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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Radio Lab. |
| 0:06.9 | From New York Public Radio. |
| 0:08.7 | Public Radio. |
| 0:09.6 | W. |
| 0:10.4 | W. |
| 0:11.2 | N. |
| 0:12.1 | N. |
| 0:12.4 | C. |
| 0:14.4 | And NPR. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm Jad, I'm Rod. |
| 0:16.9 | And I'm Robert Krollwich. |
| 0:18.0 | And this is Radio Lab season three. |
| 0:19.9 | Let me start with a story. |
| 0:21.0 | Okay. |
| 0:21.4 | 1893, an anthropologist Franz Boas goes to the woods of British Columbia. |
| 0:26.5 | He has a giant wax cylinder recorder with him, and he records this guy singing a healing song. |
| 0:38.3 | And who's this? |
| 0:39.6 | This gentleman is an Indian from the Kwakudal tribe, and his name, we're told, is Kuselid. |
| 0:48.2 | Or Kessalit. |
| 0:49.2 | I've always pronounced Kesselid. I don't know. I'm not quite sure how it would be |
| 0:52.9 | pronounced in Kwokutal. |
| 0:58.5 | It's Daniel Mormon. He's an anthropologist. He's written a lot about Kesselid because it's a neat story. And it goes like this. The young Kesselid begins as a skeptic. |
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