First person: 'I helped to connect families ... from country to country'

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.2 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Thousands of miles of fiber optic cable at the bottom of the world’s oceans carry more than 95% of the world’s data, from phone calls and emails to encrypted military secrets. Rick Chislett spent 41 years laying fiber optic cable around the world.

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0:00.0	Get up and add it.
0:01.3	That's my mother used to say.
0:03.0	Get moving.
0:05.0	Get your skate song.
0:07.0	Get your hair done and the race run.
0:10.0	Get behind the wheel.
0:12.0	Get picking up.
0:14.0	And dropping off.
0:17.0	Get busy.
0:19.0	Get deliveries done.
0:21.0	And get home to see mom.
0:24.0	Whatever the mission,
0:26.0	Enterprise Rintercar helps over 100,000 every day.
0:31.0	Hi there, on Point Podcast listeners.
0:33.0	It's Megna here with a special first-person episode for you.
0:37.0	On today's main show, we went below the ocean waves
0:40.0	to learn about the almost 900,000 miles of fiber optic cable
0:44.0	lying on the ocean floor around the world.
0:47.0	Most folks don't know it, but those cables make up the backbone of the internet.
0:51.0	99% of internet traffic flows through them.
0:54.0	That means $10 trillion of business across them every day.
0:57.0	Emails, movies, Instagram memes, military secrets, you name it.
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