Listeners, we are calling on you to help us find some joy for this episode. Talk or send a tweet, tagging at radio lab or using the hash tag radio lab live. If you register that good, warm feeling in your body, call us and tell us about it. And as the calls start rolling in, just to get you in the spirit, we wanted to play for you one of our favorite moments of pure bliss ever captured on tape. Is from radio la back 20 12.
Back in 2002, Jad Abumrad started Radiolab as a live radio show. He DJ’d out into the ether and 20 years later we do the same. To commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the show, the Radiolab team went old school and took over WNYC Radio, live on the FM band. We answered the phones, played some wonderfully weird audio, including one piece where Kurt Vonnegut—yes, that Kurt Vonnegut—interviews the dead, took part in some games and tomfoolery, and did everything we could to have and to share in our good time.