![]() UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: There's wood fires in the distance that you can kind of smell. ![]() LULU MILLER: Some people found it by hiking far, far away. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: I am in my chicken coop. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: I'm in a kind of den that I've made for me and my newborn baby. And strangely, it's been a source of calm and stability throughout the entire pandemic. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: It's 5 o'clock in the morning, and I've been unloading grocery trucks. Of, like, how many different ways people found escape. My name is Paris France (ph), and right now I am sitting on my balcony. But I think what I'm trying to show or what really struck out to me was just the range. LATIF NASSER: OK, I'm going to have to step in here because you guys are getting too excited about the sound of dogs. LULU MILLER: Should we just listen to this for, like, the next 20 minutes? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: I'm sitting on the floor of my living room surrounded by my three best friends, my dogs Benjamin, Bear and Brody. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: I'm sitting in my backyard under the apricot tree. I mean, it was just so nice to be transported. LATIF NASSER: Oh, you're escaping your homework, basically, it sounds like. LULU MILLER: You know, when these tapes started rolling in, I just kind of stopped everything I was doing and just fell into it. And it's midnight, noise of insects outside. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: The walls are painted red, blood red - my favorite color. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: There's citrus in the air. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Like, seven or eight feet high. And a field of wildflowers in North Carolina. LULU MILLER: There was a rainbow in Tokyo. It's currently midnight, see still kind of the sun at the horizon. Now the entire story kind of swapped because now it's everybody back home being isolated while we can spend kind of a normal life at sea. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Because it's only a hundred people on board. LULU MILLER: And she actually was like, I come here to do climate research, and usually this is the claustrophobic part of my life. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Seeing some icebergs passing by. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Sitting on our German icebreaker. LULU MILLER: We did not get Australia, but, like, we got. LULU MILLER: People called in from every single continent. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Right now I'm in my greenhouse. LULU MILLER: We were flooded with responses. JAD ABUMRAD: And did people send you stuff? So I put out a call just to see, like, will you take us - have you found a safe escape? Will you take us there? ![]() LULU MILLER: Mental, but honestly, I was wondering more physical. JAD ABUMRAD: You mean like mental escapes? I just started wondering, like, what escapes people have in their lives, you know? And so as I was stuck, I just started fantasizing. And I think most people, you know, like - the claustrophobia I think is just hitting a new high. LULU MILLER: That's March 19, so that's coming up. LULU MILLER: Well, as maybe you know or just can, like, feel in your soul, we're about to hit a year since the first state - California - issued its stay-at-home order. JAD ABUMRAD: Well, I know only in the meta sense that you've got another crazy thing that you're thinking about. LULU MILLER: Do you guys know why I've gathered you here today? UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Listener-supported WNYC Studios. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at /donate. Dungo, who submitted a postcard while surfing, is author of the mesmerizing graphic novel, In Waves, a memoir about surfing and grief. Merav Opher, an astronomy professor at BU, who now directs the SHIELD DRIVE Science Center which is studying the data collected by the Voyagers at the edge of the heavens, or-err, the “heliosphere” as the scientists call it.Įdward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern WorldĪnn Druyan, one of the creators of the 1977 Golden Album traveling on the Voyager probe, has recently released a new series on National Geographic, “ Cosmos: Possible Worlds”Ī.J. Lynn Levy, who went on to host the space-a-licious series, The Habitat, and edit (among other things) the powerful and beautiful new podcast Resistance. ![]() This episode was produced by Matt Kielty and Lulu Miller, with production support from Jonny Moens and Suzie Lechtenberg. Listen only if you want a boatload of fresh air, fields of wildflowers, stars, birds, frogs, and a riveting tale involving Isaac Newton and a calm beyond any calm you knew could exist. In this soundrich, kaleidoscopic episode, we journey around the planet and then, quite literally, beyond it. state (California) issued a stay-at-home order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we put out a call to see if any of you would take us to your secret escape spot and record audio there.Īnd you astounded us with what you brought in. As we hit the one year mark since the first U.S.
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