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Overheard at National Geographic

Overheard Season 4

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

Science, Society & Culture

4.510.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Documenting democracy. Untwisting the world’s largest tornado. Searching for wrecks of lost slave ships. Dinosaur hunting in Morocco. Accidentally inventing a new color. Come dive into one of the curiously delightful conversations overheard at National Geographic’s headquarters, as we follow explorers, photographers, and scientists to the edges of our big, weird, beautiful world. Hosted by Peter Gwin and Amy Briggs. If you like what you hear and want to support more content like this, please consider a National Geographic subscription. Go to natgeo.com/exploremore to subscribe today.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Like many of you, I've been working from home for the past few months.

0:06.1

But one day, a producer and I put on our masks, fired up our recorders, and went back

0:11.0

inside National Geographic headquarters.

0:13.6

There's this really cool wall of like all the National Geographic photographs, like

0:17.9

the iconic ones.

0:18.9

It's beautiful, it's colorful, everybody looked, there's something that just draws you in.

0:23.1

But this iconic wall of pictures sort of hides this secret ring.

0:30.2

And you go down the hall, so it feels almost like you're going into a labyrinth.

0:36.5

And there I found one of our photographers.

0:39.0

He was shooting portraits of a color that a scientist accidentally invented in the lab.

0:43.7

It's like a little movie star.

0:47.7

Ready for it's close up.

0:50.2

I'm Amy Briggs, executive editor of National Geographic History Magazine.

0:54.2

And I'm Peter Gwynn, editor at Largit National Geographic Magazine.

0:58.0

We host Overheard at National Geographic, a podcast where we eavesdrop on the wild conversations

1:03.2

we have here at NatGew.

1:05.0

Okay, a lot of those are on Zoom these days.

1:07.9

But we're still following them to the edges of our big, weird, beautiful world.

1:12.2

Okay, so what do we have on tap next season, Amy?

1:14.7

So Peter, we're going to hear from experts who go inside tornadoes.

1:18.4

Yeah, on one hand, you know, every instinct you buddy's telling you to panic and get the heck out of there.

1:23.1

On the other hand, the science system is just so fascinated by what I'm witnessing.

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