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🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | This episode originally aired in November. We'll be back with a new episode next week. |
0:05.0 | Hi everybody, it's Jonathan Colton from Ask Me Another. I am just about to call your favorite host and mine. |
0:13.0 | Oh, fear of Eisenberg. See if she's around. Do a show. |
0:17.0 | Hello! |
0:19.0 | Hi, Afeira. How are you? |
0:21.0 | Pretty good. It was just my kids' fifth birthday party. |
0:24.0 | Oh, happy birthday. |
0:26.0 | Thank you. And you know what? I got really into, you know, what can we do during this time to have a little birthday thing. |
0:34.0 | So I decided upon the outdoor, go to a playground, go to an outdoor park, and it was going to be very low-key, but I still decided on one fancy thing that a five-year-old wouldn't appreciate. |
0:51.0 | But to me, it was to quote Simon Dunin a way to juzh it up. |
0:57.0 | Oh, yes. I brought expensive cupcakes. I called up a bakery and said I want superhero cupcakes. |
1:04.0 | Nice. |
1:05.0 | All different superheroes, because they love superheroes. So I kept thinking of ways. I was, you know, at the last minute I was like, oh, is there any sort of entertainment that would be kid-friendly, that would be socially-distance. |
1:18.0 | And you know what? I came up with it. Still walker. I was like, can I hire a still walker? Maybe they juggle? It doesn't even matter. |
1:27.0 | They just have to be on stills six feet in the air that is socially-distance. |
1:31.0 | Right. If you can't go up. |
1:32.0 | They get as close as they want, because they're six feet in the air. Of course, they're six feet away. Look at their feet. |
1:36.0 | That's right, because everyone forgets six feet. Which way do you have to go? |
1:40.0 | Simon? No, you can go up. |
1:42.0 | So did you get a still walker? |
1:46.0 | No, I so I was like, this is brilliant. And then I have a friend who actually, you know, worse than a lot of circus performers. He gave me two numbers. |
1:55.0 | I left messages for those people. Both of them booked. Not available. |
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