Dock Talk: Our Epic Cleanup Off the Coast of Guatemala

He's got him in a bucket! Oh my God! Oh, here we go. Holler! You got him? Oh! Oh! Oh! That one's yours. It's fine. Take it. But, uh... Did you get one for yourself, Kev? Hell yeah. But yeah, I mean... So, first things first. J-Recap Gaios. Toast Gaios. To the San Francisco team. To the crew. Alright. Now we're in it. Now the thing is, it was supposed to be... You know, a sheet of glass. The wind was supposed to be like three knots out of the west. Just slick calm. It was smooth. I don't know what you're talking about. Not great, Bob. Not great. Wait, what does the weather look like ahead? Perfectly clear. It'll be like... Waves are coming and breaking, so we've got to throw an anchor off the bow. That way it keeps the bow... The bow is the front of the boat into the waves. That way it's just like this, and then we'll all float off the stern, or the back of the boat, onto the beach. We just got beat to hell in the Banga. That was pretty gnarly. First things first. Got to San Francisco tomorrow. That was pretty sick seeing the team. Oh, absolutely. I mean, it made that ride worth it, for sure. Hello. Yeah, Dave! ¿Qué tal? ¿Qué tal, mi amigo? ¿Qué pasa? Yeah, you know, I think Josh said it best. You know, that was... Every part of that was a gift. Everything that they provided, you could tell there was thought, there was intention. And I think that that just speaks to the mutual respect that they have for us, that we have for them. I mean, it's not every day you get invited into somebody's home. A stranger, you know, more or less. Yeah. And to be able to break bread like that was... That's something I won't forget anytime soon. Ah, for sure. Hello. Here we are. About four kilometers southeast of San Francisco Del Mar. And this is what we're seeing here. Yeah. The first time I came down here, I was hesitant to believe that plastic could have a massive impact on fisheries. You know, you hear that, like, there's no longer fish. And, you know, 20 years ago, like Byron said, it was beautiful. It was just organics. Fish populations were thriving. But coming down here and seeing this firsthand, you believe it. You understand, like, you know, like, look at this. This, this is why the populations of fish, birds, turtles, wildlife, everything is affected. This is right here. I was doing the cleanup today, and I still, I'm still so humbled by, you know, lifting up and raising those super sacks. You know, I've been out here multiple times where people are just hucking them, picking them up, ripping them, walking... Making them look right. A hundred yards, yeah. And I'm like, okay, my turn. I just absolutely get worked. But today, today, I was able to hold my own. But I'm sitting there like, man, they're, you know, like, should we do two people? Here comes Santiago. He's no, no taller than, than four foot eleven. Right. Must, must weigh a hundred and twenty pounds. And he just goes... Picked it up like, like it was his job. And he just hucked it. And just, boom. Yeah. Maybe a little bit more than a hundred. Yeah. It's only going to get worse unless we can do what we do. And I think that's one thing that's super important about today. You shouldn't be intimidated by the small steps that you can make. Because it's not this perfect circle. And like, it's a perfect world of, I'm completely plastic free. Because it happens. You know, people occasionally are going to take, get takeout. You're, you know, people at the restaurant, they're going to give you a fork. You might have forgotten your stuff. That's okay. But I think the big message that we're trying to get out is like, take those small steps. You know, it's progress, not perfection. And, you know, we're all about the nudge, don't judge. Just trying to get people to see that. But I think that us doing that on the beach, picking up mountains of cutlery. Yeah. In a, what, a hundred foot beach in a matter of 20 minutes. It's mind melting. Like, wow. So it really is ending up in the ocean. So what Byron's saying, awareness is the key. Like, we're cleaning up and we're contributing. We're having impact, no doubt about it. But, look, we can't clean up our way out of this problem. We're sitting on a treadmill. Right, right. Cleaning alone will not solve the ocean plastic crisis. It does a fantastic job of driving awareness and getting people involved. Correct. And getting people to say, hey, what is that that's super cool? Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, you know, people protect what they love. Yep. If we can make this look cool, and it is cool, right? But if we could share that with people and show people. I mean, it just feels good as a human to connect with another human. Know that we're doing something bigger than ourselves. For the environment that's benefiting their community. And, I mean. The goal and objective is to make cleaning the ocean cool. Because, essentially, people, we wanted to look at it as that's aspirational. I want to do that when I grow up. I want to do that. I want to join that. Not as much like just viewed as that's dirty work that I don't want to be a part of. And that's what I think that we've been able to gain a lot of momentum. But making cleaning the ocean cool and making sustainability cool. So, like, you know, cleaning the ocean alone is not going to solve it. But driving awareness and continuing the conversations. And getting people to understand where all that plastic is ending up. That's how we're going to do it.