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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, today is going to be a special episode.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about the Amazon Rainforest and the incredible biodiversity

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about why this is happening, what's

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Speaker 1: We're also going to have lots of fun talking about

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Speaker 1: the amazing, incredible and crazy animals living in the Amazon.

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Speaker 1: But I also know that you guys are some amazingly

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Speaker 1: empathetic people, and I know you might be heartbroken over

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Speaker 1: the recent developments in the Amazon as am I. And

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Speaker 1: if you haven't heard about this issue yet, that's okay,

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Speaker 1: since we'll explain what's going on, So please enjoy the show. Hey, everybody,

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Speaker 1: welcome to Creature Feature, the show where we dive into

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Speaker 1: the world of animals the world of people and realize, hey,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, it's the same world. Wow. Deep. Today

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Speaker 1: we're talking about the Amazon Rainforest, which, well, it's on fire.

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Speaker 1: Is it time to panic? Yes? That really now is

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Speaker 1: the time. But let's engage in some constructive panic. Today.

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Speaker 1: We're going to get educated and motivated and inspiraated, inspiated. Yeah, sure, inspiraated.

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Speaker 1: So the Amazon rainforest, why should we care? I know

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Speaker 1: that's a dumb sounding question, but I think it's always

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Speaker 1: important to not take our world for granted. What is

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Speaker 1: it about the Amazon that's so special, both in terms

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Speaker 1: of its importance to animals and its importance to humans.

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Speaker 1: So South America's Amazon rainforest is over two million square

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Speaker 1: that sounds like a hell of a lot of trees,

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Speaker 1: but it's not really that much when you consider its function.

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Speaker 1: The Amazon rainforest is called the lungs of the Earth,

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Speaker 1: as it provides over twenty of the entire oxygen supply

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Speaker 1: but it's also an important part of the carbon cycle

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Speaker 1: and absorbing dangerous greenhouse gases that cause global warming. Right now,

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Speaker 1: living Amazonian trees absorb hundreds of millions more CEO two

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Speaker 1: than their dead trees release, but that could change at

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Speaker 1: the burning and destruction of the trees continues. Alive, the

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Speaker 1: Amazon is our lungs, keeping the world healthy. Dead, it

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Speaker 1: would become a decaying math that would accelerate global warming,

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Speaker 1: possibly beyond repair. Between the nineteen sixties and seventeen percent

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Speaker 1: fires and destruction is occurring at unparalleled rates. And that's

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Speaker 1: frightening because if the rainforest reaches about deforestation, it could

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Speaker 1: reach the point of no return where the hydrological that is,

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Speaker 1: water cycle system would no longer be able to support

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Speaker 1: the rainforest ecosystem. It's kind of like if someone cut

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Speaker 1: off of your body, in most cases, you wouldn't really

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Speaker 1: survive that. Aside from the global impact, the Amazon is

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Speaker 1: home to millions of people and animal residents. The rainforest

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Speaker 1: is the ancestral home of over one million indigenous peoples

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Speaker 1: in more detail later in the show. It's also very

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Speaker 1: literally the home to the most bio diversity on the planet.

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Speaker 1: Ten percent of the planet's total species live in the rainforest.

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Speaker 1: There are sixteen thousand species of trees, two and a

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Speaker 1: we've got about an hour and a half. As long

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Speaker 1: of them. Joining me today is Miles Great, co host

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Speaker 1: of The Daily Zeitgeist. I'm sorry, I was drinking cold brew.

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Speaker 1: I just come in very late. That's fine. It's a

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Speaker 1: it's a lot to take in. There's a lot going on. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: then this is uh, this is the intersection of so

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Speaker 1: you know, but I'm I'm I'm actually wanting to know

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Speaker 1: in the eighties when people rainforest, man, I think that's

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Speaker 1: why say, Well, I mean it's pretty obvious. Uh, in

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Speaker 1: some ways, it's like we need them to live. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so the planet won't turn into a charred husk of

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Speaker 1: seventeen deforestations like, well, that doesn't seem like that much.

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Speaker 1: But it's a living organism like an ecosystem is. You

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Speaker 1: I try doing that with you know, like, okay, then fine,

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Speaker 1: let's take from your forearm down and one of your kidneys,

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Speaker 1: right yeah, or like seventeen percent of your blood. You

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Speaker 1: Let's get the rainforest drunk or just wet the fire start.

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Speaker 1: And I didn't know how to say that. I do

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Speaker 1: that thing where I think people hate hearing the word moist,

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Speaker 1: if you're not mature enough to handle, that's talking about

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Speaker 1: getting the rainforest wet again. I mean, but maybe that's

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Speaker 1: niche is home to so many different animals, birds of reptiles, amphibians, mammals, insects, plants, trees,

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Speaker 1: So imagine, if you will, if you had superpowers and

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Speaker 1: medicines derived from plants all over the world, like madagascars

424
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 1: rosy a wrinkle found in Africa with tumor fighting agents.

425
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 1: Wild nams in Mexico and Guatemala provide the active ingredients

426
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,360
Speaker 1: found in birth control, and quinine, a treatment for malaria,

427
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 1: which is derived from an extract of the bark of

428
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,160
Speaker 1: the sein Chona tree found in Latin America and Africa.

429
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:21,199
Speaker 1: When you consider the amazing properties of rainforest plants and

430
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 1: consider the fact that the Amazon is home to over

431
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 1: forty thousand species of plants, there are very likely many

432
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,159
Speaker 1: extracts from these plants that have yet to be discovered

433
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,880
Speaker 1: that could help cure diseases. But if they go extinct

434
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 1: before we discover them, we'll never know what advancements in

435
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: medicine we could have made. I didn't mean to end

436
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: own such a bummer note. But when we'll return, we'll

437
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: talk about pink dolphins. Right now, animals are going extinct

438
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: in the Amazon, and if us humans don't get it together,

439
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: the situation is dire. A recent study by the Imperial

440
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:03,159
Speaker 1: College in London projected that as deforestation continues as it

441
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 1: had between the nineteen seventies and two thousand and eight,

442
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: over fifty five Amazonian species will die out by In fact,

443
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,119
Speaker 1: there's so much biodiversity there may be animals who go

444
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: extinct before we even get a chance to discover them.

445
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: Even under the most optimistic scenario where ranchers reduce deforestation

446
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 1: by up to thirty eight, species are projected to still

447
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: go extinct. But unfortunately, the current situation is not the

448
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 1: most optimistic, nor is it business as usual. In fact,

449
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: scientists are warning that the current rate of deforestation and

450
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,640
Speaker 1: burning could trigger a feedback loop called die back, where

451
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: the forest dries out too quickly, which makes it even

452
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,120
Speaker 1: more vulnerable to fires, creating a vicious cycle of burning.

453
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: And these fires are not natural or inevitable. Environmentalist groups

454
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 1: and indigenous groups have reported that cattle ranchers intentionally set

455
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,439
Speaker 1: fires to clearland to set up cattle farms, and have

456
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: been given carte blanche to do so by Bulsonaro's government.

457
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: When combined with the dry season and deforestation that is

458
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 1: already drawing out the Amazon, these man made fires can

459
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 1: spiral out of control. What's so frustrating is this is

460
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 1: something that can be stopped if measures are taken now.

461
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 1: To stop deforestation, to force deforesters to comply with laws

462
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: forbidding them from grabbing more land. Doom isn't inevitable for

463
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 1: the wonderful animals who are endemic to the Amazon and

464
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: who are facing extinction. So let's talk a bit about

465
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 1: some of these wonderful animals who are being threatened. And

466
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 1: to cheer you up, pink dolphins not the ecstasy, sorry,

467
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: but maybe better. That's a thing. Pink dolphins. Pink dolphins.

468
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know about the kind of dolphins. Yes, yes,

469
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 1: I think it's also a clothing brand too, is it. Yeah?

470
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: And I always say that's a weird I hope it's

471
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:56,880
Speaker 1: not made out of dolphins. So the closed stink, Yeah,

472
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 1: that's stinky dolphin. Jerkey. Don't don't wear dolphin clothing people, Yeah,

473
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,679
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not a good look. So this is

474
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 1: the Boto River dolphin or Amazon River dolphin, which is

475
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: a pink, magical dolphin who is endangered. They are pretty amazing.

