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This is an encore episode of Ask Me Another.

From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from 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.

Thank you, Jonathan. How are you doing? I'm okay. How are you doing? Well, I've got some family news.

Oh, family news. My favorite. Okay. This is about Lucas, my child. We came in from playing outside and he doesn't want to wash his hands. Like we always have to ask him a thousand times to wash his hands. So he came in and I was taking off my jacket and my shoes and he sat on the couch and I was like, no, you got to go wash your hands.

And he was sitting beside his father.

And then I went and washed my hands.

And my husband said to him, did you wash your hands?

And he said, yeah, I went to the other bathroom and washed my hands.

And I was like, Lucas, you're fibbing. I know you didn't do that. Come right now and

wash your hands. And he came into the bathroom and started washing his hands. And I felt like I

needed to kind of underscore this, or highlight it, underscore it both. And I said to him again,

that was fibbing.

You can't lie about something like that.

It's really bad.

And he just like melted into tears and his lips started quivering and he was like,

when I started to do it, I knew it.

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