Summary
It's hard to start a conversation with a stranger—especially when that stranger is, well, different. He doesn't share your customs, celebrate your holidays, watch your TV shows, or even speak your language. Plus he has a blowhole.
In this episode, which originally aired in the summer of 2014, we try to make contact with some of the strangest strangers on our little planet: dolphins. Producer Lynn Levy eavesdrops on some human-dolphin conversations, from a studio apartment in the Virgin Islands to a research vessel in the Bermuda Triangle.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh wait, you're listening. |
| 0:07.0 | Okay. |
| 0:09.0 | Okay. |
| 0:10.0 | Door listening to radio lab. |
| 0:12.0 | Radio lab. |
| 0:13.0 | From WNYC. |
| 0:14.0 | You see? |
| 0:15.0 | You see? |
| 0:16.0 | Hello. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Lulu. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello. |
| 0:19.0 | This is Latif. |
| 0:20.0 | Finally enough. |
| 0:21.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:22.0 | The episode we have to bring you today is called Hello. |
| 0:25.0 | It's really about the hardest possible Hello. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:28.0 | Someone trying to say hello across a huge gap and not just say hello, but really communicate |
| 0:37.0 | and understand the language of another species and possibly even have them understand you. |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.0 | We originally aired this in 2014. |
| 0:45.0 | It was co-reported by producer extraordinaire Lynn Levy and Adolphin. |
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