476
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 1: Let me get you a picture of that. WHOA, that's

477
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: a that's a beautiful shade of pink. I know, right,

478
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: it's this sort of like light. I don't know, rosy pink. Yeah,

479
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 1: I mean it's what you would imagine a sun faded

480
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: pink flamingo figure on a lawn. That's beautiful. But as

481
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: a dolphin. H well, you know you have if you

482
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: have an active imagine used in a podcast, you can

483
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: envision that's beautiful. I want that's like, that's like a tattoo,

484
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: like a sun faded pink flamingo, but as a dolph,

485
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: but as a dolphin. But the text is a tattoo,

486
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: right exactly. Yeah, but like you have it in a

487
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: like in French or in uh in some other languages,

488
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: people don't know what. Yeah, I mean yeah, if that

489
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: sounds great, Yeah, I wonder what that That probably would

490
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: sound pretty good in French there like oh my god,

491
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: is that sort? Or So these pink river dolphins, as

492
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: I've said, the males are actually pink. So they have

493
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: fat foreheads and long snouts, and they're one of the

494
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: largest dolphins because they can reach up to eight ft

495
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: and four fifty pounds UM. So the reason males are pink,

496
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: it's actually pretty metal backstory. So it's thought to be

497
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: scar tissue all over their bodies. Um, not necessarily from

498
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: any actual like bad injury, but from just rough manly

499
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: dolphin games and fighting like play fighting, fighting games, rough housing. Uh,

500
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: and that like kind of rubs at their skin and

501
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: makes them pinker. So are the females less pink or

502
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: not at all? They're they're more of a they're more

503
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: of a grayish color. Yeah. Wait and so so then

504
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: by that logic, could a female look pink if it

505
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: were engaging in the same activities as a male, But Julie, Yeah,

506
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: that's an interesting point. I feel like it could. But

507
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: there it could also be the case that they're less

508
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: their skin is less pigmented. That right, um wow. But

509
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: the brighter the pink, the more attractive they are to females,

510
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: the more like scar tissue. It's like it's like an

511
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: all over body tattoo or like scarification thing, and the

512
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: ladies love it. I like to think though, that they're

513
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 1: just engaged in this like this this dolphiny rough housing

514
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: where it's like they're giving each other noggies, and like,

515
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: I see, it's weird. I see. It's just such a dark,

516
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 1: dark world and it's mostly like most max. Yeah, it's

517
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: not even physical stuff. It's like you you can tell

518
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: just how like haunted a guy is by how pink

519
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: they are. The brighter the pink, the more the stink. Yeah,

520
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: there we go, there's a shirt. So these dolphins are

521
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: also very nimble. Their neck vertebrae are unfused, so they

522
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: can bend their next at a ninety degree angle, which

523
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: makes is very good for them because they have to

524
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: navigate a round a lot of tree roots and obstacles,

525
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: so they can just kind of slide right in. In

526
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: my mind, I guess I'm typically when I think of

527
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: a dolphin neck, I can't picture because to me, they're

528
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: just a big tube. But in a way. But I

529
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: guess as they swim you sort of see that motion,

530
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: but they can straight up just like well this one

531
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: they can't. Yeah, I mean for this kind of Yeah,

532
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: the Voter River dolphin can bend its neck at a

533
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: like basically like a human can, if not more nimbly.

534
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: Well you know what, let's I like this dark backstory.

535
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: Flexible neck. Yeah, I mean most dolphins have some flexibility

536
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 1: in their neck, you know, like I see the enslaved

537
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: dolphins like nodding their neck. Yeah. So they're also drummers, am, Yeah,

538
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: what can't these dolphins do? Their head banging headbanging there.

539
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: They're so metal and they're pink. They're pink metal. They wait,

540
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: they really drum Yeah. So they old branches, no, no,

541
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: the whole branches and grass in their mouth, and they'll

542
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: beat the water with it to impress the ladies. Sometimes

543
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: they even hold up sometimes even like hold up live

544
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: turtles in their corners. Yes, they do. They'll be like,

545
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: y'all check this out, turtle turtle headband. Wow. And like

546
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: in l A. It's such a cliche to like, like

547
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: a drummer with a haunted past. Yeah yeah, I mean,

548
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: I'm surprised these are on l A River dolphins. I

549
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: kind of want to date this dollar. Yeah me too.

550
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, what's your story, Like I need to know

551
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,719
Speaker 1: a little bit about you. Well, speaking of dating the dolphin, uh.

552
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: Native Amazonian folklore believes that boto dolphins can transform into

553
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: a human and come out of the water with a

554
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: hat or a wig to disguise the blowhole. And these

555
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: are called incantatas um. So it's either a beautiful man

556
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: comes ashore and impregnates maidens or a beautiful woman who um.

557
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: One of the legends is that it'll come to shore

558
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: seduce a married man, then after a week of the affair,

559
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 1: transforms him into a baby and transfers him into his

560
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: own wife's womb. Wow, it's At first I was like,

561
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: this sounds like an excuse of philandering husband makes when

562
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't know, man, maybe it was this dolphin.

563
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. I don't know who. Yeah,

564
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: that's one of the theories that it is a way

565
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: to explain like certain like family drama and stuff. But

566
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: but I feel like it's like a dolphin version of

567
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: being John malcolvit right, Yes, that is um also. But

568
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: I do like the idea though too, that like back

569
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: then they would treat a dolphin like a normal human

570
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: just because they didn't see a blowhole. We're like, oh yeah, cool,

571
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: where are you from? Oh great, cool. I've not been there,

572
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: but I've I hear great things. I don't know what

573
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: that was. That was definitely dolphins sound they do. That's great,

574
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,439
Speaker 1: that's a that's a good dolphin call. You know. It's

575
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: the dolphin burst through the door, horny dolphins and like

576
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: I show you. I'm like, I have a secret, where's

577
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: the check? Oh? Man? So the only threat to these

578
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:31,240
Speaker 1: glorious pink dolphins is humans and their habitat being destroyed.

579
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: So uh, and they don't do well in captivity and

580
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: they can't be quote unquote trained, which also very metal

581
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: of them, Like, we don't live by your rules. We

582
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: are pink because of all the rough housing we do.

583
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: We drum the water, we seduce your ladies, and we

584
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,840
Speaker 1: turn you into a baby and impregnant your wife with

585
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: your own baby self. This is you know what, And

586
00:34:55,800 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: just for that reason we should respect them and all

587
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 1: of their and all of their I want to say people,

588
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 1: but they're not people, all of their species. Uh. Yeah.

589
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: The idea though, that they're untrainable is so amazing to me,

590
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: because dolphins are so intelligent that to them it almost

591
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: feels like, No, I don't even like this concept that

592
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: you're even proposing, in which I will perform for you.

593
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: I drum for myself, and I drum for the ladies,

594
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: but not for you. Drum to mate exactly, and if

595
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: and I don't see any I don't see any viable

596
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: mates around here, so I'm drumming. I am not having

597
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: sex with a scientist, so I am not going to

598
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: drum with for you. And also before I get ahead,

599
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 1: of myself. Are there any turtles here? So moving on

600
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: to another aquatic animal, the giant otter uh is, which

601
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: is known in Brazil as the ariana or water jaguar

602
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: because they grow up to six ft six ft. Yes,

603
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: it's the longest member of the otter family and the

604
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,720
Speaker 1: entire weasel family, which otters are actually a member of. Really, yeah,

605
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: the m used to live family probably screwed up that pronunciation,

606
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: but you know the weasel family. Yeah, I wasn't going

607
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: to correct you, but this is your noodle boys, like

608
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,720
Speaker 1: the noodle boys, the noodle boys weasels you call noodle

609
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: boys little boys are girls? Is that like a thing

610
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: in the weasel community we're not knowing about now. To you,

611
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,879
Speaker 1: they're like noodly, Yeah, they look like noodles. Yeah, they're

612
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: very d Do you have a photo of a six

613
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: foot arter next to a basketball player? For scale, Let's

614
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: see giant otter next to NBA point guard basketball player.

615
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:48,240
Speaker 1: And here's one of them, resplendent on along. He's so pretty,

616
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: is like a beard. Well know, so that's a white patch.

617
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: And what's really interesting about that is it's like a

618
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: giant otter's fingerprints. So each of the waters will have.

619
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: Um these are white patches of fur and it's unique

620
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: to each otter and that's how they identify each other.

