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Trump Floats Canceling Midterms & MAGA Pushes Alt Super Bowl Halftime Show | Paul Rosolie

39 min
Feb 4, 20262 months ago
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Summary

The Daily Show's Michael Costa discusses Trump's statements about potentially canceling midterm elections and his push to control voting, alongside coverage of the MAGA-backed alternative Super Bowl halftime show and the Melania Trump documentary premiere. Guest Paul Rosolie, a conservationist and jungle keeper, discusses his work protecting the Amazon rainforest and encounters with uncontacted indigenous tribes.

Insights
  • Trump's repeated statements about canceling elections and taking over voting represent a pattern of normalizing authoritarian rhetoric through claims of 'joking,' making it difficult for media to hold him accountable
  • The creation of alternative cultural events (MAGA halftime show) reflects deeper political polarization and the use of entertainment as a political organizing tool
  • Conservation of the Amazon rainforest is a global climate issue affecting air quality and water cycles worldwide, not just a regional environmental concern
  • Indigenous communities are increasingly pressured by external forces (narco traffickers, loggers, miners) and are actively resisting deforestation through direct contact with outsiders
  • Individual action and adventure-driven engagement with conservation work can inspire broader environmental activism and create tangible protection mechanisms
Trends
Normalization of anti-democratic rhetoric through humor and plausible deniability as political strategyPoliticization of entertainment and cultural events as organizing tools for partisan movementsGrowing visibility of uncontacted indigenous peoples and their role as environmental stewardsClimate crisis framing shifting from abstract to immediate survival necessity (oxygen, water production)Adventure tourism and experiential learning as drivers of conservation engagement and fundingMedia accountability challenges when political figures use ambiguity between serious statements and jokesCorporate involvement in political narratives through documentary funding and productionDirect action conservation models (land protection, ranger hiring) as alternatives to traditional NGO approaches
Topics
Election Integrity and Democratic NormsTrump's Statements on Canceling MidtermsVoting System Control and NationalizationMAGA Alternative Cultural EventsSuper Bowl Halftime Show PoliticsAmazon Rainforest DeforestationIndigenous Rights and Uncontacted TribesClimate Change and Water CycleConservation Funding and Direct ActionMedia Accountability and Political RhetoricMelania Trump DocumentaryBrett Ratner and Hollywood AccountabilityEnvironmental Activism and AdventureBiodiversity Loss and Species ProtectionNarco Trafficking and Environmental Destruction
Companies
NFL
Criticized for selecting Bad Bunny for Super Bowl LIX halftime show, sparking conservative backlash and alternative p...
Amazon
Produced and funded the $40 million Melania Trump documentary directed by Brett Ratner
Turning Point USA
Organized alternative 'All American Half-Time Show' featuring conservative musicians as counter-programming to NFL ha...
Jungle Keepers
Paul Rosolie's conservation organization protecting 130,000 acres of Amazon rainforest with indigenous communities
People
Donald Trump
Floated canceling midterm elections and proposed Republicans 'take over' voting in multiple states
Paul Rosolie
Conservationist, filmmaker, and author discussing Amazon rainforest protection and encounters with uncontacted indige...
Bad Bunny
Selected as Super Bowl LIX halftime performer, criticized by conservative commentators as 'woke' entertainment
Melania Trump
Subject of $40 million Amazon documentary examining her pre-inauguration life and activities
Brett Ratner
Director of Melania Trump documentary; previously appeared in Epstein files and faced sexual harassment allegations
JJ
Indigenous Peruvian guide and co-founder of Jungle Keepers, trained in traditional Amazon knowledge and conservation
Jane Goodall
Primatologist cited as inspiration for Rosolie's conservation work; mentioned as having drinks with him
Jordan Klepper
Daily Show correspondent who attended Melania Trump documentary premiere to interview attendees
Quotes
"The president suggesting that he might cancel the midterms appears to be the inflection point to an addictatorship from which our nation cannot return."
