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Ask Me Another

Luke James: Not 'Chi' About Singing

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Luke James chats about opening for Beyoncé and Prince and sings-along to some classic steamy jams. Plus, find out why he's super into wolves. This episode originally aired January 3, 2020.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey listeners, it's Ophira Eisenberg. Right now we're in the middle of producing a brand

0:07.5

new episode of Ask Me Another For You. So this week we're looking back at an episode

0:11.5

we recorded in January at the Bellhouse with actor singer and model Luke James. Enjoy.

0:17.1

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

0:30.6

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

0:36.5

Colton. Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

0:48.2

Hey everybody, welcome to the show. Great to see you. Yeah. It's after New Year's.

0:58.1

Yeah, 2020. I'm trying to downsize. You're getting rid of some stuff. I'm getting rid of stuff.

1:04.1

Are you getting rid of stuff? Yeah, it's usually my wife's stuff that I want to get rid of.

1:07.8

Do you tell her that you're getting rid of it? Yeah, most of the time. No, I don't tell. Most of the time

1:14.2

what I say is, do we need this thing? I say in a very high pitch. Yes. And does she look it and go,

1:18.9

what are you doing with that? Yeah, yeah. No, that's precious. We need that. I'm going to fix that. She says.

1:23.2

I'm going to fix that. Oh no. Do we need this broken thing? No, I'm going to fix that. Uh-huh. Yeah. And then

1:28.9

just slowly you. I just move it further and further out of the room until it's in the basement.

1:33.4

And then once everybody's forgotten about it, it goes in garbage.

1:39.0

I'm just trying to get rid of stuff in my inbox.

1:42.4

Pretty good. I am trying to unsubscribe from every store. And yes, you're nodding your head because

1:49.3

you have too many emails. Can we agree that it's easier to get a divorce than unsubscribe from a

1:55.0

mailing list? Oh my god. Why is that so hard? I bought a bath mat you from you once. You know,

2:00.8

we're not in a real relationship, okay? But every time you're like, I got to get out of here,

2:05.7

there's an exit interview. Super desperate. Why are you leaving? Why are you leaving?

2:11.8

Too many messages? Is my content irrelevant? Do you not recall signing up? Oh, I recall. I recall.

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