Speaker 1: Hello, Stuff you Should Know, Nation, Stuff you Should Know,
Speaker 1: Army and even casual listeners. Welcome to this week's Saturday
Speaker 1: Stuff you Should Know Select episode. This one's from January
Speaker 1: two thousand and ten. Are There Undiscovered People? And this
Speaker 1: was a great one. Um. I just remember thinking at
Speaker 1: the time, Wow, is it possible that there could be
Speaker 1: people out there in the world that we don't know
Speaker 1: about in this day and age, even in two thousand ten,
Speaker 1: not even two thousand eighteen. So it was pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: And it's sort of an older one at this point. Uh,
Speaker 1: And it's just a super interesting one. Learn all about
Speaker 1: everything we know about whether or not there could be
Speaker 1: undiscovered people in the world. So enjoy. Are There Undiscovered People?
Speaker 1: Right now? Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House
Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark with me as always as Charles W. Bryant.
Speaker 1: I'm always there for you, Josh, as always, I'm contractually
Speaker 1: obligated to do. I know, I know, I know. So Chuck,
Speaker 1: you doing are yeah, dude, how are you doing? Pretty good?
Speaker 1: It's Thursday, it's not Friday, but it's a little gray
Speaker 1: out for my taste. Yeah, it's sprinkling, by the way,
Speaker 1: I thought it was like pouring rain. Is it sprinkling.
Speaker 1: It's sprinkling. That's good. So, um, chuck, do you remember
Speaker 1: can we go back a year or so, A two, eight?
Speaker 1: How many years after Ghostbusters? Let's see Holen four? And yes,
Speaker 1: we do know that there is a twenty four years
Speaker 1: sequel coming by the way, Yes, Ghostbusters three. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be awesome. Should be the entire original cast, believe except
Speaker 1: for Sigourney Weaver, which that's okay. Um, yeah, ghost by
Speaker 1: coming out right? So where are we? So we're we're
Speaker 1: twenty four years after Ghostbusters two? And um, the news
Speaker 1: cycle had this kind of strange occurrence where a bunch
Speaker 1: of undiscovered human beings were splashed across the front pages
Speaker 1: of newspapers everywhere. Yeah, sort of. Yeah, so there's this photo.
Speaker 1: There are several photos of these people living in um
Speaker 1: primitive huts actually primitive longhouses is what it looks like. Uh.
Speaker 1: And they are the it's an aerial photo taken from
Speaker 1: a low flying helicopter, and they are piste. They have
Speaker 1: their like aiming their bows and arrows at the at
Speaker 1: the camera. Like see the picture is pretty cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like get out of here. Um and uh so yeah,
Speaker 1: like this this whole thing made the made the news
Speaker 1: cycle and Chuck, I imagine I take from what you
Speaker 1: said before we started recording that you have a tad
Speaker 1: bit of disdain for the let's see journalism that was
Speaker 1: implied to this. Yeah, well, first of all, should we
Speaker 1: go ahead and refute it? Why not? Because they were not,
Speaker 1: in fact under undiscovered people. No, and there's actually a huge,
Speaker 1: huge distinction between undiscovered people and uncontacted or isolated people,
Speaker 1: right right, But you would not know that by reading
Speaker 1: The Independent from London, which I'm disappointed because I like
Speaker 1: that paper. No, I'm sorry, I could care less about
Speaker 1: the Independence, the Guardian. Yeah, you like the Guardian, not
Speaker 1: the Daily manil the Independent. Uh. Here's here's how the
Speaker 1: article opens up. Beneath the picture of the you know,
Speaker 1: clearly savage and everything, with the arrow pointing at the helicopter,
Speaker 1: three near naked figures are visible in the forest clearing.
Speaker 1: Two of them are in their bodies daubed with a
Speaker 1: red dye, and they are aiming their bows at the sky.
Speaker 1: A third figure appears to be a woman, her body
Speaker 1: black end and only her pale hands and face, betraying
Speaker 1: her natural color. This remarkable photograph is the first proof
Speaker 1: of existing of one of the world's last uncontacted tribes.
Speaker 1: So they do say uncontacted. That's good, but not everybody
Speaker 1: did though, sure it's a little overblown. That was a
Speaker 1: fine dramatic reading their chuck. I think the funniest thing
Speaker 1: that would have happened is if he would have shot
Speaker 1: that arrow and it would have somehow disrupted the propeller
Speaker 1: of the helicopter and it would have you know, landed
Speaker 1: safely on the beach for them to be eaten. That
Speaker 1: would have been a nice ending. There are tons of
Speaker 1: rumors of cannibalism about undiscovered people, right um. In this
Speaker 1: specific case, there was a guy named Carlos dos race Moreles.
