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So I've been sitting on this story for a little while because partly it's a little convoluted and long to present during the radio show in which we're. During which we're under the cruel, cruel oppressions of the clock. But now we have a little time. And I guess this is probably under Jack, Filed under one of your favorite themes, which is people aren't nearly grateful enough to be Americans. Yeah. To live in America. Who's grown up. Those of us who've grown up here or ended up here, if that's the case, singing that this morning. I won't say what, but I heard a story about a Darfur and they're in Africa this morning. It's just like, you're so lucky you live here. Yeah, I don't. It's probably costing me part of my soul. But I do read those accounts of the various wars in Africa and I mention them now and again on the air. But the horrors of them are. I don't want to bring you down to describe them. Yeah. But it is human beings who have lost their humanity completely. Yeah. Committing atrocities on grand scales. Anyway, on a cheerier note. Whoops. This isn't very cheery, but it's amazing. So there is a huge problem in Africa, specifically South Africa, with illegal mining. You have companies or groups of people either do their digging themselves or find an old mine and decide, we think there's still some life in this bastard and we're going to mine it. But they have no right to be there. They have no permits. They're not operating under any laws. They're trespassing. And the rest of it. Well, so there was one of those in place you've never heard of in South Africa where the authorities found them and busted them while there were a ton of guys down under the surface. And I think initially the guys refused to come up because they didn't want to get arrested. And so the government said, yeah, we're going to starve them out. Right. We're going to cut off any food and water getting down there. And so the miners have been holed up since the police cut off the supplies of food and water in August. The story is written in August. Yeah, this was. Story was written in mid January. Um, a legal application filed by a human rights group to speed up the rescue included an affidavit from a minor who also said that some had resorted to consuming human flesh to stay alive. So the government finally initiated the rescue operation after a human rights group launched a series of legal challenges to the blockade. The government was physically blockading anybody from rescuing these miners. They're like, no, we're starving them out. You can't help them. You can't get them. So before you pay it off, one more factor real quick. But officials refuse to allow. Even after they said, okay, they can be rescued. But nobody official is going to go down in there because it's too dangerous. Not sure I have a problem with this. We're not Making you stay down there. Come on out. No, we're not coming out. Okay, well, we'll wait. Well, but then. Then for some reason, they. They couldn't get out anymore because they didn't have the. Some of the logistics of this are a little confusing to me, but, like, they didn't have the elevators down there or whatever, so they couldn't come out if they wanted to. But you can't eat somebody unless they're dead. Did they start killing some of their compatriots and then eating them? And how do you decide who goes? Or did they starve and then you ate them? Yeah, I mean, we. I can. Donner party one. Donner party of one. Yeah. Yeah. So what happened was. And the way that narrative plays out. This a long article. I apologize for my fumbling with it. It's. It skips back and forth like journalism sometimes does. It's not laid out chronologically, but. So with hundreds of miners trapped below the ground without food or water, two men from the local town volunteered to venture where no police, government officials, or professional rescuers were willing to go. So these guys made their first descent wearing white hard hats, helmets, T shirts, Stepped out of a red cage dangling on a cable from a crane on the surface 4,200ft above. Above them, their lights illuminated a sea of emaciated faces. Men crowded into a chamber were crying and pleading to be saved from the pitch black of the abandoned gold mine. Their lights had burned out weeks or months earlier, and they ended up making more than 30 trips underground over the next three days. And says the one guy can't explain the smell down there. They were told. They told us they were eating human flesh and cockroaches. They had lost hope. Ah, boy. And one of the touchy parts of this was everybody was so crazy and panic stricken, and they could only bring up 13 men at a time in a cage designed to hold six people stuffed together. Okay, so it was completely crammed with these. These poor, barely hanging on human beings, trying to assure the others, we are coming back. All right. Oh, could you imagine seeing that thing going up and not knowing. Yeah. Be the. Like the boats on the Titanic. Yeah. Wait a second. Right. Well, that was one of the reasons that these two guys, who are heroes, unquestionably, and some of the authorities agreed to send them down because they were locals and could talk to these guys and relate to these guys. They weren't, quote, unquote, the authorities, so. Oh, by the way, it's worth mentioning that even in normal times, gunfights have been reported among competing miners thousands of feet underground. These are just crazy ass lawless digs that people, they have no better options than to do this. So they're doing to survive. Okay? Right. In fact, this one guy, one of the rescuers, he last emerged from a stint underground in October at a different abandoned gold mine. He'd lived in tunnels below the surface for three months at a time where underground commerce was functioning regularly. Purchased