Hey, I'm Laptop Nasser.

I'm Lulu Miller. This is Radio Lab.

And today in service of this Radio Lab rewind, we're about to play for you this episode from the

archives. I want to ask you, Lulu. Have you ever done jury duty?

I have not. And I really want to, I mean, maybe I shouldn't say that on the air because like the

envelope will come and it'll be the good of the, but I would love to. And I have never even been

called. I think I've moved so many times. I don't know where I am.

I just became a citizen relatively recently as you know. So I haven't, I also haven't been called,

but I, I want to do it.

Yeah. What is it for you? Why do you want to do it?

I mean, there's part of it that feels like a, you're, I don't know, just a weird thing to say.

Like maybe like a little power trip to be like, oh, wow, like I get to, it's also, and again,

another thing that maybe I shouldn't say a lot, but like, there's something like kind of

voyeuristic about it. Yeah. It's like an out of body moment. It's out of your life. You get to kind

of like exit your life and sort of get plunged into probably the most dramatic moment of somebody

else's life kind of in a, in a ethical moral puzzle of what to do next. And there, there's something

kind of, I think very humbling and powerful about that moment.

And today we have a story that is about that power, but it's, it's about not just a power that

you walk in the door of jury duty with. It's about this kind of trap door on any jury, which I had

no idea about was waiting there that you can kind of fall through and access a whole new realm

of powers that isn't just about guilt or innocence. That isn't just about truth, but it's,

it like gives you and your whole jury, I don't know, change democracy.

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