4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | Yes, people are following you. People are following those people. |
0:05.0 | And you see them? |
0:07.0 | They follow me. |
0:10.0 | The KGB is a circle of accountability. Nothing more. |
0:24.0 | Hello and welcome to the Chernobyl podcast, the podcast about the Chernobyl mini-series on HB. |
0:29.0 | I am Peter Segal and I am here with Craig Mason, the show's creator and producer and writer. |
0:36.0 | Hello again Craig. Hello Peter. |
0:38.0 | This is the third episode of the Chernobyl podcast. We're talking of course about episode three of the Chernobyl mini-series, which is titled Open Wide O-Earth. |
0:45.0 | We pick up where we left off on episode two, down in the depths in the dark, underneath the reactor, with the three men who were colloquially known in stories of Chernobyl as the divers. |
0:57.0 | The divers. Even though they weren't really divers, they were engineers, but they knew the subterranean area of the complex. |
1:06.0 | When the lights go out, they're able to kind of just grab pipes that they knew there were certain pipes that would lead them to the room where they could open up the sluice gate. |
1:15.0 | Now for us, we had an interesting problem because if the lights go out, it becomes a radio play at that point with a lot of people. |
1:21.0 | What's wrong with that Craig? |
1:23.0 | Oh well, I know. Radio play, not Game Show. |
1:27.0 | I understand. I'm going to defend my media. |
1:29.0 | Of course. |
1:30.0 | But what I believe you have, they use, I'd forget what you call them, but these hand generated. |
1:34.0 | I think they're called dynamo. |
1:36.0 | So it's like a little hand crank thing that you have probably seen in like an Army Navy surplus store. |
1:41.0 | And we found the models that were used in the Soviet Union at the time. |
1:45.0 | And they have this wonderful noise. |
1:48.0 | So we really tried to give you a sense of just putting you in a place. |
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