On the next through line from NPR.
Let's listen to Josh Reddick's new walk-up song.
Whether you love it or you hate it, walk-up music has become a huge part of Major League Baseball.
The need to secure the attention of the fans is relentless.
I thought, am I hearing things?
I mean, I realize everybody's singing along.
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A quick warning, there are curse words that are unbeeped in today's episode of the show.
If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org.
Dave Blanchard runs the public radio show Wild Card.
And one of the less exciting and, in fact,
rather tedious parts of his job is that he has to keep an eye on the comments
that people post about the show online.
And one day last fall on Spotify,
he saw all this activity about this episode they did with the writer Elizabeth Gilbert.
And Dave thought, oh, her book was controversial.
They must have struck a nerve, this episode.
And then he looked at the comments.
And it was just like gibberish.
Like I just, there was, there's a bunch of new comments,