Speaker 1: My Spanish is a little rusty, but I think that's
Speaker 1: about right. Um. And uh he is an Indian expert.
Speaker 1: I just made air quotes and these photos were taken
Speaker 1: in Brazil, right um. This guy lad the search for
Speaker 1: this tribe, right and um as the as I guess
Speaker 1: he kind of watched with horror, hopefully as they were
Speaker 1: described as undiscovered and knowing it or found them before
Speaker 1: He's he came out and was like, wait, wait, now
Speaker 1: I've been following these people for the last twenty years,
Speaker 1: so they're not undiscovered. See I thought he that was
Speaker 1: part of the ploy for him. That was he taken
Speaker 1: aback by that, you think, I thought, maybe that's how
Speaker 1: we got the funding to get the research team, by
Speaker 1: saying that either way we'll find out. Well, let's talk
Speaker 1: about it. Is it even possible to be undiscovered? Well,
Speaker 1: that's what this podcast is about, buddy. And you know what,
Speaker 1: it's kind of impossible these days. Yeah. We have things
Speaker 1: like GPS, we have things like heat sensors that can
Speaker 1: be attached to airplanes which you know, body heat sensors.
Speaker 1: Um there is almost complete and total encroachment and harnessment
Speaker 1: of any square parcel of land on the planet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: most everywhere, most, But that doesn't mean that there aren't
Speaker 1: people who are who live outside I guess the French,
Speaker 1: who live primitively and remain in a I guess primitive state.
Speaker 1: These are the uncontacted people. Yeah, isolation that basically they
Speaker 1: first they called them undiscovered, then they say uncontacted, and
Speaker 1: then they finally settle on isolated, which means more than anything,
Speaker 1: is they don't want any part of us. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that we don't want a part of them because we're
Speaker 1: always interested, we are, and usually with um murderous results. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these people have learned the hard way. Um. And some
Speaker 1: of these uncontacted tribes also, we should say, I don't
Speaker 1: even we have no idea what they call themselves. Right,
Speaker 1: So there's this, there's a group actually called Survival International,
Speaker 1: and they are dedicated to preserving indigenous ways of lives
Speaker 1: these tribes, for these for uncontacted tribes who have rejected modernization.
Speaker 1: Right indeed, because that's the thing you think about it
Speaker 1: when it's undiscovered or they're uncontacted. You you kind of
Speaker 1: pointed out, we just tend to think like, oh, they
Speaker 1: don't know about civilization or you know, these poor fools
Speaker 1: they don't know about you know, television or running with
Speaker 1: theft auto six. And it would clearly be better off
Speaker 1: if we gave them TV or made them Christians or
Speaker 1: or did whatever you know, made them slaves, Yeah, which
Speaker 1: we have a fine, fine tradition of doing. And um
Speaker 1: in this Uh, who's this kid who wrote this? Patrick Kaiger? Yeah,
Speaker 1: never heard of him. I hadn't either, but he's pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he does say that it goes back to Columbus, it
Speaker 1: goes well back before that. Um. The Portuguese in particular
Speaker 1: love to enslave Africans, and actually African tribes used to
Speaker 1: enslave one another. They had a completely different method in
Speaker 1: system of slavery. Uh. Slaves were treated much better among
Speaker 1: African tribes, especially West African tribes um so where they
Speaker 1: would eat at the same table as the people that
Speaker 1: own them. And of course the Romans used slaves. The
Speaker 1: jew spent a good portion of their history as slaves
Speaker 1: to the Egyptians. So I mean whenever we come upon
Speaker 1: new people or subjugate them, we we have a history
Speaker 1: of enslaving them. Like yeah, we tend to conquer. Like
Speaker 1: Chris Columbus met the very friendly Arowack people and instead
Speaker 1: of saying, well we can learn from them, he thought
Speaker 1: they would make really good servants rights, how hard working
Speaker 1: they are and they don't even speak English, so who cares? Right? Exactly? Well,
Speaker 1: they were also looked upon as savages are less than human,
Speaker 1: which definitely aided the subjugation of their their I don't know, blood, right,
Speaker 1: do you know why? Why? Because back before everything was
Speaker 1: discovered and there was still a lot of undiscovered land
Speaker 1: and they were making maps. The map makers would often
