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. 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. 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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