Super Cool

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

When we started reporting a fantastic, surreal story about one very cold night, more than 70 years ago, in northern Russia, we had no idea we'd end up thinking about cosmology. Or dropping toy horses in test tubes of water. Or talking about bacteria. Or arguing, for a year. Walter Murch (aka, the Godfather of The Godfather), joined by a team of scientists, leads us on what felt like the magical mystery tour of super cool science. This piece was produced by Molly Webster and Matt Kielty with help from Amanda Aronczyk. It originally aired in March of 2014. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
0:05.6	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.9	From W. N. Y.
0:13.9	C.
0:14.8	See?
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:19.2	Hey, I'm Chad Abunrod.
0:38.3	I'm Robert Krollich. This is Radio Lab. And what we're going to do in this particular show is we're going to... This is one of my favorites. Yeah. It should be because you certainly gave it your all. Exactly. I don't know. What do we need to say here? I mean, this is like, this is a little bit of a tussle.
0:43.7	We sort of wanted to bring it back because, you know, winter's approaching. Things are kind of heavy right now. We could use a little lightness.
1:11.7	So this begins with a very, very successful film editor with, well, you'll meet him in a moment, comes to us with an idea with Chad loves, I hate, and things go from there. Perfect. Can you hear us now? Hello, hello? Hello? It starts with Walter, my hero. Walter Merch. I'm a film editor and sound designer, and I've been working in film since the late 1960s. The resume includes, I'm going to make him an awful again with you.
1:13.0	The Godfather.
1:15.8	Apocalypse now.
1:17.7	I love the smell of night pump in the morning.
1:18.6	A ton of other films.
1:22.2	The thing we're talking about, in so you should know, is the... One of the more spectacular stories I've ever heard.
1:24.7	How did you bump into this tale?
1:27.1	Well, I was in Lyon, in France. Doing a film.
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