Beth Shapiro

So we're like bright red.

I'll lick that.

Those particular individuals have, yeah, but I think they have a long history.

The culture has a long history there.

And I mean, we're still, I think, we're still learning about how humans have dispersed around the world and how they got to be the places where they are today.

But I really think it's impressive that there are people who are hanging on to that culture.

And really able to, you know, they're trying now to relearn their native languages because during the communist era, they were all forced to learn Russian and speak Russian the same way as everyone else.

Even up there?

Even up there.

Maybe they had to go to the squares like you see in Yakutsk and all these other places where they have the big squares with the speakers on the top where they would go for the daily admonishings or whatever from the Communist Party.

Who knows?

And we have so much to learn from them.

I mean, obviously, that's such a cool job, getting to go and actually try to communicate with people who haven't been talked to before.

But you kind of don't want to because you don't want to ruin that.

Right.

By the most sophisticated hunting animal out there.

Because they have to.

How did he get out of this?

We have a history of this.

That's so cool.