WOMAN: Babe, where are the boogie boards?

CHILD: Mom, did you pack the guava?

[ANNOUNCER: This summer ...]

MAN: I have the cooler, where's the sunscreen?

[ANNOUNCER: ... as you stuff your car full of more crap than you could possibly use on a weekend trip to the beach.]

MAN: We have to go, traffic's just gonna get worse from here.

[ANNOUNCER: Radiolab wants you to remember who you're sharing the water with.]

[ARCHIVE CLIP, Rodney Fox: I looked down through pink water, which I realized was my blood. There was this great big head, these big white teeth.]

[ANNOUNCER: Fifty years after Jaws struck fear into the heart of the entire nation ...]

[ARCHIVE CLIP, Rodney Fox: Never saw the shark coming.]

[ARCHIVE CLIP, Rachael Cusick: At the time, it was one of the worst shark attacks that was ever survived.]

[ARCHIVE CLIP, woman: It was the biggest shadow that I have ever seen under the water.]

[ARCHIVE CLIP, Rodney Fox: Don't just look at their teeth, because everybody's frightened of their teeth.]

[ANNOUNCER: We want to show you sharks ...]

[ARCHIVE CLIP, Rodney Fox: Look at the rest of the body. The beauty of them is far greater than not.]

[ANNOUNCER: ... in a way you've never seen them before.]

LATIF NASSER: But, you know, in a Radiolabby way.

[ARCHIVE CLIP, Aaron LeBeau: These are like swimming fossils.]

[ARCHIVE CLIP, Lulu Miller: But are they cloning themselves?]

[ARCHIVE CLIP, woman: I think so, yeah.]

[ARCHIVE CLIP, woman: Yeah, sharks are crazy.]

LATIF: Yeah, Jaws turned sharks into monsters, so we're gonna turn 'em back into animals.]

LULU MILLER: And we found so many wild stories that ...

LATIF: We're gonna need a bigger show.

LULU: [laughs] Yeah, we are gonna need five days of sharks, a whole shark ...

LATIF: We're not allowed legally to say—a week of sharks. Let's just call it a week of sharks.

LULU: A week of sharks! Okay, yeah. We have got stories about big sharks and small sharks.

LATIF: Baby sharks.

LULU: Ancestral sharks.

LATIF: Sharks that fly.

LULU: Sharks that glow.

LATIF: Sharks that might even cure cancer.

LULU: And lots of people. People who fear sharks.

LATIF: Love sharks.

LULU: Study sharks.

LATIF: Raise sharks.

LULU: Yeah, it is gonna be a whole sharknado of big ideas, stories, surprises that make us completely rethink this amazing animal and our relationship to it.

LATIF: You don't wanna miss it. It starts Monday, June 16.

LULU: We'll have a new episode on the feed every morning, all week. It's called "Swimming with Shadows," a Radiolab ...

LATIF: Week of sharks.

LULU: Week of sharks. [laughs]

LATIF: Duh nuh. The water's—sharky.

CHILD: Where's my swimsuit?

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