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Ask Me Another

Dan Deacon: Deacon-structing Dan

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Musician Dan Deacon talks about his love of audience participation and using his natural singing voice on his new album, Mystic Familiar. Then, Dan plays a game about board games with mundane themes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From NPR and WNYC coming to you from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,

0:09.2

it's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, ask me another.

0:13.6

I'm Jonathan Colton, now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

0:17.8

Hello everybody, we have a great show everybody.

0:28.0

We have four brilliant contestants that are going to be up here playing our nerdy games.

0:32.9

They are currently backstage cleaning everything with disinfectant wipes because they are smart.

0:40.1

And one of them will be our big winner.

0:42.7

I'm cleaning everything with disinfectant wipes.

0:44.7

You nervous about the coronavirus?

0:46.9

So this is the thing, I was on a plane recently, sat down beside this guy, we looked at each

0:51.5

other, we both pulled out disinfectant wipes and wiped down our tables and our seats while

0:57.4

talking about the fact that we have small kids at home and then we cheers with emergency

1:02.6

and then we took elderberry supplements and then we helped each other zip into our plastic

1:08.0

suits so we could take a nap.

1:09.6

You know, I felt heard and seen.

1:12.5

I felt I had a buddy.

1:14.2

Sounds like a restful, restful, friendly trip.

1:16.8

Yeah, no, I'm always scared, I'm a four year old and if you have a young kid, your entire

1:21.7

life is germs.

1:23.7

Yeah, they're just little.

1:24.7

No, you're basically, you are constantly ingesting the snot of all your kids' friends.

1:29.8

Exactly.

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