Jane Levy and Alex Newell: Zoey's Extraordinary Zoom Call

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🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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From the NBC series Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, actors Jane Levy and Alex Newell talk about the musical numbers on the show. Actor and comedian Baron Vaughn, of Grace and Frankie, talks about his SyFy Wire series The Great Debate and plays a game about Black playwrights. Plus, couple-testants Catherine Reitman and Philip Sternberg (Workin' Moms) break out the hot dish for a Minnesota-inspired game about Bob Dylan and Charles Schulz. This episode originally aired June 22, 2020.

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0:00.0	This episode was taped in June. We'll be back with a new episode next week.
0:07.0	Play it.
0:14.0	From NPR and WNYC coming to you from our respective homes in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,
0:21.0	it's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and cocktails to go. Ask me another.
0:26.0	I'm Jonathan Colton. Here's your host, O'Fear Ayesenberg.
0:31.0	You know, that is so... What a great hello that is. That makes sense.
0:36.0	That's a nice way to start a conversation.
0:39.0	Exactly. How's it going, Jonathan?
0:42.0	I've just turned the fan off in my office so that we can record, which means we are counting down
0:47.0	to the point when my body temperature goes past 105 and I pass out.
0:52.0	So this room two is freezing with the air conditioning on and you turn it off in five minutes later.
0:58.0	You are basically able to bake sourdough bread in here.
1:01.0	Yes. And you know, I have ways of cooling.
1:04.0	Fans, air conditioners can't use them while recording.
1:07.0	Nope.
1:08.0	Also, I have to keep the door closed in this room because let's just say I have a
1:14.0	ferral cat living in my office right now. So I can't have the door open even.
1:19.0	Oh, do you hear that meowing? Yeah, that's meowing of your ferral cat.
1:23.0	Yeah, there he is. That's Betsy.
1:25.0	That's he sounds okay?
1:28.0	He's... Right now he's at the window and he's meowing.
1:33.0	I think what he's saying is, help. I'm up here.
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