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Ask Me Another

Emily Nussbaum: The Watch From Home Episode

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this work-from-home episode, The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum talks about TV watching during COVID-19. Plus John Hodgman, Jackie Kashian, Robert Lopez, and Kristen Anderson-Lopez stand in as contestants.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, Sophia Eisenberg here and this is Ask Me Another.

0:04.9

So this week I am joining you from my home and I find myself really missing doing the show.

0:12.4

So I decided, you know what, I'm going to call up Jonathan Colton and see how he's doing.

0:17.6

So okay, just give me a second.

0:22.8

Oh hey, Aferah. How you doing? I'm okay. How are you doing?

0:27.4

Yeah, same. Okay. I'm a little stir crazy to be honest.

0:32.1

So you know what, I have an idea. Do you want to do a show?

0:35.9

Like an Ask Me Another show? A regular show?

0:37.2

Yeah, no, a different show. Do you have a different show in mind? I'm up for that too.

0:40.8

No, no, that seems like too much work. Let's do the show that we always do.

0:45.2

Can we start it the way we usually start it?

0:47.4

With the whole, I mean, there's no audience, but you still want me to do the song and the

0:51.2

From NPR and

0:52.2

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:53.6

Yeah, okay, I have to confess that I don't, when we, when we do this show, as you know,

0:58.0

I don't actually play that live. It's recorded saying, I'm not entirely sure that I can,

1:02.7

I can sing and play at the same time. So this might be a face plant, but we'll see.

1:08.0

Okay, I'm up for it. Okay, here we go. Whatever you got.

1:12.0

Okay.

1:16.8

From NPR and WNYC coming to you from our respective homes in

1:21.8

beautiful Brooklyn, New York. It's NPR's hour puzzles, word games, and

1:26.5

social distancing. See, that's where I get, that's the hard part. I get stuck there.

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