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Bob Boilen And Gaelynn Lea: What's In Your Tiny Desk?

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

NPR Music host Bob Boilen talks about the Tiny Desk Contest and winner Gaelynn Lea plays two of her songs. Then naturally the two play a game about things you find in a desk.

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0:00.0

Hey, thanks so much for listening to Ask Me Another and you should try the MPR1 app

0:05.8

on your phone for conversations that you're not going to hear anywhere else.

0:09.7

This week, check out Guy Ross' exclusive interview with Ted Curator Chris Anderson, where they

0:15.6

discuss the Ted Phenomena and the secrets to giving a great Ted Talk.

0:21.1

Find their conversation by searching Ted Radio on the MPR1 app, where you can also find

0:25.8

stories from your local station and more great podcasts.

0:29.4

MPR1 is on your app store now.

0:59.4

For you, some brilliant contestants are patiently waiting to find out what trivia games we've

1:04.4

crafted for them.

1:05.8

But only one contestant will be our big winner.

1:09.4

And we have a real treat for you today because MPR Music's Bob Boylin is here to talk about

1:14.8

the tiny desk contest.

1:16.6

More than 6,000 people enter this year.

1:20.5

And the winner, Galen Lee, will also be joining us and she will be performing at our own little

1:25.2

tiny desk later in the show.

1:27.5

I love the idea of a tiny desk.

1:29.5

I would like to have one, but guess what?

1:31.1

I figured out we all have tiny desks.

1:34.0

That's right, they're called smartphones.

1:36.4

Yeah.

1:37.4

Granted, they're not as cozy to sleep under, but it is like a desk in our pocket.

1:43.0

It even has a built-in sarcastic internamed Siri.

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