#2547 - Daniel Everett

“That's right. I went there to translate the Bible and to plant a church and get everybody believing. And why Pitaha? Why did you go to those people? Well, we were in our training, and the missionary organization, the Wycliffe Bible Translators, offered us three areas.”

“But they said also in the Bible, and the Bible itself says this, Jesus not only healed people, he raised them from the dead. So if somebody claims to be a healer in the same vein as Jesus, I'd like to see them start at cemeteries and start raising people from the dead.”

“You also believe that people tell the truth. That's part of the problem. Part of the problem with all this stuff is like, look, the Bible condones slavery. It talks about slavery in multiple passages. Yeah. That's a person thing. That's a people thing.”

“And I'm not going to let this book tell me anymore. The ironic thing is, you know, I graduated number one in my class at a Bible school, so I know the Bible really well. And when people try to reconvert me, I've had many Christians try to reconvert me. I said, it's not going to work, you know, because I know the Bible probably better than you do, so you're not”

“And I said, well, they don't want to wear clothes. I said, what in the Bible says you have to wear clothes? They said, Adam saw Eve's nakedness and they were ashamed of each other. You must wear clothes. You're not even teaching them the basics of Christianity.”

“They have punishment if it threatens the survival of the village. So there was one young man, a teenager, and I talk about him in both my book, Don't Sleep There Are Snakes, and in the new one that's coming out next year, Born of the River, who was paid in alcohol and a new shotgun to kill.”

“I really appreciate you sharing everything today. It was really, really fun. Thank you very much for having me. I enjoyed it. Jamie, pull up his book. Well, books, I should say. This one, Daniel Everett, Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes.”

“It's a tough meat, but I pressure it. I put the. Like a crock pot? Yeah, I put it in a pressure cooker over a fire. I take in a pressure cooker. You know, not an electric pressure cooker, obviously, one of these pressure cookers you can sit on top of the fire. And after I pressure it, it's falling off the bone, and I take the meat off, and I throw it in a”

“Wow. Did you feel weird eating a monkey? When you see the monkey and you put the little monkey body inside the pressure cooker, and it looks like a baby, it doesn't look too good. But once you open up the pressure cooker and it's all cooked, then the bones are separated from the meat, and then it's just meat floating in there, you know.”

“in my blood. Ugh. What do they give you? Like what medicine are they giving you? Well Daraprim, Primiquine, straight quinine. When my wife almost died, she weighed 115 pounds and then she got malaria and almost died.”

“It kills the blood cells. And they put her on blood transfusions and also straight quinine, which caused her to be in agony for several days of just constant retching. And quinine's a really bad experience.”

“shotgun that he had gotten from a Brazilian and he shot a dog that belonged to his brother. And his brother runs up to the dog and he's just sobbing because they love their dogs and he's just crying that his dog's dead.”

“who was paid. Paid in alcohol and a new shotgun to kill somebody who was living up the river, who wasn't a Pitaha, living on the same river. And he killed him.”

“syntax. And if you're a linguist and you're studying linguistics, that's just genius. It is just brilliant. And then the next book, Coachi published the same year was American Power and the New Mandarins, which was about Vietnam. And that was also brilliant. And, you know, for one person to publish two books like that in one year.”

“What is it? Oh, A Manufacturer of Consent. That's right. Yeah. But he had the first book of his I read, it was in linguistics, aspects of the theory of syntax. And if you're a linguist and you're studying linguistics, that's just genius.”

“and in the new one that's coming out next year, Born of the River, who was paid in alcohol and a new shotgun to kill. somebody who was living up the river, who wasn't a Pitaha, living on the same river.”

“So the favorite thing, I was talking to a woman one time, and I was making a sandwich. I had brought in some lunch meat and bread. I had just gotten there. It was my first day there, and so I had a little bit enough to make a sandwich for that night. And I'm squirting mustard. And, you know, when you get to the end of the mustard bottle and you're squeezing, it makes a sound like somebody”

“So they come right up. It's like I could tell you that the COVID vaccine is really good for you. And you can say, well, I know a lot of people didn't get it and they didn't get COVID either. Where weren't vaccinated, they didn't get COVID. So you have to look at the statistics.”

“in my blood. Ugh. What do they give you? Like what medicine are they giving you? Well Daraprim, Primiquine, straight quinine. When my wife almost died, she weighed 115 pounds and then she got malaria and almost died.”

“real facts of the event. I don't think anybody could possibly know. But I think when you have the epic of Gilgamesh, which mirrors the story of Noah's Ark, which mirrors the story of other religions that have similar flood myths or flood stories, it's probably something happened.”

“So if they bring me a fish, they'll give me a fish. They like to trade fish for canned meat because canned meat keeps. But I like fish cheeks, but my wife hated the fish heads. She didn't want the fish heads around.”

“million years ago. Yeah, yeah. And in my book, How Language Began, I have... They had to be communicating. Yeah, you can't. There's an archaeologist in Australia, Bednarik is his name. And he showed by, he did experiments.”

“Yeah, yeah. You did? I did. I made a bow and arrow. How did you do that? Well, I had a machete, and that's what I had. It's crazy to give you a machete. They won't give you fish hooks. Like, come on. Yeah, yeah. Well, machetes. Fish hooks are so much easier to carry. Right. But the machete you need for firewood, you need for lots of things.”

“linguistics. I read the media one. What is it? Oh, A Manufacturer of Consent. That's right. Yeah. But he had the first book of his I read, it was in linguistics, aspects of the theory of syntax.”

“in my blood. Ugh. What do they give you? Like what medicine are they giving you? Well Daraprim, Primiquine, straight quinine. When my wife almost died, she weighed 115 pounds and then she got malaria and almost died.”

“So I had a goal where I wanted to learn 10 new words a day. And I kept a little spiral notebook clip in my belt buckle. And I would walk around learning these things. And I want to learn new words and write those down. And then I would spend the evening memorizing those words.”

“And after I pressure it, it's falling off the bone, and I take the meat off, and I throw it in a bowl, and I put some manioc meal on top of that, and then I cover it in Tabasco, and it's great. It's very filling, and it tastes really good. Wow. Did you feel weird eating a monkey?”

“Yeah. Stop. So the author, Tom Wolf, the last book he wrote was called Kingdom of Speech. And he talked about two controversies, Darwin versus Alfred Russell Wallace and me versus Chomsky.”

“things and they always traded with whiskey because that's the i mean sugar cane rum cachaça which is the cheapest thing you know it's 30 cents a bottle it was a lot easier to give them that and the pitaha like it you know”