Hey, it's Ophira. We are hard at work producing a new episode of Ask Me Another.

So this week we're bringing you one we recorded last October in Santa Barbara with

Yacht Rock legend, Michael McDonald's. We'll be back next week with a brand new show for you, and thank you.

From NPR and WNYC coming to you from the Lubeiro Theatre in Santa Barbara, California,

it's NPR's Our Puzzles, Word Games, and trivia. Ask Me Another.

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

Yay! Hello, everybody. How are you?

Thanks Jonathan. Thank you, Ophira.

Yeah, it's great to be back here. I know it's nice. Look at you guys all relaxed and happy.

We're weird. I've been here two and a half days. I feel very relaxed. I feel very relaxed.

We live in New York. It's a different experience. You do feel relaxed?

I do. It takes a good 24 hours to uncoil, but yeah, it's happened.

Yeah, right. For the first 24 hours, you're like, can I get my coffee faster?

Yeah. And they're like, no. And you're like, okay.

As different as it is to be here from New York,

Santa Barbara, New York actually have a few things in common.

For one Santa Barbara is 92 miles north of Los Angeles. New Yorkers also feel above LA.

You guys feel better than Los Angeles, right? You're always, yeah.

So we have an amazing show for you. We have four brilliant contestants that are going to be

right up here playing some nerdy games. That's their actually backstage right now, daring

each other to eat an entire pack of neco wafers. But one of them will become our big winner.

And we're an amazing guest we have. It's hard to believe. Our special guest is Michael McDonald's.

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