Michelle Buteau: 'The Circle' And Van Halen

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🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Comedian Michelle Buteau talks about her new book Survival of the Thickest and her gig hosting the socially-distanced Netflix reality series The Circle. Then she plays a game about Dutch things set to the tunes of Van Halen. Plus, Showtime docu-series Love Fraud directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady answer the question, "Is it a Lizard?" And the hosts of the You're Wrong About podcast Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes play a game with a mysterious whale named Jonathan Krillton.

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0:00.0	This is an encore episode of Ask Me Another.
0:04.0	From NPR and WNYC coming to you from beautiful Brooklyn, New York, it's NPR's hour of puzzles,
0:14.0	word games, and trivia, Ask Me Another. I'm Jonathan Colt, now here's your host, O'Fira
0:20.0	Isenberg.
0:24.0	Thanks Jonathan, nice to talk to you.
0:28.0	Nice to talk to you too. How are things going?
0:32.0	Well, I got to say that it's nice to talk to you because I feel like in my house we kind of,
0:36.0	we've run out of things to say to each other.
0:40.0	I know the feeling. We're all in the same small space together,
0:44.0	over and over again, and nothing really changes.
0:48.0	If it does, we all see it happen.
0:52.0	Not too much opportunity to catch each other up on anything.
0:56.0	It is interesting. I mean, most of the conversations I have with my husband are,
1:02.0	they're just sort of like, hey, we got to eat that cauliflower before it rots.
1:06.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:08.0	There's a lot of that.
1:10.0	The little conversations that bind a marriage together.
1:14.0	It's a wonderful thing. Yes.
1:16.0	Yeah, because it's in my house, it's my husband and my five-year-old.
1:20.0	When my husband and I put the kid to bed and there we are at night hanging out,
1:24.0	we've run out of stories to tell each other about our lives that are new.
1:30.0	There's an initial period of the relationship where you're like,
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