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I always thought I would die when I was 23.

Because I thought anything after 23 was too old and I didn't want to live.

I mean, yeah.

Hey, everybody, it's Annie.

And it's Ella, and we're back after months of recording in our studio.

Our soundproof closet. Our soundproof closet.

Let's not glorify it.

Yeah.

We're back with a whole new season of Undiscovered.

And we've got all the stuff those other podcasts have these days, your near-death

experiences. I got the last rights and the priest told me I had to confess. We've got your

courtroom showdowns. What's this court supposed to do? It's not fair. It's unjust. There was a

moment of like, oh my God. This is drama. This is crazy. Case closed. And yeah, we've got science. Don't

worry, we have not gone true crime on you. We have so much science coming at you this season.

We'll talk about what happens when we develop very real, very squishy human feelings for machines.

Why do I feel like I have to excuse myself to a thing?

With this robot.

And we'll look at an ill-fated attempt in the 1960s to teach dolphins how to speak English.

Emphasis on attempt.

Plus, we'll head down under to Australia and step right in the middle of a

cross-continental feud over a new turtle species. A turtle feud that gets surprisingly heated.

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