Waiting In Line
Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything
Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2013
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
About a year ago I travelled across America for the BBC. I visited Airports, Amusement parks, Highways and Community Colleges in order to understand how the priority queue is changing the American experience of waiting in line. A version of this piece aired on the BBC World Service, part of their “Real America” series produced in conjunction with PRX.
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| 1:27.0 | You are listening to Benjamin Walker's theory of everything. |
| 1:31.0 | This installment is called Waiting in Line. |
| 1:35.0 | Even though Waiting in Line is an essential part of the human experience, there's no such thing |
| 1:40.1 | as a universal cue. |
| 1:42.0 | You never can tell where you're going to get one of these |
| 1:43.4 | clashes of cues. Dick Larson is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of |
| 1:47.6 | Technology. His favorite story about the clash of cues takes place at a |
| 1:51.8 | Hong Kong University in the ladies room. |
| 1:54.0 | They were lined up in front of the sinks |
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