So he felt publicly humiliated. We're going off tape now. I mean, it's the fact that of course that they're administering main to a strange. So, how do you feel about him now? They arrest Gary Le- Leon Ridgeway. The general's name is Othello. Thousands of people have done it before you. The questionnaires they filled out are part of the Milgram archive at Yale. So Stanley Milgram actually begins these experiments the same year that Adolf Eichmann goes on trial for Nazi war crimes. The authoritative record of New York Public Radio's programming is the audio record. Said, "Deadly enmity between two friends make poor men's cattle break their necks, set fire on barns, and haystacks in the night, and bid the owners quench them with their tears. Go to audible.com/radiolab or text Radiolab to 500500 for a free 30-day trial and a few audiobook. With AI, blockchain, and quantum technology, IBM is developing smart, scalable technologies that help businesses work better together. The subjects range in occupation from corporation presidents to good [inaudible 00:12:29] and plumbers. Look, the participants, it's not just blind obedience, "Oh you tell me so, yes sir, no sir, three bags full, sir.". With higher and higher voltage. With help from Adam Cole, Rachel James, and Matt [Kielty 01:07:25]. In a rage, uh, how? [inaudible 00:21:03] just cut it out. Be right back. This is how it describes what it does: 'Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. God, 'cause it's like we started with this experiment that we all see as evidence of human's latent capacity of evil. And he throws himself at one of the central issues facing Germany at that time. Yeah, me too. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org. I don't know, I would rather have scientists who carry doubt with them as they proceed, I-. And so when I went to the party, the party was already in full swing when I got there. In front of this really impressive looking machine. When we asked how close she came to killing him, she estimated 60 percent. And then he starts this period of roaming. Gary starts going through this narrative of what he did to Carol. Yeah. Well, actually the one thing that the study really doesn't show is that people obey orders. ", Now, Haber was Jewish, but because he'd served in World War I-, But 75 percent of the people who worked for him at the institute, they were Jewish-, And says, "This is intolerable. Well, he started- he started fuming that his wife had- had dissed him. Big questions are investigated . I'm about to help this quest for knowledge, I really want to do a good job.". And he says, "Because of the rage." An mlsconsumeraccess.org number 3030. Thank you Ben. In those days if you're a convicted male felon, you are strung up, but you're not allowed to hang until you die; you're cut down before then. And Satan's like, "Well, I- I bet I can change his mind." The time now is 08:36 hours. He loves the fatherland, and he loves Germany. That allows an individual to act inhumanely? And what he means is that when nitrogen atoms are just free floating in the air, they will cling to each other. And that's all the difference in the world. Birds would just fall from the air. And in the other room, there was a guy, who he called the learner, who was supposed to have memorized some words. The whole thing happened serveral years ago. Yeah. Transcripts and recorded audio may be available for many of the programs you hear on WNYC. We want what Elizabethans got at the scaffold, which was a confession. Fat- commit them to memory? Yeah. I mean-, So again, the baseline study is the one where 65 percent of the volunteers-, But in experiment number three, if they put the shock-ee in the same room-, With the shocker so the shocker could actually see the person that he's shocking-. They're not doing something because they have to, they're doing it because they think they ought to. And then, in experiment number four, when the teacher has to hold the learner's hand down-. And 84 percent of the women. And we didn't really come to any kind of agreement with the Haber thing. And everyone thought, "Well, we know the solution.". However, that leaves behind 20 million Germans. And, um, why is it so important do you think to understand the why behind such an evil act? He takes a trip to Switzerland to a sanatorium. That one simple, "Why?" Then you're kind of done with them. Just a little glimmer. So, Jeff wrote this book because his father, Tom Jensen, was one of the lead detectives tracking Gary Ridgeway. The story of Job is that one day God and Satan are having a conversation, and they're saying, "Have you checked out Job? So he plans to destroy Othello. I mean, I'm not suggesting one should, but I'm just saying there is a sense in which these people are prepared to do something that's very painful to them, and to someone else, because they want to promote science; well, you can see that's a good thing. Now the volunteer couldn't see the guy he was shocking, but he could definitely hear him. He's a man adrift. We're going to meet her later. "I need to kill because of that." And he says, "That's what people wanted. She says, "What happened today?" Really, that story has been told a million and one times for the last 50 years. But he is a, uh, a large, very strong man. And, uh, she had got a disgusted look on her face and said that he was up in the bedroom. Visit our website terms of use at www.wnyc.org for further information. He was t- very aggressive. Is that- is that nitrogen is trivalent. That's Stanley Milgram talking about the experiment