621
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,720
Speaker 1: And they actually they'll engage in this behavior known as periscoping,

622
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,879
Speaker 1: where they'll come above the water and kind of like

623
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: turn around and like show off their neck and under

624
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: their chin, and then other otters are it's like giving

625
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: their business cards other utters like Hey, I'm this order

626
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: rightly exactly. Yeah, squares up here, you may you may

627
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: have to turn turn a little bit. Yeah there. For me,

628
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: from seeing it from afar, I thought it grew like

629
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: a really dope whispy. It does look like a beard. Yeah,

630
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 1: it's actually, but it's flat. It's it's just yeah. Um.

631
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: So a few more reasons to love these these guys.

632
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: First of all, they are one of the most endangered

633
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,240
Speaker 1: mammals in the Amazon. There's only about five thousand living

634
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: individuals um and there endemic to the area, so they're

635
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,280
Speaker 1: not found any where else in the world. UM. And

636
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: they form monogamous pears and uh, they will have like

637
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: a big old family that sticks together. So uh, the

638
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: parents and a bunch of kids that all hunt together

639
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: up until the kids are sexually mature, which can be

640
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 1: a couple of years. So these big families of all,

641
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:23,760
Speaker 1: it won't be like you'll never see grandparents with the grandkids. Um,

642
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: I mean you could, but the I think they do

643
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: disperse at that point out there, Like I wish you

644
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: met your grandpa. I mean he's probably still around. We

645
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: just he had a great cure coat on his neck,

646
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: you know. Um. They love to eat fish and snakes.

647
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,439
Speaker 1: Just noodles eating noodles, big noodles eating small noodles. That's

648
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: all nature is big noodles eating small noodles. And yeah,

649
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: well I mean a noodle eating a noodle is a circle. Yeah,

650
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: it's like in a way, or just a really long line.

651
00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:01,240
Speaker 1: I guess it's the sphere of life. Noodles, the noodles,

652
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: the noodles, noodle of life. There you go. Uh. They

653
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: like to find a peaceful place to eat their food

654
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: or a little picnic spot it's called. They're so just wholesome.

655
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: They're they're monogamous. Family some noodles. Yeah, these are. Yeah,

656
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: they're family oriented. They like they go. I have to

657
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:23,439
Speaker 1: I have to be honest with you. I haven't fully

658
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: bought it on this noodle thing, right, you know, and

659
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: I don't want to seem like I'm a band contrarian,

660
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: but um, I just after knowing how they feel, I

661
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: just feel like they need something a little more elevated

662
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: than the noodle. What would like just long long tallboys.

663
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll have to have to put a pin

664
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: in this flippery dudes, slipper, something a little more genderless.

665
00:39:53,719 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: Tubular tubular tubular buddies to buddies, Buddy two buddies. There

666
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:06,439
Speaker 1: we go. Yeah, buddies, and they're they're sick. They're sick.

667
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 1: They have a bunch of different growls and barks to

668
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: communicate alarms. They'll warn other otters of like oh hey

669
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: you're in my territory, or they'll warn them of predators. Uh.

670
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: They'll also like do like barks and stuff that secret

671
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: reassurance from each other's and they're little their little tube families.

672
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: Um uh and like the needy bark. And then one

673
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 1: of them validating, yeah yeah, just like just like validate me.

674
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: You're validated. Please like my post? I like it. Okay,

675
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: so they are okay essentially, I to me, that seems

676
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: like they're needing. They're always on Instagram like posting, just

677
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: like those vague. Those vague Instagram posts are like where

678
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, eating fish just and then like

679
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: an emoji of like kind of a like sort of

680
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: sad otter and you're like, hey, what's up, and it's

681
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:02,720
Speaker 1: like I can't explaince long story. Don't worry, long story

682
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 1: because we're also the longest have the Weasel family. So

683
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 1: it's a long story. Long boy, you gotta you gotta second.

684
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: I just feel like, yeah, they would also be mad.

685
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: They're like you keep I know you watch my stories,

686
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,840
Speaker 1: but right you never I don't know, you're just like

687
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: creeping on my I wonder how they post on it,

688
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: Like do you think they do like one like a

689
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: bunch of different photographs of themselves, so it's like one

690
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: of their head, one of their middle, one of their middle,

691
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: one of their middle, and one of their butts, so

692
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 1: that you like flip through to get the whole otter

693
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: because they're too you know, maybe or they just I

694
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: have a feeling they don't. They're just on there for likes.

695
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: It's all like vantage shots whatever they feel their best

696
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: feature is like in landscape mode, yeah exactly. Yeah, you

697
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: kind of have to do a pano every time you

698
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 1: get a shot yourself. So moving on to uh, I

699
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: want to talk about the bald you a carry monkey, uh,

700
00:41:55,880 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: which is another beautiful, beautiful animal. I want to show

701
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: you a picture. M hm m hmmm. So whoa how

702
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: this is one monkey? I'm sorry almost broke your computer.

703
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: Uh okay. It reminds me of kind of like a

704
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: Japanese kabuki mask with like a very long haired body. Yeah.

705
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 1: So they have bright red faces and red hair, which

706
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: is exactly what I look like after I'm in the

707
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: sun for any given amount of time. That is a

708
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: shade very similar. Yeah, yeah, okay, so it's uh, my

709
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,399
Speaker 1: sunburned face and my red hair. So this is sort

710
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 1: of a style like yeah, actually they it is. It

711
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: is the I love. I mean their hair is straight though,

712
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 1: so it's like it's like if I straighten my hair

713
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: and then I get a sunburn. No, I don't straighten

714
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 1: your hair. Your hair is a great body to it.

715
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: You look just a mess, you know, I would, I

716
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 1: would actually a little fried. Now they rocket, they rocket,

717
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 1: I can see the ends from here. That's true. So

718
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 1: why are they face their faces so read? Is it

719
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: because they're embarrassed about their split ins? I hope they

720
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,399
Speaker 1: heard this yet. So recently, researchers have found that they

721
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: have a huge amount of capillaries right under the skin. Um.

722
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like how when we blush, it's

723
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: because flood blood is flowing to the capillaries. Um. But

724
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,720
Speaker 1: it's all over their face. It's permanent. And the reason

725
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: we can see it so well is their skin is

726
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: actually translucent, so there's no pigment. Just similar to the

727
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: glass cross. They're so transparent. They're very transparent. And not

728
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 1: that I'm saying transparency is a bad thing, but like

729
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: too much of a good thing. Yeah, you can be

730
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 1: an overshare, like if you're literally showing me what your

731
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: splein looks like the first meeting first, when I meet

732
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: you at first and you're like, here's all my capillaries,

733
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: and like, I mean, eventually we could talk, Like I'm

734
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: a very open person, I'll talk to you about stuff,

735
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: but when I first meet you, I maybe don't want

736
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: to see all your capitalaries, you know, and like how

737
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: did go? It's like they were kind of thing now

738
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,720
Speaker 1: you so, but with these monkeys, they do actually wanna

739
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: be over shares because the red faces are actually an

740
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:12,759
Speaker 1: honest indicator, which in UH evolutionary biology terms means in

741
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: an indicator of your health or to mates, that is

742
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: actually a true signal of your health. Oh so if

743
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: you're unhealthy, you would not be right right right? So

744
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:27,280
Speaker 1: less healthy monkeys who say contracted malaria will look pale

745
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 1: because the redness is just blood. It's the capillaries under

746
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 1: their skin. Um, and so like blood loss or or

747
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,439
Speaker 1: illness will make them look pale, and then their mates

748
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: will be like, your look like a ghost. I don't

749
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: want to marry like with you, um, welcome to my life.

750
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: Oh man, another ghost. You wouldn't believe it. They're pale,

751
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 1: red skinned ghost again, keeps I gotta get off ghost date. Wait,

752
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: but with their capillaries, does that mean it will they

753
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 1: will always be that shade of red, even if they're healthy, Like,

754
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: are there moments where they red mite subside or just know?

755
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 1: It's always that red? It's always that red. But sometimes

756
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: their faces get redder, like when they're aroused or excited.

