We have a special sexy episode for you this week.

Sexy, not in the titillating way,

but in that taking your shoes off at the end of the day,

putting them up over your person's lap,

and having them gently rub your feet and tell you they adore you.

And yes, your day sounded like a lot.

This episode is about the soundtrack to that feeling.

Sing on Anita. This is Sweet Love by Anita Baker, a song that is canon in the musical style known as Quiet Storm.

I did not know that name, Quiet Storm, until I learned about it from Christopher Johnson, my friend and an audio maker who's now making stories at 99% invisible.

You know 99% invisible.

It's the long-running, legendary podcast about design, made by creator and host Roman Mars

and a team of many of the best audio makers working today.

And it was about a year ago that I first heard Christopher's story on The Quiet Storm,

which is about the feelings forward ballads about love, sex, and longing.

And it's also a story about family and memories of 1970s and 80s America and giving something special and particular to an audience of listeners.

We're going to share this story with you today and introduce you to Christopher, if you don't know his work yet, so you can join the many listeners like me who had strong emotional responses to this story about the quiet storm.

And we're so glad they got to hear it.

I heard two things.

One group of folks said they had never heard the term or... White people?

Certain folks, no. Yes folks like yours truly certain folks um no it's actually non-black people really uh-huh uh non-black folks had not really heard and if they had they really

had no idea what the term meant.

And then when I started telling them kind of what it was, they were like, oh, I know the music,

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