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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray.

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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff you should know

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Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with me as always as

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Speaker 1: Charles W. Bryant. I'm always there for you, Josh as always. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm contractually obligated today. I know, I know, I know.

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Speaker 1: So Chuck, you doing are Yeah, dude, how are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Pretty good? It's Thursday, it's not Friday, but it's a

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Speaker 1: little gray out for my tastes. Yeah, it's sprinkling, by

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Speaker 1: the way, I thought it was like pouring rain. Is

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Speaker 1: it sprinkling? It's sprinkling. That's good. So, um, Chuck, do

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Speaker 1: you remember can we go back year or so May two, eight?

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Speaker 1: How many years after Ghostbusters? Let's see how it was?

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Speaker 1: And yes, we do know that there is a four

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Speaker 1: years a sequel coming by the way, Yes, Ghostbusters three.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be awesome. Should be the entire original caste

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Speaker 1: except for Sigourney Weaver, which that's okay. Um, yeah, Ghostbusters

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Speaker 1: three coming out? Right? Where are we So we're we're

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Speaker 1: twenty four years after Ghostbusters? And um, the news cycle

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Speaker 1: had this kind of strange occurrence where a bunch of

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Speaker 1: undiscovered human beings were splashed across the front pages of

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Speaker 1: actually primitive longhouses is what it looks like. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: like aiming their bows and arrows at the at the camera.

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Speaker 1: Like see the picture is pretty cool, yea, like get

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Speaker 1: whole thing made the made the news cycle. And Chuck,

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Speaker 1: I imagine I take from what you said before we

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Speaker 1: for the let's see journalism that was applied to this. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: first of all, should we go ahead and refute it?

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Speaker 1: Why not? Because they were not, in fact under undiscovered people. No,

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Speaker 1: And there's actually a huge, huge distinction between undiscovered people

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Speaker 1: I'm disappointed because I like that paper. No, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I could care less about the Independence The Guardian Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Here's here's how the article opens up. Beneath the picture

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Speaker 1: their bodies daubed with a red dye and are aiming

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Speaker 1: is the first proof of existence of one of the

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Speaker 1: world's last uncontacted tribes. So they do say uncontacted. That's good,

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Speaker 1: but not everybody did, though sure it's a little overblown.

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Speaker 1: That was a fine dramatic reading their chuck. I think

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Speaker 1: the funniest thing that would have happened is if he

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Speaker 1: Is it even possible to be undiscovered? Well that's what

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Speaker 1: fine tradition of doing. And um in this Uh, who's

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Speaker 1: completely different method and system of slavery. Uh. Slaves were

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Speaker 1: You think so, But Josh, these days, virtually every corner

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Speaker 1: violence specifically against the akun Zoo. Yes, Josh, the akun

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Speaker 1: come out as their leader. Yeah, he's like the God,

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Speaker 1: He's like Brando and Apocalypse now exactly. Um and the

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