Overheard in 2022: Weekly Adventures Ahead

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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In 2022, we’ll journey into the Amazon to solve the mystery of a boiling river, to the South Pacific to search for the legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, and to K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, where a team of Nepalis has rewritten mountaineering history. We’ll also venture into some of the world’s most isolated forests with an engineer who turns old cell phones into poacher-tracking devices. And we’ll join a team of climbers and scientists searching for rare frog species that have evolved on cliffs rising out of Guyana’s cloud forests. Our weekly show begins Jan. 18, hosted by Peter Gwin, Amy Briggs, and the editors and producers of Overheard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you've ever wondered what goes on behind the yellow rectangle at National
0:05.3	Gigabyte headquarters, I mean it's all about telling a good story. That's kind of
0:09.4	what our show does. We assume someone already is studying it very often it's not.
0:14.7	Exciting, alright? Absolutely exciting. I mean can you imagine waking up every
0:18.8	Tuesday morning and sitting right there in your feed is an overheard episode
0:22.5	ready to go for you? Ruins start to be a playground full of stories to explore. We
0:28.2	immediately have to kind of segue to be like hey let's take a selfie together.
0:32.4	We're gonna give the people what they've asked for. Well one of the things that
0:36.1	we're gonna give them is the mystery of Amelia Earhart. The gay smoking gun
0:40.7	issue. Like the Amelia Earhart. The Amelia Earhart. I have no words in which to express
0:46.3	my appreciation to the National Geographic Society. We're gonna dive deep into
0:52.4	the mystery of what happened to her, what are the theories who's looking for her. I
0:56.4	guess I'm the only person who has ever made his living searching for Amelia Earhart.
1:04.3	We've got a special issue of National Geographic planned on forests and one of
1:09.9	the details was a river that boiled. A river that boils? River the boils yes.
1:15.2	And I get this alert on my phone that's distinct her chainsaws. He's giving the
1:20.0	forest ears that listen for threats. I'm interested in the ways that all this
1:25.0	amazing wildlife can live right next to us and thrive and we don't recognize it.
1:29.8	And you may not know it but it's been 50 years since Title IX legislation was
1:34.0	passed and together with the SPN and the Walt Disney Company we're gonna see
1:37.8	what's happened since sex discrimination became illegal in the US and its
1:41.5	impact on women's sports and society. It's a good thing we're going to a weekly
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