Infinities
Radiolab
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 43.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In August 2018, Boen Wang was at a work retreat for a new job. Surrounded by mosquitoes and swampland in a tiny campsite in West Virginia, Boen’s mind underwent a sudden, dramatic transformation that would have profound consequences—for his work, his colleagues, and himself.
Special thanks to Grace Gilbert for voice acting and episode art, and to Professors Erin Anderson and Maggie Jones for editorial support. Episode credits:
Reported and produced by Boen WangOriginal Music provided by Alex Zhang HungtaiFact-checking by Diane KellyEdited by Pat Walters
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Laptop Nasser. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm Lula Miller. |
| 0:21.6 | This is Radio Lab and today we're going to feature a young producer on staff, actually |
| 0:25.4 | are most recent interns, Bowen Wong, because before he got here, Bowen made a bit of radio |
| 0:32.7 | that blew us out of the water. |
| 0:35.9 | Bowen, you got cold feet about this whole thing. |
| 0:39.3 | No, it's called infinities. |
| 0:42.4 | To start, like, someone opening this podcast, listening, like, what would you want someone |
| 0:47.2 | to hear before they hear the piece? |
| 0:51.0 | I guess maybe just like a quick Lula, what's it, Radio Lab, and here we have the intern, |
| 0:57.8 | Bowen. |
| 0:58.8 | Hi. |
| 0:59.8 | What's going on with this story? |
| 1:00.8 | Well, it's a story that I made for a school assignment and somehow it just, it went |
| 1:05.8 | out into the world and people liked it. |
| 1:08.5 | And to talk too much about it would kind of spoil it, but it's basically about this crazy |
| 1:14.5 | time where something happened to me while I was at work and things happened as a result |
| 1:22.4 | of it. |
| 1:23.7 | That would be... |
| 1:24.7 | Wait, that was like per... |
| 1:25.7 | I think that was the... |
| 1:26.7 | That's the money, Jake. |
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