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 Colt, now here's your host, O'Fira

Isenberg.

Thanks Jonathan, nice to talk to you.

Nice to talk to you too. How are things going?

Well, I got to say that it's nice to talk to you because I feel like in my house we kind of,

we've run out of things to say to each other.

I know the feeling. We're all in the same small space together,

over and over again, and nothing really changes.

If it does, we all see it happen.

Not too much opportunity to catch each other up on anything.

It is interesting. I mean, most of the conversations I have with my husband are,

they're just sort of like, hey, we got to eat that cauliflower before it rots.

Yeah, yeah.

There's a lot of that.

The little conversations that bind a marriage together.

It's a wonderful thing. Yes.

Yeah, because it's in my house, it's my husband and my five-year-old.

When my husband and I put the kid to bed and there we are at night hanging out,

we've run out of stories to tell each other about our lives that are new.

There's an initial period of the relationship where you're like,

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