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Maddie is here today with somebody new, Yo-Way Shah.

She's a reporter from Invisibiliya NPR's podcast about human behavior.

Welcome to Shortwave, Yo-Way.

Hi, Maddie. Thanks for having me.

So you have a story for us about a particular interaction that's happening a lot less these days.

I do.

So recently, I heard about this app called Dialup.

It was created by these two artists, Max Hawkins and Daniel Baskin.

And they recently put out a new feature called Quarantine Chat

that randomly connects you to strangers from all over the world.

Ooh, I am suspicious and intrigued.

Well, you know, a lot of us are stuck at home.

We're pretty isolated.

We're not running into random people like we normally would.

Yeah, honestly, Yo-Way, I kind of miss strangers and their dogs, you know?

Mostly their dogs, but the strangers too fine.

You totally seem like somebody who's always trying to chat up strangers and their dogs.

The person I would try to avoid.

Wow, wow, wow, wow, yo-Way.

Just kidding, just kidding.

But anyway, because I'm an introvert, perhaps.

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