Speaker 1: chart these undiscovered lands as being filled with you know,
Speaker 1: mutant human beings and scary beasts for some reason, like
Speaker 1: here there be monsters because we haven't gotten around the
Speaker 1: mapping this area yet. Just assume that there's some sort
Speaker 1: of water serpent that's going to eat your boat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know why they tended to strike
Speaker 1: fear into people and two explorers instead of saying there
Speaker 1: might be very friendly people, maybe caution fear of the
Speaker 1: unknown things. So but Josh, these days, virtually every corner
Speaker 1: of the Earth has been explored, except for obviously parts
Speaker 1: of Antarctica. And a map which I had never heard of,
Speaker 1: where's in Brazil? And they said that this territory in
Speaker 1: northern Brazil is still unexplored forest. Right, so it's possible
Speaker 1: there are undiscovered people out there. Maybe, right, If there
Speaker 1: are undiscovered people out there, they are in big trouble
Speaker 1: because if the uncontacted or isolated people are any indication
Speaker 1: in their plight, um, then yeah, any undiscovered people are
Speaker 1: really kind of screwed. Um. You know, we talked about
Speaker 1: Chris Columbus and subjugating people. And actually, uh, Columbus is
Speaker 1: quite the little genocidal maniac he was. We covered that
Speaker 1: in one of the other podcasts we did. We did
Speaker 1: um because not only did he enslave them, he killed them,
Speaker 1: had them killed like the entire groups of people are
Speaker 1: assumed to have been wiped out by European colonization, and
Speaker 1: not just through brute force, but this, uh, this type
Speaker 1: of genocide, and especially if you look at a genocide
Speaker 1: as the the by its definition that it's the systematic
Speaker 1: wiping out of a group, right, like a people or
Speaker 1: a population, then it's still continues today as recently as
Speaker 1: the uh the eighties, the nineties in Brazil. Are you
Speaker 1: talking about the microbes or are you talking about outright
Speaker 1: violence violence specifically against the kun Zoo, Yes, Josh, the
Speaker 1: akun Zoo, who seemed like a friendly tribe that grew
Speaker 1: corn and hunted and remote Brazil for thousands of years
Speaker 1: until they were discovered and it was discovered that their
Speaker 1: land could be used for soy cultivation and cattle, right
Speaker 1: so uh and logging actually right, so the companies put
Speaker 1: in logging roads and into these this virgin territory where
Speaker 1: the kun Zoo lived and they actually came upon them.
Speaker 1: And it's part of Brazil's constitution that, um, the moment
Speaker 1: you meet an uncontacted tribes person or an undiscovered person,
Speaker 1: all work stops. So with the logging companies and the
Speaker 1: soybean farming concerns and the cattle ranchers did was higher
Speaker 1: assassins like death squads when they did meet the accun
Speaker 1: suit uh and sent them in and actually massacred them
Speaker 1: with guns. These people used bows and arrows, and these
Speaker 1: guys came in with machine guns and killed all but
Speaker 1: seven of the entire tribe. Yeah, then they fled, sadly
Speaker 1: they fled and and to just last year a newspaper
Speaker 1: reported that there were only five living a koon zoo
Speaker 1: in the world and that was that wasn't you know,
Speaker 1: very shameful. Yeah, but they're not, Josh, the most isolated
Speaker 1: tribe according to Survival International, aren't they know? That would
Speaker 1: be the Sentinelies. Have you ever heard of these guys? Now?
Speaker 1: I hadn't, and I saw that video you sent me.
Speaker 1: There's a clip on you tube. Yeah, I think what
Speaker 1: did you just search the Centinnalise and came up there
Speaker 1: was a couple of eclips. I think nat g I
Speaker 1: went down there and they did the same thing. They
Speaker 1: came out of the jungle onto the beach, and what
Speaker 1: it looked like in the video, or that is their interpretation,
Speaker 1: was they were making friendly gestures. UM. I did see
Speaker 1: another one where they had the bow and arrow out
Speaker 1: and um I was laughing that. When I was watching
Speaker 1: it earlier, part of me expected like hippie Rob to
Speaker 1: come out as their leader. Yeah, he's like the god,
Speaker 1: He's like Brando and Apocalypse now exactly. Um and the
Speaker 1: sentinels Josh where they They are believed to be descended
Speaker 1: from the very first humans in Africa, and technically we
Speaker 1: all are, but these people are directly descended from the
Speaker 1: first group that migrated out about sixty thousand years ago. Right.