Michael CostaEarly segment
"20 trillion liters of water comes up off the Amazon. Each day. Each day. Trillion."
Paul RosolieInterview segment
"Either you do something or it's just all going to be gone."
JJ (via Paul Rosolie)Interview segment
"They're pre-stone age. They've been in a time capsule in the jungle for thousands of years."
Paul RosolieInterview segment
"We are alive at the most important time in history. We either save the natural treasures that make our world what it is or we curse all future generations with the repercussions of our greed."
Paul RosolieInterview segment
Full Transcript
This episode is brought to you by Ninja Lux Cafe, the three-in-one machine that makes a espresso, drip coffee, and cold brew. No barista skills required. You're listening to Comedy Central! From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, in America's only source for new. This is The Daily Go, with your home's Michael Costa! Oh, man! You're a good one! Welcome to The Daily Show! I'm Michael Costa! We've got so much to talk about tonight. Trump wants to deport the midterms, the Super Bowl wokes up, and Jordan Clepper went to the Melania movie, so you didn't have to. Hey, let's get into the headlines! Let's start with the fun news. Super Bowl, Lix, is right around the corner, and everyone's excited for the Bad Bunny Half-Time show. And bye! And bye, everyone! I mean the radical woke communists who hate America. The NFL just chose the Bad Bunny Rabbit, or whatever's 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? It is woke puke. 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 half-time 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 gonna want to watch the performance by the most popular musician in America. But good news. There's a half-time 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 half-time show, then tune in to Turning Point USA's All American Half-Time Show. They're lined up just dropped friends, and it's fire. Now this Sunday, Patriots like Kid Rock, Brentley Gilbert, Lee Bryce, and Gabby Barrett are performing right when Half-Time starts for the NFL. Woo! Huh? Man, that is a real who's who of who? We've got Gabby Barrett, Brentley Gilbert, Garby Billet, Billy Garvin, Brely Grabbers, Bobby Glaber, Gaggy Bobbles, Barnacle Gasperty, Bebet Gingel Tree, Holla Graham Hulk Hogan, Gregorly BankleBob, Kid Rock, and Kid Rock's Father adult rock. So yeah. It's great. This is great. You know all those musicians, unbelievable. It's great that there's a conservative half-time show, but what we really need is an alternative to the ultra-woke puppy ball, 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 Lee Womgans. Okay, just so you know, Lee Womgans was the Republican, you idiot. 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 to an addictatorship from which our nation cannot return. This is serious. The president was simply joking. Oh! That is a joke! Forget it! It was a joke! Phew, 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 an election's funny? Andrew, were you in the room? No, you weren't. I was in the room. I heard the conversation. Uh-huh. Okay. It was that 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 had a clan made it. But this is... 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 weedy. 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 f***ing 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, 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. 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 have 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 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? 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 got to 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 Republicans. I'm talking Mike Johnson, Lindsey Graham, Gabby Barrett, Brandley Gilbert, Bork Gutman, Gunk Butters, Griff Bortman. And of course, Brickley Gobblebottom. I cannot wait for this half-time show. Oh my God! I'm f***ing it first. Woo! For more on Trump's statements about canceling the midterms, we go live to the White House with Troy Awada. Right. Right. Isn't all this election undermining disturbing? Oh my God, Michael! Trump wants 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 hold for his year has been a bit... Like... Like, dude, remember that time he made $1.4 billion and 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 weeny 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 midterm's 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? You're not gay as a bit. Look, look. You don't have to think Trump's funny, but you've got to admit that dude loves jokes. Really? Because he gets 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. 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. Try a lot of it, everyone. And we come back. Donald Klapper meets the new Hollywood elites. Don't go away. Join Midnight Casino and discover a whole new world. With hot slots, jackpots, live casino roulette and Blackjack at the ready. Come and play your way. 