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Radiolab

What's Left When You're Right?

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.644.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

More often than not, a fight is just a fight... Someone wins, someone loses. But this hour, we have a series of face-offs that shine a light on the human condition, the benefit of coming at something from a different side, and the price of being right. Special thanks to Mark Dresser for the use of his music.

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0:00.0

A celebration of adverbs.

0:03.9

Hello.

0:04.7

Yeah. Hey.

0:05.7

Hi.

0:06.3

So it's Golden Balls.

0:07.6

Yes, sir.

0:08.4

We're going to roll back the clock a tiny bit and play you something that we really like.

0:13.0

Like, I don't know.

0:14.5

Of all of the stage work we ever did, that night at the Brooklyn Academy of music with those oh man

0:22.2

yeah god you know having having you and I have have been through some highs and

0:27.2

some definite lows on stages and I think that was the highest high I think that

0:32.6

was the highest I really do and it had nothing to do with us by the way it was just

0:36.2

that the clips we were playing on the video screen were so good.

0:40.1

They were good. So good. Maybe I should just sort of explain what we were talking about. So we were on stage a couple years ago at the Brooklyn Academy Music. We were playing these clips from a TV show called Golden Balls. And each clip consisted of two people in a moral face-off.

0:57.5

And the people in the audience watching were just losing it.

1:01.8

Because there was a section where you asked people to vote and they had to vote with their phones,

1:05.1

and we had this weird receiver that was built, it was on the stage that was going to receive this

1:10.7

information, and then we were going to receive this information,

1:11.4

and then we were going to then display it.

1:13.0

I just remember a whole bunch of people waving their phones and shouting.

1:18.2

Anyhow, after that live show, we ended up doing a radio version of that story.

1:23.6

And then based on that radio piece, we did two other segments that sort of kind of,

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