Asking for Another Friend

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🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Part 2: 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. Today, we take a look at a strange human emotion, and investigate the mysteries lurking behind the trees, sounds, and furry friends in our lives. This episode was reported by Tracie Hunte, Pat Walters, Molly Webster, Arianne Wack, Carter Hodge, Sarah Qari and Annie McEwen, and was produced by Matt Kielty, Tracie Hunte, Pat Walters, Molly Webster, Arianne Wack, Sarah Qari, Annie McEwen, and Simon Adler. Special thanks to Yiyun Huang, lab manager at Yale's Canine Cognition Center. Check out Code Switch's "Dog Show!" Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening...
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
0:05.6	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.9	From W. N. Y.
0:13.9	C.
0:14.8	See?
0:14.9	Yeah.
0:18.9	Hey, I'm Jedi Boomrod.
0:20.4	I'm Robert Krollovich. She's Radio Lab. And today we'll start with a prelude. Hello, hello, England. Are you there? From our producer, Annie McEwen. Hello. Oh, hi. Yay. Is that Annie? It is. Is this Rupert? Well done. Yes, well done. This is Rupert Pennant Ray. Right. Hello. He's 71 and he's at a very busy, very successful career. Yes.
0:41.5	Perhaps. Well done. Yes. Well done. This is Rupert Pennant Ray. Right. Hello. He's 71 and he's at a very busy, very successful career. Yes. Perhaps the two most prominent things I've done. I was on the staff of the economist for many years and editor. I then went from there to the Bank of England where I was deputy governor. So you can imagine Rupert is a very knowledgeable guy.
0:55.2	Absolutely. Especially when it comes to things like interest rates or exchange rates or
0:59.4	commodity prices and ha ha ha. He knows all about that stuff. But this whole time has been this
1:05.0	like super successful guy. He's been living with this one big, big cavernous gap in my life.
1:45.9	Yeah. Until very recently, Rupert knew absolutely nothing about science. And when I say nothing, I mean like, he had no clue about how the natural world around him worked in any way. Literally. For instance... The periodic table. I'd never heard of the periodic table. Until last year. And when one day his wife told him he was a mammal... Well, that was a shocker. He had no idea. I said, no, no, of course I'm not a mammal. What? I thought she was using it as a term of abuse. He'd use words like fibro optic cable. Many, many times. And say things like... Oh, that's radioactive. When describing something he felt was bad or dangerous. Without a clue of what I meant by that phrase. I guess, like, what was it like
1:52.6	to be a very important person in a very important circles, but have this gap? Well, I'll tell you what,
1:58.4	I became good at bluffing. I was on the board of a number of mining companies, and I hope none of my colleagues from
2:06.5	those companies are listening.
2:08.1	Part of being on the board meant he had to read all these geologists reports, and
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