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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 in freedom. I've got on my body, I'm wearing a dress by my friend, Weave. I'm wearing Dolce. I'm actually wearing a Vanka Trump dress. Is that right? Oh, Ralph Lauren. Hold on. And Stuart Weitzman. I'm wearing primarily bass pro shop and three layers of car heart. I'm wearing Rebecca Valleans. Very Melania accrued. And, jewelry, I'm wearing La Cossa, which is organic jewelry. So, part of making America healthy again. Is that right? Yes, or totally? I can't get me those from your ring, can I? What? They came for the spectacle of 118 minutes of floatess, 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. At Big Night, where are you guys coming from? Las Vegas. South Dakota. I just made a movie theater south to Cuddy, 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? Over the last 20 days. Greenland, those murders in Minneapolis. Hopefully, it's the earlier 20 days. Yeah. You think there'd be any cameos in the film? To the other side? I'm sure. Who do you want to say? Maybe, you know, Nicki Minaj, right? And... You're a poppin. Yeah. Stay after the credits. Maybe F.D. Popson, 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, where are you watching that wolf hole shit in there? What is this film? Is it a romance? Is it a political thriller? A bribe? What is this film? Maybe a little bit of everything. I think so, right? It's definitely a little bit of all three of those. Yeah. Yeah. The movie's part of the movement. It's a lot behind it. The movement is making America great again, making America healthy again. So, it's such a movie. It's a movement. I think it's a reclamation of the divine feminine. So, it's not a $40 million or pay off from Jeff Bezos just to kiss up the Donald Trump. So, the thing is, is why are you pricing it? Clearly, they don't need money, right? I mean, they're very wealthy. So, it just screams that you focus on that. I think about billionaires. Once they get enough money, they stop wanting. Won't let it. 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 Ratner a lot. It's like, me too. What do you think of Brett Ratner? I think he's a fantastic director. To be honest, I'm here to also support him as a friend. And I'm really worried 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? So exciting. I'm so looking forward to that. Me too. Why? Why do you think it was Brett Ratner who got kicked out of Hollywood? I think they're like all kinds of scenarios that happen. Me too. I'm not a person to talk about these, but I've never had the bad experience with him. And he's such a wonderful person. Me too. It was the me too. Move it. Right. I guess. So is this unplinching look at Melania's pre inauguration social calendar? Right for this moment in America? How do you think America is doing right now? There's a lot going on in America. The first 365 days have been pretty awesome. There's images coming out of Minneapolis that are very disturbing. I don't think you can see. You can believe. So you don't believe your eyes? No. No. You can believe your eyes about the bloodied doc? I hope so. Oh, it's a celebration of our country. America, you know, president, first lady. There's some people who are critical of having a big gala like tonight. Oh, they should come and check it out. Yeah, maybe they'd be less critical. You think so? Roll those naysayers out there, right? You should probably see this, right? Yeah, yeah. And experience your country and see what, you know, the America's all about. Yeah. You're too busy being downer, aren't you? Yeah, stop being a downer. Yeah. I'm going to let you in. You're such a dame. This is worth saying. Stop being so dame. Minneapolis. What if you're gay. Heroes have come. I mean it. It's cold. Heroes lose. They'll still run it all. Indeed they will. 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It almost feels like this is fiction. It doesn't really affect. This is real. When I had to read it for the audiobook, I was reading it going no one would believe this without photos. People must think that sometimes because 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 show you on the desk. They said no. You got it. You got it. You got to grab these things by the head. If you don't get them by the head, you're talking about a great, dainless head that will come back at you with lots of teeth. That's how we started doing Anaconda research. I grabbed one that was so big I couldn't get my arms around it. 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, letting go is what you could have done. Yeah. You're from Brooklyn, originally. Originally. And now you're Brooklyn! Now you're a jungle conservationist. Did you just take the subway too often here? You wanted someplace more wild. Yeah, my parents really messed up. They read me so much, Jane Goodall. And I learned all about me. It was a loud-to-watch David Attenborough and Steve Irwin. So I grew up just watching all this stuff. And I also heard about, 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. 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 there's huge ancient trees. I wanted wild. I wanted to go on a real adventure. Yeah. Teenagey. You 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. 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 this giant millennium trees, thousand-year-old trees. Wow. 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. Just not sure this audience understands anything you're f***ing saying. And then it rains back down, making it the Amazon rainforest. 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. Yeah. 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 produces another fifth of our oxygen. You know, I had an even 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. And 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 f***ed 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, labousy 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... He's a great example. ...sky scrapers of life. And so each of these millennium trees can have thousands of species living on it. 