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Everything is Alive

Charu, Satellite

Everything is Alive

Radiotopia

Society & Culture

4.85.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Charu is a satellite. Is she alone in the universe?

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0:00.0

Hey there. I'm very excited to share that our fellow radio topia show The Stoop is back

0:06.1

with a new season. Lila and Hanna are the hosts and they are award-winning storytellers

0:11.7

and journalists and I can't wait for their takes on the word auntie or being called out

0:16.0

for not being able to speak the language of your culture. This season there's also a very

0:21.2

intimate conversation with a mom and daughter about succession planning. They get into black

0:26.6

psychedelic culture and so much more. The stoop, it's where you let your guard down and just

0:31.9

get real. Every other Thursday wherever you get your podcasts and follow them on Instagram

0:37.7

at The Stoop Podcast. I guess I missed the people who made me the people on earth because I didn't

0:50.4

know anyone else but um they were all kind of nerds you know.

1:01.3

They put a lot of effort into making me you know. Everything is exact and precise,

1:08.7

every bolt and every screw and I often wonder why the nerds could not have given me a sweater.

1:18.5

Yeah I take it it's cold up there. It's so cold dude I'm cold all the time.

1:25.6

How big are you? I'm two tons. So it would be a big big sweater. It's like a giant knit sweater.

1:33.6

I like that image all the satellites, space chips, the international space station,

1:40.4

all of you up there just wearing big cozy sweaters. Yes I would like that.

1:48.5

Hi I am a satellite. My name is Charu. So you are orbiting the earth. That's right. How did you

2:02.2

get up there? It was a whole it was a whole thing. It was a lot of shaking and then they opened a latch

2:11.3

and then I just stared out and it was nothing just a whole bunch of infinite nothing.

2:18.0

I've seen footage of when human beings are launched into space and it seems very stressful.

2:24.3

You know their faces are being contorted. They're having trouble with the GeForce. Did you experience

2:31.2

any of that? Oh yeah. I don't have a face. So I don't know what that means but I was clenched up.

2:41.5

I can tell you that. Tell me what your first impression of space was.

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