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Ask Me Another

Diane Guerrero: Most Likely To Be Superlative

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Actor Diane Guerrero takes us behind the scenes on Orange is the New Black, and plays a game about celebrity superlatives. This episode originally aired on May 18, 2018.

Transcript

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Warning, this podcast uses some unsavory language.

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Please be advised.

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From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bell House in

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beautiful Brooklyn, New York, its NPR's hour of puzzles,

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word games, and trivia, ask me another.

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I'm Jonathan Colton.

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Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

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Thank you, Jonathan.

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We have a great show for you four brilliant contestants

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are backstage, deleting questionable Facebook posts.

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They're here to play our nerdy games,

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but only one will be our big winner.

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And today's special guest is Diane Guerrero.

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Diane is an actor who's seen on Oranges the New Black and Jane the Virgin.

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She also wrote a powerful memoir about her Colombian parents struggle to immigrate to America,

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called In the Country We Love, My Family Divided.

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And she's adapted it for young adult readers.

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You know, not every memoir can make that transition.

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For example, I wrote a memoir.

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It's called, screw everyone, sleeping my way to monogamy.

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You cannot adapt that to a YA audience very easily.

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I mean, what are you going to call it?

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