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A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century. In 2013, Lee Berger, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence, heard of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators - men and women small and adventurous enough to be able to squeeze through eight-inch tunnels to reach a sunless cave forty feet underground. It worked.

In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. Lead researcher Berger had never made his way into the dark, cramped, dangerous underground spaces where many of the naledi fossils had been found. Now he was ready to do so. Once inside the cave, Berger made shocking new discoveries that expand our understanding of this early hominid.

Two amateur history buffs quiz each other about people and events we all sort of know, but barely, and inaccurately.The Forgotten Facts will shock you.Every Wrong Answer receives an increasingly high-voltage electric shock.It's Hot Ones For Culture Nerds.It's GET SHOCKED!Donate to support Get Shocked: https://checkout.square.site/merchant/9NNN0497Z2WPD/checkout/2BBZ5O2CD4CAZL47CDU6DHLACreated, Written and Co-hosted by Daniel Berger-Jones and John J King.Produced and Edited by Kenneth Fuentes.

Mike Berger and John Artiglier talk about media they've been watching, playing, and interacting with while trying not to be awkward. It's a podcast idea so original, you would have thought someone would have done it by now.