in a film in case you've never heard of this. Why did you inflict on this suffering on them, on us? Hmm. And in January of 1984, the Green River Task Force was formed, and my father was recruited to the task force. Well all right, I'm starting to feel a little bit better about my fellow man. Literally disappeared for six months and didn't tell anyone where she was because she was terrified that he was going to kill her. Do we know? But that's not what he found. We'll be right back. We decided to shake things up at the show.bear with us. You can find out more information about all those guys on our website, radiolab.org. You know, just because of a mathematical summing up. She was actually a sort of a genius herself. You know what? And later that night, after party, Haber takes a bunch of sleeping pills, goes to sleep. Even when they go along with the experiment-. And he is celebrated for it. He ultimately spent 17 years searching for this man. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Is that like a- like a green cloud? Wore a little, um, uh, pince-nez? But we ended up walking this question around different people-. I'm going to resign.". Cruelty, violence, badness in this episode we begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and 84% of women, have fantasized about killing someone. Enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. Really? "Have you ever thought about killing someone?" And that we're not going to be shocked with anything-. Was he grappling with something? How many of them went into that kind of detail? The shocker would say, "Hell no I don't.". At this point, David's moved onto a new university and he's teaching an introductory psychology class. Every time that guy got the word wrong. "Well, why can't you deal with it in a normal way?" Now we don't exactly know why, there are hints of reasons that maybe he thinks Othello's sleeping with his wife; we're not sure. We want what Elizabethan's got at the scaffold, which was a confession. They were gagging, they were choking. The Green River murders terrorized Seattle in the 1980s. "Why did you inflict all this suffering on them, on us? Iago. ", "Even- even when their sorrows almost were forgot. You're bad. So I'm just going to go into this other room over here. And he says, "Can I come over and sleep on your couch? I- I- I would say in a powerful mood. Yes, this is one of the things that sparked my interest in the topic of murder. One that applies smart technologies at scale with purpose and expertise; not just for some, but for all. Nitrogen is an essential part of amino acids and proteins. So, you don't know. Only then does God speak up and kind of say, like, "You're gonna question me?" Right now get $50 towards select mattresses by visiting casper.com/radiolab and using Code Radiolab at checkout. And the infinity of gray spaces in between. And he said, "To start, you want to know about bad? Yes, it's awesome, thank you, Ben. Right? Get $50 towards select mattresses by visiting casper.com/radiolab and using code radiolab at checkout. It's like playing dirty. No one has a monopoly on bad. 1933 comes and Hitler takes over. And he was someone who had very big ambitions. Go on please. A lot of them are like, "This is not how you fight a war.". A lot of people were beginning to worry that with about a billion and a half people in the planet at that point, that maybe we were maxing out. And especially humiliated over the fact that they had to pay enormous war reparations to other countries. They wanted someone who was really thrillingly bad, but in the end, was, uh, redeemed a bit. Radiolab is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation, and by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science, technology in the modern world. Then the executioner castrates you, cuts you open, and takes out your internal organs, and then, separates your head, which is put on a post. They reached back to the shelf and they find this Zyklon stuff. You know, what does he say? This is just a tsunami of evil that passes through the play. But that's just a- those are fantasies. Robert, I'm going to give you this piece of paper here. And then, and- So, he says that and you're like, "Okay. And maybe forces hydrogen in the tank. James Shapiro, professor of English at Columbia University. And then, he just trails off. We should say that this next section of the program has some references which are extremely graphic-. And, you know, it's a craft, but it's a craft with consequences. Wasn't satisfying me, it made me mad that she was very much in a hurry, she had something else on her mind, and I killed her. ", "We'll basically bring it to the front and when the- when the wind is right, we'll just spray it.". And the rough statistics are that half of each of our bodies contains nitrogen from the Haber process. He wrote this graphic novel that I read about one of the most prolific serial killers in US history. I just needed to kill her." You're telling this [inaudible 01:02:30]. Whether it was feeding, or killing, or-, And he does. He says that he's always been hiring people based on how smart they are, and not who their grandparents were. Yes. Is an absolute order. This is Radiolab. And while David's sitting in the bedroom with this friend, the guy looks up at him, and he says-, Like through his teeth, "I'm going to kill her.". I mean it's a fact, of course, that they're administering pain to a stranger, that's what's horrifying about it, but imagine they were administering pain to themselves. But in experiment number three, if