Welcome to Electric Current Rundown podcast episode number 78.

And I’m your host, Phil Defiance, and I always say I’m here to encourage the spread of intriguing knowledge that can spark fires in the minds of those seeking inspiration and truly improving the world.

And what I’m going to be talking about in this episode includes a continuation of where I left off on the topic of US tourists arrested after allegedly attempting to contact world’s most isolated tribe from the last episode.

And then I’m going to talk about why layoffs don’t work.

So to continue on where I left off on the topic of US tourists arrested after allegedly attempting to contact world’s most isolated tribe.

Yes, the Sentinelese tribe of India.

And he was found to have done that around April of this year.

And apparently, well, last time I read about it, he was still in captivity by the Indian government.

But I mean, I’m sure the Trump administration is holding talks and releasing him back to America.

But regardless, or maybe he’s already released, but he was definitely in captivity by the Indian government, or might even still be, and is due to his contacting the Sentinelese tribe.

And the Indian government has, since the 1950s, had some serious laws about this, ensuring that the Sentinelese tribe, which is really in an isolated part of India, like an island right off of India, like in the ocean, the Indian Ocean.

But yeah, I mean, it’s still Indian waters, and India is not like a small country.

They do have a humongous population and obviously resources to enforce their laws.

And that’s how they have been able to do this kind of thing.

And yeah, I mean, the guy, he ended up making successful like journey onto the island.

He even left some water bottles there.

I guess he wanted to give them a little taste of modern society and some pops even, or sodas, whichever one you want to call them.

But that’s actually funny, too.

But I mean, that’s what he said to the Indian authorities.

And so other than that, he didn’t actually get in contact with the tribe.

But that’s pretty lucky for him, because usually that tribe, when they see outsiders, like I mentioned in the last episode, but I got to emphasize, I mean, when they see outsiders, they go for the kill.

They try their best to kill the person.

And they’ve done it in the past.

They killed a few intruders.

So I guess the man was lucky.

But OK, so I’m going to finish off on that topic and switch topics as I continue on in this episode after this quick break.

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But to finish off on that topic about the Sentinelese tribe and that US person, US man and the Indian government, I mean, yeah, so he was lucky.

He could have gotten killed.

But yeah, so like the Indian government was pretty quick at finding him.

I mean, they found him like going back to the mainland and they realized that, yeah, he must have got in to the island of that tribe.

And when they recognized that, they brought him in for questioning and they ended up confirming that he actually did that.

And yeah, that’s how that whole situation happened.

A pretty intriguing story.

And yeah, I mean, if you want to get in contact with a tribe, well, you’re risking your life.

And you’re also risking like possible jail time in India, at least for a few weeks, a couple months.

Yeah, I mean, that’s not really a good idea.

But that guy did it.

And so did a few others.

At least he was lucky he didn’t get killed.

But okay, so now I’m going to switch topics to why layoffs do not work based on an article I read.

And actually, so I mean, this is based on statistical analysis.

And I mean, some people would think like, oh, such claims would be like, kind of like anti-capitalist or something.

And I actually read the article and it’s actually sound business like thoughts.

I mean, this article actually gave like pretty advanced research into the whole topic.

I mean, actually it surprised me because like, I mean, generally one would think, oh, you cut like your staff as a big corporation, you would expect like profits, like profits to rise and it would generally be beneficial to the corporation.

But actually, I mean, that’s not always the whole story.

And like, I mean, it’s actually funny when you actually look at the fine details involved with that.

But it’s actually almost shocking when you look into it.

But like, I mean, actually that’s like not the full story.

Sometimes layoffs do work.

There’s more to the story than like just a little statement about it.

So it’s like a complex situation, but it’s more complex than one would think, especially someone that would just like generally feel like, oh, this is just a part of capitalism, like downsizing your staff as a corporation to increase your profits.

I mean, yeah, I mean, it just sounds like sound business, but it’s not all just black and white, as they would say.

There’s more to it than one would think.

And so, okay, I mean, that’s kind of like a preview of a further expansion on that, because I’m going to talk more about it in the next episode, and that’s just really where I’m going to start at the topic about it.

And yeah, I’ll talk more about it in the next episode.

But either way, so that’s the end of this episode of The Electric Current Rundown episode number 78 with me, your host Phil Defiance, and I’ll always say I’m here to encourage the spread of intriguing knowledge that could spark fires in the minds of those seeking inspiration and truly improving the world.

And till next time, have a good one!