It's the Brian Lairn on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone, and happy New Year, or at least happy New Year's Eve morning.

For this final day of 2024, we put together some favorite recent

conversations to usher out the year, lightly

edited, including when Malcolm Gladwell

revisited the show and revisited his

breakthrough book, The Tipping Point, and two

from our centennial series, 100 years of 100

things, a century of the Wizard of Oz, and a century of radio itself.

Plus, it's Tuesday, so time for one more, 2024 climate story of the week.

We've been doing them on Tuesdays all this year.

This one from April about the link between fracking and earthquakes timely again.

But we start here with the history that we are part of. Enjoy.

Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series, 100 years of 100 things with 100 years of radio. Radio as a

medium. It felt as new and revolutionary to people in the

early 20th century as television or the internet or maybe now artificial intelligence have in

the waves of communication technology since. Suddenly, he didn't have to go to a theater or go to a

town hall meeting or go to a stadium to be part of a live mass audience for news or entertainment.

Imagine how new it must have felt when people all around the country in their own homes could hear the heavyweight championship boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney that took place in Chicago

in 1927.

Ladies and gentlemen, main event 10 rounds for the heavyweight championship of the world.

Introducing from Salt Lake City, Utah,

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