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Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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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. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today. Radiolab is on YouTube! Catch up with new episodes and hear classics from our archive. Plus, find other cool things we did in the past — like miniseries, music videos, short films and animations, behind-the-scenes features, Radiolab live shows, and more. Take a look, explore and subscribe!

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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.
0:08.5	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.
0:18.8	Hello.
0:20.0	Hello.
0:20.3	This is Lulu. Hello. This is L. Hello. This is Latif.
0:22.7	Funnily enough, the episode we have to bring you today is called hello.
0:27.1	It's really about the hardest possible hello.
0:29.5	Yeah, yeah. Someone trying to say hello across a huge gap and not just say hello, but really communicate and understand the language of another species
0:39.8	and possibly even have them understand you. Yeah. We originally aired this in 2014. It was co-reported
0:46.6	by producer extraordinaire Lynn Levy and a dolphin. But like actually kind of.
0:55.0	But mostly Lynn.
0:55.9	She really did most of the work.
0:57.1	Yeah.
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