Ira Glass

This Valentine's Day, why don't we make it official?

No more playing around, no more games.

I want you to become our life partner.

When you become a life partner, there'll be no more ads coming between us.

You know the ads on the podcast?

They'll go away like that.

Also, we'll be so much closer.

You'll know us so much better because of all the behind-the-scenes bonus episodes that you'll be getting.

Also, okay, can I just be real for a second?

To fund our show these days, the way that we're doing it is with people who sign up, people who subscribe, people who love our show or people who like our show.

And they pitch in money.

And that's how we're staying on the air.

That's how we're staying going.

So if you fall into any of those categories, I hope you'll consider it.

go to thisamericanlife.org slash lifepartners.

That link is also in the show notes of this episode.

And happy Valentine's Day.

This American Life, Act One, Baby Scientists with Faulty Data.

Fifty years ago, psychologists and scientists believed that babies could not think at all, that they were irrational and illogical, self-centered little balls of need and want.

What science has learned is that this is not true, that children are observing the world and thinking about it and coming to logical conclusions from the day they're born.