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Dascha Polanco And Mo Amer: Orange Is The New Black Flag

Ask Me Another

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Comedy, Leisure, Society & Culture

4.55K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Actor Dascha Polanco chats juggling work and nursing school while auditioning for Orange Is the New Black. Then, Mo Amer shares how he got into comedy. This episode originally aired November 16, 2018.

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Support for NPR and the following message come from the Walton Family Foundation,

0:05.1

working to create access to opportunity for people and communities by tackling tough social and environmental problems.

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More information is at waltinfamilyfoundation.org.

0:18.8

From NPR and WNYC

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coming to you from the Bell House

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in beautiful Brooklyn, New York.

0:25.3

It's NPR's hour of puzzles,

0:27.2

word games, and trivia.

0:28.9

Ask me another.

0:30.0

I'm Jonathan Colton.

0:31.2

Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

0:39.7

Hello, everybody. Hello everybody.

0:42.1

Hi.

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Nice to see you.

0:44.6

Nice to see you.

0:45.2

Thank you so much for joining us.

0:46.8

We have four brilliant contestants backstage right now.

0:49.9

They are actually discussing a nightmare one of them had where he was the duck in a turducken.

0:58.1

But soon they're going to be up here playing our nerdy games, and one of them will become our big winner.

1:03.0

And we have not one, but two guests on our show.

1:07.2

From Orange is the New Black, we have Dasha Polanco.

1:16.6

Yeah. I'm not going to lie, there's a lot of female nudity on that show, but it's realistic female nudity. It is the only show where I stare at naked

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