Series: Radiolab
From: WNYC Radio
Length: 00:01:39
RK: Hello, I’m Robert Krulwich
JA: And I’m Jad Abumrad, were from Radiolab
RK: And we’re here to bring back the romance of pledging.
JA: Wait, what?
RK: Pledging Jad is kind of sexy if you think about it, the right way.
JA: Did you just say sexy?
RK: Hear me out . . . pledging has all of the hallmarks of a bold romantic gesture.
JA: it does?
RK: Sure
JA: How?
RK: Okay, imagine, somewhere out there a dashing stranger sits alone by the radio, he likes what he hears.
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RK: He grabs the phone with a kind of Devil-May-Care grin . . . He debonairly pledges to the station that he loves.
Hello, I just heard the most incredible program and I would like to donate my
money to you.
JA: Debonairly pledges?
RK: Of course it is like have a secret admirer. It is like getting flowers from a stranger.
JA: Do you think there are any Chivalrous admirers right now?
RK: You never know, but you can tilt your ear, fondly to the phone and wait hopefully.
(Music Out)