4.6 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:00.0 | From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York, |
0:09.0 | its NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, ask me another. |
0:13.8 | I'm Jonathan Colton. |
0:15.3 | Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg. |
0:18.4 | Thank you, Jonathan. |
0:22.4 | We've got a great show for you. |
0:24.9 | Four brilliant contestants are here to play our nerdy games. |
0:27.8 | Our backstage collecting infinity stones, and only one will become our big winner. |
0:33.7 | And our guest is actor Jen Kalella, who is nominated for a Tony for her performance in |
0:38.0 | the musical Come From Away. |
0:40.6 | The show takes place in the week after 9-11, telling stories of the 38 planes that were |
0:46.2 | forced to land in Gander, Newfoundland until the skies were deemed safe. |
0:51.2 | It's poignant, it is funny, but more amazingly, it's a musical about 9-11. |
0:57.4 | I mean, was that not the toughest pitch of all time for in Broadway history? |
1:03.7 | Okay, here it is out. |
1:04.6 | No, listen, okay, it's the week after the attacks, and everyone in Canada is singing. |
1:11.6 | In our first game, we imagine what's on the menu at Disneyland. |
1:14.7 | I hope it's not venison. |
1:16.9 | Let's meet our contestants. |
1:20.3 | First up, Megan Ocemonty on buzzer number one. |
1:24.7 | You're a high school social studies teacher. |
1:27.2 | Welcome. |
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