The Cathedral

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2015

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ryan and Amy Green were facing the unfaceable: their youngest son, Joel was diagnosed with terminal cancer after his first birthday. Producer Sruthi Pinnamaneni tells the story of how Ryan and Amy stumble onto an unlikely way of processing their experience fighting alongside Joel: they decide to turn it into a video game. In the end, they find themselves facing what might be, for a game designer or a parent, the hardest design problem ever. Correction: In the original audio we stated that the survival rate of childhood AT/RT cancer is 50% over five years. But studies suggest the survival rate is 50% over two years. The audio has been updated to reflect this change. For an extended version of this story and a bunch more incredible stories, go check out Reply All. Special thanks to Eilis O’ Neill, Jon Hillman, and Josh Larson. This episode included audio from “Thank You For Playing,” a documentary film about the creation of That Dragon, Cancer by David Osit & Malika Zouhali-Worrall. You can learn more about the film and where you can see it, at thankyouforplayingfilm.com. For more, we suggest reading Wired's "Playing For Time."

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
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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.
0:19.3	Hey, I'm Chad. I'm Boomerad. I'm Robert Crilwich. This is Radio Lab. And today, we're going to feature a story from our friends over at Reply All.
0:28.0	Which is a podcast produced by Gimlet Media. Hosted by PJ Vote, Alex Goldman. We're going to let you hear a taste of Reply All.
0:35.1	You know, because it's an amazing show. The entire staff's like secret favorite show, not even secret, actually. And this story, it just kind of grabbed us. Now, we're not going to play you the whole story that they did. We're going to play you most of it. And we may intervene from time to time just to sort of, because we bubble over with questions sometimes. Exactly., this story actually doesn't come from PJ and Alex. It comes from one of their producers,
0:58.7	Shruti Pina Manenny. Yes. And the story sort of centers around a couple and their son.
1:03.8	So let me start by introducing you to the couple. Amy Green. Hi. Hi. And Ryan Green. Oh, we have our buffalo chicken. Oh, wait, you've got
1:13.7	two hot wings from yesterday? No, I already ate those. I think that's why I'm suffering this
1:17.8	morning. They live in a small house in Loveland, Colorado. They fell in love chatting online,
1:23.7	got married as soon as they turned 21. they moved into this house the very next day.
1:28.6	Oh, let me respond to some emails and then we'll head down.
1:32.0	They had their first son, Caleb, their second son, Isaac.
1:35.5	Ryan was a computer programmer and Amy took care of the kids.
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