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Public Radio, WNYC, and NPR. Hello everyone, Chad here from Radio Lab. This is the Radio Lab podcast, something a little different this week.

A while back, we did a program on the Romance of Space, and as part of that program, I interviewed Androian, who is Carl Sagan's widow, about how they made the gold record that went aboard the Voyager Space Capsule.

On that record was a kind of mixtape of the human experience.

All of these different sounds, music, natural sounds, heartbeats, all kinds of different

sounds, which represent life on Earth so that it would go on this record, go into a capsule,

get shot into space, and

one day billions of years from now be discovered by some alien life form who would then play

the record and then know about us.

That's the idea.

And we thought, what a cool, somewhat naive, but amazing idea.

And it got us thinking, what would we do if we could put stuff on that record?

So then we began to ask people around us and eventually tracked down some writers, chefs,

artists, different kinds of folks who are out there in the public eye and ask them,

what would you put on the record?

We got a bunch of answers back.

We put a few on the show that we broadcast, and on a couple, we weren't able to include for time. So we're going to play them for you now. Five space capsules, okay, from five different people, starting with Chef Alice Waters.

Okay, but I...

When are they coming, A seven-city?

No, they're coming.

Second Senior.

Yeah.

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