Lulu: Leo will tell you that every song is a message from his subconscious. Everything has an unconscious connection, pleasant or unpleasant, and he's just got to figure out what it is. I'm analyzing me like i have a patient in front of me. Lulu: How would you say that leo self interacts with his symptoms, or vice versa? Wella, he's a psychoanalyst. So whenever he gets a song stuck in his head, which is like all the time, he analyzes it. He looks for a hidden meaning in it. Like, you know the way dreams reveal your inner life? The same thing with songs.
We’re all in a tizzy here at Radiolab on account of our 20-year anniversary. And, as one does upon passing a milestone, we’ve been looking back in all kinds of ways. Two weeks ago, we went out over the airwaves, “Live on your FM dial,” a callback to our origins as a radio show. We revamped our logo and redid our website (get your Freq on, people!). More recently, Lulu's and Latif’s first stories came up in a meeting. They weren’t always the intrepid hosts of our collective journey in wonder. Soren Wheeler, our editor, thought it would be fun to highlight those firsts for you.
So here they are, baby Latif and Lulu, doing their darndest to make audio magic.
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