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Radiolab

Wake Up and Dream

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.644.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2012

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In today's short, a man confronts a bully, and frees himself from a recurring nightmare that's terrorized him for more than 20 years.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Wait, you're listening.

0:01.1

Okay.

0:02.4

All right.

0:03.6

Okay.

0:05.0

All right.

0:06.5

You're listening to Radio Lab.

0:09.4

Radio Lab.

0:10.1

Shorts.

0:11.6

From W. N-Y-C.

0:14.7

See?

0:15.0

Yes.

0:16.5

And NPR.

0:18.9

Hey, I'm Chad Abumrod.

0:20.5

I'm Robert Krollwich. This is Radio Lab. The podcast. And today, a story about facing, how would you put it? Facing. You're boogeyman, I think. Yeah. But in this case, like, literally. Eh, that's it. Almost. Almost. And it comes to us from Matt, you ready?

0:37.6

Yeah.

0:38.1

From reporter Matthew Kilty. Steve. Yes. And another guy. How you doing? I've never been better. So Matt, I don't know exactly how we're going to start this story, but maybe just introduce us to this guy. So this guy's Steve Volk. He's a reporter. A city reporter here in Philadelphia. I write about courts, crime, politics.

0:56.0

But the thing that I read was a personal story. He's a reporter. A city reporter here in Philadelphia. I write about courts, crime, politics.

0:55.9

But the thing that I read was a personal story of Steve's.

0:58.9

Story starts with Steve in his early 20s, and one night he goes to sleep.

1:03.8

Right.

1:04.7

So I have this dream where I wake up in my apartment.

1:09.5

There's nobody there but me.

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