![]() ![]() We're gonna bring you some amazing episodes. So please, make your year-end contribution in support of Radiolab today. Heck, if everybody listening right now actually pitched in $100, we would never have to ask you for money ever again. Let's see if we can grow that to 40,000, 60,000. We have 29,000 people right now who have stepped up. So if you like this show, if you want to protect this kind of journalism, we need to hear from you. Less than one percent of our audience who listen actually give. But mathematically, of the tens of millions of people who listen to Radiolab, 29,000 is less than one percent. Thank you to all of you, you make our work possible. So here's the good news: over the past year, more than 29,000 of you made a contribution to Radiolab. It's crazy to say, but that is the truth. When you add it all up, and I'm talking the reporting hours, the fact-checking, the digging through the archives, the getting people on planes, the equipment, all of it, for some of these bigger episodes the cost can be sometimes north of a hundred grand. That is how ambitious Radiolab is trying to be. There are dozens of interviews that go into it, every fact has to be checked, every breath is thought through. JAD: Okay so honestly, making all of this stuff is as time- and labor-intensive as making a movie. And I got to tell the life story of Dolly Parton in a nine-part special series. We reported on birthright citizenship in Samoa, immigration in Switzerland, undemocratic elections in Gabon. Tracie Hunte brought you the history of square dancing, the complicated back story of why so many of us had to learn square dancing as a kid. And then there was the right to be forgotten, Molly Webster and Soren Wheeler took a look at the ethics of erasing people's histories online. Robert teamed up with Becca Bressler and Bethel Habte to explore how beauty affects evolution, and of course the deep, deep mystery of eel sex. ![]() Pat Walters and Rachael Cusick reported an entire six-part series about intelligence called G. Let's start with Latif Nasser and Matt Kielty who brought you this amazing story of a underdog hockey star. So I just want to review with you some of the work you heard on Radiolab in the past year. It takes so much time to do this kind of work, and I think in the last year we've done some of our best stuff. You know, maybe it took a producer or two a few months to make, but most of the stuff that you hear on this feed took years to make, start to finish. Not to say it's easy by any means, but some of it is contained. Some of the stuff that we do on this podcast is a lighter lift. So Radiolab is a team of about 20 people, and that includes, you know, reporters, producers, fact-checkers, Robert and me. Before we start the episode which will happen in a few seconds, I just want to give a quick peek behind the Radiolab curtain. ![]()
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