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Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from www.HowStuffWorks.com.
Josh Clark
Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I’m Josh Clark. With me, as always, is Charles W. Bryant.
Chuck Bryant
I’m always there for you, Josh.
Josh Clark
Yep. As always. How’s it going?
Chuck Bryant
I’m contractually obligated to be.
Josh Clark
I know. So, Chuck, you doing all right?
Chuck Bryant
Yeah. How are you?
Josh Clark
I’m doing pretty good.
Chuck Bryant
It’s Thursday. It’s not Friday.
Josh Clark
It’s a little gray out for my taste. It’s sprinkling out, by the way.
Chuck Bryant
I thought it was pouring rain.
Josh Clark
It’s sprinkling.
Chuck Bryant
That’s good.
Josh Clark
Chuck, do you remember back a year or so, May, 2008?
Chuck Bryant
How many years after “Ghostbusters”?
Josh Clark
What was it, ’84 or ’86?
Chuck Bryant
It was ’84, and yes, we do know a sequel is coming.
Josh Clark
It was 24 years. Yes. “Ghostbusters 3.” It’s going to be awesome. The entire original cast, except for Sigourney Weaver, which that’s okay. Yeah. “Ghostbusters 3″ coming out.
Chuck Bryant
So where are we?
Josh Clark
We’re 24 years after “Ghostbusters” in May, 2008. The news cycle had this kind of strange occurrence where a bunch of undiscovered human beings were splashed across the front pages of newspapers everywhere.
Chuck Bryant
Yeah. Sort of!
Josh Clark
There are several photos of people living in primitive huts, actually, primitive longhouses is what it looks like. It’s an aerial photo taken from a low-flying helicopter, and they are pissed. They’re aiming their bows and arrows at the camera.
Chuck Bryant
Did you see the picture? It’s pretty cool.
Josh Clark
Yeah. It’s awesome. They’re like, “Get out of here.” Yeah. This whole thing made the news cycle. Chuck, I take from what you said before we started recording that you have a tad bit of disdain for the journalism that was applied to this.
Chuck Bryant
Yeah. First of all, should we go ahead and refute it?
Josh Clark
Why not?
Chuck Bryant
Because they were not, in fact, undiscovered people.
Josh Clark
No. There’s actually a huge, huge distinction between undiscovered people and un-contacted or isolated people. Right?
Chuck Bryant
Right. But you would not know that by reading The Independent from London.
Josh Clark
Which I’m disappointed, because I like that paper. No, I’m sorry. I couldn’t care less about The Independent. It’s The Guardian I like.
Chuck Bryant
Yeah. You like The Guardian, not The Daily Mail, or The Independent.
Josh Clark
Right.
Chuck Bryant
Here’s how the article opens up. Beneath the picture of the clearly savage humans!
Josh Clark
Loincloths and everything.
Chuck Bryant
With the arrow pointing at the helicopter. “Three near-naked figures are visible in the forest clearing. Two of them are men, their bodies daubed with a red dye, and they are aiming their bows at the sky. A third figure appears to be a woman, her body blackened and only her pale hands and face betraying her natural color. This remarkable photograph is the first proof of the existence of one of the world’s last un-contacted tribes.” So they do say “un-contacted.”