I wouldn't speak up at pitch meetings and I remember it was Robert Krollwich who told me you know you can

contribute and I went I'm the secretary what are you talking about and he looked at me and went you have an opinion I think

we'd like to hear it this is radio lab I'm Lulu Miller and before we

hop into today's episode I want to take just a moment

to introduce you to someone on our team.

I am David Gable, and I am the administrative assistant for WNYC studios.

He is very modest about what he does at the show.

I'm just like the paperwork guy.

But we absolutely could not make Radio Lab without him.

I can't make an episode, but I can make sure people want to make an episode with us.

Whenever we hire someone to do some work for the show,

David is the person they hear from, and a lot of people hear from David.

We can talk fact checkers. I'm paying them every month.

Freelance reporters. And I've got our brilliant illustrator,

Jared, that we're paying him all the time.

Uh-huh.

For all of a mixtape, we had a wonderful Chinese translator.

David also handles all of our sometimes weird reporting expenses.

Little roadside hotels and water bottles and bike rentals and microphones and bug spray.

I submitted a receipt that had like $2.99 in there for hand warmers when I was like two

hours from the Arctic Circle.

It's a lot of little stuff.

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