Hey, it's Rachel Martin.
I'm the host of Wild Card from NPR.
For a lot of my years as a radio host, silence sort of made me nervous.
That pause before an answer, because you don't know what's going on on the other side of the mic.
But these days, I love it.
Give me a minute.
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Hey, it's Marielle.
I saw this video the other day of a little bird that's sitting on somebody's kitchen counter.
It must be a pet.
And the bird, it sees a potential mate on the floor.
So it jumps down and sidles up to the other bird, nuzzles it, tries to mount it.
Yes, that's the yin-yang twins playing in the background.
The iconic seduction song, Wait.
The whisper song came out in 2005.
Anyway, then you realize the other bird, it's not actually a bird.
It is a bird wind-up toy.
I feel like I've done this before in dating, set my sights on somebody juicy,
slid into their view, did my little mating dance,