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 and fibrions, birds, mammals have been over that thing's branches. Yep. 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 incredibly pristine habitat. And once you lose it, it doesn't grow back. Why is that happening? What's... 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. Right. And a lot of times they're burning the ancient hardwoods and not even using the valuable wood that they're cutting. Right. 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. Yep. 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. Yeah. And so it's not just the animals live in a forest, create the forest. That's amazing. You write beautifully about your friend, JJ, 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. They, 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 what to cure everything. There's a sap. If you have an 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 was like, JJ's terrified of snakes? He used to be. Okay. Before we became anaconderos. Okay. We started the anaconda men. 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 and that's our first small icon. I don't know. Who that or what that or the thing is. By the way, thanks for not bringing that to the desk. I mean, I can go out there. Talk a little bit about, you made contact with the Moscow PURU. 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. We, 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 say, no, they're coming. We've seen their footprints, they're coming out. And so me and two of the other directors of jungle keepers went there, who both happened to be photographers. They don't text. It's footprints. It's footprints. It's footprints. That'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. Oh my God. Because they're telling you, but if you're walking and you don't know with the machete, you just cut the sticks. They will fire seven foot arrows through you. Wow. Okay. Yeah. And so I was there with most of them to find 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. You know, the anthropologist who was there, I said, oh my God, they're stone age people. They're real stone. 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 thousands of years. Yeah. 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. Yeah. 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? Right. Now, what we believe is that they're getting pressured from the narco traffickers, the loggers, 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*** is all this? Why are you doing this? Why is a piece of metal flying over my head with helicopter also what's metal? Right. 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 want to protect the jungle. Everyone's cutting down my jungle. I love the jungle. 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 alive at the most important time in history. You that 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. And never before in history have been faced with a problem as a global society where our ocean fisheries are forests, our ecosystems are in danger of collapsing. Clean air, fresh water, those things that used to come standard on earth and 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 them. We've got to do it. 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 Proveon 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. 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. Sure. And so I went all the way there and met JJ. And I mean, it's like the lights came on. It's like the beginning of Jurassic Park when they first see the dinosaurs. I just want these trees. Whoa. And there's jaguars and anacondas and there's rules. It's just the jungle. You can jump in the river and there's piranhas and no one's trying to keep you safe. And so I can get this. I was a tennis camp in high school, dude. And so like, I mean, my body's a Jackson Pollock painting of scores. I've been bitten by stingrays and ever it 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 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 wherever he looked 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. They have young kids messaging me. 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 to the rafts. Whatever it is. No 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. And I love that. And I want to remind everyone, you describe yourself as severely dyslexic. You're not a PhD. You barely got through school, but here you are making a difference. Thank you for writing Jungle Keeper. It's a pleasure to talk with you. Jungle Keepers are going out. How are we going? We're going to put Mike to the right back after this. Thank you. That's a show for tonight. Now here it is. And how many is it? Rapper Bob Bunny slamming ice while accepting a Grammy award. Let's bring in former Disney star and former Trump campaign deputy communications director Caroline Sunshine. I still don't know if I'm saying it right. Bob Bunny, bad bunny. I don't really get it. It's going to play the Super Bowl. So we're going to have by this time next week. I'm going to blow. I'm going to blow up on bad bunny. Explore more shows from the Daily Show podcast universe by searching the Daily Show, wherever you get your podcasts. 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