You are listening to radio land radio from w. N.y.c. . 5th time now to practice from very youthful praise I ll play them through your repeat I remember and could gather up but this is Radio Lab today translation it s time to begin we have 5 experiments in translation trance creation record number world repair work by my. Dear people remember now you try. Hi there I that Doug Yes Oh boy so this episode was inspired by a guy named Doug Doug Hofstadter professor of cognitive science Indiana University Bloomington you may know him as the guy who wrote Google Escher Bach which is a hugely influential book in certain circles published in 1000 unite we actually got interested in him thanks to our producer Lynn Levy because of an obsession of his which predates that 16 I was 16 the year 1961 I was taking a French literature class and one day I came across this poem a tiny little poem the kind of sat right in the middle of the page like a long thin sausage vertical. Yes 3 syllables per line so
You know what. You are listening to radio. Radio from w. N.y.c. . Hey I m Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich Radio Lab we re going to do this hour is we want to play you some stories and some conversations that we think make the point the public radio something we re supporting right yes this is a fun drive and certainly there s a lot happening in the world and I think now is the time to pay it forward and help support the people who make great radio you know this may cause the now more than ever fund for Yeah yeah exactly I think in that spirit we re going to be talking a little bit about what it takes to stay engaged to stay in the world to stay curious to stay alive and well and to begin that conversation I met a guy almost by accident and then a find himself as a big Radio Lab listener what he s about to say speaks I think for Jack and I and for the radio team in a very big basic way so here is the 3 things that I say I love about this country 1st of all you know drinking water comin
And why say. We I mean I think you are maybe you have to getting closer to Ok All right we should do the thing I m Jad Abumrad I m Robert Krulwich This is Radio Lab. Well I don t believe I m going to reveal that well it ll be revealed in time this is a Radio Lab about wars and games war games were games exactly right movie a member there was a moment in that movie where the certain game broke broke the computer yeah yes let s take a look just you know let s begin with that game you don t have to know your listeners what game we re talking about that will become clear unless you happen to be in oh I don t know your quotes but they re by lies a tale Yeah when we 1st we re going to start with this international man of mystery Yes Who are you know I mean Frazier Ian is a writer for The New Yorker magazine and we had him come to visit us because we were working together on a show about games and in that show we ended up talking about baseball football basketball checkers chess but there wa
Say. Ok. This is Andy Rowe So I go here thanks for the he s a t.v. Producer in London and in his office where we reached him he s got these very special metal balls this is the original prototype of the golden bowl is lovely and shiny is right. The size of maybe an orange or a tangerine or a tennis ball in gold makes a very satisfying plonk places and that is the sound of betrayal. Sandy has used these balls to bring out the worst in people to show how ugly and conniving we can be but also how wonderful you know about. Then you could win big. We re talking about a game show called of course Golden bulls and he was one of the executive producers did pretty well we were really really proud golden bulls ran for 3 years in the u.k. Maybe 300 episodes in question space of. The 6 and it is fun because in many ways it is just a normal game show but I would argue there is more going on here in fact almost about to argue that because there is a moment in one of those 300 episodes one moment. T
That you got a big problem Riverside right now on the 91 after Van Buren big Sigler going on that unplanned lane closure of 2030 minutes or longer this is a situation where a flipped over car a car pool and left lane closed. Ok yours from n.p.r. And Casey r.w. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Jack Speer the White House is condemning the latest round of threats directed at Jewish institutions around the country N.P.R. s Scott Horsley reports authorities are investigating more than 120 such threats in 3 dozen states the most recent bomb threats temporarily closed 2 Jewish community centers in upstate New York along with the center. Suburban Milwaukee and a school in Chicago to name a few several Anti-Defamation League offices were also targeted White House spokesman Sean Spicer repeated a decoration from President Trump that the country stands united against hate and evil in all its forms we denounce these latest anti-Semitic and hateful threats in the strongest terms and it s i