757
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:16,760
Speaker 1: So it goes from extremely red to very extremely red. Wow,

758
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: what's above extremely violently violently red atastrophically. So now let's

759
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: move from the red to the blue. Wait? Can I

760
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: ask about their hair really quick, because it looked like

761
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 1: their hair was so long and healthy that like it

762
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,760
Speaker 1: looked like a Gillie suit that like a marine sniper

763
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: would wear. It just sort of like it almost gives

764
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: them more of a presence than there might actually be

765
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: underneath their coat. They're pretty small. Yeah, they're actually um

766
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: one of those smaller monkeys. Um, they grew up to

767
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: around like excluding the tail, it's around like seventeen inches. Yeah,

768
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 1: so they're really not that big. They know that photo

769
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,160
Speaker 1: they do look deceptively big because of how fluffy they are,

770
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, it is something I will give him that look. Yeah, yeah,

771
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 1: even despite the burnt and split ends. Maybe maybe that

772
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: does help them like intimidate being more intimidating because of

773
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: how Yeah I wonder if like your coat, if you're

774
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: like there's especially some good body to it with your

775
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 1: super red face. Yeah, people like they are achieving a

776
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: lot of volume, which I'm pretty Yeah, there's something I'm

777
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: just saying. There's a lot of interesting stuff with the

778
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:29,959
Speaker 1: thin skin. But maybe pal Mitchell and Loreale or something

779
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: do some studies on this. Some of the chi what's

780
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: that called the Chai hair products that like super expensive

781
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: or something, um as someone who has very little hair.

782
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:45,959
Speaker 1: I don't know. And it feels like a direct shot

783
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:49,799
Speaker 1: at me, like the like the t you rub it

784
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:53,399
Speaker 1: on your head. Really yeah, wow, I see, I'm look,

785
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: I've missed a lot, missed a lot. So we're gonna

786
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: now we're gonna shove from the red to the blue.

787
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:03,720
Speaker 1: Because it's hyacinth macaw time. Um, that was a great segal.

788
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: I love a good Hyacinth macaw. Yeah. So they're these beautiful,

789
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: bright blue parrots. Let me get a picture of that

790
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 1: for you. I have a feeling I can picture this

791
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 1: one even before you show me. Then yeah, and I

792
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 1: was right, yep, it's a bit. It's like the one

793
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 1: thing I think of when I think of a blue.

794
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 1: But I called parrots because well, it is a parrot.

795
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 1: Parrot makes a parrot a parrot. I'm sorry to just

796
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: complete the parrot. Great. Onward we go, there we go.

797
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: Um and macaw's are within the parrot family, so fantastic um.

798
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: So it's the largest flying parrot. It grows over three

799
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 1: ft in length and up to eight pounds um. So

800
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: they're threatened mostly by the illegal pet trade and in

801
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 1: their habitat being lost, so like when they're instead of

802
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: being just bred as pets, like when wild individuals are

803
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: captured and put into the pet trade. Um, they're known

804
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: as being gentle giants. They have sort of a nice

805
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: friendly demeanor. Yeah, they're big. They're like I said, they're

806
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,399
Speaker 1: up to eight pounds. That's a lot of bird. Wow,

807
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: I didn't. Yeah, think about like a turkey. Well, think

808
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: about a normal parrot, Like you hold it on your arm.

809
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,399
Speaker 1: It's like not that big. I'm sorry. Do you hold

810
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 1: a lot of parrots on your A few parents? Well

811
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: I've never been on a Caribbean where the one of

812
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,240
Speaker 1: the stops are taking a photo up with a parrot,

813
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 1: is it? Oh? So okay? See I don't This is

814
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: where you know I have blind spots in my experience

815
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: as of a human beings. I mean, I don't know

816
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 1: that the gentle touch of a parrot. You should maybe

817
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 1: educate you more on birds or go to rainforest cafe.

818
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 1: So these are highly intelligent birds who can actually use tools. Uh.

819
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: So they've been observed wrapping leaves around nuts and fruits

820
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: to keep them from slipping like oven midst or like

821
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: like no slip grip stuff. Um, why all they crack

822
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 1: open the nuts or pry off the husk from the fruit. UH.

823
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: They'll also used pieces of wood to act as a

824
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:11,280
Speaker 1: wedge to help pry open nuts. UM and younger hyacinth

825
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: macause will actually experiment more with tool use than adults

826
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: who have learned better, so they'll combine tools or they'll

827
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: A study found that UM captive young macause uh would

828
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,879
Speaker 1: try to use shoelaces, rubber bands, or even poop as

829
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: like tools, and then like as adults, they learned the

830
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: same kinds of macause when when they were studied as

831
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:37,959
Speaker 1: adults they just did wood and pieces of leaves. Because

832
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: they're like, you know that, this is how this. I

833
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: just love that the younger macause are like, would would

834
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 1: poop work? What if I sho on my food? I'm sorry,

835
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:48,879
Speaker 1: what if I defecated on right? Right? I mean, like

836
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: like any normal high school kids like what if I

837
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 1: what if I poop on it? Yeah? I think that

838
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: will work. Yeah, let's try. Don't knock if you try it?

839
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: And parents like yeah, go ahead, yeah try that. Try that.

840
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,879
Speaker 1: See how Yes, it also shows how intelligent they are

841
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: because first of all the creativity of using poop as

842
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 1: a tool, but also just like that as adults, they don't.

843
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: They seem to narrow down the tools to really the

844
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 1: most efficacious one. So they've learned. They learned. Yeah, you

845
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:20,280
Speaker 1: know what, that didn't work. They go through an awkward

846
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 1: teenage phase where they're like hammer and poop against stuffs

847
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:28,359
Speaker 1: and the tour. Yeah, you turn to an adult who

848
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:31,800
Speaker 1: doesn't poop on their food exactly. Well, some of us, Okay,

849
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:33,879
Speaker 1: to each their own, you know, to each their own.

850
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: I'm not here to judge, but I regret to tell

851
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 1: you I don't think I'll be having dinner at your house.

852
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:44,800
Speaker 1: Well that's too bad. I had using some special tools.

853
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: I think you'd really enjoy the crime. Brewet animals are

854
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,760
Speaker 1: the only ones whose homes are being threatened by the fires.

855
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:01,399
Speaker 1: As I mentioned earlier, the rainforest is the ancestral home

856
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:05,399
Speaker 1: of over one million indigenous peoples. There are around four

857
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 1: hundred distinct communities with their own languages and cultures, a

858
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 1: minority of whom have little to no contact with outsiders.

859
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 1: In Brazil, tribal communities are being threatened and are trying

860
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:18,800
Speaker 1: to fight for their rights, their lives, and their homes.

861
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:23,280
Speaker 1: Illegal ranchers and deforesters and policies of the Bolsonaro government

862
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: in Brazil threatened their lives. Groups representing the Amazonian indigenous

863
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 1: peoples have explained that they are currently undergoing a humanitarian emergency.

864
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 1: The fires and aggressive commercialization of their land threatened them

865
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:38,839
Speaker 1: with extinction and genocide, and the situation is more dire

866
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: than ever before. Compared to eighteen the number of fires

867
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 1: during the dry season has increased by eighty four percent.

868
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:49,240
Speaker 1: When we return, will explain why the Amazon is burning,

869
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 1: what policies are harming the situation, and what is being

870
00:51:52,320 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 1: done and what you can do to help. So, as

871
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 1: of recording this podcast, there have been two thousand, five

872
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 1: hundred active fires burning in the Amazon. As we discussed earlier,

873
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 1: this is not natural. The deforestation and burning by ranchers

874
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,960
Speaker 1: the Amazon has led to a shocking increase in the

875
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 1: amount of fires. So what are the politics behind this catastrophe.

876
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: The Amazonian rainforest is sprawled beyond the borders of nine nations,

877
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: but the vast majority of the rainforest falls under Brazilian control.

878
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: The current policies of the Bulsonaro government that enable ranchers

879
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: and commercial interests to grab land from indigenous people to

880
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,960
Speaker 1: diforest and burn certainly are culpable for the current situation,

881
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: but it's important to remember that the responsibility doesn't stop

882
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 1: at Brazil's borders. US President Donald Trump supports Bulsonaro and

883
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 1: tweeted out on August quote, our future trade prospects are

884
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,919
Speaker 1: very exciting and a relationship is strong, perhaps stronger than

885
00:52:56,960 --> 00:53:02,920
Speaker 1: ever before, which is really upset ing given the like

886
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,239
Speaker 1: he ends the tweets saying, quote, I told him that

887
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 1: the US can help with the Amazon rainforest fires. We

888
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:12,280
Speaker 1: stand ready to assist, which in the context of talking

889
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,920
Speaker 1: about trade, it makes it sound like helping set more fires.

