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Guess what, Will?

What's that, Mango?

So I was thinking about how sometimes we forget that all these simple

things around us are really music. And what do you mean by that? Like, I was in traffic coming from

the airport this weekend and everyone was honking and I remembered how most cars actually honk in the

key of F. Or this is another thing. When I was in high school, this kid, Sean and my jazz band

realized that our high school's bell rang at, I think, a G. So when the class was over and the first bell rang, everyone would harmonize and play a G7 chord on their instruments. So nerdy. So stupid. But of course, I loved it. But this week, I learned that if you want to get an alligator's attention,

all you have to do is grab your tuba and play a B-flat.

Okay.

I like that for this experiment.

All you have to have, you've got to have an alligator and a tuba nearby.

So what exactly happens when you play a B-flat?

It is magical.

Because for some reason, that note arouses male gaiters, and when an alligator

hears it, it'll bellow or call back to you.

Is this a real thing?

Yeah, it's actually got this great origin story.

So apparently in the 1940s, the New York Philharmonic took a field trip to the Natural History Museum.

And while they were warming up there, this alligator named Oscar, who I guess was a part of the natural history exhibit at the time, he just started moaning.

And, you know, there are all these scientists there, and they were watching.

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