I'm going to resign.". "Demand me nothing, what you know-, From this time forth, I never will speak word." He takes over leadership of this institute in Berlin, and he starts hobnobbing with a whole different level of society. Okay, we're going off tape now. I'm not going to go ahead with it. Uh, when- when asked how close she came to killing him, she estimated 60%. But you know, we ended up walking this question around to different people. That's radio producer Ben Walker. Well, he started- he started fuming that his wife had- had dissed him. Well, I mean, I know that sir, but I mean, he's up to a 195 volts. And, like, it kind of, like, hurt his feelings. The- the leaves would just sort of shrivel and the grass was turning to the color of metal. Our thanks to Ben Walker, whose podcast he has a podcast and it's a good one. "Definitely yes.". Terms and conditions apply. And to this day they have not talked about that day. They're trying to do the right thing. And you find yourself in a situation where you've got to do something that's hard. And Satan's like, "Well, I- I bet I can change his mind." There's lots and lots of lessons here, but one is I think when you're enjoying to do something for the greater good, maybe ask yourself the question, "What is greater, and what is good?". So wait. This is what's driving the world towards 10, 12 by 2050. Tell us anything about [inaudible 00:58:03]-. I can't quite place him. Test the outer edges of what you think you know, Copyright 2019 New York Public Radio. And he says, "That's what people wanted. I'm going to take a break. He's bald, he has a potbelly, he has these pince-nez spectacles, he's chomping on a Virginian cigar, he was always smoking these Virginian cigars and he's wearing a fur coat. There's a pause and my father just says-. And my father was recruited to the task force. And it gets even more disturbing for my father as the conversation suddenly pivots to another victim. They reached back to the shelf and they find this Zyklon stuff. I think you got to answer it with him, right? And then he starts this period of roaming. He'll be our guide for the segment. And, um, why is it so important do you think to understand the why behind such an evil act? And even when they do say, "Yes." He's such a puzzle to me. And then, he seemed fine when I said goodbye to him. Bald on top. He knew about it. And even though, in the end, they got him to confess to these 49 murders, they never really get any closer to an answer than this first one. It's like a downloadable from the internet instant defense for doing wrong, but if you look at Milgram's work closely. "Why did you inflict all this suffering on them, on us? Uh, so what happened to David that night with his friend got him really curious about murder and badness and all these things we're thinking about. There's- there's a lot of-. [crosstalk 00:17:42], It's the experimenter-. Yep, women participants, he had an experimenter who wasn't a scientist, but was a member of the general public. So, who is- who is this guy right here? If this is the singular moment in Shakespeare where he gives you an un-understandably evil man, no motives, no reason; any idea what the hell he was intending? This is what totally pulled me into the story. I actually did the first thing, but he saw my intentions and ran away." I thought about grabbing a knife quickly and stabbing him in the chest repeatedly until he was dead. What my father and his colleagues know is that something was done to these bodies; many of them after they were murdered. It comes to us from our reporter, Aaron Scott. Outside of WNYC, I think This American Life does as well, and I know enthusiastic fans transcribed Serial.. You know, "I just want to kill her. And he is basically homeless at this point. "Research in any field is a must, particularly in this day and age. "When I picked them up I was going to kill them." And that tonnages then moves into our food source, our food source then moves into our bodies, and the rough statistics are that half of each of our bodies contains nitrogen from the Haber process. in what is basically like the Baghdad of his time (laughing). Jeff Jensen's book is the Green River Killer: A True Detective Story. He's bad. Transcripts and recorded audio may be available for many of the programs you hear on WNYC. "It's okay to admit this, you need to admit this.". I- horrified is- I was- I was pretty stunned. The subjects are 40 males between the ages of 20 and 50. We want what Elizabethan's got at the scaffold, which was a confession. Clara comes from the same town. He has a pot belly. Like shocking an innocent stranger over and over. Yeah. Yeah, I carried your oxygen and you walked beside me through the lobby commenting on the decor. I do not stand alone. Radiolab is supported by Audible. He recruited a bunch of subjects. Like, saying like, "I don't want to kill a guy.". And especially humiliated over the fact that they had to pay enormous war reparations to other countries. My dorsal hair stood up when I read the end of this. He had an experimenter who wasn't a scientist, but was a member of the general public. Speaking with Carol's mom, Carol's little daughter-, Killed her. Let's go into our instructions. New York Public Radio transcripts are created on a rush deadline, often by contractors. Now, Haber was Jewish, but because he had served in World War I-. So, you