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Outside/In

Why we get scared—and why we like it

Outside/In

NHPR

Science, Natural Sciences

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

When fear is almost fun... and when it’s just plain terrifying.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What should I search on YouTube?

0:03.0

Do I search a video?

0:05.0

Something along the lines of Shark Week, White Shark Attack,

0:12.0

that should do it. I'm Nate this is outside in this is Jack Rodelico a

0:16.9

producer at New Hampshire Public Radio. Before he got into podcasting he

0:21.9

actually majored in marine biology which is kind of funny because Jack he's got a problem.

0:27.6

I've watched this once and earlier today I remembered that we're going to do this.

0:31.3

Are you nervous?

0:32.3

Yeah. Yes. Oh wow. Yes. Yes. All right.

0:37.6

Anyone who works with them knows the risks. Just keep calling them out. So it's a video from Discovery Channel's Shark Week, which by the way is supposedly

0:48.8

now the longest running cable TV event in history? There's a guy in a shark tank and the ocean is a deep deep blue.

0:56.0

Next thing you know it'll have it.

1:00.0

There's a shark here.

1:02.0

Okay there's a great white shark.

1:04.0

Great white circling him.

1:08.0

Here's the thing you really need to know about the shark cage this guy's in.

1:11.0

It's not made of metal bars. It's made of clear plastic, like a fish tank.

1:16.7

It almost doesn't look like he's in a cage.

1:20.1

I don't know why he's in there.

1:21.4

This is just downright stupid.

1:22.6

It's stupid.

1:23.4

Yeah.

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