890
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,359
Speaker 1: And I know, I know, like I'm not like, I'm

891
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: not like fake news twisting his words. I know, he's

892
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: like saying, like, help stop the fires. But again, it's

893
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: just like that whole tweet, it's like future trade is

894
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 1: looking great, let us know if we can help with

895
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: the fires. It's just like, hey, we love to visit

896
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: with you, and like you know, you know, yeah yeah,

897
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:38,720
Speaker 1: And it's it's like and I mean, Bolsonaro has been

898
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: like praised by uh like people talking about like how

899
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 1: he's gonna increase trade and increase exports, and what that

900
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: means is like cut the rainforest exactly because everyone, you know,

901
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: his whole thing was like, ah, the indigenous people are

902
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:56,320
Speaker 1: ruining the rainforest because it's all protected and ship, yeah,

903
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 1: I mean it's all protected. Uh And I think you

904
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: know that was one of his he campaigned on that, like, yeah,

905
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 1: don't worry, I can turn that into a big we

906
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 1: can play. You know, what's that game with the farming

907
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:15,320
Speaker 1: that I won't played on Facebook? Farm place, farm Farmville, Farmville,

908
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:23,880
Speaker 1: And I hate to bring a Facebook farm down Farmville,

909
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 1: just basically saying we'll convert that into a massive cash

910
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 1: cow for lack of a better word, I mean sports.

911
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,400
Speaker 1: And I think it is important to not just be like,

912
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:38,839
Speaker 1: oh Bolsonarow, that horrible man over there in Brazil. This

913
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,879
Speaker 1: is a This is not the actions of just like

914
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 1: this one man, although obviously he's he is responsible for

915
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 1: huge up tickets exactly, so like a lot of the

916
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 1: responsibility lies there, but he's enabled by all of the

917
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,879
Speaker 1: old Garks in the US and other countries that are

918
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 1: totally on board to make another buck off of the rainfall. Yeah. Well,

919
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 1: because I think you know, in the eighties is when

920
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: they really started being like, hold on, what can we

921
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: do with this? Rainforest here and that's when it started

922
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:13,720
Speaker 1: really spike. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the late nineteen seventies. Between

923
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: the nineteen like before the nineteen seventies, only about one

924
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 1: percent of the rainforest had been deforested between the nineteen

925
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 1: seventies and like around now seventeen percent. And like I said,

926
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 1: once we reach around that's kind of like that's the

927
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 1: potential tipping point that scientists believe that's when, um, there

928
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 1: could be this kind of cataclysmic series of events that

929
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 1: destroys the whole force and it gets turned into I

930
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:47,959
Speaker 1: think it's called downgraded savannah. Um. So that would uh

931
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:53,440
Speaker 1: you know, that would be catastrophic. Wow, yeah, I mean,

932
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: and that's the really sad thing is, like you say,

933
00:55:55,760 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 1: it's a system that, when it's running efficiently, can you know,

934
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 1: bring a lot of good things. And when you start

935
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:07,359
Speaker 1: kneecapping it, the wheels fall off and it has really yeah,

936
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 1: and it's sort of just with the drought that that

937
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,799
Speaker 1: can it'll exacerbate too with the lack of rainfall and

938
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: all the even just cloud pattern all everything is so

939
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: connected with it, and that's that die off sort of

940
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 1: domino effect where the more you deforce, the more it

941
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:28,680
Speaker 1: dries out from human activity the more it burns during

942
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 1: the dry season. And that's not to say I mean

943
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: like there are definitely ranchers who are um setting fire

944
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: to it in a all threatening indigenous people's living there

945
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 1: is because they're emboldened by the Bolsonaro government. Um, but

946
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: it's also even even beyond that, like the more it's

947
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 1: deforested and the more it's dried out, the more susceptible

948
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:54,359
Speaker 1: it is to the dry season and and fires. So

949
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,440
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's just a really bad situation all around.

950
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 1: There's a recent news story where Bolsonar was blaming NGOs,

951
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: the non governmental organization, the environmentalist groups. Well didn't he

952
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 1: all say, well, who do you think martians? Did it?

953
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:11,360
Speaker 1: Like very flippantly was like I think it's yeah. He

954
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: was like he was like saying claiming that they were

955
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 1: going to hurt his image. So like the idea that

956
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 1: environmentalist groups would literally burn down the rainforest right and

957
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 1: go after him, that's like the whole sting the rainforest.

958
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 1: That's sort of like, that's sort of the whole optics

959
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 1: campaign that they're trying to pursue to sort of make

960
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 1: deforestation like a viable or attractive thing, it's like, well,

961
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: there's like a whole conspiracy from environmental groups about this,

962
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: and really this is about like our economic output and

963
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: all these other things. And it's just a shame too,

964
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 1: because you know, all tied up into that are the

965
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 1: people that live in the rainforest, and their way of

966
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: life is the most you know, as compared to our

967
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 1: modern lives, tied to the earth, tied to mature, tied

968
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: to that system there in that they participate in. And

969
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: when you keep taking away the things that they need

970
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: to live off of, especially like the plants and things,

971
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: because living in the rainforest means there's no there's no

972
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 1: wall greens, right, and there's like the there there are

973
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 1: like you know, small farmers and and like it depends

974
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: on the the communities, but like they're like small, Like

975
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 1: I mean, there are still like barely contacted people laying

976
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 1: in the Amazon who I mean, they're they're a minority

977
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 1: of the people living there. But that makes them all

978
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 1: the more vulnerable because like they don't have a lobbying group.

979
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 1: And um, so there are these leaked documents from Bolsonaro's

980
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: ministry that showed the government is trying to thwart the

981
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 1: Triple A multinational effort, which is like this, Uh, it's

982
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 1: the NGO effort to protect the Amazon um by strategically

983
00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 1: occupying the Amazon with commercial intraists. And also they plan

984
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 1: to use both scenarrows racist rhetoric against the indigenous people

985
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 1: uh to dehumanize and isolate them. Um. And so here's

986
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,920
Speaker 1: here's a quote from one of the leaked slides. Quote.

987
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 1: Development projects must be implemented on the Amazon basin to

988
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 1: integrate it into the rest of the national territory in

989
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:25,920
Speaker 1: order to fight off international pressure for the implementation of

990
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: the so called Triple A project. To do this, it

991
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: is necessary to build the trom Vedas River hydroelectric plant,

992
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 1: the Obidos Bridge over the Amazon River, and the implementation

993
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 1: of the b R one highway to the border with

994
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 1: Surinam um. So basically like we need to develop it

995
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:49,080
Speaker 1: so that we can you know, start taking it over right, yeah,

996
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 1: and be like well, actually this is usual infrastructure projects

997
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 1: we need. And yeah, it's really like this whole idea

998
00:59:56,720 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 1: of there's like the colonization aspect that's a threat to

999
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:06,400
Speaker 1: indigenous people that has been there since the Portuguese got there,

1000
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 1: and then now you're adding like global capitalism with the

1001
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 1: president who's like, let me exploit like the most one

1002
01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: of the most valuable resources on earth to create more

1003
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 1: capital for a country that's only going to benefit of

1004
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 1: very small amount of people. And it's the wealth and

1005
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 1: quality in Brazil is extreme too. Yeah. Yeah, and it's

1006
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 1: just so there's just so many layers of tragedy sort

1007
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:31,080
Speaker 1: of mapped onto this one thing, aside from just the

1008
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 1: environmental things. And yeah, I hope that this actually does

1009
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 1: help bring more awareness, because you know, it took so

1010
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 1: long for most of the rest of the world and

1011
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:44,919
Speaker 1: even in Brazil for people to be like, oh right,

1012
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: this is like this is becoming really terrible. But it

1013
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:50,520
Speaker 1: feels like a lot of the activism, or at least online,

1014
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 1: it's just more about like can you believe this, versus like,

1015
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:57,200
Speaker 1: hold on, there's a leader there who's doing this, who's

1016
01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 1: terrorizing these people who live there, all in the sake

1017
01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 1: of bringing in more Right, this isn't natural, this is

1018
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 1: human made catastrophe. This these leak slides, like they talked

1019
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:13,400
Speaker 1: about how they feel like they're successfully that the Bullsonaro's

1020
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:18,120
Speaker 1: sort of racist in inflammatory comments are successfully separating people

1021
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:20,919
Speaker 1: from caring about the indigenous people because they were talking

