Insomnia Line

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Coronasomnia is a not-so-surprising side-effect of the global pandemic. More and more of us are having trouble falling asleep. We wanted to find a way to get inside that nighttime world, to see why people are awake and what they are thinking about.

So what’d Radiolab decide to do?

Open up the phone lines and talk to you.

We created an insomnia hotline and on this week’s experimental episode, we stayed up all night, taking hundreds of calls, spilling secrets, and at long last, watching the sunrise peek through.

This episode was produced by Lulu Miller with Rachael Cusick, Tracie Hunte, Tobin Low, Sarah Qari, Molly Webster, Pat Walters, Shima Oliaee, and Jonny Moens.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening to Radio Lab from WNYC.
0:19.6	Hey I'm Chad Abumarab, this is Radio Lab.
0:22.5	I want to start off with some good news about the show.
0:27.2	As most of you know, my longtime co-host, co-conspirator, pal, Robert Crowe, which left the
0:35.8	show back in January and a few things are immediately clear.
0:39.4	One, he's irreplaceable, there's no other Robert.
0:44.1	But simultaneously it was also clear that over the years the show has grown to be way more
0:51.4	than just the Robert Chad situation.
0:53.3	We now have all of these reporters and producers who you hear on the show all the time.
0:58.9	It's much more of a collective.
1:01.1	And so in the spirit of doing something new rather than trying to recapture the old and
1:08.8	in keeping with that chaotic, more collective vibe that the show has now become, here's
1:14.5	my news.
1:17.2	Going forward, I'm still going to be hosting the show, of course.
1:20.6	But I will be sharing this space on again, off again with two new co-hosts.
1:26.5	Hello everybody for the first time.
1:28.6	Hi, there.
1:30.7	Who aren't actually new.
1:31.7	Good to see you.
1:33.5	Lots of Nasser and Lulu Miller.
1:36.2	Chad are you having cold feet about welcoming us to the fire of the microphone?
1:41.4	No, so excited.
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