anthropologist who was there, I said, oh my God, they're stone age people. They're real stones. She goes, no, they don't have stones. He goes, they're pre-stone age. Wow. They've been in a time capsule in the jungle for a thousand of years. And so we had this moment where they came out across the beach and they put up their

hands and they wanted to interact with us. And it was just, I mean, this is a historic thing. No one's ever gotten modern footage of these people and we sort of were trying to translate, what do you want? And they said, bananas. Okay. They said they wanted plantains. They needed food. And so we gave them an offering of food. We pushed the boat across the river. And then there was this exchange where they were saying, why are you cutting down our trees? Now what we believe is that they're getting pressured from the narco-traffickers, the lagers, the gold miners, and the vast regions of forest that used to exist are becoming smaller.

Right. And so they're coming out and they're going, what is going on in the outside world? What the f***ing is all this stuff? Why are you doing this? Why is a piece of metal flying over my head with helicopter? Also, what's metal? Right, right.

What do you want? What do I want? What do you want? What do you want, Paul? Beautiful stories. I want to protect the jungle. You'll protect the jungle. Everyone's cutting down my jungle. I love the jungle.

Yeah, okay, got it. That's what I thought, but I wanted to hear it from you. I love this, and I think it's important to share it because it's easy to feel doom and gloom, right now in particular, especially if you care about the environment or nature. But you say this on page 297, there's no question that we are live at the most important time in history. Either we save the natural treasures that make our world what it is, or we curse all future generations. with the repercussions of our greed. And the reason I love that is it is telling us we have this amazing opportunity right now.

It's not just doom and gloom. It is the most important time. We just have to do something, right? We've never before in history been faced with a problem as a global society where our ocean fisheries, our forests, our ecosystems are in danger of collapsing. Clean air, fresh water,

those things used to come standard on Earth and we're ruining it. And the wildlife that were losing elephants and tigers and all this incredible stuff, we can still bring it back. And we've done it. There's bald eagles now in the Hudson Valley. There's humpback whales coming back to New York. We've seen that we can bring back species

as long as you stop killing us. We've got to do it. The importance, when I read this book, I just thought about all these adventures you're going on. And it made me want to go on more adventures. And I want to talk, sure, I would love to go to the Peruvian jungle with you, I think. Talk about the importance of adventure,

at least what it's meant for you. Well, I mean, I think just fly out your door and go for it, you know. That's what I did at 18 years old. My parents were incredible. They knew I wasn't doing well in school. The dyslexia, I couldn't outgrow it. It doesn't wash off. And so they just said, look, get out of school, go to college. It'll be better for you. And I said, well, I'm buying a plane ticket to the Amazon rainforest. And so I went all the way there, met JJ. And it's like the lights came on. It's like the beginning of Jurassic Park when they first see the dinosaurs. I just went, these trees. And there's jaguars and anacondas. And there's no rules.

It's just the jungle. You can jump in the river. And there's piram. and no one's trying to keep you safe. And so... And so... I was at tennis camp in high school, dude. And so, like, I mean, my body's a Jackson Pollock painting of scars. I've been bitten by stingrays and snakes and everything you can imagine, crocodiles. But what we learned out there was that spending time in the forest,

learning from the indigenous people, seeing the smoke on the horizon, JJ said to me, he said, you know, they're going to be. to come and they're going to destroy this place. And I said, well, there has to be somebody we can call. There has to be somebody who could do something about this. And he looked up or every look down, wherever he goes, you see anybody here? Right.

And he goes, either you do something or it's just all going to be gone. And so now in this position that we've created jungle keepers, which is the most direct way for people to protect the Amazon rainforest, now I have all these people messaging me, I have young kids messaging me like, how do I get out there? And I'm like, dude, go carry the bags for the people studying the Great Whites, the people tagging giraffes, whatever it is. or go plant wildflowers that the hummingbirds like in your own backyard.

But find a way to help and find someone who's doing the work that you admire. Right. And that's what I did. I just went out there and here's this guy who walked barefoot in the Amazon and knew how to sleep out in the jungle and make shelter. And I was like, I want to learn from that guy. Yeah. And I love that. And I want to remind everyone, you describe yourself as severely dyslexic.

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