see, it's just in that one experiment that 65% of people are willing to go all the way. And that was a question that had haunted my father for decades. We, as onlookers to this study, we have this kind of godlike sort of vision of like, "Well, of course, what they're doing is wrong." To find page after page of yeses. Accuracy and availability may vary. That allows an individual to act inhumanely? More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org. Sap in the next room just because they were being told to? You can see this in the surveys that the men filled out after the experiments were over. You better check in on him sir. Many of them after they were murdered. We thought that maybe as- as we turn a corner ourselves, we should refresh. He would have each subject sit down at a table. And that we're not going to be shocked with anything-. I don't know, I would rather have scientists who carry doubt with them as they proceed, I-. How many of them went into that kind of detail? They couldn't deploy it, they couldn't deploy it. But he organizes soldiers, he organizes whole gas units. He said, "Look, this is what you're going to do is of course you don't want to do this. And shortly after his return, Clara, allegedly, confronts him and says, "Look, you are morally bankrupt. I don't think I ever had a fantasy that anatomically specific where I would see the part of the other person that I was going to stab or plan it like that. Well that's to [inaudible 00:19:32], just cut it out. Meaning, I mean, what- what- any idea what was in his mind? He actually was very humiliated that Germany had lost, and especially humiliated over the fact that they had to pay enormous war reparations to other countries. And so, we've decided that it's time to go back to something we did once upon a time when we were wondering about good and bad. And the rough statistics are that half of each of our bodies contains nitrogen from the Haber process. And so in 1918, Fritz Haber gets the Nobel Prize. Continuing using the last switch on the board please. And he finds her actually still alive, with the life about to run out of her. Speaker 2: What's interesting is that how all of these struggles, all of them, play out the same way. She says, "What happened today?" Our food source then moves into our bodies. in this episode we begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and 84% of women, have fantasized about killing someone. Test the outer edges of what you think you know, Copyright 2019 New York Public Radio. Hundreds of them were falling to the ground. Maria Matasar-Padilla is our managing director. When we asked how close she came to killing him, she estimated 60 percent. "You know, you're not the first person that's ever done this.". Search metadata Search text contents Search TV news captions Search radio transcripts Search archived web sites Advanced Search. But the weird thing is that he decides not just to take down Othello, but everybody. Especially when it came to one particular fact. And then, walks away from his child and his wife dead in the garden and says-. And they're behind the German lines is-. "I need to kill because of that." Well, that's because you- be-because Molly's been in the chair. Robert Krulwich: Uh, wait. You've touched me. So in the end, where do you come down? That afternoon, he gets in his car, goes home, he finds my mom on the deck, sits down next to her. It's absolutely essential. Right. He actually was very humiliated, uh, that Germany had lost. The first victims of the Green River killer were found in the summer of 1982. I mean, that's a pretty heady thing for, you know, a Jewish kid from Breslau to be hobnobbing with the Emperor and cabinet ministers. Right. Imagine they really had to administer shocks to themselves or something. Pince-nez, okay. And this particular story, it comes from a book that David wrote. Can we really know that? Continue using the last switch on the board, please. Well, all right. And so Satan, basically, systematically destroys Job's life. It immediately became apparent that there was going to be difficulties. Despite the chlorine gas, he didn't intend for that to happen. Alex Haslam, professor of psychology at the University of Exeter. Um, this is one of the things that's, uh, this was one of the things that's sparked my interest in the topic of murder. He could have never imagined that. Who they would kill, where they'd do it, when. Was it nice day, nice sky, nice job, or nice chair? It is still trotted out to explain everything from hazing to war crimes. Now what you need to understand about Alex Haslem is that he hates it when interviewers only want to talk about the baseline study. ", Now you're saying actually that you could read that very dark fact as being actually evidence of something quite-, Well if you dressed up, and if you just had some minor variance to the paradigm you could, presumably, make this up. I mean, yes, I did lie about that. Warning. No. Jeff Jensen's book is The Green River Killer, A True Detective Story. That's Fritz Haber's wife. And I designed a little, um, questionnaire where I simply ask the students, you know, "Have you ever thought about killing someone?" We'll be right back to Haber, but wait- wait. In that moment, my father, he stands up and he says. Alex Haslem, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. He would have each subject