food, drinks and headlamps from vendors who bring their wares into the mines. But you never, never go out for months at a time Lest you get arrested. God, what? No. No outside, no sunlight. What that must do to your mind, right? Oh yeah. And so. And then. And you're reduced to eating cockroaches and dead people. You gotta fight, feel around and find them and communicate with each other. And then Jim starts looking delicious. Oh, geez. There's no way to go back to normal after that at all? Oh, no, no, no. Not even close. So it was difficult to decide whom to bring up first. Charles said, that's one of the key guys here. Each trip up and down took 45 minutes. They tried to prioritize the weakest second deceased for fear the decomposition would worsen. They brought bread, potato chips and water with them to ease the last agonizing hours underground for the people who had to wait for about five months. These workers were trapped underground as police tried to smoke them out. 5. In the words of the minister and the government, long time to be in the pitch dark eating gym. The operation was part of the police's close. The whole plan to combat illegal mining which has reached crisis levels in South Africa. A staggering 42% unemployment rate in South Africa under the brave leadership of the parties that took over after all the white people were kicked out of. Not that it's a race thing, it's a corruption thing. But sled to high levels of chronic poverty. So people do this sort of thing. Between August and January, more than 1500 miners emerged voluntarily from this shaft. Others died attempting to climb out of the mine While some became too weak to try after hunkering down for months to avoid arrest. And the people pulled out of the mine were charged with trespassing and other crimes. Oh, thanks. Yeah. Do you think you could get hungry enough to eat, Michael? For instance, if I'm starving to death, do we have to make it a specific person? Yeah. Well, yes is the answer. Yes, absolutely. Really? I'm surprised by that. I'm a carnivore and I'm a realist. I assume it's like if I don't eat him, I will be dead. I would prefer to live. So that's what I do. I cook him first. With what? You're stuck down a mine shaft. I don't know, make a fire. You're, you're unclear on the concept here. So the government official, and this is another aspect of how foreign this is to Americans. Literally this government official, they quote about why they starved him to death like that. He compared the calls for humanitarian assistance for the miners to asking the police to send food and water to a robber holed up inside a bank. Sending sustenance to the miners would be aiding and abetting crime and criminality. If they can let them die and starve and eat each other. I agree. If they can get out. But if they actually, if they, if they can't get out, well then it's a different thing. Yeah, see that's the part of the narrative that confuses me because at the point where they're starving to death and eating Jim, you'd think they'd think, you know, it's like just a misdemeanor charge. I'm going to go up and get busted, right? I'll pay my ticket and go to subway, right? So yeah, that, that part is not clear to me. But between the way the government approached it and the, the 42% unemployment rate and the misery and I. This is Jenny Garth from I do part two. Everyone's talking about GLP1s like Ozempic semaglutide. With Future Health you can find out if they're right for you too. Just go to try fh.com that's trifh.com and find out if weight loss meds are right for you in just three minutes. Try fh.com Future Health is not a healthcare services provider. Meds are prescribed at providers discretion. Results may vary. Sponsored by Future Health. Wasn't that delicious? So good. Your bill, ladies. I got it. No, I got it. Seriously, I insist. I insisted first. Don't be silly. 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Is it like, you know, if you're at the grocery store and you're not hungry, you just buy the stuff you need. But if you're hungry at the grocery store. I tell my kids this all the time. If you're hungry at the grocery store, everything looks delicious. So if you're even hungrier, do you get to the point where it's just not even really a battle to eat a human? You're just so hungry. It smells. Looks. Tastes. Tastes great. You think? Oh, I'm not sure I'd go that far, but I'm with you 80% of the way. Yeah. You wouldn't think, you know, this is kind of gross. You'd be like a snarling beast, like, Hungry Wolf. Yeah. Bet you're right. Yeah. Shop. Being at the grocery store hungry is just the disaster. Michael, if we're eating your glutes, I need some cholula and some sauce, and they Got to be cooked. Yeah, a little sweet baby rays or something like that. What is Cholula? I don't know what that is. You don't know Cholula? No. What? Not that one. Right? Yeah. My Mars and a Martian illegal gold mine. I'll stand up for you, Michael. I've never heard that word in my life. What? What? Lula. What the hell is that? There is something seriously wrong with you two if you don't know what the cholu is. No idea. Oh, my God. It's probably racist. I guess it's something they put on your ass to make it taste better, Michael. It is. Yeah, it's. It's ass sauce. No, it's a delicious, mildly hot hot sauce that comes in a couple of different varieties. I've never even heard the word. And. And Americans are familiar with it. If this was the Battle of the Bulge, I'd shoot both of you as German spies because you don't know this great country. We don't have it at ihop, I can tell you that. You know, I probably wouldn't be as tasty these days. I have my blood sugar down and so I'm probably not real sweet. I've got to think my taste is pretty dull at this point. If I have to eat you, I want pre dieting, Michael. 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