Hey, shortwave producer Rebecca Amira is in the house with science correspondent Jeff

Brumfield, GB.

I hear you've got some cuteness for us today.

Heck yeah, I do, but first I wanted to reach deep back into that brain of yours and I want

to do a think back to baby Rebecca.

I mean, I'm not going to let it's basically you're asking for the exact same Rebecca.

Just maybe a little shire.

Really?

So you weren't very talkative when you were young?

Well, I mean, I had a very rich internal life, but no, my brother Matt really did the

babbling for the family.

I think he said his first word at like six months.

Do you remember what that was by any chance?

I wasn't alive for it, but I hear it was McDonald's.

That's a classic choice right there.

It's, you know, my middle older brother, he worked at McDonald's, so Matt would apparently

be like the Donald's.

That's really cute.

But in the run up to same McDonald's, your brother was doing a lot of warm up.

He was making noises and babbling.

And a recent paper in science found similarities between the way babies and toddlers babble and

the babbling of bats.

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