BONUS: Who Do You Let In?

Invisibilia

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🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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An uncomfortable encounter with a stranger sets producer Abby Wendle on a quest to answer the question: who do you let in and who do you keep out? In her search for balance between openness and caution – she navigates the struggles of her long-distance relationship and chats up musician John Prine.

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0:00.0	A friend of mine who likes science once told me this thing that's always stayed with me,
0:03.7	even though I'm not even sure that it's true.
0:05.9	She told me that even when you feel like you are physically touching someone, you're
0:11.5	not.
0:12.5	There's always a space between you, an atom of distance or something like that.
0:17.2	And that is what today's story is about.
0:19.9	The problems of connecting and the need to connect.
0:23.5	It's from one of the producers of Invisibilia, Abby Wendell.
0:27.1	Hello, hello.
0:30.4	Hello.
0:31.4	Hello.
0:32.4	Who do we let into our lives?
0:35.4	Hello.
0:36.4	Hello.
0:37.4	No.
0:38.4	And who do we keep at a distance?
0:41.7	Can you hear me?
0:43.4	Do I sound like I'm coming out of a log?
0:47.6	I can hear you very well.
0:50.2	And how do we decide?
0:52.0	Like how do we draw the line between being careful so we don't let in somebody we don't
0:56.1	want and being open so we don't drown from the loneliness of life?
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