Speaker 1: They live on the and Aman Islands the Indian Ocean.
Speaker 1: And did you notice how clear that water was and
Speaker 1: how white those beaches were. I wouldn't leave either, dude.
Speaker 1: It was gorgeous and it's TV and Xbox when you've
Speaker 1: got that, you know, right, So these people will come
Speaker 1: out of the jungle if you throw coconuts into the
Speaker 1: water at the beach. That's what they were doing, right,
Speaker 1: what was it. Yeah, these this group of people were
Speaker 1: sitting there throwing coconuts into the water and the UH
Speaker 1: sentinelales came out and we're like, thanks for the coconuts. Well,
Speaker 1: they probably thought it's raining coconuts from the giant monster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they are actually not primitive Stone age folks from
Speaker 1: what they say. Survival International says they're actually do make
Speaker 1: tools and weapons from recovered metal from shipwrecks. Right, pretty cool.
Speaker 1: They are actually not threatened. They're very isolated and relatively uncontacted. Um,
Speaker 1: but they're not threatened. They live on an island that
Speaker 1: no one really has any interest in, right, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: But as we saw with the Akunzo though, um, if
Speaker 1: there is money to be made off of the indigenous land,
Speaker 1: you're you're in trouble. Soy oil, yeah, cattle. Survival International
Speaker 1: actually named all of those oil um farming, cattle and
Speaker 1: logging uh as the the dominant threat to uncontacted tribes.
Speaker 1: So sad there's supposedly an estimated hundred uncontacted tribes in
Speaker 1: the world. Yeah, I was kind of surprised. That's a lot,
Speaker 1: and it's sad that these people are around for sixty
Speaker 1: thou years doing their thing, doing their thing long before us,
Speaker 1: and um, we just come in and say, hey, this
Speaker 1: would make a great soy farm, so I'm going to massacre.
Speaker 1: Yeah they heard, they heard about the bail out and
Speaker 1: they're like, we're staying here for us now. So, um,
Speaker 1: there's five regions that are under the greatest threat right
Speaker 1: now and they're in Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru. And actually
Speaker 1: there's tons of evidence there's groups dedicated like Survival International
Speaker 1: UM and other n g o s. And then there's
Speaker 1: actually government ministries set up in Brazil and in Peru
Speaker 1: and I think Paraguay UM that are in charge of
Speaker 1: keeping track of these uncontacted tribes, which is really difficult
Speaker 1: to do. Uh. And a lot of times these uncontacted
Speaker 1: tribes are slivers offshoots of other tribes that have had
Speaker 1: their land disturbed by logging or um mining, oil companies.
Speaker 1: So they would join up with another tribe and you know,
Speaker 1: they just take off into the forest and no one
Speaker 1: would know how many there were. That kind of thing,
Speaker 1: but yeah, they would be living primitively, but they're getting
Speaker 1: pushed for and further out or being massacred, or they're
Speaker 1: coming into contact with disease. Right, Yeah, that's what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about with the microbes. Violence is obviously a big threat,
Speaker 1: but they say that a bigger threat are uh these people,
Speaker 1: that these tribes that lack communities to these awful diseases
Speaker 1: that that twentieth century man has twenty one century man.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, sure it's the future. Yeah, uh yeah, there's
Speaker 1: actually uh that favorite book of mine, Charles C. Man
Speaker 1: talks about how there's an estimated hundred million people living
Speaker 1: on in the America's uh in four and then I
Speaker 1: think nine were wiped out by smallpox, thank you, like
Speaker 1: within a few decades. And Josh, it didn't just happen
Speaker 1: way back then, like you said. In the eighties, the
Speaker 1: some Christian missionaries made contact with the Zoe tribe in
Speaker 1: Brazil and in pretty short form, forty five members of
Speaker 1: that tribe die from the flu, malaria, and respiratory diseases.
Speaker 1: Just like that. And uh more recently, in nine six,
Speaker 1: half of the Maroon whoa ma maroona whoa tribe I
Speaker 1: think in Brazil. Uh, they were contacted by illegal loggers
Speaker 1: and half of the tribe was wiped out um from
Speaker 1: respiratory illnesses I think awful. So it's not like to
Speaker 1: bring up one of our favorite movies. Again, it's not
Speaker 1: like bringing orange soda to the Waponi Woo. Joe Versus
Speaker 1: the Volcano. Oh yeah, it's not like that in real life.
Speaker 1: I thought you were talking about, um, the gods must
Speaker 1: be crazy. No, another good one though, But it's not
Speaker 1: like the Joe Versus Volcano. It's not all happy, go lucky.
