A 4-Track Mind

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2011

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this short, a neurologist issues a dare to a ragtime piano player and a famous conductor. When the two men face off in an fMRI machine, the challenge is so unimaginably difficult that one man instantly gives up. But the other achieves a musical feat that ought to be impossible.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
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0:06.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.4	Radio Lab.
0:10.1	Shorts.
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0:12.8	W. N. Y.
0:13.8	C.
0:14.7	See?
0:15.0	Yes.
0:16.3	And NPR.
0:18.9	No, it won't be so bad.
0:21.0	No, this is fine.
0:21.9	What are we doing about the podcast, by the way?
0:24.1	Should we do that now? Yep. Hey, I'm Chad I boom-rod. This is Radio Lab. Yes, we, yes, it is. No, we're doing the introduction. Oh. Ready? Here we go. Let's do it for real. Hey, I'm Chad Abumrod.
0:35.5	I'm Robert Krollwit.
0:36.4	This is Radio Lab.
0:37.3	The podcast.
0:38.1	And today on the podcast, I want to tell you about a guy who hears music in a way that is just extraordinary. Yeah. And painful. Just thinking about this story makes my head hurt. That's Jessica Benko. She's a reporter. Yep. And she's the one who initially told me the story.
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