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Oct 28, 2026
Chris ChavezHOST
And after more than a thousand episodes, this is our first narrative podcast.
Chris ChavezHOST
So if you love shows like This American Life, Radiolab, or 99% Invisible, the way that I do, you'll recognize a little bit of the vibe that we're going for.
Chris ChavezHOST
If it works, this won't be the last.
Chris ChavezHOST
I'm excited for it.
Janine WrightGUEST
I heard this interesting podcast recently where this person, shoot, I'm going to forget which podcast.
Janine WrightGUEST
It was either Radiolab or This American Life.
Janine WrightGUEST
It was an old episode where they were talking about this woman who found out that her hometown song was actually a song that had been sold to hundreds of hometowns across America with slightly different versions, right? And she was devastated, right? It was like, no, that is my hometown song, right? Yeah.
Janine WrightGUEST
And so I think there is something that we maybe value as humans around like rarity that it's like this is difficult or hard to do and or it's so personalized that it feels like mine and that's what makes it special and more valuable.
Kyle SeligGUEST
And it is so crazy that this actually real life happened, 1938.
Kyle SeligGUEST
So my recommendation, dose of drama, as a little primer for Guild of Ghostly Grounds finale episode on Halloween, is go listen to, there's an episode of Radiolab that dives into exactly how it all came to be.
Kyle SeligGUEST
That is such a good time, and that is my dose of drama.
Kyle SeligGUEST
Apparently, part of what went wrong was they announced at the beginning that this is fake and did like a disclaimer announcement.
Sam SmithHOST
Phone lines and electricity suffered a short circuit because so many people were trying to make phone calls.
Sam SmithHOST
And according to Radiolab, which is a great podcast, by the way, About 12 million people were listening to Wells' broadcast when it first aired, and about one in every 12 thought that it was true, and that some percentages of that one million people ran out of their homes and were just hysterical.
Sam SmithHOST
Now, the connection between mass hysteria and deviance is fairly clear.
Sam SmithHOST
You can see that if there's an event that causes mass hysteria, people are going to tend to ignore social norms and act deviantly.
Katherine PetruccelliHOST
a
Jane HuffmanGUEST
Radiolab episode about this.
Jane HuffmanGUEST
Yes, there is.
Jane HuffmanGUEST
I will
Tim SharpGUEST
And so I'm a big podcast listener.
Tim SharpGUEST
Gosh, I've, I've listened to so many things, This American Life, Radio Lab, The Verge Cast, all sorts of stuff.
Tim SharpGUEST
But then I thought, I was like, wait a minute, is there a Drupal podcast? And so then I searched, and then thankfully, you know, you guys came up.
Tim SharpGUEST
And this was actually leading up into Drupal camp, Asheville.
MicahHOST
And there is this back and forth, back and forth.
MicahHOST
There's a great Radiolab episode about if you were stuck in a nuclear war, what would be your best strategy? And they tested all these different ways of, you know, do you send more nukes? Do you just keep even with them? And keeping even with them was better than escalating.
MicahHOST
You were more likely to survive.
MicahHOST
You were more likely to not have your entire country wiped out if you just kept tit for tatting.
Grant SandersonHOST
For those of you who don't know, Steve is a mathematician at Cornell.
Grant SandersonHOST
He's the author of several popular math books and a frequent contributor to, among other things, Radiolab and the New York Times.
Grant SandersonHOST
To put it shortly, he's one of the great mass communicators of math in our time.
Grant SandersonHOST
In our conversation, we talked about a lot of things, but it was all centering around this one very famous problem in the history of math, the Brachistochrone.
BenHOST
This
LucyHOST
is Radio Lab.
LucyHOST
Yeah, they cut it all out.
LucyHOST
That's in the pre-record on Radio Lab.
AndrewHOST
So there is, just for a very small amount of indication, there is something on this menu I have never seen before, which is a deep fried slice of chocolate cake.
AndrewHOST
That sounds fucking great, Doug.
NomadicHOST
It was one of my first podcasts, honestly.
NomadicHOST
But it was a Radiolab podcast called The Ceremony.
NomadicHOST
And this was my first sort of touchpoint with Zcash ever.
NomadicHOST
If anybody hasn't listened to this, honestly, it is probably one of the best crypto podcasts ever made.
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