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Ask Me Another

Big Freedia: Queen Diva Of Quizzes

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Big Freedia, the queen diva of bounce music, gives advice to aspiring twerkers and reveals what it's like to get a phone call from Beyoncé. This episode originally aired on July 8, 2016.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Ophira.

0:03.8

This week we're going all the way back to an episode we taped in June of 2016 with Hip

0:09.7

Hop and Bounce Queen Big Freeta.

0:12.5

If you've been a fan of our show from the beginning, first of all, thank you for listening

0:16.7

and enjoy this trip down memory lane.

0:19.2

Here we go.

0:20.2

Warning.

0:21.2

This podcast uses some unsavory language.

0:24.0

Please be advised.

0:26.3

From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,

0:34.5

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

0:39.2

I'm Jonathan Colton.

0:40.6

Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

0:43.7

Thank you, Jonathan.

0:48.9

We have a great show for you.

0:50.7

Our brilliant contestants are warming up backstage doing split squats and deep lunges, waiting

0:57.0

to play our nerdy games.

0:58.3

But only one will become our big winner and our special guest is Big Freeta.

1:05.4

She popularized Bounce, a genre of New Orleans hip hop and twerking.

1:10.4

I also invented a dance move, by the way, kind of like twerking.

1:13.6

It's called lurking.

1:15.9

That's where you hang out near the dance floor, just silently judging everyone while shaking

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