This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 2334. What do crayons, tools, and chandeliers have in common?

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Hey, Lindsay, how are you?

Good, Michelle.

How are you today?

I'm good.

Do you ever color, like with crayons? Oh, not,

not since I was younger. But I do know that adult coloring books had kind of a trend going a few years

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