All right, y'all, you know what day it is. Valentine's Day. It's all about celebrating

love between you and your new love, your partner in years, or just love between friends.

Okay, that's it. That's all I've got for that voice. Love comes in many forms. And at least in my

experience, it can be complicated, exciting, and honestly very clammy and nervous. On a biological

level, there's so much happening in your brain, in your heart, that little tummy gets butterflies.

So we've been brainstorming all month about who's the right person to break all that down for you

listeners. And then it hit us. Who better to explain it than Adam Cole? Would you describe yourself as a

smooth guy? Uh, no. Uh, no, Maddie. I would not. The man? Uh, yeah, I'm not very smooth. The myth.

In any way. The legend of skunk bear. NPR's deceased science YouTube show, Rest in Peace.

Because back in 2018, Adam wrote an absolute pop called a neuroscience love song. And thus

became the definitive voice of love for the NPR shortwave team. When you looked in my direction,

I thought my heart might explode. Because my sympathetic nervous system, so today on the show,

your body on love, set to the dulcet tones of Adam Cole.

Okay, so Adam, you kind of built this song so that the lyrics track the progression of what

happens in the brain when that first little crush develops. All the way up through the long term

romance. So let's start with that rush, that first intense crush phase. Yeah, so I think everyone can

identify with this feeling when you first like like someone, when you first are getting excited,

double two likes, um, it's sort of a crisis. It's an emergency. And you have these reactions that

are sort of crazy, like you're reacting to seeing this person that you have a crush on in the same

way that you would if you saw a lion on your way to work. So it's like fight or flight, fight or

flight exactly. You have this response that your heart might start beating faster. And there's a

million songs about that, right? About the heartbeat is the love beat and all this stuff. And then

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