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

It's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia.

Ask Me Another.

I'm Jonathan Colton.

Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

Hi, everybody, welcome. We have four brilliant contestants. They are backstage right now,

peeping each other's leaves and getting ready to come out here and play our nerdy games.

I make the peeping joke because there's a lovely period right around now where things

are dealable.

And, I mean, not politically, just in the weather.

And the leaves change color all at the same time.

And you go up to a bunch of trees and you go, wow, death.

Right?

That's how it works. Yeah, that's how it works. It's the beauty of death. Of death.

I love the fall. I'm super happy as fall. What I like about fall is right now when everyone's in

transition clothing, because no one knows how to dress anymore. My favorite outfit I saw last night

woman was going out, and she was wearing shorts,

but then tights underneath, and then high socks and boots.

And I just wanted to run up to her and go, you know what you would love?

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