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Decomposition Competition With Dan Deacon

Dan Deacon plays a game with Ophira Eisenberg on <em>Ask Me Another</em> at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.
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The music video for Dan Deacon's recent single, "Sat By A Tree", features comedian Aparna Nancherla's body decaying into the Earth. In honor of that video, Deacon plays a game where he guesses how long it takes various things to decay or decompose.

Heard on Dan Deacon: Deacon-structing Dan.

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