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Ask Me Another

Derek DelGaudio: Sleight Of Mind

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Magician Derek DelGaudio explains pairing storytelling with magic tricks in his off-Broadway show In & Of Itself. Plus, our mystery guest is a Senior Content Insights Manager. What is that? This episode originally aired on March 2, 2018.

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0:00.0

Warning, this podcast uses some unsavory language. Please be advised.

0:05.3

Hey Jonathan.

0:06.5

Hey, Aferah.

0:07.3

So today we have a game about misplacing things. So Lost and Found, Speed Round.

0:11.7

Here we go. Which French leader set up the first centralized Lost and Found department in a city?

0:17.3

That was Napoleon in 1805.

0:19.4

That is correct. Where would you go if you lost something on the London Underground?

0:24.5

I would probably go to the Lost Property Office.

0:26.8

You would indeed. And what is the most common thing lost on the New York City subway?

0:32.8

The ability to smell urine.

0:34.4

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

0:44.2

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

0:48.7

I'm Jonathan Colton. Now here's your host, Aferah Eisenberg.

0:52.8

Thank you Jonathan.

0:57.2

We have a great show for you four brilliant contestants are backstage,

1:02.2

and they're here to play our nerdy games, but only one will be our big winner.

1:05.9

And our special guest is Magician Derek Delgado.

1:09.2

His hit stage show is called In and of itself.

1:12.0

He describes it as a theatrical existential crisis.

1:16.2

The last time I had a theatrical existential crisis

1:21.4

was when I didn't get the role of Joseph in my elementary school's production of Joseph

1:27.0

and the amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

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