Hard Knock Life

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This Valentine's Day, a mysterious tap tap tapping leads us into a world of sex, death, and head-banging. Biologist Dave Goulson introduces us to the lonely yearnings of an especially pathetic beetle and snatches a sound back from the hands of the devil himself. Featuring rapping about rapping from extra special guests Lin-Manuel Miranda, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Freestyle Love Supreme. Produced by Simon Adler. We had engineering help from Rick Kwan.

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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.
0:08.4	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.
0:18.7	I'm Robert Crilwich.
0:20.0	I'm Molly Webster.
0:20.7	This is Radio Lab.
0:21.9	And this week, Jad is off, nestled into his office, working on the next episode, which will play with a lot of the ideas that came up in our last Gary Hart podcast, but like with pop stars and music.
0:33.5	Meantime, we've decided to offer you guys a little Valentine's treat. It's going to be part prose, part musical in a hip-hop sort of way, with some extremely cool guests.
0:45.3	Really? Oh, I promise you yes, at the end of the show. And it all grows out of a tale we heard about a very small animal, which begins appropriately, with a very small noise.
0:56.0	Yeah, so in days gone by, people tended to die at home. This is go back a couple
1:02.6	of hundred years before there were hospitals and so on. This, by the way, is David Goulson.
1:06.5	I'm a professor of biology at the University of Sussex in the UK. And he told this tale to producer Latif Nasser and I.
1:12.6	So you imagine that, you know, grandpa's ill and looks like he might die soon.
1:17.6	Sorry, I don't know why that's funny, but...
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