Speaker 1: They usually make contact with them. And even in the
Speaker 1: case of the Christian missionaries who were trying to do
Speaker 1: good I guess, and ended up killing a lot of them,
Speaker 1: and the Brazilian government stepped in and actually kicked them out,
Speaker 1: the religious group and said, now you gotta get out
Speaker 1: of here. Yeah. And apparently even when the thing is
Speaker 1: when contact is made as safely as possible and there's
Speaker 1: a medic old contingency plan in place, uh, it's expected
Speaker 1: that a lot of the tribes people will die. But
Speaker 1: if there's if it's if they're made through illegal loggers
Speaker 1: or a Christian missionary group that doesn't know what they're doing,
Speaker 1: then uh, yeah, a lot of people die, if not
Speaker 1: the entire group, right, That tribe did recover, though we
Speaker 1: should know, yeah, which is good news to get out
Speaker 1: of here Christian missionary so we can live peacefully and helpfully.
Speaker 1: So Chuck, is a good to even contact these people? Well,
Speaker 1: it can be good and bad because obviously if you
Speaker 1: make contact and you know a little bit about their way,
Speaker 1: why if you can protect them. But it's also like
Speaker 1: this newspaper article, it also opens them up to uh
Speaker 1: being invaded or watched or in this case, what was
Speaker 1: the the tourism trip? Tell him about that? That's awful
Speaker 1: savage tourism. Yeah. Actually the guy who Um was responsible
Speaker 1: for leading the expedition that produced those photographs that made
Speaker 1: the paper in two thousand and eight was apparently approached
Speaker 1: by travel agents who wanted him to set up a
Speaker 1: savage tourism trip. Which can't you just see a bunch
Speaker 1: of like fat white Germans and Americans like who I
Speaker 1: want to touch you right now? Your whole tribes wiped
Speaker 1: out And now let's get back on the cruise ship
Speaker 1: and look at the ice sculpture. Like like I said, Um,
Speaker 1: the Brazil has it in has mentions uncontacted and undiscovered
Speaker 1: people in its constitution, in large part because that unexplored
Speaker 1: forests in that just that one territory they have a
Speaker 1: real You don't have that in America, Like, we don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about, you know, how to treat undiscovered tribes.
Speaker 1: We figured out how to treat the ones we're familiar
Speaker 1: with badly enough, right. Um. But so Brazil apparently recognizes that, like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is your land, right and you legally own it.
Speaker 1: If you're an uncontacted or isolated tribe, nobody can touch it,
Speaker 1: but then has a really terrible history of following through
Speaker 1: on stopping people from going in logging in oil. Peru's
Speaker 1: history is even worse. They have some uncontacted tribes and
Speaker 1: threatened uncontacted tribes, and Peru's president is like, I'm not
Speaker 1: even sure they exist. And by the way, the French
Speaker 1: oil company that's working in this area where they supposedly exist,
Speaker 1: I've now just decreed that their work is a national necessity.
Speaker 1: So when you when you're an uncontacted tribe in your
Speaker 1: butting heads with an oil company, you're gonna lose. But
Speaker 1: I will say Paraguay, hats off to Paraguay, because they
Speaker 1: actually the environmental nice chucked just took his head off
Speaker 1: to the environmental ministry provoked the license of a ranching concern.
Speaker 1: That was just decimating And I don't mean in the
Speaker 1: literal like removing tem per cent term, right, I mean
Speaker 1: like decimating all Latin speakers out there the um the
Speaker 1: this land that technically belongs to the indigenous uncontacted tribes there.
Speaker 1: So so they booted them out or they just took
Speaker 1: away their permits. They took away their permits, which is
Speaker 1: pretty much tantamount to booting them out. Awesome. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just so sad that when you know, such a modernist
Speaker 1: point of view to see these undiscovered or uncontacted people
Speaker 1: and think that their savages and that their way of
Speaker 1: life is is savage and primitive. It's just they were
Speaker 1: here first. Well, I mean we were were We were
Speaker 1: all here first, we were all here at the same time.
Speaker 1: But it's just a complete lack of recognition of other
Speaker 1: people's choices. Yeah, and in respect for other other cultures
Speaker 1: and ways of life. And because again didn't fly around here.
Speaker 1: There's no theft auto in the jungle. No, there's not.
Speaker 1: There's no auto. If you want to learn more about
Speaker 1: people undiscovered or otherwise, you should try typing in people
Speaker 1: in the Andy serge bart how stuff works dot com.
