Wendy Zuckerman (Science Vs host) / Radiolab clips narrator (also uses Radiolab voices)

Yeah, exactly.

And the reason I'm telling you about Derek is because he's actually the one that helped me understand why.

Huh.

Okay.

Okay.

So Derek, he's about my age.

He was born in New England.

Moved to Texas when he was eight.

And he says as a kid, he loved having this supercharged imagination.

Which was nice for him because real reality was pretty hard.

But whenever Derek got sad or scared or like even just bored, he would close his eyes and just go into his imagination.

Or sometimes he'd even do this thing where he would take something from his mind and plop it out into like physical space, like out into the physical world.

Huh.

Yeah, and you can always tell that it's a projection and not reality.

But at a certain point, he said that started to slip.

But the first job he got was at the Dollar Tree.

And a few months in, it wasn't going great.

One day, he's sitting in his room, and he has this idea.

He picks up two dimes he has lying around, and he decides he's going to play a little game with himself, flipping both coins, trying to get them to land the same way.

He flips them in the air, looks down at the coins, and they're both the same.