Paul Rosolie

They don't have agriculture.

And so they see these people that have banana plants all over the place and they want them.

And to their credit, they didn't just come and kill everybody.

They said, we would like some bananas.

And so we piled up a boat with bananas and we sent it across the river and they all took the bananas.

And the terrifying thing is that you can see them all taking, my bananas are my bananas.

not just like oh yeah let's unload the bananas and we'll all get to them later it was like i grab a bunch and smack your arm away and these are my bananas and that's so foreign to us too you would think like a group of people finding food would collaborate on yeah on it unless they're starving yeah but to do it in front of each other it was just there's something there's something awful about that seeing that when they the way they the way that they rushed in to grab the bananas it was like they were they were mad mad with starvation you know and

And so we made it through that day with giving them a few gifts, rope, bananas.

They stole a machete, which is hilarious because machete is basically Excalibur to them.

You can do so much more in the jungle with a machete.

There's no analogous tool.

You can't make that out of anything.

There's only sticks in the jungle.

There's no metal.

And so the one message that we got from them is they said, how do we tell the difference between the bad guys and the good guys?

Which again is harsh because that means they know that in the outside world, there's people that are benign and there's people that will shoot them.

And they're like, how do we tell the difference between you people?

And how do you explain that?

They said, why are you cutting down our trees?

We're not the ones doing it.