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GOING NATIVE

Two brothers, who played in the NFL are now on a quest to prove that they can achieve the rite of passage in cultures around the world.  Their first adventure is in South America, to the Brazillian Satere-Mawe tribe where they must face a terrifying test as a rite of passage into manhood.  They must gather bullet ants from the forest, which are then used to make ant-ridden gloves. The brothers must wear the gloves 20 times for 10 minutes, performing a dance while those angry insects sting them. In the ceremony, the bullet ant's sting is supposed to be 30 times more painful than that of a bee, and each of those gloves contains dozens of ants. 

The ceremony, the tribe chief says, is meant to show the men that a life lived "without suffering anything or without any kind of effort" isn't worth anything at all. 

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