Matt Kilty

I'm Latif Nasser.

I'm Lulu Miller.

This is Radiolab, and it is with that mystery that we kicked off our latest live show about voids.

Right.

And so in that place, in that very void adjacent place, we wanted to make an episode about not just about voids, about people reckoning with voids, standing on the edge of them, trying to decipher the sounds coming out of them, trying to measure them, trying to decide whether or not to scream into them.

Yeah.

So as we head into the fall, we hope you enjoy this end of summer experiment we did.

And let's pick back up with that mystery hum.

Hey, everybody.

Don't mind me.

I've just been hanging out up here for a little while.

I'm a producer at Radiolab.

My name is Matt Kilty.

Please join me in casting your eyes out to the sublime, the awe-inspiring New Jersey.

Now, pretend it doesn't exist, which, like, really shouldn't be that hard to do.

Instead, just imagine it's just ocean, the sea as far as you can see.

Now, thousands of years ago, that sea that you imagine in your mind's eye was thought of as a river, a river that circled all of Earth.

And the thing that was big, enormous, the thing that we thought was at the center of the Earth, the center of the universe, really, was the land underneath our feet.

The ocean was just this kind of like tidy boundary that seemed to surround this big island we were floating on.

And this idea, you can trace it back the world over, ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Babylon.