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Francois Clemmons: From Mozart to Mister Rogers

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

AMA heads to the Nantucket Film Festival with François Clemmons. Known for his role as Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, he reflects on his life and the film Won't You Be My Neighbor.

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0:00.0

From NPR and WNYC coming to you from the Nantucket Film Festival, it's NPR's hour of puzzles,

0:09.2

work games and trivia. Ask me another. I'm Cesar Baldwin with guest musician Julian

0:14.2

Valard, now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

0:20.2

Hello everybody, yay! We have a great show for you. I'm not gonna lie, we have four amazing

0:31.7

contestants. They are waiting backstage, listing all the radio-friendly words that rhyme

0:37.6

with Nantucket. And they're gonna be up here playing our nerdy games and one will be our

0:43.2

big winner. This is very exciting for me to be back in Nantucket. How do you like it, Cecil?

0:47.9

It's so gorgeous. It's beyond gorgeous. And I'm from the south, so all this delightful

0:53.4

New England charm, it works like magic on me. Like I was taking pictures of trees and

0:59.3

some cobblestone streets all night long. That is so, like, now you're in the city. I

1:04.9

we took a photo of a tree. Look at this garbage can. It's older than our country.

1:09.8

I know, and I've been here a few years, there are some things that are still the same.

1:16.7

I mean, they haven't paved Main Street yet, but that's gonna happen one of these days.

1:24.1

Maybe next year you'll get Wi-Fi, fingers crossed. I call the Wi-Fi here on the island Amtrak Wi-Fi.

1:32.2

Yeah, it shows you that no Wi-Fi is better than some Wi-Fi.

1:36.7

No, I love it. We have actually, this show is loaded up. We have two special guests.

1:43.3

Steve Young, who is a comedy writer, is gonna be joining us on stage. His documentary is called

1:49.4

Bat Tubbs Over Broadway, and he's gonna be talking to us about the weird and wonderful world

1:54.5

of industrial musicals. And we have Francois Clemens, who you also probably know as officer

2:01.8

Clemens, from the documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor. It is a, I think, a very rare documentary

2:09.3

because at the end of it, you actually feel better about the world. Doesn't happen that much.

2:17.0

I grew up in Mr. Rogers' neighborhood, and it's so interesting just thinking, we all do this.

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