1022
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 1: about how like a huge portion of the population hadn't

1023
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 1: even heard about the fires in the media, and that

1024
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 1: was like a that was a good thing. And in

1025
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 1: this slide show presentation, it's it's such a weird thing,

1026
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 1: like you imagine these like government officials like here's our

1027
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:39,160
Speaker 1: evil plan next flood. Yeah, what's weird? I feel like

1028
01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 1: in this last Just recently, there's been a lot of

1029
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:45,640
Speaker 1: leaked stuff that articulates exactly like the most evil stuff,

1030
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:47,439
Speaker 1: like with the GOP sor like this is our mass

1031
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:51,320
Speaker 1: shooting playbook and you're like, oh wow, like you've articulated

1032
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 1: my evil plan, right, or even like Monsanto being like, Okay,

1033
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 1: this is what we need to do. So people don't

1034
01:01:57,400 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: connect round up with blood cancers, I hope someone like

1035
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: raids uh, who's the one who died David Coke's estate,

1036
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 1: for like all his evil He's just going to have

1037
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:09,920
Speaker 1: like a thing on his desktop where it's like evil

1038
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:12,800
Speaker 1: plans and then porn and then the porn is just

1039
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: human suffering climate change disasters. Right. Um, So just so

1040
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:22,080
Speaker 1: people know, like here a few of Bolsonaro's racist statements

1041
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 1: about the indigenous people. Um, and this is what's thought

1042
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 1: to help, um, you know, kind of rile up people

1043
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:35,040
Speaker 1: and encouraging ranchers and land developers to illegally uh steal

1044
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 1: land and set fires and even like harass them with violence.

1045
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:43,800
Speaker 1: Um So, here's one of Bolsonaro's quote quote, the Indians

1046
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:46,160
Speaker 1: do not speak our language, they do not have money,

1047
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:49,280
Speaker 1: they do not have culture. They are native people's how

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Speaker 1: did they manage to get of the national territory that

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01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 1: was set in, which is very uh you know hitlerrian. Yeah,

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01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:01,919
Speaker 1: you know there's a group of people who are sitting

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01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 1: on something or possess something. You want to take from them,

1052
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:08,040
Speaker 1: so begin dehumanizing them. This is like this is like

1053
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:11,640
Speaker 1: Trump's rhetoric to against like immigrants. Yeah yeah, but yeah,

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01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:16,240
Speaker 1: especially for right. Um here's another quote quote, there is

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01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 1: no indigenous territory where there aren't minerals. Gold, tin, and

1056
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 1: magnesium are in these lands, especially in the Amazon, the

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Speaker 1: richest area in the world. I'm not getting into this

1058
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:29,439
Speaker 1: nonsense of defending land for Indians. And that was also

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01:03:29,520 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 1: in um So, that's I mean, just it's he's being

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01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:38,120
Speaker 1: totally transparent about it that he's he wants to plunder

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01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:40,640
Speaker 1: the land and he doesn't care about the people already living,

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01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 1: and he has that sort of like colonizer rhetoric of

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01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:48,520
Speaker 1: being very dismissive about the Indians, right right, Yeah, what

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01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:50,960
Speaker 1: you hear a lot like in South America to to

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01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:53,240
Speaker 1: sort of like be insulting, like they're like, you know

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01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:55,280
Speaker 1: what I mean, it's it's can be a slur. And

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Speaker 1: he was even running on this idea of being called

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Speaker 1: Captain Chainsaw when he is running for presidents. Yeah, man,

1069
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:05,800
Speaker 1: because his whole thing was, well, here's the deal. Our

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Speaker 1: economic development is being held back because everyone loves the rainforest,

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01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 1: right he does. And that sounds familiar to like blaming

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01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:16,280
Speaker 1: the indigenous people for they're kind of be being stamming

1073
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 1: when really it's because of the wealth inequality where and

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01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:23,840
Speaker 1: just like gross terrible corruption and mismanagement of money. And

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01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,920
Speaker 1: that's really but no, let's again like let's blame the

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01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:31,080
Speaker 1: other We've done that in America all that. You know,

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01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 1: everyone there's a scapegoat for everything except for the people

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Speaker 1: who are responsible. Here's one last quote. I can't do

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01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:41,600
Speaker 1: any more quotes, so I'm gonna vomit, but quote, you

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01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:44,840
Speaker 1: can be sure that if I get elected president of Brazil,

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Speaker 1: there will be no money for NGOs. If it's up

1082
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 1: to me, every citizen will have a firearm in the house.

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01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:55,440
Speaker 1: There will be not a centimeter demarcted for indigenous reservations

1084
01:04:55,560 --> 01:05:01,440
Speaker 1: or Kyle Umbula's. Um So, this was said Vantine kylum

1085
01:05:01,520 --> 01:05:07,000
Speaker 1: Bola's are Afro Brazilian residents of Kilombolo settlements, which are

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01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:09,840
Speaker 1: made up of the ancestors of people who escaped from

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01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 1: chattel slavery in Brazil. Um So, these are, you know,

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01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 1: the ancestors of some of the most oppressed people in Brazil.

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01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 1: And I think and also didn't he like completely dissolve

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Speaker 1: like one of the governmental organizations that's in charge of

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01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:28,000
Speaker 1: like like advocating for indigenous people, Like it's just been

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01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:31,960
Speaker 1: systematic like of like no, let's take every possible defense mechanism.

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01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:34,640
Speaker 1: And I mean when you also even look at the

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01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 1: lives of these people, it's almost like a war that

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01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:41,720
Speaker 1: these people are just even before the fires of you

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01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:44,480
Speaker 1: have greedy people who want to develop on their land

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Speaker 1: and sometimes they have to defend themselves and are killed. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's that that viral video of that woman

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01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:55,400
Speaker 1: who's crying on the on the camera. She's an Indigenous

1100
01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:59,040
Speaker 1: woman and she's talking about how she was trying to

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01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:01,800
Speaker 1: get her children to fall asleep and she heard gunshots

1102
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:04,560
Speaker 1: and she was like she herself couldn't sleep either because

1103
01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:08,280
Speaker 1: of how frightened she was. UM And I mean, you

1104
01:06:08,320 --> 01:06:11,080
Speaker 1: know again, it's like I don't want to just like, oh,

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01:06:11,120 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 1: look at this horrible stuff just happening in Brazil because

1106
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:18,040
Speaker 1: like in the US that we're also like reducing protections

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01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:23,440
Speaker 1: for um native land, for land reserves and and form

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01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:27,000
Speaker 1: natural resources and trying to take the control of these

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Speaker 1: lands from like um native. Yeah, I mean it's I

1110
01:06:31,040 --> 01:06:35,800
Speaker 1: think it's just generally a global problem of us just

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01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:38,840
Speaker 1: sort of disregarding the rights of indigenous right right. I

1112
01:06:38,840 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 1: think it's just like right now this is like catastrophe

1113
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:45,360
Speaker 1: of the Amazon burning. I think it's like if we

1114
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:48,360
Speaker 1: haven't been paying attention so far, like now like we

1115
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: have to, this is this is you know, it's I mean,

1116
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 1: it should come from a place of empathy. But even

1117
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:57,200
Speaker 1: if like it's coming from place of just you know,

1118
01:06:57,280 --> 01:07:00,160
Speaker 1: carrying like Machiavellian is um, like, it's still super are

1119
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:03,920
Speaker 1: important everyone on the planet. And I think that's where

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Speaker 1: at some point, that's where the other governments of the

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01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:11,200
Speaker 1: world have to sort of exert more pressure, certainly not

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01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:14,640
Speaker 1: supporting him, like absolutely, And I think that's why, you know,

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Speaker 1: like Finland has proposed, like you know, trying to stop

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01:07:17,640 --> 01:07:20,800
Speaker 1: Brazilian beef imports into Europe, like proposed that to the

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Speaker 1: EU and things like that, because yeah, the rainforest, even

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01:07:24,680 --> 01:07:27,320
Speaker 1: though it is on the land of you know, a

1127
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:31,400
Speaker 1: few countries, but mostly Brazil, that's a thing that affects

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01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 1: you know, one fifth of the world's oxygen, right, you

1129
01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:35,320
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I think in that sense, the

1130
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:38,120
Speaker 1: lungs of the planet. Yeah, that we need to that's

