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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

The Mutter Museum

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2009

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Robert Hicks is the director of the Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia. It's a museum of medical history - and oddities of the human body.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Tommy from Indiana.

0:02.4

The Sound of Young America is an independent production supported by listeners like me and

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you.

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0:18.7

Welcome to the Sound of Young America.

0:20.0

I'm your host Jesse Thorne America's Radio Suite art broadcasting live on tape this week

0:25.4

from our brand new studios and beautiful silver leg Los Angeles, California, still in

0:30.9

my apartment.

0:31.9

We haven't moved that far up in the world, better neighborhood, but still recording the

0:36.7

show at home.

0:38.7

Speaking of recording the show at home, this week's show not recorded at home.

0:42.0

In fact, let's go to the stage of the Philly Improv Theatre in Philadelphia, where we

0:45.6

taped an interview with director of the Motor Museum, Dr. Robert Hicks.

0:49.9

Now the Motor Museum is a kind of terrifying nightmare slash fascinating history world.

0:58.0

It's full of collections of hundreds of skulls from the 19th century with the age, ethnicity,

1:06.6

religion and cause of death cataloged, fetuses in jars, crazy specula, a giant skeleton

1:15.6

next to a midget skeleton, all kinds of weird upsetting and amazing things about the full

1:23.9

spectrum of the human body.

1:27.0

So let's go to the stage and my conversation with Dr. Robert Hicks, the director of the

1:32.2

Motor Museum in Philadelphia.

1:36.4

So happy to have you on the program.

1:38.3

So happy to visit the museum the other day.

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