SPEAKER_03: People think of the name National Geographic and they think it's about mapping or you know like land formations and stuff but it's not that. It's about the planet that we live on, it's about the galaxy that we're in, it's about the creatures that inhabit it and all the stories that we want to tell about them. They can basically sense the compass of the earth. Through flies, dreams.
SPEAKER_02: Basically it's a way to see the world. I'm just recording the sounds of my neighborhood here.
SPEAKER_02: The collection of people that you get to work with and meet have this characteristic of just like endless curiosity.
SPEAKER_00: And I think that that's just what keeps me interested in these stories because I'm always learning something new.
SPEAKER_03: I love that Overheard is continuing in that tradition. You know, every person that we bring on is curious about something. This is the driving question that I face every single day, Amy.
SPEAKER_01: And I was yelling at my TV. Get the brain!
SPEAKER_02: And that's what our explorers and our journalists and you know all the people that contribute endeavor to do is to get into the weave of the planet and beyond and show you what's there. He said,
SPEAKER_01: Teha ti takititokivana mokwali. Are you working with the devil? Most young men, they have no options but joining the only industry that is running in this country being war.
SPEAKER_03: There are so many different kinds of stories coming up in season seven. We have history, we have science, we have nature. I was just trying to be more badass.
SPEAKER_00: And I had a chance to crawl up on the back of the whale shark, first just hanging like a streamer from its first dorsal fin.
SPEAKER_03: We have trafficking. That path has been a smuggling route for thousands of years.
SPEAKER_02: From cheetah smugglers.
SPEAKER_03: To lullabies. Tonight, Luke, it's time to go to bed.
SPEAKER_03: It's like every season before it, but different. The princess was born under the protection of the great god Whitsiloposh.
SPEAKER_02: Basically torpedo the ship just using a shark. Sharkpedo. That was the hope. I'm Peter Gwynn, editor at large at National Geographic.
SPEAKER_03: And I'm Amy Briggs, executive editor of National Geographic History magazine.
SPEAKER_02: Overheard season seven premieres August 3rd.
SPEAKER_03: All episodes of seasons one through six are available wherever you get your podcasts.
