meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Radiolab

15: Sum

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

4.644.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2009

⏱️ 5 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

For meditation number fifteen we have a reading from David Eagleman's book Sum. It's a vision of the after life that's both playful and... horrifying. Sum is read by actor Jeffrey Tambor.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Wait, you're listening.

0:01.1

Okay.

0:02.4

All right.

0:03.6

Okay.

0:05.0

All right.

0:06.4

You're listening to Radio Lab.

0:09.4

Radio Lab.

0:10.1

Shorts.

0:11.3

From W. N-Y-C.

0:14.7

See?

0:15.0

Yes.

0:16.5

And NPR.

0:18.7

Hey, I'm Chadabumrod.

0:20.4

And I'm Robert Crilwich.

0:21.5

This is Radio Lab, the podcast.

0:23.4

We're up to number 15 now.

0:25.4

As you can tell the last few days, we've been extending our afterlife show.

0:29.5

The opera or the after-afterlife show.

0:32.8

And for number 15, we have a reading from David Eagleman's book, Some, a story called Some, which is, in fact, the story that got us interested in doing the entire afterlife show to begin with.

0:43.0

Yeah, because it is so, it's so summary, actually, in the S-U-M-M-A-R-Y sense.

0:48.9

Right. And it's read for us again by actor Jeffrey Tambor.

0:52.4

All right, try it.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WNYC Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of WNYC Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.