Radiolab Pledge Spot - Romance

Series: Radiolab
From: WNYC Radio
Length: 00:01:39

Radiolab is here to bring back the romance of pledging. Read the full description.
05 Romance
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Piece Description

 

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.

 

            (tape from Click and Clack)

 

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.

 

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