I'm Alan Alda and this is Clear In Vivid, Conversations About Connecting and Communicating.

We're back with Table Talk again.

This time our favorite answers to the seven questions that we end every show with and

this time we asked our listeners to give us their answers to the seven questions and

they're really terrific answers.

So here we have Graham Shad our producer, our soci-producers Sarah Chase and our tech guru

Allison Kostin and we're going to, for the first time you revealed to me and I'll

reveal to you what our favorite answers from our listeners are.

Our first question always is what do you wish you really understood?

Graham what did you like from our listeners?

Well I liked the Krebs cycle.

What made you like that?

Well, tell what the person said.

Okay, she said the Krebs cycle, J.K. which Sarah has just told me means just joking.

No, just kidding.

It's useless.

Real answer, acid-based disorders and renal physiology, that's pretty deep.

Anyway, back to the Krebs cycle.

I remember when I first encountered it that you could actually find out all these things

about how a cell worked, all of the chemicals inside it just by doing good old-fashioned

chemistry.

I was just really blown away by it and it made me go into biochemistry.

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