The story began with the widow, whose name is Yolanda Signorelli von Braunhut. The way the lawyer William Timmons described the case, it was practically a newsreel melodrama, with a helpless widow being menaced by a heartless tycoon. “The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune,” published in The New York Times, written by Jack Hitt, recorded by Jack Hitt, in Jack Hitt’s basement. And it’s never a bad time to remind ourselves as to just who we are as Americans, in crisis or not. It’s just this strangely very American story. Anyway, this is a story about “Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys.” And frankly, it has nothing to do with the coronavirus. And thankfully, the tape recorder was on. And about two seconds later - Īh! The entire chair just collapsed from under me. It was like somebody ran their finger up my back. And anyway, at a certain moment, I just felt this weird sensation. It’s an old chair that I’ve been meaning to fix for a long time. I was sitting on this old music chair that I just dragged in from the cellar. And that was my recording booth for this story. So I created this recording studio in my basement. But to read an entire piece for basically half an hour, it was insufferable. So I would just put a towel over my head with the tape recorder under it. I should say that I’ve done a lot of radio, and so in the past, I used to sit in my office, which has a lot of echo.
And you would grow these things out of these packets. And you would get this little aquarium that was no bigger than your fist. You bought these off the back page of comic books years ago, and still you can - they’re still for sale. You know, “Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys.” I don’t know if you had them as a kid. So yeah, in this age of coronavirus isolation, I thought it might be nice to just hear a story about Sea-Monkeys.
#Seamonkey care free#
I’m recording from my bunker here, my safe coronavirus free bunker here in New Haven, Connecticut. I’m a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.
#Seamonkey care series#
Produced by Kelly Prime edited by Mike Benoist written and narrated by Jack Hitt On “The Sunday Read,” a special series on “The Daily,” Jack Hitt reads a story that is as crazy as it sounds.
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