sit down at a table. That is if you don't continue, we're going to have to discontinue the experiment. Fritz Haber's a professor, small university, he's working with chemicals; it's about 1880. That's it? When you press one of these switches all the way down, the learner gets a shock. You can see this in the surveys that the men filled out after the experiments were over. Dylan Keith is our director of sound design. The expectation is somebody is made to make his peace with his maker before he dies; that's what you do. I invited him for dinner. Trim, nice mustache. It has enough, what they used to call then solar energy. You know what's going to happen if she [inaudible 01:02:25]. His health is failing in 1934. I liked her. Well, I'd have to discontinue the experimenter then. Although, clearly, on some level they know it isn't. The whole thing happened serveral years ago. Wasn't satisfied [inaudible 01:01:21] maybe mad 'cause she was very much in a hurry. Because the thing that you put into the ground to grow more food is also the thing you can explode to make a bomb? But Haber saw it as a wonderful success and wished- wished that the Germans had been better prepared to exploit it because he felt like they really could have made a terrific advance if they had had more confidence. His calculations showed that it couldn't be done. "I need to kill because of that." Wow. Just tiptoes out, just from time to time. New York Public Radio transcripts are created on a rush deadline, often by contractors. Finally, acknowledging, yeah, that's true. And actually this wasn't just a German thing, a lot of people were beginning to worry that with about a billion and a half people on the planet, at that point, that maybe we were maxing out, that the earth couldn't support this many people. It's a little bit more direct. In Seattle today a man called the Green River killer-. And you like her. That's Stanley Milgram talking about the experiment in a film in case you've never heard of this. Well I can use that same process-. All right, just to back up for one second. Why did you do this?" Did members of Haber's family die in the concentration camp? But I needed to kill her because of that. And did you go back to the party then and continued dinner partying for a while? A box of ashes. Check out the Casper or the Wave mattress with a support system that mirrors your body shape. And if they still were resisting or struggling, they'd get prod number three. Hi I'm Robert Krulwich. With all of the black-and-white moralizing in our world today, we decided to bring back an old show about the little bit of bad that's in all of usand the little bit of really,reallybad that's in some of us. He stirs up hatred between friends, between lovers, he even schemes against his own wife. Um, we lived together for a couple months. Would you really think that this guy's a good guy? So, you don't know. You're going to keep giving what? Okay. I have a choice, I'm not going to go ahead with it. This is sort of chilling comparison, which is a speed that Himmler gave to the SS, some SS leaders, when they were, uh, about to commit a range of atrocities. We lived together for a couple months, he was very aggressive, he started calling me a whore, and told me he didn't love me anymore, so I broke up with him. 2012-06-22 . Right, Clara comes from the same town, and they're both secularized Jews. Thanks. Really, that story's been told a million and one times for the last 50 years, we've just got to get over it. I think I call it [prince-nez 00:28:23], so I'm not sure. That's radio producer Ben Walker, he'll be our guide for this segment. Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. This is, uh, I just want to take a shower. You can be sure of your purchase with Casper's 100 night risk-free sleep on it trial. And- and part of the problem here, and although, once again, we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. Up until that point, Gary refused to say that "From the minute I picked these women up I wanted to kill them." We were just enacting an old, very famous experiment that you may have heard about. It was developed in his institute. I'm going to take a break. They were gagging, they were choking. Let's just finish this. I actually did the first thing, but he saw my intentions and ran away." Today's date is, uh, June 17th. I'm not saying a word. I do have a choice. And according to some accounts, as it crept across no man's land-. What does he say? "Definitely yes.". Then the executioner castrates you, cuts you open, and takes out your internal organs, and then separate your head; which is put on a post. Now that's important. Then, we reconsider what Stanley Milgram's famous experiment really revealed about human nature (it's both better and worse than we thought). I got to tell you, I'm not totally comfortable that you're providing all of the information [inaudible 00:57:52]-. That's Stanley Milgram talking about the experiment in a film. You're telling this [inaudible 01:02:30]. You know, this was like oil is today. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. It was a warning smell so that people didn't inadvertently breathe it in and get sick. He was trying to repeat this masterstroke. And-. He's working with chemicals. No. And so I expanded the sample where we asked about 5,000 people-. 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