Speaker 1: It brings up a hidden sub channel. Really yes, uh
Speaker 1: and uh, I guess since I said hidden sub channel,
Speaker 1: that means it's time for what Chuck Listener mail, Yes, Josh,
Speaker 1: it is. And before we do that, we want to
Speaker 1: send a thank you to Dan of the pottery Dan
Speaker 1: Dan Made, Dan Made. He has a little uh etsy website,
Speaker 1: Dan Made dot et s y dot com and he
Speaker 1: makes pottery. And he sent us some really awesome coffee mugs. Yes,
Speaker 1: Dan made, very cool muggs. And actually it's my my
Speaker 1: work mug. Now that's what he use. I noticed cool detail.
Speaker 1: You've got an octopus on yours with a pipe smoking
Speaker 1: a pipe. I can't tell what mine is some little dude,
Speaker 1: but it's just got cool details, got swirls in the bottom,
Speaker 1: little intentions, and only some parts of it are glazed
Speaker 1: and others raw. It's really Dan Made knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1: So thanks Dan, and you know what you wanted to
Speaker 1: bring up people who have been sending us little gifts.
Speaker 1: And it's just really nice to come into work and
Speaker 1: have someone you know, uh what was her name that
Speaker 1: sent us the twinkie, the homemade Twinkie the Kid shirts.
Speaker 1: I don't remember. Her name was like Kaya or something
Speaker 1: like Kyla. I believe she should write in because I
Speaker 1: told her that I would mention her little website too. Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got Twinkie the Kid t shirts because remember we
Speaker 1: talked about how badly we wanted something. So with that
Speaker 1: listener mail, all right, I'm gonna call this, uh, organ
Speaker 1: donation details from someone who knows. Uh. Hi, Josh and
Speaker 1: Chuckers and Jerry. I'm an anesthesiologist who specializes an organ transplantation,
Speaker 1: specifically livers and kidneys. In fact, we performed a liver
Speaker 1: transplant just last night and I'm home resting after what
Speaker 1: is always an exhausting procedure. Ah, he thought we might
Speaker 1: want a few more details about organ donation. So he
Speaker 1: says this, um, they do not get to meet the
Speaker 1: donor and the recipient until after a period of time,
Speaker 1: usually a year, and only after both agreed to meet.
Speaker 1: But we also had people that wrote in and said
Speaker 1: they met like weeks later, so it might vary by
Speaker 1: hospital or state. Yeah, I'm not sure, or maybe there's
Speaker 1: just an agreement you go into. But he says they
Speaker 1: can trade letters and get very basic, unidentifiable information about
Speaker 1: each other, but it all gets censored by the organ
Speaker 1: procurement organization. This is because of this recipient does not
Speaker 1: live or the organ fails, the recipient or donor won't
Speaker 1: blame the donor or in their families. Also, if the
Speaker 1: organ works, they don't want the parties involved feeling unduly
Speaker 1: indebted to the donor. After all, it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: a free gift with no strings attached. After they have
Speaker 1: both had time to adjust to their new lives and
Speaker 1: agreed and prepared to meet, they can meet. That being said,
Speaker 1: people can still find each other if they are looking
Speaker 1: in turn to the same websites specifically designed to link
Speaker 1: donor to recipient, although it is strongly discouraged. So maybe
Speaker 1: that was the deal. They did it in surreptitiously, So
Speaker 1: I thought it was somebody came up at the website
Speaker 1: and make money off of people who want to meet
Speaker 1: the people who donated a kidney to him. What a
Speaker 1: great world we live in. I thought your listeners would
Speaker 1: want to know this, and I hope it encourages would
Speaker 1: be donors that they don't have to meet the recipient
Speaker 1: if they think it would be too difficult regards Todd.
Speaker 1: Thanks Todd the anesthesiologist. Yeah, and didn't he say that
Speaker 1: it's like you you die very easily if you're over
Speaker 1: anesthetized during a liver Yeah, he sais here. If you
Speaker 1: want to know why an anesty caesiologist would need to
Speaker 1: specialize in liver transplantation, ask yourself if you would like
Speaker 1: to wake up during a procedure where patients don't tolerate
Speaker 1: anesthetics very well, and if you would like your new
Speaker 1: liver to have something to cleanse. That's what he says.
Speaker 1: Very mysterious, Todd. I just asked myself that, and I
Speaker 1: have no answer. I don't either. So if you bring
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