they put the shockee in the same room with the shocker so the shocker could actually see the person as the shockee. Now we're seeing about 100 million tons of synthetic fertilizer produced industrially each year. In Seattle today a man called the Green River killer-. He has these pince-nez spectacles. New York Public Radio transcripts are created on a rush deadline, often by contractors. We will begin with this test-. ", Only 10 percent, under those circumstances, go on. Well, have you ever been blackmailed the way this woman was being blackmailed? Look. Zyklon A, which was originally just a pesticide-. And did you go back to the party then and continued dinner partying for a while? And then, he seemed fine when I said goodbye to him. He works for a general. Well, if you dressed it up, and if you had some minor vairance in the paradigm, you could presumable, you know, make- make this up. He won't answer. What does it actually mean to be bad anyways? I'm [Clemmy Buttonhill 00:26:56], I'm here to tell you about the Open Airs Project, the new podcast form WNYC studios and WQXR, in which people share stories about the classical music that gets them through their lives. But there's a fellow. And is found by her son. In that moment, my father, he stands up and he says-. All right. Because you are sullied by them. This episode was produced with help from Carter Hodge. He buried them or left their bodies in these little clumps in the woods. Terms and conditions apply. plus-circle Add Review. Of course, nobody wants to be killing other people; we realize this is hard work. Now there's a footnote to this that is very strange. And you tell us, "Actually, no. He had an attack or something there. His wife, um, went into hiding. And then he seemed fine. Just push the button that corresponds to the right word. We will begin with this test. It is still trotted out to explain everything from hazing to war crimes. Y-P-R-E-S, Actually the Americans called it [inaudible 00:36:42]. And I basically spent the next half hour walking around with him trying to cool him off. Our staff includes Simon Adler, Maggie Bartholomew, Becca Bressler, Rachael Cusick, David Gebel, Ethel Hepti, Tracy Hunt, Matt Kielty, the lovely Robert Krulwich, Annie McEwen, Latif Nassar, Malissa O'Donnell, Adrian Wack, Pat Walters, and Molly Webster. But we thought we would- we would play this show, uh, about a little bit of bad that is in all of us. Fact is if you don't continue, uh, we're going to discontinue the experiment. He claimed they were in the middle of a sex act, he would get distracted, something would happen, he just kind of went crazy, he had snapped; and almost blaming the victims. By the way, that's reporter [Latif Nassar 00:30:59]. ", And the class ended, and I went back to my office, and I just sat at my desk, and I started reading these. They will spare his son if he fesses up and- and tells them what they need to know. Give me two more minutes. But- but there's part of me that says, you know, here's a guy who just wanted to do everything better than had ever been done before. And almost like blaming the victims. This is what's driving the world towards 10, 12, by 2050. Thanks. He is a soldier. Podcasts; . And also thank you to Alex Haslem, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. And then he just trails off. So wait. And so I expanded the sample where we asked about 5,000 people-. It immediately became apparent that there was going to be difficulties. The first victims of the Green River killer were found in the summer of 1982. He would have each subject sit down at a table. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of. And a mysterious past. Whether the learner likes it or not, we must-, What's interesting is that how all of these struggles, all of them-, Play out the same way. Uh, walked in and asked his wife, uh, where this friend of mine was. Eugene [inaudible 01:07:32], Sierra Hahn, and everyone in the manuscript and archives department at the Yale University Library. Making him the most prolific serial killer in American history. Natural deposits would be like seaweed or-, You know, you could find it in cow manure or-. Which is a fairly small-ish sort of town, and so does Clara. My dorsal hair stood up when I read the end of this. And then Othello goes and kills his own wife, smothering hew with a pillow. So he decided he was going to invent a process to pay for these reparations by himself. This you and this two other participants. Do you think that more studies of this sort should be carried out?" Like you just did, which happens constantly. He walked out of the room, and just started weeping. We're close to some really fundamental truths about human nature. RadioLab is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This next part's a little graphic. If I don't leave my house right now, I'm going to kill her." To find page after page of yeses. They start disagreeing with each other. Let's begin with this story from our producer Pat Walters. He brings her up as an example of a- of a woman that he actually had strong feelings for. But, you know, over the entire ocean there's a lot of gold dissolved into the sea. And, "Because women have stepped on me all my life." But this is why this is such an interesting guy, around the same time, officials in the U.S. government are calling him a war criminal. And also a scientist. He said that if I ever had a relationship with another man, he was going to send videos of us having sex to all the people in my university. 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