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Friney Mini: Archaeologists gotta check those simple hiding places · Journey to the Fringe

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  Ready again. I mean, some people might be disappointed,
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  but I mean, the choice was never theirs. It was
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  yours. And now it's mine. This one's from Popular
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  Mechanics and this one. Holy shit. February 20th,
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  2026. Wow. I don't know what's going on with
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  me. This is crazy. I don't know. I don't know
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  what's going on. This is crazy. I need to go
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  buy a lottery ticket or something. This is by
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  Tim Newcomb. Chelsea, I think you actually need
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  to check your pockets to make sure you haven't
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  already bought that lottery ticket that's going
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  to win. Okay, hold on. I feel like you were in
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  a stream of consciousness where you won't even
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  know what happened during that time. I check
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  in my pockets and holy shit, it's a bent spoon.
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  A new statue suddenly appeared on Easter Island.
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  That doesn't make sense. There are more than
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  a thousand Moai statues on Easter Island representing
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  a key part of the region's cultural and archaeological
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  pass. A new male m - Why did I just forget how
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  to say it? Moai, smaller than most, was found
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  in a dried up lake bed. Just when experts thought
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  they knew, every Moai on Rapa Nui, otherwise
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  known as Easter Island, a dried up lake bed kept
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  them on their toes. These statues, largely made
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  of a stone, formed from volcanic ash and dust
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  called Tafpepper the island, with more than a
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  thousand already found and logged. Finding a
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  new one came as a surprise and a bit of a mystery.
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  We think we know all the Moai, but then a new
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  one turns up, a new discovery and in this case
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  in the lake at the statue quarry. Terry Hunt,
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  professor of archaeology at the University of
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  Arizona told Good Morning America, There have
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  been no Moai found in the dry bed or in what
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  was previously a lake, so this is the first,
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  and it may not be the last. in there. As the
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  area undergoes drying, the lake bed in question
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  has given up its moai and this opportunity may
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  occur again. Under the dry conditions that we
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  have now we may find more, Hunt said. They've
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  been hidden by the tall reeds that grow in the
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  lake bed and prospecting with something that
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  can detect what's under the ground surface may
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  tell us that there are in fact more moai in the
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  lake bed sediment. When there's one moai in the
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  lake there's probably more. I love that they
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  haven't taken any like ground penetrating radar
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  to this yet it doesn't seem like or at least
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  the lake. To be fair I don't know how easy it
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  is to transport ground penetrating radar. Yeah
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  this island is already far off. Oh, it's in the
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  middle of nowhere. Yeah, it is. You have to fly
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  out of, I believe it's under the control of Chile.
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  Yeah. So you have to fly out of Chile to even
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  get there. It's like a couple hour flight from
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  Chile. Yeah, and it's like the only place you
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  can fly to and from Easter Island is Chile. Yeah.
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  The newly discovered Moai is also one of the
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  smallest found, leading experts to believe that
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  hidden within these reeds is the potential for
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  a bounty of new Moai. Created by the Rapa Nui
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  people, Moai have a myth legend attached to them
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  and have gained worldwide renown for their appearances.
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  Some believe these Moai were given special powers
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  to walk across land and end up in their resting
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  place. Whether or not the legend has legs, there
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  are many theories regarding how these statues
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  move from building sites to various locations.
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  While the largest of the statues weighs 86 tons
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  and rises 32 feet tall, most of them Moai average
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  about half that size. About 95 % are carved from
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  volcanic tuff, but a few are made from basalt.
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  Each one is unique, created by carvers to represent
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  the characteristics of the person it resembled.
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  Often chieftain or key leader. The finishing
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  touch on Moai was the inclusion of special stones
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  for eyes, not carved or placed until the statue
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  found its home. Even though experts thought they
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  knew the locations of all the Moai homes, finding
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  this new small one in the lake bed proves some
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  had remained a complete mystery. Quote, it's
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  here in the lake and nobody knows this exists.
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  End quote, Salvador Aton Kito, vice president
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  of Mau Henua, the group that oversees the island's
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  national park, told Good Morning America, even
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  the ancestors or grandparents don't know about
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  that one. End. Huh. Yeah, it was a surprise.
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  I've known a lot about those, but I don't know
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  what to really add at this point. No, I didn't
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  know they had stones for eyes. Did you know that?
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  Yeah, I did. Because they're made of stone. So
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  I just kind of assumed that all of it was stone.
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  Touche. Not necessarily one stone. I don't know.
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  Now, if you would have said that their eyes were
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  made of people, I would have been surprised.
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  But the human skull. No, the favorite thing I
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  always know about Easter Island is do you remember
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  the previous mayor of New York, Eric Adams? Yes.
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  and how like incomprehensibly inept he was. Yeah,
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  what does this have to do with Easter Island?
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  He was incredibly corrupt and he got bribed by
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  Turkey and one of the bribes he got was he could
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  fly anywhere he wanted on Air Turkey for free.
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  I did know this actually. And so there's stories
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  of him or his partner calling Air Turkey to see
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  where they flew to. In one event he ended up
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  flying from New York to an event in Paris. He
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  ended up having to take a layover for that event
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  in Turkey before he flew to Paris. That would
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  all make sense. Yeah, very natural flight path
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  there. But in another one, his partner was on
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  tape calling Turkish Air and asking like, hey,
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  you guys have any direct flights from New York
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  to Easter Island? No. Yeah, not a fucking chance.
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  There's laws against that. They can't touch any
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  other country. That is hilarious. I don't know
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  how should we get caught on tape I'm doing because
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  they realized that he was taking bribes at that
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  point. So they had tapped off But yeah, they
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  were like going on a vacation. They're like just
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  see if we can get free flights It's that simple.
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  Is that the guy that did the video about like
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  where you can hide a crack pipe in a kid's room?
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  Yeah. Yeah. Hi I'm Eric Adam. What I would like
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  to show here is to empower parents on how to
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  search a room inside their home. It's imperative
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  that you should know what's inside your household.
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  So if you come to a room like this, you can look
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  in a jewelry box, a jewelry box of this nature,
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  maybe a simple jewelry box, but if you look through
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  it closely, you don't know what your child may
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  be hiding. For instance, a gun could be hitting,
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  a small caliber weapon could be hitting inside
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  a jewelry box. You should always, when your child
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  brings in his popular knapsack with many different
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  locations, look through it to see what exactly
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  is your child carrying. Something simple as a
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  crack pipe, a used crack pipe. Look at picture
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  frames and behind them. Behind a picture frame
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  you can find bullets. Something simple as a baby
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  doll. It could be just a baby doll, but also
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  it could be a place where you can secrete or
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  hide drugs. Run your hands over the pillows and
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  see if you feel anything that's unusual. Like
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  a pillow like this with a button is a perfect
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  invitation to hide something. I've felt something
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  bumpy. I will reach in, see what it is. This
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  one could be hidden inside a pillow, a gun. The
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  kid had guns, crackpipes, methamphetamine. It
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  was a really informative video. And that's probably
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  it for a mini. We've covered a lot. We've gone
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  a long way. And hey, you guys got 48 hours. You
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  check your kid's backpacks for crackpipes. But
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  also, he never explained what to do if you found
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  them. He didn't actually, just where to hide
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  them. So I got really good at hide mine. Explain
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  to your kids that they need to hide them better,
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  I guess. Anyhow, bye. You gotta go, bye.