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Ask Me Another

Awkwafina And Sasha Velour: New York City Queens

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Two queens take the stage! From Raya and the Last Dragon and Crazy Rich Asians, Awkwafina recommends the best public restrooms in New York City. And RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha Velour talks about the incredible final lip sync that snatched her the crown. This episode originally aired August 17, 2018.

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0:00.0

This is an encore episode of Ask Me Another.

0:10.8

From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bell House in Beautiful Brookland, New York,

0:16.7

its NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, ask me another.

0:21.3

I'm Jonathan Colton.

0:22.3

Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

0:30.9

Hello!

0:32.6

Yeah!

0:33.9

Nice!

0:36.4

Hello, everybody.

0:37.8

Thank you, Jonathan.

0:39.2

All right, let me tell you what's going on.

0:41.0

The show's jam-packed.

0:42.4

It is jam-packed.

0:43.1

This is too much show.

0:44.8

We've given you too much entertainment.

0:46.3

Already, we have not won but two special guests

0:50.4

from the new movie Crazy Rich Asians.

0:54.2

Aquafina is going to be here.

0:59.1

And the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race, season 9, Sasha Valour is here.

1:04.5

I got to say, those are two awesome stage names.

1:12.4

But they do not hold a candle to my stage name, Ophira Eisenberg.

1:18.2

Did you guys see Ocean's 8?

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