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Speaker 1: Every now and then you see photos come out showing

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Speaker 2: You say, why can't they be part of them?

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Speaker 3: So good to me?

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Speaker 4: I'm always like, how do they approach the people?

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Speaker 1: They always see the helicopter fly over and they start

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Speaker 3: Technology, but you no bras like I am here.

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Speaker 1: For it does kind of make you wonder, though, what

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Speaker 1: would happen if those people were introduced to modern day technology,

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Speaker 1: Like they.

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Speaker 3: Just jumped a couple hundred years and ended up here.

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Speaker 4: How would that go?

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Speaker 1: We don't have to wonder anymore because a social experiments

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Speaker 1: happening right now were For the last eight months, an

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Speaker 1: indigenous Brazilian tribe called the Marubo people have been getting

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Speaker 1: high speed internet in their village for the first time ever.

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Speaker 3: That's wild.

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Speaker 4: They were gifted a.

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Speaker 1: Bunch of cell phones and computers and a satellite link

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Speaker 1: attached to a posts, allowing them access to.

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Speaker 4: The web and all of the wonders that.

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Speaker 3: It holds crazy? How does that even you.

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Speaker 4: Have to picture?

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Speaker 1: They live in one of the most isolated places on

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Speaker 1: They sleep in communal straw huts. They hunt and grow

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Speaker 1: their own food. They have bones through their noses. It's

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Speaker 1: that type of community.

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Speaker 2: Tell you that one guy's like I could.

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Speaker 4: I can't wait to move out to the middle of

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Speaker 3: He looks like he could be a contestant on the batch.

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Speaker 1: Of Okay, let's take our focus off of the honky

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Speaker 1: hot Amazonian men and let's focus on what would they

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Speaker 1: do with the Internet suddenly at their disposal because they're hot. Recently,

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Speaker 1: researchers came back and paid the Maruba people a visit

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Speaker 1: and when they arrived, they were shocked at what they saw.

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Speaker 3: Okay, this is nothing, but this is a year after

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Speaker 3: the Internet, is that what you're saying?

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Speaker 1: Almost a full year eight months later. First thing they

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Speaker 4: Yes, the world classic teens.

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Speaker 1: Also, there was a group of men crowded around a

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Speaker 1: phone streaming a soccer game. Okay, I mean it's stuff

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Speaker 1: that you'd see in any regular town. It's just really

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Speaker 1: strange to witness it way out in the middle of

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Speaker 4: They're also Bandwagon real Madrid fans.

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Speaker 1: So they asked the seventy three year old villager if

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Speaker 1: the change has been positive overall? Okay, and the old

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Speaker 1: woman said, quote, when it first arrived, everyone was so happy,

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Speaker 1: but now things have gotten much worse. All the young

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Speaker 1: people have become so lazy. It's terrible. Even the old

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Speaker 1: people in the Amazon are frustrated with technology.

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Speaker 3: It makes sense, I mean totally does. It's ruining our lives.

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Speaker 4: Well, clearly, there's some pros and cons to it.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the proska that the tribes people say they.

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Speaker 4: Like about the internet.

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Speaker 1: Number one, the ability to chat with loved ones who

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, so they figured out Facebook. That's good.

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Speaker 1: Number Two thing that they like is access to educational opportunities.

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Speaker 3: That is true.

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Speaker 2: There is so many different like educational games and Google.

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Speaker 1: All the time, Like we're gonna having a conversation, like.

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Speaker 4: What was that call? Hold on? Like I Google is

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Speaker 3: Know, but are we learning anything or are we just

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Speaker 4: Do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: But I learned after Google yeah, sometimes sometimes I remember.

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Speaker 1: And number three, the internet has actually helped save lives there.

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Speaker 4: Wow, Because before.

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Speaker 1: If there was a medical emergency, they had to use

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Speaker 1: if someone gets bitten by a snake, they can directly

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Speaker 2: I honestly, you can learn how to do CPR on YouTube,

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Speaker 3: That's all you need to do. You can teach it

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Speaker 1: Okay, so lots of positives, but a lot of the

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Speaker 4: Here we go. The major issue was.

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Speaker 1: People stopped going out hunting and growing food because they

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Speaker 3: I don't have to They found an alternative. But now

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Speaker 3: she's like, honey, what's for dinner? And you're like, I

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Speaker 3: don't know. I've been on TikTok for food.

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Speaker 1: Shortage is not great. Plus I'm guessing Uber eats doesn't

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Speaker 3: Oh that's actually genius. I wish that we could just

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Speaker 3: I could at my house. Yeah, I wouldn't have access.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about if you're just joining us a remote

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Speaker 4: Other problems, though, have been more.

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Speaker 1: Difficult to tackle, such as people falling for Internet scams

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Speaker 3: A lot of that, I would imagine.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of gullibility you've ever been on the

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Speaker 1: The kids are also playing violent video games now getting

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Speaker 2: I love that these are kids that are given like

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Speaker 2: violent video games are still more detrimental to them.

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Speaker 1: They're super cool, you go, I mean, And then of

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Speaker 2: Yeah that's okay, Yeah that is Wait, you can do

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Speaker 1: Apparently after watching those the young men in the tribe

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Speaker 1: Despite all the new problems, most tribes people that spoke

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Speaker 4: They want to cheap it.

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Speaker 1: Plus, on the bright side, four different women from that

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Speaker 1: tribe have matched with jose on Tinda, so love is coming.

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Speaker 4: To the village too.

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Speaker 1: But the leader of the Marubos says, I think the

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Speaker 1: Internet will bring us much more benefits than harm. That's

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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