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🗓️ 11 September 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Ana is an elevator. She’s headed for great heights.
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0:00.0 | Now they all feel the same to me, but there was definitely a time when, you know, the first time I went to 15, 16 or 17, it was a little bit of like, whoa, I'm going all the way up here. I've never gone this high before. |
0:17.0 | My name is Anna and I'm an elevator. |
0:21.0 | I remember my first day thinking, okay, first we're going to go to 5, all right, and then, okay, we'll stop at 3, and then we'll go to 11, and as we got higher, I was getting like anxious. |
0:36.0 | You know, when the button would get pushed, like, I'm going all the way up there, I haven't gone there yet. |
0:42.0 | You were a little bit scared of heights. |
0:45.0 | Yeah, yeah, I would say I was... |
0:50.0 | I think going... when you go to the highest floor you've ever been to for the first time, you think it should be no higher than this. |
0:59.0 | They're all going to feel like maybe they're too high in the beginning, but then you'll get used to it. |
1:08.0 | What do you imagine an elevator, you know, who's working in the tallest building? What do you imagine they feel? |
1:15.0 | Probably tired. I mean, I'm tired after a day of work and I'm just going to 17. |
1:22.0 | But I see all the other buildings are making are getting higher and higher. |
1:27.0 | You know, Frank Lloyd Wright wanted to make a building that was a mile high. |
1:32.0 | A mile. Yeah, and it was going to have 76 elevators, and they were going to be nuclear-powered, but it never got built. |
1:39.0 | It's terrifying in like every way. Like it's too tall. |
1:45.0 | It is powered by the most destructive force man has ever known. |
1:50.0 | One elevator mishap in that building is gone. |
1:54.0 | Yeah, I think a lot of people think about what if something went wrong in this elevator and they're imagining being stuck. |
2:00.0 | They're not imagining a city being destroyed. |
2:04.0 | That kind of danger is like, I mean, to be honest, I'm glad it didn't get built. |
2:11.0 | I think a lot of people also would be scared to use me. |
2:16.0 | So everything happens for a reason and some things don't happen for a reason. |
2:24.0 | Hi, Ian. Yeah, that's me. Yeah, can you hear me? |
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