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Michael Rockefeller (Entry 1078.MI0303)

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History, Society & Culture

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In which one of America's richest young men gets really into New Guinean tribal art, and ends up getting really into a New Guinean tribe. Certificate #7628.

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0:00.0

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

0:15.0

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

0:19.0

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

0:23.0

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piando Ferries, there is another way. We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

0:51.0

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this

0:55.6

monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:58.9

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

1:05.4

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology

1:09.5

to decrypt our transmissions, this is our legacy to you.

1:13.4

This is our time capsule.

1:15.4

This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 1078. My O-303.

1:47.0

Certificate number 7628.

1:51.0

7608 Michael Rockefeller.

1:55.0

Mike Rockefeller was aboard a double-held canoe with a Dutch anthropologist.

2:02.0

They were trying to go up the... with a Dutch anthropologist.

2:02.7

They were trying to go up the Iland and river,

2:05.8

the River of Islands on the southwest coast of Dutch New Guinea.

2:09.2

There's a tidal bore in the Iland and river.

2:11.2

In fact, at periods of full moon moon it sweeps down that river water about 18 feet high.

2:19.0

Have we talked about this? Have you ever been to Southeast Asia? I know you grew up some portion of your life in Korea.

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