1131
01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:40,000
Speaker 1: where people have to be like, hold on, this is

1132
01:07:40,040 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 1: actually this Like everything, there are so many existential threats

1133
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:46,760
Speaker 1: to our world, but like we have to treat this

1134
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:49,840
Speaker 1: as one just as serious exactly. And I think this

1135
01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:52,439
Speaker 1: is a good time to talk about like what what

1136
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 1: you can do, like what people can do, because I

1137
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 1: know when there's stuff like this where it's just it

1138
01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:59,480
Speaker 1: feels so overwhelming and I'm right there with you, like

1139
01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:01,800
Speaker 1: I it about like, as I was reading through this,

1140
01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:04,280
Speaker 1: I just got I felt so down. I had to

1141
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:07,240
Speaker 1: look at some invisible frogs to feel better. And as

1142
01:08:07,280 --> 01:08:14,400
Speaker 1: pete dolphins. I'll I'll include a bunch of pictures too

1143
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:17,200
Speaker 1: in the in the show notes, so you can uh

1144
01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 1: nice to like some of these wonderful animals. But there's

1145
01:08:21,280 --> 01:08:24,679
Speaker 1: also stuff you can do to help UM. And I'm

1146
01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:27,719
Speaker 1: certainly not since I'm not um a part of uh

1147
01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:31,519
Speaker 1: like and I'm not like an organizer uh in any

1148
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 1: of these um environmentalist groups, I may not know the

1149
01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:37,519
Speaker 1: best way. So like, if any of you out there

1150
01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:40,080
Speaker 1: have uh like, I'm going to mention some stuff. But

1151
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:42,639
Speaker 1: if there's something that I don't mention that you think

1152
01:08:42,760 --> 01:08:45,080
Speaker 1: would be cool, like, let me know, tell me in

1153
01:08:45,160 --> 01:08:49,599
Speaker 1: social and like all um, I'll mention it next podcast too.

1154
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:52,960
Speaker 1: So I mean, some of the things we can all

1155
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:58,320
Speaker 1: do is vote for people who take environmentalism seriously, you know, uh,

1156
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 1: spread the word to people like word of mouth, talk

1157
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 1: to your family's uh talk on social media. UM you

1158
01:09:05,200 --> 01:09:10,200
Speaker 1: know ruined Thanksgiving like do it um. You can donate

1159
01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:15,599
Speaker 1: to organizations uh fighting uh for the Amazon. I'll include

1160
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:22,080
Speaker 1: some links in the footnotes the the WWF website, which

1161
01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:25,519
Speaker 1: is not the World Wrestling Now but um they're great too,

1162
01:09:25,520 --> 01:09:28,320
Speaker 1: but it's the World Wildlife Foundation. They won that lawsuit.

1163
01:09:28,400 --> 01:09:34,559
Speaker 1: I know. Um, so they have an emergency appeal. You

1164
01:09:34,600 --> 01:09:37,559
Speaker 1: can sign a petition on there. You can also donate

1165
01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:42,040
Speaker 1: to their emergency appeal. Um and uh, you know, donate

1166
01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:46,479
Speaker 1: and signal boost indigenous organizations fighting the deforestation. They're like

1167
01:09:46,560 --> 01:09:50,599
Speaker 1: on the front lines. Um. Uh. Like this August, tens

1168
01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:53,880
Speaker 1: of thousands of Indigenous women and girls marched in Brazil

1169
01:09:53,920 --> 01:09:57,639
Speaker 1: as part of the first Indigenous Women's marched uh sorry,

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01:09:57,680 --> 01:10:02,040
Speaker 1: Indigenous Women's March. Uh. They denounced the policies of both

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01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:06,720
Speaker 1: Narrow and the deforestation and attacks on their ancestral homelands. Um.

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Speaker 1: You can read more about that on the Amazon Frontlines website.

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01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:12,400
Speaker 1: I'll also include a link to that in the show notes.

1174
01:10:12,439 --> 01:10:16,800
Speaker 1: I think, I think that's really incredible in show notes. Um,

1175
01:10:16,840 --> 01:10:19,200
Speaker 1: but yeah, I just it's like, it's so, I mean,

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01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:22,120
Speaker 1: they're they're really like, if you know, if we can

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01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:24,599
Speaker 1: support the people who are on the front lines, who

1178
01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:27,719
Speaker 1: have lived there for generations, who are trying to fight

1179
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:29,720
Speaker 1: for their homes and from the Amazon, it's very easy

1180
01:10:29,760 --> 01:10:32,880
Speaker 1: for us being so far removed exactly. Oh, I think

1181
01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:36,240
Speaker 1: it's bad, but no, like for them, right their life

1182
01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:39,799
Speaker 1: literally life or death. And even though that may seem distant.

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01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:41,880
Speaker 1: It is actually life or death for the rest of

1184
01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:44,639
Speaker 1: the planet. We just it's less immediate, like yeah, when

1185
01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 1: it's abstract to many people, well, that's a fire there,

1186
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:50,960
Speaker 1: and I guess there's fire, no, right, this is this

1187
01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:53,960
Speaker 1: is daily life or death for people living there. Um.

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01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:56,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean because I'm sure, like I know

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01:10:56,880 --> 01:10:59,599
Speaker 1: so many people really do care and like, but don't

1190
01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 1: feel paralyzed, don't feel like, oh, there's nothing we can do,

1191
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 1: so why care anymore? There's certainly stuff we can do.

1192
01:11:05,479 --> 01:11:08,760
Speaker 1: There's so much that we can do, so you know,

1193
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:11,240
Speaker 1: it's even really had me. I mean not even that,

1194
01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:14,120
Speaker 1: like you know, we eat that much Brazilian beef in

1195
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:16,919
Speaker 1: the US. I mean, there's certainly an amount that's important,

1196
01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:20,160
Speaker 1: but it's mostly in Asia. But the amount of just

1197
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:22,840
Speaker 1: like beef consumption, I've it's been like a thing. I've

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01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:27,559
Speaker 1: slowly like, I didn't think I would really give a ship,

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Speaker 1: to be honest, just as a human being who likes food.

1200
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:33,519
Speaker 1: But like you know, and a lot of the times

1201
01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 1: I'm sort of like, well, this isn't my fucking this

1202
01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:38,519
Speaker 1: isn't my problem. And because a lot of this is

1203
01:11:38,560 --> 01:11:42,000
Speaker 1: born out of these like massive industries, and then then

1204
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,400
Speaker 1: at the consumer level you're told, well, you need to

1205
01:11:44,439 --> 01:11:47,280
Speaker 1: do this to offset all of that. But yeah, I

1206
01:11:47,320 --> 01:11:49,840
Speaker 1: am starting to sort of begin to have more and

1207
01:11:49,880 --> 01:11:53,720
Speaker 1: more misgivings about it, or at least trying to, you know,

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01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:57,160
Speaker 1: I go more plant based in those senses, because, Yeah,

1209
01:11:57,520 --> 01:12:00,080
Speaker 1: the more I look at things like when I just

1210
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:03,360
Speaker 1: think of an indigenous person who is you know, they

1211
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:06,080
Speaker 1: are looking down the barrel of a gun because someone

1212
01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:07,800
Speaker 1: is trying to make money off of the land that

1213
01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:12,360
Speaker 1: they've lived on since time immemorial is really heartbreaking and

1214
01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:16,400
Speaker 1: that that has I think motivated a little bit of

1215
01:12:16,479 --> 01:12:19,479
Speaker 1: change inside of me. Uh not say I've gone fully vegan,

1216
01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:22,599
Speaker 1: but I do eat much more plant based things when

1217
01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:27,400
Speaker 1: I can, and try to avoid the beef when possible.

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01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:30,760
Speaker 1: Where is the beef? Yeah, you know, I just get

1219
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:34,479
Speaker 1: the impossible burger. I mean I think that because there's

1220
01:12:34,520 --> 01:12:38,280
Speaker 1: so many things you can do that like whatever you

1221
01:12:38,360 --> 01:12:41,080
Speaker 1: can do, whatever you feel motivated do, and you want

1222
01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:44,400
Speaker 1: to do like like do that, Like I mean, you know,

1223
01:12:45,040 --> 01:12:47,960
Speaker 1: I think I'm sort of there with you where it's

1224
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:51,639
Speaker 1: like I'm I'm cutting down my meat consumption, um, and

1225
01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:55,080
Speaker 1: like I try to do mostly fish uh, and and

1226
01:12:55,240 --> 01:13:01,040
Speaker 1: vegetarian stuff. Um, And I mean I have great respect

1227
01:13:01,080 --> 01:13:04,240
Speaker 1: for people who go vegetarian and vegan. I think that's amazing.

