Episode Transcript: #971 - Steven Rinella
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Vacation now with your family. Yeah, we're going to Lenai. Oh, I'll be falling. Yeah
Boom and we're live speaking of vacations. Tell me about Guyana. Yeah, that's a good segue
You've been there a bunch, you know, I mean I thought was three. No, I was in no, I've been to
Guyana twice but between there I went to Bolivia. Oh and did like very similar
Very similar kind of trip like a like a doing a river trip with Amur Indians
Are those people weirded out by Americans because the Jonestown massacre thing is so funny
You bring up Jonestown because there's a couple things I've been surprised like
The the so the the main group I was with in Guyana
is the the the makushi and
I was surprised one day when I was a kid they make a dish they make a dish with
Cassava, which is a root like maniac
They make a dish with that they make a flower from it and make a dish and I was one day saying that hey, that's a
That looks like pizza, right? No, right, right?
No comprehension like no thought of what pizza is and I remember thinking like wow man like something you take like such a you know
You just consider such a part of everyday life. It's you didn't know what it was. Yeah, and they don't know about Georgetown
Whoa, even though it was in their own country
They don't know about it at all. No, it's just not but yeah, like we'll get into this
We got to like realize sort of how insular
You know and the Amur Indian communities are
Who live in the in the jungle in Guyana?