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#369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca

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The Pros and Cons of Ancient Civilizations in the Amazon

There's clearly is a long history of complex civilizations in the Amazon. 100% there's no one that can deny that. We're discovering with LIDAR and this is what Graham Hancock is talking about that there's there was more civilizations than we thought in various places. The place where I take offense is where they start to say that the Amazon are a man made garden which is not true. But then there's places in the Amazon where they stick their hand in a glove with like 70 of them. And I think Steve oh did that which I don't understand how you could do that without going into complete anaphylactic shock and dying because one really sucks.

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