Asking for a Friend

Radiolab

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Last year, we ran a pair of episodes that explored the greatest mysteries in our listeners’ lives - the big ones, little ones, and the ones in between. This year, we’re back on the hunt, tracking down answers to the big little questions swirling around our own heads. We reached out to some of our favorite people and asked them to come along with us as we journeyed back in time, to outer space, and inside our very own bodies. This episode was reported by Rachael Cusick, Simon Adler, Becca Bressler, and Annie McEwen and was produced by Rachael Cusick, Simon Adler, Matt Kielty, Becca Bressler, and Annie McEwen. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. You're listening to Radio Lab. Radio Lab. From W. N. Y. C. See? Yeah. Oh. Pull the microphone in front of your front of your mouth. There you go. You might want to hear me close.
0:21.3	I do want to hear.
0:21.9	I want to hear the deep delset.
0:23.3	Oh,
0:23.7	yeah.
0:23.9	Okay.
0:24.3	You know what it is?
0:24.9	It's like, it's like, it's like 80 hertz.
0:27.9	Was that an 80 hertz?
0:28.8	Is this an 80 hertz difference?
0:29.8	Is this 80 hertz better?
0:30.9	Well, because when you move off mic.
0:32.2	80 hertz. And it hurts me. It hurts me. It literally hurts me. H-E-R-r-t-z me see this is the thing you r-t-s is me oh the sublime whatever you call
1:01.2	word that sounds like another word that isn't the same word that sounds the same when you say
1:04.6	it's a homily homalum homonym homonym yeah it's a hominem. We're having a hominem conversation.
1:11.1	Actually, I think it's a different word.
1:12.3	I think it's homophone.
1:13.8	Homophone?
1:14.4	Oh.
1:14.9	Anyhow, this is Radio Lab.
1:15.9	I'm Jad I'm Rod.
1:16.7	I'm Robert Krollich. Robert, are you ready for this? What are you about to get me ready for? So this, just to put a frame, just off the top of my head frame.
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