Hey, it's Manoucheer and it is finally feeling springy here in New York City.

Hopefully, you are finding some time wherever you are to step outside and enjoy the sounds

of the season, birds chirping, joggers footsteps.

It's why we want to bring you an episode this week called Sound and Silence because by

understanding the science of how your brain decodes all those beautiful or not so beautiful sounds

around you, you will hear the world differently. You will hear more. We first aired this episode in

October of 2020, so you may hear some references to our pre-vaccine world. Meanwhile, listen for the

first time or listen again. I'll be back next week until then. Thanks so much for being here.

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I'm Manou Shzumarodi. What if your job depended on listening but you had trouble hearing?

It's, I guess one of the biggest ironies from the department if you could not make this up,

that yes, my job is to ask people questions and then listen, like, really, really listen to the answers.

And I can't really hear. This is Mary Louise Kelly. You might recognize her voice because she is

one of the hosts of NPR's All Things Considered. It's All Things Considered from NPR News. I'm Sasha

Feiffer. And I'm Mary Louise Kelly coming up in Louisville protests or on the way. Yet another

prominent conservative is urging Republicans to cross party on the street here. In Atlanta,

covering the protests when a young woman approached. She's covered everything from the Trump

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