And one story that always kind of captures my imagination.

The street's lost culture. And you're listening to Kearning cultures.

Hi, this is Dana. We won't be releasing any new episodes for the next couple of months.

We're away producing and reporting our autumn season, which will be out in September.

But in the meantime, we want to bring back a few of our favorite episodes from the past.

And if you're new to Kernan cultures, you might not have heard them before.

So we hope you enjoy them.

This week's episode is called Elephants in the Desert, and it originally aired in September

2020. Here's Kearning Culture's co-host, Hibba Fisher. Our story today takes place a really long time

ago, seven million years ago, actually. So around the beginnings of when the first

human-like creature started walking around on two legs. But it's not a story about humans, at least

not directly. Now, when I say seven million years ago, I don't mean just some vague period in history.

I'm talking about this one specific day. There's this group of scientists who have

been obsessed with what happened on that day, actually, about what happened within those 24 hours.

Because what happened, which we'll get to in a minute, it turns out, tells us a lot about our

own lives today. Are you intrigued yet? You should be.

I'm going to pass it off now to producer Alex A. Tack, who told the story to producer Zayna Duidot.

Last time I had to edit out loads of, I've got a really squeaky chair,

and it's the only chair that can fit in my studio.

So last time I had to edit out load, like, all the parts where I'm like speaking more emphatically are the parts where the chair gets like squeaky.

Okay, we'll try to try to keep it a little calm.

Yeah.

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