Hi, you're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. Today, we have something a little different. A new podcast from TED called Pindrop. In each episode, hosts Salim Reschamwala, journeys across the globe to find the most surprising ideas from each place. Coming up is our first episode from Bangkok. You'll be

transported to a city where the traffic is so bad, traffic police had to learn a very specific

skill, and where sometimes, instead of calling 911, residents call up a radio station to get

emergency help. For more episodes, please subscribe to Pindrop wherever you listen to podcasts.

So as I was monitoring the scanners, I was sitting and interviewing a couple of the guys there,

and the guy who was monitoring the scanner says,

ooh, there's a call coming in right now and it sounds like it is a woman who's about to

give birth.

I'm Salim Resamuala and from Ted, this is Pindrop.

In each episode, we visit a different city to understand ideas that flow from that place.

This week, tales of adaptability

from Bangkok. Oh, and shout out to Women Will a Grow with Google program for sponsoring this

week's episode. Bangkok's a city that I think you either love or hate. It's a city that kind of reveals

its secrets to those who really invest their time here. Yes, there's traffic,

there's pollution, it's a concrete jungle, but there's also the best street food in the world.

And it's a really creative city. People who live here that stay for a long time tend to have

a great sense of humor about the messiness of it all.

That voice you just heard, that's Pailin Waddell, a Thai American journalist from Bangkok.

So today, Paila Paila is riding with the Royal Traffic Police, a special unit under the

Royal Thai Police, when they get a call from a radio station. Someone called the radio station asking

for help. There's this woman in a taxi

who's stuck in crazy bad traffic and she's about to give birth. And so I happen to be with

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