The Bobbys

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On the occasion of his retirement as cohost of Radiolab, Robert sat down with Jad to reflect on his long and storied career in radio and television, and their work together over the past decade and a half. And we pay tribute to Robert, inspired by a peculiar tradition of his.

This episode was produced by Matt Kielty. Sound design & mix by Jeremy Bloom.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening to radio lab from WNYC.
0:20.3	Okay.
0:21.3	We're also thinking about what?
0:22.3	We're well into the 21st century.
0:23.8	I think of myself as the 20th century boy.
0:26.5	I'm a 19 something, 19 this 19 that 1556, 19 see.
0:31.5	So to be 20, 20 that's like well into the next one.
0:34.1	Oh, you mean well into the 21st?
0:35.8	Yeah, right.
0:36.8	Oh, okay.
0:37.8	Oh, and you think of yourselves as the 20th?
0:38.8	Yes.
0:39.8	I feel a little like deep in the foreign land called the future.
0:42.8	Robert, you're a man for all seasons.
0:44.4	I don't, but you asked me to question this.
0:46.8	Hey, Chad, I've been wrong.
0:48.6	This is radio lab.
0:49.7	So as we said at the beginning of the last episode here at the end of the month, Robert
0:54.3	will be retiring from the show.
0:56.4	This is something that he and I have been talking about for a while, something we've been
0:59.8	talking about with the staff for a while.
1:02.0	And for the last few months, we've been trying to figure out as a team, like how do we send
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