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Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, and Embedded is back.

And we recently realized it's hard to assess a politician who has virtually no political record.

But with Donald Trump, we tried anyway.

And we wound up with stories and lessons from the record he does have, in business and on TV.

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it's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, Ask Me a Another.

I'm Jonathan Colton, and now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg. Thank you, Jonathan. We have a great show for you. Four

brilliant contestants are backstage entering the Hamilton ticket lottery,

and depending on how that goes, they might come out and play some nerdy games with us,

but only one will be our big winner,

and we've all already won on this show because our special guests are ridiculous.

Starring as Alexander Hamilton in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical,

we have Javier Munoz, and starring as Police Chief Jim Hopper in the Netflix series,

Stranger Things, we have David Harbour.

Now both of these actors are in hugely popular shows, shows that your friends won't stop asking you if you've seen, and they both take place in America's past.

One is set during a time when presidents were white males. Technology was antiquated and money equaled power power and the other is a Broadway musical about

Alexander Hamilton.

Let's get things started with our first two contestants.

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