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Those Big Stone Bastards Weren't for Gods, They Were for Ratings
Send us Fan MailBefore 'Survivor,' there was 'Te Ao Hou.' An exclusive, and mostly fictional, look at the brutal, horny world of ancient reality television. '''Forget everything some tweed-wearing dipshit with a PhD told you about ancestor worship on Easter Island. The real story behind those giant, stony, long-faced pricks known as the moai is, like all history, way dumber and significantly hornier than you’d expect. Around 1200 AD (give or take a few decades, I wasn’t there), the Rapa Nui people weren't obsessing over their forefathers. They were inventing reality television. And the moai?…
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