A 6-year-old teaches Steve Harvey a very little secret on the Sunday, April 23, episode of Little Big Shots, as seen in Luxury Handbag Shopping’s exclusive sneak peek.
In the preview clip for the NBC hit, Rhys, a snail whisperer from Wells, Maine, tells Harvey her secret for coaxing a snail to come out of its shell: “You take a snail, and you hum to it.”
Naturally, Harvey needs to see this trick in action, so they pull out a small case of either 15 or 50 snails — “I’m not sure,” Rhys charmingly muses before plucking a mollusk — and she successfully demonstrates her expertise.
The host, amazed, then attempts the task himself while a giggling Rhys holds out a snail.
In fact, humming to get a snail out of its shell isn’t so uncommon. The New York Times dove into the science behind the phenomenon in an August 2016 piece, in which Dr. Luke Miller, a marine biologist at San Jose State University, was “not sure that humming is actually required” when coaxing a snail.
Watching a child hum to a snail with wonder in her eyes, however, is scientifically proven to be adorable.
Watch the clip above. Little Big Shots airs on NBC Sundays at 8 p.m. ET.
