Even the Worst Laid Plans?

Sometime around 2012 I think, I had to drive across the Adirondacks in the winter to get to a hearing I was covering in Plattsburgh. It was late spring but still snowy. I was returning back to CNY after the hearing and it had just snowed, I was the first car on a many of the roads. It was jaw droppingly beautiful. The only radio signal I was getting well was NPR.

I was a frequent NPR listener but had never heard Radiolab before mostly because I was never in the car when it was on. When the episode finished with a surprising twist, I was compelled to pull the car over and cry.

Are there other episodes that hit like that? I'm not at all religious but that episode hit me with (to borrow an episode title from Damon Lindelof's Watchmen) what I can only describe as an almost religious awe.