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For Whom the Cowbell Tolls

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.644.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

When Nancy Holten was 8 years old her mom put her in a moving van. She fell asleep, woke up in Switzerland, and she's been there ever since. Nancy is big into animal rights, crystals, and various forms of natural and holistic healing. She’s also a viral sensation: the Dutch woman apparently so annoying, her Swiss town denied her citizenship. In this episode we go to the little village of Gipf-Oberfrick to meet Nancy, talk with the town, and ask the question: what does it mean and what does it take to belong to a place? This episode was reported by Kelly Prime and was produced by Kelly Prime and Annie McEwen.  Special thanks to reporter Anna Mayumi Kerber, the tireless fixer and translator for this story. Thanks also to Dominik Hangartner and to the very talented yodelers Ai Dineen and Gregory Corbino. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.  A tasty note from Latif: Towards the end of the story, I casually mentioned a place called Greg's Poutine in Toronto.  Turns out, it's actually called Smoke's Poutinerie. (Confused it with Greg's Ice Cream.) Go. It's delicious.

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0:04.4

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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.

0:19.5

Okay. Here. Here. Should I just test you? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, geez. See if you can be a citizen. Oh, God. Okay. Okay. Here, should I just test you?

0:21.7

Yeah, yeah.

0:22.1

Oh, geez.

0:22.8

If you could see if you could be a citizen.

0:23.4

Oh, God, okay.

0:24.1

Okay.

0:24.6

What is the supreme law of the land?

0:28.4

The Constitution?

0:30.1

Yeah, you got it.

0:31.9

What is freedom of religion?

0:34.6

What do you doesn't mean?

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