Falling

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

There are so many ways to fall—in love, asleep, even flat on your face. This hour, Radiolab dives into stories of great falls. We jump into a black hole, take a trip over Niagara Falls, upend some myths about falling cats, and plunge into our favorite songs about falling. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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?
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:20.1	Hello, hello, hello?
0:21.1	Um, how do I want to introduce this tape to you?
0:24.8	Okay, I'm sure that...
0:25.9	Have you heard this tape, Coach?
0:26.8	I have not.
0:27.8	This is actually the first, one of my first radio pieces.
0:31.0	You're not going to hear what we're saying as we're in Free Fall.
0:33.8	And I had two friends who were in love.
0:36.0	I want to take a picture of the two of you. I've since fallen out of love and fallen in love with other people. But at the time, they were very much in love, and they had decided they were going to go skydiving. Together. Together. Everything looks good. You ready for this? Yeah, I guess so. So, this is my friend Jordan. He is getting into a plane.
0:54.9	All right, let's check your harness. He's got a mini-disc, reporter strapped to his chest.
0:59.1	And I should just say that the piece ended up being really dumb, but it contains the best moment
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WNYC Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of WNYC Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.