1228
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:07,599
Speaker 1: It's obviously not a lifestyle that everyone can do because

1229
01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:11,559
Speaker 1: of health reasons and stuff, but right and cost exactly. Um,

1230
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:14,920
Speaker 1: but like it's um, you know, you don't have to

1231
01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:18,320
Speaker 1: do one thing, Like you don't have to just like

1232
01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:21,559
Speaker 1: just become vegan or something. You can you can cut

1233
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:24,320
Speaker 1: down on stuff you do or you know, if your

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01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 1: lifestyle doesn't permit making dietary consumer changes, you can vote,

1235
01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:32,000
Speaker 1: you can donate, you can be an activist. You can

1236
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 1: like talk about it, like just if you care and

1237
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:37,200
Speaker 1: you just do stuff about it. You you talk to

1238
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:40,200
Speaker 1: one person about it, you go online and you read

1239
01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:42,000
Speaker 1: more about it, and you find out things that you

1240
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:44,200
Speaker 1: can do. Like that all helps. Like that's all good.

1241
01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:46,439
Speaker 1: And sometimes you're like, well, I won't even say anything

1242
01:13:46,439 --> 01:13:49,599
Speaker 1: because you know, especially like with politics and things like that,

1243
01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:52,240
Speaker 1: people get turned off because let's say like well I'll

1244
01:13:52,240 --> 01:13:55,160
Speaker 1: say it to so and so person in my social group,

1245
01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:57,479
Speaker 1: family or whatever, but there's no point because they won't

1246
01:13:57,520 --> 01:13:59,640
Speaker 1: listen to anything. But you know what even if it

1247
01:13:59,760 --> 01:14:02,400
Speaker 1: feel is like something that's completely futile. The fact that

1248
01:14:02,439 --> 01:14:05,120
Speaker 1: you that might even get a person too. They might

1249
01:14:05,160 --> 01:14:07,160
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, whatever or whatever, and then when you leave,

1250
01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:10,240
Speaker 1: they go on the internet. You see what's up them?

1251
01:14:10,439 --> 01:14:12,679
Speaker 1: Show them a picture of one of these doofy little

1252
01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:16,320
Speaker 1: kermit frogs and they're cute weird faces and crumple it up.

1253
01:14:17,280 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 1: This is what's happening. This is what your apathy does mean. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they're like, I don't know, it seemed photoshop to me.

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, but those are those are moments too.

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Speaker 1: I think. You know again, sometimes they are people whose

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Speaker 1: minds you can't change, but sometimes just offering a contrary

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Speaker 1: opinion to those people can create a chain of events

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Speaker 1: where thought is given to other things that might not

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Speaker 1: have been before. Sometimes it's not always about completely changing

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Speaker 1: people's minds, but at least getting someone to think. And

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Speaker 1: if you care, if you really care about an issue,

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Speaker 1: if you read about it and you care about it,

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Speaker 1: you talk to other people. I think that's infectious. I

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Speaker 1: think that really like when you really care and you

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Speaker 1: and I think, don't don't let that fatigue get to you,

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Speaker 1: because I know that it's overwhelming with everything that's in

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Speaker 1: the news, that is so setting, and you can feel

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Speaker 1: overwhelmed and fatigued, like just where you just want to

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Speaker 1: not think about it and give up. And I feel

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Speaker 1: that too, Like I think that's totally natural and sometimes

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Speaker 1: you do have to protect your your mental health that way.

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Speaker 1: But but just like you know, try to feel I guess,

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Speaker 1: try to approach it from a constructive angle of like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, this is sad and I do care,

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Speaker 1: and it is heartbreaking, but there are so many other

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Speaker 1: people that care to and there are people like on

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Speaker 1: the ground like fighting this and it's that's great and

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Speaker 1: that's inspirational, and like, you know, look up some of

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Speaker 1: these cool animals and look look at how amazing they look,

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Speaker 1: and like you can feel that that joy of like

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Speaker 1: how incredible our planet is while also understanding the urgency

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Speaker 1: in the situation. And you know, I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of people it's easy um to get disheartened when the

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Speaker 1: change you want to see is not happening immediately or

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Speaker 1: sometimes you know, from the time I worked organizing and

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Speaker 1: things like that, I know it can be it can

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Speaker 1: be really disheartening because you are so passionate about something

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Speaker 1: that if you're not changing people's minds, like you take

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Speaker 1: that burden on yourself of like, okay, well if I

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Speaker 1: take this on, that means every person I meet I

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Speaker 1: have to change our minds about something, and that's not

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Speaker 1: necessarily the best way to view it. Obviously, that's a

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Speaker 1: great place to come from motivationally, but I think it's

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Speaker 1: also important just to even be a beacon or someone

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Speaker 1: who just transmits the message. Not necessarily. Don't don't grade

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Speaker 1: yourself on how persuasive you're being or effective. Sometimes merely

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Speaker 1: just verbalizing these things out loud to other people is

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Speaker 1: just as much as you can do just as much good.

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Speaker 1: So don't you know. Also, let we need to adjust

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Speaker 1: sort of what our expectations are from even talking about

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Speaker 1: these things too, so we are able to do it

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Speaker 1: for a prolonged period of time, because I think the

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Speaker 1: second that apathy kicks in, it can be very difficult,

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Speaker 1: and just to become disheartened be like well I tried,

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Speaker 1: and that's it. No one's listening, and you know, like

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Speaker 1: I'll just I'll just zone out. I mean, imagine your

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Speaker 1: actions the things that you're doing, like say it's it's

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Speaker 1: donating or it's like talking to people about it, or

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Speaker 1: you know, signal boosting an organization. Imagine like what you're doing,

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Speaker 1: but on the large scale of like millions of people

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Speaker 1: also doing that and like that. That's the key thing is, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, you don't have to personally take the world

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Speaker 1: on your shoulders, but if you're doing stuff, you're trying,

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Speaker 1: and you're caring, like that is healthy if we all

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Speaker 1: do that. I feel like this is a good time

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Speaker 1: to talk about how much I appreciate all of the

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Speaker 1: Dick Dick pick picks that I've been getting, because last

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Speaker 1: time I said, Dick Dix are these adorable tiny antelopes,

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Speaker 1: And last time I talked about how it's said that

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Speaker 1: nobody sent me pics and I have been flooded with

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Speaker 1: Dick Dix. Uh addic Dick is here. I'll show you, yeah,

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Speaker 1: one of those many antelopes. Uh they're very very cute.

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Speaker 1: Um and uh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they're they're adorable.

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Speaker 1: I apprec I love and appreciate every single one of

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Speaker 1: Keep those coming, Uh, send me any anything. So if

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Speaker 1: I haven't mentioned or included any links to organizations to

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Speaker 1: donate to or stuff, than me those to me. Dit pics.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, you guys for listening. I know

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Speaker 1: this was probably an emotional one and I really appreciate

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Speaker 1: you tuning in and uh, you know, it's just it's

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Speaker 1: been great talking about this. I think it's so important

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Speaker 1: and it's so incredible, and good on you for listening

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Speaker 1: to the end to get the message out there, because yeah,

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Speaker 1: this really is such a vital part of our ecosystem.

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Speaker 1: It's one fifth of our oxygen. If there's not one,

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Speaker 1: if you're not compelled by the frog argument of the

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Speaker 1: pink dolphins threat to the existential threat indigenous people, think

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Speaker 1: about one fifth of yourtion, you know exactly. So Miles

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Speaker 1: you got got anything to Where can people find you?

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Speaker 1: Uh well, mostly Monday through Friday on this network doing

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Speaker 1: the daily's like Geist daily political comedy news show that

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Speaker 1: won't bump you out. I think I think I pitched

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Speaker 1: it right, um and just you know on the internet

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Speaker 1: at miles of Gray, that's miles within I Gray within

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Speaker 1: a Would you like Dick Dick pickpics? Yeah, sure, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I feel like there's a lot of post stuff, So

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Speaker 1: E T not f e e T. That's a thing,

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Speaker 1: very that's a whole different thing. Um monsters, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for listening, you guys, and thanks to the

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