Hey, it's Rachel Martin. I'm the host of Wildcard from NPR. For a lot of my years as a radio host,

silence sort of made me nervous. That pause before an answer, because you don't know what's going

on on the other side of the mic. But these days, I love it. Hmm. Ah. Gosh. Give me a minute.

Yeah, yeah. Think. Listen to the Wild Card podcast only from NPR. Okay. Now I'm recording. Oh, you weren't recording. No. That was a nice transition, though, right? It wasn't one of your best, Felix. Was it? It was good. It was great. I was impressed.

I'm in PR music. This is all Latino. I'm Felix Contreras. And I'm Anna Maria Sayer. Let the chisme begin.

Felix, what do you have for me this week? You've been gone. So you're going to have something good.

I've been gone. I was sick for about a week or so. Almost two weeks, actually. I've been gone. So you've got to have something good. I've been gone. I was sick for

about a week or so, almost two weeks, actually. I was laying low, just trying to get better.

So what I wanted to do this week is share my process, my healing process of how I use music

for my healing process. Is that officially verified, confirmed, diagnosed by your doctor? Yeah. They said, Felix, here's your playlist for recovery. Actually, I could be handing out these playlists. But anyway, I have this process of like, okay, I'm starting listening to stuff that will help me heal. And it's always different. Different genres, different takes, just different personal sides of what I listen to.

So that's what I want to play this week. Okay, well, I have a theme too. Okay, what is your thing?

It's a competing theme. What is it? It's really not. It's about love. Well, it's love and also really pretty songs and also peace for the soul. So I think it's actually quite compatible with your

theme. Why am I not surprised? It's very out of character, I know. Let's see. You go first

because I want to go last. Okay. I had a completely different theme for today, but then I woke up in tears. Well, okay, I didn't

wake up in tears, but almost immediately after waking up, I started to cry because everyone

was sending me the new Blood Orange album, but more specifically, there is a song on the album

that is featuring Mabefrati and Mustafa, which is like the level of collaboration

that I didn't even know the earth was capable of having. So this is the song. It's called

I Can Go.

I can go I can go nights that flow

into us Into lies.

I can go. So for years, the two biggest fans of Mabe Frati on the music team were me and Bob Boylan.

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